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Nope, I keep records of my reloads but that's so I know what loads I've found that shoot the best out of a particular gun. Once the load is settled I don't bother keeping records so strictly but it gives me something to go back and compare to if accuracy falls of someday (hasn't happened to me yet)....

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I only have one ported firearm. A Ruger #1 I stumbled upon in a gunstore on consignment. $650 out the door, it had already been Mag-Na-Ported and had a Pachmeyr Decelerator pad professionally installed and came with a nice Leupold already mounted. Quite the deal! Of course that was back when I thoug...

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I second what CRS said above. I have three Miroku 1895's, nothing else comes close. Is there a difference between the Miroku and the USRAC 1895s? My USRAC JapChester 1895 in 405 is pretty stiff, but then again I haven't shot it much...50 rounds? It's a beast. As far as I know Miroku has made all th...

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I second what CRS said above. I have three Miroku 1895's, nothing else comes close.

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I always preferred the shorter carbine and trapper length barrels. I live out in the desert so there isn't really any place where brush is going to be in my way with a longer barrel and with irons the longer barrels give me a longer sight radius, I just prefer the look of the shorter barrels.

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Thanks guys! I shot a 225 .338 into hard pack southern Colorado river bank to check penetration. It penetrated about 2-3" mushrooming nicely. When I rinsed the dirt off the core came loose. Years later I shot a cow elk st about 170- 180 yards away, it went clean through the boiler room and thru...

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Went out earlier to take advantage of the overcast morning to test my latest load for my Miroku 1895 .30-40 Krag. I'm trying to find something it liked with these cheaper Hornady 220 grain RN before I test out the much costlier Woodleigh version. I'm so smart I forgot to take pictures of the target ...

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4895 wasn't that impressive out of my .30-40, I mean it was a great low recoil round but it didn't group well. The upper end of 4064 shrunk those groups but still I think it could do better. I have the same rifle in .30-06 and it does very well with the heavy bullets but it's a 1:10 twist, for some ...

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The new '73's are really looking great! I want one of the Deluxe Sporting models. http://www.lipseys.com/itemdetail.aspx? ... I534259141

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Don't go just of a flattened primer. Some primers are thinner in the cup, especially pistol primers! N. Yep. And all the rifles chambered in 45 Colt have nearly max size chambers to aid the greatest flexibility in feeding. Even my single shot 1885. I don't worry about a little soot... it comes righ...

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... check a new load in my Miroku '95 .30-40 (trying to get a good load for this before hunting season this year)... I'm always interested in .30-40 loads. I am too. It's hard to find data for new Miroku 1895's, everything is for the weaker Krag action. I think I found a node at the top end of publ...

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Been a while since I went out with my 16" Miroku '92 so I decided to bring it along when I went out this morning to check a new load in my Miroku '95 .30-40 (trying to get a good load for this before hunting season this year). Anyway I got there and realized I'd forgotten my targets! What to do...

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Looks like the Miroku Winchester 1886 Extra Light I owned for a short while. Sold it in favor of a Marlin 1895GS that was a lot slicker, more accurate & 1/2 the money. The lawyered up Winchesters will never be as smooth & slick as the original Winchester 1886s and I want smooth for that kin...

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If I had enough money to have good and silver sitting around I wouldn't put it in a bank. Feds have seized privately held previous metals (out of safe deposit boxes) before, nothing stopping them from doing it again if it's held in a bank. It's a moot point as I'm a poor man who works hard for his m...

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Straight, no ice, no chaser, no flavors or sugar. At home, just a pull from the bottle does the trick. :lol: Same here, also not chilled. Room temp so the flavor comes out. But there is a local place making "Brown Sugar Bourbon" that is pretty tasty. Looking forward to next winter so I ca...

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For the Winchester 1892 the "3-C" front sight ramp was special order until it became standard after 1931 (post serial # one million). But they are rare due to old style barrels still in stock being used up and slow sales during the depression. Information pulled from page 379 of "The ...

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Interesting, thanks for the info CRS! Makes me wonder about spending some time in a fab shop trying to replicate the original style 1895 box magazine. I wonder if it would fit another long round or two? Hmm...

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More than two years of preparation for this hunt began with the decision to use my Miroku made Winchester 1895 .405 WCF takedown rifle to take a Cape buffalo. Though many buffalo have been taken with the standard 300 grain .405 bullets, the “Judge G” modification (reaming the chamber to allow crimp...

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Hill People Gear stock cuff. Their ".30 caliber" size will fit .357 ammo without issue even though it was designed for .30-30 through .308 size rounds.

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I only have about two whiskeys that I truly like and enjoy (not that I will turn away a free drink) and neither are cheap. But if you really like rye whiskey (like I do) and want something a bit different try ordering a "sazerac" (and hope the bartender knows how to make a good one).

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If you want to get into rifle rounds you want the Buchanan Precision Hand Press. I just used mine the other day to load up some .30-40 Krag test ammo. This press is every bit as accurate as my Rock Chucker. It's an improved and updated version of the old Huntington Compac Press. Some of you may have...

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Saw this on another forum and thought it was interesting and rather pertained to this discussion. Apparently there are still 29 officers of the NYPD who still carry .38 revolvers as their service pistol but that will be ending soon... http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2018/05/30/nypd-officers...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 4:22 pm Kinda like this Hawk?
I've been installing this pine the past 5 weeks, about 2000 sq ft.

Ya but I wasn't going to do the ceiling as it will be arched concrete. Honestly probably wont be a clean looking as your installation either (I'm a framer that hates finish work).

