Three Foot Johnson
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There isn't much in the way of hardwood growing in Montana.
For several decades, I burned yellow pine harvested on my place, but age and infirmities are taking their toll and I had a log truck of fir logs delivered five years ago - about 21 cords. Then a smaller truck of lodgepole about three years ago. Even just blocking these nice clean logs up anymore is getting to be a challenge, so when I'm out, I'll have to pay the extra for wood already blocked & split... or sell this place off and find a small house in town with a big garage to finish up my race.
Temps are supposed to drop into the high 30's tonight, so I've got a small fire going right now.
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GB 1101158707 - The picture looks like large primer, but the description states it's a "stock picture", and says the auction is for small primer brass.
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It's on my bucket list.
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There may have been occasion for a guard to be inside a coach, and he may well have sawed the barrel of his shotgun off - coaches were TINY inside. I've seen a lot of pictures of coaches with a driver and guard on top, and I don't believe I've ever seen one with a short shotgun.
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36.25% of my CAS revolvers are 4 5/8" and 20% are 5 1/2" - if 22% of them are stainless, how far will a $98 bus ticket take me at 105 kph on Trailways vs Greyhound?
The shorter the barrel, the less people notice how bad I shake anymore.
A foot and a half of barrel on each hip is kind of fun...
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Install a Sigurd/Galloway trigger, stick it in a Vedder Pocket Locker curved holster, and the LCP Max is about as perfect as it gets.
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This isn't quite right, but it's pretty close to the old Winchester bullet and I already had the mold. Lyman 200 grain 358315 over 3.0 grains Unique - works well in my 5" Victory.
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Not sure about the handguns, but I think my first CAS guns were a 7 1/2" .45 Blackhawk, a 7 1/2" .44 Super Blackhawk, a 12g Rossi Overland hammer shotgun, and a 24" stainless Rossi M92 .45. The Rossi Overland is the only one of the four I still have.
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9 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:
Well, the Gyrojet and Liberator have significant historical aspects, (have you fired the Gyrojet? ), the XP-100 was supposedly great for silhouette shooting, the COP is a great example of how NOT to build a defensive firearm, the 1873 is of course great for us, the rifle looks like fun for long range shooting and competition...but the thing with the pink grips and cylinder...ya got me on that one.
Edit to add, I didn't realize the SAA is set up like Sly's backup gun in The Expendables. Guess that might not be so good for SASS...
The Gyrojet shows no sign of ever having been fired. They came with six rounds, and it had six rounds with it when I bought it from a local shop ten years ago. The Liberator has been fired - I made up five .45 acp's with a round ball and just enough powder to poot it out the muzzle. The ball would hit the plywood target butt 15 yards away and bounce off.
I also have the original cartoon picture instruction sheet it was packed with, a much more scarce item than the pistol.
The Expendables .45 was a limited run from Uberti that was a "west coast exclusive". They were listed by Impact Guns on their web site, but never actually received any to sell. The only place they were ever available was Sportsman's Warehouse in the western part of the US. Production numbers are generally considered to be around 130 units, but I once emailed Uberti/Benelli USA and inquired - their reply was "about 250", but who knows. Somebody at the service desk read the email and said, "Hey Joe, how many of those goofy Stallone guns were made"? "Hell if I know, 250 maybe".
I came across the .38 S&W pink cero-coated H&R 925 on Gunbroker about ten years ago, and it wasn't selling, so I made an offer.
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From '75-'78, I was a Navy Aviation Electrician's Mate at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. One day the chief came into the shop and said, "There's a qualification class at the range this weekend if any of you broke d*cks want to go" I signed up and that's how a shore based E4 Navy electrician ended up with two gedunk ribbons to pin on his dress blues.
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This was "temporary" 32 years ago.
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In addition to the old style Vaquero hammer, they also came with the star textured "Dooley Gang" grips.
