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IMG_4038-1.JPG IMG_4014.JPG IMG_4015.JPG USFA44spl.JPG The two standard loads I use .. both with Lyman #429421 = 6.5 gr. Unique and 16.5 gr. 2400. These hit to the sights. I did not have to tweak the front sight in any way. IMG_0316.JPG IMG_0604.JPG 1.JPG Left= modern solid head case .... Right=old...

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Never encountered that problem. Your solution may work. Before you do that make sure it's not the cross pin latch that's causing the issue. Loosen the screw and take it out (don't drop the spring

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While I am at my daughter's place in Oklahoma I have been shooting my Single Six a lot. Had to go buy more ammo the other day because I seriously misjudged how many I would shoot while I am here!

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Not mine. Belongs to the wife of a close friend.
I like the looks of it!

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Yep Sixgun. i can still shoot fairly well, but I cannot shoot the heavy recoiling stuff anymore. Last year I took my .45 to the range with my 300 gr. loads ... about 1150 fps. I took 20 rounds and brought at least 15 home. :? It is what it is. I wouldn't even try to shoot the big revolvers anymore. ...

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:59 pm Come to the UK most cops go pale when they see a gun.

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I found my Ruger American .22 Magnum to be very accurate. I am not a good rifleman, but it makes me look good.

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There’s two kinds of two handed shooting ….one, where the strong hand grips the gun and the supporting hand cups the strong hand. :D Then there’s that stupid two handed shooting for short work where the strong hand grips the gun and the supporting hand is somewhat open and that hand does the hammer...

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. They are making a big deal that the governor of Indiana signed a law making them illegal. I thought that anything that converted a semi-automatic to fully automatic was already illegal. Is this just a case of once again some kind of symbolic redundant legislation for political preening and postur...

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:08 pm Rocks or house sized boulders?…and besides Jim…..you cheated by having a teacher that was second to none!96C9D842-8BA7-4AE2-B123-9BFE4BC2DFA8.jpeg

Both!

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I have been shooting that way since back in the 1960's when I was a wet-nosed kid. I learned from an old exhibition shooter who shot for Winchester. He showed me how to set a pop can or beer can full of water on the ground with an empty on top of it. Shoot the bottom can and the water blows the top ...

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However, I did get to the point of being able to finish our PPC qualification course with my SAA. There were two strings of 12 rounds and one of 18 rounds... that 18 rounds from the 50 yard line almost did me in. I still think they fibbed when they said my last shot was before the beep signifying t...

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How hard is that on a revolver’s internal mechanism? I did that rather slowly with 2 different .45 colt SAA uberti clones around 20 years ago. Both ended up jumping time and hitting the cartridge with the firing pin on the far edge of the rim. I got rid of both of them and stopped shooting like tha...

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The other day some of us here were discussing cocking single actions when using a two-hand hold. I decided to video myself shooting my Single Six rapid fire, which I did. Then I took screen captures of what my thumb is doing when I did that. a.jpgb.jpgc.jpgd.jpg Interesting, do you always shoot wit...

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5-6 empties in the air from a SAA? As in you eject your last before the first hits the ground? Yessir. I never got consistent at more than 4 in the air at a time. Thell Reed was a Master with a sixgun. I could unload and reload pretty quickly. I had a drop tube that I had 5 rounds in and when the g...

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How hard is that on a revolver’s internal mechanism? I did that rather slowly with 2 different .45 colt SAA uberti clones around 20 years ago. Both ended up jumping time and hitting the cartridge with the firing pin on the far edge of the rim. I got rid of both of them and stopped shooting like tha...

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It appears to be the same grip and method I employ. When practiced up I can out run my 1911 for the five shots I load in the six gun. Yessir you can. I also practiced speed-unloading and could get 4 empties in the air at the same time. I got 5 once in awhile. I saw Thell Reed and he could run 5 and...

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The other day some of us here were discussing cocking single actions when using a two-hand hold. I decided to video myself shooting my Single Six rapid fire, which I did. Then I took screen captures of what my thumb is doing when I did that.

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Tell 'em Hello from me. Wish I could be with you.

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Enjoy it. My suggestion would be to shoot it quite a bit before doing anything to it.
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Heavy loads in the little guns recoil a bit ....

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Nice work!

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:07 am Had one of those beauties long enough to scratch the itch. Kinda sad that such a handsome and historic article is as awkward as it was.

In its day folks were happy to have it!

