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I have held the slide with my left hand and fired 45's and 9mms. That's all it does, just as in the video.

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I found this photo of Oracle taken from an airplane. The house and property we owned is under the red arrow. We would ride our horses up the mountain on the left, keeping on the ridgeline, then ride a trail just on the far side of the ridgeline that runs to about the middle of the photo. From there ...

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Griff wrote: ↑Thu Feb 19, 2026 11:08 am When mounted, I've always worn a separate cartridge belt with either a strongside holster or X-draw... sometimes both!

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When I carried a long barreled sixgun I usually wore my Bianchi shoulder holster.

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The vast bulk of my 45 Colt brass is Starline, followed closely with both Winchester & R-P brands well represented. Over the course of 40 years of cowboy action shooting, I've had several off brands handed to me after a stage. I've seen a couple headstamps that read either 45 LC or 45 L Colt. E...

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I like IWB just at the front edge of my back pocket. I've carried the 4" Model 10 S&W easily there, as well as .45 single action, 1911 and other guns.

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I have not shot a factory load through any of my .45's in ... probably close to 30 years! I don't have anything against them. It's just that I have so many that I've loaded for myself. Back in the 1960's and early 70's I shot quite a lot of factory ammo. Winchester-Western Super X and Remington. I u...

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To post photos easily, click "ATTACHMENTS" ... when you do you will see below "ADD FILES" . Click that to browse to your photo you wish to post. The photo name will appear below the text area with the option to post or delete. The short .45 Colt cartridges I have have a smaller r...

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I've seen pictures of him before but that horse of yours is a pretty big ole boy!

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I wish I could have seen that with you my friend. Only once have I ridden in country that was not cut up by fences. But I like to imagine what that would be like. That was what I loved about Arizona, with about 40% of the State being Federal land. New Mexico is a little over 30%. Nevada is around 8...

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High Desert Hunter wrote: ↑Mon Feb 16, 2026 8:04 pm I sure do enjoy these stories Jim!

Thanks. I appreciate it!

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He was 95 and had a long good run. I do wonder if John Taffin and some of our other friends welcomed him.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Feb 16, 2026 11:04 am Keep it interesting.

https://youtu.be/oZFBQs7Sz3s?si=0jR_80T4umHcLBVt

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Being a horseshoer for several years... I think I've spent more time under a horse than on top! Bein' on top is more fun... A friend and I had a shoeing business back in the 1980's. We shod horses for the ranches around Oracle as well as for the folks who just loved riding. We got $10 a horse in th...

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Our culture in the U.S. is driven by marketing ... the newest .. the best ... the latest ... and often very subtly inferring the older established things are not nearly as good. So we see generations growing up without learning or knowing what has gone before. As for the FTX .30-30 bullets I tried t...

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I am sure it is. It's what you practice that's comfortable.

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Yeah .. the USFA's are now priced where the Colts were a year or two ago. I shoulda bought two!

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earlmck wrote: ↑Sun Feb 15, 2026 11:21 am Good memories there, Jim. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! Ranch life was the best way to start learning life as far as I am concerned.

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Well I will have you know I carry a Thompson full auto under my t-shirt without a sling! With a 50 round magazine! :lol: I think you are most likely correct. Around the place here I usually carry a Ruger Shopkeeper Bearcat .22 Long Rifle. It fits for what I end up shooting ... stray cats, raccoon, a...

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Lawsuits were not as common as these days. And the general consensus was, if you can't handle a gun safely don't buy one. If you screw up it's your fault. These days no one ever accepts the responsibility of dicking something up.

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Thank you! I was blessed to live quite a few years in that wonderful place. The Coronado Nation Forest is almost 1 3/4 million acres and I could ride out my back gate and be in it within 100 yards. Game in abundance. More places to explore than you could fit into the years. Besides living in Africa,...

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Bill started with a block of steel and built the guns from the ground up. They were amazing works of art. Finely fitted, accurate, well finished and good looking. I never fully got comfortable with the loading gate on the left side or the cylinder rotating to the left. But I loved shooting it. I too...

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We got up well before sunrise, caught the horses and took 'em to the stalls and fed them. Then we went and fed ourselves, packed the saddlebags, grabbed our guns and gear and went back to the barn to load up. Just about sunrise we were into the Coronado National Forest. My daughter was on her blue r...

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Something old,

Something new.

Something stainless,

Something blue.

And a J-Frame 642.

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Trade Canada Minnesota .. or at least Minneapolis ....

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Bill Grover - Texas Longhorn Arms - thought Mr. Colt was left-handed. And he built the TLA guns left-handed. They are works of art!

This is the West Texas Flattop Target Model

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Pat C wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 5:59 pm Now on anouther note what SAA are we looking at ? Beautiful one piece walnuts and outsyanding color case .

USFA .44 Special - Paul Persinger made the one-piece walnut stocks.

