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It’s a stunner, but shrap’s .25/35 is like a dream come true!

Not that I need any more rifles or anything……….

Last years Swede

Not every day you see a Maynard.

A few of my single shots, No. 6 Ballards. Top 2 are 32-40 and have Pope barrels. Bottom one is a 38-55.
Phil
https://imgur.com/a/dmu6LP1

In a Swede no less!

Dr Edward MAYNARD, was/is a cousin..... Always wanted a gun with MY name on it....

Would luv to sneak up on one of the Low Walls chambered for the 6.5 x 55.

Good stuff guys!

ya!

GWB

My last build. 300 Savage
My first build 7MM/08

Since Swedes seem to be a popular flavor, here's one...Tom

Making the pictures easier to see.
Phil

I bought this 243 new in 1970. Still own it.

Sure are some striking rifles posted.

Heavenly, simply heavenly. Were any featured in John Dutcher's Ballard book? I'm embarking on a Ballard #5 build (with an orphan action and a .32-40 Ron Long barrel I have salted away), and aspire to that quality but if I attain it is anybody's guess.

My only Pope barreled rifle is this .32-40 High Wall. His barrel #53, on the action it was originally fitted to in 1896, but with new wood in Winchester's Special target flavor by Steve Durren. (The original stock was swapped out for a poor facsimile by someone in the distant dark past.) It has been a real bugger to suss out the combination of bullet/powder it sings with (breach seated and/or muzzle/breach loaded, not uncommon with a Pope barrel).

Wow, thats a very, very nice high wall. How's it shoot? Thanks for the kind words on my Ballards. Both of the Pope barrels are Hartford, can't remember the numbers. The bottom one in your picture is in Rowe's Hartford book. The top one is a muzzle loader like your high wall but I don't think the false muzzle is original since it isn't rifled.
Phil

It'll slop ten into around 1 1/4-1 1/2" at 200, if the gods are smiling and the creek don't rise. Not offhand, for sure, rather the bench, with the barrel supported in a sled, using a 20x Targetspot. "Sniper" guys with state of the art gear kind of sneer at that - until I show them I'm doing it with a soft lead alloy plain base bullet, and a 125 year old barrel.

I love it when that happens. I haven't shot either of my Pope's, I guess I should but I've got plenty of others to shoot. Probably the best shooting falling block I have is a high wall in 33-47 that Al Seigrest rebored for me.
Phil

Envious here guys !!!

But for our conditions, I'm "bringing the fat girl to the prom" !!

Pope advertised that he guaranteed his barrels to shoot into 3" at 200 yards, when using fixed ammunition, 2 1/2" when breech seated (bullet inserted straight into the rifling ahead of a charged case), and 2" if muzzle-breech loaded (bullet pushed down the barrel from the muzzle and charged case inserted last). Again remember this was with plain base cast bullets and black powder. He was modest in some respects and headstrong in others, but in this instance I think he was being modest or at least hedging his bets as it was quite common -almost universal - that his barrels performed quite a bit better than his guarantee. The trick was in figuring out the load and shooting technique that worked. He would provide a mould that made a bullet that perfectly matched the bore of the barrel he sold you, and if the mould became separated from the rifle you had your work cut out for you - and dammit if 95% of Pope rifles that have survived no longer have their dedicated Pope moulds with them anymore. Kind of like selling a wildcat rifle today that shoots a truly unique one-off cartridge, and keeping the dies for it and selling them on eBay for a couple bucks. Why do people do that kind of nonsense?

I obviously don't have the original mould for my Pope 32-40. I had to go through four custom jobs from Accurate Molds before I hit upon the right combination of shape, weight/length, diameter, taper, and then I had to futz with different lead alloys and powder charges before I struck it rich.