The firearm thread

**Wolf** · 31st December 2009, 10:43

Originally Posted by jono035

Cheers for posting that photo Indy, it's a shocker.

At least Indy was safely behind the camera...

**jono035** · 31st December 2009, 11:19

Originally Posted by Wolf

At least Indy was safely behind the camera...

Very true! We're also missing the 'malicious little gnome', I notice...

'99' Cafe' Racer · 31st December 2009, 11:55

I can see the washing in the background - going to do the ironing?

Where is the Bar-B-Que tucker and the mix of Speights plus CD bottles ??

**jono035** · 31st December 2009, 12:13

Originally Posted by '99' Cafe' Racer

I can see the washing in the background - going to do the ironing?

Where is the Bar-B-Que tucker and the mix of Speights plus CD bottles ??

We had just finished shooting and given that we are responsible and law abiding citizens enjoying ourselves in a safe and courteous manner we had refrained from drinking until after all the guns were put away.

(In other words we stashed all the empties on the barbeque which was behind the cameraman...)

Edit: You missed the candle, too!

**Drunken Monkey** · 5th January 2010, 11:17

Happy new year my fellow hoplophiles!

Whilst idly wasting my time at work (upgrading backup exec, *yawn*) I stumbled upon this little fella up for sale:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Sports/Hunt...-263056821.htm

Seems like a pretty reasonable price for a shooter like that. I understand these are copies of the Winchester Model 92. Anyone owned one of these? Likes/dislikes?

**jono035** · 5th January 2010, 11:38

Chris was using a stainless one in .44 mag when we were shooting there last. There are a ton of them around, although I'm not sure I've seen many chambered in .44/40... It looks like a reasonable price to me, but I have seen them go for around $500 in blued .44 mag.

I just checked guncity and they have one in .44/40, blued steel with a 20" octagonal barrel for $800 brand new.

The next rifle I'm going to get will be a stainless levergun in .44mag but I think I'm going to go with a Marlin 1894 due to the side ejection making it easier to mount a scope should I want to. Probably going to sell the 10/22 target rifle to finance it, though.

**Mr Merde** · 5th January 2010, 14:47

My Rossi was originally blued. It has just been antiqued and had custom woodwork added.
Yes you can get them in 44-40 and also in .45 Colt.

Chris

**jono035** · 5th January 2010, 15:14

Ah, right, I didn't spot that.

Just checked the website and apparently you can also get them in .38/.357 and .454 Casull... That'd be fun.

**Drunken Monkey** · 5th January 2010, 16:07

.44-40 ammo seems a bit harder to come by from my initial looksy around. I might hold off and see what else comes up.

**Drunken Monkey** · 5th January 2010, 16:10

Originally Posted by jono035

Just checked the website and apparently you can also get them in .38/.357 and .454 Casull... That'd be fun.

like this one! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Sports/Hunt...-262871245.htm

**jono035** · 5th January 2010, 16:14

Yep, that's the baby of the family though, the .454 Casull would be a riot...

**Mr Merde** · 5th January 2010, 19:55

Originally Posted by jono035

Yep, that's the baby of the family though, the .454 Casull would be a riot...

With .454 Casull you can use .45 Colt for a less expensive round.

Sort of like shooting .44 Spl in a .44 Mag gun.

The Casull when first came out was found to have more velocity at 200 yards than the .44 mag had at the muzzle.

I have fired a revolver chambered for this round and it was impressive to say the least.

Taurus make handguns for this round.

They also make the "Raging Bull: handgun in .30 M1 Carbine. Turns this mild rifle calibre into a real heavy hitter. Recoil is something fierce.

Chris

**jono035** · 5th January 2010, 20:55

Yeah, the raging bull line of revolvers seems to be getting quite popular, there are a lot of people on a lot of different shooting boards extolling their virtues. One of the guys at the range sold his S&W 629 to finance the purchase of a 6" SS Raging Bull in .44 magnum, hopefully I'll get a chance to have a play with it when it arrives and can compare it against my model 44....