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Kid Cossack

Those look sharp. And there's nothing like making your own stuff. (Well, so I've heard.)

Kid Cossack

You might be a Cooper Trooper if: . . . . you like the 1911. . . . . you shoot a pistol with a Weaver grip. . . . . you shoot a pistol with an isosceles grip. . . . . you shoot a pistol with two hands. . . . . you think the .308 Winchester is a fine general purpose cartridge. . . . . you appreciate...

Kid Cossack

Thanks, Griff---hadn't thought about the coil mainspring issue.

Kid Cossack

You might be a Cooper Trooper if: . . . . you like the 1911. . . . . you shoot a pistol with a Weaver grip. . . . . you shoot a pistol with an isosceles grip. . . . . you shoot a pistol with two hands. . . . . you think the .308 Winchester is a fine general purpose cartridge. . . . . you appreciate ...

Kid Cossack

That's a good find.

Kid Cossack

Joe: That post was the next one I read after I posted this'n here. That would be just about perfect! Thanks for the information on the scintered (I think) receivers----I won't cross 'em off the list after all. It sounds as if mo' older, mo' better when talking about the 94. (This, of course, assumes...

Kid Cossack

"This little 94 Winchester in 30-30 continues to delight us. It is no 400-meter weapon, but 400 meters is a fanciful range for any but certain specialties. Out to 200 meters it does just fine, and that is the distance inside which the overwhelming majority of effective rifle shots are taken.&qu...

Kid Cossack

Gents: Howdy. For reasons scattered all over creation, I'm thinking more about lever guns these days. As I've mentioned in other posts, I've mostly been a Marlin guy (1894S, 336 and 1895). Not, I'll point out, a militant Marlin guy, and not an anti-Winchester (or even anti-USRAC) guy, but that's jus...

Kid Cossack

At the risk of unorthodox thinking, what about a '92 in .256 Winchester? Since the .256 is based off the .357, at least some of the regular parts could be used . . . right?

Kid Cossack

Doc Hudson wrote:
Both my ex-wives grew to hate that line. I guess they couldn't see the difference between their idea of 'wrng' and 'different."

Not just a problem with wives or ex-wives, in this world.

Kid Cossack

SNIP! and my wife finds it fits her just fine. bhk is dropping some free range truth right here! (Never mind that he's arguing in favor of one of them reciprocating firearms.) One of the reasons (one of the MANY reasons) I like the .357 carbine for HD is that my wife likes it and is comfortable sho...

Kid Cossack

Hobie:

Thanks for posting that link. I hadn't read that article in a few years, and it was nice to go back to.

Kid Cossack

(Snip!) But like the man himself sings "Them that don't know him won't like him, and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him. He ain't wrong, he's just different, but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right...." That's one of my favorite lines, right there.

Kid Cossack

If your talking practical. Why do you own a .357, 30 WCF, and 45-70 in lever guns? The bolt actions of today are stronger and more practical. They (bolt guns) are chambered in more practical calibers. I want a 99 Savage in .300 is it practical, not really. I could get a bolt gun in .308 and be more...

Kid Cossack

rodeo kid:

Happy to help out! I just knew I remembered seeing that information somewhere, it just took me a while to remember where.

I'm bad about taking pictures and posting them, so I won't urge you to, but if you have the chance . . . .

Kid Cossack

Since we're talking about Willie Nelson, and since Doc brought up Red Headed Stranger---which was a great movie, made from an even better concept album---how can we forget Barbarosa? "They cut off my ears, Karl." For me, Barbarosa (1982) represents the return of the Western, predating Silv...

Kid Cossack

I haven't washed my hair in almost a year. Wait, I should clarify that---I haven't washed my hair with shampoo in almost a year. I wash it every day in the shower, with hot or cold water (depending on my mood). It got pretty greasy and gunky in the first couple of weeks, but then it adjusted to not ...

Kid Cossack

I'm a sucker for Willie Nelson. I guess you could say he wrote the soundtrack to my life. From an early grounding in the Blackwood Brothers we started to listen to Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson in the early 1970s, right when I was starting to be conscious of music, and no matter what other st...

Kid Cossack

Good answers, guys! I guess it would be a whole other can of worms to ask if there's any practical reason to get a '73, so I'll hold off on that one for a while.

And, yes, Doc, out of pure-dee cussedness, I'd get a .38-40 in a heartbeat, but they seem to be mighty thin on the ground.

