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Magnum Man, I still have it!! i was using Bell brass back then,and 550 grain greased bullets,i tried black powder and pyrodex. i'm not sure on the freebore whatever shiloh used in there reamer,i figured the bullets i was using were't nowhere out of the case as far as a 700 Gr. paper patch. It really didn't shoot that well with the 550's i figured i should have been shooting the heavier bullets. I only put 60 rounds thru it,now it pretty much hangs on the wall!! i don't have a very good picture of it but heres where it hangs out.





its up in the right corner.

Beautiful gun room Loggah and it appears to be well stocked also. Hmmmm, with a decent selection of appropriate alcoholic beverages and a small reefer for ice and mix the only time a guy would have to bother the rest of the household would be at meal time, right? Well any way if you take one of those .512" greasers (bullet only)and insert it backwards into the chamber and hold it inplace with pencil, then insert a cleaning rod from the muzzle till the end touchs the bullets base. Rotate the rod marking it at the muzzle with a Magic Marker. Measure the distance from the end of the rod to the magic marker line, then add that to 3.25" sutract this total from the length of the barrel and the remainder should be the length of the freebore. They are not all the same, mine is 3/8" some are much longer. Most of these guns back then had a 1 in 36" twist and about 600 grs the stabilization gets iffy nevermind 700 grs..I load a patch to groove dia 570 gr ppb with 147 gr of Fg and shoots pretty good. You want to talk some more on this send me a pm. Magnum Man

A friend of mine that passed on some while back had a never fired 86 Winchester collection that would take up more room then what is shown in that photo.
And Every .22 Winchester model ever made unfired in a box.