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New member here
Hello all. After a 10 year hiatus, I've finally managed to start rebuilding my gun collection after having to sell off all but a couple of my hand guns. Guns can put food on the table, but it won't keep the lights on or pay the mortgage. I started my rebuild with a Henry Big Boy .357/38 special. I had a Big Boy 44mag, and of all the guns I had, that was the hardest to let go of. I hope to engage in some good conversations and surely learn a few things. I'm always willing to help others if I can, but I'm likely out gunned (pun intended) here in the knowledge department. Anyways, I'm not one for tactical rifles or hand guns, but I like a good bolt action rifle, and LOVE lever guns and old revolver style pistols. Lookin forward to future chats.
My other wife is a Les Paul Custom
God, Guns, Guitars, and Peanut Butter Pie..... Oh, and I guess the wife.
From my cold, dead, gun powder residue ridden hands.
God, Guns, Guitars, and Peanut Butter Pie..... Oh, and I guess the wife.
From my cold, dead, gun powder residue ridden hands.
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Welcome to the fire Leverluvr...... 
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
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Thanks for the welcome. The extent of my "tactitardism" is a Taurus 85 UL 38 special for CCW. And that's only because Florida is not an open carry state, otherwise I'd carry my Uberti Colt 45. 
I found this forum because I just got a Henry Big boy .357/38 special about a week ago and was considering putting a peep sight on it. I read a thread here where someone mentioned making a peep insert for the Marble buck horn site out of a piece of a hacksaw blade. That sounded reasonable and doable to me with my skills and tools I have, so I'm going to give that a try. I've also looked at the Skinner peeps. They look sweet on top of a brass receiver, but seem to be a crapshoot as to whether or not the end site needs to be replaced with a taller one or not. My close up vision (1-2') is not the best, so I plan to make a peep and hold it at the back of the receiver and at the buck horn and see which one gives me the best view. There is a large gun club near me (Eustis, Florida) that I was a member of years ago, and I'm gonna renew my membership there. Great outdoor facility. They occasionally host SASS meets there and also some nice swap meets. I've never really thought much about competing in SASS, but like the atmosphere and that era of firearms.
It's kinda funny, yesterday I was at a local gun shop and was looking in the optical department to see if they had anything in peep sights. I was talking to the guy at the counter(maybe late 20's), with all the Tactical rifles behind him on the wall, and all the red dot sights in the case. I started to tell him about the peep sight mod for the buck horn type site I read about in a forum and making the piece out of a hacksaw blade. He cocked his mouth and said "hmm, kinda sounds like a redneck fix to me". I told him "well, back in the day of lever guns, It was a pretty crude and redneck time wouldn't you say". He said " yea, I guess your right". I told him it sound pretty authentic to me. Anyway, that's my old fanny burp story for the day. Again, thanks for the welcome.
gamekeeper, Thanks, I will be glad to respectfully add fuel or extinguish as needed, all while keeping in mind I'm a "young'un" here and it's an "earning" process. I can take the Hazing
I found this forum because I just got a Henry Big boy .357/38 special about a week ago and was considering putting a peep sight on it. I read a thread here where someone mentioned making a peep insert for the Marble buck horn site out of a piece of a hacksaw blade. That sounded reasonable and doable to me with my skills and tools I have, so I'm going to give that a try. I've also looked at the Skinner peeps. They look sweet on top of a brass receiver, but seem to be a crapshoot as to whether or not the end site needs to be replaced with a taller one or not. My close up vision (1-2') is not the best, so I plan to make a peep and hold it at the back of the receiver and at the buck horn and see which one gives me the best view. There is a large gun club near me (Eustis, Florida) that I was a member of years ago, and I'm gonna renew my membership there. Great outdoor facility. They occasionally host SASS meets there and also some nice swap meets. I've never really thought much about competing in SASS, but like the atmosphere and that era of firearms.It's kinda funny, yesterday I was at a local gun shop and was looking in the optical department to see if they had anything in peep sights. I was talking to the guy at the counter(maybe late 20's), with all the Tactical rifles behind him on the wall, and all the red dot sights in the case. I started to tell him about the peep sight mod for the buck horn type site I read about in a forum and making the piece out of a hacksaw blade. He cocked his mouth and said "hmm, kinda sounds like a redneck fix to me". I told him "well, back in the day of lever guns, It was a pretty crude and redneck time wouldn't you say". He said " yea, I guess your right". I told him it sound pretty authentic to me. Anyway, that's my old fanny burp story for the day. Again, thanks for the welcome.
