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I'll look forward to seeing them! Of course, I've seen/handled 86 before, when it was in the collection of the late Graham Burnside, whom old-timers will remember as a very prolific author in the...

I'd enjoy nothing more! I STILL plan to visit you if my wife's health improves (and she does seem to slowly be getting better) while our grandson is in med school in Lincoln.

Unfortunately, to be nit-pickingly (is that a word?) correct, Chuck's response perpetuates the mis-description mentioned above. The hammer does NOT drop to "half-cock" which would be a restrained...

As an aside, the "locking action" which IS clumsy, and often mis-described, was also used on the 10,000 1871 "Army" models made by Springfield, though with a more normal hammer.

Well, it could be - but the original block would have been for .50-70. Looks like a nice specimen.

Does it have the wooden block inside? Bored for 18 rounds, and sloped so that heads don't overlap.