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Mike Armstrong

Actually, Ruger kinda DOES chamber the Blackhawk in .32-20 because a New Model .30 Carbine Blackhawk will shoot .32-20 just fine without any modification. Several fairly recent threads on that in www.rugerforum.com. The Old Model .30 Carbine apparently requires some chamber/rim reaming to work with ...

Mike Armstrong

Great '92--excellent companion for a stroll!

Mike Armstrong

I wonder how many times that cutoff got used in combat! I'd say, like, NEVER. One of my grandfathers fought in the Spanish War in the Philippines, but his volunteer regiment was stuck with Trapdoor Springfields. He stayed on and took a commission in the regular Army and fought the Moros with a Krag ...

Mike Armstrong

There's a good example of that rifle in The Adirondack Museum, in case anybody is traveling thru upstate NYS. Plus other historic guns from back when NYS was a major firearms producer, a great collection of handmade wooden boats, a native American garden with detailed explanation of their agricultur...

Mike Armstrong

I've also had very good results with Lil Gun and like it because it performs well in three of the ctgs. I reload: .357 rifle, .410 shotgun, and .22 Hornet, all of them MGM custom barrels on a pre-S&W G2 Contender carbine frame. Main problem with it is that here in So Cal it is hard to find--too ...

Mike Armstrong

Wright is RIGHT! That gun screams out for a reline and restoration. Another solution (which is probably what they would have done back in the day) is to rebore it to .44-40, unless the bore is so deeply pitted that a rebore wouldn't clean it up. Both processes cost about the same. Be very sure of th...

Mike Armstrong

I assume that the Indian Police were issued .45-70s because of the availability of govt. ammo. But some Rem Keanes were .44-40. Anybody know which the Indian Police used?

Mike Armstrong

I've seen plenty of guns with "dishonest wear." Besides the above examples, there is the worst kind which involves stealing a gun or guns and hiding them under the front porch with the widow spiders for X days, weeks, or months while waiting for the crime to "cool down." Sometime...

Mike Armstrong

Great story! The ultimate gun karma! I had a somewhat similar .22 when I was about 8, a Remington 514 bolt single shot (the first Remington I know of which had some plastic parts....not a great trend to start, IMO). It had a trigger much like a Win 67; loooooong and creepy, and I couldn't hit anythi...

Mike Armstrong

Get a T-C G2 Contender Carbine and get BOTH barrels! Actually I prefer the .357 for short/medium distances because you can shoot so many loads in it that are commercially available. Ive killed both boars and blacktails with my TC .357 and trust it at moderate ranges. Takes down easy and can be put i...

Mike Armstrong

Excellent accuracy in both my T-C Contender Carbine and my Ruger GP-100 in .357. Killed a nice boar (220# with the blood and guts out) last fall in Monterey County, CA with the carbine. Made TWO big holes with one shot! Nest time I'm trying the GP.

Mike Armstrong

Ive had several .25-35s over the years and still have two, but they were all single shots. In a strong single shot the cartridge is entirely capable of taking deer at reasonable ranges: 1) it's accurate, 2) it has minimal recoil, and 3) in a strong single shot you can load modern pointed bullets and...

Mike Armstrong

I also remember the B-36. By the time they got from the SAC bases in Central California to our ranch 'way up north, they were so high you could only see the contrail. But you could feel the engines in the fillings of your teeth! I can't imagine the courage needed to be ready 24/7 to fly one of those...

Mike Armstrong

My son sent me a pic of one of the native centipedes when he was stationed on Okinawa in the USMC. Really DON'T want those things over here; I'm too old and feeble to carry my .410 all day. (But I guess if I saw one, I'd somehow find the grit to do it....).

Mike Armstrong

We in CA don't YET have recluses, but now we have both black and brown widow spiders. The brown ones are new. People were blaming our neighbors to the south for them until some arachnid specialist did DNA tests on them and concluded that they originated in North Africa....

Ain't globalism grand?

Mike Armstrong

I've even made .410 brass cases (short, for buckshot and light rat loads) out of .30-06. Takes some serious elbow grease to form the rims on for .444 or .410 out of the rimless '06 case. (And some serious lube, too.). You need the big RCBS press.

