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Post by Frank V on Oct 7, 2013 18:29:22 GMT -5
Since this is the SA part of the forum, I'm going to nominate a good old Colt SAA 4-3/4" .45 Colt. One I'd really like to have: www.reedercustomguns.com/revolvers/45backpacker.htm but gun funds are at an all time low. If he'd do it, I'd rather have it on the New Vaquero rather than the Vaquero! |
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Post by jayhawker on Oct 7, 2013 23:38:54 GMT -5
I will go with my Colt Custom Shop 3 3/4 inch .45 with ejector and Eagle one piece genuine pearl grips. As good as it gets.
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Post by jimmarch on Oct 7, 2013 23:48:35 GMT -5
My daily carry is a New Vaquero converted to 9mmPara (easily +P/+P+ with a Bowen chromoly cylinder), barrel length is 3.25" of rifled barrel plus another 1/2" gas trap, automatic gas-powered shell ejector, hammer-mounted shell deflector so it doesn't spit shells into my cheek, magazine feed system based on spring-loaded tube mags that plug into the rear of the frame one position left of the hammer. I carry it five-up on an empty chamber plus two rounds in a short 3" tube mag that pick up automatically after the cylinder's five shots. When the last mag round clicks to the firing position the mag follower (reversed shell onto the coil spring) goes forward into the cylinder to lock it from rotation, telling me it's dry. I have a dual-mag carrier with a pair of 9rd reload mags I can swap in faster than most can use a DA sixgun speedloader. This gun doesn't gas-eject the firing shell, rather it ejects the previously fired shell out the loading gate - the loading gate is split in the middle on a hinge that folds down to allow auto-ejection to happen, but is folded closed in the holster to keep the live round under it from falling out in the holster.  Maurice the FrankenRuger lives  . It is, so far as I know, the only personal arm that has a feed cycle remotely like the Mauser MG 213, a captured late-Nazi-era prototype 20mm aircraft cannon:  I'm using a tube-mag and direct shell injection instead of the two-stage mechanical rammer of the MG 213, and direct gas shell ejection instead of an extractor. |
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Post by dougader on Oct 8, 2013 12:36:48 GMT -5
For a single action, my PPP pick is the 45 Colt Montado pictured in my avatar. It serves fine here in NW Oregon. I like a 265 WFN or 255 SWC-HP (a hollow-pointed SAA 270) @ 1,000 fps.
Otherwise, depending on the situation, it's either a Glock 26 or a Glock 21sf. Sometimes I carry a S&W 632, 3" factory-ported revolver in 327 Federal mag.
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Post by jimmarch on Oct 8, 2013 19:09:16 GMT -5
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Post by Irelander on Oct 9, 2013 15:30:49 GMT -5
My PPP is a bone stock blued Ruger New Vaquero Sheriff in 44SPL with a 3.75" barrel. Love that gun! However, leather has a lot to do with perfect packing. Right now I have a custom made cowboy style holster that is similar to El Paso's #44 holster. I think I could pack a bit more perfectly with a Mernickle PS6-SA holster.   |
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Post by magnumwheelman on Oct 9, 2013 15:40:36 GMT -5
nice looking shine on that lever gun in the back ground
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Post by Irelander on Oct 9, 2013 15:48:00 GMT -5
Thats my Rossi 92 44MAG with 16" barrel. My PPP rifle.
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Post by Irelander on Oct 10, 2013 12:25:02 GMT -5
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Post by maxcactus on Oct 10, 2013 23:10:16 GMT -5
HAHAHAHA!!! That's what we all asked/said at first. Take a look at some of Jim's posts on this forum and his videos on YouTube. Will positively blow your mind! |
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Post by jimmarch on Oct 11, 2013 0:16:43 GMT -5
Proof it works - yes, the video quality isn't good (range doesn't allow photography, had to lay a cellphone down on the table) but yeah. It works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XtVldNbO4I've improved the mag latches on the 9rd mags. Swapping is about as fast as using a DA speedloader except I'm inserting nine rounds instead of six - with a six-shot cylinder. Ponder that a bit . I've also added a hammer-mounted shell deflector, basically a brass pin sticking out the right side of the hammer so that as the shell comes straight back, as it clears the cylinder it hits that pin and goes about a foot wide of my head on the way back . What else...I normally carry it with 5rds in the cylinder and the short 2rd "carry mag" inserted. That gives me 7rds out of the leather with automatic switchover between the cylinder rounds and the mag. Weird thing: right as I cock it for shot #5 it does a "clunk" as the first of the mag-fed rounds is slammed forward into the cylinder, telling me I'm down to my last three rounds. All of the cylinders are set up to ram the follower forward a bit into the cylinder to tie it up, so that it tells me the gun is completely dry. Pull that mag, insert another, off and running. I can of course stack a 9rd mag on the 5rd cylinder for 14 rounds without a reload. Kinda cumbersome in the holster but actually practical if I suspected badness might raise it's head. I also have a double-mag carrier made up in leather and some kydex. More video coming as soon as I can score more ammo! I'm planning to reload some of Penn Bullet's 100gr wadcutters sized .356 into ultra-short 9mm rounds. I think I can extend the 9rd mags into 10rd that way. If I can also get those slugs doing 1,200fps I'd make minimum power needed for Steel Challenge Revolver class, plus I'd have 25 rounds on tap with just one reload...start with 15, run dry, slap in 10. There's no rule there against mag-fed revolvers - yet . I tried to figure out how many SASS rules this thing violates. Best I can come up with is "all of them". The Bowen chromoly cylinder blank is rated for at least 41Magnum horsepower as a six-shooter. In 9mm it has to be insanely strong, so I'm not really worried about +P or even factory +P+. Feed reliability is incredible - being dead straight feeding I can't even get it to jam with empty shells. I have significant chamfers cut in the rear of each 9mm chamber, but the shells are still supported much better than in, say, a Glock. I call it "Maurice" from the Steve Miller Band song "The Joker"...because some people call it the Space Cowboy . Has to be the most heavily modified SA in history...damnthing makes the #5 look bone stock. So far as I'm aware no personal arm has ever used this feed cycle before. The Mauser MG 213 and the 20mm/30mm cannon derived from it (US M39 used in the F86 Sabrejet and other early jet fighters) are Maurice's only cousins that I know of to date. |
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Post by alukban on Oct 17, 2013 18:35:20 GMT -5
I love it! |
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Post by onegoodshot on Oct 17, 2013 20:31:15 GMT -5
The past few years i was almost always with a fa97 in 45 colt in a cross draw at the farm. For 2013, probably 90+% of the time it's been a glock in 357sig. Just sitting here typing and can't begin to say why except I keep it in my "man purse" ipad holder. Which unfortunately seems to be permanently attached to me. I need a break from work form sure.
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Post by zac0419 on Oct 18, 2013 7:07:01 GMT -5
I love the quest of trying to find the perfect packing pistol because I don't think it really exist. I am having a blast trying to prove myself wrong. These are my 3 runners up right now. I'll put the SA's up first out of respect for the forum. A FA97 in 45 Colt, carried some while hunting and fishing. A FA83 in 475LB. This one is not carried too often yet. I haven't fully graduated into the +45 class of sixgunner, but having fun working on it. And a S&W 396NG in 44sp, this one gets carries the most due to it's weight and ease of carry. I think it's a great balance of power and packability. |
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Post by lobo on Nov 21, 2013 23:24:42 GMT -5
Some really nice guns!
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. It is, so far as I know, the only personal arm that has a feed cycle remotely like the Mauser MG 213, a captured late-Nazi-era prototype 20mm aircraft cannon:
