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Gun Type: .17 Mach 2
Firearm Type: Pistol
Accuracy Rating: 5
Caliber Type: test
Lead Type: testing
Lead Size: 150
Powder Type: test
Powder Amount: testing
Primer: test
Brass: tester
Barrel Length: 6
F.P.S.: test
Group Size: tester
Overall Length: test
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Ut consequat velit eget enim lobortis tincidunt. Suspendisse in dapibus diam, quis consectetur turpis. Curabitur et nunc a risus placerat cursus. Donec tempor ligula et nulla iaculis, ut sagittis sem vestibulum. Aliquam egestas cursus nunc, ac maximus risus mattis quis. Aliquam in porttitor dolor. Sed ultricies, tortor eu convallis lobortis, nisl ligula eleifend est, id ullamcorper nisi dui eget enim. Nullam commodo varius venenatis. Fusce commodo placerat magna, vel efficitur massa eleifend at. Curabitur bibendum, felis quis egestas pulvinar, est augue aliquam diam, vel laoreet orci sapien sed tortor. Mauris pretium tempor nisi.Published on 10-15-2014 01:15 PM Number of Views: 24820~By Fred K. Aron
As I was looking for a trail gun in non-griz country, I looked at alot of guns, and shot most of them. It was down to the S&W 629 Mountain Gun and the Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 in the 4 5/8ths barrel.
I chose the Ruger for many reasons. Its a stronger design, its simple, and I like the Single action grip frame better for recoil issues. I had never owned one of these 'Cowboy type' guns, so I really didn't know what I was getting into. I got it home and quickly swapped out the factory springs with a Wolff Kit to lighten the hammer and trigger pull, then ran to range like the little kid I can be to run 200 rounds though it.
Amazing. I have now put about 3000 rounds through it and love it more every trigger pull. I mainly shoot my 300 grain pleasent loads with 8-10 grains of Unique though it, but have thrown a few nastys and it handles better then my Super Redhawk with the 7 inch barrel.
My wife went out and purchased a set of Elk grips made by Eagle which compliment the blue hogs leg so nice. I carry it often, and shoot it every chance I have to make a range trip.
If you are looking for a single action 44mag that is easily packed on the hip, and shoots straight...this is a real good bet...see my photo's in the gallery of my favorite pistol.
Feel free to email me with any questions.
Fred
Published on 10-15-2014 01:08 PM Number of Views: 25844~By Capt Walt
I needed a Big Game rifle for my son that was capable of taking whitetailed deer, Black Bear and Moose but it had to be easy to handle, low recoil, reliable and affordable for the young shooters first big game rifle as well as classy enough for any shooter with fine taste.
Priced at $775.00 at Maines largest gun dealer it is an exceptional value for the money.
This is an American made rifle with its history dating back to the time of the Civil War, or the war of insurection for folks south of the Mason Dixon line.
When President Lincon was seeking any advantage to help the union win the war; a newly invented idea was presented to him. The Henry Lever action repeating rifle.
It was the first of its kind to be produced with other gun manufactures taking to the idea and producing there own versions the lever action it played an important part in helping the Union win the war and was part of the our countries history of how the west was won. To this day cowboy re-inactors use the Henry as part of their authentic getup for events.
This rifle not only looks good with its Solid top brass receiver, brass buttplate and brass barrel band it hits the nail right on the head staight out of the box. With standard adjustable Marble semi-buckhorn rear with white diamond insert and brass beaded front sight I have the feeling that Henry takes care to make sure that this rifle will pop bullseyes at 50 yrds and 100 yards without a lot of trial and error.
The tube magazine holds an amazing amount of bullets; more than most hunters will ever need. Henrys motto was quoted form old Honest Abe "Load on Sunday, Shoot all week long"
The guns powerful bullet selection will take down any game animal in North America.
Safe shooting practice is enhanced in that the tube design must be loaded with the reciever chamber open. Dont forget to lever it clear when loading! This safety procedure makes the lever action an exceptionally safe design as you can show clear.
Weighing in at 8.68 lbs this isn't the lightest lever action rifle made but the extra heft goes a long way in absorbing recoil of even the roaring 240 gr. Super-X® Hollow Soft Point loads.
