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44-40 Willy

It was 17F here when I got up with 5-6" of sleet on the ground covered with a light coat of snow. It's a good day to stay home.

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I would pick a Browning 1892 carbine in .357 Mag. with an aperture rear sight and a Beech front sight with aperture and blade. I would also want the gun to include a proper sling and a small kit of tools for cleaning and maintenance, with spare firing pin, extractor and springs. The buttstock would...

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Remington has been making their ammo in Arkansas for years.

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MrMurphy wrote:The Lee-Enfields were in service from about 1910-1953 in England, 1957 in Australia and in reserve use for many years after. The Indians kept them in service into the 1960s and the Ishapore No.2 is still in use as a reserve police rifle at least up to the Mumbai massacre.

Mine is a 1908.

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I'm in NW TN (Gibson Co) and yep we've got a lot deer. Haven't seen any bear or turkey sign in our little woods lot that we hunt though.

Good job on filling the freezer

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Got my first 22 on my 7th birthday from my Grandpa. A used Remington 514 bolt singleshot that he later said that he paid all of $5 for. Every birthday and Christmas after that I'd get some boxes of 22 shorts. Gramps seemed to think that 22LR was overkill on small game and killing hogs to butcher.

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Shotgun only here, but I've always wanted to shoot one with a muzzleloader.

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I've killed several deer with a 357 rifle. Like mentioned above, they're not that hard to kill if you do your part. I've got a cousin who killed 2 or 3 deer a year with her Marlin 1894 in 357 Mag using cheap factory 125gr JSPs. A couple of weeks ago, Mrs Willy got a nice 5 point buck with my Navy Ar...

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My first bike was the smallest. 1971 BSA 441 Victor.

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Bullet size depends on the individual 44-40. I also had a 44-40 Vaquero with the problems mentioned above. I've got Marlin 1894CCL that slugged to .4285 and I've slugged a Rossi 92 at about .431". The Marlin was the closest to SAAMI spec which is .428.

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I've got my Polaris Diesel put up in the barn for winter. After the temp drops below 45F, it just doesn't want to start. I'll get it out on warmer days and ride it around to keep the battery charged up. Mrs Willy has a Honda Rubicon that just keeps going and going. I'll say one thing about an ATV. T...

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No help with the data, but enjoy that gun. I had a Remington 81 in 35 Remington years ago and it's one that I kick myself for letting go.

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I'd be in favor of letting the Chinese have it to call off our debt to them.

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Not so much vintage, but design. I like a Marlin pistol caliber short action (1888,1889 & 1894) and the Winchester toggle links and 1892. In a shotgun, it's a recoil operated autoloader preferably a 16 gauge (Browning A-5, Remington 11 & 11-48). Pistols my favorite is the Remington 1858 cap ...

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My experience with Fiocchi is a case of 16 gauge ammo that I traded into. In our autoloading 16 gauge shotguns, it feeds fine, shoots well, but won't eject. Apparently Fiocchi's 2 3/4" ruler is about 1/8" longer than anyone else's which is just long enough to hang up the hull in the action...

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I keep getting called up for jury duty, but never selected. Right now I'm on standby until the middle of November.

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The same gun I always take out. My Marlin 1894D CCL in 44-40. It hasn't failed me yet.

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Talking about people coming over on private property to hunt reminds me of when I was a kid down in Arkansas and people would run their deer hounds on us chasing off the deer that we depended on for some extra meat. The usual response was something like "the dog couldn't read the posted sign&qu...

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I rented a lot when I was doing the career Navy thing. Always tried to leave the place at least as good as I found it. That said, I live outside of town and there's a couple of houses near mine that belonged to elderly folks who passed away. Their kids rent the houses out now and I've not been impre...

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Couldn't see the bolt either and the lever shape says 1888 or 1889. Action is too short for an 1881 as well.

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As a teenager, I stuck my Grandpa's John Deere 620 in the backyard. That took an awful lot of digging to get out.

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Either a Model 1888 or a 1889. I'm leaning towards a 1888.

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I've always just called it "Brazillian Mystery Wood".

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My 1892 that was built by Rossi slugged .355

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Don't forget there are two Model 1895s. The original large frame square bolt and the newer one based on the smaller 336 action.

