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Scott Tschirhart

I have a confession. It’s 2023 and I still haven’t fired a smokeless load through this Sharps .50-70!!!!!

I’m falling down on the job.

Scott Tschirhart

Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 7:32 am Scott, I have one of Nate Kiowa Jones's peeps replacing the safety on the Rossi Bolt, but a Skinner would be the bee's knees.

I feel like doing a special project. I may give him a call and see what we can do.

Scott Tschirhart

Outstanding deal!

I think those Rugers are some of the best shooters and so simple.

I have a lightweight MKII with a 1911 style grip frame. It is much more challenging to shoot because of the light weight.

That’s a great gun and I predict that it will shoot better than you can hold.

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I can’t shoot the titanium guns very well but this does just fine. Pinned and recessed Magnaport Special from the old days.

Scott Tschirhart

Matthew 7:6 NASBS
[6] "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Scott Tschirhart

Very nice!

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Go with the six inch. Beautiful revolver and you should carry a beater or a Ruger on the tractor anyway.

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TraderVic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:16 am Nice rig.....I just added a Simply Rugged pancake holster to my 3" Ruger 357 Wiley Clapp. Fits perfect.

That’s a great combination

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Vaya con Dios my old friend.

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I’m never without a sixgun on my hip.

But I rotate a bit. Yesterday I carried a 5 inch 27 which I think is one of the more useful guns ever made.

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Makes sense to me.

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JimT wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:57 pm MUCH easier to use when seated in a car or pickup.

This is the answer. I started carrying a short .30-30 in the patrol car back in 1983. I have carried it so much that if I needed to immediately grab a rifle for an emergency, it would likely be this one.

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I want irons like that on my short Rossi

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Very nicely done!

https://youtu.be/eGzPqejHs-k

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Funny how hands differ. Most folks seem to love the Ruger Bisley grip type. That's the one that tends to rap my knuckle. Go figure. I don't recall having that issue with my Vaquero, nor the few times I've shot the "dragoon" style SBH, but the Bisley on my SH 25th anniversary 44 spl raps m...

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I use a little red axle grease on my traditional firearms and the tub I have will likely last the rest of my life. Frame rails on my 1911s, moving parts in my leverguns and the ratchet and base pin on my single action revolvers. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen the battering described. It could be t...

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I don’t know. Probably my hands are much stronger than they were in those days. But I don’t think they have become any bigger. Certainly not smaller

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I was out shooting this morning. Still no issues and it’s just right for my big hands.

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I like the stag.

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If I remember correctly, our own much respected tubaman damaged the cylinder ratchets of one of the smaller-framed (flattop) ruger .357s with 180 gr. bullets and sanctioned load data. I’d be interested in hearing more about this. I used to shoot a 180 gr XTP loaded long over a big dollop of Lil Gun...

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That’s right. All of the larger carriers are the same.

I don’t know if this will work but it is an interesting experiment.

The hole in the elevator doesn’t have to be completely concentric so I think I can pull this off.

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My .44 Special 1873 won’t feed Keith loads and I think it’s because the elevator is opened up to accommodate.45 Colt cartridges. Too much slop lets the .44 Special hang up on the left side of the chamber. So I am working on a.32-20/.357 elevator to open it up but leave enough metal to guide the .44 ...

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Very nice! I’m happy for you.

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The black bear I have killed with 357 mag sure didnt know the difference between it and a 44 mag. They all died nearly instantly. My handloads will literally turn a coyote inside out That’s been my experience as well. I really like the .357 in a carbine. It’s a whole different critter. Especially w...

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I’ve never been able to get comfortable with shooting gloves. But I know that Lynn Thompson shoots a .454 and won’t shoot it without them. They work, but I always seem to use a sixgun out of convenience when something appears that needs shooting.

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That’s some really interesting work and a cool little five gun!

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Walt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:33 pm Nice picture, Scott! Beautiful 5" m27.....Skeeter's favorite.

Just fell into my lap.

