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With the new age of long range, I don't understand the modern lever action craze. I don't know anyone personally who gives a flip about long range shooting. Wouldn't even know where to go to attempt such a feat? I'll introduce myself. Now you know someone that knows, cares, shoots long range. And short. Where? Wherever you get range. Of course I can't get a shot past 600 down south on our place but up north we can get long shots all over the place if we look. I prefer to close. But I also prefer to be prepared. Hang together lest we hang separately I meant I don't know anybody around here that does it. Of course I've never seen a range longer than 200 yards. I hear tell of a 1,000 yard range in Williamsport but never went there met a few folks in '99-'00 that shot deer from one side of Kinzua Reservoir to the other. Long range target shooters maybe from that Williamsport place or elsewhere in PA. At the time, before the advent of the 6.5 craze, they were shooting 30-378 with long .30 bullets. They liked to test their skills on critters when the season was open.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Campfire Outfitter
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With the new age of long range, I don't understand the modern lever action craze. I don't know anyone personally who gives a flip about long range shooting. Wouldn't even know where to go to attempt such a feat? I'll introduce myself. Now you know someone that knows, cares, shoots long range. And short. Where? Wherever you get range. Of course I can't get a shot past 600 down south on our place but up north we can get long shots all over the place if we look. I prefer to close. But I also prefer to be prepared. Hang together lest we hang separately I meant I don't know anybody around here that does it. Of course I've never seen a range longer than 200 yards. I hear tell of a 1,000 yard range in Williamsport but never went there met a few folks in '99-'00 that shot deer from one side of Kinzua Reservoir to the other. Long range target shooters maybe from that Williamsport place or elsewhere in PA. At the time, before the advent of the 6.5 craze, they were shooting 30-378 with long .30 bullets. They liked to test their skills on critters when the season was open. I met one of those guys that do that when I was 17. He belonged to a 1,000 yard hunting club. He told me all about bench rifles and the 30-378 when it was still a wildcat. They were using the 6.5-300 too in those days. I'd never heard of anything like that before I talked to him
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What's that lump of junk on the end of the magazine tube? A why does it have a giant USB socket on the forestock? ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/LyIlxfI.png)
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S&W. had a pre shot show indoor range show in Vegas. TFBTV has a very good video on it. The S&W rep more than hinted. that 460 and 500S&W versions were planned.
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Campfire Ranger
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There's one (at least) available for pre-order on gunbroker right now. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1032499151Be the first kid on your block...
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Campfire Oracle
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Mo better. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/DfYzLsLf/M71c.jpg)
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The older Marlins, even the Remlins, have 1-38” twist barrels, which may be an issue for some. I forgot to check that when I looked at this one, but 1-20” is kinda standard now. My 1885 Browning, about 30 years old now, maybe older, is a 1-20”. I have read several times that the Marlin 44 Mag rifles, with their twist rate, will not stabilize the heavier .429" bullets. But that was a while ago, and I cannot recall what the actual problematic twist rate was. Do you know if that was the 1/20" or a 1/38"? On the Marlin website, it appears that they are all 1/20" now, unless I missed something.
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Marlin 1894's were always the slower twist and folks complained about it to them for years, decades even. Some folks reported good accuracy with 300 grain bullets but in the two .44 Mag 1894's I owned, a stubby Lyman 429215 215 gr. semi-wadcutter always shot the best groups by far of any bullet tried.
I'm actually liking not hating this new S&W, even though polymer stocks and M-loks and all that stuff on a lever action leaves me cold. But if it shoots accurately, if it works smoothly from the factory (which reviewers are saying it does), if it feeds reliably and if the loading port isn't knife sharp I can see myself seriously kinda maybe thinking about buying one.
When it comes out in .357 Magnum, that is.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Mo better. Very much so. 👍
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