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Blackhawk, I assume by "getting them ready for the pit" that you were barbecuing them? How did that go? How did they taste? Seems in a lot of reading over the years that many just take the head for the skull and leave the carcass. I am not Blackhawk but I can testify that we ate Javelina ...

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Leverluver wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:12 pm Wow, considering the rest of the gun, the barrel looks to be in amazingly good shape.

It's rusty at the muzzle but I think can be polished out if the gun ever gets to the point that I would need to.

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The was someone used to make gloves from the hides. If I remember correctly where the hairs were form a unique pattern of 3's on the hide. (3 small holes or dots that is.)

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In the 1920's my Dad and his 3 brothers were raised on a ranch and played cowboys a lot. There was a Springfield Trapdoor that didn't work and an 1873 Winchester that was broken plus a couple old shotguns that did not work. The boys played with them and Grandma didn't like them playing with guns so ...

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If you haven't had a bullet jump and lock the cylinder on a revolver, you're not trying hard enough. :D I haven't had that since the 1980's when I learned more about "bullet pull" and how to size and bell the neck of the case .... :lol: BUT I have run into factory loads that had no primin...

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I like a sixgun for dependability. Most everyone feels they need an autoloader with lots of ammo. Maybe ... or maybe not .... Well Jim...you and I come from a different generation. We have the experience and the knowledge.... A revolver is easier and faster to grab and can be fired with any kind of...

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:33 pm Well, the Glock is obviously a higher priced gun so I'd take the Glock and trade it even up for a new S&W J frame.

I like a sixgun for dependability.
Most everyone feels they need an autoloader with lots of ammo.
Maybe ... or maybe not ....

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Good going Bill! 495 more rounds and it'll start being broken in.

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 10:27 am Fine work, Jim. Do you still have and shoot that revolver?

Yessir. I would never get rid of this one. I have shot lots of deer, javelina, coyotes, dogs, cats, long-range targets and rocks with it over the years.

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I’m fixing to start loading some black powder .45 Colt ammo. It will be interesting to see if I can at least seat and crimp with this tool. It's fun to load a few on one... but I wouldn't want to do even 25 or so! :wink: I have loaded hundreds of rounds with the Lyman 310 Tool. And of course it is ...

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(written many years ago .. the hunt was in the late 1980's near Oracle, Arizona) It was the 3rd day of Mule Deer Season and so far I had not done very well. I had hunted the first 2 days on horseback but contrary to common opinion, you cannot just "ride right up to the deer" and shoot them...

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in 1943. From the January 1943 issue of The American Rifleman. This gives an idea of how much buying power the dollar had and how much worth less it is today.

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Jim, nice shooting. I use similar loads and have a stock similar configuration Ruger. Thanks. I prefer Unique for this velocity in the .45 but over the years found that any powder in that range works pretty well. And with powders being hard to find at times I use what I can get. :D I ran across som...

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piller wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:15 pm I have done a tiny bit of handgun hunting. Practice more than I did. You won't regret the practice you put in.

AMEN!!

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I figured there were some of you on here who are what I would call "Advanced" in the art of paper cartridges and other old-time ways of doing things. I enjoy learning and doing this stuff ... and like reloading .22 rimfires, it's a skill that one day quite possibly will be needed. I would ...

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I have used the 454190 bullet with SPG lube when I was shooting Black Powder class. I like that lube. It works well.

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At least on my part of the shooting range it was. I took my Linebaugh .45 Ruger and two handloads just to do some target work and to work on my offhand shooting. I tested the loads from a rest and then shot them offhand both at targets and breaking clay pigeons etc. The handloads were with 2 bullets...

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Well Sixgun ... they have been telling us for years that "freedom ain't free!"

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Wasn't that the one you were gonna trade me for my Star9mm?

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After digging a bit I recall why the 38 Spl in the SAA isn't very common... only 25 built on the First Generation guns. And then they came out with 357 magnum which everyone seems to have gone to instead of the 38. I'd still rather have the 38 Spl though. I’m there with you. A SAA in .38 Special so...

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I've been to the Freedom Arms factory several times .. maybe 4 or 5 ... but anyway .. there is a lot of handwork on them .. fitting the grips correctly and making sure the gun is near perfect ... so 'custom' ain't a bad word. All top of the line firearms are (were) pretty much custom.

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Smart move, Gunny!

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The .44's are easier to make than the .36's, though by the time I did a box of 20 of the .36's I was doing much better. I am glad I did not get a kit for the .31!!!! I am too thick-fingered to try and make those little bitty things. .44's from today 44-1.JPG 44-2.JPG The home-made conicals were the ...

