Old Dragoon
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My "58 Rem. Carbine arrived today. It is awesome and in super shape. the letters in the box are BB which is 1992.
It is unfired, but the cylinder has been turned. Doesn't appeared to have been dry fired either. Nipples are not mushroomed. It has a great trigger pull and lighter hammer spring. There was no original box. This has had a forestock put on it and it is a great job, doesn't detract from the gun at all and can be removed by taking the bbl band off dropping the rammer and turning the stock 1/4 turn It has a steel forend and 1 BBl band complete with the steel band release clip. I understand this forstock is from an original Civil War parts musket.
Checked out the Chamber/bbl alignment and it's perfect. Chambers appear to be .450 as close as I can measure. Haven't slugged the bbl yet.
There is no sight channel on the top of the frame. Rear sight is rifle type with an elevator, windage is by drifting in the slot Front sight and rammer are dovetailed.
Brass is already aged due to being in a guncase for years, the frame is turning plum probably due to the difference in the metal in the bbl and the frame and the age. Not a ding or scratch on her. There is a line around the cylinder but other than that CHERRY.
If she shoots as good as she looks then I'll be a happy camper.
Pictures later.
It is unfired, but the cylinder has been turned. Doesn't appeared to have been dry fired either. Nipples are not mushroomed. It has a great trigger pull and lighter hammer spring. There was no original box. This has had a forestock put on it and it is a great job, doesn't detract from the gun at all and can be removed by taking the bbl band off dropping the rammer and turning the stock 1/4 turn It has a steel forend and 1 BBl band complete with the steel band release clip. I understand this forstock is from an original Civil War parts musket.
Checked out the Chamber/bbl alignment and it's perfect. Chambers appear to be .450 as close as I can measure. Haven't slugged the bbl yet.
There is no sight channel on the top of the frame. Rear sight is rifle type with an elevator, windage is by drifting in the slot Front sight and rammer are dovetailed.
Brass is already aged due to being in a guncase for years, the frame is turning plum probably due to the difference in the metal in the bbl and the frame and the age. Not a ding or scratch on her. There is a line around the cylinder but other than that CHERRY.
If she shoots as good as she looks then I'll be a happy camper.
Pictures later.