Stumbled into this sweetheart out of the blue. It's a Marlin Ballard No. 1 1/2 Hunter's rifle in .40/70-.40/63 Ballard Everlasting. Make the cases simply by trimming .405 Winchester brass to .438 inches. Bore is worn, but not pitted, so have high hopes she will shoot once I can afford a Montana Vintage Arms Vernier tang sight. The guy most responsible for my love of Ballards would be the great Ned Roberts, who was so fond of these rifles.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon: Make the cases simply by trimming .405 Winchester brass to .438 inches.

Now that's a short case!



Great find, congrats!

Cool rifle Sir!

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Make the cases simply by trimming .405 Winchester brass to .438 inches

Must be like a wide 22 Short? :-)

D'oh. 2.38 inches. How did I mess that up? Sucks to grow old.

Thanks for sharing Bill.

Lovely old rifle for sure.