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The rifles made at Springfield with this safety design change were a modification done by Springfield, not Remington. The only involvement Remington had was to agree to a royalty from Springfield for each rifle they produced. The drop to half cock feature on these rifles is only found on those made ...

Go back and look at MVA again! They also sell a nice copy of the Combination front sights too! And if you want a closer copy you can even order it with the wide dovetail base that Remington used! Mine are all around that .469" dovetail size, but when I'm building a modern off an original action I ...

Large rifle primers wont work as they require a centered firing pin strike. Unless you made the pocket perfectly centered, and then also got the adapter perfectly indexed when chambering it. Considering how little you'll likely shoot this with RF adapter cases I don't think you'll spend a huge ...

Since you've done a lot of metal working, you might decide to make the adapters yourself. Just buy some .22 blanks and once you make up a Cerrosafe casting then you can turn a case and bore and shape it to fit a .22 blank in it. Give one a try and once you've got it you can make as many copies as ...

You're welcome.
The Cerrosafe can be used over and over again, so keep the casting for future use again.

Here are the rimfire adapters Dixie sells. Not cheap, but doubt you'd make them for much savings. The diameter should be checked against your chamber to see if theirs for .44 round ball are the same as your chamber. Would require you to do a Cerrosafe chamber casting. You can buy Cerrosafe type ...

Since it's a rimfire it should be a .44 Long RF as that's the only one I know of. That explains why it's in nice shape since .44 Long RF hasn't been made in many decades, so it sat unused.
You can buy lathe turned adapter cases that use .22 blanks to ignite the powder. They work great, but are a ...

I wouldn't force it either, as it's not worth damaging the forearm. Have you determined which .44 it's chambered for yet? Could be a few options with the ".44 CTGE" marking from a .44 Long RF or CF, or a .44-77 Bottleneck, or a .44-90 BN.

On a Sporting Rifle like yours the round top receivers, deep crescent buttplate, and rounded nose cap are all features of very early Rolling Block Sporting Rifles. The location of the serial number near the last lower tang screw is correct also, and not an assembly number as those were on the sides ...

There needs to be some clearance so the hammer doesn't rub the breech block when the hammer drops. But I doubt it's more than a couple thousandth's.
I have bought a number of Rolling Block actions to use for BPCR type rifle builds, and have seen some pretty large clearances on some! The tails of ...

I attend the Cartridge Collector's annual show in Castle Rock, Wa. every March, and there are numerous sellers there with original cartridges for sale individually, and most obsolete ammo can be found there. But depending on how rare it is I see $25-$75 per cartridge prices for rare ammo!
I wanted ...

You might contact Steve Evans in Utah at 801-554-5120. Steve at one time had a huge selection of Gun Report magazines he was selling for a few dollars each, and they went back to the late 1950's and forward to 2008.

rudybolla wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 10:30 am IIRC, I made cases from .45-70 brass some years back.

.45-70 cases are a lot smaller rim, and might result in the extractor slipping past the rim.

rudybolla wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 9:54 am Do you recall what type of rifle was in the Morphy auction?

It was a muzzleloader, but don't recall details.

Rood was indeed another Denver gunsmith, and he and Gove had a real feud going over who was the best shooter. The Denver gunsmith feud was well publicized at the time and made the local papers with both men making jabs at each other.
Here's some more info from a Morphy auction some time ago that ...