Swedish m67, 71 rolling block shooters??

[6mmintl]

I have been shooting a swedish 12.17mm rolling block.

Made brass out of .50 alaskan, seat bullets (.50 cal lee mini 280 grain) with 54 grains of 3f.

Getting 4" at 75 meters.

Was originally rimfire but picked up a centerfire block at sarco.

.003" headspace.

Going to try .23 grains A5744 and also loading 22 grain IMR SR4756 next.

Simpsons has a bunch of military and sporting ones in the 450 to 650$$ range.

Also have a swede 1892 in 8x58RD I shot today in our weekly milsurp matches.

I'm going to work with Idaho fish and game to try to get the blk creek range (run by ED DA HOW GUN CLUB) to start some 200 to 500 meter silhouette matchs if there interested .

There range only hosts BPCR matches once a month and the range does not get much use.

I'm getting the three match venues shat at sac valley and hope we can start up gasgun and their "no bull" precision matches.
The Idaho Boise area has 7 range from 100 to 1000 yard within 40 miles and you can attend at least 3-4 matches every weekend from pistol to long range rifle.

No lead range closure here in idaho/oregon.

[MajorSideburns]

Curious about the centerfire conversion, could you post more about it? I just searched Sarco and couldn't find it. I've always thought the Swedish rolling blocks are really good looking rifles

[6mmintl]

Picked up only cf breachblock atconfiguration.

Most all Military RB's were RF, very late in service life they went to CF, Civilians continued to use up RF ammo and converted to CF when RF ammo dried up. Check out Simpsons Ltd. Website.

You will have to research what block you have to get, rotary extractor or straight extractor, round flat or curved cut out block where block meets under barrel shank.

A good machinist could modify a RF block to CFby pressing in a plug (dummy firing pin) into orig rf firing pin resess, then locate and drill block to Cf config.

[TRAP55]

Friend on another forum picked up this C.F. Lindberg Sporting rifle in 12.7x44mm center fire. Talked him into running a .50/70 chamber reamer in it. Cleaned up nicely, and easier to find brass for.

[6mmintl]

Most of the swede and remington rollers are early straight sliding extractors that require the early grooved extractor cam slot on left side of breechblock and scalloped out section on bottom area near bottom of barrel.

Later rolling blocks had circular extractors on left side of breechblock and flat breechblock.