Subj : Re: Buy one, get one
To   : Weatherman
From : Moondog
Date : Tue Sep 29 2020 12:54 am

  Re: Re: Buy one, get one
  By: Weatherman to Moondog on Mon Sep 28 2020 01:53 am

 > -=> Moondog wrote to Weatherman <=-
 > 
 >  >
 >  > Well, if people were regularly shooting helicopters out of the sky with A
 >  > then I'd imagine they'd have been flying off the shelves.  As it is, I do
 >  > they've ever been worth more than a couple of hundred dollars.  I know th
 >  > retail for more than that, but to me, I wouldn't pay more than two bills.
 >  > I've got two of them, in fact, one is a Charter Arms, the other is a more
 >  > current Henry model.  Paid $100 for the Charter, and $150 for the Henry. 
 >  > find them to be very good backpacking, boating, camper guns, but I also h
 >  > Sub-2000 in 9mm (although I really would have preferred .40 SW) and I fin
 >  > that the more I use that, the more I appreciate it for the roles listed a
 >  > Of course, I could just keep one on the boat, keep one in the camper and 
 >  > one when hiking.  Aside from that, I usually have a pistol or revolver wi
 >  > as well so it's not as if I really NEED a small-caliber or pistol caliber
 >  > carbine with me....
 >  >
 >  >                                                       Regards,
 >  >                                                 -==*>Weatherman<*==-
 >  >
 >  Mo> I also own two AR-7's.  One is a Survival Arms model from the mid
 >  Mo> 1990's and the other was an early 2000's Henry with the 5/8" dovetail
 >  Mo> for rimfire scopes.  The Survival Arms model is a tack driver for
 >  Mo> simple gun, and the Henry needs a larger variety of ammo through it to
 >  Mo> find a sweet spot load. One nice thing about it is it eats the crappy
 >  Mo> Remington Thunderbolt ammo that makes my Marlins and Rugers puke.
 >  Mo> Downside they don't like the bulk box Federal with truncated bullets.
 >  Mo> Henry's lever guns are way more solid designs with great finish on the
 >  Mo> wood and metal.
 > 
 >  You're looking at the difference between a $250 (retail) breakdown into a
 > water-resistant, floating stock, bare-bones survival rifle and a well-crafte
 > $320 and up rifle intended to bring back the nostalgia and romance of a
 > long-gone era.  We happen to have no fewer than six Henry tribute .22 rifles
 > (at an average of $800 per) and a .44 Special Mare's Leg.  My wife has a sof
 > spot in her heart for those Henry tributes, and as long as I don't throw a f
 > when she buys them, she doesn't throw much of a fit when I buy something tha
 > like.
 > 
 >  Mo> I have a Rossi gallery gun, a copy of a Winchester 62 (I think.) That's
 >  Mo> a fun little pump, like you'd imagine at the old style carnivals
 >  Mo> shooting shorts and cb caps.  I haven't tried shorts since the price
 >  Mo> for them is more than for .22 LR.  They lengthened the loading elevator
 >  Mo> thing to make LR easier to load, so it might not work well with shorts.
 >  Mo>  The wood looks like a dark Brazi llian rosewood, however the sanding
 >  Mo> and finish job is horrible.
 > 
 > I remember shooting those old pump action .22's at an amusement park in my h
 > town.  Have no idea what they might have been, Remington, Winchester, and
 > others made them.  Was the very first gun I shot, and had a blast doing it. 
 > I remember it, they had tubes of .22 shorts sitting there at the arcade, and
 > they just slid the rounds into the magazine from the tube.  Hell, I can't ev
 > remember what it cost to shoot, maybe a buck and a half, if that.  I must ha
 > been all of 11 or 12 years old.  I'll not speak about the quality of
 > Taurus/Rossi arms.  I happen to like their metallurgy and own a few examples
 > their work.  While they may not be able to create a passable replica of a
 > Winchester pump, I happen to think their more modern designes are quite
 > acceptable...
 > 
 > Have a grand day....
 > 
 > 
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Pardon the pun, but Taurus/ Rossi products are hit and miss depending on when
they were made.  One side of their plant is running cnc machines, while the
other half is running tooling that Samuel Colt would've sworn  it came from
the shop Eli Whitney II had made for him.  My brother has a Taurus PT 100 - a
Beretta clone in .40 that runs fine.  I have a Rossi matched pair single shto
with a .22lr and 20 gauge barrel that locks up great, then the gallery gun
with crude wood hardware.  I have been told to avoid their revolvers, and ran
into one the range purchased that had a 15 pound trigger pull, and came back
un-repaired several times from Taurus, then a friend had a .22lr/ .22wmr with
swappable cylinders that was sent back to the company to have it's sights
replaced twice because the point of impact was way to the left and way low.

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