gamekeeper, Thanks, I will be glad to respectfully add fuel or extinguish as needed, all while keeping in mind I'm a "young'un" here and it's an "earning" process. I can take the Hazing
My other wife is a Les Paul Custom
God, Guns, Guitars, and Peanut Butter Pie..... Oh, and I guess the wife.
From my cold, dead, gun powder residue ridden hands.
God, Guns, Guitars, and Peanut Butter Pie..... Oh, and I guess the wife.
From my cold, dead, gun powder residue ridden hands.
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Meeting someone in their 20s who knows what a buck horn sight is can be considered an accomplishment....... 
I'm sure you will like it here, plenty of steel & walnut and of course plastic and pot metal firearm discussions, occasionally someone will even post about lever actions...
Quite a few Henry fans here too.
I'm sure you will like it here, plenty of steel & walnut and of course plastic and pot metal firearm discussions, occasionally someone will even post about lever actions...
Quite a few Henry fans here too.
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
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Welcome to the fire! Great place to hang out.
Ain't nothing better than running a levergun.
Ain't nothing better than running a levergun.
"Oh bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.
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Welcome.
My 'last rifle to give up' gun might well be my Marlin 357 CST levergun, but my last 'handgun' might be my AR-15 pistol in 300 Blackout....so I guess I'm "half-tactical"....
They both use the same suppressor, so I figure I'm being 'practical' as well...
Last night at 3 a.m. I awoke to the "farmer's drill" - where you have about sixty seconds to be outside armed with something that can hit a moving target in complete darkness...a $5,000 rig based on a thermal-sighted AR would work, but I don't want the risk of a miss with a high-ballistic-coefficient bullet going forever at night, and even the pistol-length ones are ungainly when suppressed (and wearing hearing protection when listening for raccoons or feral dogs slipping through brush isn't going to work), so I grabbed my older standby Marlin 357 (before the CST) 'Night Scout'
http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=23531
It may look funny to both the ninja-gun crowd and the walnut&blue crowd, but it is the handiest and most practical farm-gun ever... 126 year-old technology with some 21st-century optics and lights.
Anyhow, welcome....!
My 'last rifle to give up' gun might well be my Marlin 357 CST levergun, but my last 'handgun' might be my AR-15 pistol in 300 Blackout....so I guess I'm "half-tactical"....
They both use the same suppressor, so I figure I'm being 'practical' as well...
Last night at 3 a.m. I awoke to the "farmer's drill" - where you have about sixty seconds to be outside armed with something that can hit a moving target in complete darkness...a $5,000 rig based on a thermal-sighted AR would work, but I don't want the risk of a miss with a high-ballistic-coefficient bullet going forever at night, and even the pistol-length ones are ungainly when suppressed (and wearing hearing protection when listening for raccoons or feral dogs slipping through brush isn't going to work), so I grabbed my older standby Marlin 357 (before the CST) 'Night Scout'
http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=23531
It may look funny to both the ninja-gun crowd and the walnut&blue crowd, but it is the handiest and most practical farm-gun ever... 126 year-old technology with some 21st-century optics and lights.
Anyhow, welcome....!
It's 2025 - "Cutesy Time is OVER....!" [Dan Bongino]
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Well, as they say in the "Rat Rod" community, "Performance ain't pretty". But then again, I wouldn't throw it out of bed. Thanks for the welcome!
My other wife is a Les Paul Custom
God, Guns, Guitars, and Peanut Butter Pie..... Oh, and I guess the wife.
From my cold, dead, gun powder residue ridden hands.
God, Guns, Guitars, and Peanut Butter Pie..... Oh, and I guess the wife.
From my cold, dead, gun powder residue ridden hands.