New Marlin 1894 44mag is on it's way!

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1kshooter posted this 09 July 2011

man I am bit bad with this casting bug!

I ordered a 1894 Marlin 44mag today and it will be here Monday or Tuesday...well Six point Sika ...and Mr. Harris.....I am going to be on you for more load info:P as well as mold info powder and on & on lol thanks guys for all your help....you too Michael you know I will be ordering a mold from you for this bad boy lol

now the funny part ...I am getting this gun for ......are you ready for it ...ground hogs lol :jawdrop:  I am having so much fun shooting them with the 45-70 I thought I would get something that was a little bit soffter on me ...and them lol and also a bit cheaper to load ...oh shit who am I kidding I just wanted it ...your not my wife I don't have to make stuff up:nawnawnaw:  

I can't wait to get it out to the range and let some lead fly!

anyone have any fav loads,powder, mold or bullet thay would like to share?

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6pt-sika posted this 06 August 2011

1kshooter wrote: oh you luck dog....I have been tring for a bear for 7 years! ...I always get to small or with cubs(non shooters) I would love to be there to help with the deer tags lol!

One I killed last year was small . And I felt pangs of guilt at first . But after the fact the landownder said if it doesn't have cubs with it I could care less shoot them as they are tearing my trees up !

Turned out that was the only one we saw last year !

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1kshooter posted this 05 August 2011

oh you luck dog....I have been tring for a bear for 7 years! ...I always get to small or with cubs(non shooters) I would love to be there to help with the deer tags lol!

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6pt-sika posted this 05 August 2011

1kshooter wrote: 6ptSika best of luck on your hunts  

 

We got the Damage Control Permits for this year just yesterday !

We have permits for 5 bear abd 50 slicks to be taken anytime from now until Spetember 30th !

We're gonna go up and trim some brush and check stands sunday morning and then start it up monday afternoon !

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1kshooter posted this 05 August 2011

well I got some sample gas checks for the Ranch Dog .432-265gr bullet and thay are nice....I won't have a chance to try them til I get home from N.J in a month but I am sure that they will do just fine as my 45-70 checks have!

to all those I talk to on a regular basis thanks for all the help and take care of your selves for the next month and to the lucky ones that will be hunting..like 6ptSika best of luck on your hunts....if I can get pc access where i am staying I will touch base or mightonly be able to view and keep tabs once in a while! Jonathan

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1kshooter posted this 31 July 2011

it does but I don't mind it ...I can afford to loose a few pounds of that massive 230pound frame lol back at them in the morning and that will be it for me until I get back from New Jersey in a month or so!

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6pt-sika posted this 31 July 2011

1kshooter wrote: well here are some of the first Cast bullet kills for this gun!....432-265gr Ranch Dog!

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6pt-sika posted this 31 July 2011

Old Coot wrote: Very nice 1kshooter, but then I used to think that a .458 Win was a good jack rabbit gun. At least no one can accuse you of being “under gunned". Brodie

 

You know for several years I had Interams Mark X's in 375 H&H MAG and 416 REM MAG . When I got into RUger #1's again I sold or traded them off and got Ruger #1H's in the same calibers which I dearly love !

 

Shortly there after I ran up on a great deal on a early 80's Ruger #1H in 458 WIN MAG LNIB ! So I grabbed that one up also and got dies , brass and bullets for a song from another source !

Got the reloading stuff from a fellow I knew and trusted and since it had some already loaded ammo with the Hornady 500 grain RN SP and some loaded ammo with the Speer 400 grain FN SP that one would use in the 45-70 I went ahead and shot them !

 

With open sights at 50 yards off the bags that 458 would shoot either load inside an inch for 3 shots and at 100 yards with opens at a big black bull I could keep 3 in 1 1/2” .

But without a doubt that SOB kicked like the proverbial Kentucky Mule !

Hence the 459 WIN MAG Ruger #1H went down the road PDQ and for a slight profit I might add ;)

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1kshooter posted this 31 July 2011

lol very true....and some of these things are huge and dangerous..a guy could trp and fall over one and get real dirty!

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Brodie posted this 31 July 2011

Very nice 1kshooter, but then I used to think that a .458 Win was a good jack rabbit gun. At least no one can accuse you of being “under gunned". Brodie

B.E.Brickey

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1kshooter posted this 31 July 2011

well here are some of the first Cast bullet kills for this gun!....432-265gr Ranch Dog! ...just a few of the 20-25 or so g-hogs from yesterday! I am loving this gun

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1kshooter posted this 26 July 2011

oh snap! ...the ground hogs are not happy today....I just got my Ranch Dog .432-265gr mold today in the mail..I have a couple hundread Hornady gas checks from a friend till my Sage Outdoors aluma checks come in the mail...loaded some tonight and I am going to hit them this weekend ....hard! Jonathan

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1kshooter posted this 24 July 2011

as a side note the only isue I had with the 1894 yesterday was that loaded with 240gr hornady XTP bullets at moderate vol..the sight elevator does not go low enough to zero the gun..I had to shoot under the feet of ground hogs at 50yards or at leest burry the sight bead under the buckhorn notch so I could just see the tip of it ..should be just about perfect for the heavier 265gr RD's ??? any thoughts

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1kshooter posted this 23 July 2011

Well my friends as those of you that have have chated with(indulged)me you so know that the first kill for this babby would be a ...G-Hog! lol....ya I know I ned to get out more! well I got out this morning and took the 44mag 1894 to the prooving grounds and all in all I am real impressed....12 g-hogs withit today at ranges from 35 yards all the way to 137yards!

