Three Foot Johnson
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17 hours ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:
ALSO, I wore plugs AND muffs. Its loud. The 500 I shot has the comp'd 4" short barrel, which
probably didn't help with recoil much.
..........Widder
That must be the one I sold him two or three years back.
I shot a cylinder or two with some 700 grainers - those are downright uncomfortable.
Between a .50AE and a .44 mag.
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When my dad and his siblings were young, they used to spend a lot of time at a mountain ranch in the northern Big Belt mountains north of here. The old guy who owned it, "Bat" Smith, was a good friend of famed western artist Charlie Russell. Charlie died two or three years before my dad was born, but there were still some illustrated letters and envelopes around Bat's house. This wooden sculpture/carving belonged to Bat, and it's always been family lore that it was done by Charlie Russell. There is no buffalo skull & initials, no signature, or other markings on the piece to identify it as Russell's work, and Charlie wasn't known for working in wood, so who knows. With no provenance, it's a fifty dollar carving with a million dollar story.
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Those Slocum sliding chamber guns turn up on Gunbroker ever' now and then. There was one listed a month or two back for $900.
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C45S simplifies and lessens the cost of shooting BP. No extra fillers, just fill to the base of the bullet, and you're GTG.
Using a convertible .45 Colt/.45 acp revolver achieves the same result, and plenty of .45 acp range brass can be had free for the picking.
These Vaqueros are .45 acp only, NOT convertibles, and have pretty much become my favorites.
No, Ruger won't fit a convertible cylinder, unless it was originally manufactured as a convertible.
No, you don't use moon clips.
No, I've never had a problem using a taper crimp.
No, they're not legal for Classic Cowboy, but you can use C45S if you want to shoot CC.
Yes, .45 acp is a legal black powder cartridge.
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2 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
How are these events with 5 shots being done safely with the fairly typical 5 shot revolvers with no safety notch? Hammer would have to be down on a loaded chamber.
You don't start with the pistol in your pocket. It's on the table, or in hand with the muzzle touching the table. Five rounds in a five shot cylinder is OK.
You'll never see a derringer side match shot with only one round in the pistol either.
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One person's "must see" is another person's "ho hum", but...
Lewis & Clark caverns, Mann Gulch/Gates of the Mountains, Pompey's Pillar near Billings, 40 miles northwest of the Little Bighorn battlefield and the last surviving physical evidence of the Lewis & Clark expedition, Bannack ghost town, Roe River in Great Falls (Guinness Book, world's shortest river) - a 200' long river from Giant Springs to the Missouri... not much to see... it's 200' long, so... but if you're in the area, you can brag you've been there.
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29 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:
The H&R has a 4.5 inch barrel. Oh well.
A hacksaw, square, and draw file and that extra half inch comes off pretty easy, and even cutting a new sight slot with a Dremel and a worn down cut off wheel is doable if you've got a good eye and a steady hand.
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Apparently I'm way under the money at $100 ea - you're the 4th person in line for them, 5th counting Wild Hair Larry.
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I hate to sell one, because then I don't have a pair anymore.
$100 for one of the SBH hammers at the bottom - new, never installed. You have to swap out the plunger, spring, and retainer pin from your existing hammer.
---THE SUPER BLACKHAWK HAMMERS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE---
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Ya'll are making this harder than it should be.
Eight pounds of Winchester AA Lite, $350, WILL NOT SHIP.
That's plain enough.
And "The Cowboys" would be Norco, of course.
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1 hour ago, Abilene, SASS # 27489 said:
Any SASS legal main match rifle, any caliber.
Uh, no. Unless it's changed AGAIN since its initial change effective 1-1-24, the rule change concerning rifles only added .38/.357 cal.
Must be centerfire of at least .38 caliber and not larger than .45 caliber.
Under .38 is still not allowed - .25-20, .32-20, .32 H&R mag, .327 Federal, etc, and there is no exception for .56-.50 as in CAS.
There have been arguments in the past over caliber not being the same as cartridge, so it could be argued that the wording still doesn't allow .38 special or .357 magnum.
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26 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
Some folks who live farther off the road than I do, or don't have a plow, keep a secure lockbox near their gate. FedEx and UPS can leave a package and lock the box with a padlock you can't see from the road. Might that work for you?
I had one for several years - it hung on a fence post at my cattleguard, and the road was generally kept plowed to that point by a neighbor who lived below me. He got in some bad legal trouble a year or so back, got divorced, neither of them lives the house anymore and it's up for sale (3.4 million, if anyone wants a really nice 6000+ sq ft house on 80 acres with a killer view.) Then I sold a little 10 acre piece off and the guy put in a new cattleguard, which necessitated taking my FedEx/UPS drop box down. I think it's still in the back of one of my pickups. Maybe I'll bolt it to the top of my mailbox or something.
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Eley Contact has a very good reputation, as do Tenex, Match, and Team. Lapua versions of these three are X-act, Midas +, and Center-X. I've had decent luck with CCI Green Tag too - a lot less money, and works remarkably well, depending on the firearm. Even CCI Standard Velocity works well, depending on the firearm, and costs less still.
