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A friend recently told me about a lever rifle that someone had traded in at one of the local gun shops. Well, I am a sucker for lever rifles so I had to go check it out and of course after looking it over it followed me home.
The rifle is a reproduction Winchester made by Chaparral Arms. It is a 1876 in 45-60 caliber in very nice condition.
I suppose if I had done some research on Chaparral Arms I might not have purchased this particular rifle as many Chaparral rifles are known to have issues and Chaparral is no longer in business and parts are very hard to come by. The good thing is the Chaparral is made very close to the originals and original parts can be interchanged with minor fitting if they can be found.
I took the rifle to the range and was pleasantly surprise as to its accuracy. The rifle is a shooter and will do its part if I do mine. I did have some chambering issues but have since resolved them and the rifle is chambering rounds fine. Another plus is rounds can be made very easily by shortening 45-70 brass to the 45-60 length.
Here is a photo of the rifle with one of my '73's so you can see the size difference.
The rifle is a reproduction Winchester made by Chaparral Arms. It is a 1876 in 45-60 caliber in very nice condition.
I suppose if I had done some research on Chaparral Arms I might not have purchased this particular rifle as many Chaparral rifles are known to have issues and Chaparral is no longer in business and parts are very hard to come by. The good thing is the Chaparral is made very close to the originals and original parts can be interchanged with minor fitting if they can be found.
I took the rifle to the range and was pleasantly surprise as to its accuracy. The rifle is a shooter and will do its part if I do mine. I did have some chambering issues but have since resolved them and the rifle is chambering rounds fine. Another plus is rounds can be made very easily by shortening 45-70 brass to the 45-60 length.
Here is a photo of the rifle with one of my '73's so you can see the size difference.