Spencer Sporter Project *** Photos Added ***

[badlands]

Here's a couple of pics of my spencer sporter i've been working on for close to a year now.  It fuctions like a peach, just got the forearm fitted to the barrel and have to contour the outside and i'll be ready to finish the wood and blue it.





The barreled receiver i started with had a 22 inch barrel that was in bad shape so I had Larry put me a 28 inch oct.barrel on the receiver.  It has the slow twist rate that Larry says folks are getting good results with.  

It's a repeater and the first thing i did was to get the funtion to 100% before i did anything else.   The work Larry did was to rebarrel the gun and to fill the saddle bar cutout on the left side of the receiver to give it the sporter profile.  I did the rest of the wood and metal work, as you can see the parts gun was just that, it did have the breech block but no wood or magazine parts.  

Over the past year or so I have pieced it together through gunbroker, S&S and Dixie, plus a Spencer pard or two that I know.  The hammer spur was broken off so I laced a piece of rawhide on
it to make it easier to cock, I saw this on an original at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Museum in OKC.  I found by accident that a remington rolling block forearm will work great on a spencer and gives you plenty of wood to work with.

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[PvtGreg]

Badlands - Thats very very impressive.

1) Did you work from a repro or an original?

2) How'd you fit the octagonal barrel to the receiver?

3) Whats the barrel length?

This is astounding.

Pvt Greg

[badlands]

Here's the basic starting point.

I didn't do the barrel work my amigo Larry Romano did some fine work.
The barrel is 28 inches.  I can't wait to take her to the range.
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[Herbert]

What type of sights are you going to use

[badlands]

I have a globe sight on it now with a 66 winchester carbine rear sight, might change to a smith, gonna see how this set up works right now.  The sighting circle on the flip up in the carbine sight is pretty nice with the globe.  We'll see how it works out.

[Herbert]

I do like the Smith sight but last time I tryed to get one I was told they were not being made any more,what twist rate did Larry suply,if any one knows how to get the best acuracy from a Spencer its him

[Shenandoah]

That's a good looking rifle badlands. Is it a 56-50?

[badlands]

It is a 56/50 the twist rate is something like 1 in 28 or something i can't lay my hands on my notes right now.  Here are some additional photos that Two Flints posted for me:













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[matt45]

Looks a lot like Liver Eating Johnson's Spencer after the Civil War, sans Hawken forearm and ramrod.  Really neat