howdy yaw!

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:30 pm

Just wanna introduce myself. Name's Joe. I'm from MS. Recognize some of these names from other forums.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:34 pm

Hey Joe, welcome to the forum.

Joe

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:48 pm

Welcome!

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:54 pm

Welcome. Take a load off and have a seat.

Huntermb · Post by **Huntermb** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:55 pm

welcome to the forum!

Stan in SC · Post by **Stan in SC** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:14 pm

Welcome,Joe.

Stan in SC

jd45 · Post by **jd45** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:41 pm

Welcome, Joe......what's your favorite caliber?, jd45

Post by **Old Savage** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:48 pm

Howdy then.

mod71alaska · Post by **mod71alaska** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:25 pm

A HEARTY WELCOME! Now, here's the deal...WE LIKE PICS!!!!

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:46 pm

Welcome to the forum. What's yur taste in levers?

P.S. Mod 71 isn't kidding about the pics!

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:16 am

Howdy!

Oly

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:01 am

Welcome.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:04 am

Welcome to the fire Joe..

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:53 am

A very warm welcome to you.

You will enjoy it here

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:55 am

Welcome aboard!!!

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:17 am

show us your guns...

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:42 am

Welcome!

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:26 pm

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:54 pm

Howdy...!

Tell us, if you could only have one, and it had to either be a .45-70, or a .444 Marlin, which would YOU choose...

(May as well find out which team he's on right away...

)

By the way, here's the "answer key"

a. "I'd rather have a .45-70" = WRONG! They're obsolete, the hole in the receiver is too big for modern loads/pressures, and they blow up all the time...

b. "I'd rather have a .444 Marlin" = WRONG! The bullets don't have enough cross-sectional area or weight to kill a stray cat, and the only bullets you can find are pistol bullets that blow up when they hit fur...

c. "I've already got both, but what I really like is my .405 Winchester" = CORRECT!

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:51 pm

Welcome

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:08 pm

Glad to have you here.

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:02 pm

Thanks for the welcomes yall!
Hmmm... Letsee...

jd45 wrote:Welcome, Joe......what's your favorite caliber?, jd45

Honestly I'd have to say the obsolete 30/30... Lol its just one I have always come back to...

Altho I am quite fond of my 44 mag and here lately the 338 marlin express...

OldWin wrote:Welcome to the forum. What's yur taste in levers?

P.S. Mod 71 isn't kidding about the pics!

Pics comin when I can get off this crackberry.

I like all leverguns but seem to only buy marlins. They just work for me so why fix what aint broke.

AJMD429 wrote:Howdy...!

Tell us, if you could only have one, and it had to either be a .45-70, or a .444 Marlin, which would YOU choose...

(May as well find out which team he's on right away... )

By the way, here's the "answer key"

a. "I'd rather have a .45-70" = WRONG! They're obsolete, the hole in the receiver is too big for modern loads/pressures, and they blow up all the time...

b. "I'd rather have a .444 Marlin" = WRONG! The bullets don't have enough cross-sectional area or weight to kill a stray cat, and the only bullets you can find are pistol bullets that blow up when they hit fur...

c. "I've already got both, but what I really like is my .405 Winchester" = CORRECT!

Ahhhh... The classic debate! The 405 sounds interesting! Or how bout the 450 marlin?

As I said above the 338mx has my affections lately but sticking to the question, here is my answer: I don't reload so I'll go with the 444 cause factory ammo seems to shoot flatter in this caliber. Now, as soon as I buy some reloading equipment, I will have the 45/70 so I can play with different loads. I hear they are fun to load for. Did I pass?

RKrodle · Post by **RKrodle** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:19 pm

Ok you pass for NOW..............but you better shape up and post those pictures or we get cranky

.

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it and have a sense of humor.

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:40 pm

I like to think I have a good sense of humor... Great, yall are gonna put it to the test aren't ya? Lol

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:22 pm

Haven't checked in in a while, so just wanted to drop in and say hi.

Have gotten into 45 Colt lately and Marlins in that caliber are expensive and hard to find, so i ordered a couple Rossi 92's to play with a little bit. Hopefully they will arrive this coming week and i can get going. Got a 16" and a 24" model. Im a lil excited. Got a couple single action Rugers and a H&R Classic Carbine in the caliber so i guess its only fitting.

