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Post by FirePirate on Feb 29, 2008 19:09:00 GMT
It's funny you mention the shotgun/rifle combo, Macus. I failed to mention my .22 savage is a model 24-DL in my orignal post. It was the first gun I ever owned. The 22/20Ga is a great all around small game gun. Especially when I was 14 and hunting everything in season, everytime I entered the woods. I took my first duck, grouse, and squirrel with that little gun. I still take it out at least once a year just to relive the old days. Since I've gotten the waterfowl and crow hunting sickness I don't spend as much time hunting grouse and squirrels but I will probably try and remedy that this year.
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 2, 2008 2:50:45 GMT
Thanks Marcus i am def gunna look around, ive parted with few $$ at rileys.
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Post by marcus on Mar 5, 2008 17:56:30 GMT
... I don't spend as much time hunting grouse and squirrels but I will probably try and remedy that this year. Hey FirePirate, Yes, I do hope you will get out more than just once this year to thin out our NH squirrel population a bit...but just a bit, of course, to save some for us other squirrel hunters, too. msj
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Post by marcus on Mar 5, 2008 18:02:58 GMT
Thanks Marcus i am def gunna look around, ive parted with few $$ at rileys. Hey Nasty, Just this past weekend I spied a Remington SPR94 up at the KTP. They had it priced at $334. Of course, as I mentioned earlier, Riley's did better. msj
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 8, 2008 0:14:47 GMT
hey guys, well i think i solved my 410 squirrel conflict. with a 22, my preferred method, cant shoot up a tree, generally, thats 410 country. I like handgun hunting, so i figured i could either find a combo gun, OR use a 22 handgun and 410, but i worked it out with a nifty combo, i got a super comanche 410 handgun!...now i can bring the handgun with a 22 rifle or pistol, or just use either one. im looking forward to seeing how it works out. I did alot of research on the comanche and found pretty much across the board, good reviews, that it shoots the 45LC ok but not great due to the chamber length, but shoots the 410 very well with birdshot, buckshot, using the screw in choke, holds good patterns, some said excellent, i think im gunna have alot of fun with the squirrels this year!!
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Post by marcus on Mar 10, 2008 10:50:51 GMT
Now there's a solution to a problem! Impressive looking pistol, indeed. I'll be interested to hear how it works out for you. msj
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 10, 2008 13:22:37 GMT
Hi Marcus, i havent had a chance to pattern it yet but ill post a review i found online, they are really cheap if you can find one generally. I ahve been wanting a 410 pistol for awhile, just never found one that had good reviews for hunting, hopefully this is it!
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 10, 2008 13:34:48 GMT
Heres one review for the comanche: ---------------------------------------------- CoyoteJoe Beartooth Regular Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas Creek, Colorado Posts: 228 Super Comanche .45/410
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I recently bought one of them as a gift for a friend. I did a brief test before turning it over to the new owner. The .45 Colt loads were not very accurate, 5-6" groups at 25 yards. But with 3" .410s, what a hoot! The full choke tube seems pretty much the equal of a full size .410 long gun, effective to 25 yards, maybe 30. With the .45 Colt tube installed the patterns were larger but also more even and that should take game reliable to 20 yards. The shot patterns were MUCH better than from the T/C Contender barrel I had years ago, which I attribute to the very narrow and shallow rifling grooves. I turned it over to my friend and he took eight or ten grouse with it last fall, he just loves it, great truck gun for 150 bucks!
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 10, 2008 13:43:35 GMT
Last review, this is what sold me on it for hunting, and I paid way under $200.00 for mine. ------------------------------------------------------ mtngunr Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: SEUS Posts: 429 Super Comanche .410...
