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Post by Fowler on Apr 12, 2024 14:04:20 GMT -5
I too like "snubbies" and the light weights. Here's a 2.5" 329 Alaska backpacker with a stainless steel cylinder (it weighs the same as the 4" 329s). . . I about to take the dogs for a walk and will take the Backpacker along - it fits nicely in the rear pocket of my carharts. . Paul PS Would love to find a 325. Paul do you get a volume discount on those grips from Hogue? I will say they are game changers for alum framed Smiths, worth every penny. What do you think of that 2.5” vs the reg 4” 329? They seem to be a real handful regardless of the load but sure work for the task at hand of carry a lot shoot a little guns.
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Post by Fowler on Apr 11, 2024 20:53:10 GMT -5
I am a sucker for snubbies, the Nightgaurds intrigued me for sure, not sure which of the models I would pick if given my druthers. It would not be the 44mag, too much fun in such a small light package... How about a Night Guard model 315 in 38 Special? That would have been a good one. I think the 396 44sp might have gotten the nod. Hard to say.
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Post by Fowler on Apr 10, 2024 17:05:12 GMT -5
I am a sucker for snubbies, the Nightgaurds intrigued me for sure, not sure which of the models I would pick if given my druthers. It would not be the 44mag, too much fun in such a small light package...
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Post by Fowler on Apr 7, 2024 22:35:14 GMT -5
Yes here here, get better quick because it’s about to get to be the good time of year up north.
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Post by Fowler on Apr 5, 2024 10:41:46 GMT -5
Cabot does these special runs of guns. Meteorite was used for the slide on a matched pair of 1911 a few years back, I want to say they brought over a million for the pair (I could be wrong but it was stupid money). My cousin has a Cabot, not like this one but a more “normal” Cabot 1911 and it is a marvelous gun through and through.
They are properly made and not just out embellishments.
No is it worth $50k? These sorts of guns are it worth what some guy is willing to pay for it. Super rare, hard to make, extremely well done guns with an excellent rep seem to do just fine. This gun will sell to someone.
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Post by Fowler on Apr 3, 2024 7:17:12 GMT -5
Yup I love my 475 FA, start mild and work up the recoil ladder is all I can say even if you have a lot of experience with big bores, redline 475 loads are something else.
Fine gun
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Post by Fowler on Apr 3, 2024 7:12:19 GMT -5
Call FA and speak with Bob and ask if they would rebarrel it and leave the trigger alone. He is a very reasonable guy, 307-883-2468
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Post by Fowler on Mar 29, 2024 10:52:06 GMT -5
Just got outbid on GB was a 3rd gen, looked NIB, at least excellent. Lost phone service traveling out west. Been looking for awhile, have a 17L want it's twin. I think I have a 24 buried away. You don’t even know what all you have squirreled away. Probably Jimmy Hoffa is in there somewhere. 😂
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Post by Fowler on Mar 26, 2024 20:28:00 GMT -5
When I was in college in Gunnison there was a gunsmith in town building custom Farquarson (sp?) action falling block rifles. He would make a scaled down version in 22 Hornet and had made several 4 bores and I remember having an order for a 2 bore for some Saudi Prince.
He had one 2 bore case sitting there and a couple of lead bullets cast for it that were something like 2850gr in weight! Wish I had seen the finished rifle assuming Clayton ever finished it. Guess he folded shop owing a lot of people money and guns…
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Post by Fowler on Mar 25, 2024 21:39:42 GMT -5
Have you checked with Mike on his direct line stuff. Some of that ships in a few days.
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Post by Fowler on Mar 23, 2024 12:39:46 GMT -5
What load was that, looked like fine shooting at a fair bit of distance. I do wish I had a place that I could leave steel targets set up at so I could shoot a few rounds when the mood strikes. Shooting a couple cylinders here and there will make for a far better shooter than shooting a bunch of ammo when you occasionally get the chance.
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Post by Fowler on Mar 22, 2024 15:19:54 GMT -5
Ashley Emerson of Garrett Cartridges brought out a 405gr 45 colt Load for RedHawks that runs 1250fps from a 4” barrel. I can’t imagine (or don’t want to) what gain you would really get from a 454 cylinder in that gun.
YMMV
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Post by Fowler on Mar 22, 2024 12:52:41 GMT -5
I remember a long time back reading Outdoor Life I believe where a man was out picking berries. He had a S&W 22LR revolver with him. Along came a black bear so the man went up a tree and out on a long branch. It was high enough the bear couldn't jump and reach him. At any rate the man shot the bear with the revolver and he went off a few feet and fell down. The man was so convinced that he thought surely he couldn't have killed the bear with one shot from a 22LR so he stayed on that branch for 3 hours before he started to think the bear was indeed dead, then came down out of the tree. In fact the bear was dead. I know many a small town meat packer who would kill 2000lb steers with a 22lr pistol. Just have to know the right place to place your bullets.
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Post by Fowler on Mar 21, 2024 11:48:46 GMT -5
Id say a couple of things probably occurred that saved this guy 1: the bear was not committed to attacking him, she was sorting out what he was probably and was dissuaded by the throbbing headache the 38sp gave her because she again wasn't committed to killing him. I think she probably was investigating what he was in defense of her cubs, was he a danger? Was he a potential easy meal? Who knows? 2: He had some brass balls and was very fortunate, the soft lead rounds of the day didnt penetrate the skull, had she wanted to kill him by all logic she would have. When Phil Shoemaker killed that griz with the 9mm a few years back it was with best quality hard cast loads and +P+ power levels and he shot the bear repeatedly till the threat stopped, 6 shots in the chest in less than 2 seconds. Certainly accounting for the different outcome of the 2 similar power level rounds.
Times were different and men were tougher, imagine a 35 day pack trip with today ultra light food and equipment compared to the heavy assed stuff of their day? You just dealt with a lot less stuff like a sleeping pad, maybe rain gear or tent. There sure as heck wasn't a rescue beacon hanging on your pack that could summon help if something went sideways, you broke a leg you were going to be in a world of hurt just to survive getting out, if you could get out. Guys went into the wilderness never to return with some regularity back then, I'm sure bear stories like this happened without the happy ending for anyone involved more often than we really know. Just the guy went hunting and never returned. I don't know how I would measure up to those outdoorsmen of the day, I know Id like to think I could but damn I'm not sure I would deal with the misery they must have endured daily, but then they also didnt know any difference either. Go read Elmer Keith's Canadian hunts in "Hell I was there"...
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Post by Fowler on Mar 21, 2024 11:18:29 GMT -5
I have had issues with new brass galling in my sizer die, leaving little hard brass balls in the sizer that I then had to polish out of the sizer (Dillon has graciously replaced a couple of the sizers for me when the galled). Dillon suggested running new brass in a tumbler with dirty corn cobb/walnut shell media, the media acts as a lubricant for the brass that seems to prevent galling. Seems a bit of Hornady One shot might be easier but I haven't run any virgin brass through that press since the discussion so I cant report back on the effectiveness of his fix.
One of these days I will find out though.
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