Too Much gun

Problem solved. It went back to Shiloh a couple days ago to be rebarreled to 40-70SS. I also got a LimbSaver for my Browning 45-70. I'm getting too old for a rifle to beat the pi** out of me. I may even get a C. Sharps in 38-55 and put the fun back into shooting again instead of trying to bring down a T-Rex.
 
Thanks Hunter.
I looked at your work too. VERY nice.
I used to build 1911s myself and I know the work that goes into one made to the high end. My sincere complements.
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One of my favorite calibers...I think I'd opt for a low wall with set trigger. Last I knew they made a real nice single set...
 
Nothing personal, but those pads are challenging to the eyes to put it politely
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I am making tools for men, not jewelry for women.
A women's stiletto high heel mounted on the rifle butt might look more sleek, but with so little area it could pierce your shoulder.

Do things that make sense, and fashion will catch up to you later.
 
I put a slip on Limbsaver recoil pad on my Win 1886 in 45-70 due to the abusive recoil encountered while doing load development. Yesterday I shot 50 shots out of the gun in one afternoon and don't have a mark on me. I can't believe how much this recoil pad reduced the abuse the gun was giving out. The best part is that it slips right off and doesn't ruin the looks of the gun. Best money I ever spent in this area.
 
I put a slip on Limbsaver recoil pad on my Win 1886 in 45-70 due to the abusive recoil encountered while doing load development.
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I recently bought one of those for my Browning BPCR in 45-70 and it fits like a glove. I haven't had the chance to try it out but from all indications it works. After what happened with the 45-90 I hope so. I also bought a Lead Sled just in case the LimbSaver don't work.
 
Wyosmith: I wouldn't be surprised if yours was the first rifled 2 bore.

I've read of 2 bore and 1 bore being used on elephants in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Pretty sure those were smooth bore, not rifled.
 
Buzzcook, if you truly have read of 2 bores being used in either smooth or rifled I and my fellow researchers would love to know where. This is NOT a "challenge" at all. I am 100% sincere in asking to please show me such documentation. We need it if the book is ever to be updated or edited to that effect.

After about 10 years of research I have yet to find one record of a 2 bore or 1 bore being made in anything but swivels guns and whaling arms.

In sporting rifles styles I have found a few records of 4 bores, but never anything larger.
 
There is a midwest gunsmith that specializes in building faithful replicas of old big bore rifles. He built a 2 bore Jones underlever for a customer and posted his build on Youtube. Do a search. If looking for some history he might be able to provide some. Stolzer's Family Gunsmithing, I believe, is the name of his business.
 
When you hear about the really big bore elephant guns, they always talk about NEVER shooting from the bench. They are made to shoot standing from sticks or a rest, and 4 rounds is a full day of shooting. Perhaps your rifle fits into this category.......
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_bore

Among other weapons, I had an extraordinary rifle that carried a half-pound percussion shell; this instrument of torture to the hunter was not sufficiently heavy for the weight of the projectile: it only weighted twenty pounds, thus with a charge of ten drachms [270 grains] of powder and a HALF-POUND shell, the recoil was so terrific, that I spun around like a weathercock in a hurricane. I really dreaded my own rifle, although I have been accustomed to heavy charges of powder and severe recoils for some years. None of my men could fire it, and it was looked upon as a species of awe, and it was name "Jenna-El-Mootfah" (Child of a Cannon) by the Arabs, which being a far too long of a name for practice, I christened it the "Baby", and the scream of this "Baby" loaded with a half-pound shell was always fatal. It was too severe, and I seldom fired it, but it is a curious fact that I never shot a fire with that rifle without bagging. The entire practice, during several years, was confined to about twenty shots. I was afraid to use it, but now and then as it was absolutely necessary, it was cleaned after months of staying loaded. On such occasions my men had the gratification of firing it, and the explosion was always accompanied by two men falling on their backs (one having propped up the shooter) and the "Baby" flying some yards behind them. This rifle was made by Holland & Holland, of Bond Street, and I could highly recommend it for the Goliath of Gath, but not for the men of A.D. 1866.[1]
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The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin Of The Nile, 1866. By Sir Samuel White Baker. pp. 138

That isn't the reference I remember, just what I could find quickly on the interenet.

The one bore was probably a swivel of some sort. The reference I remember was just to the weight of the projectile not the gun itself.
 
Ok, to address 2 things here;
#1 for Buzzcook. I am very familiar with Sir Samuel Bakers gun. It was just what you read. It's however a 4 bore shooting bullets (shells) not a 2 bore. I had a full set of piucs of it. It's now in the Tower of London museum in England.
#2 for Myfirends410. You are indeed correct about Colin Stolzer. He is a friend of mine and in fact, he's my old apprentice. I taught him the art of Gunsmithing for several years when he used to live in Riverton and later in Thermopolis Wyoming. But I made a 2 bore before he ever did. If anyone doubts that, ask him.
Here is his e-mail address. cstolzer338@bluevalley.net

He and I still talk about 4-5 times a week. He is now 100% on his own and his ski9lls no longer need my guidance. He's made all of the 2 bore rifles SPORTING we can find in existence except the 1st one, which I made for a man named Ken, in Illinois a few years ago, which is in the pictures above.
 
I know Shoshoni well, I grew up in Riverton and My grandparents lived in Thermop. My Uncle lived there In Shoshoni for years. He just passed away last year. I grew up ice fishing on Boysen. Did you own the gun store there 25 years ago or so? we used to buy minnows there.
 
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