Since I will only load this one with Blackpowder -- it fits in this category...
I've been doing some work on an old
Remington No. 1 Rolling Block that had been converted to a Schuetzen model -- with a heavy steel 2-pronged Swiss butt plate. With a
32" long .45-70 barrel installed, it weighs in at
12.4 pounds without the palm rest plate, rest hardware & wooden ball that I've since added.
The gun shot really well on my first attempts, and while the wood stocks were nicely figured and finished, and the barrel and action parts were professionally blackened (not blued), the action itself needed some work to make it look better.
This is what
"The Beast", as I called it, looked like when I first acquired it:
Here's what the action itself looked like "before" :
You can see where the owner/gunsmith had bent the upper and lower straight tangs to form to the Schuetzen-style stock, and added a brass spacer under the main spring. And here's the beautifully figured buttstock:
I polished all the parts that I wanted case-colored from the No. 1 rifle, as well as a smaller No. 4 boy's rifle rolling block (22) to 300 grit to prep them for the shop:
And finally -- here's a close-up of how the action came out!
And here's the case-color on the Swiss butt:
Lee Shaver Gunsmithing of Lamar MO (publisher of
"The Single Shot Exchange") did the case-color job, as well as I had him add one of his economy Soule Sights with a Hadley Eye Cup (an option I prefer) and he made it fit the tang perfectly.
I do need to replace the fugly (as in effin ugly!) hex head screws on the action and the Philips head screws on the Swiss Butt -- but overall...
Lee helped me convert this "Beast" into a
"Beauty"!!!
Tight groups.
Old No7