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My wife and I moved to Colorado earlier this year, and we were fortunate in finding a house that had garage space for 5 cars, 3 attached and a detached two-car. I'm in the process of setting up the detached garage as a work shop. Progress is slower than I would like, but I'm getting there. Here are ...

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barbarossa, I've owned a Browning Model 53 since 1998, but I had not shot it much until (like my buddy, Sixgun) I made the .32-20 my pistol cartridge silhouette gun in 2005. Although the model 53 is a bit muzzle-light to be an ideal off-hand rifle, I shoot it well and have posted several 34 x 40 sco...

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... or Indiantown Gap near Annville?

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I had taped this program, and I had a chance to watch it today. The rifle Van Zwoll used to take the mule deer was a model 94 Big Bore, so the cartridge was the .307 Win., .356 Win. or .375 Win. Because the gun wore a scope, it was likely the angle eject version.

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Some favorite Kipling lines from The Young British Soldier: When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, ...

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My experience with the Browning BL-22 is limited to handling and shooting one at a silhouette match on one occasion. I was impressed with the gun. However, the one that I shot had a top tang made of some kind of polycarbonate material, and I was concerned about mounting a tang sight on the gun. So, ...

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To address your other question, I have no experience with tumble lubing, so I can't venture an opinion regarding these bullets.

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Duff L Bag, I have very limited experience with the Saeco 300 grain tapered bullet (#571.) A friend of mine shoots them in a CPA 44 1/2 single shot rifle, and he gave me about 60 to try in my .38-55 1894 Winchester. I made up several different loads, and tried them at 50 yards. The first two shots m...

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Beautiful job, Jack! I want to see it when you get out here. Maybe shoot it if Jr. allows.

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As I recall, Win. 92 rifles were discontinued in 1931 and carbines in 1941 with total production of just over 1 million. If the gun you saw has caliber stampings that look 'newer,' it may have been rebarreled.

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McNut,

Yep. Sixgun has all the good stuff! And he knows how to use it.

w30wcf,

Great photos!

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Yep. That looks like a bolt peep sight, and the gun may be on a take-down frame. Hard to tell for sure.

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4759 is my powder of choice in the .45-70 under a 325 grain and 405 grain bullet. My cowboy lever action silhouette load is 25 grains with the 325 for velocities just a bit higher than BP. Great powder!

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Mike D.,

Thanks for the Roosevelt Browning link. I just took a look and Johnson is pictured there with a moose taken on the hunt I remembered seeing and that you mentioned.

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MikeD, I'm pretty sure you are correct. I saw a piece featuring Johnson on one of the outdoor shows (Elk Country Journal, I think) about 5 years ago. He was hunting moose IIRC and was using an '86 Winchester in .50 Express that he had converted himself. I'd think that Colorado's Wet Valley would be ...

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Thanks very much, Griff. A nice piece.

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Sixgun,

Any truth to the rumor that the silly-wet targets were warped by gas escaping from your tent?! I heard they had to shim some of the turkeys to keep them standing on the rails.

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Sixgun, That's in line with what I see at the Whittington Center. Shooters such as you and I who shoot cast bullets at or a bit above BP velocities need the easy elevation adjustability of a tang sight. I use 15 minutes of elevation to get from the 50 meter chicken to the 200 meter ram. If you shoot...

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Hi, John,

What was the more popular rear sight -- receiver or tang?

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Why, hell, Tutt! A man should be able to recognize a fellow psycho-babbler merely by exchanging posts with him. But id doesn't matter! I also suffer from Trading Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, so be gentle. And, BTW, the latter day Jimmy Carter would have likely descended on Adobe Walls with a legi...

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Howdy, Tutt, One of the most mysterious phenomena associated with Adobe Walls is its inexplicable tendency to visit upon many students thereof the rare malady know as dysdatia. This can cause no end of mischief when sufferers of the condition engage in mundane functions such as dating checks. It may...

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PaulB, Nope, it's Adobe Walls, so called because the battle took place at the ruins of an old adobe fort originally built in 1845. The 1874 battle is rightly referred to as the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, the first battle having occurred in 1864 when a contingent of 300 volunteers from New Mexico ...

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I'd be happy to do so, Tutt.

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Noah,

I've spent a night in Sixgun's bean vapor-permeated tent. 'Twas enought to make my eyes water! Of course, we contributed equally to the thick concentration of methane gas.

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Bill,

Thanks for the directions. I had already checked MapQuest and it tells me that Stinnett is 320 miles from my home -- well within overnight range for me.

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Thanks for the report, Jack. The pics make me homesick! I wish I could have been there.

Have you made it up to Dusty Ed's Buffalo Shoot recently?

