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CaptainFinn

A while back someone here posted a thread on fixing the 'flop' on Marble tang sights. I think it involved increasing the leaf spring tension on the bottom of the sight and maybe deepening the detent 'notch' on the bottom of the sigt. Anyone remember the details ?

CaptainFinn

My 92 used to do that, there was a click as the last fraction of an inch as the bolt and lever closed....I had a rough ejector tail and I think it was binding on the ejector spring, and/or the ejector tunnel in the bolt.....I polished the burrs off the entire ejector and the problem went away.

CaptainFinn

Best wishes for a speedy recovery....

CaptainFinn

I LOVE my Ruger .44 Carbine, and when I lived in Florida I used it several times for hog hunting. Mine was a older model that I picked up in a trade some years back--it didn't have the button/latch to unlad the tube magazine like the later seventies/eighties era carbines, so you had to engage the sa...

CaptainFinn

If you want a carbine I'd stay away from Universal. They appear to be G.I. on the outside but they aren't on the inside. They CAN be OK but I've seen more than one that were jamomatics. Some of the Universals in the early years were G.I. but you'll need to do a full strip on it to find out where yo...

CaptainFinn

I was watching "Night at the Museum" last night with the kids. Robin Williams portrays Teddy Roosevelt in his "Rough Rider" days. Armed with a post-64 Winchester 94 complete with hammer-block safety. As an aside, they got his uniform color wrong, making the facings , collar and c...

CaptainFinn

Of course, Winchester/FN is now of the opinion that a $1500 Model 94 is going to fill an empty spot in the american public's heart....

CaptainFinn

Would they have parts for the older Interarms Rossi's as well ? The forend cap screws and the magazine plug screws have split on my rifle and the mag plug screw has split on my carbine. Not sure but the original screws seem to be very hit-or-miss as far as tempering is concerned. And the slots seem ...

CaptainFinn

If it's in 45-70 then why are they referring to it as a Model 71 ? I thought the 71 was exclusively in .348 ?

And unless I'm blind, there seems to be a front sling swivel stud but no rear swivel....

Hope this one makes it over here. Pedersoli makes some darn nice guns.

CaptainFinn

I remember watching this...the missing finger. Was it David Frost ?

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WANT WANT WANT

CaptainFinn

The old model had two variations (mechanically, I mean. There were barrel-band carbines, band-less rifles, and full-stock 'international' type carbines.). Later (70's) guns had a magazine release latch to empty the tube magazine. Older guns had to be emptied by working the action and cycling/ejectin...

CaptainFinn

I don't think the Coens are 'ultra-liberal' hollywood types. Many of their films feature firearms use by the characters in a positive (albeit violent or comedic) way. The Coens go waaaay back with another director I like, Sam Raimi. Sam is somewhat right-wing and conservative, which puts him at odds...

CaptainFinn

I read the article last night. Appears to be by Lane Pierce. According to him, the only leverguns used for hunting today are Marlin XLRS and "older" Winchester 94's and Savage model 99"s (since they have been discontinued). No mention of the various toggle-link Henrys, 66's/73's, and ...

CaptainFinn

Ruger #3 carbine. A multitude of calibers, but specifically .22 Hornet, .44 magnum, .30-40 Krag and 45-70

as far as handguns, well, I'd love to see the Colt DA New Service, Official Police and POlice Positive framed guns back in production.

CaptainFinn

BSA Catseye 1.5-4.5 Illuminated Ret. I bought this scope on a lark from Midway USA. Under $80 shipped. Nice bright optics, 11-position waterproof click switch with variable brightness, illuminated red #4 german post sight. I bought this for my 10-22, then put it on my Ruger .44 carbine. Worked reat,...

CaptainFinn

I have been SERIOUSLY jonesing for a model 81.....35 Remington is my fave but .300 savage is a great choice too. I've been checking all the pawn shops and estate sales. Seen a couple but not in good enough shape to peak my interest. One thing I've really noticed after examining many makes and models...