I flipped one in the air at 265yards but it got back down the hole and another at 302 yards that ran and my friend smoked him with a well placed 6.5x284 when he stoped to check out his new body piercing lol...here are a few pics for you all and thanks to all for the help!

I thinks she's a keeper...the gun that is lol

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1kshooter posted this 21 July 2011

lol nice thanks for the pic...love it ..something about that lush long green grass?!? ..well it just makes the beauty of the deers hide and features pop!

lol no I am not gay....not that there is anything wrong with that lol I just have a very deep respect for the animals that I harvest and that grace my table!

thanks so much for sharing the pic brother

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6pt-sika posted this 21 July 2011

FWIW , here's a picture of a doe I killed in 2008 on a Damage Control Permit !

And you may wonder why I am posting it here ?

Well I'll tell ya ! I used a circa 1968 Marlin First Model 444 loaded with the Ranch Dog 432-285GC bullet and pushed it with 34 grains of XMP5744 . Gun has a old Weaver K2.5 on top . Shot the doe at a stepped off 42 yards and she dropped like a stone !

 

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6pt-sika posted this 17 July 2011

1kshooter wrote: Docbob, i like the Redfield...I have pounded the heck out it while I hade it on a slug gun and also with the mag loads in the 45-70, I did however take it off the rifle and put XS tactical winged peep sights on it as where I hunt bear a shot from five feet...is a deffinate reallity!!

I've gotten a pair of the NEW Redfield Revolution scopes in the last year !

I have a 3-9 with a standard duplex on my 2001 vintage 444 thats only been used with 400 grain hammer loads to date !

And I have a 4-12 also with the plain duplex on a Ruger #1B in 270 Weatherby that seems to do an okay job as well !

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1kshooter posted this 16 July 2011

Docbob, i like the Redfield...I have pounded the heck out it while I hade it on a slug gun and also with the mag loads in the 45-70, I did however take it off the rifle and put XS tactical winged peep sights on it as where I hunt bear a shot from five feet...is a deffinate reallity!! the scope is strong and has no flaws that I have found!...as for the other gun well I have done a lot of long range stuff....on both side of the Department of National Defence gate as I shot at privet and Millitary ranges ..a shooter is a shooter more money and training you got into a rig the better it works lol

6ptSika, I like the idea of the 44mag for deer and bear also I am going to get a 444Marlin and the same molds will work in it as well! man I wish you lived closer I would find something to trade you for some of the 44mag brass you have squirreled away lol

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6pt-sika posted this 16 July 2011

You know I had three Marlin lever guns that were chambered for the 44 MAG cartridge !

And I sold them all about 2 years ago now .

The first I got was a 1894CB with the 24” octagon barrel and checkered walnut stock and forend . That one was pure poison out to 100 yards with a Lyman tang sight and the Lyman 429244 bullet and H-110 !

Next I picked up a LNIB 1894P that one also liked the 429244 . But I ended up hunting this one using the Nosler 250 grain Partition bullet .

The final 44 MAG I acquired was a very nice old Marlin 336-44 of 1967 vintage . This one preferred the Ranch Dog 432-265GC and 432-300GC loaded with stiff charges of H-110 .

All these rifles liked the RCBS and Lyman SWC GC bullets that they still make .

 

Anyway to my point of this post , you've kinda got me intrested in finding another 336-44 !

At the moment my 44 MAG collection is comprised of the S&W 629 4” I bought new 15 years ago , a Ruger Blackhawk Falttop of 1957 vintage with a 7 1/2” barrel and a Ruger 44R Carbine my grandmother gave my grandfather for Xmas in 1973 or 1974 .While I'll shoot cast in the two revolvers I don't plan on ever firing a cast bullet in the little Ruger Carbine , hence my desire for another 336-44 . Then I'd have a use for the 400-600 44 MAG cases I have stored away .>

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6pt-sika posted this 16 July 2011

docbob wrote: Hey 6pt-SIKA, Thanks for sharing the pictures. Nice looking bunch. Brings back old memories of my time in the Navy. Went to Subic Bay, Manila Bay, Cebu City and Zamboanga. Lots of scenery, friendly people but very warm and humid!

Docbob, U.S. Navy---1958-1962

Thanks !

I've been to Manila plenty and Makati on Luzon !

Never been to Olongapo/Subic (on Luzon) or Cebu !

But I have been around on Mindanao some !

Cagayan de Oro City , Bukidnun , Gingoog and Butuan . But the state department kinda gives a dim view of American citizems visiting Zamboanga anymore as it's kind of a stronghold for the muslim rebels in the Philippines !

Although about every 6 months I get an email from the state department informing me of the present political/rebel conditions in the Philippines and the state department view on travel in the country ! And ever since I started going there in 2008 they have pretty much been of the opinion that american's should stay the heck out of western and central Mindanao ! So to date I've stayed pretty much in the north/northeastern part ! Plus the family there doesn't want me going anywhere close to the muslim areas LOL's !

Anyway so far every time I've been there it's been great ;)

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docbob posted this 16 July 2011

1kshooter, You certainly had the equipment and skill to pick up those medals! That's an impressive looking rifle/scope. How do You like your Redfield scope on the Marlin?

Best Regards, Docbob

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