So I have a new block of Cerrosafe, and I'm ready to make another chamber cast.īut first, I slugged the bore. It was actually fairly accurate.!Ībout eight years ago I decided to get a little more formal with it. Next, I'd fire-form the brass to fill the chamber load with black powder and hand seat cast lead bullets, then have fun.

Trial and error 'til I got the first one to fit, then calipers for the rest. 348 pin gauge into the mouth to support it, chuck it up in a drill press, and using a flat file 'mill' the web portion of the case to fit the chamber. When I was shooting it, I formed brass from. It's been a long time (twenty years or so) since I've shot my Remington 'Modelo Argentino 1879 E. Contact the publisher for details.Needin' some specs, and my 'Google-Fu' is weak today. Marcot also spent hundreds of hours over the past eighteen years combing through the Remington company archives drawing material from original surviving production, sales and shipping records.Ī leather-bound, slip-cased deluxe edition is also available. Countless trips were made by the author to museums and private gun collections throughout the United States and Great Britain. Research on this epic study of one of America s most famous hunting and sporting rifle began twenty-three years ago. book sets a new standard that all future arms books will be held to.

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