Three Foot Johnson
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11 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
One guy in particular stands out. I was in line at a gun store in CA during the California covid silliness and this guy behind told me he was part of the President’s Marine Guard and a Navy SEAL. He was about 5’6” and a buck ten in weight.
I worked at a lead smelter for 23 years, and a small-statured younger man got an office job there toward the end. He put up with a lot of little guy jokes, but took it all good naturedly. After the plant shut down in 2001, someone asked the plant manager whatever happened to Adam. The PM said, "Did you know he was Navy SEAL before he came here? The Navy offered him a
$10,000$25,000 bonus to come back and go to Afghanistan." So, I'm guessing he had a knack for infiltrating and "neutralizing with extreme prejudice" in his prior career.-
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I acquired it in December, I think, and this being Montana, it was cold out and snow on the ground, so I have yet to step outside and try it out. This morning, it was about 28 with an inch of fresh snow, but winter's got to be about over with.
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If you reload, make up some 2 1/2"ers and stuff one or two of those in.
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I've got a neighbor I grew up with here who went to Vietnam as a 19 year old Navy corpsman in '67. He doesn't mind talking about it, and some of the stories are pretty harrowing.
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The things I saw and the stories I heard while behind the gun counter at Sportsman's Warehouse...
One of our regulars open-carried a single shot percussion pistol. He rode an adult tricycle around town with all kinds of goofy hippy crap adorning it.
One customer wanted his rifle bore sighted because, "It shoots pretty good right now, but I think I can get it even better with bore-sighting".
"I want to get my barrel carbon fiber wrapped - do you have a kit for that?"
A customer bought a Walther G22 .22 rimfire semi-auto rifle. The next day, he was back saying it was broke.
"OK, what's the problem?"
"I pull the trigger and it only shoots once"
"Then... jams up, or something?"
"No, I have to keep pulling the trigger"
"OK... I'm still not understanding the problem..."
"When I bought it yesterday, that tall guy told me it was an automatic"
A customer called asking about 7mm ammo one time...
"Ok, what kind of 7mm ammo, sir?"
"Just the regular stuff"
"Sir, we carry probably ten different kinds of 7mm ammo... 7mm Mauser, 7mm Remington mag, 7mm Weatherby, 7mm Winchester Short mag, 7mm-08, and others. What does it say on the barrel?"
"I don't know, it's at my brother's house - don't you just have regular 7mm ammo?"
"Yeah, we've got that, come on in"
I had one guy come in who wanted to buy a certain make of AR-15's to convert to full-auto or select fire M16's, and surprisingly he was actually legitimate. He was from Fort Harrison and purchasing them for the Army. IIRC, he bought ten or twelve total - I had to get some transferred from other stores.
And about every fourth guy who walked up to the counter was a former sniper of some sort - Vietnam, Afghanistan, SWAT, whatever.
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There are a lot of long range side matches. For single shot, the 1874 .45-70 Sharps is probably the most popular, but High Walls, Remingtons, and others make a good showing. I use a Pedersoli .45-70 with Lee Shaver sights front & rear, Hadley eye cup, and we shoot out to 500 yards. A couple of the clubs here have a single shot .22 rimfire category - no modern bolt actions allowed. I use either a Chiappa Little Sharps or a Miroku Winchester Low Wall, both with MVA sights - targets are set out to 150 yards or so. Plainsman, maybe...? The one club that shoots it here sets the rifle targets at around 80 yards, so I guess that could qualify as long-range. One club started a Trapdoor category a few years ago - pretty fun to get the old Springfields out and ring the steel at 150-250 yards with the original "minute of Indian" sights. Long range pistol cal lever is normally close enough to just use your main match rifle - no need for fancy sights at only 50 yards or whatever. For long range lever action rifle cal, the Winchester M94 has to be very near the top. The Marlin 336CB is also quite popular. I sold my 336CB because my 1894 Legendary Frontiersman 38-55 was consistently much more accurate. A few years ago, I set up a Marlin 1895CB 45-70 with a Soule rear, Hadley eyecup, and bubble level front globe from MVA. A light load of Unique under a standard 405 grain cast bullet bucks the wind well and dings the targets 'most every time. We used to shoot this out to 400 yards years ago, but 150 - 250 is the norm today.
