Would love to see a pic of that 16”!Oh, man! One of my favorite rifles! I’ve had one for quite awhile and have owned several others since then.
designed to compete with the lever actions of he day, they were available in similar calibers, .25, .30, .32, & .35 Remington. Funny that the only one which didn’t have a lever action correlation, the .35, is the only one left around.
I got mine severely damaged, with a blown out muzzle. I took it to an excellent machinist Freind and he did all the work to shorten it up to 16”, making it a one of a kind Model 8 Carbine! It’s a load of fun to shoot, I killed a couple deer with it using shortened cases. I mostly just plink with it and for that duty I use cast pistol caliber bullets of around 160 gr and 20.0gr of 2400. Cheap and mild shooting and it’s still got enough zip to hit steel at 200 if I do my part! Mine has an old Lyman Tang sight which helps out a lot.
I’ll dig up some pictures of it later on. I love to show mine off!
edited to add that I have shot mine with everything from 110 gr pistol bullets up to 250gr rifle bullets meant for 35 Whelan and it has functioned fine with all of them! I picked up a 200 gr Lyman single cavity and did a hollow point modification to it to cast some hunting bullets. Unfortunately I never had a chance to shoot a deer with one, it I’m sure it would have done well!
Shortly after getting my Mod 8 up and running, I picked up a Winchester Model 1907 in .351 WSL. It was really neat to have basically the first two successful autoloading rifles available.