Kinda got sidetracked before so here are a couple pics of what i have now.

30-30 Texan with one of my 45 Colts.

My 73 Texan

Classic and my other Blackhawk

45 acp Vaquero

And what good is cowboy guns without leather.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:25 pm

Welcome back. Good looking guns... Hope you enjoy the Rossis... I like mine!

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:31 pm

Preciate it! I hope i do! I think i will.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:57 pm

Joe, if I heard right you can use that .45 handi rifle in MS for muzzleloader season, right?

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:08 pm

That is correct sir.

pwl44m · Post by **pwl44m** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:14 pm

Well a Verrry belated Welcome to the forum. Nice pics and nice Guns. I just picked up a Rossi 65/92 in 45 colt and have a Circuit Judge in Jail - haha that's a switch, We need to put some more there. drift drift Boy U didn't waste any time posting pics after Ur initial Howdy. Don't know how I missed it but I think I was pretty new then also.
Perry

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:36 pm

Yea I discovered Ruger Blackhawks soon after joining and kinda lost touch with lever forums. Getting reacquainted.

Thanks for the welcome!

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:12 am

I wanted a Marlin in 45 Colt, and found a barrel (round, which was what I really wanted vs. the fancy octagonal, anyway) at Numrich for $100. I took my old 1894 in 44 Mag, some scrap lumber and bolts (for an 'action wrench'), an AR-15 barrel-vice insert, and swapped barrels. The only 'cost' was like a dummy I let the bolt go too far forward when screwing in the new barrel (it has to be IN the receiver to keep it from being squished by the vice/action wrench, but if too far forward the extractor will get sheared off as the barrel turns snug up to it).

All in all, it went well, though. You might consider that if you really want a Marlin in 45 Colt, because you can find LOTS of them in 44 Mag, and ALL the other parts are the same, despite what some will tell you (I called Marlin a few years back and confirmed that, plus have written parts-numbers that confirm it). Oh yeah, and the gun functions just fine, too...

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:08 am

For a second, I thought kimwcook was back.....I wish it were so...

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:04 am

Thanks AJMD429, will keep an eye open for a barrel

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:13 am

Blaine is right, have not seen him since I been back.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 10:46 am

Howdy Joe and welcome to a band of misfits. (Speaking for myself)

Let's talk about that single action Ruger with the brass frame and the black eagles. (The one by the tree) Kinda hard to tell from my screen......OM or NM? I can see 2 screws and a possible third. Anyway, if there is a third screw on that Ruger, I need to have the gun.

Don't see too many factory brass framed OM's. If it's a new model with an aftermarket brass frame and hand fitted black eagles, it's still a nice gun.

I'm the "gun hound" of the board.------Sixgun

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:41 pm

Here ya go Sixgun!

Love that one myself. I lucked into it. Traded a buddy it for an ol Encore i had. It is a pieced together 45. Factory brass frame from another gun, super hammer, wide trigger. Shoots 4" groups at 100 w/ scope off the bench. I aint quite that good off hand with irons at 25 myself tho. Lol

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 5:41 pm

Welcome!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:13 pm

Thanks for the pic Joe. Even before I read what you wrote, my heart took a jump when I saw the "45" prefix on the serial number, meaning it's a 45 Colt. There's only 595 OM brass framed 45 Colts.

Either way, even though the frame is not original to the gun, your gun is desirable as there are more 44 flattops than there are OM 45 Colts.

I believe you will fit right in here, but......I have to warn you, sometimes you have to have thick skin. We have a wild bunch here. Be especially careful of this trucker from Texas. He calls himself Griff. I have known him to drive 2,000 miles in his Kenworth just to beat up a guy from Pennsylvania who called him a long haired hippy.

------6

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 7:00 pm

Great bunch of guns you have!!!!!
SixGun beat me to the punch on the 45, Cool Gun!!

BY THE WAY WELCOME!

ollogger

Joe S. · Post by **Joe S.** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 7:38 pm

Thanks yall. And thanks for the warning about Griff. I like Charlie Daniels, so long hair types dont bother me too much.

Heck, according to Chris LeDeaux, we all have a little long haired outlaw inside of us.