Every time I fired the rifle during load development I made sure a live round was in the tube behind this dummy round. To verify that these modified bullets would be safe for use in a tubular magazine, I loaded a dummy round with a bullet, a live primer, and NO powder and kept it in the first position in the magazine. With the lead nose filed flat and flush with the jacket, the meplat is the same diameter and some of the bullets Vollmer is offering. I did some experimenting with the Speer 235-grain. His products look good and seem to get good reviews. 375W and there just isn’t that much available elsewhere either, at least not from the major manufacturers. I believe Hornady has discontinued their bullet which was suitable for the. I shoot cast in all my handguns but prefer jacketed bullets in all my rifles. I also located some new Jamison brass…high priced, but good stuff that should last a long while.īullets are another problem. Primer pockets are still tight and no split cases yet, so I think they are good for a while. The rifle came with 50 or 60 Winchester cases but I have no idea how many times they have been fired.
Being a handloader, I can deal with ammunition but it’s not all that easy. He has quite a bit of experience with this round but I can’t recall his name. If you’re not a reloader, Joseph, PM me and I’ll try to find the name of a commercial loader. 38-55’s and will likely cause pressure issues in the tighter 375 bore. 375 and 38-55 rifles and treat them as different cartridges and use only correct headstamp brass for safety reasons. Verify and use the above data at your own risk. Load data in the Lyman manual is spot on IME. 375 Winchester dies are available from RCBS last I heard. Seems I stashed a few of them awhile back and haven’t kept up with current availability. 375 but I don’t know if they still produce it. A chamber cast would be a very good idea to confirm dimensions. Hornady used to make an excellent 220gr FP bullet for the. The 375 cases were a bit thicker but I have it on good authority the modern production 2.08″ 38-55 cases will handle the pressure but as always, approach maximum loads with caution. I don’t know if the longer 2.125 38-55 brass will chamber but from what I can gather all the 375 Big Bores were chambered a bit long and the 2.08″ cases will work fine. If you reload, Joseph, I believe you can use 38-55 cases but I’d stay with the 2.08″ cases even tho the 375 was supposed to be 2.02″. □ It was my first Winchester levergun, I guess I’ll always have it. Luckily I stashed 100 new 375 Winchester cases 20 or 30 years ago and Lyman still makes their excellent 375449 mould so I’ll be able to shoot it all I care to. And yes, Robert, feeding one of these beasts is an undertaking.
I believe your rifle was indeed built in the early 80’s as Bob opined I purchased BB047411 new on. WACA members who are also CFM Members will receive 15 additional record searches on top of the regular quantity of searches included in the standard CFM membership package, regardless of membership level.We generally focus on the pre-64 Winchesters but I think I may be of some assistance. If you would like to obtain factory research on your Winchester, we urge you to join WACA and the Cody Firearms Museum. Those dates coincide with the Madis dates and can be viewed on Winchester’s site at: For purposes of determining if your gun is legally considered an “antique” (pre-1899 DOM), the BATF has told us they use the DOM dates published by the manufacture (Winchester). This information is no substitute for obtaining a Winchester Factory Letter from the Cody Firearms Museum (available for certain models and serial ranges) which in addition to the Serial Number Application Date, normally provide the original Received In Warehouse Date and Date Shipped from Winchester factory. George Madis, Ned Schwing, etc.), in which case the data was extrapolated to the best of our ability. To the maximum extent possible, the dates of manufacture shown were obtained from the original Winchester Factory Polishing Room serialization records otherwise estimates were made using multiple sources of information (e.g.