...well, brass, anyway

For those who need .218 Bee brass, Midway & Grafs now has Hornady brass in stock. Obviously, could be reformed for the .25-20 Win as well.

Good to know--.25-20 brass has been scarce lately and I've been using Starline .32-20 necked down. But "up" is usually easier than "down" for me. I'm afraid that the .22 WMR and .223 have pretty well killed off these smallbore centerfires except for the .32-20 and maybe the .22Hornet, so "get 'em while you can."

I made a change, rifle and calibre wise, from today to yesteryear. I had a Ruger No. 1 in 22-250 that I've since given to my Son and replaced it with the following. An old custom Winchester High Wall, in 219 Donaldson Wasp. It also has a 10X J.UNERTL scope, so, calibre, rifle and scope are matching vintage. Now, I also have to fire form cases from 30-30 brass.





And as luck would have it, It seems to really like 50gr Hornady V-MAX reloads.

Fun cartridge and rifle! Congratulations on that one.

My Ruger has a 1 in 14" barrel, so it can stabilize 50's They work well with 300MP powder. I may even try some 55gr bullets.

Nice rifles! I have been a bee fan for years. I catch a lot of flack from my buddies for shooting one. But I don't care, I enjoy it. I'm glad factory brass will be available again. Even if only for a little while.

It arrived today, so I compared the Hornady brass to some WW new brass I had tucked away. The Hornady weighs an average of 66.94 grains each, versus 71.22gr for the WW. Checking individual weights, in 10 of each brand they had an identical range of weight, .8gr total. The Hornady was slightly more consistent in overall length. So I'm looking forward to trying them.

Great rifle. Never have worked with a .219 DW myself. Might have to fix that someday

Do you know who smithed your high wall? It looks very similar to several Taylor & Robbins rifles I have seen, T&R chambered the .219DW rather often.

On the barrel, it's marked M. Atkinson Streetville
On the CGN site a guy from eastern Canada contacted me stating it had been made by Maurice for a friend of his by the name of John Palmer. The guy that sent me the info apparently got it from his friend. Also, he said he's very interested re-acquiring it, should I ever decide to part with it.

Understandable, good looking (and apparently shooting) rifle.

Agreed, some of the old "modernized" High Walls look pretty funky, but that one looks pretty nice. I still might be tempted to whittle on the cheekpiece, depending on how it fits me, but otherwise it looks very well done.

An old and dear friend had a Model 43 in 218 Bee. He was a small farmer and a rural mail carrier all of his adult life. He lived to fish for walleye in spring and summer and hunt coyotes in the fall and winter. It was an unusual year when he didn't kill 100 coyotes and fox. He died of a stroke this last winter but before he did he managed to get one more cherry red fox. His wife saw it out the kitchen window and told him about it. He had trouble getting his rifle out of the closet and loaded but he put the fox down at about 50 yards. He had to drive his old Jeep pickup out to the fox and his wife had piut it into the truck for him,but he was happy about it .

JR super cool rifle 😊Thanks for the photos.. Take any game w/ it ?