| 9.3x57 |
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| 01/07/07 02:48 PM |
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Here's a rig I made a few years ago for my S&W 29-9. Belt, speedloader pouch, Forsythe-type 3/4Flap holster and open top also with the Forsythe-type belt loop.
| degoins |
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| 04/07/07 03:23 AM |
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great looking rig and revolver. i see your tastes run retro like mine.
| 9.3x57 |
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| 04/07/07 10:46 AM |
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Thanks, but retro?
Around here that's cutting edge. I mean, after all, it is a rig for a double action revolver!
| degoins |
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| 05/07/07 09:45 PM |
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yeah, true...lol!!
is that a barrel off of an old 44 special or did someone mill the rib off the original barrel? it looks great.
| 9.3x57 |
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| 05/07/07 11:37 PM |
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Quote:
yeah, true...lol!!
is that a barrel off of an old 44 special or did someone mill the rib off the original barrel? it looks great.
It's a 29-9, "Heritage" Model, 44 Mag. Light skinny barrel with ball detent front lock. The Heritage series was made some years ago {2000-2002 I think} in K and N frame revolvers {.38, .44 Sp, .44 Mag and .45 Colt}, about 250-500 each model as I remember. Blue, nickle and case hardened frames. They were sold as "collector" guns but I use mine. CDNN had them for sale, and for a while they could be sniped off Gunbroker or Gunsamerica for around $600. I see now they tend to go about $1000 or more. I had another one in nickle but sold it when I realized I could make a couple hundred bucks. I hate nickle, too.
The gun handles about identically to a 1926 Target and makes for a light steel-framed .44 Mag. I use a sort-of medium level handload in it of 18 grains of 2400 under a 240 grain bullet for about 1200 fps. I shot a bear with it and have used it around the ranch here but I'm really no handgun hunter. Mostly I use pistols for shooting butcher stock and stock-chasing dogs.
Truthfully, I prefer auto pistols and little-by-little got rid of all my revolvers some years ago. This is the last of my wheelguns left but it's a keeper.
| degoins |
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| 06/07/07 12:17 AM |
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i'm not much of a handgunner myself, but i do like nice revolvers, especially the older or older looking ones. i recenty bought a reintro s&w model 22 in the 1917 version and love it. i had an original several years ago and like a fool traded it off for something i no longer have either. it was one of the brazilian contract revolvers that navy arms got in around '88. i would like to pop a hog with a handgun though. i've killed a total of one deer with one....a ruger bisley stainless 44 mag at about 30 feet. i used to hunt squirrels with my single 6, but havent been inspired to do that in a long time. anyway that's a nice set up you have there.
| 9.3x57 |
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| 06/07/07 02:15 AM |
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I've seen those 1917's. Neat guns.
You and me make two fools I guess, as I had an old '17 I rebarreled and kept around for sheep shooting on the ranch. Got rid of it for some reason. Wish i still had it.
I shoot lots of varmints {Ground Squirrels} with the pistols, .22, 7.62x25, 9mm and .357 SIG. But never a deer. Hogs WOULD be fun I think as a friend of mine goes south every year and shoots them. Says it is a lot of fun and tasty, too!
I carry mine in the woods wandering and skiing in the winter like this:
http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e115/S...gbackground.jpg
Wolves in the ski tracks...
http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e115/S...rackwithSIG.jpg
And for varmints:
http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e115/Skaapskieter/?action=view¤t=062106Stockslot2.jpg
Here's the Heritage along for the ride:
| degoins |
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| 06/07/07 03:20 AM |
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man, you live in a target rich environment!!! actually we have more deer than varmits or small game of any kind.......in fact the deer are a varmit. and yes the hogs are great fun and great eating. i hunt them on public land when they're allowed and they are truly wild as there are no farms nearby most of the areas, so they dont get any corn. i used to have access to some private land with lots of hogs on that we could hunt year round, but that deal finally played out.