Hello Buckstix,
That's a very nice find indeed. I would certainly recommend you stick to PP lead bullets and never fire jacketed bullets in it at all. Rifle barrels of this vintage were made of soft steel that wears out fast with jacketed bullets. At the velocities your firing a jacketed bullet is hardly likely to expand, whereas a PP lead bullet certainly will at those velocities. A pity about those ivory inserts. Roy Weatherby has a lot to answer for when it comes to inlays on a rifle stock. I know he wasn't the first to do it by any means, but 'space age' additions do not look right on a late 19th Century rifle.

Harry


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