Mike Armstrong

Still haven't found out who designed this model, but a neat article on the Leverguns website by Tom Boyle comparing the 9422 and Marlin 39/1897 lever .22s mentions that the 9422 shares some design traits with the earlier Model 61 pump .22. I have a 61M and looking at the bolts and receivers of both ...

Mike Armstrong

I just got a nice Win 9422M rimfire lever rifle and have had problems finding much about its design history. Anybody know who designed it?

Side ejection reminds me more of a Marlin than a Winchester, but the locking system is unlike any Marlin I've ever examined. Is it like some other Winchester's?

Mike Armstrong

I have a bunch of .22 WRMs and my Savage Model 24 over a .410 is the most accurate of all the long guns. That includes a custom .22 WRM barrel on my T-C G2, a Winchester Model 61M pump, and a Savage Model 93 "Classic" bolt action. The Winchester is the least accurate, which is odd consider...

Mike Armstrong

Trying to teach college students how to write a simple report at Univ. of Idaho and wondering what my next career would be. (Turns out it was teaching engineers, management types, and bean counters how to write complex reports more simply....so they could understand each other).

Mike Armstrong

Rusty, if you check out the history of Ireland, your profile could just be ALL Irish! The earliest inhabitants we know anything about were from the Iberian peninsula and the Celtic and Norse populations got pretty mixed up over the centuries. I'm "Scottish" but at least one of the families...

Mike Armstrong

Aside from shooting, restoring old guns (and THEN shooting), fishing, and kayaking (and THEN fishing), I work as a wildlife habitat restoration volunteer for a couple of local nature reserves. Most of the work is like landscaping, but out in the boonies. Removing invasives (non-native plants that th...

Mike Armstrong

You guys sure this isn't a Model 25 pump in .25-20? Now THAT is a find.

Mike Armstrong

A few years ago I inherited my great grandfather's Remington Model 1889 hammer SxS 10 guage made in 1892, the cheapest model with homogenous steel barrels. It had been rechambered to the "old magnum" 2 7/8" 10s and came with a box of Peters high base #4s and a small sack of apparently...

Mike Armstrong

I found a Winchester Single Shot .38-40WCF in Nevada on public land back in the mid-'50s. It was packed in burlap and covered with dried axle grease. Once I got the grease (which had hardened into something like amber-colored plastic, but melted away in heated kerosene) off, it was in near new condi...

Mike Armstrong

I spent some time in the fens one summer in the late '60s. They were still pretty wild and empty back then--reminded me of the Mississippi and Sacremento delta agricultural areas, not to mention the Mekong. Except you could drive for hours and not see a person since most of the agriculture by then w...

Mike Armstrong

Thanks for this. It will help me with the local PO, whose counter personnel looked like they were about to dial 911 when I asked if they had ever shipped a long gun to an out-of-state FFL! I clearly need to go in when the place isn't busy and do some education.... And if that doesn't work, I'll get ...

Mike Armstrong

14 Thanks for the opportunity! Two full loads for my old nickel Bodyguard!

Mike Armstrong

One factor that hasn't been chewed over here much is that the '95 was conceived as a military rifle and much of the production was military or paramilitary. As "levers" has mentioned a huge part of the production went to Russia (and disappeared, only to return in places like Korea and Viet...

Mike Armstrong

My only experience with '95s is a .30-40 we had when I was a kid. NOT a kid's gun--the "frog spear" crescent buttplate made it kick more than it should have, and the pull of the stock was too long for me so the butt set on my upper arm, not my shoulder.... And the protruding box magazine m...

Mike Armstrong

So what bore/guage is your fowling piece? How much shot does it throw per load? Inquiring minds need to know! (anyway THIS ONE does!).

Mike Armstrong

Love that Low Wall--that is a classy squirrel rifle!

Mike Armstrong

Has anybody tried the Barnes TTSX 80 gr. "unleaded" bullet in a .25-20 ? I'm looking to find a lead-free bullet to handload in my .25-20s since they are now required for all hunting in some of the areas I hunt. The Barnes looks looooong to me, and I wonder if the barrel in my Win Lo Wall a...

Mike Armstrong

For most pig and deer ranges a .357 Magnum is very effective, at least in carbines. And I used a Ruger Bisley .357 7 1/2" for tree stand hunting when I lived in upstate NYS and in Vermont. Worked! Of course it is darned near as HEAVY as a carbine, just handier gettin' up and down. Don't know wh...