Kid Cossack

Rodeo Kid:

Lee Martin's Singleactions.com has a section on the Sevilles. Linky is here:

http://singleactions.com/UnitedSportingArms.html

I can appreciate your enthusiasm for something different---I've somehow ended up mostly a Colt double action revolver man, well, except for S&W's N frames.

Kid Cossack

My vote (wait--I get a vote?) would be to leave the tacks in place and just shoot the snot out of it. Slimmer wood is always an option, but this would be one of those "back burner" projects for me. I love finding "pre-depreciated" firearms. I picked up a 4" Colt Cobra that h...

Kid Cossack

Jahrs: What are you looking to knock down? I've only killed a solitary pig with the .45-70, with a factory 405 softpoint. (I think it was Remington, pretty sure.) When I was younger, I loved the fact that in modern rifles you could whomp up the .45-70 something fierce. I tend to regard the (new) Mar...

Kid Cossack

Our modern world is just about one hundred kinds of fake.

Kid Cossack

Beaker: Wanting one is enough reason to get one . . . but not necessarily a practical reason! (There's lots of stuff I want that isn't exactly practical.) jnyork: Winning matches isn't a practical reason! Unless it would give me a leg up over (say) a .357 version. Nate: That's the best explanation I...

Kid Cossack

Gents: As I'm reginning my enthusiasm for Westerns, I find myself looking through various auction sites at '92 clones. In the past, I've mostly been a Marlin man, probably out of pure cussedness (which is probably why I prefer Colt double action sixguns, too, come to think of it). I've got Marlins i...

Kid Cossack

Sarge:

Just for a second there, when I saw that pic, I thought, "Man, Sarge needs to learn how to holster his heater!" Then I realized, umm, the holster was simply lying on top of the 1911.

Kid Cossack

Rob's holsters started off simple and rugged. I have loved watching how the elegance factor increases over time. If I can make an analogy, they started off kind of like an AK-47 or maybe an SKS. Now they're simple and rugged more like a Winchester 92. Good products, good service, good prices, from a...

Kid Cossack

I don't think he is, Cat, and I think that's a darned shame. Of course, every time I get in his butt about getting his work finished and published, he asks me how my novel is coming along. Then we talk about guns, politics and history.

Kid Cossack

AkRay wrote:Did you type all that off the top of your head, Kid Cossack? What a remarkable reply, and one that only a man with a deep and thorough understanding of the subject could write. My hat is off to you, Sir!

Well, I've spent a few minutes thinking about leverguns . . . .

Kid Cossack

Wait--you mean we can't trust everything we read on the internet?

Shucks, fellows, I'm depressed now!

Kid Cossack

Would the loading tube even form enough of a seal for the gas to launch a bullet like that?

Kid Cossack

With all due apologies to Marlin and other makers, the Winchester 94 is "the" .30-30 in America, and that means a lot. The .30-30 was one of the first generation big bottle, small bore, smokeless rifle cartridges, and I've never really seen anything that was wrong with those cartridges. Fr...

Kid Cossack

Thanks, gents!

I've been given to understand by some folks that the .357 out of a carbine is just a jumped up, jumped up .38 Special and will bounce off of squirrels, but I suspect that I have been misinformed.

I will add some JHPs to my burgeoning Midway order, and proceed from there.

Kid Cossack

Howdy, gents! I've been gone for a while, but now (I think) I'm back. I've rekindled my interest in old guns. Yeah, mock me for that, since for me "old guns" can at times mean some fairly recent (last fifty years or so) production items, but there you go. I'm writing, as the title of the p...

Kid Cossack

Hamilton Bowen---umm, do I need to say anything further?---works on single action Colt style revolvers from Colt, or from USFA. Howzat for a comment on their quality?

Kid Cossack

Gents: Howdy! Some of us just have to be different, and I'm one of those "us." For double action sixguns I like Colts more than Smiths, and for lever guns Marlins over Winchesters. (No knock on Smith or Winchester---could've just as easily gone the other way.) Anyway, I was wondering about...

Kid Cossack

Man, I just hate it when deer sneak up to your house like that . . . .

Nah, in all seriousness---way to go! Gotta love a nice single shot, and no flies at all on the .375 H*H!

Kid Cossack

This was in, 1985 or 6, must be. I'm at a pawn shop that had done a transfer for me of two Brazilian contract S&W 1917s. Guy comes in with a beat up (little remaining finish--it was mechanically excellent) old Colt sixgun. He says "It's marked .38 but the .38 Specials I put in it just rattl...

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