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[Renault]

Here's this year's "Deadly Duo" for elk season!!!

 

[TPD166]

Thanks - both of these were on the Wish List for a lonnng time.

TPD, those are both beauties!

Very nice duo there TPD!

 

[TPD166]

That's great news - I only have one box and it cost a fortune. I actually had Frank Hamer in the back of my mind when I bought both of these guns!

TPD, Buffalo Arms has a new batch of .30 Remington cartridges available now. I love model 8's and 81's. I have a project gun in the works. When I can run across a decent 8 in .30 or .32 caliber, it is going to get converted to .300 Savage from Model 81 parts I was given. Ammo a lot easier to find! My idea of the perfect Model 8 is a .25 Remington!!! It was a .25 that Frank Hamer was using in Corsicana Tx during prohibition when he was busting up stills. That's what the Remington sales rep was watching him make thrown target shots with!

That Smith is a skookum revolver!!!! My idea of a great revolver!!!

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Here's this year's "Deadly Duo" for elk season!!!

Nice pair!

 

[jkingrph]

While I carry modern professionally, I have a soft spot for the classic guns I grew up around and find them hard to pass up on the rare occasion I find them these days. Both of these had been on the Wish List for a long time. I apologize for the poor pictures.

Smith & Wesson Hand-Ejector .44 Special, ca. 1920. It came with modern N frame grips, but I found the correct ones about a month later at a gun show. I have used grip adapters on revolvers for 35 years. This one is actually for a K frame because it fits my hand better than the N frame ones did.


Remington Model 8, .30 Rem., made in 1930. Wish ammo was easier (and cheaper) to come by.

My father's old employer had one of those. I remember seeing it a couple of times back in the mid 60's when hunting with him. At the time I was not impressed with either the cartridge or the gun, thinking the gun ugly and cartridge underpowered although he took his share of deer with it.

Nowdays I would love to have one in either 30 or 35 Remington. I have dads old Marlin 336sc in 35. In his later years I loaded it with 158gr semi wadcutters so he could shoot it with very low recoil.

 

[Oldsarge]

I'm less than enthralled with cartridges in the 30/30 and .30 Rem class despite the millions of deer they've taken. Still, I have to admit that the .35 would qualify very nicely as a Pacific Northwest woods gun. Within reasonable range it has plenty of knock-down and frontal area for elk and black bear and more than enough for blacktail deer. And despite the excessive enthusiasm for 'beanfield' cartridges these days the vast majority of big game in North America (and Africa I might add) is still taken at under 150 yards, probably under 110. Frontal area and long-for-caliber bullets still rule just as they did in the days of black powder cartridges. Hunting to me still means stalking or learning enough woodcraft that you can be where the game will be before it gets there.

Of course if everyone agreed with me all the major firearms manufacturers would have long gone out of business. A well cared for gun lasts for generations and there would be little market for the new ones. The biggest enemy of the firearms business isn't anti-gunners, it's the used gun market!

 

[jkingrph]

I'm less than enthralled with cartridges in the 30/30 and .30 Rem class despite the millions of deer they've taken. Still, I have to admit that the .35 would qualify very nicely as a Pacific Northwest woods gun. Within reasonable range it has plenty of knock-down and frontal area for elk and black bear and more than enough for blacktail deer. And despite the excessive enthusiasm for 'beanfield' cartridges these days the vast majority of big game in North America (and Africa I might add) is still taken at under 150 yards, probably under 110. Frontal area and long-for-caliber bullets still rule just as they did in the days of black powder cartridges. Hunting to me still means stalking or learning enough woodcraft that you can be where the game will be before it gets there.

Of course if everyone agreed with me all the major firearms manufacturers would have long gone out of business. A well cared for gun lasts for generations and there would be little market for the new ones. The biggest enemy of the firearms business isn't anti-gunners, it's the used gun market!

I totally agree. As I am getting older and a little more recoil sensitive, I like my 6.5x55, with the long 160 gr round nose better and better along with the 7x57 with a similar 175 gr bullet. There is not a lot of frontal area but plenty of penetration.

