Trapdoor Rifles

The line throwing gun kit in that link shows rounded nose line throwing blanks in the picture it seems but no canelure in the case.

That’s interesting stuff! Cool line throwing kit! I never had anything to do with ships or line throwing but it’s pretty interesting to me how this stuff gets re-purposed.

No problem, I’m resisting the urge to buy more but I think I have as much as I’ll ever need with a 120 cases. Better to leave some for those who are without in this case I think. Buffalo arms has them too it seems.

This makes sense as it was later used as a coast guard training facility, so the guy would have had more experience with them. I bet that’s why he mentioned the trapdoor line thrower.

I once visited an old WW2 submarine base that had been repurposed over the years, anyways, on one beach the shoreline had tons of spent .45/70 casings. someone from the facility told me that they used that area to train ship to ship line throwing during the war and that the line throwing guns were t...

Heads up, graf and sons has starline .50/70 brass in stock.

Not to mention .50/70 brass is unobtanium now. I believe that holds the value back too. The 1868 is one of my favorites, they all seem to want to shoot well.

So I shot a deer today with those bullets out of my star serial carbine using the big hollow pointed bullets and 62gr of powder. It knocked the deer off her feet and that was all she wrote. I actually found the bullet in the mud behind her about 8” deep. The bullet expanded nicely but I used a harde...

I’m a North Dakotan too. My wife and I enjoy visiting it on occasion, it also is in close proximity to the best walleye fishing in America if not the world.

That gun would probably make a good shooter, replaced blocks are pretty common, honestly there are a lot of mix master guns out there especially with old surplus guns, some parts replacements were done by the military many more were done by civilians to keep the guns running. It is what it is. Still...