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by Carlsen Highway
Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sad news about Barrett Firearms
Replies: 8
Views: 663

Re: Sad news about Barrett Firearms

I've still got all my guns. Just bought another one two weeks ago actually, just walked into a shop and gave the guy some money and drive home with a Husqvarna fullstocked model 1640 in .243. I was at the range the same afternoon shooting it. Then I spent all last week trying to shoot a deer with it...
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022 remake)
Replies: 13
Views: 874

Re: "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022 remake)

I watched it, I thought the effects and staging of the trench and action scenes excellent, but I didnt care for the contrived the ending. I realise people were getting killed right up until the armistace was signed, and even some were killed after, but thye just handled it wrong. Plus the stuff with...
by Carlsen Highway
Sat Oct 29, 2022 2:50 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Aging eyes and the 35 Remington
Replies: 13
Views: 948

Re: Aging eyes and the 35 Remington

I am having trouble with rear sights, so went to a receiver aperture, and now I am having trouble seeing the front sight clearly unless it is on a 24 inch barrel or further out. So now my beloved .44-40 '92 carbine is unshootable.

I can still shoot a .303 alright, and have a peep sight to put on it.
by Carlsen Highway
Sat Oct 29, 2022 2:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rossi 92 in 44-40
Replies: 8
Views: 572

Re: Rossi 92 in 44-40

They made them in .44-40 right up until the factory shut down for the new rebuild a couple of years ago as far as I know, at least you could buy them new over here till then. Then they stopped and it was just .44 mag and .357 all in stainless. I bought two brand new in around 2005 and 2006, a blued ...
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Oct 26, 2022 6:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hunting season is upon us, but mostly I'm on the sidelines
Replies: 9
Views: 528

Re: Hunting season is upon us, but mostly I'm on the sidelines

Roger that. For some reason I thought you might have been in Cuenca.
by Carlsen Highway
Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Red dot on 1895
Replies: 19
Views: 1393

Re: Red dot on 1895

How about "Bite Me"? That work for you? If you can't accept a little humor, especially when not being specific as to your questions then I will leave it at that. Have a nice day! Really. Tell us again how dopey red dot sights are, while making it funny and unoffensive. Go on, do it again ...
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy Birthday To Carlsen Highway
Replies: 4
Views: 292

Re: Happy Birthday To Carlsen Highway

He also said once: "I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it."
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy Birthday To Carlsen Highway
Replies: 4
Views: 292

Re: Happy Birthday To Carlsen Highway

Thanks guys!
by Carlsen Highway
Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cant see front sight
Replies: 6
Views: 483

Cant see front sight

I cant see the front sight clearly on my 20 inch barreled 92 carbine. I have been shooting this for years. Now I cant use it really. I can still see the front sight on a .303, with its 25 inch barrel and longer LOP. I have tried a longer LOP. It nearly works but not quite, and feels uncomfortable. T...
by Carlsen Highway
Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 44-40 popularity and the first HV loads
Replies: 9
Views: 674

Re: 44-40 popularity and the first HV loads

From what I have read they were reasonably popular, but they were also very inaccurate compared to the normal loads, so thats why they didnt become the new standard.
by Carlsen Highway
Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Has the Rossi 92 Safety Been Discontinued ?
Replies: 14
Views: 3836

Re: Has the Rossi 92 Safety Been Discontinued ?

The ones they used to import into New Zealand did not have a safety whereas the ones in the US did at that time, so I think it depends on the market. (However, now they import ours from the US, so we are getting the US market ones with the safety too...) So, this being the case, I suspect it is your...
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Scott's Nose-Damaged Bullets Got Me To Thinking
Replies: 17
Views: 1239

Re: Scott's Nose-Damaged Bullets Got Me To Thinking

Okay then - how do you get perfect bases? When I do mine, I have a bit of tin and they come out pretty. I dont start keeping bullets until the mold is hot enough. I check the the edges of the bases is all sharp. What about on the flat of the base itself, does it have to be perfectly smooth? I tried ...
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Unbelievable moment in Ukraine war!!
Replies: 14
Views: 1311

Re: Unbelievable moment in Ukraine war!!

