Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh my!
AKmike:
If I could get a barrel to work with I would glue it on your rifle post haste. Does anyone out there know of a barrel maker providing Alex Henry rifling besides Krieger?
Brent:
It is a Green Mountain barrel. I can't see any reason to change now. This one is a 16 twist. The reason for the .45-70 is the lighter weight and the fact that I am a caring, sensitive, New Millennium sort of guy. I don't know if I can take the recoil of a 90 in a 13 pound rifle, and I do know I would rather not if I didn't have to. A 500 grain bullet can be pushed at 1350 with the 70 and with the faster twist I expect it to hold together out to 1K. If not, a few hours of quality time with a chamber reamer and it is a .45-90.
As for your secret weapon, I'll take a serious look at it... But there are certain implications to releasing a new technology on society. We have a moral responsibility to the citizens of the world to be sure such new technologies will do more good than harm.
Michael:
I thought I wrote you about that, but... The problem is that this barrel diameter is apparently quite a bit larger than the original Wesson barrel. That rifle would have been built to 10 pounds vs. the 13 pounds of this rifle, with the difference all in the barrel. I cut a Delrin barrel stub to the original Wesson configuration with the new barrel's diameter and all I got was something that made me look like a bad machinist. There just was not enough change in diameter from the barrel to the receiver ring to make that transition work. I do indeed thank you for your assistance. It is much appreciated and will someday be used.
Jerry:
I cannot see why this action would not hold most any reasonable chambering, but that would be something to take up with the manufacturer. All that I have posted about are indeed Black Powder chamberings because that is what I shoot.
Glenn
