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April 26, 2024, 08:29 PM | #51 | |
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I just (a month or so ago) picked up a 16" Rossi R92 in .357. Yes, an "Illinois friendly PCC solution". Fun gun. I've got ~50 round through it so far, mixed .38 and .357. No problem cycling any of it.
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April 26, 2024, 08:47 PM | #52 |
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My brother in law’s Marlin 44mag with a Micro Groove barrel shoots and feeds the old discontinued Speer 225 SWCHP Half Jacket very well and has from day one. So much so he bought a bunch more of those bullets way back then.
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April 27, 2024, 08:10 AM | #53 | |
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April 27, 2024, 05:06 PM | #54 | |
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There is a difference between can't and won't, just as there is a difference between must not and should not. A gun that can safety chamber and fire a round "handles it". A gun that does that but does not reliably feed or extract, goes into the "should not" group.
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April 27, 2024, 06:47 PM | #55 |
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For the first year or two the Marlins were not marked to use .38 Special.
I had a couple, but I never shot any .38 so I don't know if changes were made or if it was just an oversight. |
April 27, 2024, 09:10 PM | #56 |
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I doubt it was an oversight, more likely just something that they didn't feel they had to stamp on their guns. Every .357 will chamber and fire .38 special. Everyone knew that.
None of the Marlin's I've run into ever had any issues with .38specials. MAYBE one might have issues with really short bullets but I never had any trouble with 158s. (which is all I used in .38spl) My 1894 carbine is the pre-pushbutton safety and is marked .357 Magnum Not .357 & .38, and not .357 ONLY. There was a time when warning labels were not put on the gun, they were put in the manual. I kinda miss that...
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May 2, 2024, 12:27 PM | #57 |
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I had the gentlman at STEVES GUNZ, tell me the reason a lot of folks have problems feeding pistol caliber leverguns, is they were originally designed for bottleneck cartridges, and that makes sense , sort of. I have two Rossi R 92s and as long as I keep the length the same as factory cartridges, and work the lever vigorously, I have had no problems, when I let friends work the guns and they try te ease the lever, they jam.
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May 2, 2024, 12:29 PM | #58 |
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trouble is 44AMP, I don't think most folks read the manuals anymore, is why they started putting them on the gun
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May 2, 2024, 06:30 PM | #59 |
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"...we should remove all warning labels, and just let nature take it's course."
well i wouldn't go that far actually, but i do subscribe to the "dont try to make it idiot prof, they will just make a better idiot." i believe in safety, but it can only go so far; education goes much further. and even it fails.
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May 5, 2024, 02:11 PM | #60 | |
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The majority of guns I've owned didn't come with their manuals. The handful I bought new, did, a couple I bought used still had the manual with them, but the overwhelming majority did not. We live in a time where stupid people doing stupid things have been awarded $ because "no one told them NOT to do the stupid thing".
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May 5, 2024, 02:44 PM | #61 |
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I thought this post was about 357 lever; actions
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May 6, 2024, 09:32 AM | #62 |
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This thread has me wanting to add one to the collection. I suppose I could live with the thumb safety on the tang of the Miroko Winchester. There is a Rossi model called the R92 Hardwood, 24 inch round barrel, that I like and the price is certainly more attractive than the Japchester or a Cimarron.
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