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Buck Elliott

Wyoming is real peaceful, for the most part..

"Longmire" ain't real..

Buck Elliott

Drill a 1/16" hole crossways thru the smaller-diameter portion of the follower, for "pressure relief.."

Try Gun Parts or VTI Gunparts for a magazine spring..

Buck Elliott

There's no reason why such a conversion would not work.. You'd need a different (or modified) extractor for the larger rim, to go along with the .450 carrier..

Work out the case dimensions, and get a reamer and loading dies, and you're set....

Buck Elliott

Well, I'm breaking-in my "last" pair of White's Packers.. The "V-Bar" Vibram soles are still a bit stiff, but are starting to ease up a bit, after a couple days wear.. The 10" boots are a perfect fit, and very comfortable.. Can't wait for the opportunity to give them a serio...

Buck Elliott

Twist in the Uberti barrel is 1:16". According to Uberti literature, and by actual measurement..

Buck Elliott

The '92 Winchester is the perfect size for the .44 Mag., while the longer '94 action reflects Winchester's overall lack of commitment to the cartridge, for a number of years at least.. I'd really like to wring out the '73 from Uberti, in .44 Mag.. i have owned several of them chambered to .45 Colt, ...

Buck Elliott

The '92 Winchester is the perfect size for the .44 Mag., while the longer '94 action reflects Winchester's overall lack of commitment to the cartridge, for a number of years at least.. I'd really like to wring out the '73 from Uberti, in .44 Mag.. i have owned several of them chambered to .45 Colt, ...

Buck Elliott

6 -- .454"

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Buck Elliott

Steve, you can't ignore or deny the fact that Rossi's inattention to detail - in design, manufacture, fit and finish - has provided you with a fairly steady stream of customers over the years..

Not a bad thing... Just sayin'...

Buck Elliott

Well, as long as folks will settle for Mediocre, manufacturers will keep cranking out Mediocre...

Buck Elliott

The creeping loading lever was an innovation of one Mr. E. K. Root, and introduced with the 1855 Root sidehammer revolvers..

Root was Colt's shop superintendant, and the inventor of the horizontal milling machine, among many other machine tools used in gun manufacture..

Buck Elliott

Made the same kind of reference in Paul Hogan's "Lightning Jack.."

Buck Elliott

Moral of the Story: If you find something that really appeals to you, Do Not bring it before the "Committee" for approval.. Buy it.. Wring it out.. If it doesn't work for you, you can sell it off again..

Buck Elliott

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the pressure developed by the .454.. The fault lies in the design/manufacture of the mechanism used to contain that pressure.. Rossi's "package" is inherently unsuited to the task, and always has been.. The '92 platform is only barely marginally ca...

Buck Elliott

I have read, in several references, over many years, that the perfectly-proportioned 1861 "Navy" was Sam Colt's personal favorite of all the revolvers his company produced..

Buck Elliott

GET YOUR MONEY BACK !!!

Buck Elliott

While the little Uberti .22 resembles the Henry offering on the outside, it is a much better gun on the inside..

Buck Elliott

Kinda reminds me of the Ruger #3s that Dick Casull did up in .454.. Wicked brutal...!!

Buck Elliott

There are less-brutal or -painful ways to trim one's eyebrows...

Buck Elliott

Doing so is a perversion of design, and obviously fraught with peril...

They still make guns, designed for the ACP cartridge.. Choose one of those...

Buck Elliott

"Tradition" is what makes these arms so useful in their application..

That said, I don't consider the Mossberg offering to be a legitimate heir to that tradition.. Whatever experiments might be done to one may prove useful.. Or not..

Buck Elliott

Shorts and flip-flops tor a session with a venerable '73 Winchester..???

"Oh, the Humanity..!!!"

Buck Elliott

Definition of a CAMEL: A HORSE, designed by a Committee...!

Buck Elliott

Yup.. Spikes are made to be tough, not particularly hard.. They take quite a beating from the flexing of the rails, and "work-hardening" could cause them to crack or shatter, expecially under the head..

Buck Elliott

Hawkeye2 wrote:.38 stud driver cases, I'm sure there's plenty of material to work with here if you have a sense of humor.

Don't let ignorance get the better of you... you are the one who posed the question in the first place...

Buck Elliott

A single shot pistol, rifle or shotgun becomes a very ineffective CLUB after the first shot is fired. In a situation that has become up-close and personal.. That is why God invented repeaters..! Shotgun ammunition is too heavy and bulky to be seriously considered.. I'd rather be overgunned than unde...

Buck Elliott

The Uberti and the Beretta are the same gun, with possible, minor cosmetic differences..

Buck Elliott

Hawkeye2 wrote:.38 special stud driver cases??

Yes, there are such things..

Or possibly for a captive bolt gun used in slaughter houses..?

Buck Elliott

Stud-driver cases..??

Buck Elliott

I live, and wander around in the middle of prime grizzly bear habitat.. We have our share of black bear too, along with wolves and mountain lions.. As a matter of several decade's habit, I carry a sidearm whenever and wherever possible.. We see some of the aforementioned critters in our little town,...

