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Gentlemen, I know that Winchester started drilling and tapping the receivers from the factory to accommodate a receiver sight in around 1952, but when did they stop doing it? There is a Winchester at the local shop which looks to me like its early eighties vintage, pretty mint, and I was thinking bu...

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Whats that guy Mike Bellveau going to do now?

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Griff, They have gun shows but they are not what you guys have over there, with lot of private sales they are essentially just shops and manufacturers wthl stalls, and in recent years heaps of tables that are just collectors or soemthing displaying things...like machine guns or military collections....

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Guys, talk me into a Marlin .30-30. I gave my Winchester 94 to my father as a retirement gift so I don't have a 30/30 anymore. We have always been Winchester people. (We count Rossi 92's as Winchesters) But its been a nearly a couple of years and I thought I could live well enough with my Rossi .44/...

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darn. Now I know theres a twist.

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Shoot as many hobbits as you can. The little bastards breed like rabbits. I have a .222 set up just for them.

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Where are you in New Zealand? How long are you here for - the roar is starting. You need to be hunting.

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Here's my latest .44-40.

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I am onto my third Rossi, two carbines and a octagonal rifle. (Actually four - my old man started me on his one back in the 1980's, had the puma head on the side, and a saddle ring. THat was the start of it.) I dont know what grade of Rossi we get here in Australasia, and we have never even heard of...

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Without confrontation in movies, plays or literature, there is no drama, and without drama there is no story worth listening to. Without it, the movie would be about a tank crew that drove across Europe in 1944 and had a pleasant time. My main problem with that film was the battalion of german soldi...

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Prvi Partisan I've used has been over many cartridges in many rifles because I am cheap and because I make good reloading brass out of shooting it. I will generalise and say that it can shoot reasonably well in many rifles, but if it groups badly, it won't be your rifles fault.... The ammo is also i...

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I wanted a Winchester 94 lever action. And I wanted a Kentucky long rifle, flintlock. I have had three '94's now. I havn't had the long rifle yet. There are still some things to take care of. I remember a Guns and Ammo digest or annual from about 1979 - 80, which had all the guns in the back with pi...

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I have used PSB (Polyethylene Shot Buffer) in the .44-40 with cast bullets to replicate the early W.H.V (Winchester High Velocity) cartridge with good accuracy. I found that in addition to acting as a gas check under the cast bullet, it also resulted in more consistent velocities since the powder i...

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Terry, My top load is 24 grains of H4227 (AR2205) under a 200 grain Hornady XTP and I get 1632 fps - this is a max load in the current ADI manual, intended for Win 92 and Marlin 94's. This is not even a starter load for the .44 Magnum, which has a higher case capacity . I'm thinking the 44-40 has a...

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Terry,
My top load is 24 grains of H4227 (AR2205) under a 200 grain Hornady XTP and I get 1632 fps - this is a max load in the current ADI manual, intended for Win 92 and Marlin 94's.

This is not even a starter load for the .44 Magnum, which has a lower case capacity.

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This is my third Rossi in .44-40 and they have all been .430 barrels, so yeah, I think they use the same barrels as their .44 Magnum and just run a .44-40 reamer into it. Actually I am happy about that as it means I can shoot .44 mag jacketed bullets, which are much easier to find around here than ....

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You may be right...the middle 21 grain group size is actually bigger than the right hand 22 grain one, but a horizontal group result like that when I am target shooting with open sights, is often a result of me concentrating on getting the elevation right, and letting the left-and-right go hang... o...

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THanks guys, I think I wont need to worry any more about fillers with what am doing. I measured the bullets properly before I loaded them last night, and they all seem to mike at exactly .430...and my bore is .430 too. So maybe they might be a little small? Here are the results from this morning. Th...

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I am still trying to educate myself about cast lead bullets. I have a big fan of the .44-40, but have not had much experience loading for it, only finding one good load with Hornady XTP's a while ago and just sticking with it. I have my first lead bullet loads to test tomorrow morning, 215 grain RNF...

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Yep, they grow them big down here...chicken fried rabbit. One of my favourites so I try to hit them in the head or the forward area, and you still have the most of him to eat, even with a .44-40 bullet.

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Thanks Mr Wright, exactly what I wanted to know.

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Gentlemen, has anyone shot blackpowder .44-40 loads in a Rossi 92? I have some cast lead bullets coming and the idea has occurred to me. I know I wouldn't get proper velocities, not being able to put as much BP in a case as they used to - (I have Starline brass) but what about using black powder in ...

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I enjoyed the movie all the way through, even though I knew from a midway they had started making their own story up. Listen how often do they make a movie that it so squarely in my kind of interests, I am not going to pick holes in it. How many mountain man/flintlock adventure movies do they make.....

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True Grit. (The new one) The Good The Bad and the Ugly (which as a movie is so unlike other films, taking place in its own Sergio Leone western world, that it has not dated nearly as much as one would think - my sixteen year old son watched it and was impressed with it.) Unforgiven - a movie about w...