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I got in the habit of using my left hand after watching Thell Reed speed-unload his. He had 5 empties in the air. I practiced and practiced that. Never got 5 that I recall but I would have 3 and 4 in the air. I could shuck them out of the gun pretty quickly. It came in handy when shooting the old PP...

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So Jim you are not wrong by any means as it sounds based on the Ordnance manual here it does not define just simply return the hammer to safety notch after loading. I figure "wrong" is doing something that is unsafe. :D If a guy scratches up his own gun and he's comfortable with that, tha...

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piller wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:29 am Seems that most of the younger people want autoloaders, and I rarely see revolvers now.

You don't need to feel alone. Come hang around with Scott and me. You be in revolver friendly country.

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I have had failures to fire from others but none as badly as the two cartons that I finished yesterday. In addition to failures I had 5 hangfires. One of them took so long that I was just lifting my thumb to pull the hammer back for the next shot. Now in all fairness I have shot a lot of Armscor amm...

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Depends

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Me also Scott.
When I die they better search me before transporting the body.

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Well .. this thread about loading a single action sixgun has kept things lively. I appreciate folks not getting angry or violent about their point of view. Again I wish to emphasize I am NOT saying what I do is THE WAY to do it or that others are wrong. If I came across that way I did not mean to. I...

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Once a man gets used to doing it one way and it works, a man ought to keep things simple and keep doing the same. I learned to load one, skip one, and load four more. Full cock and let the hammer down on an empty chamber. I can do it blindfolded, drunk or in my sleep. No point in me changing now. S...

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I thought it was the gun at first. I have had .22's that misfired but nothing like these. But I have tried them in 5 different guns. I just figured they probably had an issue in the production line. Things happen.

My Single Six likes Federals and Aquila the best.

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There was no priming compound in some of the cartridges .. or else it was contaminated. Something went wrong during the run of this batch. I've shot others and had no issues but with these it's been different.

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In 1978 my wife and i bought a house from a widow lady. When we were helping her she said that her husband had left some ammunition in the storage shed and that I could have it. It was old Super-X from the late 40's/early 50's. It had set in an uninsulated home-made wooden shed for 10 years, in weat...

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Yessir. That was common. Just like the percussion guns, you always loaded every chamber. No argument about that at all.

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This is not meant at you Jim, and I know you didn't mean your comments in a derogatory way or at me. The argument for an old model gun always seems to include a statement about new shooters or those that don't take the time to learn the use of a 4 click gun properly. It kinda irritates me, I choose...

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Funny thing is, all this carry only five is a relatively modern idea. From what I have read the USA carried with six. Lawmen carried six. Seems most westerners carried six. The logic seemed simple. If one needs a handgun, why start by handicapping yourself. Paranoia and civil litigation seem to be ...

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I noticed that Jim, I guess it fine. Actually, where you mess one up is rolling it to the second notch then letting it back down. I will stay with the old skip one method, because I find it better for me. YESSIR. I agree with you. I am not saying this method is better or that others should do it. I...

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I have only been doing that for 65 years or so. Never have hurt a Colt or a Ruger. You don't see a ring around the cylinder on that gun. I have been shooting it like that for more than 20 years. That particular gun is perfectly timed. There is no way it could be put out of time by what I do. I don't...

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HA! Well .. these were all still in the boxes and the boxes were in the cartons. I recycle all of the .22's that don't fire. I pull the bullets and add them to my lead pot. I salvage the powder and use it reloading .22's. I pick up all the live .22's that I find on the range, even the one's that hav...

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I understand that most everyone knows the "Load One ... Skip One" loading method. I have a confession to make. I did not learn to load a single action that way. And what's even stranger, I never heard of it before I started shooting CAS. The way my Daddy taught me, there is never a live ca...

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My grandsons were shooting it and having problems with misfires. I got to testing it and found out of a box of 50 there were 20-some that would not fire. I pulled the bullets and all had normal charge of powder. I put them in my vise and heated them with a torch and a number of them would not even p...

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I grew up shooting Colt Single actions and then what is now the Old Model Rugers. I never purchased a New Model until 1994. I have only bought 3 New Models in my life. I dislike the action. I do a lot of dry-fire practice. The New Model sounds tinny, like a cap pistol, when you dry-fire it. The firi...

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Here in the country we let the wind take care of them.
Well ... the one's close to the house get raked into piles and I mulch them with the mower, blow the fragments around the yard and never see them again.

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I quit drinking beer 3 years ago. I am carbohydrate intolerant and it just packs the weight on me! I did like some beers ... in Mozambique my favorite was Laurentina Preta ... a dark beer. laurentina-preta-1-200x300.jpg The 2M lager was good also (pronounced "dosh-emie") Here I usually dra...

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I carried a .38 Special derringer all through the 1970's and 80's. Sometimes in my boot. At other times in my pocket. No one ever noticed it that I am aware of.

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The "hammerless" revolvers would be the best bet for underthecovers work.

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