1873 with a new barrel

[baltimoreed]

Boy, this is a very quiet subforum—play cricket noise. Anyway here is my 30 inch Cimarron 1873 .45 colt that had gotten too heavy for me to use so it was languishing in the back of the safe for years. As pretty as the case was I didn’t want to just sell it and while I’ve cut barrels before I was leery of a runout so I bought a 20 inch barrel and had The Cowboy Shop swap them, great work, fast turnaround. I did the magazine work. We left the longer forearm on it. Turned out very nice. Much easier to hold up. Can’t wait to try it at my next cas match.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

I always like the mag tube the same length as the barrel as a look. Nice rifle.

 

[Windini]

Good lookin lever gun, Baltimore!

Stir up this cricket bed and post a report after your next Cowboy match!

 

[Average Joe]

Very nice looking lever gun you got there!

 

[Sneakymedic]

who made your stock cover? I like that! Well, I like the entire gun, but that especially. I had to break down and buy three boxes of Cowboy action loads in 45LC this week off GB. whew.

 

[baltimoreed]

Kirkpatrick Leather.

 

[baltimoreed]

Get outta here crickets!!! Shot my new-ish rifle Saturday. Ran like a top in fact I ran it so fast on stage 5 that I lost count and put the last round on the wrong target and won a ‘P’ to go along with my one revolver miss in another stage. I wore my Tim Strawn silver nose, black DI hat, black outfit and shot a nickel Cimarron 1911 with my new stag grips and a Ruger birdshead, both in .45acp. We had 12 shooters but the match director bailed with a bum knee at lunch and another experienced shooter somehow sadly put a round in his rifle chamber and ejected it at the beep and got match dq’ed. Still waiting on scores. It was cold and breezy but was a sunny day. Next month we‘re adding a Wild Bunch category. Shooters will be able to use a 1911 and load the sg full at the loading table. Here’s an older photo of Tim. The beards gone now. I ran the SA as a crossdraw and the 1911 on my strongside Saturday, worked better. My silver nose was actually a melon scoop.

 

[Litl_Red]

OK if I bump a Cowboy thread about rebarreling with a picture of a Marlin 32-20 that might have competed against your 1873 ?

 

[waymoe1]

That is a beautiful looking rifle.

 

[keepcalmandcarryon]

30” barrel in 45lc is not a good combo. 20” is a better match.

 

[Snal~]

Dang that's a purdy cowboy rifle!

 

[GeorgeBush]

Longer wood on a shorter barrel is actually very cool.

 

[baltimoreed]

I thought it looked a lot better with the longer foreend too. I put this together a couple years ago, a ‘73 carbine with a ‘76 Centennial full stock.

 

[BillyBayou61]

Looks great!

 

[baltimoreed]

I wore and shot the same gear as I did in post #7 Saturday. A Cimarron 1911, birdshead vaquero and ‘73. Everything ran fine but had a couple misses. 10 shooters but came in 2nd. The advantage of a WASA/SASS club. Next month we are shooting double actions. In fact 2 of Saturday’s shooters shot DAs. One used .45 NSs and the other used .38 HE Smiths. It was hot though.

 

[BrettB]

congrats !

 

[Hellquest]

Wish I could get to more SASS events. I practice on my farm all the time. I just can't make it to events unless it's on a Sunday.

 

[baltimoreed]

The huge sass club that I shot with on a vacation many years ago in Texas hill country was so big that they shot two shoots on the same weekend with 60 plus shooters each day. There might be a club around Raleigh that does a sunday shoot. If you ever get to the OBX on the 4th Saturday come on by.