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JW....Best movie ever made! PERIOD! Naw, #1 is Casablanca with Bogart & McCall; # 2 is True Grit I You're both nuts! Best movie ever was "Elf". :D 3 incorrect answers... the #1 movie of all time was "A Man Called Horse"! It seems as if no one has seen the original "Mont...

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If you look close at the triggerguard, you can also see this shotgun is a true underlever...

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We did not make the case, we adapted an original vintage case from the percussion era to a transition gun,which is what the Daw shotgun is. This shotgun was made early in the cartridge era, about 1865. It carries over many percussion characteristics, such as the fences around the firing pins and the...

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Historically we did kick their BUTTS and send them home, but we never made a SXS shotgun that would eclipse theirs...

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Turkey hunting in Eastern Montana....

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I have been working with the local shotgun shop here in Bozeman for several months to make a period leather case work for the George Daw shotgun I got about a year ago. Finding a period case for a gun this early with the characteristics of a transition cartridge shotgun and having the carry-over fro...

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Vintage Military rifles are at their best knocking down elk...

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I did it again, this time with a real buffalo rifle. A walter Cooper marked 1874 in 40-90 Bottleneck... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Hunting%20big%20game/deadbuf.jpg Wow. What is your load for that fine ole girl? We are still in the development stages of this Cartridge. ...

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I did it again, this time with a real buffalo rifle. A walter Cooper marked 1874 in 40-90 Bottleneck...

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1876 Deluxe in 40-60...

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The Sharps works too...

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The blown up gopher was shot with a factory 300 grain hollow point bullet. My loads are all done with 405 grain cast bullets and 5744 powder. That load will completely penetrate a buffalo...

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Same rifle in both pictures, a Montana Centennial 1886 in 45-70. I have shot almost everything in Montana with it at one time or another...

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Yo Shrap......THATS how to do it......Elmer Keith style. :D What was your load? By the way, tell Mike another excellent article in the latest "Handloader",on the 405 and your octagon barreled 40-72. Very enjoyable. And by Lordy, I too, was not aware of the difference in rim thickness betw...

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Yesterday was such a nice day in Southwest Montana, and we took advantage of it and shot the hell out of gophers with a plethora of varmint rifles, most notably the 45-70 with hollow points... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Varmints/DSCN1397.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/...

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There is a guy on Gunbroker selling 9mm Storms for $599.00. A much better gun than either a Colt or Hi-Point...

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Some of the most "funest" guns to play with are the lever guns chambered for pistol calibers cartridges. I noticed your Marlin is of the earlier variation with the full case colored receiver, unlike the later ones with the blued bolt. I am amazed at your weather conditions. We dudes in th...

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I have all three with the accompanying pistol. They are a very accurate gun and quite handy. If you like a good trigger, these will need work, but still a great gun... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/rifles/100_0476_zps93834857.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/br...

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This is a nice original 1894 Marlin in 39-40. I took it for a couple of walks after rabbits. Yesterday the weather was in the 60's and it was as nice as a spring day in May. Today a bit cooler, but nice for February. The gun shoots great... http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj220/deflave25_2008/P10...

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Shrapnel, There is one caliber I have never played with and even being in the best part of the country for "anything Winchester or Colt", I have never laid eyes on a "shootable" 95 in 40-72. I did see several but they were all 99% and......while I shoot such guns, I won't pay th...

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Winchester 1895 in 40-72... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Varmints/DSCN1087.jpg Whitney kennedy SRC in 45-60... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Varmints/imagejpg9.jpg Winchester 1873 in 22 long... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgersho...

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Bill in Oregon wrote:Shrapnel, you hang out with some pretty cool homies.

I have been fortunate in that regard. It has gotten me in several books, one book cover and dozens of magazine articles. All that and $1.00 will buy a coke...

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And Shrapnel..thanks......your early leverguns.......nice Whitneys! Your likes in firearms mirror mine. There's just something about fine firearms from the 1870-1920 period. Fun to shoot, collect, compete, and hunt with.......and they are better than money in the bank. Over the years I have had Col...

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There isn't much to tell. We are still in the R&D aspect of these guns. They don't shoot grease groove bullets well and I don't want to shoot 5744 in them, so we are still working on the best load for this cartridge. We refers to Kirk Bryan from Shiloh, and Mike Venturino. Kirk has a bullet moul...

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The 40-90 BN is a tough cartridge to get to shoot in original Sharps. I have 2 of them, both sent to Montana in the 1870's for the last of the buffalo hunts of the Northern plains. The top rifle is a 12 1/2 pounder sent to J.G. Dow in Bozeman Montana Territory. It ended up in Miles city at A. D. McA...

