Hopkins and Allen .25-20 Single Shot problem?

[uscra112]

It's a real early s/n, that's for sure. I need to review all my dead tree sources. The revelation that the receiver design predates the M&H bankruptcy opens a whole new rabbit-hole to dive into.

[Ajohns]

This is what I have. The numbers for the receiver, barrel, and forearm all match.
I like the extractor shown on the other one shown instead of just the blade mine has. Having that finger would make it so the chamber is not open on the side. I see it also has a wider base for the screw. I actually made the one in mine, and machined it so there is a wider base. Even wider than the other above.
When my original would be drawn out by working the action, it would move towards the outside, slipping off the rim of the casing. It was just a flat piece of basically 10ga thickness steel. .134 thick.

[uscra112]

Yeah, that's the weakness of that flat extractor. I have a medium frame in .22LR which was lovingly reworked (and relined) by some long-ago gunsmith. He made a new extractor that is a very close fit in the slot, and of all the ones I have with that extractor it's the only one that works.

A crying shame that I got it on Gunbroker for a mere pittance. Seller started it low with no reserve, and I was the only bidder.

Another thing he did was to eliminate the takedown feature by reaming the taper pin hole and driving in a solid taper pin. Solid.

I want to thank you guys for chiming in on this. Blown a few cobwebs out, it has.

The internet is a wonderful tool, ain't it?

[uscra112]

Here's a mighty pretty rifle on Gunbroker that I get as as 2932. Seller reports that it has the 6:00 extractor and s/n 11767.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/905995356

At my age and state of decrepitude, the starting bid is too rich for me.......

[Jedman]

I believe this one will be like the M 925 that has been on Gunbroker for at least the past 5 years with a opening bid of $ 900. That gun from Milan, OH has been there forever and the seller hasn’t dropped the opening bid, these guns aren’t worth that kind of money.

Jedman

[Ajohns]

I've saw it on there forever too. Yes, too rich for me.

[Bent Ramrod]

It’s in pretty good shape, but for less than that you could buy a C Sharps Arms replica that is actually practical to shoot. Much better collector’s item potential, too. It’ll be like the Varner Favorite; only a handful sold compared to the vast number of originals.

I have to say that Mr. L. F. Grant is (was?) a much better checkerer than he was (is?) an engraver.

[G Hock]

So this thread is referring to my gun Ron did do the cast of the camber awhile ago I lost that and just had it back to him to make another he had no information on the dimensions of the cast and suggested to get a way earlier edition of Lyman he had the 49th and suggested some where in the 20th that they may list some casing that have been removed so after googling the dimensions and coming up with nothing I called another gun smith explain everything and all he could suggest is to get the book cartridges of the world and start looking

[G Hock]

Can picture be posted on here and if so how can I I would like to show the dimensions I wrote down on paper after tracing the cast

[Bent Ramrod]

I put the picture I’ve taken on my computer, go to Shrinkpictures, follow the instructions, reduce it to 600 bits (or whatever it is), download the reduced pic to my desktop, come back here, bring up the Reply function, go to “Manage Attachments” and follow the instructions.

We only have so much space on here for attachments, and a typical phone or camera photo is generally too big to display as-is, so they have to be shrunk. It doesn’t seem to hurt the resolution any. Eventually you can’t add any more photos to your allotted space here. However, by judiciously deleting old photos no longer of interest in old threads, you can keep a fair number of pictures on here.

I don’t use the photo image sites like Imgur so know nothing of how they work.

[uscra112]

A very useful tool for shrinking and a lot more is Irfan View, which I've been using for years, especially for changing file formats and cropping, (which reduces file size all by itself).

Free download @ https://www.irfanview.com/

Photo image storage sites are for suckers. They scrape your metadata, for one thing. Criminals can use them monitor you. I wish my daughter would stop using Imgur, but she still thinks that gmail is safe, so what can I do?

[kootne]

Some years back I struggled with attaching the photos. I can't say why this works but if you email the picture to yourself, when you get it back it is resized enough to attach to these posts. Magic.