Trapdoor Rifles

WOW!!

Quite a few bidders on that one and there's lots of days left before it ends. The numbers look to be way off along with the front. I have a really nice iron guard knife which I purchased from all some time ago Dick. It has an excellent Varney scabbard which still has the locking tab, most are missin...

Wow!! That's one beautiful rifle.
I have a nice 1889 dated rifle in minty condition but not as minty as that one.

I had custom molds made Dick, 590 diameter as the original bullet. I talked to a company in Texas before covid about making rim fire cases for 58 caliber, sent him a round along with original dimensions. This was a company that made special cases for rim fire that took a 22 blank. Luckily I had not ...

Since you seem to like shooting your 1st Allin more than occasionally, have you ever considered having someone turn proper cases for you? You could still drill and counterbore for the blank, to save some money, but everything else would be perfect... Yes I have Dick but as of yet I've not found any...

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I recently acquired some 58 caliber charge tubes, most likely the same blue tubes sold on S&S. I found that they are much closer in rim size than 28 gauge brass shot shells. I cut one down to 1.70 as is the case length for .58 rimfire then chambered it in my 1st Allin conversion. It seemed to ch...

That's a nice one!!

Okay, we have a suggested method to remove the crud from the metal, but what about getting it off the wood? I would never use any "cleaner" on old original finish. I take vaseline and let it render in a high heat environment to get out most of the liquid 'oil" in it. You then have a ...