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We had a few days of heavy snowfall, and I was expecting a ~$250 package via FedEx. I'm 16 miles from the FedEx office, a mile and a half off the highway, and snowed in, meaning their potato chip van was snowed out, of course. The first two days the Website said, "Delivery delayed due to adverse weather" or somesuch. The third day, I saw the package had been delivered...? FedEx can't use the mailbox, but there's nothing wrong with leaving the package between boxes... a mile and a half from my house... I guess. (Their picture)
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There was a family here - mom, dad, two boys - who used 9 grains of Red Dot and 7/8 oz of shot for several years. He eventually bumped it up to 10 grains, so maybe he finally started getting wads stuck in the barrel. You could actually see the shot ball going down range. I've used 12 grains of Red Dot for several years with no problem.
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3 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
I can’t tell you how many times I have been in a gun store hearing the woeful tale of some young guy that has some event he needs ammo for and he can’t find the particular ammo he needs anywhere.
The worst of those short mags turned out to be the .300 and .338 RCM. They didn't last long. Then there were the guys who had to have the latest and greatest Ultra Mag, and would be back in after their first range trip asking about "Managed Recoil" loads.
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5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
Make sure that whatever cartridge you choose that is legal to take big game where ever you and you son plan to hunt.
I really would like a .243 Winchester rifle. Here in WV cartridges must be .25 caliber or larger for taking whitetail, mule deer and elk. 6.5mm CM fires a projectile that is actually.2644” (6.72 mm).
WTH couldn’t they have called it a 6.7 Creedmoor? Annoying dipsticks.Why did Remington market a .44 magnum instead of a .43 magnum? Why .44-40 and .38-40 instead of .43-40 and .40-.40? Why .38 special instead of .357 special? Why .480 Ruger instead of .475 Ruger? (It actually was called the .475 Ruger early on, I guess it didn't sound big enough) Why .325 Winchester Short Mag instead of .323 WSM? Why is it a .50 BMG instead of a .51 BMG?
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What are you hunting and how far away? How exotic do you want your rifle to sound when sitting around the campfire at night bragging about it?
I've taken more deer and elk with a .270 Winchester than everything else combined that I've ever used. It'll do the job on deer, elk, and black bear out beyond 400 yards. I drew a moose permit one year and opted for my .338 Winmag on that trip. At the conclusion, the head shot I took at a hundred yards would likely have been a clean kill with anything bigger than a .22 rimfire though.
Most big game in the lower 48 can be cleanly harvested with a .270, .308, or .30-06. Grizzly or moose might call for something bigger. Beyond four or five hundred yards, the good ol' .300 Winmag or 7mm Remington mag are hard to beat.
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One evening, a few years back, I decided to cut this .38 spl 1866 down to 17", and probably use it more than anything.
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The line from my well is more or less 8' underground, so it's not going to freeze. It enters my basement at slab level, so also 8' underground. But in the laundry room, the copper pipes run across the ceiling and down a back-filled, but uninsulated block wall to the washer. Those pipes have "soft froze" before, so I close the door to the laundry room and turn the electric thermostat to its lowest level over the winter, 40 degrees.
Last night, tonight, and tomorrow night will be around twenty below zero, so I'll turn the thermostat up to 45 in that room for a couple days.
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Mine would have been a Colt Frontier Scout .22 revolver when I was 12. It was bought new with money I made from selling Christmas and greeting cards, remember that?
The serial number puts the date of manufacture in 1967, but it was sometime in 1968 when I got it, maybe in the fall after GCA '68 took effect, as my dad had to be the one to actually hand over the money... or maybe that was just store policy. Since dad actually bought it, maybe that one doesn't count, in which case it would have been either an Italian Griswold & Gunnison .36 cal percussion revolver, a Thompson Center .54 cal percussion Hawken, or a Colt Series 70 1911 when I got out of the Navy in '78. I still have the Frontier Scout, the Hawken, and the Colt 1911, but sold the G&G four years ago.
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Answer to an inquiry I sent them last year:
"These are available to FFL's with a limit of 2 per 30 days. It requires serial number information to order. Please call in to place an order at 336-949-5200 option 4 and then option 2."
I think every club I've ever shot at has had at least one, and usually multiple, FFL holders among their membership, but unless you've got a favor coming, they'll probably charge you $75 - $150 apiece to get them for you. Looking at the auction sites, even used ones are sometimes selling for that much lately.
Barleycorn Outfitters had new ones on Gunbroker just a few days ago for $125 ea, shipped, w/o the plunger, spring, and cross pin.
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It's supposed to be -4 tonight, high of -1 tomorrow, -9 tomorrow night, high of -1 Tuesday, -6 Tuesday night, -2 Wednesday... I start my 70th year in ten days, and I really don't know why I've lived all my life in this miserable Great White North.
S&W 500 Magnum: Whew...a little exuberant
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I can only think of one, two actually, .475 cal or larger revolvers/autos that aren't going to beat the crap out of you, and those would be the MBA 12mm and 13mm Gyrojet pistols. I still have the original six rounds that came with mine sixty years ago, and at $150 - $250 per round, it'll probably have six rounds with it when I sell it.
I've got a Freedom Arms M555 .50AE/.500 Wyoming Express, a .45-70/.450 Marlin BFR, a .50AE/.44 mag Desert Eagle, a custom Ruger Bisley Blackhawk .475 Linebaugh by Ben Forkin, and a .480 Ruger SRH. The .475 Linebaugh and the aforementioned 4" .500 S&W w/700 grain bullets are the most punishing of the bunch. I haven't shot any of these cannons in so many years, I can't remember. I used to be a tough guy, but not anymore. Probably time to sell them.