Any fans of "Taming the Nueces Strip"?
I'm reading it again. This is the 3rd time I believe and I enjoy reading about that time period. The only problem with reading it is I always end up wanting a Cimarron McNelly 50-70 Sharps. Would love to shoot one with blackpowder. The 50-70 is the one fifty caliber I haven't spent time with. Cool round. Yes, you can get them in 45-70 but it's not the same. More practical sure...but not the same.
Any fans of the book or the 50-70? I've thought about reading the book about John Fisher also (same time period and Nueces Strip area).
I am and have the same problem.
Every time I read it I want to get one too. Or if I am feeling really spendy getting a Shiloh in the same configuration.
For how I will just have to be happy with my Shiloh in .45-70 and I can pretend my Ruger Number 3 is a sharps carbine.
I think we might be bad influences on each other...
but I look forward to knowing you better.
There aren't any 'bad influences' here Brian!
by Hoot 
, Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 07:16 (3203 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet
It's not like anyone here will get a feller all het-up about some pistol, rifle, cartridge and make him spend all his money or anything.
No wait....thinking of a different forum. 
Guilty as charged - nt
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HAd one of those in 50/70...they are fun but like
the originals, they shoot quite high....mine somehow disappeared during divorce. haven't found another one, though I do have a Remington rolling block in 50/70....fun round.
Kind of hard to find it seems...
what did you shoot in yours (or your rolling block)...blackpowder or smokeless?
I think we might be bad influences on each other...
Probably so. My collection is eclectic if nothing else.
I had forgotten about Sergeant Leahy in the book...
who fired his Gatling gun across the river border into Mexico. Seems like the Leahys are always causing trouble.
Note to self...don't let Leahy run the Gatling at CSA.
People say 'eclectic' like it's a bad thing.
by Hoot , Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 07:34 (3202 days ago) @ Jared
If you're at a Sunday BBQ you could say renaissance man. nt
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Fortunantly I am not one of those people.
The other day I had a midway order that consisted of Barnes 110gr Black tip bullets for a .300 blackout, and several sticks of SPG black powder bullet lube.
Blackout, black powder....same same right? NM
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Pretty sure....
by Hoot , Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 19:54 (3201 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet
well you know the Barnes bullets have "lube" grooves.
Sadly that probably doesn't even make the top 10 in strange combos on midway orders.
Any fans of "Taming the Nueces Strip"?
I have tried three times to post a reply, but could not do so. I am not a fan of Leander McNelly and thinks he was a very bad man, who did very bad things.
Sort of
the Charles Askins pf his day?
Sort of
He and his men were financed by the big gringo ranchers. The tortured and murdered many small Mexican stockmen, many of whom were not guilty of anything other than being in the way of men like King and Kenedy. They were a paid goon squad and not the heroic lawmen most people suppose. Indeed those were rough days down here, but McNelly was not the solution but part of the problem.