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If these are as well made as my 500 S&W, they will be a hit.
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Why?JohndeFresno wrote:Does that mean that it will effectively handle standard .45 Colt loads?
Yep.hfcable wrote:if it would handle 45 colt, 454 , and 460 could be quite versatile.
Yep. Not a huge difference between 38 Special/44 Special and 357 Mag/44 Mag, & even some of those guns hiccup if you try to switch cartridges. Now look at the length of a 460 S&W vs. the shorter 45's.Buck Elliott wrote:Depends on the function of the cartridge stop at the magazine...
I like pistol grip stocks if they are designed right. In leverguns they are sometimes not. But the stock on a Winchester 71, for example, is well designd and very comfortable.J Miller wrote: But why in the world do they always make them with pistol grip stocks? To me there is no benefit to them and they are very uncomfortable to hold.
OK, looking at the cartridge sizes above, and even if I had the ca$h, I don't think I'd want to fiddle with a levergun in this caliber, since there are no grizzlies in my Central California city. I see too many potential misfeeds, since I would only be interested in "Ruger Only" .45 Colt (to go with my Blackhawk) and possibly .454 loads for superior midrange power over a .30-30 levergun.J Miller wrote:...
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I lean this way as well.Sixgun wrote:While cool, I have always preferred "old School". I'd rather spend 3 g's and collect 4-8% a year and enjoy them at the same time. Then one day just walk in the Timonium show and collect cash with no taxes for the ones with their hands out.
There's just something about walking the woods with an original '86.-----6
Once I learn enough to know a good-buy vs. a wreck, I plan on doing the same.7.62 Precision wrote:There's just something about walking the woods with an original '86.-----6
Separate tents? Really?AJMD429 wrote:Once I learn enough to know a good-buy vs. a wreck, I plan on doing the same.7.62 Precision wrote:There's just something about walking the woods with an original '86.-----6
For now, however, my "old tymes" woods-walking levergun is the Marlin 1889 in 32-20 (which is probably a more appropriate caliber/gun for my neck of the woods vs. a 45-70 or whatever) that belonged to my Great Grandfather (with my Grandma in picture below, taken on our property around 1890, about 500 feet from where my house now sits). That 'nostalgic' feeling is indescribable - being in the same woods, under many of the same trees, as he was 120 years ago, with the very same gun...Makes me wish I could talk to him, or even Grandma - but both died long before I was born.
I believe they were a prim-and-proper bunch, from the photos I've seen of Grandma...BlaineG wrote:Separate tents? Really?
Before Grandma & her husband bought the place I now live, she and her dad would come there and camp and hunt and fish. He was a Civil War vet. They camped mostly but would occasionally rent a room in the home of the lady who owned the place back then. I don't know how they wound up picking our place to go to; it's just fairly ordinary Midwestern ground. Probably whatever a couple day's travel could get them to from Indianapolis, but I'm not even sure if that's where they lived.plowboy 45 wrote:Was the 1st pic beginning of a homestead, or a campin trip
I don't figure there was much recreational campin back then
No, you don't cook or store food where you sleep.BlaineG wrote:Separate tents? Really?AJMD429 wrote:Once I learn enough to know a good-buy vs. a wreck, I plan on doing the same.7.62 Precision wrote:There's just something about walking the woods with an original '86.-----6
For now, however, my "old tymes" woods-walking levergun is the Marlin 1889 in 32-20 (which is probably a more appropriate caliber/gun for my neck of the woods vs. a 45-70 or whatever) that belonged to my Great Grandfather (with my Grandma in picture below, taken on our property around 1890, about 500 feet from where my house now sits). That 'nostalgic' feeling is indescribable - being in the same woods, under many of the same trees, as he was 120 years ago, with the very same gun...Makes me wish I could talk to him, or even Grandma - but both died long before I was born.