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It's a little Rossi 92 in .44/40. I think it was made about in 2000 or so. No cross bolt safety or anything like that. I got it from a CAS shooter who had got it new, but it had never worked for him so he never used it. It would not feed properly and never had. I had a look at it and it was plain th...

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Everything I do is backpack hunting, so all the guns get slings. I often will not have them on though, and will carry the little .44 in the hand until I have to climb something, or cross a river or carry meat out. Then I put the sling on. (I dont like it catching on things) But they are essential. I...

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That makes sense.

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Guys, does taking the butt stock off a Winchester 92 (carbine) and then putting it on again, change the point of impact? The same was it does when you take the stock off a bolt action?

I have taken the butt stock off one so rarely I dont recall ever noticing if it did or not.

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I once got a 7mm08 round mixed up with some .30/30 shells on a table. It was out hunting in a hut in the middle of nowhere and no tools and only a candle. Anyway I had loaded that 7mm08 cartridge, jacked it halfway through the action and jammed it solid. So I had to take it apart by candlelight and ...

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I've been away but now I am back in business guys, got a "new" Marlin... We were always Winchester guys, me and the old man, but secretly I liked the looks of the Marlin as well...so I got this one because I wanted it and I didn't have a .30-30 anymore and I couldnt think how that happened...

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I always wanted one, but the ones I saw over here were mostly shot to hell over the years and expensive to boot. I finally had some money and found some good condition ones that had just been imported into the country...and then they changed the firearms laws on me and I wasnt allowed to own semi-au...

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I've still got all my guns. Just bought another one two weeks ago actually, just walked into a shop and gave the guy some money and drive home with a Husqvarna fullstocked model 1640 in .243. I was at the range the same afternoon shooting it. Then I spent all last week trying to shoot a deer with it...

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I watched it, I thought the effects and staging of the trench and action scenes excellent, but I didnt care for the contrived the ending. I realise people were getting killed right up until the armistace was signed, and even some were killed after, but thye just handled it wrong. Plus the stuff with...

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I am having trouble with rear sights, so went to a receiver aperture, and now I am having trouble seeing the front sight clearly unless it is on a 24 inch barrel or further out. So now my beloved .44-40 '92 carbine is unshootable.

I can still shoot a .303 alright, and have a peep sight to put on it.

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They made them in .44-40 right up until the factory shut down for the new rebuild a couple of years ago as far as I know, at least you could buy them new over here till then. Then they stopped and it was just .44 mag and .357 all in stainless. I bought two brand new in around 2005 and 2006, a blued ...

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Roger that. For some reason I thought you might have been in Cuenca.

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Are you in Ecuador?

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How about "Bite Me"? That work for you? If you can't accept a little humor, especially when not being specific as to your questions then I will leave it at that. Have a nice day! Really. Tell us again how dopey red dot sights are, while making it funny and unoffensive. Go on, do it again ...

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He also said once: "I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it."

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Thanks guys!

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I cant see the front sight clearly on my 20 inch barreled 92 carbine. I have been shooting this for years. Now I cant use it really. I can still see the front sight on a .303, with its 25 inch barrel and longer LOP. I have tried a longer LOP. It nearly works but not quite, and feels uncomfortable. T...

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From what I have read they were reasonably popular, but they were also very inaccurate compared to the normal loads, so thats why they didnt become the new standard.

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The ones they used to import into New Zealand did not have a safety whereas the ones in the US did at that time, so I think it depends on the market. (However, now they import ours from the US, so we are getting the US market ones with the safety too...) So, this being the case, I suspect it is your...

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Okay then - how do you get perfect bases? When I do mine, I have a bit of tin and they come out pretty. I dont start keeping bullets until the mold is hot enough. I check the the edges of the bases is all sharp. What about on the flat of the base itself, does it have to be perfectly smooth? I tried ...

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Looking at the video it hit a ways away from the launch platform, I don't think they would have been hurt. Except for the people nearby of course... I find it staggering that this is going on, and at an intensity that parts of the Ukraine looks the same as they did from battle damage in WW2. I work ...

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I make a load for rabbits with my .308 when I go out for any length of time, and it works well: It's a 147 grain FMJ, with 12-14 grains of Universal (or Unique). It is very accurate (single hole groups at 55 yards) and will knock a rabbit over without destroying him. I recall it was around 1600 fps....

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I really wanted one of those Baikal double rifles in .30/06, but I havnt got one as yet....one in .303 would be perfect.

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Invaluable work Bryan, well done.

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They are not made by Uberti. Made by Chiappa. Excellent quality I am told, but expensive. (I have saved my money in the past and bought Rossi instead.)

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Assuming a .223:

I wouldn't use Trailboss, it has weirdly high pressures for low velocity.

