My name is Clayton Marxer, A.K.A. “The Adventure Cowboy”
I grew up in southwest Montana on a 325,000 acre cattle ranch. I was literally riding horses before I could walk and loved every second of my time out in the mountains. I am an authentic cowboy who can ride colts, rope cattle, pull a breeched calf, build fence, and shovel manure. :-)
My day job is natural resources conservation. When I am not working, I spend much of my time hunting, shooting, fishing, hiking, ranching, and just about anything else I can do outdoors.
I am a huge fan of traditional western firearms and I love to share how they are tied to American history.
I do a little work in the film industry and have performed as an actor, wrangler, and stuntman in a few western film projects and TV shows.
I like to combine today's opportunities for outdoor adventure with our Western heritage.
I'm not an expert. I just share my experiences and observations. I always try to have fun, so come along for the ride.
Does Cimmeron, or any other replica-making old western style pistol company make a double-action at all, or are they manufactured only in single-action? Thanks 🙂
Lots of people talking about the new Marlin 'Dark' lever action as well - do people find outdoor ranges receptive to 45-70? Some ranges near me have a limit to 308 due to noise (Canada, suppressors are illegal for no reason at all). I assume 45-70 is about as noisy as it gets.
Just bought one of these, It had some issues from the factory, the gun store tries to fix or send back a firearm you buy from them if there are issues, happily, the gun smith got it taken care of.
I found a great way to thin leather without a sciving knife and it works great. Came to this video to find a way to thin a piece of thick leather but it made some light bulbs go off in my mind and I realized I have a huge tool chest in the basement filled with wood working tools I inherited and I looked for these mini wood planes for specialized wood carving and I thought.. what the hell? I decided to try this and oh my word! They worked like a charm! And I assume a regular size standard hardware store size wood plane while work just as well. I was thinking the entire time that I wished you had used a wood plane because you could have shaved that piece of leather down big time in no time at all!! Try it and you’ll never do this any other way unless you have a fancy machine for thinning leather. It will definitely make all those thick pieces of scrap leather much more usable for small projects.
Well... I just bought an 1862 pocket police from Uberti. I have been handloading since the mid 70's mostly cast bullets. One absolute was that you match the size of the bullet to the bore/chamber. Sooo for decades the first thing I do with any revolver is slug the bore in order to size the bullet to the same size or slightly bigger than the bore/chamber. my new 1862 has a bore of .372+ The dia of a .380bullet is .356 38/357 is generally .357 Anyone seeing a problem with the conversion? I also have a 1905 model Colt in 38 long Colt. its bore is about .365 38 spl will chamber but accuracy is just awful. In both cases we are talking a bowling ball bouncing down a hallway. so to get any accuracy out of the gun... and this is speculation on my part since I don't have a conversion to measure... they reduced the size of the bore. One other thing that might make the gun a tad more accurate than you would expect is... Jacketed bullets. Jacketed bullets do not need to completely fill the grooves. The jacket is hard enough that it will 'mostly' grip the rifling enough to work...maybe... and all .380 ammo I am aware of is jacketed. Lastly.... the cowboy or John Wayne load... Colt never NEVER said to load one less than capacity and then hammer down on an empty chamber. Their percussion guns you can lower the hammer between nipples. that was not possible on the 1873 tho because the rims were almost touching when loaded sooooo Colt provided a safety notch Colt was aware that a notch for safety needed to be robust and deep... they were aware that the relatively shallow half cock notch not only broke but only allowed the weakest/thinnest part of the trigger to engage. They solved both with the safety notch. There were of course a lot of conversions so I will not speak to conversions since I know very little about them.
Dear sir, you don't need to do a "Henry Walk or Hop" if you address your Henry, as a right-handed shooter, with the right hand holding the frame at the very front of the frame just before the follower tab comes to rest with the frame. When you do, you have tighter control of the rifle and this provides you with steadier sight picture. The rifle can be shot in either hand. Addressing this rifle in this manner eliminates the hopping motion and prevents the operator from burning or warming their fingers. Watch the "Capandball" RU-vid channel segment 4 to see how this is done. If you have access to the 2023 Single Action Shooting Society Cowboy Chronicle article on the Henry Rifle to learn how to address this rifle properly as it was used in the day. When you do address the Henry rifle as I've described, it makes an already fantastic and fun rifle to shoot even more fun. And it is fast. I can shoot 16, yes, 16 (15 in the magazine and one in the chamber, like during that War) rounds out of my Uberti Henry rifle, chambered in .45 Colt and using a slightly modified .45 S&W Schofield cartridge, and empty those 16 rounds on a fifty-yard target using black powder cartridges in 11-12 seconds, time and time again. Now that's a fun Henry rifle. Contact me for more information if you wish to learn how I do what I've just mentioned. Yes, the Henry is a fast, accurate, and very reliable rifle that is truly fun to shoot. - Cmkh
you may have solved another problem for me...I want to make a "rough out" holster but the leather I want to use is really too smooth. I've been thinking about a way to make it more rough..I'll have to try this. thank you ....
