Tom Bullweed

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.

Wife and I watch The Muppet Christmas Carol, with Michael Caine, every Christmas Eve. I also make sure to catch two Barbara Stanwick flicks: Remember the Night and Christmas in Connecticutt.

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Original Win 73s in .32 WCF are usually much less than any other chambering. I have recently seen good samples for $950-1000. .32 WCF is one of my favorites. I still have a Win 73 and have owned a Win 1892, S&W Police Positive, a Savage Model 23 and a Colt Bisley.

Third option to avoid the follower (first two are the hop and the wooden rod) is to shoot .45 Cowboy Specials. I shot Henry for 5-6 years that had been modified to cycle the .45 CS. The mod is just a set screw in the Lifter. I am average height but had no issues with getting my hand in front of the follower with ten rounds in the mag tube.

I sold my Remington 1878 Lifter and Winchester 1887, so I have some components to sell. All from Ballistic Products. All sold as one bundle. 700 estimated 12-Ga x 1/2" waxed fiber wads. Filler wad under the shot. BP# FX12 1200 estimated 12-Ga Maxi Nitro Card. Over-powder card. BP# NC12 200 estimated over-shot 12-Ga cards. $25 + shipping from Central NC. (about $47 value from BP)