Smith Carbine

[Ptreece]

Recently I picked up a original Smith Carbine for a decent price. It had a little wobble to it so I sent it out to be fixed. I'm pretty excited to get it back and shoot it.

 

[Bertfish]

Rimfire?

 

[Ptreece]

Rimfire?

Percussion caps. It's loaded with a plastic(original rubber) cartridge with black powder and a 50 cal lead projectile.

 

[Bertfish]

Percussion caps. It's loaded with a plastic(original rubber) cartridge with black powder and a 50 cal lead projectile.

Learn something every day. I thought these were large bore rimfire like a Spencer

 

[Ptreece]

Learn something every day. I thought these were large bore rimfire like a Spencer

Here are some more photos. It's breaks open for the cartridge to be loaded. I also attached a photo of the cartridge.

 

[Brickman301]

Recently I picked up a original Smith Carbine for a decent price. It had a little wobble to it so I sent it out to be fixed. I'm pretty excited to get it back and shoot it.

Very nice! They are usually very good shooters.
I load my repro with 28 grains of 3f powder in a reduced capacity plastic tube with a .50cal government bullet. I use the Lyman#515139 mold.

 

[Brickman301]

I also had my Gallager carbine rebarreled and chambered to use Smith tubes. At the time finding Gallager cases was difficult and expensive when you did find them. By complete dumb luck, my Smith and Gallager’s most accurate load is the same.
That makes it so nice, as I can load them up and shoot them just as accurately in either carbine.

 

[joppaj]

I've never seen these before, very cool indeed.

 

[Uncle Duke]

I've never seen these before, very cool indeed.

I saw a guy shooting a short black powder carbine from a handful of benches away a few years back at AGC. The smoke always gets my attention. Next was noting the unusually short length. But then when he broke it in half to load it, I was thinking WTF is that, and it had my undivided attention! Never saw one before.

Nice fella. Wound up getting a pretty good history on the Smith. He was proud of it. I would be too.

These truly are neat as all hell!

 

[Pensfaninmd]

Nice carbine! I love my Pietta copy. They are very accurate once you find what load and projectiles it will like the best! You will have a lot of fun with her….

 

[Ptreece]

I saw a guy shooting a short black powder carbine from a handful of benches away a few years back at AGC. The smoke always gets my attention. Next was noting the unusually short length. But then when he broke it in half to load it, I was thinking WTF is that, and it had my undivided attention! Never saw one before.

Nice fella. Wound up getting a pretty good history on the Smith. He was proud of it. I would be too.

These truly are neat as all hell!

My friend introduced me to the smith. He has a modern reproduction. I fired it once and was hooked. That same friend just bought a gunshop and this one was in the inventory when he bought the shop.

 

[Ptreece]

Nice carbine! I love my Pietta copy. They are very accurate once you find what load and projectiles it will like the best! You will have a lot of fun with her….

My buddy has a Eras Gone Mold for the smith. I'm going over next week to cast some bullets. I can't wait to take it to the range!

 

[Pensfaninmd]

I ordered the Eras Gone mold this winter. Haven’t casted any yet with it. I need to get started soon! Let me know who it shoots with them.

 

[epps1919]

Lots of Smith’s used in the Carbine shoots in the N-SSA. I use 24gr of 3f in mine , an original gun


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[Pensfaninmd]

Lots of Smith’s used in the Carbine shoots in the N-SSA. I use 24gr of 3f in mine , an original gun


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That’s where I shoot mine.. yes, lots of Smiths there..

 

[The Saint]

Yeah...I'm "the friend" haha! Here's my Pietta repro, 35gr Pyrodex RS with the Eras Gone bullet sized to .518 has been my best results.