DarylS
(.700 member)
12/04/17 11:46 AM
Re: Trade options?






Note - on the left side of the receiver, it says Mod 71
On the right side of the receiver, it is stamped 1876 twice, the second time, larger than the first.

When I received the rifle, the front sight was missing, so I soldered on a ramp with dovetailed blade.

The factory rear sight is REALLY nice, having a flip-up leaf, as well as a ladder giving 800yards, supposedly, in elevation.

This particular rifle was the carbine, with 20" bl. 20" rate of twist.

It has a bore of .437" and a groove diameter of .458", for rifling depth of .0105" per side.

Then, it was thought the deep grooves would give a 'place' for the fouling to go.

Indeed, with a clean barrel, they shot fairly well for a gun to replace single shot muzzleloading rifles, as the soft pure lead 370gr. smooth sided paper patched bullet would slug up to fill or almost fill the rifling.

In another 10 years, Peter Mauser saw the error of his ways & reduced the groove diameter to .446", which shot much better.

Due to the deep grooves, I re-chambered my rifle above, to take the .450 Alaskan case which would hold and now chamber a .4559/60" bullet inside the case, better fitting the .458" groove diameter.

It actually shot fairly well with BP loads, however, I preferred to shoot H4895 and 500gr. Lee bullets in it, with low pressure .45/70 loads generating some 22,000psi - for approximately 1,350fps, the same speed a full case (75gr.) of GOEX 2f gave me.

I sold the rifle to a friend who wanted to use it for bear hunting in the Hope area, as he was moving to Chilliwak, B.C.

The small town of Hope, B.C., is where the Sylvester Stalone movie First Blood was filmed. Good bear country.



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