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The 71 came along in 1935..

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A good friend moved from Cody back to Oroville last summer.. She packed up and was ready to leave this evening. Stores have NO water and little food left, as area residents prepare to evacuate..

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"Wickipedia.."? Please... The only cases that have been "structurally strengthened" are the second-generation .454 cases, with redesigned internal dimensions, to include a heavier case head/thicker web, and the change to the small primer pocket.. .45 Colt cases from Winchester, F...

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Most of the mystery and confusion surrounding the venerable .45 Colt cartridge stems from the time of its introduction, when Colt's cylinders were made of wrought iron and didn't have even the strength of modern mild steel.. SAAMI, in its infinite wisdom, has always deferred to that ancient metallur...

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My OM SBH was rebarreled with a 7 1/2" take-off Ruger BH .45 Colt barrel, and the receiver top-strap was welded, machined and ground to mimic the older Colt SAA, complete with hog wallow rear sight groove..
John then rechambered the original .44 magnum cylinder (6 shot) to .45 Colt.

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Tests have shown that a fluted cylinder is every bit as strong as (if not stronger than) an unfluted one.. The weakest spot is still in the area of the bolt notches.. All of the cracked/blown BH/SBH cylinders I've seen show the same failure pattern. (Admittedly, a few were never recovered for inspec...

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To avoid being called a liar or a madman (again) I'm not going to tell you about my Old Model Super Blackhawk that John Linebaugh and I converted to .45 Colt, or my Original Vaquero (factory chambered for the same cartridge), both of which withstood repeated firings with loads developing 55,000 psi,...

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A Cold Steel Recon Scout on my belt, with a Buck 110 in a chaps pocket and a Trailmaster in a saddlebag.
If I'm going to be out for a while, a 3 1/2 to 4 lb falling axe is great, with a 16" Estwing camp axe for lighter chores..

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Add my love and prayers, Sympathies and condolences to her family and friends, and for all who knew her.

It's always difficult to hear of the passing of one of our own.. It seems to make us focus on our own mortality..

Godspeed, lovely lady...

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Analogous to the "Colt SAA" version, from a couple years back...

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"2000 fps" with black powder..?

Highly doubtful

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It's a rifle..
SHOOT it..

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Wyoming also has the third-lowest violent crime rate in the country..

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Original '66s were chambered for the rim fire .44 Henry Flat cartridge, same as the original Henry rifles.
This one appears to be chambered for the .44 WCF, which requires a somewhat longer lifter and forward receiver..

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You can't make people Think...
It's been tried for millenia, and it has never worked satisfactorily..

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AFTER they're married...
(Maybe...)

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.45 ACP replicates .45 S&W ballistics.
Since the Schofield round headspaces on the rim, rather than the elusive case mouth, I would expect better performance from the former..

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You're right, Bill.. A 1920s vintage 94 held up against 65,000 psi better than any of the other lever guns tested. None of them "blew up", but all of them were beaten, twisted and bent beyond being operable.. Winchester's forged, nodular iron receivers were the cream of the crop.. I seriou...

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Malamute, My mind doesn't work as quick as it used to. When I first read your question it tried to form this thought, but couldn't. The original top eject models are built and heat treated with two sides to the top of the receiver. What, if anything did they do to the AE receiver to compensate for ...

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No need to trash a good 94 for that..
Plenty of AE 94s around, if the idea is just to mount a scope on it..

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And That, gentlemen, is why the rest of us can't have nice things..

The nice things are ALREADY OWNED...! !

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In the original .45 Blackhawks and Vaqueros, it was no trick to outdo the .44 mag. I fired some 50,000 psi plus loads through my Vaquero, and in a rechambered/rebarreled Super Blackhawk, with no I'll effects, both of them six-shooters. When comparing bullets between the two, ignore weight and go for...

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Check out John Linebaugh's .45 Colt articles listed on this website..
I have worked up and tested virtually everything he describes, and moreso..
The old .45 war horse is a potent round indeed..
In the right guns, it will make the .44 mag want to go sleep in the shade..

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Happy Birthday, Terry and Bruce !!!

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Not just yet Terry, but I reckon it's fixin to, shortly..

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Thank you Sir!

You are a good man !

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You could just do the smart thing, and move away from Kaliphornia...

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I procured my own copy of the Fall 2016 edition, today, at Walmart in Cody...

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Interesting, certainly, but not in the same league as the Browning family...

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I grew up with GUNSMOKE on the radio..
We didn't have a TV in 55, so we watched the first episode with my grandparents..
Over the years, I think I've probably seen every episode ever aired..

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Got my copy...

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"Professional Sports"
The ultimate Oxymoron...

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Read Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".

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Back when Navy Arms made the deal with Winchester/Miroku for manufacture of a new generation of 1873s, the CCH was to be done by Turnbull & Co., and was to be done by the original bone charcoal method..

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My 325 grain "bear loads" are too long to feed through a '73 carrier/lifter.
The heavier bullet looks and feels much different than the normal 250 grain RNFP..
I push the 250s along with a stout dose of H-4198, for both six gun and rifle..

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I've been told that Uberti uses cyanide bath case hardening, or something very similar..
Tom's Gunshop, late of Cody, Wyoming used the cyanide bath process for many years, including special runs for Marlin.
Depth of colors depends on chemical strength, bath temperature and length of immersion..

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Haven't heard anything about it, but sounds like it was all handled by our good Sheriff's crew.
Don't know why they didn't call for a chopper out of Cody, but that was someone else's call.
Marston Creek and Bliss Creek meadow are a long days ride from the end of civilization.
Been there / Done that..

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That's ho was I carry my Browning mini-1911 .380..
Trigger guard against side belt loop, muzzle in jeans pocket..
It stays put...

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Several years ago, an older friend and I were discussing this very topic. Quite a knowledgeable man of the West, he nevertheless had never read the book.. I had a paperback copy in my leather shop, which I offered to let him take and read.. He brought it back to me a week or so later, and as he hand...

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The magazine of the Spencer is housed in the butt-stock.

The .44 Henry RF Flat is about equal in power to the .44 Special revolver cartridge..

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Iowa-class bowling ball cannon...?
I don't think you've thought this through completely...

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"SPUD GUN', for the uninitiated...

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What pain ?

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Brass is an alloy.. A mixture of copper and zinc.
The original 1860 Henry and 1866 Winchester had bronze - "gunmetal" frames.
Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin..

Whatever the Henry Big Boy frame is made of, it is also magnetic..
Brass is not magnetic.. Neither is bronze..

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Face it.

Some of us have become the Elders...

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Francis Sell must be smiling...

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Just make sure your cartridge overall length will allow your Rossi to cycle properly..
You may have to cut the carrier stop back just a bit, if the noses on your CPB bullets are a mite too long..

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I pushed 325s from my 7 1/2" FA Casual @ 1700 fps..
Those same slugs exited my 24" .454 rifle @ 2100 fps..
I saw little difference between GC and PB bullets, as far as leading..
I've fired thousands of CPB slugs over the past decades..

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Art director is an idiot, which is too often the case..

Fahey doesn't earn much respect from me either..

He does his best as a dying bad guy...

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