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Revisiting this old friend to get it hunting ready

Made a pass through sizer to get the bullets to the perfect size for the fired cases and no resizing with BP loads

Tapped and fitted a Parker...

Revisiting this old friend to get it hunting ready

Made a pass through sizer to get the bullets to the perfect size for the fired cases and no resizing with BP loads

Tapped and fitted a Parker...

I still need to get a permit to import for a reproduction hard rubber butt plate from USA.
Only $35us but what a butt pain to get one

The second Ballard that was minus sights and a fore end now has a new fore end which is a nice match with the original butt stock

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A new old globe front sight.
Actually a...

There's a pretty good chance there's a number adjacent to these still in NZ

That they are now together and both fully functional at 140 years old is pretty exciting

The more recently acquired...

Micky Duck it lost its fore end and sights some time in the last 140 years
I don't think barrel harmonics are a big deal with 7/8th inch parralel octagonal barrels

The sights were just to see if...

Soldered a brass blade into what was left of the original Ballard front sight base

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And drifted in a BSA rear sight that fitted the original dovetail

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Fired the first two...

My gunsmithing mentor Mr Vulcan barrels has just visited expressly to view this wonderful pair of rifles
So I now have made the promise to get the sights on the latest one sorted and have them both...

Ah. In search of the holy grail

I thought finding another no4 38-55 was pretty cool after diligently searching for the first one.
Then another no4 38-55 falls out of a tree and hits me on the...

The really crazy thought is that there might be another consecutive rifle either side of these ones numbers that still exists in NZ

I'm picking these ones came in one shipment and there might...

That is the plan.
I'm a retired commercial joiner, builder and tree farmer.
So I have the Joinery skills and the timber to make a decent case for them to be placed in.

I spoke to both the guys I brought these rifles off and they were stunned and delighted to hear the story

Hopefully they will try and get some more info together about the prior owners

Sunday I went to the Timaru Antique Arms Auction to pick up a couple of purchases from a guy coming up from Southland.
There was also an item in the auction that I was interested in bidding on if I...