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Post by potatojudge on Jun 16, 2021 20:53:21 GMT -5
SP101 is nice for recoil management and the stud grip frame means versatile grip options.
She can find a grip she likes for the SP101, but no guarantee she’ll like the weight or trigger.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 14, 2021 20:27:32 GMT -5
Just send it to JES with a note and a check. He'll take care of you.
About 1/3 the cost of a new barrel, or less, and maintains more originality.
I don't know what chamber would clean up a 64mm case. 35 Whelen would be cutting it close.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 12, 2021 13:21:01 GMT -5
I’m not saying this is the case, but when I start to use even minimal filters in my phone’s camera case-coloring starts to look pretty bananas. I had the same thought. The coloring pattern doesn't look like bone, nor does it have the waviness of most cyanide coloring. Looks like another chemical process for color.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 10, 2021 9:52:15 GMT -5
If you haven’t already, a second opinion from someone who specializes in your specific problem is worthwhile. All surgeons are not created equal, and while the arm may not get worse without it you won’t be a surgical candidate forever.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 9, 2021 8:29:55 GMT -5
I think I tried the mount on the No 5, which is promising for you.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 8, 2021 23:25:25 GMT -5
Which arrangement does your TLA have? No 5 on the left, WTFTT on the right. I tried putting a Raptor Engineering base for a Ruger flat top on one of them and it didn't work, but I don't recall which.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 8, 2021 13:39:42 GMT -5
Great rifle in a classic do-all chambering.
If you've gotta hunt with a rifle, that one is hard to beat.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 3, 2021 12:01:39 GMT -5
Just contact Reeder, he has stretched frames that would be the ticket. I posted the gun on his forum and he said no way I haven't been on the Reeder forum in a while, but Kim is talking about Reeder's custom stretch frame. It's a casting he has made himself which is a beefed up max length (roughly) frame that takes Ruger internals but looks kind of like a BFR. I suspect a handful of the better smiths could build a stretch frame Single Six, but I doubt any will. Check Fermin's thread on Alan Harton replacing a blown top strap for an idea of what's involved. Mag vs Max is 35,000 vs 40,000 psi and that is held in the cylinder. Not a wild difference. 10mm runs 37,500 but I don't know if the 10mm Single Six shooters load to that level.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 1, 2021 20:15:28 GMT -5
Im quite sure I wouldn't refer to a rebore and very poor remarking of the caliber a "Custom." Great guns and I've collected #1s and #3s for 30+ years. But.... My one complaint about JES’s work is how he marks the barrel. $1500 seems optimistic. I assumed mine was worth the base gun plus 50-100% of the rebore cost which is a $225 job.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 1, 2021 20:13:28 GMT -5
That’s identical to mine down to the forend treatment.
Mine was a 22 hornet somebody reamed to 223, but the twist was too slow for anything over I think 40 grains.
Had JES recut it to 357 Max and it’s a really great little rifle now. His barrels shoot.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 1, 2021 15:41:55 GMT -5
I thought that at first, but couldn’t tell for sure. Guess the grip is the giveaway? Don’t see a closed back hogue mono grip like that for the Redhawk.
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 1, 2021 12:32:04 GMT -5
SRH cylinder with SP101 barrel?
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 1, 2021 12:27:42 GMT -5
This makes me want a stretch frame FA 97 in 360 DW
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Post by potatojudge on May 31, 2021 22:48:37 GMT -5
With them paying shipping, keep sending it back to the factory until it's fixed or they offer to replace it.
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Post by potatojudge on May 31, 2021 22:00:00 GMT -5
Supposedly a Wheeler Topping made gun from the 80s
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