Gentlemen,
Do you or does anyone you know have a Lyman #2 tang sight mounted on the tang of their [ Taylor's&Co or other] M1876 rifle ? I'm trying to figure out if the Lyman No2 has enough height adjustment.

It's a toss up between the Model 1873 and Model 1876 Winchesters.

What attracts me most to the Marbles is the windage adjustability, and at a reasonable price. The Riflesmith tang sights are very nicely done but are kinda pricey...

Okay fellas, after agonizing over which tang sight to mount on my Taylor's & Co M1876 .45-60 for WAY too long I'm finally ready to plunk money down. Which one would you opt for ? This one; http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,6088.html this one, http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,7058.ht...

Mike Hunter wrote:A reasonable fix for the mag tube walking would be to solve it the same as Winchester did. Mag plug with a lip that fits into the barrel.

Mike

Hey Mike,
Is there any way you could post a pic or pic illustration of what you mean ?

I have the same "mag tube growing" problem on my Uberti 1873 in 357Mag, when I stripped it down it was obvious that the groove where the cross pin locates it is worn, likely as said above by the weight of the rounds in the tube and recoil. It does not seem to be getting any worse and shor...

Hey Jon, I just stumbled on this post. I have to say that your rifle and the wood looks even better than I remembered it. I am glad to hear that it is receiving some good use and performing well. Bill M. Greetings Bill ! Have I mentioned, I LOVE THIS RIFLE. Now that i've been shooting it for a whil...

Very nice rifle. While I was in Illinois last week for Christmas vacation, I hooked up with one of my old shooting buddies. He stumbled onto a rifle just like this except for the tang sight. It was in almost as good condition, funny thing was it had the name Winchester on the barrel, the serial num...

Why do you want to replace the Marbles tang sight? Are you looking at a Riflesmith sight? Maybe I just got a lemon but this one hasn't worked out for me at al. First, the sight stem is loose- really loose and it can't be tightened. Second it's all but unusable on the tang of the rifle, not anywhere...

Close up of trigger and lever case color,note the Marbles tang peep sight which I am VERY much looking to replace.

First a disclaimer; duplex loads are a good way to blow your gun up. If not packed perfectly tight and handled with extreme care, the smokeless can mix with the blackpowder and cause extremely erratic pressures even to the point of catastrophic firearm failure. Proper compression is key ! Enough sai...

As a charter member of the Never Leaving Well Enough Alone club I tapped it back into place with a rubber mallet. The fit of the tube is snug and dosen't feel as though it's going anywhere. There's a cross pin that's supposed to hold the mag tube firmly in place once properly seated. The pin is stil...

That is the best 76 repro i have seen to date... Great job on the wood.... Thanks Rimfire, take a look at the 2nd picture above taken prior to removing the varnish-- notice how thick it is ? In my view most if not all of the wood on the Italian rifles would IMHO be greatly improved by getting rid o...

Guys, when you say ' mag tube growing'- do you mean how it extends out from the barrel almost 1/16" ? Here's the scoop; the mag tube began to very gradually move forward under recoil and out of its proper place, until one day it just stopped- no more movement. I was going to get someone to fix ...

Thanks for the thumbs up guys, I really lucked into this rifle in more ways than one. I bought it in April of 2007 from a Taylor's & Co retailer in Kansas. After looking everywhere for one [ I wasn't interested in the Chaparel version] and coming up empty I found an outfit that had ONE Uberti ma...

It's been quite a while since my last post, the subject of which was my [the] new Taylor's & Co M1876 45-60 rifle which I bought about a year and a half ago. To date the rifle has seen approximately 1000-1300 rounds down the tube, those being a 305 gr flat point lead bullet over a duplex powder ...