I use Unique or Universal and 7.5 grains with a 55 grain will get 2000 fps, and superlative accuracy. I would substitute the 62 grain on the same load no problem.

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LOL I cant believe I fell for that.

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I shoot red deer with my .44-40's with black powder, and the soft lead bullets all exit on these animals. One stopped in the spine neck bones once but that was all.

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I don't forget. My grandfather was there on that morning. He was at the Schofield Barracks when the planes came. (And later Guadalcanal and the Philippines.)

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And yet the gun in his hand still managed to kill someone.
This is just another version of guns are dangerous on their own and people have no responsibility. The gun itself is guilty.

All three of them should be tried for manslaughter. Armourer, 2nd AD and Baldwin.

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I have no idea what's going on. But I think if you are getting angry on an internet forum, you need to go horse riding. I always liked horses and riding. If a horse doesn't like you he will bite a hole in your jeans. If he ignores you, you can ride him into a tree. If he likes you, you can be proud ...

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The Armourer on the set is in charge of firearms safety and is who loaded the gun with a live round and took it to a movie set; so inexperienced she didn't know what she had done, and too negligent to check. She should go to prison for criminal negligence. (I heard this woman had already been told o...

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Wonderful post.

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Hi Marlinman, could I trouble you to post a picture of the indenter tool you describe?

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Bryan,

Your cartridges look just like mine. I have filed the wheel on my tool so its a flat rim.

THanks for posting the photo of the original high velocity load, I haven't seen one of those before.

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Carlsen, It's a rather simple solution but one that many overlook. It mostly prevalent in the 32-20 cartridge with the 38-40 and 44-40 less so. On cases that are thin, use an expander that's .002 under the bullet you are using....or none at all......use a Lee universal expander that only bells the ...

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Sixgun, that's really cool. I bet that's how they do it at the factory only automaticalized. My problems with the crimp come from hunting, because at the range its not really an issue. If I load up ammunition and then take them to the range and shoot them, there is usually no problem, crimped with t...

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Is that one you did?
Yes OK - do you want me to rewrite it?

You can have an article I did on hunting with the Uberti '73 44-40 too if you like.

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Sixgun, thats a great set up... I just finished doing what you said just now! I bluntened that wheel down, and am jus tin the middle of doing some more cartridges, and found that I can now easily adjust the depth of thecrimp same as you have said by tightening my wheel up a bit or less as I do it, t...

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Did you modify the pipe cutter? I just filed the edge of the cutting wheel of the tool a bit, just so it is less likely to cut...not very much though so far, I was impatient to try it out. ideally I should file it some more as Sixgun says, so its more wider. I measured the OAL of the bullet with ca...

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I am only sorry I can't tell John Kort about it, he would have appreciated this.

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OK - I did it! After years of thinking I needed a munitions factory to put a crimp under the base of a .44-40 bullet just like the factory ammo has, I have done it with a $8.00 pipe cutter. This has been a goal of mine because the crimp on .44-40 ammo is weak because of the thin brass at the case mo...

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No he's right, I call her Horseface. After the latest lockdown, I said to the television, why the long face?

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Where I live it's legal to shoot deer with anything at all, (although illegal to take a .22 cal onto public land.) The deer are all red deer, so I suppose like medium sized elk. People shoot them with .22 sometimes, although now that the internet is here, people have read about people overseas not b...

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Thanks!
Oldish, but I can still shoot open sights.
Before I had a broken wrist so I couldn't shoot at the range, and now I feel better, they have put the place into lockdown again so the ranges are closed...

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Grizz, People who are tone deaf are just as rare as those who have so-called perfect pitch. So you're special! Your story about someone who can hear noises and name them is backed up by people who have gone through musical college. Trumpet jazz players can hear a door squeaking and tell you what not...

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I play the guitar, but with classical guitar It was mostly tablature (not reading music) and with acoustic guitar, well you don't need to read music. Chord chart will do. If Glenn Campbell cant read music then I don't need to. My father disagrees with me, but he is also a keyboard player and those g...

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Bryan Austin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:48 pm Thanks Scott!!!

Tested the chronograph with the revolver first. 1,007fps from 6 ft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf0JxYdCoFk

Then backed up the hill to the bench for the 265 rifle check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuAHq7cuxYQ

Very clever, good idea.

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Very well done. Now - try this - load the same bullet with 6 grains of H4227 as a priming and then 32 grains of 3F black powder over the top of it. Seat your bullet to the cannelure as you would normally (and it will be compressing the powder about 0.2 inch) and give it a light crimp. I don't know ...

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Very well done. Now - try this - load the same bullet with 6 grains of H4227 as a priming and then 32 grains of 3F black powder over the top of it. Seat your bullet to the cannelure as you would normally (and it will be compressing the powder about 0.2 inch) and give it a light crimp. I don't know w...

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