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Post by Quick Draw McGraw on Feb 27, 2020 11:32:37 GMT -5
I've been fascinated by the Model 100 and Model 500 Century Manufacturing Revolvers since the early 90's and would very much like to get one but...
I like to shoot my firearms and want to know what these gins can safely handle. These monsters in .45-70, .50-70, and .50-110 are awesome, but are they as strong as BFRs? Does anyone on the forum have experience with these?
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Feb 27, 2020 12:02:00 GMT -5
I have fired one, courtesy of Rob Leahy, but I have no idea how heavily the Century .45-70's can be loaded. I suspect most are fired with standard pressure 300-405 gr. loads, which should be adequate for most purposes. It's a heavy cumbersome gun, and frankly, I would prefer a BFR, or better yet a FA, custom Ruger, or short frame BFR in the more modern and equally powerful .475L, .500 WE, or .500 JRH.
Just my opinion.
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Post by CraigC on Feb 27, 2020 12:49:03 GMT -5
I handled one 25yrs ago when it came into the shop I was working at. It wouldn't carry up right out of the box. I think it's mostly a novelty. If you want something like that to load heavy and use seriously, the BFR is a better option.
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Post by taffin on Feb 27, 2020 13:03:42 GMT -5
I've been fascinated by the Model 100 and Model 500 Century Manufacturing Revolvers since the early 90's and would very much like to get one but... I like to shoot my firearms and want to know what these gins can safely handle. These monsters in .45-70, .50-70, and .50-110 are awesome, but are they as strong as BFRs? Does anyone on the forum have experience with these? Had an early 100 way back==Go BFR |
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Post by Quick Draw McGraw on Feb 27, 2020 17:15:22 GMT -5
I want to say thanks to you gentleman. These are neat but it sounds like they are not worth the money unless it's for displaying as part of a collection.
I gotta admit, Magnum Research's BFRs are tanks. I got three, and in the future, it will be four.
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Post by denul on Mar 9, 2020 7:57:00 GMT -5
My century arms 100 was built pretty much as I watched, with Earl Keller making these doing the late 1970s in Evansville Indiana. I took an interest after a guns and ammo article showed it being reviewed by Elmer Keith, who actually did not shoot it for the article, but instead let a younger couple of guys do that part.
His conclusions were about the same as mine, that it was pretty cumbersome, but an awful lot of fun. We were shooting 22 grains of 2400, under a 400 grain cast bullet with very good results. This thing is massive, and I cannot say that I ever handled the sleeker looking BFR 4570 revolvers. Earl made a few of these for a friend of mine on request in different calibers, I believe 375 Winchester in particular.
I am a lurker and I believe this may be my first post on this website, although I am quite a bit more active over on the cast boolit websites. Earl was a terrific human being, and I think probably too generous with his time, because the century 100 was a retirement project for him, and if you visited he would stay up all night long talking about his ideas about how this revolver should be made and used. I found mine to be quite accurate, and just a lot of fun to shoot, and its weight to be very effective at dampening recoil. It makes an interesting companion piece to the Browning 86, but I think a lot of the idea of having a convenient rifle / pistol combination has to be burdensome with the weight of these respective firearms.
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