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I've been thinking about building a root cellar. If I do it'll get a much sturdier room built off the side, figured on building something similar to this on the interior of the safe room but out of knotty pine. Not as modular but a lot prettier background for my guns to enjoy!

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Marlin 1895 and 336 are essentially the same action, one of those could be dropped from that list. And he's going to list the Savage 99 because of its magazine and full size cartridge it is predated and loses out to the 1895 Winchester. Better to keep the 99 because of its external safety, round cou...

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southfork wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 5:45 pm Do you have to drill and tap a Winchester Model 1895 receiver for this sight, or not?

One hole had to be tapped and one has two be drilled and tapped. These sights come with all the drill bits and taps you need.

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Only an idiot would think these things aren't listening all the time.

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Wow, thread resurrection! Interesting to read, to interesting not to join in even if it is old. Mine would be a Trapper length Winchester, either the 94 in .30-30 I currently keep in my truck (with a light and ammo carrier) or a similarly set up 92 in .45 Colt. My 92 must be special because I can fi...

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Buffalo Arms is where I've bought mine as well.

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all the same caliber? No, top one is a .30-06 that has shown to shoot VERY well with 180 and 220 grain round nose factory ammo. The other two are both .30-40's, the newest (on the bottom) has some blemishes and I believe it was fired though I was told it wasn't. At any rate after this afternoon it ...

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A poor lost orphan was needing a home and being the generous soul that I am I couldn't turn it away. https://i.imgur.com/CJwCqqd.jpg?2 Here it is meeting it's new siblings for the first time. I left them alone to figure out the pecking order and sniff butts and whatever else Winchesters do when they...

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I never knew or met Wind, though I learned of him through the OP in the link. I believe that "Mo" is the same guy as "justsaymo" on other forums. Wind's place wasn't that far from me, I wish I'd have made it up to one of the shoots to meet him. They seem like a great group and Wi...

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Hill People Gear Stock Cuff, you can put something under it for padding if you need plus it holds ammo. http://hillpeoplegear.com/Products/CategoryID/8/ProductID/43 Or if you really want to go cheap cut strips out of an old closed cell foam sleeping pad and duck tape them on, add layers to raise as ...

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R.I.P. Sir

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Never done that to a rifle stock but all my tools that get rehanded are gone over with a propane torch before being finished out. Shovels, axes, hammers, post hole diggers and one adz to date.

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Here are some picture of the '95 just to compare with the '86 that KWK posted above.

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I was perusing the used track at cabelas today and almost walked out with a Miroku 1895 in .405 because of this thread. I can find a cheaper one on gunbroker and have been resisting the urge because I need an SRC in .30-40 first but holding the .405 and it really started calling to me. If they'd hav...

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I believe to turn an '86 into a box magazine would require puffing it's checks out like on the Big Bore 94 models. The Winchester 1895 is by far my favorite rifle, unfortunately I can't argue that it is a super strong action. Originally it was meant for the .30-40 cartridge and it excels there, by c...

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Not my picture but I always thought this guy had an interesting idea. There were a lot more pictures but that is the only one I saved. He seemed to have used it for several years on other forums. Not easily seen in this picture but he had a longer bolt through the tang to hold the stock and then ano...

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I agree with Pete though I have no concrete evidence to support this. I think it also dates back to the Turks adopting the '66 for their cavalry. Those real ladders were calibrated in mils! For the en mass tactics of the day it made sense for volley fire.

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I've not tried it yet but I've been thinking about this very thing. I believe that if you were to carefully bed around the upper and lower range (basically any good to metal contact point on the butt) as well as bed a custom length piller in place for the tang screw you could remove the stock as oft...

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I agree. Rocks are the answer. But they should be improved a bit. Maybe high velocity copper coated lead "rocks" and instead of throwing them by hand they could be projected out of a small compact device that lets you throw multiple rocks before you have to reach for another handful of roc...

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I wouldn't hold my breath. The Miroku 95s never were all that popular (I do have two). The chances of them taking on a Rusky 95 are slim to none. Even less likely is that they get the cartridge feeding right with the stripper clip guide. And it takes more than just the guide. The lips of the magazi...

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I'd be happy if they'd just do another run of the SRC's. I have two but I wouldn't mind a few more.

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Some guns can do better but a 94 Trapper isn't a bench rest gun. 50 yards as the sun has begun to set and I struggled to see the sights. 4 almost 5 rounds of 170 grain factory went minute of coyote and sub minute of deers vitals. Those little 125 grain HP's went pretty high though, had to bottom the...

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I try to make one now and again but around here the crafters and hipster/vintage crowd hit them up also. I just like using old (often forgotten and neglected) tools as they are often better than what's available new but the crowd has driven the prices up to where you really have to hunt to get a deal.

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Here's one another Marine took of me while we were training in Albania back in 2003.

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Does anyone have one of the older Browning/Miroku 1895's? I wonder if their capacity is any different than the newer Winchester/Miroku with the tang safety like the ones I have.

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I have a Miroku 1895 in .30-06 and also one in .30-40, both only hold 4 rounds. Also with the .30-06 you dont have to roll the cartridge down you can set a cartridge on top of the feed lips and press straight down, it can be loaded similar to a double stack magazine that way. I dont have an original...

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I looked long and hard last time I bought a truck for one with a manual. I found ONE with all the other features I wanted, drug my feet on it and it was gone the next day. My other truck is an auto because again when I bought it you couldn't get the features I wanted with a manual. So no my current ...

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