Oh, and happy 1000th pageview to me. I somehow got my own, so this is my gift to me, or something.

Yes... congrats on the pageviews!

nice job.

Yeah the shells in my Ruger Vaquero-Bisley .45 LC like to stick a little bit, ejecting is the hardest part. I was thinking of polishing the chambers but decided against it since I do shoot +P out of it.

That's the gun I intend to get once I'm of the age that I can legally buy handguns, my first handgun (I have a custom rifle in the works already) an EAA Bounty Hunter in .44 magnum with 7.5" barrel.

I forgot a few details between the cylinder and the trigger.

That hand angle still bugs me, but I suck at hands, and therefore whenever I draw always put the hands in positions that are particularly hard to draw because I'm an idiot like that.

I guess I'm spoiled now. When I turned 18 the first rifle I bought was a Marlin 1894 lever action .44 magnum. When I turned 21 I bought a 1896 Mauser Broomhandle. Now I am 22 and have 4 rifles, 1 shotgun, and 15 pistols and I am losing track of them all. lol

Here's the Mauser also pictured with my 1948 Colt Detective Special:

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And here is my Vaquero, pictured with my Smith and Wesson model 36:

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and here is the Vaquero being shot with some really hot loads, you will like this :3

http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj92/accordionhero/gun/?action=view&current=MVI_0009.flv

I need to get my custom rifle built. I'm a reasonably big guy, and I have long arms, so I need a 15" length of pull. I plan on making my own custom stock and putting a Savage .300 win mag action on it, with a 42" barrel when I can eventually order one. Overall, this firearm will be 5'4" long, with a heavy Oak stock. I'll probably make a second one eventually, in something big. Probably not .50 BMG, but maybe .416 barrett, or maybe a big game cartridge of some kind, .50 alaskan maybe. I have access to the wood and tools for the stock, but getting the action and barrel will be a bit harder, I'll probably end up buying a .300 win mag Savage rifle and just selling the stock and magazine (after I've copied the top so I can make my own and have more than 3 shots)

Don't forget to consider ammo prices, though.

My only gripe about the Vaquero is the +P .45 LC stuff runs from about $1 per shot to about $2.50 a shot. So I don't shoot it that often.

Keep in mind your intended use of the gun. I was a bit overexcited when I bought that 1894 (which I sold awhile ago) because, as the first gun I owned, I wanted something really powerful. well, .44 mag ammo is expensive too, and the bear killing rounds I loaded it with had stiff kick. In a lightweight carbine with a hard bakelite buttplate, it started giving me a flinch that hurt my accuracy until I worked it out by practicing with my sks.

So don't poo-poo the .22, you will want one of those too. Very cheap to shoot, and helps you be accurate to make the most of the expensive rounds for your other guns. You don't want to miss with the price of .50 BMG. Just because you can physically take the recoil, doesn't mean it's a practical idea. Are you doing any hunting? If you just shoot paper like I do, a hole is a hole whether it cost 15 cents or five dollars. Might be better off with the .300 win mag.

People told me this when I bought the 1894, but I didn't listen. Took me a few years to figure out on my own. Now I see they were right. So just giving you a heads-up. :3 And now my favorite kind of gun is the snubbie .38 revolver, which I carry regularly. If I had to use it, by the time the homie gangbanger gets out his Glock foh-tay or desert eagle, I've already shot him three times.

Yeah. I've looked online at ammo prices and oddly enough, .44 magnum and .45 acp cost about the same when I was looking, and I like large, powerful handguns. I actually am a naturally good shot, and I don't notice weight in my hands when I do a draw action. I can barely feel 5 pounds in my hand. As for the big .300 win mag, I was looking for ammo for that and it too was comparably priced with .308, for whatever reason. I want this gun to basically be a target/sniper rifle, that I may well do long range shooting competitions with if it turns out as accurate and long ranged as I hope it will. I want to learn to take 1000+ yard shots with iron sights.

Around here, carry is illegal, which sucks.

I need to look up what a box of 500 costs for .22, and compare that with an sks. I'm sure it will be considerably less, but I might as well check. If the one I tried holding hadn't been horrifically tiny, I'd have picked up a henry .22 lever action a while ago, but I'm 6'2-6'3" tall, and the thing was like a tiny child's toy, impossible to hold or aim comfortably, which was a pity, since I like lever actions.

lol yeah I'm nowhere near as big as you, so while I can shoot .357 one handed without a problem i don't generally shoot ultramassive rifles.

Since I'm carry-minded and self-defense-minded that is why my collection is so pistol heavy, and most of them can be tucked under a shirt. The Mauser is a bit big though, and the Ruger's pretty heavy and gets in the way when you sit down. I usually have either a snub .38 or a Beretta 92FS 9mm when I'm packing.

If carry is illegal where you live, I can only recommend one thing: move. :P

If you look through my pictures, you'll see a duster is in most of them. I wear that coat daily, for 9 months of the year or so. I could CCW a shotgun in a single point sling with that if I wanted to, with absolutely no trouble.

I'm also the type of guy who will work on his quickdraw using a 5 pound revolver with 15 pounds hanging from his wrist. As it is, I have the second and third place spots on a local Quick and Crash game, and I was having an off day and barely trying. Hadn't fired anything handgun shaped in years, and then I claimed the second place spot, then beat my score.

Wisconsin does have some of the highest taxes in the entire country, but this is where I'm going to college, so I couldn't have anything anyways. I want a crowbar for my dorm room but I don't know if that would be counted as a tool or a weapon.

You should just keep a 358 Win Mag with a cinder block hanging from the muzzle under your coat. Never know when a rhino will attack up there in Wisconsin. I hear id you start a fire they appear and stomp it out immediately.


I do like watching people with good revolver handling skills though. I'm more of a semi auto guy, but I really respect a good revolver shooter. How about a Youtube of you practicing?

First I need 3 more years under my belt, and $440 to pick up a .44 magnum EAA single action Bounty Hunter revolver with 7.5" barrel, unless I find one used in good condition at a gun show (so far, the Bounty Hunter is probably the cheapest magnum I've seen around). Might eventually pick up a Desert Eagle in .44 magnum with a 10" barrel on it, if I can find one for sale for under 500 used (since unless they've horrifically abused it, all I'd need to change to get things working perfectly again was a 5 dollar recoil spring assembly), and from what I've heard of the Desert Eagle, most people buy them, fire them once, maybe twice, then decide it hurts too much and either just keep it as a showpiece for bragging rights or sell it.

Also: The greatest gunslinger to ever live. Ever. One day I hope to be a hundredth as fast as him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLnmvseCseI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og9ccsb1v6o&feature=related Not Bob Munden, but also freaking impressive

actually that would be kinda cool. I'm always up for learning new techniques for quick-draw.

Man, I'm not very good at those angled shots. Nice job. I like the way it looks.

Thanks. It wasn't easy, though I managed to finish it in around a half hour, maybe a bit more. Angled shots are hard, and something I'm bad at, which for some reason mean they are the majority of what I try to do when I want to draw something awesome.

Yeah, I'm trying to get better at them. They add more to a piece. Most of mine are straight on shots of the characters. I've been working on it but it'll take some time. Nice job again. The dimensions of the gun came out really well. I'll be sure to check out more of your work.

I used references, though my reference was a profile view of the gun (a .44 magnum EAA Bounty Hunter), so I could tell about how long everything was supposed to be. I missed a few minor details because something distracted me and I thought I had everything, but whatever.