Looking at the video it hit a ways away from the launch platform, I don't think they would have been hurt. Except for the people nearby of course... I find it staggering that this is going on, and at an intensity that parts of the Ukraine looks the same as they did from battle damage in WW2. I work ...
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Jun 19, 2022 3:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cat-sneeze 308 loads.
Replies: 4
Views: 459

Re: Cat-sneeze 308 loads.

I make a load for rabbits with my .308 when I go out for any length of time, and it works well: It's a 147 grain FMJ, with 12-14 grains of Universal (or Unique). It is very accurate (single hole groups at 55 yards) and will knock a rabbit over without destroying him. I recall it was around 1600 fps....
by Carlsen Highway
Mon May 09, 2022 12:36 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: May 2022 Guns & Ammo
Replies: 5
Views: 837

Re: May 2022 Guns & Ammo

I really wanted one of those Baikal double rifles in .30/06, but I havnt got one as yet....one in .303 would be perfect.
by Carlsen Highway
Mon May 09, 2022 12:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 44-40 Pressure Test Results Videos
Replies: 11
Views: 1222

Re: 44-40 Pressure Test Results Videos

Invaluable work Bryan, well done.
by Carlsen Highway
Sat Apr 30, 2022 10:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: No comment. But I'll listen.
Replies: 9
Views: 1026

Re: No comment. But I'll listen.

They are not made by Uberti. Made by Chiappa. Excellent quality I am told, but expensive. (I have saved my money in the past and bought Rossi instead.)
by Carlsen Highway
Sat Apr 30, 2022 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 62gr bullet+Trail Boss?
Replies: 17
Views: 1220

Re: 62gr bullet+Trail Boss?

Assuming a .223:

I wouldn't use Trailboss, it has weirdly high pressures for low velocity.

I use Unique or Universal and 7.5 grains with a 55 grain will get 2000 fps, and superlative accuracy. I would substitute the 62 grain on the same load no problem.
by Carlsen Highway
Fri Mar 25, 2022 10:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Amazon Basin - back in the day
Replies: 17
Views: 1562

Re: The Amazon Basin - back in the day

LOL I cant believe I fell for that.
by Carlsen Highway
Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Read 44 W.C.F.
Replies: 8
Views: 1022

Re: Good Read 44 W.C.F.

I shoot red deer with my .44-40's with black powder, and the soft lead bullets all exit on these animals. One stopped in the spine neck bones once but that was all.
by Carlsen Highway
Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "....A Date That Shall Live In Infamy"
Replies: 11
Views: 1627

Re: "....A Date That Shall Live In Infamy"

I don't forget. My grandfather was there on that morning. He was at the Schofield Barracks when the planes came. (And later Guadalcanal and the Philippines.)
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Baldwin: " . . . I didn't pull the trigger."
Replies: 62
Views: 11008

Re: Baldwin: " . . . I didn't pull the trigger."

And yet the gun in his hand still managed to kill someone.
This is just another version of guns are dangerous on their own and people have no responsibility. The gun itself is guilty.

All three of them should be tried for manslaughter. Armourer, 2nd AD and Baldwin.
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A call to civility
Replies: 53
Views: 4557

Re: A call to civility

I have no idea what's going on. But I think if you are getting angry on an internet forum, you need to go horse riding. I always liked horses and riding. If a horse doesn't like you he will bite a hole in your jeans. If he ignores you, you can ride him into a tree. If he likes you, you can be proud ...
by Carlsen Highway
Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Another "prop" gun killing
Replies: 130
Views: 11787

Re: Another "prop" gun killing

The Armourer on the set is in charge of firearms safety and is who loaded the gun with a live round and took it to a movie set; so inexperienced she didn't know what she had done, and too negligent to check. She should go to prison for criminal negligence. (I heard this woman had already been told o...
by Carlsen Highway
Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Hi Marlinman, could I trouble you to post a picture of the indenter tool you describe?
by Carlsen Highway
Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Bryan,

Your cartridges look just like mine. I have filed the wheel on my tool so its a flat rim.