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Bill in Oregon,

I intend to do just that next spring. I've wanted to visit the site ever since I first heard of the Adobe Walls fight. And now that I live about 300 miles from there, it's much more likely I'll visit. Thanks for the reminder.

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You're welcome, Cowboy Tutt! The old expression is "light's up, sights up." I've always believed that Dixon's shot was plausible. But, as one who has 'walked shots' in to the 1000 + meter buffalo targets at both the Ridgway (Pennsylvania) Rifle Club and the NRA Whittington Center near Rato...

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The Bob Glodt articles were in the Summer, Fall and Winter 1998 issues of the BPCR News (Vols. 22,23 and 24). In the final installment Glodt offers an analysis of Dixon's shot and takes some measurements of the surrounding bluffs, but does no shooting. Here's a link to a Mike Venturino article entit...

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There was a three-part article on the Adobe Walls fight by Bob GLodt (I believe he was the author) in the Black Powder Cartridge News a few years ago -- I'm guessing '02 or thereabouts. I'll try to track it down further. As I recall he dealt with Billy Dixon's shot and may have tried to re-create it.

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Hey, Griff,

They can still be found, but only on old guns. Here's one on my 94 Winchester rifle made in 1927.

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1) Configuration: rifle 2) Butt: shotgun 3) Stock: pistol 4) Stock: checkered with cheekpiece and cast-off and palm swell 5) Frame: take-down 6) Magazine: tube 7) Mag length: half '8) Safety: half-cock 9) Bbl length: 26” 10) Bbl config: part octagon with top surface matte 11) Bbl weight: standard 12...

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Sure thing, Rusty.

I confess that I have not yet read "1846 -- Year of Decision" by DeVoto, I understand that it's a good one, too. I need to get to it.

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Hi, Redhawk,

I've only shot BPCR silhouettes at McDonald. Pittsburgh is my home area, but I recently moved to Colorado. I thought they were shooting CLA there. Sorry for the misinfo.

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OI, They shoot BPCR silhouettes out to 500 meters at Friendship, Indiana. http://www.nmlra.org/shoots.asp?cat=Alternate%20Range%20Shoots 41Redhawk, The McDonald Sportsmen's Association located not far from the Greater Pittsburgh airport shoots high power and BPCR silhouettes out to 500 meters; they ...

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I would second the recommendation of DeVoto's 'Across the Wide Missouri' and add 'The Course of Empire' also by DeVoto. And 'Journal of a Trapper' by Osborne Russell and 'Blood and Thunder' a recently published bio of Kit Carson by Hampton Sides.

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I know you'll shoot well, John.

In many ways I miss the Ridgway Rifle Club!

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KCSO,

I don't have it handy right now, but I believe Pirkle's book on the Winchester models 1894 and 1895 states that the .30 WCF and the .38-55 used different cartridge guides.

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Get well soon, Rod.

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Cut a few inches off the magazine spring on that Lightning. This will lighten the spring considerably.

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Howdy, kimwcook,

The wretched Winchester tang safety has one minor virtue -- because it's a hammer block, you can engage it and dry fire to your heart's content. I've been doing it on my '86 for ten years. No harm.

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AWP101, Less than full magazines were a special order feature on all models 94, but they were common on rifles and were even seen on some carbines. The two 94 spin-off models -- the 55 and 64 -- had half magazines as standard. The rarest of the part-magazines is the 3/4 length. The half magazines on...

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hfcable, Great rifle! Here are some pics of a similar one but in .38-55. I've posted these before, some time ago. My 1894 was made in 1921 and has the following features: .38-55 nickle steel, part octagon, rapid taper, 24 inch barrel take-down frame shotgun butt stock with Whelen fluted comb Marble'...

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Sixgun,

Give those silly-wets hell!

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Here are my .22's: Winchester Model 52 sporter (recent production) -- very accurate, especially with Wolf Match ammo Winchester 9422 high grade -- likes Winchester Super X and Wolf and Federal match ammo Winchester 1885 Low Wall (recent production) -- likes everything I've fed it so far Winchester 1...

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Sixgun,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm gonna miss our shoots at Hamburg, Mainville and Atglen. Hope you get out here this summer.

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I'm one of those shooters that my buddy Sixgun mentions who is pleased with his Browning 1885's. I have a BPCR in .45-70, a Traditional Hunter in .30-30 and a Miroku-made Winchester Low Wall in .22. The BPCR is my silhouette rifle, and I've shot more that 20,000 rounds through it in 9 + shooting sea...

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At this time there are no set triggers available for the '85 Browning, but MVA is rumored to be considering producing one.

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I have a full octagon stainless barreled 94 rifle made in 1927. I'm told octagon barrels in stainless are rare.

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kimwcook,

I've sent you an email with some BPCR loading information.

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