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 ..

Later

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.

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.

I'll show you something next week. I think you'd like it.

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.

..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.

https://www.proxibid.com/Guns-Military-Artifacts/Rifles/R-Custom-Unknown-Approx-28Cal-R...

Most likely going to become a .38-55, although I have given some thought to a .40 Krag (think short .405].

Otony

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Ele era velho.
Ele era corajoso.
Ele era feio.

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.