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Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:37 pm
by GrapeApe
JunkCollector wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:13 pm
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Since we're doing some
You're
SUPPOSED to preface something like that with, "Excuse me while I whip this out." (Blazing Saddles anyone?)
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 11:32 pm
by Wambli Ska
Excuse me while I whip this out...
Day one back from the LGS, about 100 years worth of crud had to come off
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After she was put together again
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First day at the range
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First target
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Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:41 am
by GrapeApe
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 1:23 am
by Elk Creek
Are those powder burns on that target?
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 5:10 pm
by JunkCollector
Excuse me while I whip this out.
I do house some Colts
A big chunk of iron with target sights.
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Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 5:34 pm
by GrapeApe
MUCH better
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 9:12 pm
by Wambli Ska
Elk Creek wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 1:23 am
Are those powder burns on that target?
Nope, graphite from the pencil...
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 9:13 pm
by Wambli Ska
JunkCollector wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 5:10 pm
Excuse me while I whip this out.
I do house some Colts
A big chunk of iron with target sights.
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:panting&drooling:
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:27 pm
by Elk Creek
Yeah that’s a beauty!!!
Well this rifle is a pure joy to shoot! It shoots great. It was about 1” at 50’yards with a 115 cast bullet pushed by 4.5 gr of Unique. Dang it’s fun!!
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:45 pm
by Jayhawker
I had one chambered in .38-55....I himmed and hawed about buying it while I drove 60 miles home, then turned around in the driveway and drove 60 miles back to buy it...pretty rifles and a joy to shoot...
Re: Winchester single shot.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:52 pm
by Elk Creek
Jayhawker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:45 pm
I had one chambered in .38-55....I himmed and hawed about buying it while I drove 60 miles home, then turned around in the driveway and drove 60 miles back to buy it...pretty rifles and a joy to shoot...
Yes they are. I have in in 45 Colt I bought on a lark it’s a silly rifle a 1885 Highwall in 45 Colt….. but it shoots cloverleafs at 50’yards!
