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Ive tried many different ways over the years. Most of my carry was the all day, do everything sort. I used cross draw for several years, it wasnt as bad with buckskin pants with no pockets, but with pockets, I cursed the annoyance of trying to get in the left front pocket, where I carry keys, ear pl...

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Ive tried many different ways over the years. Most of my carry was the all day, do everything sort. I used cross draw for several years, it wasnt as bad with buckskin pants with no pockets, but with pockets, I cursed the annoyance of trying to get in the left front pocket, where I carry keys, ear pl...

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I saw a handmade copy of a 577 Trantor revolver. The gunsmith Clarence Bates in Sedona Az made it. It was rather large and imposing looking. He also, I believe, was involved with the early development of the 45-70 revolvers first made in the 1960s. I think he had one once when I was there, I think h...

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I always did it as Jim described, I also never heard of the load-skip, full cock to down thing until fairly recently. So far havent had any problems with the guns. The empty chamber is by no means modern or recent, unless 1870s would be considered recent. there are several period accounts of dropped...

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Can you push the lever lock piece up with your finger with the lever open or not fully closed? In other words is the lever lock the part not allowing movement or something else?

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What is lever bite?

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The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed. Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an ...

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Ive read several of Keiths books and dont recall any mention of not trusting expanding bullets. What I do recall is him writing words to the effect of "in all fairness, most of the failures of various cartridges has been when light weight or trick bullets were used, best grade bullets such as N...

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r Cache Lake Country, by John Rowlands. very good, very enjoyable, about a year in his life in the Canadian back country. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt. excellent book about his time in the west at his ranch and general area. He wrote several others about hunting, all have ...

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Ive carried Colt and Ruger SAs a fair bit over time. Much of my use is out in the hills, and whenever I wasnt working, Id be carrying in Az and up North. I started with SA 22's, a cheap german one in the early 70s, then a Ruger Single Six, the pre-adjustable sight one, and pre-New Model with transfe...

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I have 240gn Jacketed in 44 special but not cast. 245 cast would run a little faster of course. 20" barrel 1892 Rossi, WLP and Starline brass, 240gn XTP 2400 Powder 3 shot groups, rough averages below 14 grains 1150fps 16 grains 1330fps 16.5 grains 1370fps 18 grains 1500fps I guesstimate a 17 ...

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Ive been unable to find any info on what the old Keith 44 spl load of 17 grs 2400 with 429421 Lyman bullet load does for velocity in a 20" carbine barrel. Anyone have any chronograph or quickload data? I have a project in mind, Im wondering what that load will do in a carbine. The info for pist...

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FWIW, the end point of my front sight zeroing on the Cimarron/Uberti old model P 4 3/4" 45 is .280" tall with generic 250 gr commercial cast bullet, 8 1/2 grs old unique, chronographed @ 925 fps in a 1990s period Ruger Vaquero. Whatever math one wished to do, the simplest thing is simply p...

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I have a Noco 1000 amp jump pack. Its quite compact, the unit itself is about the size of an old VCR tape. I never would have believed it was capable of making multiple jumps between charges, but it has. The first guy that jumped me, I asked how many jumps it will do before needing to be charged, he...

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Matt's Bullets has a couple of 45 hollow points listed, one more or less standard weight and one heavier. As Jim said, I wouldn't look for hardness much over 15 bhn. There are folks casting softer hollow points and powder coating, that seems to work well. I would look for a hollow point version of ...

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This popped up in my feed, Ive seen it before but didnt save it. Rat rod camper rig. I like it. Ive never been a "buy a new vehicle" sort of guy, preferring vintage or semi-well used vehicles with character and history.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yMhPAboy_04

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I will say, Rugers dont really have a very good rear sight design. For windage, one side has a spring, the other the screw, and the blade has a dovetail shape on its bottom intended to keep it in place, but if you hook a fingernail in the sight groove and push sideways to the side without the screw,...

