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Post by nolongcolt on Mar 14, 2015 18:37:28 GMT -5
Guys, I just snagged one of the newly made Miroku Model 71's on GB. Be looking for some brass. I have some but will need more and if anyone has any new brass they would like to sell for reasonable let me know. I don't have it yet but figure I better start looking. There is some around, but frankly the sellers want 2 or 3 prices for most of it. I will be looking for the hot deal of course. Thanks!!
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Post by bushog on Mar 14, 2015 18:44:16 GMT -5
Let us know how it shoots!
I think I remember Lee having one too
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Post by nolongcolt on Mar 14, 2015 18:59:51 GMT -5
Yeah I think Lee has the Browning Deluxe and if I recall it shoots very well. These new Wins are built in the same place, but it will have the tang safety and possibly the rebounding hammer. I have seen conflicting info on the hammer. The tang safety is something I can live with, my '95 .405 has it too and I got used to it.
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Post by cmh on Mar 14, 2015 19:50:19 GMT -5
Great candidate for a 450 or 50 Alaskan .....
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Post by ericp on Mar 14, 2015 20:17:13 GMT -5
Congrats, should be fun. My B-71 shoots great and handles like a 71 should. Also does good work with cast bullets.
Eric
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Post by nolongcolt on Mar 14, 2015 21:18:14 GMT -5
My dad was always a huge fan of the 71 and I know for sure he dumped a big cow elk and at least one spike buck with at least one of them, he had several over the years. He said he paid $136 for the first one he bought, probably in the late 1950's. I had an original years ago and one Browning that I am wishing I had kept about 8 years ago, but you know how it is...
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Post by rgp on Mar 14, 2015 23:18:13 GMT -5
Congratulations.
I think the Winchester and Browning 71's in .348 are the best lever guns ever made but I do tend to be opinionated.
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Post by aciera on Mar 15, 2015 17:30:01 GMT -5
I just got a Winchester 71. They are great as they are.  ) Mine was given to a man in 1942 for a graduation present. He enlisted the next day and shot it 4 years later for the first time. I have seen this one in magazine articles and in Gun Digest for 50 years. I promised him I'd keep shooting it. |
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Post by aus71383 on Mar 31, 2015 4:41:20 GMT -5
Congrats! I've got one of the Browning 71 Carbines - beautiful rifle, lots of fun to shoot - as long as you don't go prone. Something about the metal butt plate just makes it less enjoyable. I highly recommend the Lyman 66 receiver sight for it. The buckhorn rear is nice looking and traditional - but basically sucks if you want to shoot accurately. Also - the front sight hood will come flying off if you go fire off a few boxes of ammo, and you won't notice it until you get home later on. Ask me how I know about that little trick….
I have some brass. I'd suggest being patient. I wasn't very patient, found a guy selling some brass and reloads on armslist locally and got some brass that way. I also picked up some Grizzly ammo from gunbroker. If you get real desperate and haven't been able to shoot the gun - I'll have a look at my brass stash and see what I can part with.
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Post by nolongcolt on Mar 31, 2015 10:51:08 GMT -5
I shot it yesterday for the first time, shot well enough but as you say with open sights you don't get tight little groups though I did manage a couple groups in the 2x3 inch range, with 200 gr Hornady's and 4350. I have a Williams Foolproof coming for it right now.
Going to try some other powders of course and I have some 250 original Barnes bullets to try. I had fired my new Ruger No. 1 9.3x74 just before the 71, so coming off that fairly hard kicker, the 71 even with the steel butt, seemed almost tame for recoil. I will try to post pics of the gun later.
Doing allright on brass for now. Got some off GB and another 50 from a place called Arms and Ammo, got the last bag of 50 they had and at a price thats not a hosing. Thanks!
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Post by aus71383 on Mar 31, 2015 14:05:45 GMT -5
Yeah I was surprisingly unimpressed by the recoil - makes me want to get another and have it done as a 50 alaskan. Glad you got some brass, and some range time! The Williams sight is aluminum and anodized - it won't really match the receiver. Those bullets sound good. I have some of the Hornady 200 gr ones, haven't loaded them yet. 4350 is the powder I'm planning on too.
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Post by nolongcolt on Mar 31, 2015 20:39:34 GMT -5
i1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii596/Scott3840/IMG_1346.jpgWell here it is, rebounding hammer, tang safety and all! i1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii596/Scott3840/IMG_1355.jpgi1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii596/Scott3840/IMG_1347.jpgi1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii596/Scott3840/IMG_1358.jpgI have seen a couple of these new issue 71's and I noticed that the wood in the grip was pretty much parallel to the bore which is not ideal in a hard kicking gun with a curved grip, good place for cracks. This one is about right with the wood grain in line with the grip. It actually has a little bit of well, if not figure at least its not just totally plain straight grain wood as the others I have seen are. I must say I really don't care for the color of stain they use, but that's a pretty minor point, It worked very well at the range. I got used to the hammer and safety thing on my Miroku 1895 .405 Win that I have so its not a big thing for me. That the Williams sight is aluminum and anodized bothers me not at all, I have the same sight on my '95. It works great. I will get it tomorrow, from Buffalo Arms. They had the best price around that I could find.
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Post by aus71383 on Mar 31, 2015 21:39:47 GMT -5
Clearly you have excellent taste. I clicked through your album and stumbled onto your .45 5.5" Bisley - I have the same gun. I've also got a Browning 1895 in .30-06 - got it more or less to round out the Browning made/JMB designed lever action collection, and didn't know if I'd even like it. It's such a joy to shoot though - the action is incredibly smooth. It's hard to put it into words. It's night and day from any other lever gun I've ever handled. I may hot rod it into a 375 or 411 Hawk some day.
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Post by nolongcolt on Mar 31, 2015 23:02:04 GMT -5
That Bisley is one of my keeper guns, shoots like a house-a-fire. Its an earlier gun from AcuSport.
Much has been made about how the '95 is hard to carry because the magazine is at the balance point. While this may be true, I had no problem lugging mine around all day everyday with no sling in South Africa last summer for 10 days. I like the so called Africa carry, where you balance the rifle on your shoulder, muzzle forward and grasp the barrel. That or modified parade carry works well.
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Post by thomasmblack on Apr 3, 2015 21:58:33 GMT -5
Nolongcolt,
I've sent you a pm about the brass.
Tom Black
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