Here's a couple of pics of my spencer sporter i've been working on for close to a year now. It fuctions like a peach, just got the forearm fitted to the barrel and have to contour the outside and i'll be ready to finish the wood and blue it.
The barreled receiver i started with had a 22 inch barrel that was in bad shape so I had Larry put me a 28 inch oct.barrel on the receiver. It has the slow twist rate that Larry says folks are getting good results with.
It's a repeater and the first thing i did was to get the funtion to 100% before i did anything else. The work Larry did was to rebarrel the gun and to fill the saddle bar cutout on the left side of the receiver to give it the sporter profile. I did the rest of the wood and metal work, as you can see the parts gun was just that, it did have the breech block but no wood or magazine parts.
Over the past year or so I have pieced it together through gunbroker, S&S and Dixie, plus a Spencer pard or two that I know. The hammer spur was broken off so I laced a piece of rawhide on
it to make it easier to cock, I saw this on an original at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Museum in OKC. I found by accident that a remington rolling block forearm will work great on a spencer and gives you plenty of wood to work with.
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