Oh my Gosh!!!!!!!!!
Well, the Sierra monsoons and wind let up for a day, so I was able to adjorn to the range below my house on the ranch. Shot two ghuns: Spencer 44-40 Carbine and Taurus Thnderbolt (Lightning) pump .45 Colt.
The thunderbolt will be the hottest thing in CAS. Fed flawlessly, slick, smooth, and fast, and only around $400 retail! It can make a mediocre rifle shot VERY fast!!!! It is a beautiful piece, especially since it is 1/3 of an AWA or Uberti Lightning!!!!! But that's a different story.
Now for the Spencer. I really have a quandry, now. Do I keep my 44=40 Henry, or Sell it and keep the 44-40 Spencer!!!
The 44-40 Spencer is superbly accurate, giving me several cloverleaf patterns at about 25 yards (all I could squeeze out oif the swamp that my range is). It is dead on.
Free standing, I bounced 25 consecutive pop cans without a single miss at 25-30 yards! The only glitch is that on the last few rounds, you had to cycle the action smartly to seat the bullet against the cartridge stop/guide so the cartrisge is not overlength. The first four rounds, the spring tension of the magazine tube does it for you, slightly overcoming the spring tension of the stop/guide. I remidied this by adjusting the spring tension on the cartridge stop/guide. It works slick now.
I really do have a quandry, though. The cost will be about $1,000 if I keep it. I would have to saell my Henry to do it, but I do love the Henry too!
My Infantry rifle in 56-50 is supposed to be here next week. That I know I am keeping<g>
Ah, what's a boy to do!!!!!!!!