So who owns and shoots a Lancaster Oval bored rifle ?
It's my next quest to find and shoot one
I have a lot of different rifling styles and my quest now is to try and collect as many rifling types as possible
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So who owns and shoots a Lancaster Oval bored rifle ?
It's my next quest to find and shoot one
I have a lot of different rifling styles and my quest now is to try and collect as many rifling types as possible
Oooohhhhhhhh - now where did I leave that picture of a rabbit hole???? :D
Haha. Could be quite the quest, and you'd never know if you completed it!
Oooohhhhh I'm way down the rabbit hole already .... I'm just getting a bigger spade and making the hole largerQuote:
Originally Posted by No.3
Should / could like something like this
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If I stare hard enough, I can see a sailboat
Then the migraine starts
Well less than 24 hours and I have found a Lancaster Oval bore rifle for sale at the very top end of my Lancaster budget
Will be a while before I get to see it.
Sadly it has one more barrel than I generally like
But it does have hammers, which is what every decent rifle should have
NOW your just teasing...a tribarrel perhaps????
No only a doubleQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
A gun without hammers is like a spaniel without ears. George V.
Yes it was either that quote or the John Browning one in my footerQuote:
Originally Posted by Ross Nolan
Lancaster oval bored rifle? Gee, I've got a crate of them somewhere in my garage, all new and unused, still packed with the original grease...
Need photos…can’t possibly be a true story without evidence😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger 888
I just thought it would be interesting to hear how they were loaded and shot
An oval bore with about 20 thou difference between the major and minor diameters in a .500
Interesting thing to rifle with there being a lot of load on the rifling shaft with such a wide cutter
Most Lancaster Oval bores were also heavily choked so quite a task to lapp them
It would be nice to find someone who shoots one and hear if they shoot paper patch or lubed bullets.
I do see some mention of Lancaster barrels in some 280 Ross rifles and good accuracy with jacketed bullets
Prefer to find one that's been shot.
Can't afford a new old stock one packed in grease.
But certainly would like to see what they look like
Here's an interesting Lancaster.
Seriously unlikely to find one of these NOS and still in grease in NZ
But worth looking at to marvel at the skill in regulating 4 barrels and the cocking and trigger mechanism
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The above magnificent gun is a four-barreled hammereech-loading rifle that was once owned by the Maharaja of Rewa in India. The four barrels are all oval-bore. The rear trigger is actually a cocking lever. Pulling the cocking lever for the first time makes the upper right barrel ready for firing. Each pull of the trigger and cocking lever fires each of the barrels in turn. The oval nature of the barrels is almost impossible to see, as the oval is only 0.006 inches out of round.
The Charles Lancaster company continued to produce oval bore rifles from the late 1800s to the early 1920s or so."rless b
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now that is a serious bit of kit indeed.
I saw a four barrel Howdah pistol for sale over here once,it was a Lancaster,looked awesome.
Yes Lancaster was well known for the 4 barrel pistolsQuote:
Originally Posted by norsk
I bet the recoil was also awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by norsk
either my eyes are decieving me,or that rifle needs a really good clean,looks to be repaired crack on stock too.
@Micky Duck I will give you plenty of warning when I come to inspect your collection so they can all be spotless !Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Yes the stock is repaired
And I suspect that the dirt will be dried on oil from being stored and never shot.
Likely valuable beyond our dreams and will remain a cabinet queen for ever
I have several rifles that came from collections and might not have been fired for 100 years and the amount of old dried oil and dirt accumulation showed unfired for a very long time
Are you bored of your nos recently acquired already?
@Boxton No not bored. But both those rifles were relatively easy fixes and are all sorted now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boxton
But always looking into the distance at what's just over the horizon
Bump
I do have a Lancaster Oval bored rifle here now BUT SADLY IT'S JUST VISITING
Picked it up this week for a friend and doing the gunrunner thing with it.
Its a Lancaster oval bored 380 Rook Rifle and very nice to have a Lancaster oval bored rifle here even if only visiting.
So if anyone hadn't seen this thread last year when I kicked it off and you have an unloved Lancaster oval bored rifle you want to liquidate PM me
My 12g SxS probably has oval bores if that's of interest to you. It was my first firearm back in the days of the Lifetime Licence.
RETRACTION
My shotgun is old & worn out, probably to the point of having oval bores. Unfortunately not what was required.
