I know what Jim would do.... lol

it's technically Doug's. He sold it to a guy but when it was delivered via UPS it had the toe broken off and the pistol grip had a chunk out of it. I repaired it all soundly and you can see the line on the grip if you look, but it's good and blended pretty well. I think it was made about WWII. My stuff showed right about the war, 1940 - 45, but I know the war interrupted production.

I have an old post-64 "Antique model" M94 20" that has some small outer pitting and I was going to sell it and a couple other things to pay Doug so I would not have to explain all that stuff to a potential buyer, who might be picky. It's a good shooter and would be a great candidate for a custom.

I have a single shot custom Martini 310 in the caliber. Gary's .256 Falcon is basically a .25-35 Uber Improved. You cannot fireform by firing the .25-35, I've tried, they split. But necking a .30-30 to .257 does fine on once fired cases.

In the TC it gives near .257 Roberts performance in the single shot handgun!

Once at the Y-O ranch, my hunting partner Doug, took an Encore in .25-35 WCF with factory 117 gr. FN bullets. At perhaps 1800-1850 fps. He laid waste to a pile of cull little TX Whitetails. All shots were clean through with minimal meat damage and no chasing wounded critters! Low recoil and actually pretty flat shooting, a long .257 bullet is hard to stop.