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A bigger bore maybe....

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OKay let look at this for a moment. If you have a Rossi rifle with a buckhorn rear sight, then I believe you will have a brass bead front sight. This is a little bit different from the carbine that has a flat blade and notch rear sight. The front sight bead is used like this - it is put down low in ...

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I thought about this afterwards....a .45/70 with the right bullet, possibly a 500 grain FMJ, is going to go right through that T rex, and if you punch a hole in his lungs its going to kill him in a few minutes at the most, and a bullet through the heart valve will produce a dead dinosaur fairly effi...

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.257 Roberts is alive and well over here at my place, although I only ever met one other guy in NZ who has one. When I visited a friend in Arkansas the other year I used a Mauser in .257 Rob to shoot my first ever whitetail buck, and caught an interest in the cartridge. There are no factory rifles b...

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My grandfather was at Schofield Barracks when the attack happened. He might have seen those planes in the air. I remember first reading about these two pilots in a magazine article in the 1970's that told their true story. It had been illustrated with stills from the movie Tora Tora Tora. I havn't s...

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Quick question - Marlin 336 standard sights are a front bead foresight? Like the Winchester 94's did?

Regards James

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Ha, I noticed that Marlin as well. Laminated stainless steel with a scope on it and a big loop. Would have killed them dinosaurs dead if it was just a plane old Winchester. Then there would have been no movie. I'm just saying...

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I don't believe these forums are outdated at all, very much the opposite. If you have seen a turn around in people then that is simply the nature of groups of people over time, whether it is a digital gathering or a real one. I have been on here many years, but have had fallow periods where other in...

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I had some ancient Kynoch made .44-40 cartridges, which had a crimp just like that behind the bullet, and I was trying to figure how to replicate it when I was having trouble with my crimp holding when loading that calibre. I got it fixed in the end without needing it, but that is how Kynoch used to...

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I dont believe that language evolved. Language was there for the creatures that used it, as fully formed as bipedalism.

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The writer of that article sounds young to me.

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Along the way, I also learnt that nothing a woman does with her breasts is accidental.

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There are some things in life that one puts down on a mental list with the intention of sometime, at some stage in one's life, one will put some time aside and acquire the ability to do them. Some skills I achieved early on. Others have taken years. Such examples of my own might include, say, splici...

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Woah, that is a handsome rifle...

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Yes, she is up there for a .44-40... But the max load according to ADI Australia for H4227/Ar2205 with a 200 grain (lead) bullet is 24.0 grains, they have no info for a jacketed 200grain bullet, but if you skip to the .44 Mag, I find that 24.0 grains is one grain less than a starting load...so I fig...

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I am leaning the same way for the same reasons...

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Yes that all makes good sense to me and I know what you mean. The bullseye sight is on the rifle now, no real issues. It looks a little bit like the gunsite on a 20mm Oerlikon cannon, but thats ok, I can get used to it. I only wonder about the elevation, although there are notches in the elevator, t...

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AJ thanks for the link to your post detailing the different aperture sights. I have used the old Lyman 66's before, but not the others. I remembered now I saw your picture on your post actually happen to have what you call a Marbles bullseye sight in my parts box that I picked u somewhere as a curio...

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Thanks for that.

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Guys, I am thinking of getting one of these (in .44 WCF of course), and just had a question about whether the front sight as it comes is a straight blade or whether it is a bead. I would very much prefer a bead, and I can't tell from photos. also when they say it is a short rifle, does this mean tha...

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Guys, Here is my Rossi 92 carbine, got pretty nice wood on it, best I've seen on a Rossi lever action. I dont shoot CAS or plink much, I have my rifles for deer hunting and so I have been making up loads to imitate the high velocity .44 WCF loading from the 1920's, and finished up with 24 grains of ...

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Yes, the Skinner sight is another interesting option, I have heard of those, and I know some people have got them over here. I don't disagree that the receiver peep sights are better for target shooting, its just that I was using Lyman 66 sights as a ghost ring on my .30/30, and in the heat of the m...

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I have my Rossi 92, nice little carbine in .44/40, with very nice wood on it for a Brazilian. Like this : http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/FIVE_zpsba22f555.jpg It shoots well at the range, enough to keep my happy, with 200 grain Hornady XTP's and 24 grain of H4227, which is a solid loa...

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Still late summer down here

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I have only shot one whitetail with a borrowed .257 Roberts, which was a Mauser action, which caused me to take interest in the cartridge, so when this rifle came up, I had to have it - http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/3_zps70efbec1.jpg http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/2_...

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I should probably think of something interesting to talk about then, since its here to stay... I have been reloading for my .257 Roberts, deciding between the 117g Sierra flat base bullets or the 120 grain Hornady HP bullets has torn me. I have enough of either. I am shooting red deer, chamois and f...

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