Trapdoor Rifles

Id be lying if I said I didnt just look them up on ebay. Very cool!

The overall plan for this rifle is for it to become a usable rifle in fire able condition. There is some relevant discussion in another thread that I will link below for those interested in that information. What this post will be comprised of is mostly the condition of the rifle and the plans and q...

Dick- Pretty sure this thread is about ONE gun, albeit the initial post had serial number 132586 which was corrected in subsequent post to be 132589, as confirmed by photo of the number. Perhaps you may be confusing this thread with the one asking about two cadets, which had some really weird parts...

I am not exactly a professional, so please forgive my less than stellar preformance in filming. Being frank, I went into the disassembly pretty much blind. I could have done more research into that aspect, but I was impatient so I just went in. When you say "non-compatible" parts how exact...

Hey, my curiosity is piqued. I am working on a rifle of similar background. It is an 1884 as well that came from my Grandfathers gun closet after he passed. I have been carrying it around in a case for over a decade with the assumption that i would eventually make it look a little nicer and put it o...