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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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08-16-2011, 11:54 PM | #22 |
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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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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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08-17-2011, 05:12 PM | #25 |
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Evans Cartridges
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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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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First of all, I have no Class 3 stuff. Don't have all the big bore revolvers I mentioned either. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Buckshot |
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08-18-2011, 02:23 AM | #28 | |
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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. Buckshot |
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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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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. Buckshot |
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