Rolling Block
Years ago I bought a Rolling Block for $7.00 and gave it to my Dad for either his birthday or maybe it was Christmas. It was an 11mm. He shot it for years using blown out ..45-70 brass and a 260 gr. Keith .45 Colt bullet. Worked pretty well.
After he got Alzheimer's and was in a nursing home I got the old rolling block, stripped it, bought a barrel and some parts for it and sent it to John Killebrew.
This was after John worked on it some ..
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Later
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You will have to ask John what it's like today and how it shoots because I later sold it to him before we moved to Mozambique. I know he has put it to good use.
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Ele era velho.
Ele era corajoso.
Ele era feio.
In the 1st 20 or so years of the cartridge era,
a huge portion of the world's militaries adopted either a rolling block, or a Mauser. Mauser 71s don't give me the warm tinglies a rolling bolck does.
If we can scrounge up a place for show-n-tell....
by Hoot 
, Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 17:04 (519 days ago) @ A K Church
I'll show you something next week. I think you'd like it.
Rolling Block
by Sarge 
, Central Misery, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 18:37 (519 days ago) @ JimT
You did a fine thing with your Dad's old roller, Jim. That it shoots well is just icing on the cake.
I've always been weak for rolling blocks. I traded the local sheriff out of an ancient 43 Spanish, along with 120 rounds of issue BP ammo, when I was 17. The ammo would be worth a pile of money today. But I didn't waste it. I killed three groundhogs, a fat doe and at least fifty of those giant icicles that form on rock quarry cuts in the dead of winter. Then there was a South American No. 5 in 7mm which killed deer & coyotes like the hammer of Thor through 13 boxes of Privi 7x57 175 grain RNSP. I've still got a fired case from that one with a crock stick mounted in it, from the best shot I ever made on a running deer. It finally got to leaking gas around the firing pin hole and I moved it on.
My right thumb is starting to twitch real bad, which means it wants a mule-eared RRB hammer under it.
I had one in .43 Reformado and a Pedersoli .45-70 I punched
..punched out to .45-90 for some reason. I never shot the .43 much because the Reformado cases were a pain. I sold it and the Pedersoli when my Shiloh Sharps came. Both to fund it and because I didn't think I'd need it anymore.
The Shiloh is a work of art, and the older Pedersoli wasn't half the gun it is. But in retrospect, I wished I hadn't sold it, even if that meant not getting the Sharps. The Sharps is cool and like I said, a work of art, but I think I like the rolling block more.
I forgot all about the scoped one I had in .40-65
I didn't shoot it much because I was too busy shooting the iron sighted stuff. So I sold it because I had a lot of money in it. (not really now, but at the time it was a lot).
So now I have the iron sighted ones and don't shoot them because I can't see the sights. Gee, sure would be nice to have a scoped one now. 