[Farmer Dean]

Is it a .25 Stevens?I have one of those,can’t find ammo.

[Gaffer]

I was thinking if it is a home made rifle, it’s probably a 25 Win or 25 Rem in either short or long case, both necked.

[vanilla swirl]

“Is it a .25 Stevens?I have one of those,can’t find ammo.”

It uses the long cartridge but completely homemade!
One shot at a time.
It uses a thick barrel probably made from something like a Model T axle. A hand forged breech block a few pins made from available hardware. The stock is nice cherry wood from the property I still own.
The process for rifling was well known in the “old days”. I found the instructions in the Foxfire 5 book.

The ammo is hard to find but I did find somebody at the Indy 1500 gun show that specializes in old ammo. Yep $100 a box.