H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619

Well, one fascinating subvariant of the Lightning Bug looks like this... This is the AWA Lightning Bolt Pistol. It is exceedingly rare. The general opinion is that less that a dozen people have been infected by it. But it does lead to bizarre actions. Such as the following... I can't quite figure out how to make these things work Gunfighter style. Double Duelist works though.

Actually, there exact words when I asked them about it were in fact, "We know. We don't care."

Oh man! I wish I'd been on that Posse! Anyway, I was at a shoot once, I don't remember where and I was shooting my "Goofy Guns." That's what I called the following battery at that time... Rifle: Winchester 92 with John Wayne style lever. Pistol 1: Colt Buntline. Pistol 2: Colt Sheriff. Shotgun: Greener Police single shot shotgun built on the Martini action. For the last stage of the day, I loaded the last round in the Sheriff with black powder after shooting smokeless all day. They unexpected fire and boom got a lot of laughs. Then I moved to the shotgun position and realized I'd not put any shotgun rounds in my belt. Lost me the clean match.

Yeah, I get it. And in a way, I don't blame some of these places. But the truth is C&R guns are specifically exempted from a lot of our stupid laws. I know of one well known store, Sarco, that will even admit that they KNOW this and there is no reason why they can't legally ship those things to Massachusetts. They just don't care, and won't.

I am the proud owner of an original Colt Lightning in .32-20. It's a great gun. Do any of my fellow Lightning shooters know if any of the reproduction makers, Pedersoli, USFA, AWA, Uberti, Beretta or even Taurus, ever made one in .32-20? And I don't mean listed on paper in the ads, I mean actual honest to goodness manufactured. I don't recall ever seeing one. I have seen reproductions on .45 Colt, 44-40, 38-40, .357 Magnum and .38 Special. Then there's that new fangled thing from Pedersoli in .44 Magnum, but just don't recall ever seeing one in .32-20. My mind is playing with the idea of trying to create a .25-20 Lightning, and the most logical way to do it to rebarrel or reline a .32-20. I'd prefer to do it with a reproduction and not real Colt. In fact the only way I'd do it with a Colt is if I found a .32-20 with a shot out barrel. Probably a fool's fantasy, but I'm pushing 60 in a few days. Maybe long term infection from the Lightning Bug is making me senile.

Way back in 2005, I bought a few things form J&G. I found them to be reasonably priced and very efficient. What did I buy? If memory serves, I got at least one of my Nagant pistols from them. But more recently when I tried to get something they had that interested me, they said, "Sorry, we won't sell to Massachusetts on a C&R anymore." Never been back,

When wearing a wrist watch tore up my wrist due to bad eczema, I switched to a pocket watch. But they were too nice for knock around wear at my job so I switched to a watch that I clipped to one of my belt loops. It was indeed, "upside down," to just look at it, but when you hung it from the belt loop, looked down and tilted it up with your hand to read it, it was right side up. Looks to me like the OP watch operates on a similar principle. I used one of those hanging watches till 20 years ago, when I got a new job and they issued me a cell phone. When I discovered that they had a built in clock, I stopped using a watch altogether. When I retired in 7 years and turn in the phone, I'll probably go back to the hanging watch again.

I just wanna shoot Brady Hawks Style every now and again.

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As far as the 20" carbine vs the 20" short rifle, it's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Comes down to what works better for you. Or, if they work equally well, which version you think looks better. As far as the Chiappa 92 is concerned, it is, in my opinion, the best 92 on the market today. There is no stupid safety, and they work great right out of the box. If I wanted a 92 in .45 Colt, this is what I would buy. My own Chiappa 92 is a .44 Magnum, and it's their Mare's Leg version. Action of course, is identical to the rifle. Quite a smooth action, almost as good as a real Winchester, and I didn't think it needed any action work. I'd not bother with the Rossi 92. Partly because of the horrid safety, and partly because after you get the needed action work done, you've spent nearly as much as you would have on the Chiappa to start with. That said, if you could find a pre-safety model Rossi in the caliber, I'd say snatch it up. The Rossi may not be as good as a Chiappa, but the earlier ones were of, in my opinion, better than the ones they make to day. My first SASS rifle was a pre safety Rossi 92 in .44 Magnum, and I thought it was fine out of the box. It wasn't till I got a real Winchester that I realized it could be improved a little. But yeah, if I was in the market for a new 92, I'd absolutely go for a Chiappa.

Okay, I get it. Disagree, but I get it. There is a reason why the bottle says "Distinctly Different."

With all of my cartridge brass, I reload them until they split, and then I discard. For shotgun hulls, pretty much the same. If they are the Magtech all brass, I reload them till they split. If they are AAs, I reload them till... Well, they hardly ever seem to split, so I just keep reloading them. Some are over 50 years old and have been reloaded many time by me, and my father who was a trap shooter. Now, if you know a specific hull is giving your problems, discard it.

Short stocked 87? Like this? Excuse me while I run away and hide...

Kid Rich! Why are you sad?

Well, for regular ordinary daily stuff, Pepsi. But for special occasions, I pull out the hard stuff...