Lyman No.1-45/70

[SHOOTER]

For those of you with a Lyman 45/70

1- what twist barrel did these come with?
2- what bullet is the nose accurate?

 

[SHOOTER]

Anyone!?

 

[gewehrfreund]

My old Speer manual states that Rugers 45-70's are 1 in 20". Whether that holds true for the Lyman rifles, I don't know. To be honest I have one and have never bothered to measure it.
Use the tight patch/marked rod method. This will give you a very close approximation.

 

[OldRugerMan]

I get lots of sideways looks when I tell people I got 2750 fps in the 28" barrel with one of these with 300 Hornady Hollow points. The 350 gr. got 2700 fps. They where very accurate in my rifle. I shouldn't have sold it, so can't check the twist, use the method described by gewehrfreund. The new Leverevolution bullets should work too.

 

[SHOOTER]

That's pretty fast. I would think that the 405's and up would be accurate.

 

[No-1]

Didn't they come with bullet molds in the box?

 

[SHOOTER]

I have a shot at getting one of the overrun guns .... No engraving. No box.

 

[gewehrfreund]

Mine is also an overrun rifle (not many of those around!) and it only came with the long Lyman scope, which someone must have robbed from one of the sets.

A previous owner had an extra set of scope base holes D&Td around 3-4" in front of the rear factory drilled holes (i.e. at the same distance as found on most factory 1Vs. Two rear 1V bases work perfectly to allow mounting a modern scope

 

[SHOOTER]

That's what I'm doing. Mounting a modern scope

 

[SteelShooter]

One at the new Cabela's in Lonetree Colorado, saw it over the weekend.

Much smaller Cabela's than what I have typically visited in other states.

 

[SHOOTER]

Price?

 

[gewehrfreund]

One at the new Cabela's in Lonetree Colorado, saw it over the weekend.

Much smaller Cabela's than what I have typically visited in other states.

Most likely one of the many etched versions that always seem to be for sale on the internet, but never seem to sell :roll: . Or was it in fact one of the very rare unmarked overrun rifles?

 

[SteelShooter]

Did not look at it that closely and was passing thru town. Was in the "gun room" there and was too expensive for this cheapskate to ask to look at> Think $1,000+