pistons first with 30 weight oil
The ISBN of Firing the Cathedral is 1-902880-44-7.
Use a Marlin 57 firing pin. It's the same rifle, just re-branded for Sears.
Best left to a trained gunsmith
Write them in ascending order. 1, 39, 44, 44, 44, 52, 64, 96 The median is the average of the middle two, 44.
Standard form 44 is used as a purchase order form Standard form 44 is used as a purchase order form
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That's an interesting question. They could probably take ballistic fingerprint (firing pin print from shell casings fired from an existing Model 1873 (one that is pre-1876 production SRC 44-40 with it's original firing pin) and compare that to 44-40 shell casings recovered from the battlefield (likely they were fired from 44-40 Model 1873 SRC's), and if a 100% match, I wouldn't be surprised to see it fetch in the $500,000 to $1 million range.
The breech block has to be bored out for a bushing. Then the block is threaded. I screw in a hardened steel bushing with a hole in it for a centerfire firing pin. The bushing and the firing pin have to be custom made as I know of no supply of such bushings.
44 is the correct answer
It is 38.5, the number halfway between 33 and 44, which are the two middle numbers when they are listed in order.
Your rifle is a Marlin 25M. You can check with Marlin Customer Service, expect price to be AROUND $25 plus shipping.
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