Phantom Captain
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Hey gang,
Was doing a bit of shopping today with my girl and we happened to wander over into Cabelas. Yeah bad mistake, hehe.
Anyway I had been searching for a GPS for her for Christmas and Cabelas had a really nice Garmin on sale for $150 which was normally $250, great deal. So after looking at those and picking one up for her we made our way over to the guns.
I have been looking at and wanting to get a BP cartridge revolver for quite a long time. I've really only seriously been into cap and ball pistols and military muskets and long rifles for as long as I can remember and have acquired quite the collection as some of you well know.
I had been checking out the beautiful Beretta Stampede .45 LC with the 5.5" barrel for months actually and was really enamored with it's looks and price. Read a bunch of reviews, researched em, etc. etc. While it's no 2nd gen Colt, those costing upwards of $1200 or more it's definitely a step above the Ruger Vaqueros and Ubertis in my humble opinion.
Well after playing with it and looking at it etc. etc. for a prolonged period of time my wonderful girl finally just says, it is beautiful and it's Christmas, put it on the card. Get it. So I did! Isn't she the best?? LOL!!
Got home, ordered some lovely checkered rosewood grips and a reloading die kit and bullet mold. BP cartridges are ridiculously expensive. $40-$50 a box??!?! The only way to go is to be loading my own. I've cast all my own round balls and minies for quite some time and I get my lead for free so doing my own .45 LC cartridges is going to be fun. The only other cartridge I reload is a .45-70 for my '73 Springfield trapdoor carbine so it's won't be anything too new to me. I don't have an expensive press or anything but the simple Lee die kit which works just fine for me so ordered the same for the pistol now too. Sure will be fun getting those together this winter! I'll make a nice 250 or so and just have them ready to go. I'm sure I'll cast up a bunch of extra bullets so I can just reload as I go through them!
I'll try to take a couple of pics and post them soon! I'm really in love with this pistol. Really really happy to finally have a SA .45!
Was doing a bit of shopping today with my girl and we happened to wander over into Cabelas. Yeah bad mistake, hehe.
Anyway I had been searching for a GPS for her for Christmas and Cabelas had a really nice Garmin on sale for $150 which was normally $250, great deal. So after looking at those and picking one up for her we made our way over to the guns.
I have been looking at and wanting to get a BP cartridge revolver for quite a long time. I've really only seriously been into cap and ball pistols and military muskets and long rifles for as long as I can remember and have acquired quite the collection as some of you well know.
I had been checking out the beautiful Beretta Stampede .45 LC with the 5.5" barrel for months actually and was really enamored with it's looks and price. Read a bunch of reviews, researched em, etc. etc. While it's no 2nd gen Colt, those costing upwards of $1200 or more it's definitely a step above the Ruger Vaqueros and Ubertis in my humble opinion.
Well after playing with it and looking at it etc. etc. for a prolonged period of time my wonderful girl finally just says, it is beautiful and it's Christmas, put it on the card. Get it. So I did! Isn't she the best?? LOL!!
Got home, ordered some lovely checkered rosewood grips and a reloading die kit and bullet mold. BP cartridges are ridiculously expensive. $40-$50 a box??!?! The only way to go is to be loading my own. I've cast all my own round balls and minies for quite some time and I get my lead for free so doing my own .45 LC cartridges is going to be fun. The only other cartridge I reload is a .45-70 for my '73 Springfield trapdoor carbine so it's won't be anything too new to me. I don't have an expensive press or anything but the simple Lee die kit which works just fine for me so ordered the same for the pistol now too. Sure will be fun getting those together this winter! I'll make a nice 250 or so and just have them ready to go. I'm sure I'll cast up a bunch of extra bullets so I can just reload as I go through them!
I'll try to take a couple of pics and post them soon! I'm really in love with this pistol. Really really happy to finally have a SA .45!