New to me 45-70

[outdoorstom]

Just picked up this Siamese Mauser action rifle. A friend had it built in the early 1990’s with a rosewood stock and new barrel. Variable 6 power scope. It’s got less than 200 rounds through it. Looking forward to shooting it!

[Trad bow]

Nice looking rig !

[Nytracker]

Wow love the furniture.. great looking gun .

[rob-c]

Nothing like real wood , nice .. 

[grampy]

Beautiful rifle! Nothing beats wood grain and blued steel. It should shoot every bit as good as it looks.

[Splitear]

That stock is beautiful. Congrats, and good luck with it!

[Farflung]

beautiful gun. let us know how it shoots. Is this going to be used for Hunti'n, or just as a great looking gun. Nothing on this continent that it can't handle.

[Waterfowler]

Nice wood

[airedale]

Some years back before the Ruger Number 1, the Browning Hi Wall and Marlin 95 were chambering these modern firearms in 45-70 the Siamese Mauser conversion to that cartridge was a fairly popular option to make and get the most potential out of the old military shell. Some of my old loading manuals have special loads exclusively for that conversion.

Your Siamese Mauser is one of the better ones I have seen, with the right ammo you could hunt just about anything with that rifle, congratulations.

Al

[Pygmy]

Beautiful rifle....If you shoot  high end loads, you may need every bit of that fat recoil pad...<<  GRIN >>....

[sbuff]

Very nice  do you know what brand barrel he used. 

[ApexerER]

Beautiful rifle. Post up some pic when you shoot her....

[SpacemanSpiff]

Nice! I was expecting a lever action, cool to see a bolt gun in 45-70. 

[Billyb6]

Nice looking rifle.  The Siamese Mauser has a strong action and you can load them hot- similar to a Ruger #1 load ( always check the manual)

Navy Arms and Gibbs rifle both put together bolt 45-70 rifles years ago, built on a Siamese Mauser or British Enfield due to the rimmed cartridge and the fact they are strong actions.  I almost acquired one at a local gun shop years ago but I blinked and it was sold.  Best of luck with it!

[outdoorstom]

I bought a box of 20 Buffalo Bore 405 gr rounds. I’ll be back in NY in May and will be trying it out. I was thinking about making it my swamp gun so a big buck would not have to be tracked through the swamp.