It’s been a while since I’ve been here, but it’s good to be back. I don’t participate in cawboy action shootin nor do I hunt, but I do love cawboy guns and shootin them. I have steel targets set up on the property and enjoy killing steel every day. I’m not new to leeever guns as I already have 4 of them, a Henry Goldenboy, a Henry Bigboy in .357 mag, an 1894 Marlin in .44 mag, and a Miroku made 1892 Winchester In .45 Colt. Last Tuesday I ordered a new Cimarron 1873 short rifle in .45 Colt, I’m really excited about it, I’ve always wanted an 1873 Winchester, ya know the gun that won the west😁!
I know this gun’s internals are completely different from my other leeever guns, from what I’ve read, that toggle link action isn’t nearly as strong as the others, so I’m thinking it’s prob best to keep my loads at the starting loads in the loadin manuals.
I also cast my own boolits, so the first thing I’m gonna do is slug the barrel, so I know what size to size my cast boolits. Another thing I’ve read is these rifles are really finicky to COAL, I’d appriciate it if any of you guys that have a rifle like this could point me to a good COAL to start with.
Paul