Lighten the hell up and lets talk guns again!!!

[11Charlie]

I've been told to go to my room before, so...

I think we all have.

 

[bbbass]

Love mine!!!

I love yours too Sweet Cheeks!!

 

[sobo]

CAUTION plaque NOW!!!???

 

[CamoDeafie]

Freud would have a field day here. What would he have shot? A Big Bertha? Dora? Atomic Ann?

 

[tac]

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Original Henry Leman Trade Rifle....circa late 1830's
Percussion , full maple stock , single trigger and cap box , .50 caliber and a 42 inch barrel.

The lock made by "Ashmore" , was converted from flint to percussion...
Although I think that the rifle was always a percussion rifle , the lock being converted prior to the rifle being assembled.

The beautiful stripe pattern on the stock is a mixture of natural and artificial stripping.
Also notice that the sights are low...this is very common for guns of the 18th and 19th centuries.

This rifle still gets used today with an occasional shooting match or hunting trip.
Andy

Mornin', Andy. How would you go about finding a Model of 1842 Harper's Ferry rifled musket?

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Mornin', Andy. How would you go about finding a Model of 1842 Harper's Ferry rifled musket?

I'd check a few web sites...
The Gun Works
Collector's Firearms..
Lodgewood MFG...
Andy

 

[tac]

7mm Mauser IMO is underpowered.

7x57, underpowered.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

 

[tac]

I'd check a few web sites...
The Gun Works
Collector's Firearms..
Lodgewood MFG...
Andy

The Gun Works is my default gun store in the PNW - I live less than 20 minutes away when we are over, but it's the others that I needed - TVM.

 

[bbbass]

7x57, underpowered.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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I might have been thinking of 7mm Japanese... 7mm something. My buddy's daughter had one and the cartridge was less than medium size.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

You are welcome @tac
I have seen one two years ago at the Monroe Wa. Muzzle loading Gun Show....
It sold for around $1,100 or so...
From what I remember , the markings were fairly clear and the bore good.
Andy

 

[RVTECH]

The Gun Works is my default gun store in the PNW

Are you aware Joe passed away in January?

 

[Medic!]

Well Andy posted a beautiful Tiger Striped rifle.

 

[RVTECH]

Interesting figure on the stock of one of my Winchesters.

 

[Medic!]

Interesting figure on the stock of one of my Winchesters.
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Very nice.

 

[tac]

Are you aware Joe passed away in January?

Yes, thank you, I did. I knew the day after he passed from Suzi via our friends just outside Eugene and just around the corner from the store in Springfield. I've only known them for about twelve years or so.

 

[tac]

I might have been thinking of 7mm Japanese... 7mm something. My buddy's daughter had one and the cartridge was less than medium size.

The 7x57 Mauser is about1/4" longer than the definitive 'medium-size' cartridge - the 308Win.

Left to right - .308Win with 155gr Lapua Scenar - 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser with 140gr FMJ - 7x57 Mauser with original 175gr DWM nickel jacket FMJ from 1901 - as used by the Boers against the British and Empire forces during the 2nd Boer War. My own Mauser carbine was taken from Pieter Huijsen after the Battle of Korannafontein on May 10 1901 by the Australians who had just been taught a bloody lesson. My carbine is just THREE digits away from the one shown in Forgotten Weapons. See the bottom of the post -



My 1897 Deutsche Waffen und Munition/Ludwig Loewe Berlin Mauser carbine serial #6691.



Ian McCullum's carbine #6688.



Pretty cool, eh?

 

[Xrperry]

Just picked it up today, a 1948 Remington 521t junior special

 

[Wombat of Doom]

22 is the best mm.

I want a 22mm.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I want a 22mm.

Neck down a 25mm, or neck up a 20mm.... still gonna be brutal

 

[Carbon]

The 270 debate reminds me of a time long ago.

Sitting around the fire in some distant cave were a group of early hominids debating the best spear points to knapp for the next days hunt, while some said it was all about the proper size of point, others argued it was all about thrown spear placement. Some swore the new fangled clovis point was the surely way to go, while others used their grandfathers points. Then one hunter spouted off about the time some old one killed a fully grown cave bear with a childs practice spear.... the others quickly dismissed such a tale and told them to never utter it again.

How the next days mammoth hunt went is anyones guess, if lucky enough to get a kill, and not be maimed or killed by the beast, then the darn saber toothed tigers came sniffing around the fresh kill, stalking the hunters in the shadows....