Mark from MA
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You've gone down hot road to hell with the sacrilege of black and stainless......might as well add the 3-9X and complete the mission. LOL!!
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School me on Lever Actions (please?)
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You've gone down hot road to hell with the sacrilege of black and stainless......might as well add the 3-9X and complete the mission. LOL!!
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Seems nice enough. Haven't shot it like that yet. It works like a scope on the optional rail, but I want something closer to the bore so that I can get a good cheek weld without a riser on the buttstock.
This is the second time I've reconfigured my .357M Big Boy Steel by taking off the scope. Both times I was immediately happy with how light the rifle felt without the scope, and the Leupold VX1 is a pretty light scope to begin with. I think it just adds up with the Henry rail and my scope rings (both are steel).
The Skinner dovetail-based weaver mount is OK. It puts the sight only a little bit higher than where I'd prefer it, but it does look quite out-of-place on the barrel. It's a reasonably sturdy mounting, as it has brass recoil lugs on both sides of the barrel's dovetail to prevent the weaver base from rocking under recoil (not that there is much with the .357M), but I'm a little nervous that something unfortunate could happen to one side or other of the barrel's dovetail slot if there were a solid impact on the sight. I've picked out a couple of Weaver bases to see if I can make them work using the rear two screw holes on the receiver. One will put the red dot far enough towards the hammer that it hangs over the back of the receiver a bit, but it should be quite low, maybe even slightly lower than on the barrel mount. The other would move rear edge of the red dot forward of the rear screw, but I will have to grind the base on that one flat to make use of it at all, and I don't think it will be as low as the other.
BTW, I measured the fire formed brass from my last outing with this rifle, and it was only a thousandth or so narrower near the case mouth than at the widest point near the rim. I believe I'd regard the bulging that you experienced with yours awhile back as a manufacturing defect.
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And who does not want to be a cowboy? I mean like a 150 or so years ago...
Mark from MA
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Ive got 2. The long barrel cowboy version and the 22" regular version.
I'd have three but the Guide gun i have is a JM factory ported asskicker in 450 Marlin flavor.
Ive been looking around and I think the pistol cartridge levers Im going Henry probably in 357 flavor Big Boy steel.
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As having owned pistol caliber levers, NONE of them shoot as well as the rifle calibers! Like any other firearm, older is better, the new stuff SUCKS! Get a pre crossbolt safety Marlin/Winchester, 30-30 is best. Ammo is cheap and readily available anywhere.
The thought had occurred. I just don't have the tools I'd need to pull that off. For now I just gave up on not needing a riser. I put one of these
https://www.amazon.com/Tourbon-Genuine-Leather-Buttstock-Holder/dp/B0104J21V2
back on the buttstock, and it sights perfectly.
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"My Heroes have always been cowboys".
Now there's a throwback song to when I was a kid. Haven't heard that name tossed around in quite some time![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
Yup, and she is from that neck of the woods. What a voice.
Something to drool over, wish it were mine.
That is some beautiful tack work. Holy crap.
And the rounds have been placed on the wrong side of the stock.
Have they?
For a right-handed shooter, who place's his/her cheek against the left-hand side of the stock, the rounds do not interfere with their cheek-weld. And when they need to re-load, the right hand comes off the trigger, plucks a round out of the cuff, and moves it up the the loading slot.
Seems correct to me.
Too bad for you that you were born incorrect handed.
Worked okay for me for almost 70 years.
But you will never realize the joy a southpaw has in life. I feel sorry for you.
Lol @ lefty pride.....
