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Got a new "lever" gun. Browning 1885, circa 1998, 24" ½round/½octagon with tang peep and globe front sight. I also got the original front sight, and the barrel sight is still installed.
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I'm not sure what brand of front sight it is, but the tang sight is a Marbles, marked "Browning". Nice wood and in excellent shape. Bore is clean, bright, and appears virtually unfired.

Range report will have to wait a few weeks... I gotta sight it in with my BP loads, have a match to compete in on Thursday next, and then I'm off to Lost Wages, NV the day be the election. Yea, I'm votin' early!
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Very nice, what caliber?
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.45 Colt.
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Yes, very nice indeed! :mrgreen:
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Very nice. :mrgreen: You can use that in Mississippi duing the muzzle loader season. Just thought you'd like to know that :D
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Griff, from one trucker to another,, you'll love the Browning.. I have the mate to it in 45-70.. the Traditional Hunter with the same sight... bought it a few years back, and the first week I owned it killed a cow elk, a doe antelope and a nice 4X4 mulie buck.. Les
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O.S.O.K. wrote:Very nice. :mrgreen: You can use that in Mississippi duing the muzzle loader season. Just thought you'd like to know that :D
Do I hear an invite in there?
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Pretty wood!!
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That is nice! :D Strange caliber for a single shot and as you know, there's lots of opportunity to experiment with the cartridge thats not easily done with other types of actions. I bet you can seat out a 300 gr. bullet with a mess of H110 to equal the 45-90 load. Ought to be interesting. Can I have it? please? :D -----------------------Sixgun
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That's very nice!!

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yep thats cool & I agree with sixgun

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Sixgun wrote:That is nice! :D Strange caliber for a single shot and as you know, there's lots of opportunity to experiment with the cartridge thats not easily done with other types of actions. I bet you can seat out a 300 gr. bullet with a mess of H110 to equal the 45-90 load. Ought to be interesting. Can I have it? please? :D -----------------------Sixgun
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I gotta tell ya Jack... it handles very sweetly! And, yep, I was a little surprised at just how nice the wood is.
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I sure like that wood!
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Beautiful find! Hope you have really enjoy her.
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Griff -- it's already been said a ton in this thread, but that is very very nice...thank you for sharing... :)
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Nice rifle Mr. Griff. We have some new loads with a proprietary powder that is peletized stack. This gives a 250 gr .452 2200 fps in a 20" barrel. I'm sending some for testing to 86er and I know you're his friend. Sure would like to see what that 24" barrel will do with them before you start burning BP all the time.
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One thing for sure Griff, and thats the fact that Browning does have a reputation for installing nice wood on their guns. The quality of the steel and the way its put together will make for a gun that will last.........forever? My good friend Cimarron Red has over 30,000 rounds out of his Browning BPCR 45-70 and about the equal amount of out an 1886 Browning.

Kinda makes us semi-old guys wish these things came out when we were all younguns as it sure would have saved us all mega bucks from the tons of other guns we bought.

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Very nice. I like the .45 Colt cartridge, and it that rifle, you should be able to play around with different powders and really have a lot of fun. Since it is a rifle, I would love to know what some of the slower burning powders that give low velocity in a pistol would do. I bet there is a real difference.
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Very nice indeed, look forward to progress reports :D :D
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Very sweet Griff! (you forgot the drool warning though!)
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Mike Rintoul wrote:Nice rifle Mr. Griff. We have some new loads with a proprietary powder that is peletized stack. This gives a 250 gr .452 2200 fps in a 20" barrel. I'm sending some for testing to 86er and I know you're his friend. Sure would like to see what that 24" barrel will do with them before you start burning BP all the time.
I have a match this comin' weekend (11/1-3). If he's got the ammo & time I'll drop it by Joe's house Monday, before I go, if not, after the match, as I'll be using it on Thursday. One way or another, we'll get 'er done. Those sound like some rip-snortin' loads! :P :P :lol:
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Howdy Griff,
Long time no see. I have had that same gun for several years. 300grgc from a lee mould with a stiff charge of H110 1550fps. not max. Killed two deer with it.
Sounds like you are going to shoot plainsman at comin-at-cha. Gona shoot mine in that match with bp.
I sighted mine in to shoot the 300 with the peep and a std 45 Colt 200rnfp with the barrell sights.
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Yep, saw your name on the lists and am lookin' forward to catchin' up!
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Is there a way to lower the lammer to full down without dry-fiiring it? With it cocked, if you try to ease the hammer down, it only drops to a safety notch. I've not taken it apart to look; and if this is an idiosyncracy of the gun, I'm ok with it, just curious.
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I now officially no longer have a heart it was thoroughly consumed with insatiable vigor, thank you. :D
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Anyone recognize this front sight? It's about 13/16" in diameter, and the center of the aperature sits about 1" above the centerline of the bore.
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Getting a "baby" like that is enough to make a grown man shed a tear griff----- :mrgreen: happy for you indeed! Nice one.
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You know i just had a thought and its black powder and paper patch i think that would be interesting to say the least

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Griff wrote:Anyone recognize this front sight? It's about 13/16" in diameter, and the center of the aperature sits about 1" above the centerline of the bore.
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It was so high, that I just had to take it off and get the stock one back on. Found a 20MJT stamped under the base. Lyman. 7/8" diameter sight, but it's .700 high from the base of the dovetail to the center of the sight. Much higher than the .495 that the original sight is. I think eventually, I'll get a Lyman 17AML, .495" above the dovetail.
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Very very nice wood. Kewl griff!
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Thank you all for the nice compliments. I was really quite surprised by how nice the wood is.
rafter-7 wrote:You know i just had a thought and its black powder and paper patch i think that would be interesting to say the least
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You have to have a rather "long" throat in the chamber to be able to seat a paper-patch bullet. The normal .45 Colt throat is rather short, so the bullet engages the rifling pretty quickly. A PP throat is about an ¼ inch longer, so the paper patch leading edge isn't disturbed by the rifling.

Well... while I wait for the casting pot to warm up, (gotta cast some more bullets for this weekend, only have about 50 already cast, need about 150-200 total), I took it out and shot it. Didn't have a target set up, but... shame on me, about 35 yards from the rear of the barn is an open steel gate. With about a 6"x6" square steel plate. Latch is on the other side, plate is about 3/8" thick, and I don't care if I dent it.

Used the open barrel sight for shot #1. Ding, right where the front sight was, CENTER HIT! WOO! HOO!

Last nite I located my tang sight insert assorment. The three for my model 94 tang sight have too large diameter of threads. However, I have three from some other sight (who knows where the sight went), that fit perfectly. Although they are all about ¾" in diameter, they have 3 different size aperatures. Taking the largest, I put it in the Browning sight.

So, for shot number 2, I flipped up the tang sight, and since it sits just a tad higher than the rear barrel sight, I held at the bottom edge of the plate. Ding, right on top of the first hit! So, the tang gives me about a 3" higher P.O.I. than the barrel sight at the same 35 yards. Probably ready for the 50 yard targets on Thursday! I'm callin' it competition ready!

Just got done putting a little cold blue on the old aperature, and looking good. Shouldn't get any glare off the dark blue and rough, pebbled surface.

This might just be the rifle I need for Cowboy Silhoutte in a pistol caliber... if anyone holds matchs for pistol caliber single shots!
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Well, after getting the camera and zooming in on the plate, a little higher than I first thought! Must be about 7-8" higher. Call it 100 yard capable. Spent the afternoon casting, sizing and reloading about 250 rounds of 45 Colt and 50 additional rounds of 12 ga... All BP!
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