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Post by singlesixj on Sept 16, 2014 12:25:45 GMT -5
That ole' movie "Valdez is coming was a classic. Shame they don't show it anymore.
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Post by nolongcolt on Sept 16, 2014 18:08:59 GMT -5
That ole' movie "Valdez is coming was a classic. Shame they don't show it anymore. I have a tape of it. Probably available on DVD as well. One of my favs. |
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Post by TERRY MURBACH on Sept 17, 2014 10:37:07 GMT -5
IT WAS ON THE TELE about two weeks ago as we speak.
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Post by nolongcolt on Jan 18, 2015 11:49:56 GMT -5
I just ordered a Uberti 1873 Special Sporting Short Rifle in .44-40 off the net. After looking over the various configurations available from Win and Uberti, I totally fell for this style and Win does not offer it so Uberti it is. Checkered stock with pistol grip, 20 inch octagon bbl, color case receiver, trigger, hammer and lever. Looking forward to it and will post pix when I get it.
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Post by Paden on Jan 18, 2015 22:02:21 GMT -5
Held one of the Miroku Winchester 73s last week... Those guys can put together some steel and wood! If I was a lever gun nut it would have been mine! I have a Miroku Low Wall, and it too is very nice. I wish they had put iron sights on it tho. |
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 19, 2015 11:47:33 GMT -5
A few notes on Japanese steel and heat treatment quality:
* We learned from P.O. Ackley's destruction tests of Springfields, Mausers, and Arisaka's the incredible strength of the Arisaka imitation of Peter Paul Mauser's Model 1898. the Arisaka's kept going going after lesser loads had destroyed the others.
* Blasting pheasant in England----the English have the dignity to call it "pheasant shooting," as opposed to hunting----I was asked what sort of guns I'd like to try, English doubles, Spanish doubles, Miroku over/unders, or Browning over/unders. Selected a pair of Miroku 12 gauge over/unders. Couple of days later, asking the outfitter which guns hold up best to such volume shooting, he says. "Miroku and Browning are much more durable than the English or the Spanish guns. We regularly have the English and Spanish guns in the shop. They loosen up, parts break."
* Somewhere around late 1970's Smith & Wesson, then owned by Bangor Punta, bought the rotten lousy Nobel pump shotgun. To the chagrin of old time S&W personnel on the floor, the Nobel pump version of a zip-gun may have been rollmarked with the S&W logo. A problem beyond reliability developed with burst barrels. S&W also began importing some shotguns from Japan. I posed a question to the manager of Smith & Wesson law enforcement service, Fran Longtin: "The Japanese probably can't make a revolver the equal of Smith & Wesson, can they?"
"Don't kid yourself," says Longtin. "When we hand the Japanese a specification package they say 'Is that all you want?' Take the same specification package down to the floor here and they want to argue for more tolerance."
Perhaps fortunately for us, Japan has a law against manufacturing handguns.
* Per my experience, Roy Weatherby's Mark V as made in Germany is inferior in smoothness and accuracy to Mark V's made in Japan.
* I know a Japanese American who loves his Browning B-78 copy of John Browning's Winchester.
That stinking little island Japan controlled a third of China in the run-up to WW II, nearly took over India. Only the U.S Navy stopped the Japanese flag from flapping over Australia. May be worth noting that the Japanese, try as they might, could not put the crimp on Vietnam.
David Bradshaw
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Post by dmize on Jan 19, 2015 15:45:29 GMT -5
A friend of mine has a Miroku 45-70. Incredible rifle.
As a loyal American I will point out the difference between made in China vs made in Japan. I have been in the auto business for 30 years,I hate trying to work on the Jap cars but if it wasn't for Honda, Toyota etc the big 3 would still be building 100,000 mile disposable POS's.
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Post by Markbo on Jan 19, 2015 18:13:48 GMT -5
…I have been in the auto business for 30 years,I hate trying to work on the Jap cars but if it wasn't for Honda, Toyota etc the big 3 would still be building 100,000 mile disposable POS's.… Amen!! When friends start harping on me about Buy American I tell "I do...when the product is good enough." I love pointing out to these economic patriots when their American car or pickup is actually built in Canada or Mexico. There is no such thing as a 100% built in America automobile. Not one. |
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