Gonna hit the range.....
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Here's a pic of my 76 Rollin Block on one of my favorite blankets without its target sights all set up to go huntin. Got to throw in a pic of my M77, MKII SS 30-06 as well.
I don't shoot the 06 much, I've been thinkin about tradin it off for a good lever gun
cuz they just pack better on a horse.Probably about 7 1/2 pounds??? I'd rather have the cannon-I wouldn't take an -06 as a gift....+1 on trading for a levergun. If that's a .45-90, not -70----tell me the difference? Is that a buffalo rifle, replica, or what???Reminds me of the rifle Wetzel carried in the Zane Grey book-he carried a big long one and a lighter one-can't remember the title-lots were written in your neck of the woods, JB-have you read them????
A jacketed bullet is nothing more than a pure lead bullet that is copper patched, that replaced the paper patch idea of old.
Sorry I missed the word original---wow-huge shell-big bullet-is the recoil like a 12 ga. slug gun or worse? Very intereested in how far you shoot and how tight it prints--overall length----this would not have been a soldier's gun-but maybe a hunters' -right---new world of questions!!
I can say, it has thump but with BPCR loads its more of a firm push shooting off cross-stix.
Here is my Rolling Block with its target sights on.
The barrel is 32" and full heavy octagon the over all length is approx 48.5" and weighs 11.5 pounds. With the Ukrainian Soule Sight I can shoot out to 1200 yrds but have kept it down to 750 yrds. It's previous owner was shooting in matches at 1,000 yrds with consistant hits on the target. Consistancy is the key when loading black powder cartridge loads... consistant powder compression etc.
More Rolling Block rifles were issued world wide than any other rifle for military use, and by the time the C Sharps was on the scene for the great bison harvest there were over 60,000 already in the hands of many countries in Europe and South America, Mexico and yes even here in the United States.
Remington is the OLDEST firearms company in America. Here is an old add for Remington.
And another one...
One day after work, I took several of the guy's I work with out to the range. I set up a 1/8" steel plate that was painted orange and set it up at 200 yards, rechecked with range finder. The following picture shows the result of using a 510-gr Bison Buster bullet and 80.0 gr of Goex FFg.
Rman, my eyes are gettin bad as well.... I'll be 51 my next B-day, so for guy's like us they have a great change over.... its called the WM Malcomlm Telescopic Sight. Here is one on a Rolling Block rifle
And another one like it on a Lonestar Rolling Block rifle
Here is what it looks like off the rifles...
Your right to left windage is located up front and the up and down is located towards the back of the scope. There is no hold over like with a normal scope like most hunting rifles. When these are adjusted, you are always on a direct hold on your target, and these are 6x telescopic sights.
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