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Old 08-16-2011, 05:54 PM   #21
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Bowhunter: That Evans sounds like a very rare gun. Do you have any more info about the cartridges?
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Old 08-16-2011, 11:54 PM   #22
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Oh, boy, you want me to type a while, don't you?

M1891 Mosin-Nagant
M1896 Krag
M1896 Swedish Mauser
M1903 Springfield
No. I Mk. III Enfield
Pattern 1914 Enfield
US M1917 Enfield
M1903A1 Springfield
M1903A3 Springfield
M1918 BAR
M1918A1 BAR
Webley Mk I - Mk VI .455 revolvers
M1938 Mosin-Nagant Carbine
M 91/30 Mosin-Nagant Rifle
M 1944 Mosin-Nagant Carbine
Finn M1939 Rifle
M-98 Mauser, all military versions
Lewis Gun
M1 Garand
M1 Carbine
M1918A2 BAR
M1941 Johnson Rifle
M1917 Browning Heavy Water Cooled MG
M1919 Browning Air Cooled MG
No. 4 Series Enfields
No. 5 Series Enfields
US M14
US M1873 Colt Single Action revolver
US S&W Schofield revolver
US M1909 Colt Revolver

There are 30 good ones.

Should keep the talk going for a week or two!

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Old 08-17-2011, 06:43 AM   #23
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Good grief Buckshot! Some of those (most) were made before I was born. (And I'm an old fart) Nice collection.
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Old 08-17-2011, 01:26 PM   #24
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Buckshot, that is one heck of a collection. I would love to come by and shoot with you. Besides the Savage 99, I also have a Browning reproduction of the Winchester 71 in .348. I believe it to be the best lever gun Winchester ever made. An the beast is loud. The 99 has a slight edge in smothness and accuracy. My brother has a No. 5 Enfield and a M44 Mosin.
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Old 08-17-2011, 05:12 PM   #25
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Pete D., I have "some" info on the Evans cartridges. The .44 Evans Short was a "rimmed" centerfire cartridge, Approximately 1 inch long with 33 grains of black powder and a 220 grain lead bullet. I understand they can be made from .38-40 brass. The .44 Evans Long (also called the .44 New Model Cartridge) was 1 1/2 inches long and were loaded with 40 to 43 grains of black powder and a 275 or 300 grain lead bullet. Both cartridges were loaded by Winchester up to the middle 1920's. According to George Nonte's "Home Guide To Cartridge Conversions", they can be made from .30-40 Krag brass. The bores usually measure about .431 so with all the .429 moulds available, reloading shouldn't be a big problem. Close to 15,000 Evans rifles were made. (total for all three models). Old Model, Transition Model & New Model. It is quite a departure from anything I had ever seen before. The receiver is in two halves and the corckscrew magazine (actually an Archimedean-screw principle) is part of the receiver. The receiver for the .44 Evans Long is larger and more robust than the receiver for the .44 Evans Short. There is quite a bit of info on this rifle in a book by Dwight B. Demeritt Jr. " Maine Made Guns And Their Makers". He actually lives about 20 miles from me but I have never met him! That's about it in a nutshell!....................Dick
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Old 08-17-2011, 07:51 PM   #26
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Bowhunter: Thanks for that. That's more than I was able to find. I have Nonte's book; I'll have to look.
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Good grief Buckshot! Some of those (most) were made before I was born. (And I'm an old fart) Nice collection.
I must have slightly misunderstood, those are not all mine. Didn't realize I had to own them before I could miss them.

First of all, I have no Class 3 stuff.

Don't have all the big bore revolvers I mentioned either.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Old 08-18-2011, 02:23 AM   #28
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Bowhunter: Thanks for that. That's more than I was able to find. I have Nonte's book; I'll have to look.
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Donnelley has info on how to make them also.

You said you have the Nonte book so you should not have a problem there but often Donnelley is much easier to find than Nonte and is more likely to NOT use cases that are now out of print compared to when Nonte authored his book.

Not knocking Nonte at all, his Pistolsmithing book got me into guns in a big way. Always liked his articles in Guns or Gun World, which ever one he wrote for.

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Old 08-18-2011, 04:53 AM   #29
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I don't have all the rifles I used to, but;
Mausers!
My favorites were, VZ24's, stout old guns
Swedish Mausers, accurate and classy
Argentine Mausers, old war horses that still get the job done
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I don't have all the rifles I used to, but;
Mausers!
My favorites were, VZ24's, stout old guns
Swedish Mausers, accurate and classy
Argentine Mausers, old war horses that still get the job done
Panther,

Most of my Mausers have gone on down the road, since I CAN'T STAND the German style sights with the V notch rear and inverted V ^ front sights.

That is why the major number of Mausers I have left are Swedes. Much easier to use sights with the straight post front and U notch rear sights.

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