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1894cfan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:16 pm
JimT wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 8:12 am Because Chernobyl fallout.
You do realize that Chernobyl is in Ukraine, right?

It was part of Russia when it was built.
But that has nothing to do with the joke.

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 7:15 am Jim, go pick some morels!

Sorry Bill. I am not a fungiphyle. Never have liked mushrooms, not even for smoking.

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Because Chernobyl fallout.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:26 pm You could come see me and Kathy in Arkansas this weekend.

I would love to but we are getting ready for a lot of people coming in. My grand-daughter is getting married and she has asked me to do the wedding service. So we are busy this weekend and next week.

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in Oklahoma with nothing to do.

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'..course that ain't true. At my daughter's place where I can walk out the front anytime and shoot all I want. I think I will manage.

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Nice collection! That Manhattan conversion is interesting.

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That's a great idea!! I am gonna try that. THANKS!!

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Those look great! I can't even imagine doing .31's. The .36's are small enough for me.

I have a .31 and am content to shoot it without the paper cartridges.

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Looks good Ray. Great idea.

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Went to the Range the other day and spent time getting dirty! Three blackpowder guns and shooting mostly my paper cartridges that I had loaded. I learned from John Taffin that paper cartridges and a capping tool really speeds up the shooting of percussion pistols. I ran about 75 or 80 rounds through...

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I am not Scott, though I do admit to being his friend. I have been shooting the 41 Magnum for quite a few years. My favorite load is the 210 gr. HTP over 20 gr. of WC820. I have taken a lot of game up to and including cow Elk with this load and it has never failed. IMG_2862.JPG IMG_4426.JPG With the...

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Glad you got it running again.
As to those bullets, When you care, send the very best!

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Blaine wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:35 pm
JimT wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:56 pm
Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:54 pm No, but I remember Cazador and Doc Hudson ... Gettin' old.
Doc Hudson is long gone over the River. I am still in touch with Cazador. He is doing well.
I always wondered if Doc ever got his recipe book put together.

I never did hear if he did.

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:54 pm No, but I remember Cazador and Doc Hudson ... Gettin' old.

Doc Hudson is long gone over the River. I am still in touch with Cazador. He is doing well.

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John T. Slovenz, SFC/E-7, US Army Retired? I ran across a medallion Sgt. Slovenz sent me back in the days of the website. He wrote several articles on accidental shootings in the Army that he had dealt with. And he had these medallions made up to welcome home heroes who were forgotten - overlooked -...

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(This is another article from the old Sixgunner.Com days) by Mike Rocole My first exposure to the 475 Linebaugh was the "Three Ps". This is the phrase used by John Linebaugh to describe his 475 Custom Handguns. Powerful, Practical and Packable. I scoured magazines and read articles by Taf...

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It was pretty light.

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I have QSL from all over Europe and South America that I did on 11 meters with 3 watts and a home-made antenna.

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I had an old tube Hallicrafter all band receiver in the1980's and used to pick up stuff like this all time as I ran through the frequencies.

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Where’s that Remington now Jim? … If you find it can have it?….looks to have a fair amount of condition. I know where a brand new unfired one is. ….. In the late 1940's my Dad bought a shipment of Remingtons from James Serven. None were "collectible" of that day. He paid about an average ...

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rossim92 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 6:40 pm Happy easter, the good Lord is risen! my wife and I are doing the easter egg hunt this year for our church .. with three grandbabies showing up, ages from 1 to 3, should be a good time if not too cool or windy

Feliz Páscoa! Jesus ressuscitou!

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Good on ya, Jim. My first single action was a brass-framed Navy imported by Hawes. Dad let me buy it from a little gun shop in Scotia, California -- Humboldt County -- about 1970 after I showed him all the stuff I had to do to load and shoot the thing. I believe he figured it would be hard for me t...

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The only gun I own that has that grip is a Ruger Bearcat Shopkeeper. It's a pocket gun. And small. I prefer the Colt SAA and the old Ruger XR3 grip. But it works on the little bitty Bearcat.

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Walt wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 9:15 am Pretty good grip to be holding up that single action at age three.

Thanks for the pictures, Jim

I was four. Strong for my age! Besides, Dad had a string from the barrel to the ceiling.

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Of Me And Single Actions

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Well now that makes sense, Jim. You know, you might have a future in ministerial work ... 8) :lol: At this stage of life I am avoiding anything that has the idea of working associated with it. As Tom Sawyer said, "Work is what you obliged to do. Play is not what you are obliged to do."

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