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Well mid morning the wife left to run a couple errands, and to pick up the #2 grandson.
And it's been a minute since I had slung any lead. Well we have been out of town the past couple weeks.
So I pulled out the Rossi in 45 colt and went to ringing the steel out back.
Then I decided to get the Marlin 444P, if your not familiar, it's an 18" ported barrel version.
Here's a short video of it with a 320+ gr pill that I cast and powder coat.
It really slaps that big gong, the gong is 3/8" thick, and a ft wide and 2 ft tall, and weighs just under 30 lbs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwdlZ-HVXmM
Heck that was some serious fun, so I went and grabbed the Marlin Cowboy in 38-55.
Check out the difference between the two.
Mind you these are both fairly light loads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooj51ttQnUo

RP

Yep that big 320 hit hard! Hey you got to shoot when you can!

Nothing like ringin steel

First video the .444? That's an awful big hit! Damn!

That 444 hits pretty hard.

Big difference. Nice shooting by the way.

I'll put the 444's up against those ole 45 70's any day.

RP

Did you load those 3031 loads yet

No sir, played with the grandson Fri afternoon, and
yesterday I took the wife's truck to a friends and we changed a front wheel bearing.
Installed master cylinder and brake pads and the sway bar bushings.
Also sawed some cedar planks.
Maybe this afternoon after we pull the transmission out of my ole Silverado.
I'll let ya know.

RP

Vaquero wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:41 am

No sir, played with the grandson Fri afternoon, and
yesterday I took the wife's truck to a friends and we changed a front wheel bearing.
Installed master cylinder and brake pads and the sway bar bushings.
Also sawed some cedar planks.
Maybe this afternoon after we pull the transmission out of my ole Silverado.
I'll let ya know.

RP

You sure stay busy!