I make her some nice custom loads and she can shoot it all day long without any discomfort.
I do have a large supply of .44 spcl brass around and even loaded to the max they are pussycats out of that big stainless steel N-frame.
I do love an early gun porn thread, and what's this I hear about a filibuster?
Oh, the pubbies caved again? yawn....
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Yep..........no suprises from the polidiot pond today or tomorrow I suspect.
I have a few 44 mags and specials and as I get up to fish in Alaska every year I used to carry my 12 gauge slung across my back while fishing. When I got tired of that rig I went to a Bowen Ruger Bisley in 500 Linebaugh. That was a beast and reasoning aside I decided to go with a revolver using the garrett hammer heads in 310 or 330 gr flavors. Well the S&W's cylinder is too short and Mr Garrett warns against using his pills in the S&W anyway so I went with a plain old inox 5.5 inch Ruger Redhawk in 44 mag and stuff it with the Garrett 44 mag 330gr hardcasts.
I'm looking at the belt mountain solid 330's for it also. Here in the lower 48 I carry a 329PD that Bowen modified the sights on for me...stuffed with hornaday factory 240gr HP's. I got a better sight for my needs than the hiViz thingie that comes on em.
Still I am one S&W 696 and Charter Arms Bulldog Pug fan for the 44 special. I use a the CCI blazer GDHP 200 gr for that.....sweet , very accurate and a favorite plinker.
I have my eye on a new redhawk in the .454 Casull w/ a few custom features as I can stuff it with 45 colt for lower 48 or "light plinking" and when the pucker factor is high and I'm low on the food chain I'll make sure it is packed with the 454's.........it's a plan. !
Speaking of guns, I had a nice 54th B-day party with some friends who live up on Hoodooo Mountain just a little ways from here. We sat around a fire pit, ate Bambi burgers, drank a little whisky, smoked cigars and shot guns - not necessarily in that order. As nice a birthday as I've had in a while.
What made the shooting special was that I got to shoot a replica Shiloh Sharps in 45-70. Black powder cartridges, 34 inch barrel, too. Looking through that peepsight at the front double blades was like looking back through history. Never shot a rifle with as nice a set trigger as that one. I could perhaps get a little insight as to how those old-timers made those 1000 yard shots.
I udnerstand that they hold a Quigley shoot somewhere. Now that'd be something to see.