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• Bigslug Posts: 9,858 Senior Member

  June 2020 #2

  
  
  BSA Martini Cadet tweaked for a blown out .32-20 in the guise I acquired it...
  
  
  
  The sights it sports now.

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #3

  Bigslug said:

  
  
  
  

  What kind of sight is that???
  
  It looks like a very serious piece of equipment!

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• AlleyCat Posts: 483 Member

  June 2020 edited June 2020 #4

  
  

  
  

  
  

  http://www.adamsguns.com/0S.HTM

  $200 + shipping and available.
  

  
  

  
  

  More info, history of, on rifle and sight here;

  https://www.rifleman.org.uk/BSA_Model_12-15.html
  

  
  
  

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• Jayhawker Posts: 18,356 Senior Member

  June 2020 #5

  .45-70 Browning High Wall
  
  

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• Big Al1 Posts: 8,811 Senior Member

  June 2020 #6

  I could post up my #1 or trap doors, but this one has the most meaning for me. It was my Dad's, and this being Fathers Day, I thought most appropriate. He lost it when he was 15. Sixty five years later he went back to the farm he worked at when he was 15 and the same family still owned the farm, and they remembered him. He had left his rifle at the farm and they kept it all those years. They returned it to him and he in turn passed it on to me. I had to reline the barrel but otherwise kept it original. It resides next to the fire place now, but still gets to the range and is a great little shooter!!
   
  Stevens Crackshot! Dad passed in 2005 so this has to be over 100 years old!

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• JunkCollector Posts: 1,566 Senior Member

  June 2020 #7

  You picked the right one AL
  
  Don't know how you made it look so big though.
  
  With the levers yeah over 100
  
  
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #8

  AlleyCat said:

  
  

  
  

  
  

  http://www.adamsguns.com/0S.HTM

  $200 + shipping and available.
  

  
  

  
  

  More info, history of, on rifle and sight here;

  https://www.rifleman.org.uk/BSA_Model_12-15.html
  

  
  
  

  Very cool!

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #9

  Is that ring under the reciever of the Crackshot for turning the take-down screw????

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• Big Al1 Posts: 8,811 Senior Member

  June 2020 #10

  earlyagain said:

  Is that ring under the reciever of the Crackshot for turning the take-down screw????

  Yes. It takes down, barrel and forearm come off.
  

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• Zee Posts: 28,369 Senior Member

  June 2020 #11

  6.5-06 A-Square
  
  .30-06 Springfield
  
  .30-30 AI
  
  .35 Remington
  
  .44 Mag
  
  .223 Remington
  
  

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• Jay Posts: 4,628 Senior Member

  June 2020 #12

  Might as well go with the new member of the family first. 
  
  
  And the Encore. Which also has barrels in 454 Casull and 357 mag, but I don’t have any decent pics of it wearing those barrels. 
  
  
  

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• Zee Posts: 28,369 Senior Member

  June 2020 #13

  .357 Mag
  
  .358 Winchester Rifle
  
  .358 Winchester Pistol
  
  

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• Zee Posts: 28,369 Senior Member

  June 2020 #14

  .445 Super Mag
  
  .460 SWM
  
  .500 SWM
  
  

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• mitdr774 Posts: 1,782 Senior Member

  June 2020 #15

  My Martini Cadet is still at my parents where it has been for a few years.  It was my .22 as a kid and over 20 years ago we started converting it back to centerfire as a .357 Magnum.  Progress came to a stand still for a few reasons and once my dad has some free time and im not working 6 days a week I plan on spending time working on it with him again.  Sadly I do not have any pictures of it.

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #16

  The elk slayer.......
  
  

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• Zee Posts: 28,369 Senior Member

  June 2020 #17

  .243 Win CVA Scout Pistol
  
  6.5 Creedmoor CVA Scout Pistol
  
  

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #18

  Zee's got more singles than the till at an all night beer garden............

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• HappySquid Posts: 461 Member

  June 2020 #19

  Jay said:

  Might as well go with the new member of the family first. 
  
  
  
  

  Almost cruel Jay

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• Zee Posts: 28,369 Senior Member

  June 2020 edited June 2020 #20

  .260 Remington Benchrest Rifle - Single Shot Action
  
  
  

  
  

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• 2Aman Posts: 332 Member

  June 2020 #21

  Jayhawker said:

  .45-70 Browning High Wall
  
  

  Gorgeous👍

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• Linefinder Posts: 7,856 Senior Member

  June 2020 #22

  I don't understand the allure. If I miss with my first shot, I'd like a couple quick follow-ups to prove I wasn't wrong in the first place.
  
  Mike

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• Zee Posts: 28,369 Senior Member

  June 2020 #23

  Linefinder said:

  I don't understand the allure. If I miss with my first shot, I'd like a couple quick follow-ups to prove I wasn't wrong in the first place.
  
  Mike

  Don’t miss. 

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• Linefinder Posts: 7,856 Senior Member

  June 2020 #24

  If I miss with the first shot.....it's the guns fault. I like a couple more as proof.
  
  Mike

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #25

  
  This is this......
  

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• mitdr774 Posts: 1,782 Senior Member

  June 2020 #26

  I have on occasion taken a follow up.  sometimes things just dont go as planned and sometimes it turns out to not be needed, but was taken due to the animal taking off.
  
  
  

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• zorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member

  June 2020 #27

  "Serious", CVA Optima V2 .50 pistol:
  

  

  
  

  Not so "serious", unless you're shot with one. Altor single shot:

  

  
  

  Not mine, but VERY "serious", no follow up needed if you're vaguely close:

  
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  

  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."

  )O(
  

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• Jayhawker Posts: 18,356 Senior Member

  June 2020 #28

  Zee said:

  Linefinder said:

  I don't understand the allure. If I miss with my first shot, I'd like a couple quick follow-ups to prove I wasn't wrong in the first place.
  
  Mike

  Don’t miss. 

  Ha!

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• Bigslug Posts: 9,858 Senior Member

  June 2020 #29

  
  
  My Dad's retirement present to himself was a replica Confederate Whitworth sniper rifle.  In 2013, I texted him this photo of a Whitworth cannon on display at the NE corner of the Gettysburg battlefield, along with the caption "General Ewell's is bigger"

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• sakodude Posts: 4,881 Senior Member

  June 2020 #30

  Bigslug said:

  
  
  My Dad's retirement present to himself was a replica Confederate Whitworth sniper rifle.  In 2013, I texted him this photo of a Whitworth cannon on display at the NE corner of the Gettysburg battlefield, along with the caption "General Ewell's is bigger"

  That’s the one with the hexagonal bullets right? Very cool. Have you ever done a range report on that here? Might have missed it.

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  June 2020 #31

  Capanball on youtube has a video on the Whitworths.
  
  I think I read the originals shipped from England in special wood crates with accoutrements and one thousand rounds each.
  
  There were some rifleman with serious capability during the war. I think their rifles were usually more common than the very expensive Whitworths.

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