Mike Armstrong

Not surprised. General rule for me re TV programming: if I like it, it WILL be cancelled.

Thank God for the public library.

Mike Armstrong

Alley cats ARE tough. When I was a teenager we had a number of spayed and neutered Siamese house cats. A big old stripy feral tom started attacking them whenever they went out in the barnyard. I finally found out he was shacked up in a little rock shelter on the side of the mountain above the barn a...

Mike Armstrong

This is the same frame as the .22 and .22WRM "Kit Guns" that many treasure. Main difference is the caliber and the lack of adjustable sights. If you don't handload, it is an expensive gun to shoot and ammo can be a problem if you shoot much. If you handload, it is a sweetie. I buy .32 matc...

Mike Armstrong

If you want LIGHT, get a Ruger LCR .22. It isn't really small, but weighs next to nothing. Mine in .22 WRM is very accurate at the ranges you would need to use it (+- 10 yds.). It's made of aluminum, stainless, and plastic, so pretty sweatproof and wetproof. Just don't practice with it without your ...

Mike Armstrong

My gut agrees with original poster's gut. Releasing cats into the wild is a cruel and destructive act. Where I come from we'd call it "trashy." Cats are VERY destructive of wildlife if they survive to maturity in the wild. But most "dumped" kittens are doomed to a slow, awful dea...

Mike Armstrong

I WOULDN'T come over the Lolo Pass from Missoula into Lewiston, ID with a "pull toy" and a sore arm. It's a truly beautiful ride but LOTS of hairpin turns and no room for mistakes. Looking at the Lochsa River is one thing. Drownin' in it is another.... I'd go 93 to 90, then turn south on 3...

Mike Armstrong

Great topic! Regarding Sixguns' first post, the Gremmill Sporting Goods company apparently died during WWII. It was in the part of Troy that was/is the commercial center, and also the part that floods periodically from "spring" (now apparently anytime!) flooding of the Hudson River. In the...

Mike Armstrong

If you are considering a Bearcat, at least handle one before buying. I've had one since 1960 and have two now, one the OM and the other a New Bearcat stainless. Love 'em. But they aren't for everyone. The New Bearcat is easier for most people to shoot well; the alloy-framed OM is REALLY light, which...

Mike Armstrong

I've used 140 and 150 gr. Barnes in my .308 on pigs and Blacktail deer and had no problems. Must say that these were all short distance shots, so accuracy wasn't an issue. The "Hog Hammer" factory rounds shoot around 1 1/4" three shot groups from a rest in my .308x12 guage combination...

Mike Armstrong

That marriage of rifle and cartridge is as good a small and medium game killer as was ever made. And back in the day plenty of deer were killed with them, although you really have to pick your shot--NOT for the guy who has one weekend to get a buck! Beautiful; just opening the action of a 'Wall make...

Mike Armstrong

I also really like the .38-40. Have had a few including a Colt Bisley but now have only three: two Win 1885s, one Lo-wall and one Hi-wall, and a Colt New Service with 7 1/2" barrel. Never hunted with this ctg. much but did kill one nice little whitetail forkhorn meat buck in upstate NYS a few y...

Mike Armstrong

When I helped my older brother truck his gun/ammo collection from VA to WA a few years ago, we stopped at and walked over the Custer battle site and the related other sites. My brother taught military history at West Point for a while during his 32 years in the Army and showed me all the details of ...

Mike Armstrong

I'd also say those were to add a weight or light. Any decent gunsmith will have a pair of headless plug screws to "make them go away."

Mike Armstrong

Don't y'all know a .25-35 won't actually kill deer? Someplace I have a book that says that. Fortunately my memory is bad and I took my T-C .25-35 carbine out and shot a nice blacktail fork before I remembered it can't be done.... And a couple of tasty pigs because it doesn't say you can't kill those...

Mike Armstrong

Basically a Japanese re-design of a French re-design of the original American Benet-Mercie (Hotchkiss) 1909 "machine rifle." Those things killed a lot of Americans in WWII and more in Korea where the Chinese used some of the thousands they captured from the Japanese at the end of WWII. A d...

Mike Armstrong

A 141 in .25 is a rare bird! 14s aren't but they made very few 141s in that caliber.

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