jkingrph
Practically Family
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- Jacksonville, Tx, West Monroe, La.
Well I'm up to six 1895's now. I have 4 originals, a Browning from the 1980's and a 100th anniversary 30/06 edition Miroku/Winchester.
I've been doing a lot of trading and cleaning out of the gun safes here lately. Lots of stuff that needed to be moved to new caretakers.
I think if I have the one rebored to .405, I'm good for the ones I've always wanted. Someday I'll pose them all for a family portrait!
Some years back I wanted one in 30-06, and only found one that was priced way beyond my price range. When they came out with the Mirouku/Winchester in .405 Winchester, I got my friend who managed the sporting goods at the now out of business locally owned dept/hardware/sporting goods store. When he called me that "it" was in and I went by "it" was two, a standard and a high grade. I thought for a while and bought both. I put one of the Lyman 21/Providence tool receiver sights on the standard as it had to be drilled and tapped for that.
It's fun to shoot but kicks quite a bit, so I use one of the lace on leather Recoil Ez pads, that also increases width of the buttplate area, which helps quite a bit.
A year or so ago I ran across a gentlemen over at the Ouachita Parish, La pubic range who was having one of the little CZ side by side shotguns converted to .405 Winchester. That should be a hoot, a fast woods gun for deer and hogs.