CaptainFinn

Oh that Tom Selleck....rascally bugger. My wife always gets one of those dreamy far-away looks in her eye whenever I'm watching one of his movies. I used to be glad that she liked his movies, but after I caught her perusing the Magnum P.I. boxed set at Suncoast Video, I'm starting to get a little je...

CaptainFinn

The dealer can charge anything he wants, but at the same time, you can go anywhere you want to transfer the gun. Waiting until he has the gun in his possession to inform you of the 'new' price is greed, pure and simple, on his part.

Never give him your business again.

CaptainFinn

From both the Uberti website and Cimarrons, the early open top comes ith a navy-sized (SAA) grip, while the late model has a '60 Army sized grip.

CaptainFinn

I am trying to dig this book out, but I believe the title is Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. Excellent book, goes far and beyond the James story and covers the whole time period really well.

CaptainFinn

Whe I was an RO (County-run public range) we had fourteen signs between the parking lot and the firing line stating that all guns had to be unloaded, actions open, mags removed. I know lots of shooters have huge problems with ranges and gun stores that have 'no loaded guns' rules, but we did it simp...

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Holy.......

CaptainFinn

Here's me and my four helpers....I shot the buck 1/2 hour before sundown, by the time I dragged it to the trail and gutted it, it was dark. My four kids (and my wife) made the two-mile trek into the woods with flashlights to see 'Daddy's deer' and help me bring it out. http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn...

CaptainFinn

I put a Marble's tang sight on mine. I think I'm going to put one of those folding leaf sights on as well. Right now I have a dovetail filler block. I noticed the barrel-band at the muzzle is slightly different from the standard carbine barrel band--the mag tube is spaced about 1/10th of an each far...

CaptainFinn

I love it, it looks really nice and shoots just as good as my Interarms SRC. I finally fixed the mag tube, which liked to creep forwards. I toyed with the idea of shortening the tube and making a button mag, but I'm going to keep it as-is and use it for SASS this year.

CaptainFinn

I have an Interarms Rossi 92 in 45 Colt, 24" half-round, half-octagon barrel. How hard are these things to find ? Did Rossi make very many ? The wood is quite decent but the stain is incredibly dark...it has lightened with a lot of judicious rubbing and B.L.O. I'd love to get another but I've n...

CaptainFinn

I've used H110 and Winchester WLP primers in both .44mag and .45 Colt 'Ruger' level loads for about the past ten years. The WLP Primer is said to be at 'magnum' levels--they don't make a Large Pistol Primer in magnum. I've had great success with the H110, no ignition problems. A bonus is that the H1...

CaptainFinn

Prayers inbound.

CaptainFinn

Re. Gary Burgoff. I saw him one year at the Reno gunshow strooling around trying to sell a couple of paintings. The feeling I got was "I'm Gary urgoff, a famous TV star, buy my funky amateur painting". Now I WOULD buy a Winchester M.92 owned by John Wayne and pay a little more, but not so...

CaptainFinn

How about .256 Win ?

CaptainFinn

Evening, all, and we want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for the outpouring of well-wishes. Tim is home and resting. He sustained a radically dislocated ulna and a greenstick fracture just behind his wrist. The ribs, thank god, weren't broken, only severly bruised. He took about twen...

CaptainFinn

sort-of-update... Still waiting at the ER. The kid's family is dirt-poor. Chief says they've had tons of problems with the family. The kid is known to be a bully, randomly beating kids up. His younger brother is a sweet kid my own son's age, my wife had fed the kid before once or twice. This older b...

CaptainFinn

My 12-year-old son is in the E.R. as I type this. He was walking home from the bus stop, two blocks from our house, when a high-school kid came running down the street, holding a skateboard over his head and screaming like a maniac. The kid starting beating my son, broke his right arm and possibly s...

CaptainFinn

And he's married to the beautiful Katherine Ross--anyone ever see "Tell them Willie Boy is here" with Robert Redford, Robert Blake and Mrs Ross (Elliot) Woooooee she is a purty gal!

