Bill, I have heard different people say that coils are faster than flat springs and vice versa. To be safe, some of mine use both. I find light and heavy hammers in all models, but hammers get swapped around so much, it's hard to know what the truth is. I have one custom hammer that floats amongst my rifles.

Block styles are another thing that moves around between rifles, especially the lowwalls.

They are plenty strong without being obsessively heavy. Winchester used them for many years as their test bed for newer, more powerful cartridges.

All in all, the 1885 is the very pinnacle of American rifle making. Of world rifle making for that matter. But that's just my opinion.

Pin hole size is an issue to some, but I do not dabble in smokeless, so I don't really care, except it means I need twice as many spare pins.

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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