Can anyone tell me more about these shells?

[Calvin45]

I'm going with the .44-40 guess someone made earlier.

 

[3chester]

Been laying out there since the late 1800's just a 50-70 Govt, the US Army had a million rounds of surplus. Starline still offers em for sale, 1.75 in long. One a them Ole Injun Braves probably just took a souvenir with, from the Little Big Horn, on his road trip to Canada.

 

[Bret GRAVELINE Graveline]

Its a 50-70, he said it's bigger than a 410, A 44-40 is not bigger, it shares the same base diameter as the 45 long colt which in a contender shares the same chamber as a 410

 

[victor3ranger]

Here is a really cool one I found a while back and it's still loaded

 

[hunter0528]

Here is a really cool one I found a while back and it's still loaded

WOW!! are those the original grips, Looks like Ivory.

 

[victor3ranger]

WOW!! are those the original grips, Looks like Ivory.

I'm pretty sure it's ivory grips and they are flawless

 

[Calvin45]

That's a sweet find with the revolver!

A friend of mine got into metal detecting and found this on a random plot of Saskatchewan farmland. He sent me this picture. That's interesting to me, because we don't have anywhere near as long a history (at least a colonized industrialized European history) as most anywhere in the United States or eastern Canada. I'd be curious to know when the heck this is from and how it ended up in a wheat field. Maybe just used for hunting? I certainly don't know anyone who owns a rifle chambered in 57 snider these days….

 

[victor3ranger]

That's a sweet find with the revolver!

A friend of mine got into metal detecting and found this on a random plot of Saskatchewan farmland. He sent me this picture. That's interesting to me, because we don't have anywhere near as long a history (at least a colonized industrialized European history) as most anywhere in the United States or eastern Canada. I'd be curious to know when the heck this is from and how it ended up in a wheat field. Maybe just used for hunting? I certainly don't know anyone who owns a rifle chambered in 57 snider these days….


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That's pretty freaking cool!!!

I have a pretty good pile of cavalry and civil war stuff now.
Several places here that were way stations or outposts that were wiped out in the 1800's during the wars against the tribes

 

[Calvin45]

That's pretty freaking cool!!!

I have a pretty good pile of cavalry and civil war stuff now.
Several places here that were way stations or outposts that were wiped out in the 1800's during the wars against the tribes

It was never remotely comparable to the degree and extent of violence that happened south of the border in the USA but as I've taken more history classes over the years I've been learning that we did indeed have our share of "frontier violence" up here in Canada during our own westward expansion and settlement.

Our nations are all at once so different and yet so very similar in many regards of their history.

 

[victor3ranger]

It was never remotely comparable to the degree and extent of violence that happened south of the border in the USA but as I've taken more history classes over the years I've been learning that we did indeed have our share of "frontier violence" up here in Canada during our own westward expansion and settlement.

Our nations are all at once so different and yet so very similar in many regards of their history.

Very true.
This place stayed the Wild West up until the early 1900's

 

[The Oregonian]

Got in touch with the outfitter and he will get measurements to me when he can And I will post them back here. Thanks to everyone.