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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => Spencer Shooting Society => Topic started by: Sedalia Dave on October 29, 2022, 09:19:07 PM
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Here are some pictures of my new acquisition. It came with the bayonet, the original rimfire breech block, a fitted center fire breech block, original follower. Brass follower for centerfire cartridges, and Stabler cutoff.
Unfortunately the forearm wood has been replaced with what appears to be a 3 band stock from an Armi-Sport 56-50 replica. Who ever did the replacement did an excellent job as the stock is well fitted to the barrel and receiver.
I have the original bands and am in hopes of finding an original 68 or 70 trapdoor stock that I can modify to fit this rifle.
Did a chamber cast and it is chambered in 50-45-400 aka 50 Cadet. I started a bullet sized to .511 into the barrel from the breech end and it engaged the rifling nicely.
Barrel is pitted but not real dark. The 3 groove rifling appears to be good.\
I cut down 50-90 Sharps brass to 1.3" and it chambers easily. I have 50-70 government brass on backorder from Starline.
I am using a modified Accurate 51-330S bullet. I had the crimp groove eliminated and increased the width of the lube groove 0.050" and the depth increased 0.050" to carry more lube.
Made 4 dummy cartridges 1.680" long and they cycle really well.
Special thanks to NDNCHF for all the posts he made concerning his 56-50 Springfield Conversion. I would have never gotten this far without his work.
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Pictures I'll post closeups later.
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Good catch! A friend of mine shoots his regularly, and does quite well with it, I might add. Any luck finding the proper wood?
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I fat fingered the accurate mould #. It is a 51-330S.
I tried both the 51-330S and the 51-320S. The 51-330S feeds much more consistently.
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Pictures of the Bayonet.
Blade is 18" long and the overall length is 21"
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Pictures of the receiver. icluding the mounting of the stabler cutoff. I have it and the original screw. Just haven't installed it.
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Detail pics of the Stabler Cutoff.
Notice that the part that contacts the breech block is beveled slightly.
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Barrel overall length is a hair over 32"
Rear Trapdoor sight is in good shape.
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Magazine Follower.
Original and the brass replacement. Notice that the replacement is counter-bored so that it doesn't touch the primer.
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Congratulations - it is a somewhat rare rifle. Only about 1100 were made. Here is a video I made of mine a while back.
https://youtu.be/t4iXhZvBPZs
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Congratulations - it is a somewhat rare rifle. Only about 1100 were made.
Can't thank you enough for that video and the other posts you made. You saved me a lot of work in getting this rifle set up.
SD
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Thanks. Glad you found my experiences helpful.