I am almost 50 years old now and I had to put a scope on it because my dominate eye has issues with iron sights unless I have my eye glasses on. I think it was my 35ths birthday but I do know I was in my 30's. It has beautiful Walnut, nicely checkered, fantastic fit and finish, smooth and slick action with deep bluing! It knocks deer and everything else down with 1 shot if I do my part. That was with UMC factory yellow box ammo. With iron sights I used to shoot the heads off of action figures at 100 yards mostly damaged Gi-Joe's from Salvation Army. My wife bought me a Marlin 1895 about 3-4 years before Remington Bought them. I always wanted to convert a and Enfield from 303 British to 45-70 I almost bought a Gibb's conversion back in the day! Yes I think in Hatcher's Note Book I do not own it but one of my cousins owned a copy I think they where shooting a 45-70 out to 1800 yards back when it was still US Government Issue! I had been planning on trying a little close range hunting and figured I'd need to use softer lead hollow points, but what I saw the other weekend leads me to believe that the XTPs might open up enough at these ~900 fps speeds to give a good wound track. I was also surprised at how vigorously the jugs exploded, one even had bits of lead and jacket in the bottom. I was surprised to see big chunks knocked out of the hub area and the junction between the hub and the double thickness friction area, I would not have thought bullets this slow would do that kind of damage. I loaded up some 300gr XTPs over 8.5gr of Longshot and we popped a few jugs of water and a brake rotor at 50yds. My dad mentioned several times how much more fun it was to shoot suppressed than not. I took my non-shooter dad and brother out to the range when they visited this past week, they both had the most fun with this rig. Like I said, there's definitely more work to be done, I'm going to order 3-4 different heavy coated bullets to see if I can get a good load that's a little cleaner. I'm not sure whether the 2" shorter barrel would raise or lower velocities with heavy bullets and light charges, but I upped the loads on the XTPs and lowered them just a hair on the GTs. The jacketed XTPs were much slower than the cast bullets with the same loads in the long barrel. The powders used were Trailboss, CFE Pistol, Longshot and HP38. Hopefully that's somewhat legible, I tested coated 240gr Keith style bullets, 305gr cast HPs from GT bullets, and 300gr Hornady XTPs. I didn't chrono the loads I tried last weekend, but here are the notes I took from my one session with the rifle prior to sending it out for shortening/threading: I would like to have a threaded lever gun at some point, so I might be sending him a Marlin or Puma at some point down the road as well. Neither were a problem for him, but I was just kind of drawn to the 77/44. I actually talked to Nick about doing either a lever gun of some kind, or the 77/44. I'm pretty happy, it's no precision rifle, but it is accurate enough for my intended uses. Additional load testing to come, I think I can do a bit better with some work. Some 100yd targets from the loads I tried this past weekend. With the can in long configuration, it's surprisingly quiet, I'd say a bit quieter to my ear than the same can in short configuration on my 9mm pistol.Ĭlose-up of MachIVshooter's characteristically excellent work. With the can in short configuration, the report is not bad at all. Scope mounted for load testing with the can in its long configuration.
Running irons with the can in short configuration. Here are some pics in case anyone else is interested in this kind of stuff: I've taken it out a few times and so far I'm very happy with how it turned out! 45 can at the beginning of the month, and got my chopped and threaded 77/44 back from the week before last. Well it has finally all come together, I got the stamp for my. 458 SOCOM, but kept coming back to the 77/44 for it's simplicity and economy/ease of volume shooting. I looked a range of options including RARs in. The main idea was to put together a quiet package for plinking fun and short range deer hunting out to ~75 yds. I've been mulling over the idea of a big bore carbine for suppressed shooting with heavy subs for a few years.
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