Buck Elliott

Well.. There ya go, Bluesman.. A Ton of "free" advice.. Most of it is worth exactly what you paid for it, and a lot less than it will cost you to follow a lot of it.. The choice is ultimately up to you.. You know what your needs and limitations are, even if many respondents didn't pause to...

Buck Elliott

Too many "answers" here have avoided the parameters established by the man asking the question.. He already has a .357 Marlin levergun.. Economics must be considered.. Because of vision concerns, he wants a low-power scope.. Will the .38 Spl/.357 Mag accomplish his desired goals? Absolutel...

Buck Elliott

arjunky wrote:Tutt, is there a chance it's even for sale?

Byron

If so, I'd really like to get it back..

Whoever has fiddled with it over the years didn't understand it well enough to keep it running.. Who knows what has been done to it..?

Buck Elliott

A Marlin .357 with a small scope mounted will do fine.. Flat, relatively light, and easy to carry, slung or in a scabbard.. The .357 becomes even better in a carbine, and will do for whatever you should reasonably encounter.. Just make sure that your 180-grain loads will feed thru the gun without a ...

Buck Elliott

Having spent a great part of my life in the remote mountains of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, I have probably seen more cougars than most folks ever will.. As a cowboy, hunter, guide and outfitter I learned to keep my eyes peeled for anything out of the ordinary.. That has been a big help.. Still, many o...

Buck Elliott

Yes they are Blaine.. But the number of wash-outs is alarming, to say the least.. Those who actually make it to the fighting units in the field are still the best, the finest and the bravest..!!

Buck Elliott

Our modern-day version of the old Ordnance Board seems to be in the business of manufacturing conundrums for itself.. The "Perfumed Princes" call for More Power, while decrying Increased Recoil from the other side of their faces.. The laws of Physics have not changed, and mechanical design...

Buck Elliott

Hollywood did a fair job of it in "Hidalgo..."

Buck Elliott

Prayers continue... Blessings and comfort to you all...

Buck Elliott

I suppose there's always something on the order of the .45 Win Mag (on the Grizzly/1911 platform), or the .475 Wildey, or even the .50 AE, but even they would not solve the 'problem...' A miss with a .500 S&W is still a miss.. Peripheral hits with a pistol-caliber bullet cannot be counted on to ...

Buck Elliott

...As well as whatever stickiness may result is compounded several times over when trying to extract 5 or 6 at a time, rather than as a single round at a time with the SA revolvers. Exactly right... in a single-action revolver, or even in a lever-action rifle, you're dealing with only one cartridge...

Buck Elliott

Difference is, that again, .460 factory loads and most loading data quit at about 55,000 psi, for the same reason as the .500.. DA revolver extraction gets a bit sticky beyond that pressure.. The .454 was designed for SA guns, and works well, even at full "allowable" pressure.. Buck, your...

Buck Elliott

Don't know that I'd particularly want donor organs from somebody that dumb.. Something tells me they were probably used pretty hard...

Buck Elliott

FWIW, the .460 limits out at 65,000 psi -- the same as the .454 Casull.. Difference is, that again, .460 factory loads and most loading data quit at about 55,000 psi, for the same reason as the .500.. DA revolver extraction gets a bit sticky beyond that pressure.. The .454 was designed for SA guns, ...

Buck Elliott

SAAMI pressure limits for the .500 S&W are 60,000 psi.. Factory loads and most handloading data are usually held to the 50,000 psi range, for reliable extraction in DA revolvers.. BHA rifles weigh enough to ameliorate much of the recoil, and the stock dimensions are also a help.. It seems to me ...

Buck Elliott

piller wrote:How do the .22 Mag shot loads work? I have a NAA Mini with the 2 cylinders, but I have not used it on a snake.

I've killed a pile of buzztails with CCI's .22 WMR shot shells.. At three to five feet, they'll obliterate a snake's head.. i used a Colt's Peacemaker..

Buck Elliott

Don't toss a wrench into CCI's production schedule.. There are plenty of guns available, chambered for CCI shot cartridges.. If you're a die-hard Ruger fan, the little LCR in .38 special would also fill the bill. At any rate, I doubt that CCI will pay much attention to the 7 of you who requested .3...

Buck Elliott

Most shot-capsule loads won't cycle most autoloaders anyways... I really prefer a revolver for snake duty..

Buck Elliott

Don't toss a wrench into CCI's production schedule.. There are plenty of guns available, chambered for CCI shot cartridges.. If you're a die-hard Ruger fan, the little LCR in .38 special would also fill the bill. At any rate, I doubt that CCI will pay much attention to the 7 of you who requested .38...

Buck Elliott

Never owned an Encore or Contender, but have shot many of each.. I have always found them to be homely contraptions, and clumsy to hand.. They feel like handling the wrong end of a hammer, at the bench or in the field.. The trigger guard/barrel release is an unacceptably-weak link in the design.. I'...

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