Ah so, 1:24", not 1:36", but good to be faster than 1:42", if you want to use the Lee 500-grainer.
I have both your moulds also.
Lyman 515141 "450-grainer" is good in a 1:42" but the heavier Lee keyholed with my antique M1866 Trapdoor.
My bore is no doubt bigger than .500, however,
but my grooves may be .515.
Some have encountered Trapdoor grooves from .508 to .518.

I have several Rollers 40/65, 50/110,45/90,and several Husqvarna's 20 ga, 44X12.7 R One is a 1901 Rem/Roller that is like new 7mm barreled , another 1901 that I have 3 barrels for 20 ga ,44,and 45 cal to fit for muzzleloader 1/48 twist I can show Picture if needed ?

Conch42,
Pictures are not "needed" but they are highly desired, if you get a chance ...

348 to 5095 , 3 rem roller actions I designed for smokeless 4140-50 CM had them cut out with wire EDM shaped with my LaGun Mill .

My Shiloh 4090

OOh, that .40-90 is one of the most intriguing of the old Sharps cartridges.

Very cool.

Two questions:

1. Is your 40-90 Sharps the Straight 3-1/4", or is it the Bottle Necked 2-5/8" version?

2. What does it mean, "Don't take the chip!"?

Shiloh uses a 3-1/4"405 Winchester brass for the 4090 straight .bottle necks have a problem making a carbon ring in barrel when fired , That is why I got the straight.
How old are you RIP ? The chips are for us Tracking chips for us Being made At Digital Angel Palm Beach FL. Do some research !
Read revelation . http://www.gizmag.com/go/3339/ Digital Angel

Winchester 45/70 rollers are 40/65 , 45/90 I barreled and chambered them all .
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3339/ Digital angel

quote:

Originally posted by Concho42:
Shiloh uses a 3-1/4"405 Winchester brass for the 4090 straight .bottle necks have a problem making a carbon ring in barrel when fired , That is why I got the straight.
How old are you RIP ? The chips are for us Tracking chips for us Being made At Digital Angel Palm Beach FL. Do some research !
Read revelation . http://www.gizmag.com/go/3339/ Digital Angel

OK, your tagline was funnier before I knew you were talking about that kind of chip, old news.
I will certainly not take that kind of chip, thank you.
I was hoping it was about buffalo chips ...

Shot a match with Dan Zimmerman sunday who shoots one of his own 40-65 hepburns. He said his hepburns now start at $3700. He finished with a 27 and match was won by a 28.

Does Zimmerman have a web site ?

Yep, it be (DZ arms) if you want to google it. He has started making scopes for BPCR along with his mounts.

Thanks Larry

the good old days...

About 1980 I traded a like new McClellan and $50 to a civil war reenactor for a Gove lever conversion in 50-70.