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This brings up a good point. I have pretty much abandoned my .45 Colt reloading project for the time being because the point of impact on my Pietta Cabela's Special hits so low with everything I've tried that I can't really use it for anything beyond making noise or maybe CAS. I don't know if a muc...

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Having the sight exposed to damage was a holster problem, not a sight problem. Ive carried and used Smiths pretty hard, particularly the 29 i bought new in 82. The only time the sight was damaged was camping (actually lived in a tipi and out under the stars for most of 5 or 6 years, the 29 was carri...

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Im looking for info on extra-light round ball loads for a 50-70 trapdoor. I have Red Dot and some older Universal available for now. Im mainly wanting low noise level loads for yard varmints, small game, and plinking. Getting the ball out the barrel with very light loads is a factor to consider with...

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If you clean brass, many have gone to wet cleaning, but no pins. It simplifies it and doesnt seem needed, some dislike how clean the brass is after pins were used (read sticky on expanders). At least one guy was using a cement mixer to clean 5 gallon buckets of brass at a time. A rinse for rough dir...

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John had a Colt Commander size gun he carried some, I dont know how long he had it. I asked someone that knew him better, he didnt know what loads john used.

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I never really wanted to deal with all the paperwork, let alone the cost. About the only sbr type thing Id really be interested in is a shoulder stocked SA revolver, and the reporting to travel interstate with it takes some of the wind out of the sails. If suppressors became totally unregulated and ...

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A couple things to keep in mind, using a cartridge, its never mentioned how one knows where the individual cartridge falls in the exact size/spec range. Most commercial ammo is on the small side of spec to easily chamber in all guns. without having a baseline size of that cartridge, all you are meas...

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I agree. dad bought one in 71 or 72, besides the single action 22s I had, I shot his K-22 quite a lot, then he traded or gave it to me when I moved to Az in 81, and I shot it a ton there and some since. I have somewhere between 200-300K rounds through it. 500 rds was normal to shoot each time out, s...

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I would much rather be dead and buried than live with that kind of fear/paranoia. But I live alone and believe in the ultimate power of a Hebrew carpenter from Nazareth named Jesus whom I am more than extremely impressed by. Just me I guess. No fear here, just awareness that things can go sideways,...

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I would like one in 44 mag. I dont shoot full magnum loads in most of the 44 carbines Ive had, but its nice having the option, and full load compatibility with your pistol. Id really like to see one made by Winchester/Miroku. A true shotgun butt would make it both easier to shoot with heavier loads ...

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How do we define "without a gun"?

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Ive slept many nights with a pistol in hand when sleeping out under the stars either in az, with a fairly high number of wanted felons passing through the general area, and in grizzly country up north. One time at a wedding in Phx I stayed at some motorcycle yahoos place, they gave me and my girl a ...

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I can't come up with a Sam but Ben Brigade was a character played by Randolph Scott in in the movie Ride Lonesome. That was a good film. I had heard of Randolph Scott but not seen any of his films until the past few years, many are quite good, all things considered. Many are on youtube, often with ...

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Pedantic point of order, but Winchester dropped the "18" and just called them model 94 some time in the 19-teens. A 1919 gun I have is marked "model 94".

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jGvKTmDV9w LOL -- i watched part of this --- the 'ol boy has got some grip strength to try and hit clay birds with that critter ! -- Its not difficult to shoot them, your arms take up much of the recoil. He obviously is a decent shooter to shoot a clean round (no mi...

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Ill start by saying Im not much of a shotgun fan for any purpose other than birds or clays, though there are some instances they can be useful, like around other humans. With back and shoulder injuries, normal stocked shotguns are a no go for me. During the summer of mostly peaceful protests, I had ...

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I'll take a little different tack, I find SAs and revolvers in general to be far easier to shoot well than auto pistols. I carried and used 1911s a fair bit in the past, but never was able to come close to the mechanical accuracy and consistent performance accuracy of a Smith revolver or good SA rev...

