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need to finish last post,If a complete restoration would be a good idea
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  • ballardpacific
    Going to cheat and ask two things here, but the first one is making me old. I bought a Pacific with a serial# in the 11XX range, the John Marlin (pre 1883) address. Shoulda been a 40-65. All serial#s good, gun is original and unmessed with. Lo, the expensive 40-65 everlastings were too beeg! So I bought the 40-63/70's that were supposed to be a phenomenon of the Marlin Firearms Ballards. Lo, they split in the chamber, just as Barnes fortold! So I bought rilly expensive original 40-63/70 nickled brass, and it worked till the primer holes began to give out from corrosion and age. (folly, I know) So I milled the 40-65 stuff on a lathe around ten thousandths at the base, another 15 thousands off the rim, and they work, but they are now infinitely precious and weak. The dimensions actually duplicate the 40-85 Ballard, save that the chamber is too short.
    I am agin altering the rifle, and I cannot figure out what the heck is going on!!!! last quicky: was a stock made for the Armie San Marco 3rd model dragoon, and can somebody sell me one? sorry about the length. Dan
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  • peabo
    Sounds as though you are a knowledgeable gunner, and wondering if a cast of the chamber would reveal more information without having to try different ammo until you get one that works. I suppose you are asking where can you get Brass.

    Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see !!
    NRA Life Member
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  • Iconoclast
    Dan, methinks you've done a bit of shooting w/ that old girl if you are wearing out original "Everlasting" nickel-plated .40-63 casings! That said, I would surmise it might be less expensive for you to make a chamber cast and have Huntington Die Specialties quote you for custom tooling to form brass from a "basic" case of some sort.

    "There is nothing lower than the human race - except the french." (Mark Twain)
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  • ballardpacific
    quote:Originally posted by Iconoclast
    Dan, methinks you've done a bit of shooting w/ that old girl if you are wearing out original "Everlasting" nickel-plated .40-63 casings! That said, I would surmise it might be less expensive for you to make a chamber cast and have Huntington Die Specialties quote you for custom tooling to form brass from a "basic" case of some sort.

    "There is nothing lower than the human race - except the french." (Mark Twain)
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  • ballardpacific
    Thank you for the reply. I impoverished myself with all this fooling around and didn't buy the cerro-safe, but it is next on the agenda. The thing is: How could this rifle be so cross-wise? It shoots accurately, by the by. If it indeed falls exactly between the two cartridges it is supposed to take I really am tempted to have it reamed to 40-85 Ballard. The bbl is unmarked as to cal. I am sure I can just go down to Sears and buy a 40-85 reamer for a pittance. Was hoping someone would say: "Ah, that is the such and such ctge, which Barnes failed to list...." I bought RMC brass both times. Odd that the antique stuff was perfect and the RMC, which seems to follow Barnes exactly, was not. I wondered if Barnes was misteaken.
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