If you've been Jonesing for .45-70 Mauser, here's a pretty reasonable entry-level one => http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=464774439

("Reasonable" compared to others so converted, anyway.)

A Boyd's stock and a quick trip to Al's Bluing Shoppe and a feller would have a thumper. Or, just leave it as is and shoot the stuffing out of it.

I have no connections to this (and already have a Siamese) but ran into it while goofing off.

Siamese Mauser for years. Looked all over when I lived in AK. They get held onto and passed down... As I have related the first cartridges I reloaded for were 45=70s for the boss's Siamese Mauser that he converted and stocked...I did a lot of steel wool on the stock too. My first job, no pay...just to hang out in a gun shop. It turned out to be a gorgeous elk rifle for him...He moved to Rifle Colorado shortly after that... I wonder why Ruger Doesn't make a 45-70 Bolt Gun???

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I have a couple / 300 spritzer bullets, in the 420/430 gr, some with gas checks .459 Diameter I will make a good deal for someone if they end up with this Mauser.

One was a ratttly Navy Arms 45-70, a bone stock 8mm original, and a 450 Alaskan I bought from Bryan Pettet. The 450 was fun, but the 17 inch barrel didn't make good use of the extra powder capacity of the 450 case. I'd buy another 45-70 in a blink.

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Slightly OT but semi-related - does anyone know what the four-interlocked-circle marking on the left side of the receiver means? My mid-1930s vintage 6.5 Arisaka has the same marking, and I have wondered about it ever since I've had the rifle.

Someone once told me it denoted the type of rifling in the bore, but I'm not sure I believe that. Seems like any such marking would be on the barrel rather than the receiver.

The Koishikawa Arsenal in Japan made both the Arisaka's and Siamese Mausers. It is referred to as 'stacked cannonballs'.

Edited to correct the arsenal name.

I'll bring mine to Clarksville this spring for you to 'rekindle an old flame'. It's a heavy beast---pretty sure I wouldn't want to haul it up and down mountains looking for elk.

but it is SO easy to hit with...maybe we can chop a tree down, again

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