Cotton Eye Joe

The 1/4inch brass rod was available off the shelf of my local Home Depot. It's dislodged slugs for 50-70, 45-90, 45-70, 45-60, and 38-55 squibs in the last year (before I finally started using titegroup powder). Broke a few wooden dowels and some pricey Otis cleaning rods before finally buying the brass rod.

Looky here, a couple of the Tom Horn model 1876's in stock for an eye watering price at Wholesale Hunter https://www.wholesalehunter.com/Product/Details/11260415

He's talking about the Marlin Model 1892, not the Win1892 style. Very different guns!

Wish you luck in finding one lol. And tell us when you do because I have a Marlin 1892 (22rf) that's relegated to single-shot status due to the mag tube not working. Which really stinks because it's a very handsome gun otherwise. Think my best bet is buying another someday (which hopefully isn't broken) and seeing what parts I'm missing.

If Palmetto State Armory could just stand up a massive lobbying arm that meddles in foreign countries' elections and gets politicians in their pockets.....what a world we'd live in lol.

Figured out the cycling issue, and Abilene had it with tightening the screw on the right-side lever spring. In my defense, it was already very snug, but my frustration allowed me to discover it was able to turn 2 more times if I just cranked on it. Suddenly, the spring was doing what it was supposed to do, and the gun could cycle. Moving on to the next issue, light primer strikes. A buddy suggested a spring was maybe loose, and I saw a screw that I guessed (correctly) was probably the main spring screw, based on what I knew of Marlins. Once again, it looked good, but I cranked on it. Suddenly, the hammer didn't seem so light, and I had no more light primer failures-to-fire. Put about 70 rounds through it today, and had a great time. Accuracy testing will follow eventually, now that I know the gun can cycle/shoot. Thanks Abilene!

Nothing miraculous about this, unfortunately haha. I need to take a video of it and upload it to youtube. I'm probably describing it poorly.

Funny enough, removing the right lever spring is the only thing I've found that restores functionality. Definitely wasn't loose, and hadn't fallen off the lifter arm.

Despite the letdown my new 1876's debut was, I was happy to see my new Cimarron 1878 did just fine. The Remington STS shells fell right out of the chambers with no polishing or anything from me. I think it'll be a fine match gun!

Sad to report that my first range trip with my new 1876 was not great! I owned a Cimarron 1876 a few years back, and I still had a decent bit of ammo from that. Sadly, my ammo was full of duds. Some primers fired on their 10th re-cocking of the hammer! Finally squibbed one and had to call it. Before I squibbed, my very expensive Steinel ammo was.....bad. $85 per box of 20. Had at least one round get the slug pushed back into the case. Other ones were very tough to chamber (they don't size the 45-60, appears straightwall'd). Velocity was wildly inconsistent, like 1200fps to 1450fps. At least it didn't squib! Now I've got the gun disassembled, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong on reassembly. The lever keeps getting jammed open when I work the action. I can see why, the brass lifter is sagging. Gets in the way of the bolt closing, basically locking it open until I push upwards on bottom of the lifter. And the internals are the roughest Uberti internals I've ever experienced. I'd say I've had a lot. Very very disappointed thus far.

Man, I don't know. That's the history we've got, and I lack a time machine lol. They used to hang rustlers without trials or anything. Only 38 states back then, and Arizona wasn't one of them. I get the feeling the 2nd Amendment wasn't quite as contested back then.

Well, the folks he was disarming were allegedly theives and scumbags. So if that's true (and not just re-written history to shine a positive light on the Earps & Holliday), then it might seem a little justified.

Gun control is the whole reason Tombstone is famous lol. Earps didn't like people having guns in "their" town apparently.

The new Cimarron 26" shotgun came in today. Probably be a week or so before I get to shooting it, and it might even be at a match haha (never been called overly smart). Not my best photo, but you can see the difference in barrel length from the 20" to the 26." It's a pretty heavy gun! Strongly smells of that oil that Cimarron slaps on all their guns lol

I got some Steinel 45-60 ammo delivered today. I was told by a buddy that Quality Cartridge makes the correctly stamped brass (the real reason I bought it). Big fan of Quality Cartridge! I've also bought their 25-36 Marlin, 32-40 Ballard, and 38-56Win brass. Still waiting for my e-check to clear at Buds....sigh. no rifle to shoot this ammo in just yet.