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This one will take those heavy loads without complaint.

Jim, is this from Paco’s book?

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Years ago I shot the snot out of a number of Ruger Super Blackhawks putting up with the square back trigger guard thumping my second finger and trying to shoot well through the pain. I know it was stupid. I finally got tired of hurting myself and just avoided the SBH and going to the Bisley grip fra...

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No, I didn’t take photos while adjusting the timing. Sorry. But it was really simple to do. In my case the cylinder needed to move to the right ( from the shooter’s perspective). So I could see where the crane was contacting the frame and I removed very little metal from the contact point. Easy does...

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Scott, my redhawk has the ftf feature, could you post a link to the firing pin source? I guess I will do the chambers myself, sizing them to my bullets. Then on to the forcing cone I suppose, and then to fire-lap. Seems like more than 20% to me. Do you have any photos of adjusting the timing? Thank...

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A little file work and I was able to correct the timing on my RedHawk. Took me three or four minutes.

Seems like a total waste of time and money to send it to Ruger.

Solved the poor ignition problem with a Bowen firing pin replacement.

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I love spending time with a good.22 sixgun. I use a civil war style cap box to keep my ammo clean and handy.

Looking forward to walking my new dog around the ranch with my old Single Six on my hip.

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Great story. Thanks for sharing.

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Wonderful. Thanks for sharing. I have an itch for a nice .410 double but I honestly don’t hunt birds like I did when I was younger. Nostalgia I suppose.

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.45colt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 6:42 pm Guns.....? I don't need NO Stinking Guns......I WANT THE PUPPY............................................. .

Yeah, my wife is pretty attached to him already.

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Beautiful guns though.

Seems like all nice guns have gone up quite a bit.

Probably more accurate to say that our money has been losing value.

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It sat in my safe for over two years. I forgot I had it.

But I’ve been making up for it over that past couple of weeks.

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I’m not sure how the pup got in there. I’m acclimating him to gunfire.

The Skeeter gun seems to favor 6 gr of Unique under a 240 gr RNFP. Fortunately the carbine shoots that load well.

The pup did well and got a good nap on the way home

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This one was done by Hamilton Bowen and it makes me look like a much better shot than I am.

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John built me a .500 Linebaugh back in 2000. I beat my hands up badly trying to learn to control that gun.

These days my tastes are much more pedestrian.

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93 degrees here yesterday.

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They were shooting a number of different bullets and I don’t remember details other than the old Lyman Keith bullets sailed true.

Some of the bullets went in crazy directions a few hundred yards out and you could watch the bullet bases reflecting the sun as they flew.

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JimT wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 8:27 am I was there Scott. I remember that ...and that elephant gun!

Yes you were Jim! I had forgotten all about that. The most impressive thing to me was that video of those pistol bullets being fired across that big green field. Some went straight as an arrow and some went wild as they slowed down.

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We did penetration tests at the Dietz gun range one year when John had a seminar in New Braunfels Texas. Other than a particular elephant gun, the penetration winner was Big Nose Kate with a 520 gr Government bullet over 70 grains of GOEX Catridge. About 1100 fps but it penetrated 68 inches of wet n...

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John Linebaugh writes with more fundamental common sense and understanding of the physics of bullet propulsion in handguns than any other gun writer. I have come back to his piece on "The ".45 Colt -- Dissolving the Myth" again and again. https://www.johnlinebaughcustomsixguns.com/wr...

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Interesting reading Jim. The only guns I push real hard these days are .357 Magnum and .327 Federal revolvers. They generally perform well when stepped on pretty hard. But for my hunting purposes I have settled on pedestrian loads in larger bore revolvers. In the .45 Colt 8 gr of Unique behind a 270...

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For anyone who thinks a .44 magnum kicks too much, show them this!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hPWrFEHYrwo&feature=share

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I’m absolutely in love! What an articulate young lady.

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Although she was definitely a very attractive woman, I was always favorably impressed that she was a very intelligent woman which made her that much more attractive to me. God bless.

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