TO JOIN OUR SPENCER SHOOTING SOCIETY - PLEASE REGISTER HERE !!!!

[TexasHighlander]

Well, just read the membership post that said we're up in the 130's, so I guess I'm not #80. Think I'll wait and hear from the Posse leader before my boots get any soggier!

The Texas Highlander

[Pinkerton Agent]

I've been here for some time, watching. I blend in....you've seen me but didn't realize it. By the time you figure out who I am it's too late.

The Pinkertons.....we never sleep!

[gotzguns]

wish to register. have two taylor spencers. 1865 carbine and 1865 rifle both in 56/50. am shoote and collector of all types firearms. really like early black powder cartridge guns.    gotzguns   e-mail   4570@custertel.net

[Martin Pauley]

Hello SSS members;
Martin Pauley reporting for duty. Waiting fo 56/50 to arrive and baptie it at the range!

CAS #51600

[Rancid Roy]

Rancid Roy reporting aboard!! I just shot my new Talyor's Spencer carbine in 56/.50 today. What a hoot-and-a-half!!!

[Bead Swinger]

Hi all -
I'm very new to this forum, but glad to find Spencer shooters out there.
I own a 56-56 rifle in the 22,000 serial range, that after many years I am just getting back to shooting.
I use a Rapine flat-nosed, heeled bullet that weighs in at 379 +/-2 gr., and use both 50-70 cases and some of the new starline 56-60 brass.

To fire it I have an S&S Firearms centerfire block, and a replacement tube.  For safety, I filed down the follower in the tube so that it is flat-nosed like the bullets.

I recently tried some Trail Boss - 9 gr. loads and clocked in at around 1000 fps. - which seemed quite safe for the old girl. The 50-70 cases came in slightly higher, and the longer 56-50 cases came in slightly lower, and with more variation.  If I can find the right tools, I'll probably cut down the 56-50s, after I figure out how to modify them to extract properly.

Thanks!  'Looking forward to trading notes.

Bead Swinger

[Frenchie]

'Frenchie' LaFrance, glad to be here. I'm going to chew through all these posts and learn all I can from them.

I don't have a Spencer yet, but I've been reenacting the 3rd US Infantry (1860-1865) for 11 years now and want to expand that up to 1872 for my NCOWS and GAF impressions. I want a .56-50 Spencer rifle, not a carbine. It turns out the Spencer rifle is good for the post-War 3rd Infantry and also for doing Civil War US Navy! I mean, is that cool, or what?

[Snapshot]

Good to have you Frenchie, I have wanted a Spencer Rifle since the dorn of time! But living in my part of the world waiting for hot firearms is normal!  Ce La Vie...  Finaly, it seems like I am going to get my Spencer this fall.  I am working on my Blackeslee six tube cartridge box in the meantime.! Just got hold of some nice brass tubing to use in it, yes I know they are suposed to be tin, but the brass is nicer and the size/fit is exelent!

[Two Flints]

SSS,

Always looking for new members.

Two Flints

[Filthy Lucre]

Filthy Lucre here. Trying to find some ammo for my original 56/50. Have dies and some brass. Need the know how.

[W.T.]

W.T. signing in.  56-50 carbine due in late next week or so.  Yeeeeee-hah!

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

[Major 2]

W.T. signing in.  56-50 carbine due in late next week or so.  Yeeeeee-hah!

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

Kwool  , welcome pard

[W.T.]

Thankee, Pilgrim; 'Net scouting for orig milspec and CAS loads rat-now.  Gonna read thru all 17 pages of the SSS forum by sunup tomorrow (well, soem of 'em, anyhow...)

[Pvt Bill]

Pvt Bill Here.
I,m a member of the Kearny Frontier Regulars here at Ft. Phil Kearny  depicting the 1866-68 era of the fort. I also work for the Wyoming
State Parks and historical sites. I Get to maintain the weaponry  original and reproductions. went out and shot a SASS shot over the weekend what hoot to shoot the Spencer!!!
                                               Bill Canfield

[Sgt Maj ODonnell]

SSS

I'm a member of the Hole In The Wall Gang at Piru CA. I picked up a Spencer 56 - 50 Carbine last week that was being sold at our local shoot. So please register me as a new SSS member. I have ordered Die's and Brass, Would like Info on were to buy BP Bullets, I can't get into casting at this time.

Sgt Maj O'Donnell

[nowonder_1999]

Guess this is where I check in. Nowonder_1999, no affiliation, just got an old 1865, and got it talking again. Need some pointers on bullet design. I have a couple of molds, and have loaded a couple of hundred rounds. Shot 20 with startling results:
1) Gun didn't blow up
2) 50 yards averaged better than a 9 for a 20 shot group.
3) Gun didn't blow up
4) Starline brass worked fine
5) gun didn't blow up

and did I mention; the gun didn't blow up?

[Dai.S.Loe]

Not shooting a Spencer firearm btu am going to shoot a Ballard chambered for the 56-56 Spencer round. Can I join?

Dai.

[matt45]

Hey, how ya'all doing.
I've been trying to join for several weeks now, finally talked to the Marshal.  I've been in love w/the Spencer since I was a little kid and found an old case up in a old Ghost town in the Mtns south of the ranch.  I figure to mostly shut up, as you folks know a lot more than I do.

[PvtGreg]

PvtGreg here.  Proud owner of a Romano Spencer since 1998!

[Spence]

Hey there SSS!


Would ya let an honest-to-God Spencer join?