Month: December 2018
Governor Elect Gavin Newsom has proposed that all illegal aliens in California get Medicaid.
(Also the man has never met a Tax or Anti Gun Law that he did not love!)
That grin tells you he’s pleased he’s the new boss, with a super majority in the state legislature. What mischief can he get up to next?
The political class in our state answers to the public entity unions and the illegal alien/Hispanic lobby, and no one else.
How long until the actual generators of wealth, the actual working citizens, rebel against this? Or exit the state, accelerating the fiscal collapse that is probably already baked into the cake irrespective of whether these bills are passed or not?
The founding fathers, at the end of the 1700’s, knew that Democracies naturally and inevitably collapse when the voters discover that they can elect representatives who will use the power of the state to transfer the wealth of others to them. That’s clearly what’s happening now in California.
As I was telling someone the other day, as the state becomes more and more desperate to pay for their fiscal obligations, they will become more and more desperate to seize the wealth of those people that create it. That will accelerate the emigration outward of all productive people. If you have property here, better sell it now. Believe me, that has started already, and will only become more pronounced as the governing elite continue to attempt to buy the votes of the non productive with the wealth of the productive.
Now this is what I call a classy looking Colt SAA! In that it would of been real easy to over do the engraving and the gold plate. But instead they knew when to stop! Well Done to who ever did this excellent piece of work! Grumpy
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OUCH!
Now that is some mighty fine gear there. Somebody is one Lucky SOB to have such a fine rig in my green with envy opinion!
I have only seen two of these in my Shooting career. I am told that the Golden Grail is the one in 22-250. As they only make a few hundred of them. Grumpy
| .405 Winchester Center Fire | ||||||||
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| Type | Rifle | |||||||
| Place of origin |  United States |
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| Production history | ||||||||
| Designer | Winchester Repeating Arms Company | |||||||
| Variants | .277 Elliott Express, .357 Elliott Express | |||||||
| Specifications | ||||||||
| Case type | rimmed | |||||||
| Bullet diameter | 0.4115 in (10.45 mm) | |||||||
| Neck diameter | 0.436 in (11.1 mm) | |||||||
| Base diameter | 0.461 in (11.7 mm) | |||||||
| Rim diameter | 0.543 in (13.8 mm) | |||||||
| Case length | 2.583 in (65.6 mm) | |||||||
| Overall length | 3.175 in (80.6 mm) | |||||||
| Rifling twist | 1 turn in 14″ | |||||||
| Primer type | large rifle | |||||||
| Maximum pressure | 44,000 psi (300 MPa) | |||||||
| Maximum CUP | 40832 CUP | |||||||
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| Source(s): The American Rifle[1] | ||||||||
The .405 Winchester (also known as the .405 WCF) is a center fire rifle cartridge introduced in 1904 for the Winchester 1895 lever-action rifle.[2]
It remains to this day the most powerful rimmed cartridge designed specifically for lever-action rifles; the only modern lever action cartridge that approaches its performance is the .450 Marlin, introduced in 2000.
The .405 was highly regarded by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt during his safari in East Africa.[3]
Description and Ballistics
The original Winchester factory load consisted of a 300gr. soft point or metal patch (Full Metal Jacket) bullet at 2200 feet per second.
When the Winchester M1895 was discontinued in 1936, the cartridge was considered obsolete.[3] Catalog listings of the cartridge ceased in 1955.[4]
However, during the 100 year anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential administration in 2001, Winchester reintroduced the M1895 in .405 Winchester, and revived the cartridge.[5]
In addition to the Winchester Model 1895, the .405 Winchester was also available in the Winchester Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle, the Remington-Lee bolt-action rifle (from 1904 to 1906), and a number of British and European double rifles.[2]
The cartridge was also available in the Ruger No.1 Tropical single-shot rifle.
Winchester’s advertising campaigns during the first decade of the twentieth century took full advantage of Theodore Roosevelt’s frequent praise of the .405 Winchester, as well as the Winchester 1895 which chambered it.[4]
Roosevelt famously referred to this rifle as his “‘medicine gun’ for lions.” This quote comes from Roosevelt’s account of a lion hunt in the seventh chapter of his book African Game Trails:
- But as we stood, one of the porters behind called out “Simba”; and we caught a glimpse of a big lioness galloping down beside the trees, just beyond the donga…Tarlton took his big double-barrel and advised me to take mine, as the sun had just set and it was likely to be close work; but I shook my head, for the Winchester 405 is, at least for me personally, the “medicine gun” for lions.[3]
Although it is often said that Roosevelt called the .405 M1895 his “big medicine,” this phrase is never used in African Game Trails, and is possibly the erroneous combination of his “medicine gun” quote with his “big stick” speech of 1901.[3]Writer of historical fiction Wilbur Smith attributes the “medicine gun” term to the Roosevelts in his book Assegai.
Since its introduction, many hunters have used the .405 Winchester on African big game, to include Rhino and Buffalo; however it is generally considered best used against light skinned game, due to the bullet’s low sectional density.
The velocity of the cartridge is also low by contemporary standards, which makes shooting at long range challenging due to the allowance the shooter must make for bullet drop.[2]
Wildcats
The .277 Elliott Express and .357 Elliott Express[citation needed] are two of a series of wildcats developed by O.H. Elliott & Company of South Haven, Michigan, based on the .405 Winchester cartridge.[6] This custom gunsmith manufactured his own rifle barrels.
References
- Jump up^ Whelen, Townsend. The American Rifle. The Century Co.: 1918, p. 275.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Cartridges Of The World, Frank Barnes, Krause Publications
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d Roosevelt, Theodore. “Trekking Through the Thirst to the Sotik.” African Game Trails. New York: Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1910. 166-67. Print.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Giles, Ray T., and Daniel L. Shuey. “405 W.C.F., 405 Winchester.” One Hundred Years of Winchester Cartridge Boxes, 1856-1956. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2006. 223-26. Print.
- Jump up^ Boddington, Craig. “Bully For The .405 – Roosevelt’s “big medicine” enjoys a revival.”. Guns&Ammo. http://www.gunsandammo.com/content/bully-for-the-405?page=1. Retrieved 25 August 2010
- Jump up^ Jerry Lee (12 August 2013). Gun Digest 2014. Krause Publications. pp. 212–. ISBN 978-1-4402-3542-9.