Mine too......45LC Navy Arms 24 in octagon bbl........357 Interarms 92 357 mag.......Marlin 1894 44mag......Winchester 94 44 mag.......Winchester trapper 45LC.........Marlin 336 44 mag..........I care nothing for the plastic semi auto's made now.
Pistol Caliber Carbines
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Here's a photo of my Ruger-Marlin 1894C in 357.
What do the numbers 6,800 and 22,000 mean?
Revolvers are pistols.
Glenn R. McMannly
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My Ruger wasn't reliable until I changed some parts out. Now I wouldn't hesitate.
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I have lever guns chambered for .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum. For safety, I only use or reload rounds for revolvers. Still the rounds clock at about 1800 fps from a 20" barrel. That's a LOT of smack, and you feel it with .44 Magnum.
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my cz scorpion and pcr
As teen back in 60s I had to have a Ruger 44magnum carbine. Put a 3x scope on it and sighted in with 240gr bullets and
22.5gr. H2400, my Ruger SBH load. Took it along as spare rifle on deer hunt to eastern WVa mountains. Bad choice, they are strictly short range. Excellent choice for the thick stuff where average shot is less than 100yds. Good guns for states that have straight case laws if ranges are short.
I've had 32/20, 357 & 44mag carbines. Never cared about revolver/ carbine - same ammo issue. Very seldom carry a revolver when hunting. I do carry the best rifle for the terrain conditions and the game which rules out pistol cartridge
Carbines in most circumstances.
Something I didn't do was work up loads for the carbines. They were 0ed for my pet load for revolvers in that cartridge.
That would have nothing to do with their practical use as hunting rifle. The Marlin Camp Carbines in 45acp would be useful as short range deer and boar gun. 9mm carbine has very little practical use other than range toy.
22.5gr. H2400, my Ruger SBH load. Took it along as spare rifle on deer hunt to eastern WVa mountains. Bad choice, they are strictly short range. Excellent choice for the thick stuff where average shot is less than 100yds. Good guns for states that have straight case laws if ranges are short.
I've had 32/20, 357 & 44mag carbines. Never cared about revolver/ carbine - same ammo issue. Very seldom carry a revolver when hunting. I do carry the best rifle for the terrain conditions and the game which rules out pistol cartridge
Carbines in most circumstances.
Something I didn't do was work up loads for the carbines. They were 0ed for my pet load for revolvers in that cartridge.
That would have nothing to do with their practical use as hunting rifle. The Marlin Camp Carbines in 45acp would be useful as short range deer and boar gun. 9mm carbine has very little practical use other than range toy.
AJ
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Not so fast, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol
Blueandnickel
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An old Mech-Tech 10mm upper for a Glock 20 lower. Works pretty good.
Olympic AR 10mm upper. Worked great on the Colt M16a2 lower. Made a good pig gun in the thickets.
Picked up this Henry Side gate in .357 a year ago, but still haven't shot it.
Olympic AR 10mm upper. Worked great on the Colt M16a2 lower. Made a good pig gun in the thickets.
Picked up this Henry Side gate in .357 a year ago, but still haven't shot it.
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AJ
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Then how about Webster's Dictionary? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pistol
That still doesn't change the fact that for 99% of firearms history pistols were firearms intended to fire single handed (now a 2 handed hold).
In fact, I dug out my hard copies of Webster's dictionary. The 1979 copy does not exclude the revolver, but the 2002 copy separates them. In fact, prior to the 90s if you mentioned a pistol most people would think revolver.
Well, the Bedford Handbook says...
AJ
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Got a link to access the info? Not going to buy one......
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I don't know what a Bedford book is, but I always wondered about "handgun". Sounds like if a handgun was intended to be fired with two hands, it would have been called a "handsgun".
Yeah, don't know what a Bedford book is either. The earliest form of hand held guns were called handgonnes (in English) and were little more that a barrel mounted to a stick and fired by the users hands as opposed to cannon, in short order shoulder stocks showed up and then the distinction was born.
