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I've built up 3 or 4 single shots based on actions that I bought, and I have 4 or 5 slowly underway...but I'm losing my eyesight and my sense of touch at the same time...I can never get rid of my home made sweethearts, but I can't start any new projects 'til I finish the ones I've started...That being said, I have a spare Westley Richards magnum Martini action that I will never get to... along with several other project guns and parts...I know there is a "guns for sale" section somewhere on this BBS, but what about parts and actions? Are they allowed to be listed or is there some special rule for gunsmithing items and project guns? What can be listed and what can't? Is it limited to doubles or can I list a single shot?

Any British falling block projects Robert? How large is the Martini action? The same as was used for the Greener shotguns? I have a client looking for a Martini action large enough to chamber a 20 bore on.
Steve

I like the .405 Winchester Cartridge myself! Even more so when you consider the fact that the Greatest President of These United states, to date any way, figured it was one of the best Cartridges produced,Teddy Roosevelt Himself!!!

Ruger #1's in 22 Hornet, 7x57, 30-06, 375H&H, 458 Win, and a 1885 Browning BPCR in 45-70. I am hoping someday to acquire a Schuetzen style in either 32-40, or 38-55.

Daniel Fraser 22 Hornet built from the Cape Outfitters kit purchased in the '80's. Looks like a miniature Ruger #1.

SKB...just the Westley Richards Martini, not a Greener cousin, this one is Westley down to the ground... like the WR's pictured in the DGJ (minus engraving) with the big safety lever that looks like an old motorcycle suicide shifter ...
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Doesn't look as if it's wide enough for a 20ga

Ruger 1s can be lovely, especially those worked over by Heym of Munnerstadt. I would not mind finding "Plain Jane" Modell 30 in 9,3x74R. Mucho gusto!

Original Highwall #383, in process of being resurrected, .32 WCF (32-20).

I have four and wish I had room and $$ for more: a custom Ruger 1A in .22 Hornet, a Lo-Wall in .25-20WCF (made up from about 7 different rifles and some homemade and aftermarket parts--shoots great but not quite up to Mr. Hughes' cosmetic standards...), an NEF "Sportster" in .22WRM (I bought a factory replacement wood buttstock and forend to replace the plastic, expected "pallet grade" and they sent me the nicest fiddleback birch buttstock you have ever seen! Gun shoots 'way above it's price range, too.) and a Savage 220 16-bore with a spare 219 .25-20 WCF barrel I found in a "barrel of barrels" in an old gunshop in Maine. Tried finding a 219 barrel in ANY caliber recently?

I didn't get in on the "stalking rifle" discussion of the .25-20 WCF but will throw in my two bits. When I was a kid in Northern California in the '40s and '50s (before it became the "Wine Country," yuck) we used to shoot deer with whatever was legal and many ranches had .25-20s. You need to wait until you are very close and have a broadside shot to get both lungs. This requires more discipline and more time out in deer country than most people have nowadays but it worked for country people who lived among MANY small blacktail deer and could wait for the right shot. Now you need at least a .243 or some of the same discipline and time and a .223 with "deer bullets." The deer are still there--they just love suburbs and vineyards...

I use all of my single shots for woodchuck hunting in upstate New York and find that the two .22s are more reliable woodchuck killers. With the .25-20 you need to get closer and hit a vital spot; basically you need to act like you are shooting at big game.

I enjoy my 45-70 even if it is an H&R Buffalo Classic. At my age, I can't have more fun! Lee