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Here are some Colt SAA's and long guns chambered in the same cartridge... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/rifles/100_0470_zpscf9adc1c.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/rifles/100_0473_zps0f9e8eba.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridger...

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Shrapnel, Nice early Colts..... :D Descriptions please......-----6 The first picture is 2 38-40's with custom grips made by Dan Pursley out of Buffalo Bone. He quit making those grips several years ago. The top is a third Generation, the bottom is a first generation. Finding Colt SAA in 38-40 with ...

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He not only has taste, but the money to buy it also. That Colt is a SAA shipped to Texas in 1912. The ivory grips were added later...

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D'oh, and you hang with that Venturino feller, too, don't you. :lol: 8) Yes as a matter of fact, that 22 Winchester is featured in the current issue of "Rifle" magazine. The 1895 will be featured in an upcoming issue of "Handloader" magazine along with a 405 Winchester that Mike...

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RIHMFIRE wrote:hey guys...
look....its Hank Williams Jr.

Looks like you are having way tooooo much fun.

As a matter of fact, I got this revolver from Hank...

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Winchester 1873 in 22 long... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Varmints/imagejpg5.jpg Whitney Kennedy SRC in 45-60... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Varmints/imagejpg9.jpg Winchester 1895 in 40-72... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgersh...

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After finding 7 empty brass in the bottom of a box of old brass, I loaded up some 380 grain bullets I had cast for the 40-90 BN Sharps I have. Using 5744 powder and the wrong dies (I grabbed the 405 dies off of Mike's bench instead of my 40-72 dies) I loaded up 7 rounds and did some testing while my...

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I saw an 1895 sell on the 24HourCampfire a few weeks ago and it got me thinking of expanding my collection of Winchesters. I have not been much of a fan of 1895's, but a 26 inch tapered octagon barrel in 40-72 does have my interest. I looked on the gun sites and found this beauty, the bore is as goo...

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I doubt they would be big enough. The guy that made these did it for a few years, but wasn't able to get bone big enough for the grips. He was using Bull buffalo thigh bone and they had to be really large. He has since quit making them.

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Winchester 25-35 takedown and a unique and uncommon Sako Finnwolf...

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There is nothing like bone. These are Buffalo bone and it takes a big thigh bone to get a piece wide enough with enough thickness to make a set of grips.. http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/handguns/100_1928-1.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/handgun...

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I met a gentleman this weekend and saw some of the nicest Winchesters I have ever seen. These are rarely seen in this condition... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/winchesters/101_0599.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/winchesters/101_0600.jpg http:...

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I have no PM if it was me you were referring to...

Thanks, Shrapnel

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I have the "S" lever rifle also in 44-40...

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These things are not easy to find but when you do, you need to grab them.There weren't more than 1000 Whitney Kennedy SRC's made, few in 45-60, here it is with a SRC in 44-40... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/winchesters/101_0556_zpsbee41a1c.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/...

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Very nice! Now for my dumb question of the day, Will it feed .22 shorts? I've never gotten lucky enough to get my hands on one, But some day I'll stumble across one in my price range. It may do that as it has an adjustment in the brass elevator for length of case. I don't have any 22 short ammo eit...

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I found a nice Winchester 1873 in 22 long last week and had to buy it. I have had 1873 22's before, but the bores were real bad and they didn't shoot well. This one has a shiny bore and hopefully will shoot. All I need is some 22 long ammo... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/...

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O.S.O.K. wrote:Nice find! And the wood on that one is beautiful. I am sure it'll shoot close to MOA. What's on the hunting menu for this?

I may try to shoot a Whitetail doe with it. I have so many guns I want to get bloody, it is hard to give them all the attention they need...

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Paladin wrote:
bulldog1935 wrote:I don't think you can go wrong with a Sako.
+1

I agree and tend to accumulate more...

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The wind was easily 25 MPH, so I just checked it for Zero and figured that would be good enough for now. It came with Weaver base on it and I couldn't bring myself to use that ugly a set up. I can't find original Sako bases, so I called Leupold up, they sent me 2 dovetail bases and rings so I could ...

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Neat GOAT dude. :D Thats what we called them back east. Not many have survived. Buddy of mine had a '69 with the 400 in it and I remember plenty of times of him smokin' the tires, cruising up to Front Street in Philly for the drag races and slamming down beers and smokin' joints along the way. Hows...

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