We shoot pistol cal lever, and Plainsman offhand, but the rest of them can be offhand, sitting on the ground, or off cross sticks either sitting on a stool or the ground - no shooting off a bench.
There are other long range side matches, but you don't see them as often - Tom Horn, Cody Dixon, Quigley bucket, Bolt Action Military... a few others that don't come to mind at the moment.
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My dad bought one of those back in the late 70's. I inherited it when he passed and it was my first Cowboy Action shotgun. I've also got a 28"er I bought from Deuce Stevens fifteen years ago.
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1 hour ago, T-Square said:
where are all the fixed-sight versions ?
Undoubtedly a lot fewer of them made. The ROA w/adj sights was made for 36 years with the fixed sight version only made for 13 or 14 years, and most folks outside of the Cowboy Action niche market probably bought the adj sight version.
I've had as many as eleven at once, but am now down to four. A lot of money to have tied up in nine backups.
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I have ONE 7 1/2", blue, fixed sight I might let go, so I checked completed GB auctions to see what they're going for nowadays...
Five pages of listings and only 4 were fixed sight versions.
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Both of these drew no bids and have been relisted. The convertible Vaquero is now starting @ $1549. Rene's Reference Guide says only 230 of these 5 1/2"ers were made, plus a smaller handful of 4 5/8"ers, maybe 50 to 70. A very rare gun, and not a bad price.
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I think Bruce Willis did that in one of his movies...
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I have six Jager revolvers, five .38-40's and one .357. The only problem I've ever had is all six will over-rotate when trying to run them fast. The easy fix is to use a thick grease on the basepin.
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There's a used one on Gunbroker, starting bid $850, no bids yet, 21 hours left. There's also an extremely rare Vaquero .32-20/.32 H&R mag convertible, starting bid $1599, three days left.
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The only time I ever had free lead was when I worked at a lead smelter for 23 years.
I had a pretty good score in 2021 when I was able to buy 2000 pounds for fifty cents a pound from a heavy equipment yard. The catch was it was in pretty big chunks, some of them well over a hundred pounds. Another source I had for awhile was scraps of mostly H section pure lead wire used by a local artist to make stained glass art. She just wanted to get rid of it and sold it to me for twenty cents a pound or somesuch - whatever the local recycling yard was paying, and she didn't have to load it up and haul it to them. 
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Accurate #2 works as well as W231, Bullseye, or Titegroup, and is often on the shelf.
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1 hour ago, Red Oak said:
Question, Ruger will ream out chamber throats for free??? Or was that just on the 39-40s?
That I don't know. They'll do the 38-40's for free because it was their mistake, whatever the reason was. If it's a chronic problem among all revolvers of whatever caliber it might be, or a one-off manufacturing defect, probably, but if it's "within factory specs" and someone is just trying to get custom work for free, probably not. Give them a call or send an email, discuss the problem and see what they say.
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The only Vaqueros I've ever owned that needed the cylinder throats opened up are my three .38-40 convertibles. For some reason, Ruger made them .395" or .396". Lee Martin says .395", most other sources say .396", while the .40 S&W cylinders are properly sized, go figure. Ruger will ream them at no charge.
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Of course it's SASS legal, why wouldn't it be?
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3 hours ago, Rance - SASS # 54090 said:
Bond!!
I think you can buy different caliber barrels and they switch with same
Main frame..…
Just sayin’
Yep - .22 LR, .38/.357, .44-40, .44 spl, .45 acp, .45 Colt
There are a bunch more too.
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2 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Who would carry that for SD?
Well, as above, I once experienced the professional acquaintance of a loon who carried a single shot BP percussion pistol.
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13 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
What kind of gun has mags that cost $150?
There are probably others, but original OEM Colt Ace .22 magazines come to mind.
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I found this site a few years back, with stories about all the passengers, their back stories, how they survived, how they died, where they were, etc.
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Yes, please. Curiosity abounds everywhere I've asked about this mold.
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Springfield M1, thoughts?
in SASS Wire Saloon
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There's your answer right there.