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by Warhawk
Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did an action job on my Rossi 1892
Replies: 31
Views: 10058

Re: Did an action job on my Rossi 1892

Very nice! You're making me want to find one of these stainless and brass leverguns.

Anyone ever see one in .357 ?
by Warhawk
Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rossi 92 future availability
Replies: 16
Views: 4538

Re: Rossi 92 future availability

VG ... Give these folks a try, they have been able to find some hard to find guns for me. Good prices too.

http://www.sportingarms.com

Give 'em a call
by Warhawk
Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New Sharps
Replies: 54
Views: 4432

Re: New Sharps

Very nice! I've had my best luck taking gun pics outdoors on an overcast day.
by Warhawk
Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Looking for reports on FTX bullets from this season?
Replies: 15
Views: 2170

Re: Looking for reports on FTX bullets from this season?

I've written this up so many times, I should make a copy so I don't have to duplicate it next time. I killed this deer in 2009 ... using my Marlin guide gun and the Hornady gummy tip ammo. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/Photo002.jpg You can see the entrance wound in this pic ... there was no...
by Warhawk
Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brass Frame 1892 with SS Octagon Barrel....(pictures)
Replies: 28
Views: 6662

Re: Brass Frame 1892 with SS Octagon Barrel....(pictures)

Gorgeous! That one even has nice wood.
by Warhawk
Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Old photo-Here's a man that is proud of his lever!
Replies: 40
Views: 3870

Re: Old photo-Here's a man that is proud of his lever!

Can't help with any info on the photo, but it's nice to see you back posting again.
by Warhawk
Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Must-have books on Single Actions?
Replies: 13
Views: 1871

Re: Must-have books on Single Actions?

http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/3022671-L.jpg http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll125/75r90s/skeet.jpg http://gunfightergulch.com/images/JTBooks.gif http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518T2VBSWML._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/1622076-L.jpg http://covers.openlibrary.org...
by Warhawk
Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: We've talked about shooting stray dogs before...
Replies: 136
Views: 12918

Re: We've talked about shooting stray dogs before...

Part of my family lives and farms in a fairly small are in Arkansas. Years ago there was a major problem with feral dogs, harassing and killing livestock, tearing up anything that they could find, etc. This area is just far enough out that city folks would dump their unwanted pets. One aunt would ha...
by Warhawk
Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Jeans
Replies: 45
Views: 5858

Re: Jeans

For me it's either Lee or Diamond Gussett jeans.
by Warhawk
Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Back after being gone awhile...
Replies: 26
Views: 2224

Re: Back after being gone awhile...

Good to see you back. I'm sure things will be getting better soon.
by Warhawk
Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: NEF Partner Pump shotgun
Replies: 5
Views: 1066

Re: NEF Partner Pump shotgun

I have one, the home defense model. It is indeed a Chinese made 870 clone. Mine works fine, in fact I just shot it this morning and have no complaints.
by Warhawk
Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leverguns and Harley Davidson.
Replies: 42
Views: 4202

Re: Leverguns and Harley Davidson.

I've got a few lever guns ....

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And one Harley ...

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by Warhawk
Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leverguns!!!!
Replies: 37
Views: 5739

Re: Leverguns!!!!

Here is the 39M Octagon I bought from the shop Hobie works for. I did some research on it, about 2100 of these were made in 1973, the only year they were made. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/39M-1.JPG http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/39M-2.JPG http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/39M...
by Warhawk
Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 45-70 hunting loads
Replies: 23
Views: 5134

Re: 45-70 hunting loads

The 45-70 in any loading does not "tear up" a lot of meat. I don't like the performance of the leverlution ammo on hogs and big deer. But it will probably be fine on smaller deer. I've shot deer and hogs with everything from hot handloads to factory loads with 300 to 405 grain bullets. The...
by Warhawk
Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leverguns!!!!
Replies: 37
Views: 5739

Re: Leverguns!!!!

