Cowboy Guns

[Ulu]

They have a fine posse of cowboy shooters out at the local rifle club. Unfortunately, you can't take pictures. 

 

It's pretty impressive, with a whole little cowboy town and period costumes and weapons. They meet or compete once a month there, and while I'm not so much into the "dress up and play cowboy" business, it has rekindled my childhood love for lever guns, coach guns, and six-shooters.

 

This is a new Henry .357 I've been working on. I bought a matching caliber revolver too, but it won't be mine for a few more days. I put the big loop on it and the scope rail. The gun sight you see is a strange deal I inherited, but it won't stay on there. I had it handy & slapped it on the new scope rail, just to see if it would work at all.

 

 

 

The nice thing is the mild recoil makes it possible for the girls to shoot this one like a varmint gun, and yet it'll still knock down a big game at modest range.

 

I'm not going hunting though, and all that zombie stuff you keep hearing is just a myth.  

I'm really just more of a collector and target shooter.

 

I did get to shoot some paper zombie targets with it though, and it's going to be a beautiful shooter once I get a few hundred rounds through it.

[casper50]

Ulu nice rifle.  I collect pre WW II sporting rifles.  Mainly English Mausers and Mannlichers.  Took my largest moose, (64"), with a 1913 English Mauser in .404 Jeffery.

[Ulu]

I can't afford the really collectible stuff, but I mostly want guns that I think are fun to shoot.

 

On my list are a Ruger Blackhawk in .30 carbine, plus a matching .30 carbine.

Also a Ruger no. 1, maybe in 450-400 nitro express. 

 

I'd really like a Henry Original Iron-frame rifle in .44-40 cal, but that's about $2700+tax & fees, so it may have to wait a while.  

 

Meanwhile I bought this .30-30 Mossberg carbine, which is turning out to be a really fun gun. It's the silver one. The other one is the Savage Mk2 .22LR target rifle.

 

 

 

That's the gun case I've been upholstering. I did some on the Singer, but there's a few late nights and about 5000 hand stitches in there. . . .

 

[casper50]

Nice.  I just sold a custom Ruger #1 in .500 nitro express.  Gold inlays and all.  Used to own a blackhawk in 30 carbine.  First revolver I ever owned.  

[Sharps40]

Cowboy guns:

 

The Packhorse, 44 Magnum, 3.5", Rust brown and black.

 

 

 

A New Model/Old Model, 3.5"  Rust brown and black with amboynia burl

 

Mr. Belly Gun, 3.5" with Afzelia Zylay

 

 

A Gentleman's Workhorse, 3.5" with Bloodwood

 

 

The 1860 Army Blackhawk with Bloodwood, they said it couldn't be done, marry a Colt Brass 1860 grip to a New Model Blackhawk

 

 

The Lightning Blackhawk with Spalted Curly Maple

 

Edited February 13, 2016 by Sharps40

[Dan Hiebert]

"Cowboy Action" shooting is a hoot!  Kind of like modern IPSCC (I don't remember what the acronym stands for, but its "combat" shooting, as opposed to bulls-eye) but restricted to double barrel shotguns, single-action six-shooters, and lever action rifles.  Carlsbad, NM used to have an annual shoot (may still) that we'd go watch for fun.  I've got a pre-'70 Winchester 1894 ("pre 1970" being a "real" Winchester, American Repeating Arms bought it out in 1970) (maybe a "learn something new every day" moment for some) that I tried out on the rife course one year, didn't do so well.  Hit everything, but that loop handle really speeds it up - which mine doesn't have - so I bombed the time.  You've got a nice Ruger collection there, Sharps40.  I'm rather partial to Ruger myself.

[Don Coatney]

I once bought a rifle and pistol my money away on ammunition.

[Ulu]

This is the Henry .22 with Leupold AR mod-1 scope.

 

Everybody who shoots this gun is amazed at the smooth action.

 

[Ulu]

 . . . nice Ruger collection there, Sharps40.  I'm rather partial to Ruger myself. . . .

