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  1. Tommygunn

    strange ways to get a gun!

    @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...
  2. Tommygunn

    Survival rate of historical firearms vs other historical artifacts

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

    If you had a time machine…?

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

    If you had a time machine…?

    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.
  5. Tommygunn

    357 carbines and rifles?

    See posts 76 and 77.
  6. Tommygunn

    Why did historical molds have roundball?

    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...
  7. Tommygunn

    Finding the real value of a firearm

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

    357 carbines and rifles?

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

    357 carbines and rifles?

    :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.
  10. Tommygunn

    If you had a time machine…?

    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...
  11. Tommygunn

    Finding the real value of a firearm

    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.
  12. Tommygunn

    Spencer rifle

    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? ? ?
  13. Tommygunn

    Rossi .22 LR

    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...
  14. Tommygunn

    Ammo recommendations

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

    Al Capone's Colt 1911 Is Up for Auction

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

    I saw a Henry Big Boy X 44 magnum today on the shelf and showed great restraint

    Yea, a couple months ago I saw a Henry rifle with nice wood furniture, side loading gate, in .44 magnum, and didn't buy it then. A week later I decided to buy it so went back .... it was gone!!! :( "You snooze you lose!:uhoh:" I suppose another will come along. And yea, I too like the...
  17. Tommygunn

    What slings are you guys using for AR15s?

    Back when I first got AR-15s I tried fancy stuff, and soon got discouraged. I use simple two point slings I get from Amazon pretty cheap. I can't recall the brand right now. I like having slings on my ARs, but I have no more interest in fancy-pants tactiKool slings.
  18. Tommygunn

    Sam Gabbert of SGAmmo on the status of Russian ammo

    Well, even paranoids have enemies, so, "at this point, what difference does it make?":evil:
  19. Tommygunn

    1849 Colt Questions

    No. If I could do it over I probably would, but I now have 2 Uberti 1861s that are pretty nice. Plus, way back then, I didn't have the disposable income to indulge every impulse.
  20. Tommygunn

    Interarms Model 65 (Rossi 92) Carbine in .44-40

    Sorta cool! Does this have the goofus safety switch on the rear of the bolt? I can't get a good view on my device, but it doesn't look like it ....
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