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piller wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:08 pm It can be tough to find any place now to shoot long range.

True .. unless you live in the western lands with lots of open space.

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Just a question based on knowing nothing about them: Does the flame from the percussion cap burn through the paper to set off the powder? It appears that it would. I guess what little paper that does not burn is blown out with the rest of the powder, flame, and bullet. The paper included with the k...

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longrange2.jpg Years ago .. shooting close to 300 yards with a .45 ACP 1911 taylor.jpg 20 or so years ago shooting rocks at long range with a Freedom Arms Model 83. I found it much harder to hit consistently at long range with a scope if you did not adjust the elevation. Unlike open sights, it was ...

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HAVE FUN!

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Whew! Lots of good reading in this thread! Neat stuff from Sixgun AND everyone else.

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Wow, that's really cool! How delicate are they once they are made? I guess my thoughts are, do they have to be set in a cartridge box like the 1800s style boxes we see where they are separated from each other, or packed in a smaller box? Just wondering how one would get them from point A to B witho...

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44shooter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:09 am So how do you load it? Stick the whole thing in the front of the cylinder and ram it down?

Yessir. Simple to load and if you use a capping tool it makes reloading fairly quick.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:35 pm .
Sooo.... would this company set a person up to do same with a rifle...? That sounds fun.

Contact 'em and see. You never know.

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Thanks Nath!

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Today I received a package I had ordered recently. IMG_4579.JPG IMG_4580.JPG This kit has the tools to make paper cartridges for both the .36 caliber and the .44 Walker and Dragoon. I had contacted Guns of the West and asked if they could put together a kit for and was assured it was no problem. Whe...

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Dedicated to all those who are thinking of hunting with a handgun but have yet to do so. (another oldie from the Sixgunner.Com website) "I'm gonna hunt deer this year with my handgun!" Have you ever made that statement or one similar, but have yet to follow through with it? Are you one of...

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:17 pm Wow! Bet someone from the RCA would like to get their hands on that....as a Shootist, did Matt Olivier see that?

I know he has seen them. It was quite a few years before he came to the Holiday. We've had a few other guns built since then and I know he has one or more of them.

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I was 15 in the photo of me and my buggy. I sold it later that year and bought a 1947 Merc coupe. It did not have an engine or transmission but it did have a dropped front axle! (for you guys who never had the old cars, that lowered the front end by about 4" depending on what was done.) I got a...

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Back in the early days of The Shootists the group was talking about having a special Shootists gun built. We wanted one that would be unique, that would be a one-of-a-kind. Terry Murbach spent some time talking with Tom Ruger about the project but as time progressed, Tom Ruger became ill and eventua...

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I was just now working on Grandpa's rifle. My Grandpa bought it back in the early 1900's .. a Stevens Marksman .22. He used it on the Farm until he retired. It was used for slaughtering hogs, cows, shooting stray dogs, groundhogs and whatever else needed shot. When he passed I got it from Grandma. I...

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Jim Taylor.JPG When I was 13 I bought a 1941 International pickup and made a Desert Buggy out of it. There were a group of us boys who had them and we would run all over Paradise Valley, Arizona. There were very few homes at the time and Scottsdale Road was dirt from Bell Road on north. Sometimes I...

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Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:10 pm I read a lot of people commenting on how unpleasant the Charter Arms was to actually shoot.

Years ago I read that the reason the 'Son of Sam' killer murdered so few people was that he was home soaking his shooting hand in Epsom's Salts after using his Charter Arms .44 Special.

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Sixgun ... here is what I wrote back then about fitting that cylinder: .... one day I received an email from a reader of sixgunner.com. He has some Colt Single Action parts...was I interested? Always!!! We corresponded a bit and in a few days a package showed up at the door containing a new Colt SAA...

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:23 pm Hey, that single action Colt you recylindered....is that the cylinder I sold you many years ago?]

Yessir it is. Works like it was made for it. It took me a bit of time fitting it but I got it right. Sometimes you get lucky.

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I would agree Sixgun. My old Colt was made in 1887. I did not trust the cylinder and since the gun was being rebuilt, I replaced it with a 3rd Generation cylinder. I do not shoot hot loads in it. The heaviest loads I've shot are black powder. My smokeless loads for it are around 800 to 850 fps.

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I hope you are bringing that hogleg to Arkansas! If I go I will. Not sure at this point. One of my grand-daughter's is getting married in April and wants me to do the wedding. I relented for her. BUT she has no clue that I am gonna show up in cowboy boots, vest, levi's and wearing my pistol. I may ...

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