[List of Cowboy GunSmiths]

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).

[Cowboy Gunsmiths]

Updated today.

[.45 Schofields in a rifle chambered for .45 Colt]

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.

[Color Case Hardening Vendors]

8 minutes ago, Texas Red said:

Looking for Vendors that perform Color Case Hardening (Reasonable Cost)

Thanks for Info

Texas Red

 

 

Lohman Gunsmithing

ParkWest Arms

Will Brothers Restoration

Run-N-Iron

Canoe Creek Casehardening

 

[Who does action work on Marlins?]

1 hour ago, Currahee said:

 

What, exactly, is the Widdermatic mod. ?

 

Following the excellent instructions  that Widder posted on Marauder's site, https://marauder.homestead.com/files/Widdermatic_Marlin.htm

I was able to rescue a Marlin 1894 carbine that had been "rode hard and put up wet" from a gun store and make it into a nice Widdermatic.

(The 20" barreled rifle that your wife shot at Cross Creek, was short-stroked).

[Do all Ruger made Marlin 1894 in .357 Magnum suck or is it just the brand new one I bought?]

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. 

[Rifle or carbine?]

1 hour ago, Nickle said:

I have a antique s&w nm3 in 44russian.  Large rifle sticks out but will work in a revolver . So in a lever action they will cause a problem? 

 

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.

[White River Energetic SP Primers - REVIEW]

 

2 hours ago, Tall John said:

Hey Cowboys,

 

 

Now we need to know if the NMVs had standard or lightened hammer springs, and if lightened, what are they rated? 

[Let's talk rifle last & Power factors ----------------]

I'm only relating my experiences with "Rifle Last" stages.  Make of it what you will.

I shoot at a club that sometimes has rifle last stages.  These were all open, with no facades, no windows, no doors, nothing.

 

As a T.O. I was able to pick up all shots, and reliably pick up the last shot.  Calibers used by the shooters ranged from .32 to .45.  No problem.

 

However, I did have the opportunity to time a buckaroo at a recent State Match.   No matter how I tried, I could not pick up the shots fired with his .22 rifle.

Across 10 stages I tried angling the timer, getting it out as far as I could without impeding the shooter.  There were no enclosed stages.

These were "rifle not last" stages.   I could pick up the pistols and shotgun without problem, so all was good.   I'm considering now, what I would have had to do, if these had been "rifle last" stages...

[Anyone done business with TACNATION-USA]

52 minutes ago, Outlaw Gambler said:

They sell 9mm speed loaders for rifle and pistol mags. Thinking of getting one or two but want to check to see if they are legit. They accept credit cards only, which I think is smart, but do not show location or address. I have added a link for you inspection. Thanks.

TACNATION MAG-LOADERS – TACNATION USA (trytacnation.com)

 

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.

[SASS, The Early Days]

 

 

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.

[What to do with a JM Marlin Cowboy with a replaced Remlin carrier?]

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.

 

 

[SASS, The Early Days]

 

Thunderbolt Taylor, 1993 EoT

[SASS, The Early Days]

 

 

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

[SASS, The Early Days]

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.

 

[SASS, The Early Days]

 

 

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

[SASS, The Early Days]

 

Taipan, Colin Dangaard, at EoT 1999

 

[Trail Markers]

[SASS, The Early Days]

A photo taken at the Alabama Rangers 3rd Annual Dixie Shootout, 1996

 

Hawk Spivey

 

Cool Waters

 

Brazos Bill

 

(photos courtesy of Hawk Spivey)

[SASS, The Early Days]

On 6/23/2021 at 12:49 PM, Jersey Kid, SASS #287 said:

Posse Photo 2001  - see who you remember

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.

[SASS, The Early Days]

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

[STUFF FOR FREE]

On 1/26/2023 at 3:07 PM, Rip Snorter said:

Read, so recycle.

Hardcopy Cowboy Chronicle 2023 free for postage.  Don't know what that will cost these days. PM me and I'll get it off tomorrow.

 

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.

[Trail Markers]

  

 

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 

 

[SASS, The Early Days]

Sara Sota,  SASS #33, Roz Britton

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

 

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!