And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I'll stick with a model 99, lever action, Savage in 308. Lots more energy, much flatter trajectory, much higher velocity. Generally costs less for a good used 99 than any lever 45.70. I may be biased...
Extra ammo on a sling is not good. That weight is bouncing/swinging around while you are trying to aim. Impacts everything around you when carrying/transporting the rifle, gets dinged, and may take two hands to access quickly. The day you desperately need backup ammo is the day you will lose a couple rounds when they fall out unnoticed.
Better to use a butt cuff or receiver mount for that purpose, if not in a pocket of your shirt or jacket/vest.
It's salty as hell to have ammo on your sling but when you need to reload in a dire emergency, dirty ammo will foul your piece on the first shot. Just ask any dead GI's who put clips on their slings and then fed them in to their Garrands. One bangy, maybe, then field strip in the heat of combat. So sayeth the words of Col. Hackworth and my Dad.
Marlin? .35 Remington? The cartridges look rimless.
ReplyDeleteHow about a Henry in .45-70..
ReplyDeleteThat looks like open country, with long shots. Not the place I'd take a 45-70 with iron sights.
ReplyDeleteI’m thinking .257 Roberts or.270
ReplyDeleteIt's a 45-70 gvmnt
ReplyDeleteShoots like a rainbow...
ReplyDeleteFor that country I would prefer something like a 7mm mag.
ReplyDeleteI'll stick with a model 99, lever action, Savage in 308. Lots more energy, much flatter trajectory, much higher velocity. Generally costs less for a good used 99 than any lever 45.70. I may be biased...
ReplyDeleteI do like that sling. Is that a custom thing or is it commercially available?
ReplyDeleteExtra ammo on a sling is not good. That weight is bouncing/swinging around while you are trying to aim. Impacts everything around you when carrying/transporting the rifle, gets dinged, and may take two hands to access quickly. The day you desperately need backup ammo is the day you will lose a couple rounds when they fall out unnoticed.
DeleteBetter to use a butt cuff or receiver mount for that purpose, if not in a pocket of your shirt or jacket/vest.
It's salty as hell to have ammo on your sling but when you need to reload in a dire emergency, dirty ammo will foul your piece on the first shot. Just ask any dead GI's who put clips on their slings and then fed them in to their Garrands. One bangy, maybe, then field strip in the heat of combat. So sayeth the words of Col. Hackworth and my Dad.
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