Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655

Gospel is to resize. With pistol brass I very rarely do. If there are dings in case mouth then pretty much have to. I generally loaded virgin national match brass for high power matches straight out of the box and it never failed me in a match. Thin brass like 38-40 and 44-40 is pretty easy to damage case mouths in shipping and handling. Having said that I check my cases if case mouth is round straight out of the bag I load and go. Prime expand case mouth add powder in lots of 50 to loading block visually inspect all for powder and proper level, then seat bullets and package for matches Again Gospel is to resize initially trim and chamfer as necessary

If you want to loose your house car guns and most of your money go for it. This assumes you are married temporarily as if you are caught you will not be.

Have purchased 3 or 4 from them never a problem but ymmv

If you can find a Muslin shirt they work pretty good.

Come to EOT and there will be weather for sure! Nice, too hot, too cold, too dry too rain snow hail dusty muddy or all of the above in one day

I will take em both

Signed up to be notified for both 44-40 and 45-70.

My Chinchester 87 works great full disclosure LASSITER did his magic on it. Works great with federal, winchester, remington shells ejects with no problem if I do my part. The lever is designed to be worked not limp wristed babied on opening. There is one Issue Fiocci Clear plastic shells do not eject, they are some what longer than the normal run of the mill shells like federal, remmington or winchester. I have taken to roll crimping as I have a bunch of the clear fiocci hulls from shooting sporting clays. I have also found the old hand cranked antique roll crimpers actually do as well in terms of crimp and time to crimp as the drill press mounted crimping tool and hull vise. YMMV. The 1887s are really fun and hey super style points awarded every match as well.

Top edge of brass scraping can sometimes be related to not having enough roll crimp so that the front of the brass has a bit of a radius to it.

Thank you who ever saved me from myself

Good question might be why I mostly shoot a 92

very tempting

When was the last time you saw John Wayne using one? Nuff Sed

damn missed it, need to check the wire 3 times a day rather than every 3 days.

Dad used sewing machine oil to lube his twin 50 Cal tail guns that had to reliably function at 25,000 feet and something like 40 below zero

All things being equal a cast bullet should be .002 bigger than the bore. Have a way over bored rossi 92 44 mag made in 1993-4 that has a .434-.435 inch bore depending on how one measures the slug. It key holed at 25 yards. Switched to softer Desparado Bullets from cowboybullets.com 240 grain .430 diameter the rifle now shoots round holes at 100 yards and a 2.5-3 inch group from a 20 inch carbine iron sights and over 65 yo eyes.

were it a 20 guage we would be talking bump

Baikal can be frustrating out of the box. After you open the action all the way it will have a tendency to close enough that the shells don't want to come out. If one pushes the barrel release lever back fully to the left with your thumb when the barrels are fully open they will stay open as long as you hold the lever to the left. This has something to do with the shape of the cams and a good shot gun guy can fix it. I am too cheap to pay for that so I push the barrel release to the left with my thumb (when I remember to, other times I cuss). Using a scotch brite pad and my drill press I was able to polish the chambers enough the shells will fly out. During the final polishing I added some plastic head light polishing liquid on the scotch brite pads. Like most russian stuff they are a bit crude and rough but being built like a tank are very reliable Being a total idiot I bought a $300 CIA 87 lever gun. Folks say they totally suck. In this case I spent the money and had Lassiter work his magic. Magic it was, it is slick and sweet. I suck at loading it but the gun works fine. I was able to hit the flyer with it at winter range.