Buckshot Dobbs

Congratulations pard!!

I love my Marlin 1894 in 44 mag, mines an older 1894SS model that Mr. Widder helped me with via many phone calls years ago lol. BD

Well for me Sunday is for my church and my Lord, not for playing cowboy, when a match near me went to Sat./Sun from a Fri/Sat situation, I quit going, to each his own of course. Those are just my priorities. BD

I love mine in 45 Colt, I put Altamont grips on them and Belt mountain base pins on them, other than that I just took em apart, cleaned them really well and been shooting em for the last 2 years and just love em....sold my Vaqueros that’s just didn’t fit me and I couldn’t be happier.

Break free CLP works great with APP too

http://www.curtrich.com/bpsubsdummies.html

Another thing too, don’t know if it’s mentioned here but backer rod is the best fillet I’ve ever found. I tried cream of wheat, corn meal and others, a small piece of backer rod works great and disappears when shot lol. Captain Baylor’s article on it tell LS you all about it. BD

I shot APP in my Marlin 1894 44mag for about 4 years. Took me awhile to figure out what all it liked, with Widder’s help and many phone calls of course lol. My Marlin likes 44 special brass with a 200 grain bullet, 1.3cc and some filler...take it home, take the lever screw out, ballistol it real good, soak the bolt and extractor tunnel, use a Q tip on her, put the bolt back in and lever screw and run her again next match! I have since gotta a new model 45 Colt Marlin and been shooting that demon smokeless for a couple years, but that smoke has been calling my name lately BD

I actually have just started playing around with a 160 RNFP in my wife's 45 LC Rossi and she hasn't had trouble with blow back as of yet. BD

I can give you my experience. I have an 1894 44SS that has been set up with the angle feed, and it would feed great using 44 special with 200 RNFP, but would occasionally hang when I would use 44 mag brass with the same bullet. Well, a good pard (Doc Fill Em) helped me adjust the tension on my extractor, and that fixed the issue. Now I can tell you she still seems to prefer the length of the 44 special brass, but she will feed both, I just never get a hang up, even with shooter error. The mag brass once in a great while might hang when I don't run the lever as clean as I should. just my experience with a similar rifle. BD

Has anybody seen dates for Fracas at Frisco for this year? BD

Thanks so much Al!! What a blessing! BTW both these rifles are sold. BD

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