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Originally Posted by Walter_Middie
2.) Colt - Single Action Army. Not for shooting, just for the collection.
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Not for shooting? These are the best shootin' sidearms ever made. Everyone owes it to themselves to have a shootin' Peacemaker. This one has been a regular carry gun. plinker, trail gun, and sometimes even primary hunting gun for over 25 years. Well in excess of 10,000 rounds through it. It's killed everything from rock chucks to coyotes to pronghorn to mule deer. .45 Colt, 280-ish grain cast bullet at over 900 fps with a good dose of #2400 or FFFg. My all-time favorite gun:
As far as my "someday" gun, it's kind of hard to come up with one. I have pretty much an example or several of all of my favorites. There remains just one unfilled niche, which may very well be taken car of soon.
I don't have a big bore "punkin' thrower". A big bore, round ball only muzzle loader. Oh, I have plenty of .45, .50, .54, and .58's. but those are decidedly "medium bore". I'm talking 12 to 10 bore or better. Fortunately, the Pacific Rifle Company, right down south of me in Oregon. makes just such an arm. It's an underhammer in the Hopkins & Allen pattern, with only three moving parts - trigger, hammer, and hammer spring, which doubles as the trigger guard:
