Thread: Classics corner and vintage rifle reviews

Originally Posted by grandpamac

How about a large Martini action? My .30-40 Krag (.30 us Army) Martini was a .30-30 for a while.
Grandpamac.

@grandpamac I'm just about to start building a single shot action from scratch and if it's successful it might become the 25-35
Or I could do a change barrel for my Stevens 44 1/2

I think This tool would turn out an ok reload.
Slow and steady
But this was pre radio, TV and the internet so what else was there to do in the evenings and wet days !

Oh yeh and pre contraception so that wasn't an option either

As old as it is somehow it can still poke holes in animals.

So with the prospect of doing a vintage hunt ( hunters and rifles ! ) I loaded up 17 rounds of 500 express.



They are pretty heavy so I put them in the scales out of interest.
So 20 rounds would be 1kg exactly



Then I moved on to sorting out my 50 cal muzzleloader I have converted the ignition nipple to a mag-spark 209 primer nipple.
I had a slow fire when tahr hunting last winter in very cold conditions and wanted a more reliable ignition for hunting in bad conditions.
So needed to check the point of aim and see how it all works.
Primers go in easy and come out even easier.
Just needed a tweak in the Malcolm scope and then I'm on the 100m gong .
Aim 100mm high and it's hitting the 200mm gong every time until my shoulder told me to stop




So now I'm ready to take some big chunks out of some tasty animals

And I'm still looking for an action only to reconfigure to a sporting rifle

Four 50-70 rolling blocks came out to play today .
Two friends came to visit and shoot on my range.
Two original Swedish military that are slightly re figured
One shooting reproduction with a #5 barrel
And an original Remington sporting rifle that has been re barreled some time long ago.

One has a slight gear failure with a fore end hanger.
But all the actions were just fine with light black powder loads and 450 grain projectiles

One of them even decided to stay in at my place long term.

Next weekend shoot might be a martini party.
Martini rifle entry and after the shooting a few martinis

The sporting Remington and the military rifle are really almost identical in the action
The only significant difference is the contour of the receiver ring, the profiling of the trigger guard and the sling ring on the trigger guard

Remington produced the first rolling block actions used on those Rifles as far as I know,in both Sweden and Norway.

You still come across the odd one with the Remington script on the tang.

Tame!

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Tame!

Are you shooting Tame hares now ?

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Are you shooting Tame hares now ?

No
But we split a lot of dry firewood blocks

Originally Posted by akaroa1

No
But we split a lot of dry firewood blocks

Thats just 'splitting Hares' !

@norsk This one has all the right numbers but someone has done some home gunsmithing on it
At their age only to be expected

But it's a good straight solid shooter and in my price range once it's fiddled with

Pretty take compared to the 500 express but I don't think the hares will notice the difference

After a long slow restoration this Stevens 44 1/2 22 Hornet is fully functional again
Typical vintage rifle.
You fix an obvious thing and find the next thing to fix and on it goes
But totally worth the effort

Now I have done a proof of concept hunt I still need to sand and oil the stock I made, replace some screws, blue the checkered steel butt plate, sweat on the barrel band sling mount I made and find a rear sling mount that fits the style

6x Malcolm scope has limited field of view but it's shooting about 20mm at 100m with factory Hornady 45 grainers

The longest projects are the best!! Nice.