A Good Year For The 1877
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A Good Year For The 1877
After waiting almost 5 years, I got one of the nicest guns I own. Built to my specifications, it really is a personal favorite. Early in the season, I got a turkey. Then then next week I got an antelope. The antelope was 209 yards and with iron sights, it is hard to make a precise shot that you take for granted with a scope. Then I got another turkey. Yesterday, I finished the season with mule deer.
I saw the group of deer feeding their way into a draw that was protected from the wind. I went around the back side to see if I could locate them and after a half mile sneak on a single doe, I realized she wasn't with the initial group I saw. After walking down the back side of a ridge, I proceeded to another lookout and found the rest of the deer all bedded down. They were over 600 yards, so I began sneaking and crawling through the cactus to get within good shooting distance.
After a few hundred yards, I was able to crest the ridge and crawl over the tope with enough grass to protect me from being seen. I ranged the buck at 208 yard, nearly identical to the antelope distance. There was a fairly stiff wind, so I put 5 minutes of wind on the Soule sight and set for 200 yards, shot the buck in his bed. He did get up, stumble down the hill dead...
I saw the group of deer feeding their way into a draw that was protected from the wind. I went around the back side to see if I could locate them and after a half mile sneak on a single doe, I realized she wasn't with the initial group I saw. After walking down the back side of a ridge, I proceeded to another lookout and found the rest of the deer all bedded down. They were over 600 yards, so I began sneaking and crawling through the cactus to get within good shooting distance.
After a few hundred yards, I was able to crest the ridge and crawl over the tope with enough grass to protect me from being seen. I ranged the buck at 208 yard, nearly identical to the antelope distance. There was a fairly stiff wind, so I put 5 minutes of wind on the Soule sight and set for 200 yards, shot the buck in his bed. He did get up, stumble down the hill dead...
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Geez, you are going have that thing worn out and in need of a re-barrel, before I even get mine.
Woody
Mine is in the current build cycle. I got my letter in April too.
Woody
Mine is in the current build cycle. I got my letter in April too.
Richard A. Wood
If you are surrounded. You are in a target rich environment.
If you are surrounded. You are in a target rich environment.
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Geez, you are going have that thing worn out and in need of a re-barrel, before I even get mine.
Woody
Mine is in the current build cycle. I got my letter in April too.
Woody
Mine is in the current build cycle. I got my letter in April too.
Richard A. Wood
If you are surrounded. You are in a target rich environment.
If you are surrounded. You are in a target rich environment.
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
kirk what cal. is your 77? do you head shoot turkeys? art
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Nice write up Kirk!!! It was good talking to you yesterday at the gun show. Congrats on a great season.
Dan
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Congratulations. A good variety there.
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
After a couple caliber adjustments, I settled on 45-70, which is the majority of my rifle cartridges. Head shooting a turkey is not all that hard unless you miss...art ruggiero wrote:kirk what cal. is your 77? do you head shoot turkeys? art
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
I took a couple more pictures that help illustrate the difference in the 1874 and 1877 as well as color/case vs pack hardening. The 1877 is pack hardened. The difference in the action and hammer is evident here as well..
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
kirk; your a good sport and owner of some nice rifles your friend art in connecticut ps my son lives in columbia falls and is an avid hunter
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Which is the 77? Top or bottom ? CO
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The bottom rifle is the 1877...CO wrote:Which is the 77? Top or bottom ? CO
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Kirk
Congrats on a highly successful 2018 season!
You had said that you “adjusted” your caliber selection a few times before setteling on the 45-70, whatother calibres did you almost choose?
Wade
Congrats on a highly successful 2018 season!
You had said that you “adjusted” your caliber selection a few times before setteling on the 45-70, whatother calibres did you almost choose?
Wade
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
I originally wanted a 40-65. After some discussion, I decided to go to 45-70. You have to realize this is over a 5 year period of time and you can change your mind in that amount of time. Then I decided again to go with 40-65 for less recoil. Talking with MLV later, we both decided to stick with what i already have in 45-70 and made the final decision to chamber it in 45-70. The weight is just under 12 pounds, I am sure it would have been a bit more in 40-65...Trigger1212 wrote:Kirk
Congrats on a highly successful 2018 season!
You had said that you “adjusted” your caliber selection a few times before setteling on the 45-70, whatother calibres did you almost choose?
Wade
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
Hoping they will have mine done when I go down to shoot the Jim Gier match and I can drive down to Big Timber, then come back to the gun show at Bozeman, then drive back to Butte and shoot. You're going to have yours worn out before I even get to see mine finished!!
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Re: A Good Year For The 1877
What's the review on that single trigger? Trigger pull wt