 

I ordered the wife a red 10-22 for her birthday.  Itll be here in a couple days. This is my only Ruger,the MK-3 on the left,  but hardly a cowboy gun. More of a Nazi gun. LOL

 

 

 

This is my cowboy pellet gun. She needs a re-seal job.

 

 

[Dan Hiebert]

I ordered the wife a red 10-22 for her birthday.  Itll be here in a couple days. This is my only Ruger,the MK-3 on the left,  but hardly a cowboy gun. More of a Nazi gun. LOL

 

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This is my cowboy pellet gun. She needs a re-seal job.

 

 

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...a nice collection of pictures, then.  I learned how to shoot pistols with my Dad's Ruger MK-3, for the longest time I thought it was a "Luger".  Good call on the 10-22.  You'uns will have a lot of fun with that one. 

[Ulu]

I bought this .357 Uberti Evil Roy from Cimmaron in Texas, through Davidson's Gun Genie. It's a near clone of the colt 1872, or "pre-war" Colt.

 

 

This is a really fun gun to shoot. but they are known for having a dodgy base pin. (The pin the cylinder spins on.)

 

I noticed it taking dings from the cross bolt the first time I cleaned it. The dings made it hard to remove.

 

Anyhow a place called Belt Mountain makes a replacement of an improved design for about $30, If I decide not to just grind my own from a drill bit.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 23, 2016 by Ulu

[Ulu]

Judy-poo really likes her new red Ruger.

[Ulu]

I bought an old beater shotgun today, as a project. It's a Sears Ranger 5000 12ga side-by-side with short barrels.

The gun is in OK shape, but the stock is in poor shape & will need patching.

I won't have it in my hands for 10 days of course.

Anyhow, it looks like this one, but shorter and not as nice.

[Ulu]

It turns out that I may or may not have overpaid a bit for the shotgun. It might have been made for Sears by Hunter, as Savage took a break to make Russian Mosins for a few years.

 

So if it is indeed a Hunter, it is much more rare and slightly more valuable.

 

I have to go do the paperwork tomorrow, so I'll know more then.

[LAKOTA169]

I don't have any cowboy guns, but do these count? Original New Model 1863 Sharps rifle and carbine. Rifle is on top. At sometime, someone shortened the forend. The serial numbers of the rifle fall within the numbers issued to Company C 6th Veteran Volunteer infantry. The numbers on the carbine fall within numbers issued to Company I 1st Maryland Volunteer Cavalry.

 

 

I forgot, I do have this Navy Arms .44 black powder revolver. I made and tooled the holster and belt.

 

[Ulu]

Cowboy guns, buffalo guns, squirrel guns...all sorta the same to me, in that they're antiques or replicas of antiques.

 

 Anyhow, the new gun turns out to be a 16 ga on closer inspection.

 

The Stevens production for Sears was interrupted by Russian military contracts, so there were early and late Stevens/Savage shotguns branded as Rangers, and I believe the engraving was completely changed as well as the lockwork, as evidenced by differing pin arrangements on the receiver. In between those times,  the Ranger was made by Hunter Arms, and I was hoping this was the case.

 

Based on what I see, I believe this gun was built in the late 30's, by Stevens/Savage, but the records from those years are long gone, and were probably only marginally formal at the best of times. Exact dating seems, therefore, to be impossible.

[Dan Hiebert]

I bought an old beater shotgun today, as a project. It's a Sears Ranger 5000 12ga side-by-side with short barrels.

The gun is in OK shape, but the stock is in poor shape & will need patching.

I won't have it in my hands for 10 days of course.

Anyhow, it looks like this one, but shorter and not as nice.

I had one of the Savage-Stevens of those in 20 gauge for years.  It's what I learned to hunt birds "on the wing" with in high school.  Well balanced, rugged, and easy to maintain.  You're gonna like it! 

[Ulu]

I got the antique scattergun yesterday:

 

 

As you can see, she's been rode hard and put away wet.

Edited April 13, 2016 by Ulu