Tom Bullweed

It has a design defect with the frame-mounted safety, sitting under the shooter's right thumb and pushed down for safe, exactly opposite the great 1911.

I bought one 6.5 and one 7.7 in the late 1980s when Rose's sold milsurp guns for $50-$100. Neither was as fun or cheap to shoot as my many SMLEs or Swedish Mausers. Japan didn't have enough large hardwood trees, so the buttstock is a two-piece dovetailed situation. These were known to splinter or break during hard use.

Sirius XM has an oldies radio stories channel. The Gunsmoke show where was wanted for murder was excellent and something that would not have been on 1950s TV. The Noir stuff is good and makes a long trip fly.

I had a similar issue about 1.5 years ago with a Ruger Birdshead .32 Mag. Sent it to Ruger on a Friday; got it back the following Wednesday. I accepted Ruger's offer for shipping for $60 for two-way Fedup and the repair was at no cost. There is not a better company anywhere, in any industry.

possible over-rotation while sliphammering?

Nineteen yeas of shooting cowboy-action and I have not learned why anyone would use the pistol outside of its design, would take a chance on over rotation (forcing a go-around of the cylinder), or shoot the pistola in the least accurate manner. But then, what do I know?

The actions and success of Henry, Rossi and now S&W just show that Marlin should have been a profitable success. It takes to be profitable than a good product.

The .44 Mag is a popular option for those hunting Jan/Feb season with straight-wall cartridges. My question is why 9+1 when 95+% of CAS stages require ten shots? Very poor market research if you ask me...

Yep on a complete teardown. I would pay special attention to the loading gate spring and pawl/spring.

Shooting .45 OMVs, and .45 Colt loads (200 gr over 5 gr of Reddot or 5.2 gr of Amer Select), I can run a Nevada sweep in Gunfighter in about 4.5 seconds. I am not bragging, just making a point. I am an average shooter, shooting medium loads, and know that half of the shooters will beat me with their skills, not lighter loads. Extremely light loads will have inconsistent combustion and may stick in longguns.

I believe that we were doing better as a nation when we had a challenge or enemy that was not us, like a Great Depression, Axis nations or the USSR. After getting past all of these, we now just fight internally and turn the greatest nation into a circus.

EAA imports the Girsan .380 that is a copy of the Beretta model 86 tip-up barrel for about $450. It is not as well finished as the Beretta but it is not $1500 either. You load the chamber by pressing down on a lever that tips the barrel. Very safe. Does not require cycling the slide. Easy to unload also.

$500 each. Please provide an address and I'll send a cashier's check. I'll even pat for shipping. Nice guns!

That's what I do. Shoot early in the posse and reload at the unload table with a press and pre-made loads.

35caliber.com is a gunsmith that specializes in reboring lever guns to .38-55. He was mentioned in a Handloader magazine.

All of your examples (after the attitude examples) were safety issues. That shooter does not have their head in the game or needs more shooting. Time to pick up brass, record scores or such.

1882 is a year before a salesman would show up and say, "Mr. Winchester would like to talk to you about your single-shot rifle...."

I was 12 and reading Frank Herbert's Dune when I heard that Elvis died. I had been reading Andre Norton, Larry Niven, Edgar R Boroughs and othe sci-fi since about eight.

I like my Ruger Old Modwl Vaqueros in .45. I believe they could handle 1070 fps (barely subsonic) 200 grain jacketed loads just fine. Other options for a non-SASS SAA would be a Feedom Arms or Colt New Frontier. Both have adjustable sights and a good reputation for quality.

A Win 97 made in 1900 likely has a 2-9/16" chamber, not a 2-3/4" chamber. I would have a smith check this. If the smith lengthens the chamber, then it is no longer an unaltered gun.

That would be a good test, with one modification. The separation between times is likely to be too small with the fastest or slowest shooters. Those fast shooters are always fast and will likely have times with little differentiation. A shooter who is relatively slow is not slow because of the rifle model and likely has too many other factors to produce times that vary mostly because of rifle design. Getting a true middle shooter would minimize that factors that make a faster or slower shooter.

Newsreporter here once told the story of a fella persuading a would-be robber to run when the fella pulled a 25mm pistol from his pocket. Needless to say, but I was impressed.

Rio Lobo had Duke Wayne as former Col. Cord McNally searching for Yankees traitors. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon as a Yankees officer retiring in 1876, after decades in the US Army.

I had a 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria a couple of years ago. I had a Thunderbird Y-8 292 engine and an automatic tranny. The owner's manual said that auto trannies came with auto chokes and manual trannies came with manual chokes.