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The Annoyed Man wrote:

puma guy wrote:Took a trip north to Huntsville to get my next firearm. An M1 Carbine and some accessories. Had a nice meet up with bilgerat57 and made the deal. The problem is I met up with a friend who lives there and after lunch we went to Able's. My salivary glands were working overtime. SIGS, HK's lots and lots of firearms. Too many to list making it hard to decide what I NEED next! Though it's not on my list I handled a NEMO AR in .300 Win Mag. We were helped by a young man named Clayton who was the most helpful salesman I have ever encountered in a gun store. Even found some CCI 22LR at WalMart

Good for you! I am looking forward to your range report to see if you had as much fun with yours as I've had with mine.

Thanks, TAM. I'll write it up when I take it to the range. They are fun to shoot. We shot my dad's old 1960's CMP carbin and I bought my own when I got old enough. They were my favorite guns to shoot. I reloaded and always had plenty of ammo. My dad's gun is sort of tied up (he passed away in 2011 and then my mom passed this year. Mine was stolen back in 1995. I figure I'll end up with my dad's, but I couldn't wait any longer. We're coming up to DFW area (Mansfield) 10/18 so I think I'll bring it and let my son-in-law have some fun with it at Alpine.

Took a trip north to Huntsville to get my next firearm. An M1 Carbine and some accessories. Had a nice meet up with bilgerat57 and made the deal. The problem is I met up with a friend who lives there and after lunch we went to Able's. My salivary glands were working overtime. SIGS, HK's lots and lots of firearms. Too many to list making it hard to decide what I NEED next! Though it's not on my list I handled a NEMO AR in .300 Win Mag. We were helped by a young man named Clayton who was the most helpful salesman I have ever encountered in a gun store. Even found some CCI 22LR at WalMart

AlaskanInTexas wrote:I'll start - Marlin 1895 SBL .45-70 Gov't

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It's funny how everything old is new again. Back in the mid 1960's the .45-70 was dead and Marlin designed the Marlin .444 . When we got the first one in I ran my hands over it and said I'd buy one if I ever started deer hunting. I pushed them to a lot of east Texas hunters but they always deferred to a Marlin 336 in 30-30. I even tried selling them on the .35 Remington, but rarely made a sale on it either. Then just a few years later marlin introduces a lever action in .45-70 and the .444 is overshadowed by it. I did finally get the 444 a couple of months ago, but it's the later version with a pistol grip stock. It was made by Marlin not Remington. I'm working on my next firearm and will post if it comes to fruition