Hobie wrote:
Warhawk wrote:I won't even attempt to identify each one ...
You need to post a pic of the 39M Octagon when you get it.
I will, I was hoping it would be here by now. I haven't been this impatient to get a gun in quite a while. :D
by Warhawk
Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leverguns!!!!
Replies: 37
Views: 5739

Re: Leverguns!!!!

I won't even attempt to identify each one ...
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And an older pic ...
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by Warhawk
Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Things I Learned About Texas ...
Replies: 41
Views: 5107

Re: Things I Learned About Texas ...

Bless your heart Are you mad at us? We say this when we want to cuss Nah, not mad at anybody. Just got a new regional boss who's been in town this week. Overbearing, obnoxious, yankee @$$ from California. He's been spouting off every negative thing he can think of about Texas. A lot of the same stu...
by Warhawk
Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Going to the ranch tomorrow for a little fun.
Replies: 22
Views: 2357

Re: Going to the ranch tomorrow for a little fun.

Good luck, and have fun ... you deserve it.
by Warhawk
Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Things I Learned About Texas ...
Replies: 41
Views: 5107

Re: Things I Learned About Texas ...

Bless your heart
by Warhawk
Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Diamondback Firearms
Replies: 10
Views: 2175

Re: Diamondback Firearms

The man behind Diamondback Arms is a former Kel-Tec employee, in fact they are right down the road from Kel-Tec. I bought one of the early DB380's and had problems with it. After a short break in period it seemed to function OK, but I experienced extreme slide bite (happens to me with a lot of guns)...
by Warhawk
Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Field & Stream Ad Nov. 1947
Replies: 5
Views: 820

Re: Field & Stream Ad Nov. 1947

The semi auto shotgun in the Savage ad looks like a Browning. Are they related in design? Savage Arms licensed the design from Browning and produced it as their model 720 from 1930 to 1949, and their model 745 with an alloy receiver and 2-shot magazine from 1941 to 1949. A Savage 745 is essentially...
by Warhawk
Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rifleman coming back??????
Replies: 39
Views: 4902

Re: Rifleman coming back??????

What if they decide to modernize the story? MOdern Lucas is the GGG of Lucas from the original series. Lucas will be an african-american former-SEAL, and his rifle will be a modified AK-47. The original 1892 is demilled and hangs above the big-screen in the living room. He's trying to raise Mark, h...
by Warhawk
Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Split case
Replies: 10
Views: 1020

Re: Split case

Back when the 32 H&R Mag first came out, I had one in a Single Six. The only way to get brass was from the Federal factory loads. The first couple of boxes I bought, fully half of the brass split on the first firing. I later bought new unprimed brass and never had another problem with brass spli...
by Warhawk
Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The pawn shop is going to put me in the poor house
Replies: 24
Views: 3428

Re: The pawn shop is going to put me in the poor house

When I lived up in Kansas, a co-worker and I would hit a certain pawn shop every Wednesday, the day they pulled the guns out to put on the rack. After buying a few, they started to hold them and let us have first crack at any interesting guns before they went on the rack. I made a few great purchase...
by Warhawk
Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Your S&W
Replies: 34
Views: 6475

Re: Your S&W

Too hard to narrow it down. One of these is my favorite Smith & Wesson. 686 Mountain Gun 629-2 Mountain Gun 629-5 Mountain Gun http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/P1030942.JPG These three are also in the running 28-2 4 inch 27-2 5 inch 28-2 6 inch http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/P10309...
by Warhawk
Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Do You Have .357 and .44 Mag Both?
Replies: 31
Views: 3241

Re: Do You Have .357 and .44 Mag Both?

I have both. But I did get out of the 45 Colt game a few years ago. I decided that the 44 Mag and 45 Colt were similar enough that the 44 would do everything I need.
by Warhawk
Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 44 Special ?
Replies: 30
Views: 4337

Re: 44 Special ?

It'll be hard to find, but the Rossi 720 is a nice little sixgun. They have been out of production for a while now.

They also made a bobbed hammer version, but I've never seen one.