THanks for posting the photo of the original high velocity load, I haven't seen one of those before.
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Carlsen, It's a rather simple solution but one that many overlook. It mostly prevalent in the 32-20 cartridge with the 38-40 and 44-40 less so. On cases that are thin, use an expander that's .002 under the bullet you are using....or none at all......use a Lee universal expander that only bells the ...
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Sep 29, 2021 1:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Sixgun, that's really cool. I bet that's how they do it at the factory only automaticalized. My problems with the crimp come from hunting, because at the range its not really an issue. If I load up ammunition and then take them to the range and shoot them, there is usually no problem, crimped with t...
by Carlsen Highway
Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Is that one you did?
Yes OK - do you want me to rewrite it?

You can have an article I did on hunting with the Uberti '73 44-40 too if you like.
by Carlsen Highway
Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Sixgun, thats a great set up... I just finished doing what you said just now! I bluntened that wheel down, and am jus tin the middle of doing some more cartridges, and found that I can now easily adjust the depth of thecrimp same as you have said by tightening my wheel up a bit or less as I do it, t...
by Carlsen Highway
Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:17 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

Did you modify the pipe cutter? I just filed the edge of the cutting wheel of the tool a bit, just so it is less likely to cut...not very much though so far, I was impatient to try it out. ideally I should file it some more as Sixgun says, so its more wider. I measured the OAL of the bullet with ca...
by Carlsen Highway
Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

Re: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

I am only sorry I can't tell John Kort about it, he would have appreciated this.
by Carlsen Highway
Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 Crimping under the Bullet
Replies: 29
Views: 4032

.44-40 Crimping under the Bullet

OK - I did it! After years of thinking I needed a munitions factory to put a crimp under the base of a .44-40 bullet just like the factory ammo has, I have done it with a $8.00 pipe cutter. This has been a goal of mine because the crimp on .44-40 ammo is weak because of the thin brass at the case mo...
by Carlsen Highway
Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New Rule At "Tractor Supply Company"
Replies: 14
Views: 2511

Re: New Rule At "Tractor Supply Company"

No he's right, I call her Horseface. After the latest lockdown, I said to the television, why the long face?
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Sep 08, 2021 3:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Now that the statute of limitations has passed
Replies: 23
Views: 3301

Re: Now that the statute of limitations has passed

Where I live it's legal to shoot deer with anything at all, (although illegal to take a .22 cal onto public land.) The deer are all red deer, so I suppose like medium sized elk. People shoot them with .22 sometimes, although now that the internet is here, people have read about people overseas not b...
by Carlsen Highway
Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy Birthday To Carlsen Highway
Replies: 3
Views: 514

Re: Happy Birthday To Carlsen Highway

Thanks!
Oldish, but I can still shoot open sights.
Before I had a broken wrist so I couldn't shoot at the range, and now I feel better, they have put the place into lockdown again so the ranges are closed...
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: music lesson
Replies: 44
Views: 2925

Re: music lesson

Grizz, People who are tone deaf are just as rare as those who have so-called perfect pitch. So you're special! Your story about someone who can hear noises and name them is backed up by people who have gone through musical college. Trumpet jazz players can hear a door squeaking and tell you what not...
by Carlsen Highway
Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: music lesson
Replies: 44
Views: 2925

Re: music lesson

I play the guitar, but with classical guitar It was mostly tablature (not reading music) and with acoustic guitar, well you don't need to read music. Chord chart will do. If Glenn Campbell cant read music then I don't need to. My father disagrees with me, but he is also a keyboard player and those g...
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Chasing the 44-40
Replies: 14
Views: 2131

Re: Chasing the 44-40

Bryan Austin wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:48 pm Thanks Scott!!!

