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Post by Lee Martin on Dec 18, 2012 10:11:35 GMT -5
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Post by tek4260 on Dec 18, 2012 11:25:11 GMT -5
What are we looking at in the last pic? looks like a piece of a big toe!
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Post by Lee Martin on Dec 18, 2012 12:49:33 GMT -5
What are we looking at in the last pic? looks like a piece of a big toe! It's a section of femur. The lower ball to be exact. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Building carpal tunnel one round at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Dec 18, 2012 12:58:03 GMT -5
Remember, 600-00018 was the first production 357 Maximum.  David also told me an interesting story surrounding the early Maximum tests. In his words: "Ruger Farm, 1981.... One afternoon, while Bill Ruger, Jr., and I were shooting SRM-2----the prototype .357 Maximum which Bill, Jr., had fitted with ten barrels----Bill, Sr., drove up in his "range car," a Jeep Wagoneer. I was shooting on a picnic table, off sandbags, with target at 100 yards. Bill, Jr., spotted and watched the Ken Oehler Model 33 chronograph. SRM-2 was factory fitted with a Leupold 4x EER scope on Leupold base. Finishing a string, I invited Bill, Sr., to try his hand. I reminded him that I'd done the trigger and it had a 1-lb letoff. He took it in stride and proceeded to stritch 5 or 6 experimental Remington Maximums into a 4 or 6" group at 100 yards. Mr. Ruger nodded, and said, "Continue, gentlemen. I'll see you for cocktails." As his father got in the Wagoneer and headed down the hill, Bill, Jr., said, "That's the first time I've seen the Old Man shoot in four years." (Bill, Sr., had battled progressive rheumatoid arthritis for years; his hands were not what they used to be.) I do not remember whether it was that evening, or another, Bill Ruger, Sr., asked, "David, what do you think of the Bisley grip?" "The Colt Bisley grip is an abomination of Victorian design," I said. "It is skinny and ambivalent and an eyesore on the beautiful Peacemaker." "It doesn't have to be that way," said Mr. Ruger. "I'm thinking we should introduce the Maximum with a Bisley grip, A Bisley grip more suited to the cartridge and the Blackhawk." In the rush to release the .357 Maximum, Ruger's vast improvement of the Colt Bisley grip would have to wait. (Note also, that while Federal released Maximum ammo with a 180 JHP designed for the cartridge, Remington----Ruger's collaborator on the project----was still stuck on their 158 JHP." Who knew there was a chance we could've had the Bisley in 1982. I appreciate David sharing this with the forum. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Building carpal tunnel one round at a time" |
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Post by zeus on Dec 18, 2012 14:30:50 GMT -5
That would have been cool to see from the factory. does give you an idea of how long Sr had been toying with doing it though  Thanks David! |
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Post by bradshaw on Dec 18, 2012 14:39:41 GMT -5
Photo with "big toe"----That is the lower end of a femur from a large whitetail doe. It came about this way: A friend shot the doe with a Matthews compound bow and Rage mechanical arrowhead. The deer traveled about 50 yards and died.
As we skun it, I noticed a sharp lump inside the thigh, just above the knee. Wiggling the leg it was obviously broken. A muzzleloader Powerbelt .50 had smashed into the femur and broken into a mashed slug with two fragments. The bullet penetrated an inch at most, although two fragments went deeper. The bullet evidently hit the femur like a cue ball, stopping in place as it propelled the broken bone-end to the inside thigh.
My friend had not seen the deer limp, he said. We figured the lousy shot with the muzzleloader had wounded the doe about two or three days before. A couple of muscles from that thigh were brownish and did not smell right. The rest of the meat is fine.
A deer facing winter and coyotes with a leg like that, I call my friend finishing it a Mercy Killing.
I've heard of too many wounded deer and moose this season and think it is time for so-called "hunters" to study and practice MARKSMANSHIP, and to become HUNTERS.
David Bradshaw
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Post by zeus on Dec 18, 2012 16:32:23 GMT -5
On that, I had several incidents in which the shots were very well placed and the powerbelts just didn't hold together well at all. Of those, I had two lung shots fail to exit on 50 yard shots. Never used them again. |
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Post by bradshaw on Dec 18, 2012 20:53:53 GMT -5
Zeus.... your are correct about Ruger.
Correct again on the Powerbelt. Word on the jungle drums of Powerbelt fails echo your experience, and the deer described earlier. The bone ends were worn from rubbing, like they'd been sanded.
The Powerbelt looks like a thin wash of electroplate----supposed to pass for a jacket.
David Bradshaw
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Post by Seasons44 on Dec 18, 2012 22:30:49 GMT -5
David, thank you for sharing and some great photos
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Thanks David!
