TH44,

Nice looking gun. I have the same but my gun has a matching shotgun in 12 ga. Both my guns have the same serial # 5238 and the rifle has a #1 engraved on top tang, shotgun has a #2 on it. You can see my guns on pages 5&6 of classifides. Does your gun chamber new Snider brass or does it have an older chamber. My gun has a chamber for the older coiled or paper case. I had to make a sizing die to reduce the case down about 2/3's of the case leaving a base similar to a shotgun shell. I have shot my gun and it shoots pretty good with bullets of .585 dia. I have used mostly paper patched bullets in it and smokeless (imr4198) powder in it. I have been very easy on it so far and have not shot a 480 grain bullet over 1000 fps. It seems to like a 520 grain better. Too nice of a gun to overdo it. Anyway I thought you would be interested in seeing my guns. I will try to move photos to this part of NE.

Sam