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9 hours ago, Alpo said:
Then I started to wonder. Was this like someone complaining about a 1960 movie where "the character referred to Geronimo as an Indian, and he was actually a Native American"? But in 1960 that stupid term "Native American" did not exist.
In "Gangs of New York", Bill the Butcher's gang was The Federation of American Natives, based on a real political group of the era.
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I don't care, just give me a bag of them. And a small Diet Coke.
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It would be May 1955 for me... and my folks were at Fort Ord... Dad got out of the Army and they came home in January 1956, then I came along in February. I've had to live with the shame of being "Made in California" all my life.
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3 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
I'm not really interested in the Ruger. Well made guns, but not of personal interest. I assume they offer it in .32-20, but don't know. Can anyone confirm?
Back in 2004, they made a convertible Vaquero in .32 H&R mag/.32-20 in very limited numbers... something like 250 - the auction description says about 230. Other sources vary, but regardless, there weren't many of them.
There's one on Gunbroker right now, and with the scarcity of this model, I'm rather surprised it's been through several re-listings without a single bid. 1101963317
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It is customary for an officer to initiate a salute to someone who has been awarded the Medal of Honor. I think there are only three currently on active duty, but in their fatigues, dungarees/NWU, or in the case of the Air Force, their plush bathrobe and slippers, how do they tell?
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I've read the 1897 was originally designed for 2 1/2" shells, and I've read it was originally chambered for 2 5/8" shells. You'll even find some folks who say the chambers were 2 9/16" early on. Other sites, including The Winchester Arms Collectors Association have many references that state the '97 was specifically designed for 2 3/4" smokeless shells from Day One. Others say the 2 3/4" chambers weren't standardized until 1931... or 1937... Others will argue the discrepancy is due to the length of the fired hull with a roll crimp being shorter than a fired hull with a folded star crimp. I really don't get that one - 2 3/4" is 2 3/4", no matter which crimp is used.
... who knows.
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4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Funny as I can run my stoked 87 faster than I can run either the 97 or Model 12
@Crusty has a '97 like that...
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On 4/12/2025 at 4:33 PM, Dacotua said:
People use 97's or 87's because you can start out with the shotgun fully loaded. You're at a disadvantage if you don't use a 97 or 87 in Wild Bunch with 6 rounds loaded.
I ain't much of an '87 shooter, but I used it in a WB match once... half the posse went to lunch while I was shooting a stage.
I'll stick to a Model 12.
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That screw is easy to remove with a ball end Allen wrench with no other disassembly required.
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4 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:
Three Foot, that target looks like a few shooters almost poked holes in it at that range! Must be some heavy duty stuff indeed.
I was looking at retiring in Montana at one point, but your winters would cause this old desert rat to freeze solid!
I'm pretty sure what's happened is folks have pulled over on the highway and shot at it with their .30-06's and whatnot, or maybe even a club member who came out to sight something in and didn't realize they weren't supposed to use jacketed bullets.
Several years ago, there were three managers from Sportsman's Warehouse where I worked who asked to come out and use my personal range. I was working the day they came out, but made it very clear my Cowboy Action plates were for low velocity lead bullets only... they couldn't resist, and guess what? A 7mm Remington mag will punch a hole clear through a 1/2" steel plate at thirty yards. Several holes, actually. And blast an impressive crater in 5/8" plates with cracks in the craters you can see daylight through. Now that's bad enough, but these three knotheads also set a bunch of glass beer bottles in the weeds at the edge of my lawn, shot them, and made no attempt to hide what they did or clean up the broken glass.
That was the beginning of the end of my SW job. It's the only job I've ever been fired from.
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Jenorado wants a Desert Eagle
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I bought a Plain-Jane black finish .50 AE in '05, and ordered a .44 mag barrel for it a year or two later too. For some reason, the .50 AE has a reputation for ejecting the empties right into your forehead, which really shouldn't be possible, but it does. Owners call it "case face".
This thing is a beast, but not very practical - only 7 + 1 in .50 and 8 + 1 in .44.