Thread: Classics corner and vintage rifle reviews

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Refurbished a reloading tool for a calibre you don't own! You are truly a far gone handloader. Something for we lesser mortals to aspire to.
Respectively Yours,
Grandpamac.

@grandpamac there is a 25-35 build in line. But it's a long line and there are a few others to get through before it comes to the top
And all sorts of random opportunities keep jumping the queue

I have everything 25-35 related except the rifle !
My barrel maker has even brought the .25 caliber drill, reamers and rifling button to make me the barrel
I just need to build the single shot action for it to go on or find a suitable vintage single shot action to restore for the barrel

Originally Posted by muzza

You need to be a bit careful with bigger rimfire ammo - especially the .225 Long as shown.

I had a Marlin pump same as the one in the pic for many years - used pretty much only that same CIL ammo from the 1960s . More than half of the cases would rupture at the case head. I know we dont keep the brass to reload , but it wasnt uncommon to have debris from the ignition work its way back through the breech block and hit you in the face .

Always wear safety glasses when shooting bigger rimfire rounds . I still have a piece of mettallic stuff floating round in my eye fro the first time this happened :-(

Sounds like the chamber may also be oversized. A trick done in the 1960s with .22LR zip guns (which often had oversized chambers causing case ruptures) was to wrap the case in Sellotape. Cases would still bulge but not split and the sellotape would be burned at the front edge. Botchy... but think about it... if the case will chamber easily with sellotape applied then it might also be safer to fire it with Sellotaped cartridge cases. I'd not use this for centrefire cartridges.

If you are ever in a situation where you really MUST use .22LR in a .22WMR rifle a roll of sellotape might save the day, both in terms of avoiding case rupture as well as keeping the .22LR cartridge centred in the larger .22WMR chamber.

None of the above is manufacturers' advice.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I have everything 25-35 related except the rifle !
My barrel maker has even brought the .25 caliber drill, reamers and rifling button to make me the barrel
I just need to build the single shot action for it to go on or find a suitable vintage single shot action to restore for the barrel

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

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

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

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

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

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.

@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

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