Beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your pictures. My brother has a 6" Model 29 that I've been trying to bamboozle him out of for a few years now. Until that time I'll have to 'settle' for my 4" Model 28.
Beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your pictures. My brother has a 6" Model 29 that I've been trying to bamboozle him out of for a few years now. Until that time I'll have to 'settle' for my 4" Model 28.
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Lost River, you mentioned in a caption, "smoked up trousers" from the braced between the knees sitting position - I love shooting like that. I swear it's steadier than off a rest on a bench. Lean back into a pack or tree etc and clamp those knees around the hands. I tried to use it in a 3 gun match that had a stage that required knocking down multiple 8" plates at 60 yards with the pistol to stop time; but the RO had heart failure over my feet being out front. So we went another way on that.
Reminds me though of the recent discussion of Cooper's four rules etc. It never occurred me growing up that this position was the least bit of a violation of anything, including those four. Just don't screw it up!
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This is turning into one of my all time favorite PF threads. I just love that part of the world. Here I am shooting a 5x5 elk at just over 400 yards with a .270WSM, back in that country.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
I'd like to get out that way some time. Closest I've come is the other end of the west, shooting my Model 544 off Art Eatman's front porch down in Terlingua. It seemed to be the appropriate wheelgun for the trip.
544? What is that???I'm gonna have to search that one.
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
Model 544: Modern N-frames don't come much more hipster than one in .44-40.Originally Posted by JHC
544? What is that???
Which reminds me,.....those two boxes of 44-40 factory loads I mentioned a couple years ago were gone when I went back.
'Salright. The only chamberings in which my ratio of "on-hand ammo" to "guns actually owned in that caliber" are even more out of whack are probably .22 Rem Jet and .32-20.Which reminds me,.....those two boxes of 44-40 factory loads I mentioned a couple years ago were gone when I went back.
I used to live down the road from there, in the bustling metropolis of Lajitas. I miss that area terribly.
Thanks for the kind words Friend.
I am an unabashed fan of Elmers favorite caiber. That being said, there are no flies on a fine old Model 28. I normally hunt rabbits with light .44 mag loads, but lately I have been loading up and shooting .38 special 145 grain DE wadcutters. I loaded them for my J frame but will likely run some in other guns like my old 1930s Colt Official Police, for hunting desert Jackrabbits. Wadcutters really do a number on them. You cant stop grinning when you roll one with a wadcutter out of an old "obsolete" handgun. At least I cant.
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