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After Freedom Group bought out Marlin, they emptied out the company gun vault that was full of old prototypes and examples of production rifles. That's probably where this one came from. I'd like to have got my hands on one of the short action 44 Mags with a round bolt like a 336 that were in there.

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I had one of the first issue savage favorite remakes and shot a lot of rabbits with it.Sold it off one day years later and regretted it so I bought one of the Varner replicas and love it . I bought the round barrel version back in '74 and gave it to my son around the first of the year. Mine went th...

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the Original Henry Rifle features a hardened brass receiver with the same tensile and yield strength as steel

I'm just not buying that brass as strong as steel thing. Not the first time that Henry has put out some misinformation either.

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And you probably couldn't have paid that Yorkie to go after another horse!

Our Minature Pinschers throw a fit at our horses. Luckily, so far they haven't got near them.

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For several years, Rossi made 92s for Navy Arms who imported them to the US and sold them as the 1892. Better fit and finish than a regular Rossi along with an American walnut stock instead of the Brazilian mystery wood. Quality wise, it's as good as any Marlin I've owned (and I've owned a bunch of ...

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The round bolt came out in 1948, not 1937.

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They only made 1000 of them in 2000 for the distributor Davidsons.

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I'd be more interested in a Marlin 1894 in 50AE. There's a couple of smiths out there that do the conversions.

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Little off topic. From reading various posts over time, sounds like the 44 wcf was truly the round that won the west. When was 45 colt first made into winchester rifles? Sometime in the mid to late 1980s. The 45 Colt in a levergun is a fairly recent development. I don't think even Colt used the 45 ...

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Best vehicle I ever had in mud was a CJ-5 with a 4 banger and 15x7 tires. Most of the time, it would just idle through the mud without having to lock the hubs.

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I've only had one not drop on the spot with the 44-40 and it was a heart/lung shot that went about 60 yards then piled up. That was using a 200gr Speer Gold Dot that stopped just under the hide on the other side. With just the one hole, it still left an impressive blood trail.

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I've still got my double muzzleloading 12, just haven't done anything with it in years. But when I was using it, it was my main hunting gun. Then I got a levergun and decided that maybe those fancy cartridge guns were going to catch on after all. I just patched the .69 roundballs and used them that ...

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I use a strong action load of 20gr of 2400 behind a 200 or 210gr jacketed bullet in my Marlin 1894. This load is from the Lyman 47th. There's data out there for a lot stouter loads and I've tried some of them. But with my Marlin, the faster I push the bullet, the less accurate it is. As mentioned ab...

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Wonder how a new Dodge would hold up to that?

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donw wrote:in today's politically charged atomshpere involving firearms, the lever has been, thankfully, for the largest part, ignored by power hungry, irrational, politicians; let's hope it stays that way.

Banning a lever gun would be like banning John Wayne.

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I can see the OP's point of view. I still come around to see if there's anything new to learn and occasionally it happens, but I figured out a while back that if you're not part of the clique, then you're pretty much ignored here. Unless you ask a "dumb" question. And you still won't get y...

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I've shot some FFFg and Pyrodex P loads in my 44-40 Marlin 1894 Cowboy just to see how they did. When I went to clean up, I pulled the bolt (easy enough on a Marlin), did the moose milk thing from the breech end, reassembled it, fired a few smokeless rounds in it to clear out anything that might hav...

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I know a deputy sheriff who carries a 357 revolver and a Marlin 1894C in his car.

Hope you get all healed up.

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I haven't went near Allstate since they dropped me for being rear ended by an uninsured driver back in the 70s. They never did pay anything to fix that car and I had paid for full coverage. I've had State Farm for years now and a few years back when my daughter took out the side of my truck on a Son...

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Once the leaves are off the trees a Rossi 62 Octagon pump 22 with a Marbles tang sight. But until then, a '52 vintage Remington 11-48 in 16 gauge.

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I had one of the 22s some years ago. Piece of junk that I ended up using as trade bait on a used Mk II. I got a heck of a lot more use out of the Ruger than I ever would have out of the Heritage.

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I've never had to do anything to mine but shoot it and clean it since I bought it new in '99

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Griff wrote:If you want a rifle that'll handle magnum loads, get an 1892.

Either that or a Marlin 1894.

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My Navy Arms 1892 in 357 Mag has done minute of 5 gallon bucket at 400 yards

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I try not to get overly excited by inaccuracies in a show. That said, I do like Longmire.

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