Earl and his .35s

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Thu May 15, 2014 8:02 am

As reported in another thread, Earl, his friend George and I popped a few caps with lever guns yesterday out in juniper country. Lever guns were mostly .303 Savage and .35 Remington; Earl and I were both using his cast bullet handloads. Boys, I am here to tell you that Mr. McKinney can shoot! Earl ran five cans in a row offhand at 50 yards with iron sights and did serious damage at 100, at which distance I could hardly see the darned things.
I am sorry I didn't get a group photo of the lever guns, but here's one of Earl killing cans with his five-digit serial saddle carbine rebored to .35 Remington:

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Thu May 15, 2014 8:36 am

Good stuff! Love those 35's.

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Thu May 15, 2014 9:45 am

Sounds like a great time was had

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu May 15, 2014 9:51 am

piller · Post by **piller** » Thu May 15, 2014 11:03 am

Glad you had a good time. It is kind of hard to have a bad time shooting cans, or at least in my experience, but I still am glad you had fun.

Bloodhound · Post by **Bloodhound** » Thu May 15, 2014 11:50 am

Nice weather, like-minded friends, classic guns and shootin'....does it get any better...Looks like a great day!

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu May 15, 2014 12:47 pm

Spring for the latest greatest this time. HTC One M8. First time taking that approach.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Thu May 15, 2014 4:53 pm

Good photo of Earl

N.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Thu May 15, 2014 4:59 pm

That a nice looking Savage with the tang sight.

What kind of cans were you guys shooting? Mex-I-cans?

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Thu May 15, 2014 6:01 pm

Come to think on it, there might have been an empty can or two o' frijoles refritos; lotsa chicken stock ...

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Sun May 18, 2014 7:55 am

Sixgun wrote: What kind of cans were you guys shooting? Mex-I-cans?

I ever come upon the sorry suckers who think it is cute to bring their old TVs out to "my" gravel pit for targets.... may be some Merry-cans shot.

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Sun May 18, 2014 8:40 am

earlmck wrote:
Sixgun wrote: What kind of cans were you guys shooting? Mex-I-cans?
I ever come upon the sorry suckers who think it is cute to bring their old TVs out to "my" gravel pit for targets.... may be some Merry-cans shot.

Mike Armstrong · Post by **Mike Armstrong** » Mon May 19, 2014 2:27 pm

Quite a bit of chatter on www.24hourcampfire.com "Savage Collectors" forum about converting 99s to .35 Rem. Apparently it's been done for a long time and works very well. My guess is that most are shot out .300s or .250s or the same with abused barrels (cut to illegal length, bent, ringed, tapped into near bore, etc.).

Earl and his .35s

Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s

Re: Earl and his .35s