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barrel looks ugly at the chamber side 

TXGunNut said
Looks like it came out of some gunsmith’s scrap pile. Might make a good tomato plant stake. 
 
Mike
  

lol that’s a good possibility!

Bert H. said

Cowboy103 said
little surprise on the serial search for the 76, ordered the 40-60 barrel I found for it, so I guess the lifter is possibly the original one, who knows with these old guns, but since the letter says half nickel and the lower tang matches the rest of the receiver, I assume this is a half nickel receiver? 
  

The term “1/2 nickel” usually indicates that just the receiver frame was nickel plated versus the barrel., magazine tube, and the receiver frame being nickel plated.
Bert
 

Yea that’s what I thought it meant

The trials of the Frankenstein 76 continue, so have the barrel in 40-60 I got off eBay, surprisingly clocked in good and straight. Have shot some rounds I got at one of the shows here in Nc and also bought some more off GB for a pretty good deal, have had no luck in finding any dies so went and found a really nice in good shape 1894 version hand held reloader from Winchester in 40-60, waiting on that to come in, but also received a magazine tube from gunparts corp for a uberti made 76, as a original magazine tube has been non existent. One will probably come up now in the next week. But as cheap as the magazine tube was for the uberti I figured might as well give it a try, magazine looks good also got a follower as the one I had was not the correct size. Seems as though the front of my rifle as it was was all 86 parts, as the magazine retainer is to small of a diameter for the 76 tube to fit in, so have a uberti retainer otw, fingers crossed, the uberti magazine tube uses a threaded in plug for the muzzle end so also had to order one of those as per usual the mag tube plug I had from the original parts was to small and also not of the threaded kind. Glad I got this thing for cheap cheap as if I would have spent the money I see them for I’d be about sick buying all these little parts and trial and error. But if anything I’ll know the ins and outs and will have around maybe a grand in this thing once it’s said and done.

Made up some rounds with the newly arrived model 1894 Winchester reloading tool, and wow these work great compared to the earlier style ones, I have one for 32-20 and haven’t used it much. Worked up some imr 4198 rounds to test in it sometime