You can't tell the barrel length from the serial number, you have to get a factory letter which tells you the proper barrel length for any particular gun. But, on the Ruger Forum there's a list of...
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You can't tell the barrel length from the serial number, you have to get a factory letter which tells you the proper barrel length for any particular gun. But, on the Ruger Forum there's a list of...
Before we leave the beautiful 44 Flattops, we should show a few of them, so here's mine. The top one is a first year one, shipped in December 1956, ser #5XX, while the bottom one is one of the last...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
My Cowboy Action amigos and I shot 45-70's in both single shots and lever guns for over ten years with a load of 22.5 to 24 grs of 5744 and 405 gr bullets and did really well in both long range side...
Ok, I was just trying to make the point of what Nueces just said as it sounded to me like frame size was being blamed for the aforementioned blow ups after the guns got into the publics hands. I...
Actually, all the 44 Flattops were on the larger Ruger frame, same size as the Super, 30 Carbine, 45 Colts and 41 Mags. One of the main differences between it and the Super, besides the ears to...
Don't forget Handloader Magazine articles by Ken Water's , he had at least two Pet Loads articles on the 45 ACP; I still use one of his for my self defense load, 7.0 grs of Unique with a Speer 200 gr...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I used 5744 for years in both single shots and lever guns in 45-70 and did quite well with it for Cowboy Action Long Range matches. Writers such as Mike Venturino recommended 28 grs with a 400 gr...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I decided after shooting a Browning 45-70 with smokeless loads with great success for about 10 years in Cowboy Action Shooting, that I wanted to compete with a 38-55 using black powder. Built a...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I shot Long Range Single Shot in Cowboy Action Shooting for over 10 years with a Browning Traditional Hunter in 38-55. Based on Ken Waters articles I came up with an RL7 load that did pretty well...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Well, the one's I made aren't very pretty but they're pretty effective, cheap and fairly easy to make. They're made out of 3/4" hardwood dowel rod from Home Depot, with brass caps on either end and...
Well, I made my own 32/20 after having two of the Buckeye Specials, which of course had new model actions and I wanted the 3 click old model action. Took a 30 Carbine frame, which I had been...
Forum: Leverguns
I wanted a 38-55 lever gun for long range Cowboy action shooting using black powder, so I put this one together on a pre-64 action. I had been shooting a Browning '86 in 45-70 with smokeless loads...
Forum: Leverguns
Ken Waters Pet Loads article on the 375 Winchester had some pretty good loads and he liked IMR 3031 and RX7. Without looking it up I think 35 grains of 3031 was about his max and I used this as a...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Here's my one and only, the action is a 1902 and the barrel is a C. Sharps off a Hi Wall in 38-55. John King up in Montana put them together and sporterized the action. I bought the wood from...
I had a set of 3 screw Ruger Blackhawk's that I'd had made into 44 Specials and then with Colt type backstraps for Cowboy Action Shooting. I then decided the black powder 44 Special load just wasn't...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You might want to put a WTB post in the Swapping and Selling area and see what floats to the top, might find that Browning BPCR in 45-70. I shot BPCR for several years with a Browning 45-70, but had...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Well, you've probably figured it out by now, but for what it's worth, I got my No. 5 barrel out, found the sight also with only one screw, and the screw went into my screw checker in the 8-32 hole. ...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I had the Browning version and shot it for over ten years in Cowboy Action Long Range matches, some out to 500 yards, and did quite well with it, winning the National Championship match twice (Winter...
Forum: Leverguns
If you can find one of the Browning 1886's made by Miroku, they're really great guns. They don't have the rebounding hammer and safety on the tang like the newer Winchester's and they're quite...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
It boils down to what you're going to be doing with it, small game if hunting and shorter distances if target shooting versus bigger game and much longer distances for long range shooting. Case...
I started fast drawing in 1956, when all the adult westerns came on TV and fast draw got popular. Made my own leather, trying to duplicate Arvo Ojala's design, used a beer can for the metal insert...
Forum: Leverguns
I used a Browning '86 rifle, with 26" barrel, in Long Range Big bore Lever Gun matches in Cowboy Action Shooting for over ten years and settled on a load of 22.5 to 24.0 grs of 5744 and a 405 gr...
Forum: Leverguns
If it shoots as well as the Browning '86's, made in Japan, it'll be a good rifle. Wonder if it has the safety like on the new Winchesters, also made in Japan, the Browning didn't have those, so you...
Forum: Leverguns
I had the Uberti Sporting Rifle in .44 Special for a number of years in Cowboy Action Shooting, shooting both black and smokeless loads in it and never had a complaint; good rifle, accurate and...
I've had that problem as I've been legally blind in my right eye since birth, but right handed in most things. I never bothered to shoot a handgun with my left hand until I got into Cowboy Action...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |