Recent content by Tommygunn

@40 years ago, in a state I no longer live in, a friend and coworker asked me to help him clear out his recently deceased father's housd. The deceased had been a WW2 vet serving in europe. My friend was getting ready to move himself. Cleaning out the attic involved only moving a few...

I absolutly sympathize!!!! Can you imagine how I feel???? :what: :fire::(:confused::barf:o_O

Better Custer than Biden!!!!!:p Oooops, politics .. .... sorry. :oops:

Major Reno was never in a position to bring his forces to support Custer, due mostly to his own ineptitude and being routed back across the Little Bighorn River by the Indian warriors.

See posts 76 and 77.

If you had been a trooper with Custer's 7th at the Little Bighorn, your big problem would be when you tried to extract a spent .45-55 case from your hot, dirty Trapdoor and the extractor tipped off the copper cartridge's case head. Then you'd be prying the case out with your knife. Then an...

They would have sold it for $1500. :evil: You figured right .... just for the wrong end of the deal.

:confused: To quote Homer Simpson; "d'oh!!!!"

:eek: That Mare's Leg is a SBR ... a "Short Barrel Rifle" .... somewhat frowned upon without a NFA tax stamp. I'd put the original grip back on and send that photo into the twilight zone.

Gen. Terry made his own incredibly foolish mistakes as the Terry/Gibbon column headed for the Little Bighorn. There is little evidence (IMHO) that Custer ignored his scouts; what Custer was absolutly ignorant of was that the Indian encampment was poised and ready for an attack and very...

Well, practically speaking, it's worth what you can get for it. If a book says $2,000 but no one will pay that, it's not worth that.

Possibly when the stocks were made , they didn't identify which went to carbine and which to rifle, and attached the swivel to all of them? ? ?

I can say this; I have a Rossi R92 in .45 Colt and a 1860 Henry Rifle by Henry Repeating Arms in .44-40. The Rossi is a nice, serviceable rifle that might do well as a trunk gun if necessary, but the Henry is beautiful and the action cycles butter-smooth. Really quite different rifles...

I'd use a known brand name for reliability, and test it at the range for reliable function and cycling before ccw.

I'm waiting until they sell AL Capone's Tommygun.:D (Yea that'll happen .....)