Unlike many short lever action hunting rifles that kick like a mule this Henry tends to roll with the punch more like a shotgun, Certainly a big plus for all hunters.
The quality of materiels and workmanship is top notch with excellent fit and finish of both machine parts and good quality wood stocks. This rifle ejects on the right hand side with a nice downward case throw making it a good choice for both right handed shooters and southpaws. I especally like being able to retreive the brass without looking all over for them. A good feature for reloaders. The action was smooth and functioned flawlessly from the first shot. Its getting even better after shooting a few hundred rounds and cleaning out all of the packing grease.
The pride in craftsmanship is displayed in all dealiungs with the Henry company. They treat Evey customer like you are their most important. That kind of service is exceptional in todays market.
This rifle like all high tolerance fine machined tools works well lubricated with a very low viscosity machine/gun oil. The rifle was tested in below freezing weather in coastal Maine in December with salt spray in the air. Not the kindest enviourment for any hunting equipment and certainly a vigourous testing ground for a Deer Rifle.
My 12 yr old son used winchester 240 gr. USA Jacketed Soft Point ammo for his first try on using a large caliber rifle and did as well as if he was shooting his .22 bolt action. Having used this Henry .44 Mag makes me wish that I also had their .22 lever action for small game and plinking. This rifle is one that will give a lifetime of hunting service and can be carried by shooters of all ages. Few firearms these days fall into the Hierloom category as well as being serviceable hunting weapons. This Henry rifle meets a lot of requirements in a fairly priced package.
My only regret is that I had not shot one a long time ago.
Capt Walt
Master Maine Guide, New England Charters & Guide Service LLC
Published on 10-15-2014 01:04 PM Number of Views: 24866~By Capt Walt
Its been a long winter here in Maine, Hunting seasons over and its too cold for baseball and putting the boat in the ocean but too warm for ice fishing and snow? What’s that? I guaranteed a snow free winter by having my plow stuck on my truck. Just can’t get it off and if I do I know it wont go back on and we will have the biggest blizzard in history.
So I’m looking for some penetrating oil to loosen up rusted boats and nuts. I have tried just about every product out there with varying degrees of success. Some work but are real nasty to use and dangerous to the environment, Others work so-so and some don’t work at all. I came across a product that I have never heard of so I thought that I would give it a try. Its called Fluid Film: Rust & Corrosion Preventive Penetrate & Lubricant. Now that’s a mouthful!
The can of Fluid Film is labeled “Environmentally Friendly” and “No Solvents” So I am wondering just how this stuff is supposed to work. We all know that most anti rust products will rip a few layers of skin from your hands so I am even more surprised when I read that this stuff is a “Wool Based formulation”. Now I started thinking what was derived from wool. Yea you guessed it.
But how does it work? I sprayed some on an old rusty pair of scissors and this stuff started bubbling! It smelled good and was soft on my hands! Wow the rust actually melted off the metal and the scissors functioned like new. So off I went, dragged out a pistol that had been used hard and put away wet; I sprayed Fluid Film on it and BAM! Not only did the dirt and powder residue bubble off the metal; It actually cleaned the copper fowling out of the barrel without using a wire bore brush. Now this stuff is going into my hunting pack and another can in my tackle box and my truck and boat toolbox. Its not often that you come across something that works better than advertised; but Fluid Film fits that niche.
So off to their website http://www.eurekafluidfilm.com/ and I find a whole list of uses for this stuff. I will have to pick up a 5 gallon bucket of it. Off to try it out on my Baseball Gloves.
Capt Walt
http://home.maine.rr.com/newengland/Published on 10-15-2014 12:51 PM Number of Views: 29560~By Jim Berndt, ©2006
I love shooting my surplus rifles. The abundance of inexpensive ammunition for many former military rifles is one of the really great advantages of collecting and shooting the old warhorses. Although I reload for many of my sporting rifles, I do not bother for some of my surplus rifles – ammunition is inexpensive and if I need a few hunting rounds I can buy a single box of commercial ammunition.However, there are some occasions where it would be nice to have some reduced loads of cartridges that I don’t normally hand load. I like to do some close range plinking just to practice sight acquisition and trigger pull; I also am trying to transition my son from his first .22 to shooting some centerfire rifles. Both of these tasks are well-suited to reduced rifle loads. With reduced rifle loads I even will dispatch the occasional pest or take a squirrel or two. But, if you are not a reloader or if you choose not to reload for a particular cartridge, where do you find reduced loads?
