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I'm lucky enough to have an original 1876 Winchester 45-75, ser.no.2XX. I've hunted with it but never got a shot at anything. The rifling is pretty far gone but otherwise safe and reliable to shoot. One of these seasons before I get to old to carry it I'd like to get a nice deer or elk with it.

I have been engrossed in this book. Does anyone know what firearms he was using in his 1883 & 1884 hunts on the Dakota Badlands? Was it the 1876 Winchester 45-75?

I would like to get these books. Which version of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt do you recommend? Are there differences within them :?: ? I like Theodore Roosevelt's views on being an American, not being a hyphenated American, and English being the official language. If they had become the policy a...

I have not been gone from here awhile. Glad I found my way back. My wife bought the movie The Colt. It came in a double feature DVD along with LINCOLN. Anyway this movie I thought was pretty good and well done in parts. Of course there was carbine scabbards and even some 1904 McClellan saddle painte...

My grandpa had a surplus Jenny. I didn't realize they were so under powered. I think his was a JN4. His stories and photos of aviation, Billy Mitchell and WWI, motivated me to get my private vfr lic. He said he crashed and flipped the Jenny in a mud puddle he didn't realize was there till it was to ...

Interesting. The 9th was here in New Mexico at Ft.Bayard just east of Silver City. There is a battle site nearby to my place locally known as "Beyer's Run". The canyon within the Black Range is now named that. Cpt. Beyer(s) was CO. In May 1879 they got in a fight with Apaches led by Victor...