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Regardless of what terms one may want to use, the Henry rifle, and to a lesser degree the Spencer, were significant leaps forward in firepower in a world still primarily using single shot muzzle loaders and percussion revolvers, with a few single shot metallic cartridge long guns. Having a 15 shot r...

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Looks pretty good Jim. I also came into a cimarron this past summer, their "Old Model P" by Uberti, a 45 4 3/4" First shots were WAAAAAAY low at 300 yards with my regular 8.5 grs old Unique and 250 gr generic cast bullet. I got a piece of cardoard and sharpie and brough the POI up abo...

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Its relatively simple to modify the carrier for longer cartridges. The Lyman 429421 in 44 spl cases feeds fine in a stock browning 92, I wanted them to feed when loaded in magnum cases. The triangular stop on the carrier needs to be cut back slightly. Presumably the same amount as the OAL difference...

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I have a carbine with me pretty much every day dog walking, regardless of weather. Its a dry climate, but theres still a fair amount of condensation that forms when I bring them in, sometimes the metal is cold enough ot makes frost on the gun for a few minutes until it warms up. I wipe them down wit...

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Good fun. I had read much Keith stuff when young and put it to use when I got to Az and had space to actually use it. 300 yards was the most I normally shot with pistol, in the Rockies I fell in with several longer distance shooters of carry guns, it was pretty common and accepted. One handed shooti...

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Frontier dog story by Charlie Russell. Hang in til paragraph 8 or so, the main story,

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700941h.html#ch3-7

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When Charlie Russell came to Montana in 1880 as a 16 yr old kid (he was called Kid Russel for some time), he ended up staying with an old frontiersman/trapper/prospector/meat hunter named Jake Hoover, who had a cabin in the mtns. Charlie wrote that once going down a trail they encountered a sow griz...

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It has affected my interest in hunting to a significant degree, CWD has been found all over the state.

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Well, that fills in some blanks on the map. Sight height. The early suppressors, some fitted by winchester, were offset so the body of the can was not interfering in the line of sight. I believe theres pictures about on the net of some suppressed 94s, one belonged to Theodore Roosevelt, so he could ...

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Add to that the fact that anyone can call any part "milspec" regardless of whether or not its actually made to the correct dimensions and materials and tested the same. Theres zero consequences to calling any part milspec regardless of its actual resemblance to actual made to true technica...

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I’m working on an idea for a build and would like to know if anyone happens to have a 14 inch barrel version of the 94 and if they could measure from the center of the rear sight dovetail to the center of the front sight dovetail? Also, if they happen to have it in .30-30, what rear sight does it h...

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Wear a western vest ... With an IWB holster you can carry a 1911 no problem. It does not print .. does not show ... Yes, that would do it. But I would rather carry OWB with a jacket as that is what I am used to. A grey western cut sport coat would do what needs to be done, and stay in your standard...

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OldWin wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 7:13 pm
Malamute wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 5:21 pm
OldWin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 25, 2025 8:28 pm I've heard of that movie, but never saw it.

Its on youtube, as are a bunch of clips from it, same as for so many movies or tv shows.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... and+aliens

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I've never seen anything that couldn't be explained. That being said, I truly hope that if someone shoots an alien, Bigfoot, or some other some such, it's with a 94 Winchester in 30-30. If it's close, a Colt SAA would suffice. It just seems fitting. Just for fun, the film Cowboys and Aliens was a n...

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Wandering the wild country of the west and southwest with Winchester in hand are some of my best life experiences, and is a large part of the direction I desired and planned my life to go. Nothing newer or "better" ever carried and filled the general purpose walk around gun niche as well a...

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When I lived in the tipi I had a mouse problem. I kept the marlin 39 loaded with CBs next to the bed along with a flashlight. The sound of them running across the canvas floor would wake me up. Id very slowly get the rifle and light, point towards the sounds, and turn it on. I had about 1-2 seconds ...

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