This is both versions of the Rossi 720 and a S&W model 296

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by Warhawk
Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: comparison Marlin 336 30-30 and Rossi Rio Grande
Replies: 14
Views: 6006

Re: comparison Marlin 336 30-30 and Rossi Rio Grande

I've been in two Academy Sports stores here in DFW lately. Both had the Rossi 30-30 leverguns on the shelf. I wasn't interested enough to have a look.
by Warhawk
Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Close Call
Replies: 19
Views: 2211

Re: Close Call

I used to do a lot of coon hunting when I lived in Kansas. I had a little female Walker that we couldn't break from running bobcats. Thing is, she was so fast on track that she would usually tree the kitty. And they were worth a lot of money. One night there was snow on the ground and she took off a...
by Warhawk
Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Christmas come early - Buffalo Bill Commemorative Rifle
Replies: 9
Views: 922

Re: Christmas come early - Buffalo Bill Commemorative Rifle

My youngest is 24 now, I bought him a Buffalo Bill carbine when he was still in diapers. It had been fired and apparently hunted with, as the wood has a few light scratches. It's his favorite gun and he killed his first deer with it when he was in high school, and has killed several hogs with it sin...
by Warhawk
Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: flying with an artificial knee
Replies: 29
Views: 4090

Re: flying with an artificial knee

Steve, Congratulations on the cancer free diagnosis! That's great news. I have a titanium plate and six screws in my neck. I fly fairly often and the hardware in my neck does not set of the metal detector, hasn't yet anyway. I did have to submit to the full body x-ray once and it must have shown up ...
by Warhawk
Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Combat shotguns/home defense shotguns
Replies: 77
Views: 11192

Re: Combat shotguns/home defense shotguns

My home defense guns are the types I am most comfortable with. Remington 870s in various places where I spend the most time, and a Smith & Wesson revolver beside the bed. My reasoning is the same as MrMurphy's, just with different platforms. I did a hitch in the USAF, but we didn't exactly get a...
by Warhawk
Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: S&W DAs
Replies: 13
Views: 1528

Re: S&W DAs

Very nice, Smiths and leverguns, looks like we have some of the same interests. I don't suppose that you like SxS shotguns too? The Flint Hills are very nice this time of year. I spent a lot of years in Kansas, lived in Derby and Douglass. I do but I only have a couple, my Dad's old Stevens 311 and...
by Warhawk
Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: S&W DAs
Replies: 13
Views: 1528

Re: S&W DAs

kimwcook wrote:I can't speak for damienph, but I like S&W's, leverguns and SXS shotguns. A really nice SXS is on my bucket list.

PS - Nice shooters. :D
I just got the stocks for my Browning BSS back from being refinished and a new pad installed. I need to take a pic.
by Warhawk
Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: S&W DAs
Replies: 13
Views: 1528

Re: S&W DAs

Very nice, Smiths and leverguns, looks like we have some of the same interests. I don't suppose that you like SxS shotguns too?

The Flint Hills are very nice this time of year. I spent a lot of years in Kansas, lived in Derby and Douglass.
by Warhawk
Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .35 Rem and handgun bullets
Replies: 19
Views: 4507

Re: .35 Rem and handgun bullets

Howdy Jeff, Good to see you on here.

Years ago I had a Remington 760 in 35 Rem, but I never loaded any handgun bullets for it. That's been the sum total of my experience with the 35 Rem.
by Warhawk
Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: New, Improved Ultra Classic Tomorrow
Replies: 19
Views: 3002

Re: OT: New, Improved Ultra Classic Tomorrow

Warhawk, nice bike and nice blog! I was bummed though that you drove RIGHT BY the Friends of Billy Dixon Ultra Long Range Shooting facility and didn't even stop by to check it out! Its in Hotchkiss, CO. http://www.gunblast.com/AndyTuttle_FOBD.htm Blaine, your going to need a cam, no doubt about tha...
by Warhawk
Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: New, Improved Ultra Classic Tomorrow
Replies: 19
Views: 3002

Re: OT: New, Improved Ultra Classic Tomorrow

If your going to pull the heads for porting might as well pull the jugs and make it a 103. Most reliable performance upgrade out there for a 96" Harley. No functional difference between a 103 and 107 and the 107 costs much more. A 110 means boring the cases which also adds to the cost again. T...
by Warhawk
Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: New, Improved Ultra Classic Tomorrow
Replies: 19
Views: 3002

Re: OT: New, Improved Ultra Classic Tomorrow

This is mine, 2004 Screamin Eagle Electra Glide. I've had this one about a year.