CaptainFinn

I'm sure thousands of other handloaders do this in some manner or fashion, but I always carefully prepare my 'first' round of a particualr batch and use it as a control round. Then I have a cheap e-bay electronic scale that I zero out using the control round as a tare weight. When I am boxing up my ...

CaptainFinn

It was raining cats and dogs last night in W. Va. I put a couple of kerosene lanterns on the porch, threw on my USV Rough Riders getup and watched old movies with our neighbors whilst our combined tribe of children gorged themselves on candy and snacks.

CaptainFinn

Well, I finally went and did it... Put my last 'Modern' gun (Glock 21) up for sale--towards my Cimarron 1876 SRC fund. (At this rate I'm gonna get that rifle about the time my three-year-old graduates high school... :mrgreen: ) Over the last three years I've found myself gradually gettin rid of my s...

CaptainFinn

Great movie ! My wife bought me the Sam Elliot three-pack a few weeks back as well as the Tom Selleck 3-pack. Tom and Sam are her #1 and #2 favorite stars (and favorite moustaches). I believe Gary Busey's wife is the senorita riding the stagecoach that Buck Taylor and Brad Johnson rob at the opening...

CaptainFinn

Robb White wrote some really great naval WWII fiction. When I was a wee lad in the fifth grade (1977) I came across a cache of his books in my elementary school library... It's funny, they were classified as 'boy's fiction' back then but no grade school (or high school, for that matter) would carry ...

CaptainFinn

LOVE my new hat. The wife is cracking up reading your replies. Went back today for HER cleaning and she has two molars that need root canals and a trio of cavities that need filled (she's taking this West Virgina thing WAY too seriously :D ). MY teeth aside from needing a cleaning are in excellent s...

CaptainFinn

1. 8mm Berthier Carbine manufactured by REMINGTON. Not sure where my friend who owned it got the ammunition, but he used Balle D projectiles he pulled from old french ammo. I was surprised at how powerful the gun was. And amazingly, even with the tiny little adjustable sights it was quite accurate--...

CaptainFinn

Well, wife and I went to the dentist today (we finally found one after moving up here to W. Va). Found out that since I wrote on the patient info form that I had suffered from an irregular heartbeat ten years ago (one of those rapid irregular heartbeats lasting ten-fifteen minutes), for liability re...

CaptainFinn

Prayers inbound.

CaptainFinn

First and foremost: Rossi pre-safety model 92, 24" half-round, half octagon with a Marbles peep. Ordered some 300 Gr WFN-GC hardcasts, gonna work up some loads with H110. Another Rossi model 92, a carbine, with factory sights (my CAS backup gun) using my last few 300-gr Lee FNGC's from last yea...

CaptainFinn

I shoot the keith bullet through my Rugers, but keep them at about 1000 fps (9 gr of Universal). I have shot them through my Rossis but they were just 'okay' accuracy-wise, and with a serious hunting load running 1300 fps + out of the rifles, I figured leading on a plain-base bulelt would be an issu...

CaptainFinn

For the last three years I've been loading a 300-grain gas check in .45 Colt, 23 grains of H110 over a WLP Primer in a Starline case. Nice accurate load in my two Rossis (An Interarms 20" carbine and an Interarms 24" Half-round half-oct. rifle). The bullet is a Lee 300-gr GC with the dual ...

CaptainFinn

Hobie, I think the Liberty II was imported by KBI out of Harrisburg, PA. I've used one for about six years for CAS shooting. All in all I think it's a pretty decent gun...I've hard they were manufactured by Huglu, but there are no markings as such on my gun, although I assume it to be a Turkish impo...

CaptainFinn

Is it just me, or does Tom Berenger's Colt SAA NOT have and ejector assembly? It looks like a standard 4 3/4 inch Colt but no ejector.

CaptainFinn

96 Charlie from 84 to 88, then they changed the designation to 97 Echo, IIRC, for the rest of my enlistment (got out in 93).

I served in the IPW section of an M.I. Company. Found out last year (Did a google search ) that my old unit was deactivated about 8 years ago.

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