OH Yeah, I have the marlin cowboy long octagon barrel and it whacked me smartly until I put a pad on it. I use that same load and bullet in it that works in the 1884, and it likes the 20/1 alloy just fine. thank Ballard for the rifling.

I only made the long bullet mistake once in the 95, had to dis-assemble the gun to unload it. now I stay with the short nose projos in the levergun.. The 200yd rams seem to go down just fine with the 405 at 1300fps. a real chicken flipper too..
I size the bullets closer to bore dia for the 95. I have lots of JHPs but save them for the Ruger No 1, thats a hammer when it goes off at 2000+-..

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