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I'm back from a Colorado trip, and have written up a blog.

http://wpwarhawk.blogspot.com/
by Warhawk
Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My $300 1974 vintage 1895SS
Replies: 17
Views: 2612

Re: My $300 1974 vintage 1895SS

Mine is from 1975, has a recoil pad and a steel Weaver K3 scope. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/34421Marlin_1895-sm.jpg I've had it for about 20 years, it's killed deer, hogs, and this kitty at 135 yards. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/34421Jim_BCAT06a.jpg I've never been able to get...
by Warhawk
Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Motorcycle pictures
Replies: 156
Views: 21567

Re: Motorcycle pictures

Current bike, 2004 Screamin' Eagle Electra Glide.

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by Warhawk
Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I saw this ad for a Ruger 44
Replies: 17
Views: 2395

Re: I saw this ad for a Ruger 44

I also have these two, a 1961 vintage 44 mag flat top custom, and a late old model Super B that's been cut down and customized by Arctic Gunworks. I rarely shoot either of them.

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by Warhawk
Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I saw this ad for a Ruger 44
Replies: 17
Views: 2395

Re: I saw this ad for a Ruger 44

I was only 16 when this one was made. I only wish I had held up as well as this Super Blackhawk.

I've owned several Super B's over the years, and a couple of liberty models. But for a .44 Mag fan, finding a liberty model Super B is the holy grail of Rugers.
by Warhawk
Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I saw this ad for a Ruger 44
Replies: 17
Views: 2395

I saw this ad for a Ruger 44

I answered one of those ads ... Ruger 44 mag $xxx no pics, no further info, etc. I did manage to learn that it was a blue super blackhawk with rubber grips, but not much more. The guy was going to be near me last night, so I set up a meeting. Long story short, this is what I got. Plus a set of Hogue...
by Warhawk
Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: For the fans of the Sandy...
Replies: 11
Views: 2387

Re: OT: For the fans of the Sandy...

A long time ago I was stationed at Eglin AFB. We had a change of command ceremony for a new Wing Commander and I will never forget when it was announced that he had flown 135 missions in the Skyraider as an Air Commando during the Vietnam war. http://www.carlandnansgraphics.com/catalog/eagle_keeper....
by Warhawk
Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Day 1 leverguns hog hunt
Replies: 48
Views: 6099

Re: Day 1 leverguns hog hunt

Update, new photos. Going to get a rug made from the gold pig, amazing colors, going to switch from the hornady ftx to the spear 180grn flat point or the rem core locs to try to make the .35rem more than a loose bored .357mag carbine. GFs second pig with .357mag carbine. http://i251.photobucket.com...
by Warhawk
Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Day 1 leverguns hog hunt
Replies: 48
Views: 6099

Re: Day 1 leverguns hog hunt

It was good to meet everyone who was there Friday evening. I worked Friday over in Blossom, TX (just east of Paris) and didn't get away as early as I'd hoped, I found the hunting camp at about 4:30. Joe and his son Brandon had just come in and Joe asked if I wanted to go out before it got dark. So I...
by Warhawk
Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT Question for this weekend hog hunters.
Replies: 6
Views: 791

Re: OT Question for this weekend hog hunters.

I don't have a power supply for him, but I have a Netbook he's welcome to use.
by Warhawk
Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leverguns Winter EURASIAN BOAR Hunt
Replies: 49
Views: 7327

Re: Leverguns Winter EURASIAN BOAR Hunt

Can anyone coming on the hog hunt use a partial box of 270 WSM ammo? I can't use it, but hate to throw it away.