I would encourage you to shoot more with just one hand, there is a book out there called "the pistol shooters treasury" by Gill Hibbard, it is a collection of articles written by the best Bullseye shooters who at the time only used open sights (1940 to the mid 80's) where sight alignment (what you are aiming with, Sharp front sight) is more important than sharply focusing on what you are aiming at. I strongly suggest you the study that book, it also explains the discipline of where keeping sight alignment while squeezing the trigger is all done as one thing smoothly. Peace dude - Dave
3 click models have notorious problems with the firing pin due to it being free floating. I have one of each and luckily no problems with mine. My 3 click is the Uberti bad boy 44 magnum and the 4click is a Pietta 357. The action is excellent on both but the Uberti has the much better trigger
A bit of misinformation, sir. The 30WCF was intorduced in 1895, as you said, but the .30-40 Krag was adopted in 1892 by the US military. It was a smokeless cartridge. Not imediately available to the general public in 1892, but did come along before the 30-30.
Do those muzzle brakes have a crush ring? Mine does not line up horizontally from the factory. Haven't had any time to need with it. Just noticed it was tight all the way through from the break, the nut and to the barrel but the vents are vertical, not horizontal. 7mm Rem Mag
I am not sure, to be honest. Mine is perfect. However, I actually am thinking of removing the brake. It is very effective, but I don’t really need it and would rather not have the exrta noise level. I might consider a can for it.
Get a rope and start practicing roping a stump or a post. Roping is one of those skills that anyone can learn, but there's no shortcut. You just have to swing, throw, then rebuild your loop and do it again...over and over again. Eventually, you'll get pretty good, and then you change it up by changing position or changing your target. Before you know it, you'll be ready to rope from a horse and that starts a whole new cycle of learning and practice. 🤠
Yo personalmente prefiero el 4 click sin su sistema de seguridad pues me gusta mas ya que practico el tiro deportivo y coleccionismo, aunque los dos son fantásticos, la obra maestra de los armeros William mason y charles brckerhoff richards, saludos desde España 🤠👍
Here in the Adirondack Mountains in NY, usually the last 70 degree day is in September, and by mid May we might have a 70 degree day. We didn't get one this year until almost Memorial Day. It was still snowing in April.
Like any if the 110s with the deep flutes cut into the bolt, it wasn't as smooth as I was hoping for at first, but after just a couple boxes of ammo through it and some oil, it's pretty nice now.
Do not like 38-55 T all. IMO it is a reloaders cartridge because of the different bore diameters and OAL in each gun. Factory loads are not very accurate including the Buffalo Bore which is the most accurate factory load
Dam, deer went straight down. 45 colt is mysterious to me, low velocity but a lot of momentum to push threw. Did the bullet go all the way threw? And still, you can push the velocities like crazy.
Other than specialty shops, I think all large-volume manufacturers haved moved to chemical case coloring. I can't speak for all Cimarron models, but I do know some of their models for sure use the chemical process, or rather, the manufacturers do.
wow that's wild, i've had a hollow base wadcutter have skirt seperation which left a partial bore obstruction in my wheelgun but fortunately those are extremely low pressure loads with dead soft lead in a stout .357 magnum gun so it wasn't anything more dramatic than a total loss of accuracy due to extreme leading but i got it all out with a lewis lead remover and a squib rod (the latter of which left me with a ring of lead not unlike the chunk of jacket you showed) but it very well could have gone kaboom if i was shooting it in one of the rare .38 special autoloaders (S&W m52)
.38 Super runs a slightly smaller bullet diameter as well, at .356 instead of .357. Not enough to fail. The case diameter is .006 larger than .38 Special which may or may not chamber in a .38 Special depending on the manufacturer's chamber tolerance. 36,500 PSI is a lot higher than 17,500 PSI, but if the revolver is +p rated, I'm sure proof loads were beyond the limit of what 38 Super runs, hence, the gun didn't break, but certainly not a safe thing to do.
Wow ! Never heard of this kind of squib... Glad to hear she's OK.. hopefully she can push through any sour aftertaste... Thanks for sharing n' God bless you and yours
At first she didn't really understand how bad it almost was. She knows now that she could have lost her hands or even her life if that cylinder hadn't been jammed and she had fired the next shot. She is resilient though and now understands how to prevent a future accident like this. She actually asked me ro make this video for other folks out there who are not real familiar with handguns and might easily make the same mistake she did.
