New custom Plainsman rifle

[Adirondack Jack, SASS #53440]

Best I can recall, a little over 2 years ago I had an idea to build up plainsman rifle in Cowboy .45 Special using an original Remington rolling block.

 

With surprisingly little effort, a steel frame #5 roller action (originally a 7MM rimless, circa pre-WWI) was located a few miles away and purchased.

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The action was complete, and somebody had started trying to polish it out.

 

Once the "gun" was in hand, it was simply a matter of going into "wonderland" mode and buying stuff. A Douglas barrel and a custom C45S Manson chamber reamer were recommended by the late Dave Higginbotham of Lone Star Rifles, a Lyman front sight and Marbles tang sight, a Treebone Carving walnut stock set and Winchester style steel butt plate.

 

I shipped the action and had the barrel, sights and reamer sent to Dave at Lone Star, and he determined the block in the action was too far out of square to true up (a common as-made issue, which is no problem with military rifles because brass is not saved for reloading). Dave fitted a new block from his stocks used in building his own rifles. He then threaded and chambered the barrel, fitted a new "rimmed type" extractor, and did a trigger job, getting the infamously heavy trigger down to 2 lbs. He also installed the sights.

 

He shipped the barreled action back to me, and I prepped and finished it using Dixie Instant Antique solution (about 6 cycles)

 

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