 

[Oldsarge]

Aye! Those two plus the 30/40 Krag and the 6.5x54 have been referred to as the cartridges that "killed better than they should" by some muzzle blast besotted pundit. The fool seemed to equate mathematical energy with killing power. This was a common (and very erroneous) belief from about the '30's onward and resulted in the shooting public's mindless worship of belted magnums, short magnums, blown out wildcats and the like. We know better and African PH's know better. The bullet should expand but exit. Exit wounds cause more physiological shock and leave a better blood trail if you need to track and those long, soft nose bullets do just exactly that.

 

[Renault]

The boys up in Montana shipped this beast to my oldest son this week. It's a shooter!!!!

 

[Renault]

. "The biggest enemy of the firearms business isn't anti-gunners, it's the used gun market!"

And I generally ( and I said generally!!!) will not even consider the purchase of a firearm unless it is at least 60 years old. Having set at the bench, so to speak, I have my own opinions concerning modern firearms. Curmodgeon that I am, I'm a very biased fellow!

Then again, I really don't "need" anything else in the genre. LOL! But on the occasion, I always seem to drag another one home.

 

[Bushman]

The boys up in Montana shipped this beast to my oldest son this week. It's a shooter!!!!

Wow, that's a beaut!

 

[Oldsarge]

I've wanted one like that for years! At my current stage of life it isn't likely that I'll succumb to the itch but they sure are gorgeous. What caliber did he get? Something bigger than 45/70 I hope.

 

[Renault]

Nope, it's .45 x 2 1/10"

Nothing exotic.

 

[Stearmen]

. "The biggest enemy of the firearms business isn't anti-gunners, it's the used gun market!"

And I generally ( and I said generally!!!) will not even consider the purchase of a firearm unless it is at least 60 years old. Having set at the bench, so to speak, I have my own opinions concerning modern firearms. Curmodgeon that I am, I'm a very biased fellow!

Then again, I really don't "need" anything else in the genre. LOL! But on the occasion, I always seem to drag another one home.

I am even worse then you! I do not want any fire arm unless it is at least 100 years old. Although, there are some replicas of 200 plus year old's I would consider!

 

[Renault]

LOL! Yeah, last one I hauled home was 110 y. o.

 

[Renault]

I've wanted one like that for years! At my current stage of life it isn't likely that I'll succumb to the itch but they sure are gorgeous. What caliber did he get? Something bigger than 45/70 I hope.

Sarge,

Those things are nice , but they are as heavy as a dead Baptist preacher! This one is a bit lighter. But I find the older I get the lighter my firearms get in weight. I generally don't shoot a rifle now bigger than my 9.3's I find my 30/06's and 30 US Army's my go to cartridges these days.

I've heard others say the 30/06 is a boring cartridge! You just gotta find an "un-boring" rifle to use! Being I have eight "06's" I can generally fit that bill!

Another good thing about the 06 is I can get good accurate factory ammo for less than $25 a box! And that's still the best way in my opinion to get reloadable brass!!!

 

[Oldsarge]

For reasons I have never been able to explain I may be the only shooter in America who has never owned a 30/06. I admire the round greatly and happily agree with the proposition that with that one rifle you could hunt all of N. and S. America, Europe, Australia, all the legal game in Asia and 90% of Africa. Why I never managed to acquire one of my own I cannot say. I guess stuff just happens. Perhaps if I had more ready access to a range and could get out shooting more often I'd acquire more guns but I already have more than I can actually use. Perhaps things will change in Portland but I suspect that any new acquisitions up there will be either revolvers or shotguns. Man can't have too many shotguns . . .

 

[Renault]

Agreed on the shotguns!

 

[MikePotts]

LOL! Yeah, last one I hauled home was 110 y. o.

We really should start a "taken out of context thread"

 

[DeaconKC]

LOL! Yeah, last one I hauled home was 110 y. o.

This reminded me of a news bit from when I was in High School. A female reporter was doing the little human interest story at the end of the 10PM news in Chicago. Interviewing a lady who was celebrating her 100th birthday, she asked her about her health. The lady replied how she had always been very healthy and active. The reporter then asked her "So you've never been bed-ridden?" and the lady replied "No, but I've been rolled in the hay a few times!" The folks back at the studio couldn't even speak, they just waved goodnight!