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Post by DocHolladay on Jun 24, 2009 20:51:41 GMT -6
Very nice!!! Love the grain. To shiney for me, but everybody is different.
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Post by bigblue on Jun 25, 2009 10:14:49 GMT -6
To shiney for me, but everybody is different. Doc, Agreed, normally I wouldn't take it to that level of gloss either, but that grain just cried out for it. Don
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Post by juliang on Jul 12, 2009 6:10:51 GMT -6
Picked up my 44 mag the other week, Marlin 1894. The grain on that one is quite pretty and a slightly different color to most of them. I have 2 with Walnut, one laminated and a 30-30 with the birch stock. The birch is butt ugly, I like the look of yours Don, whatever Doc says.
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Post by bigblue on Jul 12, 2009 17:14:16 GMT -6
The 1894 is one of my favorites. If they were as widely available and at the prices of the 336s I'd have one. I actually prefer the .44 mag. to the .30-30 for close range deer. I'll bet it's a hammer on hogs as well. You'll have to give some hard cast bullets a try. If you do I'd recommend using gas checked cast bullets, rather than plain base. Another nice feature of a 1894 is that you can load it on Sunday and shoot all week. LOL!!! Don
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Post by juliang on Jul 15, 2009 6:13:29 GMT -6
Don, I took it up the lease Sunday/Monday and guess what? We arrived on Sunday afternoon, took our stuff to the cave. We were in the woods about 20 minutes before the storm started. It thundered/lightning and rained till about 7 Monday morning. I got a good lesson on how to clean an 1894 but that was that. I have some gas checked hard casts with gas checks for my 45-70 which need loading up. I have so far only loaded Hornady 180gr XTP for the 44 mag, revolver and rifle. Those things fly and all I have read tells me that deer will quiver and fall at the sight of them alone. This all needs verification in the field however. I will see how the hardcast work out in the 45-70 before I try them in anything else.
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