My M48 Yugoslavian Mauser chambered in 8x57A solution I have found for this problem is the Hammond Game Getter. This device is manufactured by Brian Hammond of Alberta, Canada and is available from him (B. Hammond, Box 41061, Petrolia PO, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6J 6M7; www.gamegetter.ca). I was intrigued when I first saw the Game Getter, so I contacted Brian and ordered one in 8x57 for my Yugo M48 Mauser.My Game Getter arrived in a handy little plastic box about the size of a cigarette pack. The box contained a modified 8x57 case, a small sizing die for sizing round balls or buck shot to the appropriate diameter, a few lead balls of the appropriate size and an empty compartment for power loads (more on these later). The whole package is very compact and easily slips in your pocket.
The Game Getter with accessories in its case. Remington power loads for power-actuated toolsThe actual Game Getter device is a modified cartridge case. The brass head of the case has been replaced by (what appears to be) a stainless steel insert. The power for the Game Getter “cartridge” comes from a blank .22 cartridge – the type commonly marketed by Remington for power actuated tools (called a “power load”) not the type of blanks used in starter pistols. The power loads come in a variety of strengths, indicated by their color with the mildest charges colored grey, the next strongest brown, then green, and finally yellow, the most powerful.
The base of the Game Getter modified cartridge showing how the power load is inserted, and struck by the rifle firing pin.To load the Game Getter, a power load is placed in the stainless steel base, which holds the power load off-center so that the centerfire rifle firing pin will strike the rim of the power load and set off the charge. The projectile is a suitably size round ball (a little larger than the bore diameter) which has been pushed through the tapered swage provided with the Game Getter. This sized round ball is pressed into the mouth of the modified cartridge case by finger pressure; and the Game Getter is ready to fire.Since I am using my Game Getter in an 8x57 rifle (0.323” bore diameter), 00 Buck Shot (0.33” diameter) is an appropriate projectile to size for my rifle. Although the manufacturer did not suggest it, I lightly lubricated the buck shot with a dab of Lee Resizing Lubricant before pushing the buck shot pellets through the die. After sizing, the diameter of ten randomly selected pellets averaged 0.3227” with a standard deviation of only 0.0002”. Although not really necessary for the bullet velocity of my planned tests, I also lightly lubricated the sized pellets with Lee Liquid Alox to minimize the chance of leading the barrel.
Sized buck shot pressed into the mouth of the Game Getter modified cartridge.
The modified cartridge case I received was a bit large for the chamber of my M48. I was able to close the bolt with some difficulty and after getting the bolt closed I was concerned about getting the cartridge out. However, after several firings the cartridge chambered noticeably easier and I had no further chambering problems. The manufacturer suggests that the lower power loads are the most accurate. After looking at the velocity data for the Game Getter in several chamberings on the manufacturer’s website, I figured that either the brown or the green power loads would give me the 700 to 900 feet per second (fps) velocity that I wanted.Sized buck shot pressed into the mouth of the Game Getter modified cartridge.Accuracy testing of the Game Getter in my M48 took place on a warm (for Northern Wisconsin) November afternoon. The Game Getter is intended, according to the manufacturer, for ranges of 25 yards or less. I chose two distances for accuracy testing, one at 85 feet, a bit longer than the maximum range, and one at 45 feet, a typical squirrel shooting distance. In my testing, I was trying to evaluate the practical accuracy of the Game Getter rather than the full potential accuracy. As a result, I only used a forearm rest when shooting, rather than a bench rest and sandbags. I wanted to know if I would be able to shoot the Game Getter accurately enough in the field to reliably pot small game.
