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12 Cases Where Law-Abiding Americans With Guns Saved Lives
The lack of Daily FGS articles, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, compare to what 26Limabeans would say about Summer in Maine, “Three months of mighty thin sleddin’ yessah!”
“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.” — JOHN ADAMS
Category: Feel Good Stories
That is a fine example of a well set-up 73. The flat “shotgun style” but plate is vastly better than the c-shape of period correct rifles.
I love mine, always wanted one, now I have it!!
WW,
Congrats! Happy shooting!
(BTW – what caliber?)
Especially, for Cowboy Action Shooting. Unfortunately, my made in Italy clone has the crescent butt-plate.
A block of wood, carved to fit, and covered with a leather stock cuff does wonders.
I had mine simply covered and it was good enough.
Now Atlanta PD is going fetal.
This is going to get militias involved, and / or entire sections of the city turned into free-fire zones.
Interesting blog post on this very subject :
link : http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2020/06/re-taking-seattle.html
Why shouldn’t the atlanta PD hit the showers. The city govt has decidedly stabbed them in the back. Their chief is an empty uniform without a spine. The folks calling for defunding the department have been swaying the council to the point where they said they were going to do just that. The PD is just giving them a preview of what will come of that stupid move. To the population of atlanta I have just one question. Should you go through with the plan to defund the PD, will your city resemble Mogadishu or falusia?
Four, (4), count ’em….FOUR (4) rabbit holes to keep me distracted and out of your hair. Well played, it seemed to have worked. Excellent choices.
Re the article on the 1873 rifle. Yes it was used by the Natives during the Battle of Greasy Grass. That’s the place that the self centered, egotistical, vainglorious George Armstrong “Artie” Custer got his well deserved comeuppance. There several on display, documented to have been used, at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron NE, linky below. Other weapons there and at the Museum at Fort Rob (linky previously posted).
https://www.furtrade.org/
Love the old style lever guns with a side gate.
Had a toy one with white plastic cartridges that
would load into the gate and eject when the
action was worked. Might have been a copy of
a Mare’s Leg ala “Wanted Dead or Alive”
My modern Marlin lever in .444 is smooth as silk
and a pleasure to shoot but the caliber is very
limited in performance.
Yeah, sleds are put away until September.
shoulda got the .45-70… same gun, more versatile cartridge.
Always loved watching McQueen and that mare’s leg gun… he carried a bandoleer of .45-70s and his gun only came in what we consider handgun size cartridges like .44-40 so all that big-boy ammo was completely useless to him. Plus the show states several times it’s taking place within a few years after the Civil War ended. Given that all the other folks use Colt Peacemakers/New Army revolvers (intro’ed 1873 along with the .45-70 ammo he carries) and his mares leg is based on an 1892 Winchester, he apparently had a helluva time machine working for him.
Regardless, a favorite series and have seen every episode repeatedly. Love seeing all the bit players who made good later – Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef, Tom Ewell, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan, etc.