Tested the chronograph with the revolver first. 1,007fps from 6 ft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf0JxYdCoFk


Then backed up the hill to the bench for the 265 rifle check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuAHq7cuxYQ

Very clever, good idea.
by Carlsen Highway
Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Chasing the 44-40
Replies: 14
Views: 2131

Re: Chasing the 44-40

Very well done. Now - try this - load the same bullet with 6 grains of H4227 as a priming and then 32 grains of 3F black powder over the top of it. Seat your bullet to the cannelure as you would normally (and it will be compressing the powder about 0.2 inch) and give it a light crimp. I don't know ...
by Carlsen Highway
Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Chasing the 44-40
Replies: 14
Views: 2131

Re: Chasing the 44-40

Very well done. Now - try this - load the same bullet with 6 grains of H4227 as a priming and then 32 grains of 3F black powder over the top of it. Seat your bullet to the cannelure as you would normally (and it will be compressing the powder about 0.2 inch) and give it a light crimp. I don't know w...
by Carlsen Highway
Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .40-72 winchester
Replies: 12
Views: 2063

Re: .40-72 winchester

That was a favourite rifle from his younger days. I have seen a photo of it, it is a custom 95 with a pistol grip stock. He used to load it with black powder over a smokeless priming.
I gather from my readings that he went from that to using a .30/30, and then to a Springfield rifle.
by Carlsen Highway
Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: roundball in 12 ga
Replies: 34
Views: 4315

Re: roundball in 12 ga

Can I do this with a side by side double?
by Carlsen Highway
Mon May 17, 2021 11:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Chronograph results on an original .44-40 load
Replies: 13
Views: 2571

Re: Chronograph results on an original .44-40 load

Specifically addressing the original question of .44 Henry original load and velocity, here is John Kort's experiment in his words: According to the 1875 Winchester catalog, the velocity of the .44 Henry was "about 1,125 f.p.s." with a 200 gr. bullet. A dissected .44 Henry cartridge had .0...
by Carlsen Highway
Mon May 17, 2021 11:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Chronograph results on an original .44-40 load
Replies: 13
Views: 2571

Re: Chronograph results on an original .44-40 load

John Kort had some original .44WCF black powder from the last century, and replaced the dead primers. They all went bang satisfactorily and he chronographed them at 1300 fps which was what the Winchester advertising claimed. Here is a website that preserves a lot of his articles and posts. For the ....
by Carlsen Highway
Mon May 17, 2021 12:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 BP reloading
Replies: 25
Views: 4085

Re: .44-40 BP reloading

Dave, That bullet is the exact same on I use. 43 215C from Accurate molds. I got a two cavity mold with that and another design 43 210B think it was. It also shoots well, I use it for smokeless only though. John made the 43 215C by taking the Winchester traditional bullet design from 1873 and machin...
by Carlsen Highway
Sat May 15, 2021 10:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 BP reloading
Replies: 25
Views: 4085

Re: .44-40 BP reloading

I have most of Whelen books, treasure them. I don't have "Why not load your own". Is it of any help or an interesting read that any of you have read? Your welcome, from the New Zealand Handloaders Association. :) http://www.nzha.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WhelenWhyNotLoad.pdf I reme...
by Carlsen Highway
Sat May 15, 2021 5:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44-40 BP reloading
Replies: 25
Views: 4085

Re: .44-40 BP reloading

Carlsen, this is (scratching my head interesting) to me cause I'm new to reloading the 30-30. And I have "Red letters days in B.C." here have read it 25 times, and all along I thought Whelen meant the primers. So he put 6 grains smokeless powder underneath 30+ grains blackpowder? I would'...