Beautiful lever gun. Such craftsmanship!! You do not often see this level of expertise in many lever guns produced today!!

@Richard-D

8 ай бұрын

I’m still looking for one at a good deal :). We’ll have a bunch of videos with different powders of our powder coated cast bullets and range time coming soon.

Thanks guys, really enjoyed this video! That is a lovely old rifle! Your struggle with load development reminds me of my own efforts to reload for a similar vintage 32-40 model 1894. I clearly need to get a copy of that Lee manual you are using! One of the best presentations of this type I have seen.

@Richard-D

9 ай бұрын

Let me know what you’d like to see off the manual and I’ll send it to you :)

Awesome stuff thanks for sharing dude I have the same rifle just after they transitioned to round barrel

@Richard-D

8 ай бұрын

We will post cast powder coated bullet loads relatively shortly as well

I have a ‘93 Marlin 38-55 cal. made in 1894. It’s in very nice original condition with some color case visible and excellent stocks and bore. I always slug the bore on old guns and found the bore diameter about .385. Mike Venturino in his book “Shooting Lever Guns Of The Old West” warns these guns have very large bores in this caliber and sure enough, so I ordered a custom made bullet mould of appropriate size. I used Starline cases fired in another gun to expand them enough to seat the large bullets. I also had to grind out a sizing die and bullet seating die. Another problem was excessive head space. I called Turnbull Restorations and they said they could turn back the barrel to take up the head space or put on a new barrel. I chose the former because the barrel was otherwise in excellent condition and would have the least impact on collector value. Using a soft alloy bullet like 30-1 helps too.

@Richard-D

9 ай бұрын

I’ll let Mike know to slug it to checkout the bore size. I just slugged my Sks and it was pretty much .3125. I’m ordering lee moulds to cast and gas check them. My groups with his rifle were surprisingly good.

@davidgardner863

9 ай бұрын

@@Richard-D , I also have 3 Marlin Ballards in 38-55 with bores .381 to 383 and a ‘94 Winchester, (1923), .379. Anything but standard bore diameter for 38-55 in those days. Meister Bullets has excellent bore slugging kits that cover just about every size 32 to 45 cal.

Interesting video. A Dupont 4227 powder can wow, neat. Wondering what the older manual is you are using with the tabs on it? thanks

@Richard-D

2 ай бұрын

I’ll post some shots of old manuals and how the loads have changed over the years

Cheap to shoot?? It's almost $3/shot.

@Richard-D

2 ай бұрын

We’re using old 3030 brass resized and casting our own bullets from wheel weights so we’re back to cheap. Factory ammo and factory bullets are brutally expensive these days

Thanks guys, really enjoyed this video! That is a lovely old rifle! Your struggle with load development reminds me of my own efforts to reload for a similar vintage 32-40 model 1894. I clearly need to get a copy of that Lee manual you are using! One of the best presentations of this type I have seen.

@Richard-D

9 ай бұрын

It’s not my rifle but I thought it was a really interesting side project. We’re casting for the SKS and Mosin at 155 gr and 30 cal in 170 gr coming soon too. I’m still looking for a deal of a century on one of these. We may reload as well for the 32-40 as my father in law has one we can do test loads on. Thanks for the thumbs up :)