"Field rest" used in testing.One of the possible uses of the Game Getter (where allowed by law) is the ability to swap the Game Getter for a full-power hunting load if small game presents itself while big game hunting. With this idea in mind, the sights of my M48, which are set for my hunting ammunition, were not adjusted for my tests of the Game Getter. I wanted to see how far below the point of aim the shots from the Game Getter would hit at my test distances.Both the green power loads and the brown power loads were tested at 85 feet. Both power levels of power loads produced reasonably good groups on the “long-range” targets. The lower velocity brown power loads produced noticeably tighter groups, averaging a little over an inch for five shots. I noticed an occasional flyer at 85 feet, usually associated with a power load that sounded quieter than most. Groups powered by the green power loads clustered about 4.1 inches below the point of aim while groups from the brown power loads were about 4.4 inches below the point of aim. The difference in velocity between the two different powered power loads, as shown by the amount of relative bullet drop, does not appear to be significant at this distance.
Group shot at 85 feet with brown power loads. Group shot at 45 feet with brown power loads. When the range was decreased to 45 feet the brown loads showed that they were indeed the power source of choice for my 8x57. At this closer distance the groups began to resemble a ragged hole. Typical group size at this range with the brown power loads was about one inch or less and the groups were about 2.5 inches below the point of aim. I am confident that in a rifle with more accuracy potential than my M48 and with a good bench rest, the Game Getter could produce tighter groups than shown by my testing. However, a one-inch group at 45 feet makes me confident that I could reliably head-shoot squirrels within that range. In some informal practice after testing I tried holding over the target bulls eye about 2.5 inches (about one and a half squirrel heads) and was able to consistently place shots in the center ring of the target.Bullet velocity 3 feet from the muzzle was tested for bullets powered by both the green power loads and the brown power loads. Ten shots with the green power loads produced an average velocity of 974 fps with a standard deviation of 21 fps. Another ten shots with the brown power loads gave an average velocity of 792 fps with a standard deviation of 39 fps. The lead Buck Shot I was using for bullets in these test had an average weight of 52.5 grains.While the 00 buckshot pellets fired in the M48 have been very slightly elongated during sizing, some simple ballistic calculations can be made using the G2 ballistic coefficient for 00 buckshot of 0.032. At 974 fps at the muzzle the green power loads produce a little more than 103 foot/pounds of energy at the muzzle with the green power loads and 72 foot/pounds with the brown power loads. As a standard of comparison, Federal’s American Eagle .22 ammunition leaves the barrel at a stated 1,260 fps with a muzzle energy of 141 ft/lbs
My limited tests have convinced me that the Hammond Game Getter is all it is billed to be: an easy to use, accurate, field-assembled cartridge suitable for reduced velocity plinking, the taking of close range small game with a big game rifle. The workmanship of the modified casing is excellent and looks like it will last longer than me. This little device has earned a place in my range box and I intend to keep it handy when hunting with my M48.While my testing was conducted with the 8x57 Hammond Game Getter, the manufacturer’s website lists 91 other standard chamberings with a note that wildcat chamberings can be provided upon request. I think my next trials will include my 7mm‑08 and .223...or perhaps my .45-70…
Copyright ©2006 by Jim Berndt, all rights reservedPublished on 10-15-2014 12:36 PM Number of Views: 24624El Oso again with a new product everyone should try. I saw an add for Hoppe's Elite Bore Ceaner and thought if its from Hoppe's it's worth a shot. I sent for a free sample to avoid spending my cash as long as possible.
When it came in the mail I couldn't wait to give it a try. My S.S. Vaquero was chosen as my test subject, so I went out and got it dirty with some nice lead handloads. When I thought it was dirty enough I came in and took it apart.
When I opened the new cleaner I noticed something was wrong, where was that famous Hoppe's smell? Thinking this was not my normal Hoppe's I turned to the directions (this is not something I normally do) it said soak a patch run it through the bore and let sit a few minutes.
I then hit it with the bore brush a few passes then another patch. The patch came out filthy so another soaked went down the bore, this one was just lightly soiled. A dry patch that was next came out clean.
I sprayed some on the top strap and front of the cylinder, let them sit then hit them with a brush and wiped all the grime away. The cylinder looker new I couldn't believe it. I have to say if gun cleaning is not at the top of your list of fun chores give this Hoppe's Elite a try.
We do need to see if they can add that wonderful Hoppe's 9 smell, then it would be perfect.
El Oso
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| 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 |
