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Mrmike08075--70-150WCF
my-handyman
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I just read your posting.If you still need the info in the 1952 Gun Digest, let me know and I'll pass it along. The info is there! Vernon
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What other dungeon is so dark as ones own heart, what jailer so inexorable as ones own mind.
Gun Designer: "Well, there she is, te new Winchester shotgun."
Cartridge Engineer: "Twon't sell, don't look like a shotgun. Remember the Hotchkiss flop - don't look like a rifle."
Gun Designer: Course it'll sell - every duck hunter'll want one. Say I'll bet that action would work as a rifle, too."
Cartridge Engineer: "Maybe - a 12 guage rifle would be a he-gun. Look, you make a rifle barrel, and I'll make some cartridges, and we'll show it to the boss."
In my reconstruction of this episode, the boss took a dim view of the new gun, sarcastically inquiring about wheels and caissons; so, except for cartridge board novelties and a small quanity of loaded rounds the .70-150 passed into the limbo of forgotten cartridges.]
From the Winchester Handbook by George Madis, on pg99 under "Chambers"
[Except for a few experimental guns made for the cartridge department laboratory (later called the ballistics lab) all models 87 were 12 guage guns until number 22,148, the first production 10 guage shotgun. From this number to near 27,000, 10 guage guns predominate; thereafter both 10 and 12 guage guns were produced.
Since Winchester had received many enquires for a very powerful rifle and the company believed such a gun would sell very well, some models 87 were made to chamber the 70-150 cartridge. Of 70 caliber with a charge of 150 grains of powder and a bullet of 700 to 900 grains, the gun must have been a killer at both ends. Ratchet rifling, located only near the muzzle, was employed for these guns. Two of these rifles are located in England and one in Pittsburgh, PA. Others probably exist.]
PS Mike did you get my e-mail?
Welcome to the forums; I look forward to 'seeing' you around.
What other dungeon is so dark as ones own heart, what jailer so inexorable as ones own mind.