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Updated today. Removed some who retired or closed their shop. Added a couple more. If you know a gunsmith that knows what we need that you'd like to recommend, who is taking in new work and has an FFL, (and wouldn't mind being listed)... Add them to the comments. (See the list in Abilene's post above).

Updated today.

My '66 ran fine with .45 S&W Schofields with a 200gr Bullet. Shorter OAL wouldn't work. The last .45 rifle I have left is a JM Marlin, runs Schofields with a 200gr perfectly. I still use than one for WB. No problems.

Lohman Gunsmithing ParkWest Arms Will Brothers Restoration Run-N-Iron Canoe Creek Casehardening

Just a note: All my .38/357 Marlins run best with Truncated Cone Flat point bullets. 1.48" overall length works perfectly for me. Except for the short-stroked one that requires 1.40" I did have a carbine that would only take full-length .357s, but when I replaced the carrier, it would only feed .38 sp. It's now been made into a Widdermatic.

Yes, high primers in a rifle (or carbine) magazine tube is a catastrophic detonation waiting to happen. I was timing a gentleman who had a chain detonation inside the magazine. The forearm splintered and disappeared. That magazine launched. The gentleman had excellent safety glasses but the ER had to pick metal fragments out of his face. He was left with a barreled receiver, and one of our members picked remnants of cartridges out of the receiver. You will need to use Large Pistol Primers that fit into the Large Pistol Cartridge Case. It's fine to leave the factory mainspring to help light off the Bosnian primers. The Uberti rifles are used throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand where primer sources are not the same as here.

If you'd prefer, the ETS Mag Speed-Loader is sold on Amazon. I found out that these multi-round speed loaders require significant force.

Cowboy Mounted Shooting at Winter Range 1996. CMSA founders. L to R: Bronc aka John Peel, William Bruce aka Jim Rodgers and Rawhide Rawlins aka Phil Spangenberger.

I followed Widder's exact instructions, measurements, and tweaks that he posted on Marauder's Old Irons site and made my Marlin into a Widdermatic. That little rifle is slick now. The timing was off before I started as I did have an instance of the "Marlin Jam". If you do want someone else to work on it, since Widder retired, he taught Slater at Slater's In House Guns, in Louisville, TN, how to sweeten up sour Marlins. In your neck o' the woods, Cowboy Carty, Carty Allaman, Western Gun Works, Monmouth, IL (309) 536-0163 is a wizard with Marlins.

Thunderbolt Taylor, 1993 EoT

Kid Clayton, Doc Holliday, Bootlegger, Ringo, and the Hangman, 1998 Western Action Shooting Society, (New Zealand) - End of Trail

Los Pistoleros de Santa Margarita - the Santa Margarita Gun Club at Camp Pendleton monthly match. The matches at Pendleton were unique among other cowboy matches, in that the Marine Corps rifle range offered the opportunity for some very challenging stages. The rifle targets for most stages were set out at 75-100 yds, with at least one stage with rifle targets at 200 yds. There was always a team event at the end of the match. Because of the stages' tough, challenging, and slower nature, there was only time for 4 or 5 stages per match. Most stages were shot with only one or two guns.

Tex Boden, Duke Chisum (R.I.P.), Mayobard, Wyatt Earp SASS #1628, and Pat Riot

Taipan, Colin Dangaard, at EoT 1999

A photo taken at the Alabama Rangers 3rd Annual Dixie Shootout, 1996 Hawk Spivey Cool Waters Brazos Bill (photos courtesy of Hawk Spivey)

Hmmm... Back row, top left. Diamond Dick. Top row 2nd from right, San Quentin. Front row, second from right, Marshal Harlan Wolff. Third from right, (between Bounty Hunter and Marshal Wolff), is Cajun Kid.

Back in the day, Kid Cavalier, Ivory Jack McCloud (RIP), Captain Lewis, Ricochet Roy & Captain Jake Cutter.

When I finish with mine, I bring it with me and leave it in a waiting room. (I'm hanging out in waiting rooms way too much lately)... take off my address and leave it for others to read. The magazine format is better for that than the large newspaper-type ones we used to get. I kept the real early ones.

Izzy Lost, (Ernie Nicholas - Sept. 19, 2022) "Today we lost another Good CowBoy.Izzy Lost alias Ernie Nicholas.He was a good man that I always saw a smile on his face n a joke on his lips.It's gonna be hard to fill his boots n sorely missed.A Good Cowboy to ride the river with, n I pray that he saves a place on his posse for us all." - Alamo Kid

Sara Sota, SASS #33, Roz Britton

And here I thought it was a kitchen utensil for slicing veggies thinly. But, the stuff comes out all mushed up when I try to push it through the strings!

"We lost one of the old Los Vaqueros Shooters, Dirty Dave Rudabaugh, today Sept. 13, 2022. He was always fun to shoot with and a good shooter. He won the Modern category at Winter Range, back when it was a category. Ride well, old pard!" - The Butcher Dirty Dave Rudabaugh, David W. Glenn