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The Hornet is longer than the Bee, so you could do it, but there would be too much "freebore" between the case mouth and leade to make it attractive to me.

Wish they would chamber it in .221 fireball. That would be a sweet little package.

.222 Remington is still very popular in many countries other than the US, partly because some of them ban civilian ownership of "military caliber" firearms. Even in those that don't, the "Triple Deuce" has stayed popular much longer than it has in the US.

Anyone have any idea when these will be available?

I wonder why such short barrels on those Shot Show Specials. 26" would still make a handy package, and 28" wouldn't be unreasonable IMO.

IIRC, Browning/Winchester produced 1885 High walls in most of the chamberings that are listed now. I don't think they sold all that well. They had 28" barrels. My buddy has a .22/250 and I have a .223 Rem... (That somehow morphed into a .225 Win.) I have other Low Walls in .223, .22 K-Hornet, .243. 260, and .45 Colt Long. And I'm currently have one in .22 Hornet rebored to .32/20. They make a very well balanced and handy rifles. Carry well, too... IMHO, 23"-24" barrels are about perfect. But then, I don't worship the gods of velocity. Whatever I get is what I get! If I need more, I likely have something larger... G.H.

I just emailed them. Response was October for “that particular model”. I don’t know if that is all these 1885s, or just the Swede I asked about.

That's pretty much the same thing they told me. 3rd or 4th quarter of this year. I've already got my local gun shop looking into how I can preorder one.

Does anyone know if these new Low Walls have an ejector, or just an extractor like the old Brownings? I have a 260 with the old 1:10 Twist and I would certainly be interested in a Swede or Creedmoor with a faster twist. And an ejector would be nice for hunting too.

Sadly I found out about the new Low Walls just after paying a premium for my Browning. Oh well.

The link isn’t working but I’ll have one of these in 6.5x55 if the prices aren’t insane.

It looks like Winchester changed the link; here is the new link:

[url=https://www.winchesterguns.com/products/rifles/model-1885/current/model-1885-low-wall-hunter-high-grade.html][/url]

The retail price is $1,719.99.

$1719.99....damn. Are the special runs like most other guns where they sell for less than the MSRP?

I’d be happy with the Swede, but I’d think Winchester would chamber some cool classic Winchester rounds as well. 30-30 or 30-40 would be pretty uber. Even resurrect the ol’ 35 Winchester!

I suspect (but do no know) that the .222s are included for 1) safe queen buyers who don't shoot, and 2) European customers who aren't allowed to own .223s.

One of the shooters here on 24 (I believe it was Hondo64) measured his Browning Low Wall .260 and reported that it was a 9 1/4 twist..... I haven’t measured mine, but I have shot the Hornady 140gr spire point out of it and it shot just fine. I’d give it a go if that’s your goal....

werent' they $1699 last time I checked?

It was $16xx for sure.

I saw one of the new low walls yesterday at a gun show in 22 long had a price tag of $1150.00 was a good looking rifle!

Called BPS to see about pre-ordering, they said they weren't in their system yet but would check and get back to me. Called the only other dealer listed on Winchesters page, turned out to be a nice find 80 miles away that I had never heard about, he said as of 2 weeks ago they couldn't make orders on them yet, but he'd call the sales rep on Monday and get back to me. Would much rather buy from them than BPS anyway.

Got my name on one from an independent shop. They said Winchester is saying the last quarter of 2021, but that knowing Winchester, don't be surprised when it is actually 2022.

BPS called me back, they can accept orders on them now as well.

Will the Low Wall handle full power 6,5x55 loads?