Trapdoor Rifles

mjpchief wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 2:17 am Got a bullet mold today preparing to reload. What do you guys use for bullet lube when pouring your own lead? I have a set of dies ordered and all I have to do now is make a bunch of empty cartridges. Oh well, somebody has to do it.

I’ve used Alox and SPG lube . . .no complaints on either.

Check this out . . . .

Scroll way down to find some smokeless loads for your 50-70

https://armscollectors.com/trapdoor/shooterstext.html

Save your brass for handloading some .460/.461” diameter lead bullets, and be amazed at how much your accuracy IMPROVES!

When discussing these Springfield Armory “works of art” with some new members of my club, I mentioned the reasoning of the “U” marking on the lower band . . . When I said it was there to orient the band correctly to match the taper of the stock at that point, therefore the band has a matching intern...

Dick Hosmer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:40 pm . . . . . .How sad-looking (even if exponentially more effective) the current pieces of ill-fitting black plastic shit really are, by comparison...

Amen, Richard . . . . .AMEN!!

Using the FLASH mode on my iPhone, the photos of the receiver on my Model 1884 Trapdoor showed how brilliant the color case hardening really is. I know you know this, but . . . . It’s ONLY the breechblock and tang that received the color-case hardening colors . . .NOT the receiver. Beautiful color!

Haven't had any experience with that, but I can say that WD40 does not - at least in my experience. Here’s where we “part ways”, Dick . . . I don’t allow WD40 ANYWHERE NEAR any of my firearms! Used it once on a Garand rear sight, and when the “vehicle” evaporated, it left a varnish-like substance t...

So next question who makes good bullets in the 405gr range for use with black powder “Who makes good bullets?” . . . . YOU WILL! . . . .Eventually!! Now that you have an GREAT LOOKING original, get to handloading for that gem . . . .and get into casting your own bullets! Size ‘em to .460/.461 and n...

Guess I’m old fashioned . . When at the range, as soon as I fire a case, it comes out of the chamber and gets dumped into a can of warm soapy water. When I get home, the water and cases get dumped into the bathroom sink, the cases are soaked with warm clean soapy water, then each case is scrubbed wi...

Looks real to me also . . .
You might be interested to know, the serial was struck in the first quarter (Jan.-Mar.) of 1887 . . . one of 9,702 rifles that quarter.

Wonder if the seller has any more “reproductions” for sale!