35 Mag ????

[waverace]

Mystery is now completely solved , it is definitely a 35 Ackley magnum 40 deg ,the larger of the two that Ackley made .
So the only other thing that can get me excited now apart from shooting it , is that any normal gunsmith would stamp "35 Ackley mag" or something similar on the barrel so which gunsmith would stamp simply 35 mag ? .....
Maybe the original gunsmith that wouldn't name a cartridge after himself ?

I don't know but if anyone else has ever seen an original Ackley made by the man himself please let me know how he stamped his barrels .

 

[paulruger]

Do a chamber cast with cerrosafe!

 

[waverace]

Thanks for the tip paul , but if you read the entire thread you will see that this was done a long time ago , I have been shooting this rifle for a while now and reloading successfully for it , the only thing that was still in question was the actual nomenclature or given name for the round and the provenance of the rifle itself .

 

[waverace]

As you can see from the pictures , I now have the appropriate dies , which came with a chamber cast of the dies then theres my chamber cast , a fired and reloaded round from my rifle then finally a chamber reamer that I had the good fortune to find on sale at Midway , so now I can make another