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the ugly, crude Super Comanche .45Colt/.410 made by Lasserre,SA....can't speak for the same gun labeled Rexio....haven't, and will not, do .45 Colts, as it was bought hoping it worked better than most .410 pistols which seem to limited to 12 feet range or less....this one has a rifled barrel, which generally means blown patterns like all the rest....but it comes equipped with an externally threaded straight-rifled wad grabbing/stripping choke tube.....folks, this is a real shotgun.... In short, the ugly Super Comanche shoots as good or better than any .410 I've owned.... a handfull of really experienced regulars were at the range today, and all were VERY impressed and intrigued with what they saw...I'll go as far as to say several were going to buy one....this gun hammers stuff....it rolls empty 12ga boxes, gallon milk jugs and tin cans with authority at a full 25yds, moves them like a 12ga, only the pattern isn't as large diameter... sights well regulated for the shotloads, so no guessing....at a measured 11yds, it puts 100% of the pellets into a 13" circle, 99% inside 10"....at 25yds it puts nearly 100% inside a 20" circle, the bulk of them in a 13" dense core with only silver-dollar sized gaps....trigger pull is heavy, but who cares with a shotgun? Clean release, just a bit stout.... whether 2.5" 1300fps 1/2oz #8 target loads, or 3" 1135fps 11/16th oz #7.5 field loads, patterns remained consistant, only denser with the field loads.....recoil was progressive, on par with NMBH .45Colt standard loads for the target stuff, the ROA with maximum ball loads equiv. to the field loads......fun stuff, in other words.... but very effective....Just to be clear, I bought it for hunting and pest control (picture a flashlight in one hand and the gun in the other), living in a very undeveloped rural setting, and this gun is definitely up to typical max .410 ranges of 25-30yds...I'm quite sure it will cleanly harvest rabbit and squirrel at such ranges, and would ruin a crow's day at 30yds....never thought I'd say this about a .410 handgun, but you need to let game get further away than 10-15yds if you intend to eat what you shoot.... A few other details of the gun...it's 100% steel aside from grips and forearm....looks to be all cast aside from the barrel tube and choke tubes (a smooth one for .45 Colt)....the frame/grip area/trigger guard are a single casting, likewise the chamber/rear sight mount into which the barrel is sleeved, even the extra beefy adjustable sights and blades....the grip panels and forearm are solid black nylon with a few shallow lightening holes/divots.....I ditched the heavy forearm, it being attached by a single screw to a brazed on barrel stud....the gun is about 1/2-3/4" longer than a 7.5"bbl SAA, and drops right in a Colt holster (minus the forearm, anyhow), but extra length might not let a top flap close....it's about 7/8ths" thick, and handles essentially like a Colt 1861....the grip/hammer/trigger are very Rugerish....hammer and bolt springs are coil... If you ever wanted a short barreled shotgun of Game Getter usefulness, you might look at this one....
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Post by marcus on Mar 28, 2008 10:35:33 GMT
Hey Nasty,
How has that Super Comanche of yours worked out?
msj
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 28, 2008 21:29:03 GMT
HEY MARCUS, well that guy in the review i posted was right, man that thing has a tight pattern!...no donut hole and wide open pattern it shoots just like a regular 410 shotgun. In fact i ws shooting it with my nephew who was using a bolt action 410 shotgun and the comanche had a much tighter pattern then the full size gun. I would have no problem taking it gobbler hunting if it was legal...i smoked a red squirrel with it this last weekend around 15 yards away, he had more holes in him the Hillarys sniper story ;D....for a hunting rig its tops as far as 410 handguns ive used. its not a 5 foot range 410 toy but a for real hunter. I paid $135.00 and couldnt be happier and i even got the more expensive duo-tone model haha. it even is drilled n tapped with screws for a scope base.....hmmmmm..red-dot?.... def gunna get some field use from me.
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 30, 2008 15:58:07 GMT
another comanche review: ---------------------------- Re: Comanchi 410. by dewboy2008 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:50 pm
I have a commanche 410 pistol, and I love it for rabbit hunting. I just got it for christmas there last year. And I shot around 15 rabbits with it, it will shoot 3" shells, I shoot 3" 4 shot, and hell you can shoot up to 30 yards with it. But very fun to hunt with. Just thought I would let you know, at woodbury outfitters in coshocton, is where I got mine. It was around $149 I think, but then bought the holster. had around $189 in it all together. well talk at ya later darren
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Post by marcus on Apr 7, 2008 10:17:42 GMT
Nasty, That last review is quite impressive; it's very interesting how the Comanche performs so well. I wonder how it would handle Winchester's 3" #000 or 2 1/2 #00 buckshot (HD possibility.) I've have seen some very reasonable price for the piece on-line. My birthday is next month and my wife is always asking me what new toy might I want. Usually, I just tell her have everything I need. Perhaps not this time, however. msj
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Post by nastygunz on Apr 7, 2008 13:14:29 GMT
I read a few reviews that said it holds a tight buckshot pattern as well...ill be interested to here your review if you get one.
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Post by nastygunz on Apr 30, 2008 2:25:31 GMT
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