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Message: <blockquote data-quote="( deleted account )" data-source="post: 215934" data-attributes="member: 5993">Yep, I looked at it and recommended we only load for it with pyrodex or 777.  Shoots ok with that. Might be OK with that cowboy action  stuff, I’ve forgotten the name??? Like all guns, it’s fun to shoot.  It’ll hold a minute of Buffalo at 30 yards.  Naw, 25 yards.....- - - Updated - - -A bit off the original topic,,but talking history of rifles...Short magazine lee enfieles, AKA SMELLY!  When we were kids up in Canada you could buy all kinds and models (marks 1234,etc) of surplus SMLE’s , and all the ammo you could stand to shoot.  Canada being sort of part of the Empire equipped its troops in WW1 and first part of WW2 with .303’s and probably even now it got to be the commonest rifle in Canada, other than .22 rim fires.  We kids could order them from Eaton’s or Sears Catalog for prices starting at about 8 bucks apiece, running up to maybe 20 for the so called Jungle Carbine Model.  Then we’d sporterize them with hacksaws, whittle down the stocks, etc.  No scopes then. Some of them produced between the wars with good barrels would really shoot, some mass produced in a hurry just before or during the war were pretty rough but would always go boom.  Some of the ammo we used was produced well before WW1, and occasionally you’d get a batch that smelled and sounded a bit funny when you shot it, so we’d Stick it in a vice, grab the bullett with  with a big pliers, and see what was inside!  Lo and behold....CORDITE!  Haven’t seen or smelled it since!   Rare game warden back then so to hunt deer we’d simply chop off the nose of the the solid military bullets and shoot em like that!  Luckily none of us ever  managed to shoot out an eye or lose a finger or something. Those were the days....before we had drivers licenses we kids would walk out of town with all kinds of rifles and shotguns, shoot upa storm storm out of town in some farmers field. No one cared , and no one ever got hurt.  When we got older we’d take guns to,school and have lunch in the local junk,yard and shoot rats and old car bodies.  Sometimes the principal would join us.</blockquote>

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