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Post by Buckshot on May 29, 2005 22:01:47 GMT -5
Any rifle shooters on the list?
Anyone into high power?
3 gun shooters?
Cowboy action shooters?
How about some smallbore shooters?
Somebody has to shoot something besides just handguns!
Lets hear about it.
Buckshot
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Post by cougar on May 29, 2005 22:55:07 GMT -5
I enjoy shooting my small collection of rifles. My favorites are my Winchester (USRAC) lever action guns. The big gun is a Centennial 1866-1966 model. It's a model 94 but it's brass(?) plated on the receiver to mimic the original Yellowboy 1866 model. It's in 30-30 with a heavy 24 inch octacgonal barrel and it shoots well. I also have three Trapper model 94's. They are sixteen inch barreled guns in 357 Mag, 44 Mag, and 45 Long Colt. All are very nice to shoot though the 44 Mag wears a rubber butt sleeve/pad because these guns have such a narrow hard butt that full power 44 Mags can hurt after just 10 rounds.Actually the 45 Colt gun needs one also for when I shoot Corbon "45 Colt Magnum" loads, basically the same power as a 44 Mag, but with a heavier bullet of 300 grain jacketed flat nose design. Some information I have says that ammunition for these calibers can gain between 200 to over 500 pounds/feet of energy over the same loads in 4 to 6 inch revolvers. Corbon lists that 45 Colt Magnum load as making 1100 pounds/feet from a 6 inch revolver. I wouldn't want to get hit with it from either gun. I also have a couple Russian SKS's that shoot quite well. I'm really partial to rifles in the moderate power levels that the Winchesters and the SKS's provide. I'm not really interested in hunting and I believe that these rifles could function well in any self defense situation that I would be likely to ever see.
Cougar
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Post by Buckshot on May 30, 2005 23:56:42 GMT -5
Cougar,
Agree with you on the self-sefense statements with the pistol caliber lever guns. Late 19th century assault rifles. Think about the Turks mixing a Winchester lever gun (can't remember if it was a '66 or a '73) for close range with a Peabody Martini for longer range. Kicked some serious rear end on the Russians at a few places, Plenva being one if I remember correctly.
I have a Trapper in .44 Mag. Had one in .45 Colt too but sold it as I also have a Rossi 92 rifle in .45 Colt (longer half round, half octagon barrel, 13 or 14 round magazine) that I just like better.
I have mostly used my lever guns for cowboy shooting (only entered 1 match, mostly practice) and for that you have to keep the loads below 1200 fps. in the rifle or carbine (below 1000 in a handgun) so I use 8.0 gr. of Unique for both calibers. 255 RNFP in the .45 Colt and 205 gr. RNFP in the .44 Mag. (copies the .44-40 load).
Buckshot
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Post by StonerStudent on Jun 1, 2005 1:02:20 GMT -5
I shoot in "tactical" rifle match about 3 times a year. The tactical rifle is the PC term for assualt rifle, that the club I shot at likes to use.......it's mostly a 60 round run and gun. But it can be alot of fun.
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Post by Buckshot on Jun 1, 2005 22:23:21 GMT -5
Haven't done a 3 gun match in the "tactical" sense yet.
Company I work with on firearms training will be putting one on in late July this year. Pass through a "shoot house" with handgun and shotgun and then another pass with handgun and tactical carbine.
Buckshot
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Post by Transonic on Jun 19, 2005 23:45:48 GMT -5
Yup, I'm a rifle/shotgun shootist. Chinese SKS, Swiss K31, Mosin 91/30, Baikal SxS 12g, and my new Remmy 870 is on the way. Oh, and a few .22's.
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Post by Buckshot on Jun 20, 2005 0:05:16 GMT -5
Transonic,
Glad to have another rifle shooter aboard.
Have you shot your K31 yet? How did it do? Did it have a soldier's name on a paper under the buttplate?
What are the details on your M-N M91/30? Maker, date, original or rebuild?
Buckshot
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Post by Transonic on Jun 20, 2005 0:12:12 GMT -5
Nope, I just got the K31 and haven't gotten any ammo for it yet, so I haven't shot it at all. And no, it doesn't have anything like that with it. It just had "XII 37" stamped into the wood under the buttplate.
The only thing I know about my 91/30 is that it's a Tula factory rebuild that was brought in by Century.
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Post by Buckshot on Jun 21, 2005 0:48:59 GMT -5
Transonic,
On the K31 it looks like either your stock was made or the rifle was stocked in December 1937, there is some argument as to which this actually means.
The 91/30 should have a date up on the chamber reflecting the rebuild.
It may be just the last two digits and it may have an r looking thing behind it.
The actual production date MAY be stamped in the metal on the underside of the receiver tang when you take it out of the stock.
Buckshot
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Post by Transonic on Jun 21, 2005 1:37:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, I'll take a look next time I have the Mosin out of the safe. Now that I think about it though, I do recall a marking amidst a bunch of nonsense on top of the chamber, something along the lines of 1943R. I think that's the date it says, but I'm not sure. I'll check later.
Speaking of big guns, I forgot to mention I got to shoot a .50 BMG for the first time last week!!! It was a Serbu BFG-50. I was aiming for the 100 yard gong and missed. Then again, I was shooting off-hand, standing. That is not a light-weight gun I tell ya. The other guy who was letting me shoot it hit the gong and knocked it five feet!!! We were using FMJ's and the gong was .75" thick at least so no hole was punched, but there was a crater and all the energy transferred into the metal and sent it and the stand it was hanging from flying. That definitely goes in the log as one of the cooler things I've shot. ;D
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Post by StonerStudent on Jun 21, 2005 2:58:49 GMT -5
You fired a Serbu BFG-50 offhand.........I'm impressed
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Post by Stetson on Jun 21, 2005 12:39:38 GMT -5
The only rifle I have here is my Lee-Enfield .303. I shoot it on occasion at the ranch but I dont compete with it. Then again, I dont compete at all....
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Post by Transonic on Jun 21, 2005 14:13:57 GMT -5
Thanks Stoner, I try. The first two times I tried I had to set the gun down 'cause I just couldn't hold the muzzle up at the target. The thing that frightens me is, that's one of the lighter .50's!
Stetson (I love your cologne by the way ;D) what model of Lee-Enfield do you have? I've been meaning to get a No.4 for a while now.
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Post by Stetson on Jun 21, 2005 15:28:47 GMT -5
I dont know what model. It has been worked on(barrel cut down, other crap done to it) but my dad got it in trade for fixing a guys Ruger Vaquero(broken spring) and he gave it to me. He has just run out of room in his safe(old bank safe) and is giving my brother and I the guns he never shoots.
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Post by Buckshot on Jun 23, 2005 2:26:36 GMT -5
Stetson,
At that price, who cares what model they are, original or sporterized.
Take them and RUN!
;^)
Buckshot
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