Vintage Hunting and the 1876

[pinto beans]

Mr.Rowdy,

Good luck to you this season!  The 76 is ready, the countdown to opening morning is winding down here as well.  Can hardly wait!!

P.B.

[yahoody]

Mulies, last week from the back of my horse...wolves howling just out of sight up canyon on the elk bulges.  Should have snow there now.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Yahoody
Great picture , thanks for posting .

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
A picture is worth a thousand words . 

[yahoody]

Agreed   Woolies are for the snow...

[King Medallion]

Oh my....

[dusty texian]

I'm speechless!!! Sure would like to hear more about that Beauty.,,,DT

[yahoody]

OK, twist my arm guys   It is a 45-75 Cimarron that they cut down to the 22" length originally.  I bought it 2nd hand some time ago and shot it a lot.  I added 2" to the LOP when I had the wood replaced with delux and checkered by Macon.  At the same time had them add the checkered steel shotgun butt I bought previous.  Turnbull did the case colors.  Cody Museum had a poster with a '76 short rifle on an old saddle  25 years ago I had framed back then.  No repro '76s 25 years ago so figured I'd never own one.  I ordered a new 1/2 seat saddle early last year.  When I did that I also sent the rifle off to be refinished at the same time.  I'm happy with both! Quite the dream fulfilled really.

 



couple more photos of the rifle here:
http://pistolsmith.blogspot.com/2015/12/1876-deluxs-short-sporting-rifle.html

[King Medallion]

Beautiful. Well done. What ballpark price range for that wood, if I may ask?

[yahoody]

$800..out the door...4 months.

[King Medallion]

Ouch! Sure looks good tho.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Yahoody
Beautiful rifle and saddle .

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Well who's working on a Hunting load for this fall ? Anyone thinking about a Buffalo Hunt with a 45-75 . What about a Texas Hog Hunt ? Either way keep burning powder .

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Found a few pictures of a scoped out 76 . What ya think ?

[Jake C]

Looks cool to me. Normally I'm not fond of scopes on lever guns, but the Long Malcolm style scope is about as cool as can be.

[Coal Creek Griff]

Am I seeing it right, that the dust cover has been removed to mount the scope? Is that typical (I'm not too scope savvy).

CC Griff

[Rowdy Fulcher]

CCG
That's right . You have to remove the dust cover . But you can put a scope on a 73 or 76 .

[Coal Creek Griff]

Thanks, Rowdy.

CC Griff

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Plan on loading a few test rounds to sample Old E . It works Great in my 73 , need to work up a load for my 76 in 45-60 .

[OD#3]

I've found that I can easily get 60 grains of 2f Olde E in my modern brass.  I did use a compression die, but the compression wasn't severe.  I was actually using a 350 grain bullet and was getting over 1,400 f.p.s. out of it.  I wasn't too impressed with the accuracy at 260 yards (mostly misses on a 10 inch steel plate), but reviewing the video showed that the shots were actually quite accurate--a spotter (if I'd had one) could have helped me adjust the sights, and I think I'd have rung that steel reliably.  As it was, the smoke obscured the target so much, that I had no idea where I was missing.  This is an older video I shot with only 720p.  You may want to FF through the talking.  My son, after viewing some of my youtube vids called me the "Gun Bob Ross".