Author Topic: Guess what followed me home today... (Read 620 times)

jason280 · « **on:** June 02, 2005, 03:05:06 AM »

I've been looking for a Buffalo Classic for a while now, and I'd almost given up on finding a used one locally. One of the local stores has one new, but I don't particularly like buying new guns (mainly because there are too many good deals on used guns, especially if you are patient). Well, my patience paid off. I was in the neighborhood of one of the local pawn shops yesterday, so I stopped by. They were actually just closing, so I made a passing glance over the gun rack. I noticed the checkered schnabel forend almost immediately, and I new exactly what it was.

Sure enough, it was a Buffalo Classic in .45-70, with a price tag of only $219! I had just bought another Handi from the same shop a week or two earlier, so the owner let me have this one for $200 out the door. Aren't pawn shops great!!

Now, let's go load up some more 405gr lead!

knight0334 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 02, 2005, 03:37:51 AM »

Lucky bastage... lol

nice find. enjoy

TheCrowkiller · « **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2005, 04:11:47 AM »

Jason, where was this pawn shop? Do they have any more Handi's?

jason280 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 02, 2005, 05:46:52 AM »

The shop is in Milledgeville, and they do have a .243 Handi. I think its a synthetic model, but I'm not sure. Let me know if you want me to check it out. Oh yeah, anther shop has a .30-06 locally, so please let me know if anyone is looking for one.

TheCrowkiller · « **Reply #4 on:** June 02, 2005, 09:27:25 AM »

Thanks, Jason280,
I cannot find a Pawn shop up here in Athens that doesn't think used rifles should be sold for under new retail prices. A shop here has a beat up 45/70, camo painted, with a pitted bore and a cheap bushnell scope they want $250 for. I need to shop in your area.

jason280 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 02, 2005, 12:03:02 PM »

Yeah, it was the same when I lived in Athens. I actually knew a few of the guys at Franklin's, and I bought a few guns from them. But I never bought a single gun from a pawn shop. Its a completely different here in Milledgeville. I've gotten to know most of the pawn guys, and they have always given me good deals.

I absolutely love this BC! I shot it a few times today, and it is absolutely a joy to shoot (at least with level one loads). I may try replacing the rear sight with a true tang sight, but I'm not sure.

I don't know what it is about the gun, but the 32" barrel just oozes "coolness"!

quickdtoo · « **Reply #6 on:** June 02, 2005, 12:19:15 PM »

Great buy you got there Jason!! Coolness is when you can put one of these puppies on the right in the chamber!! That little round on the left is a 45-70 nosler partition.... :-D

I just ordered another 45-70 barrel for mine so I can shoot 45-70 and 45-120 on the BC frame. I also have some 2300+ fps 300gr nosler partition loads that I worked up in my 22" Handi that I want to shoot in the 32" BC barrel to see how much difference there is in velocity between the barrels.....

mag41vance · « **Reply #7 on:** June 02, 2005, 12:45:50 PM »

I was at the Rivanna rifle range last week and this guy had a brand new BC in .45-70. I was watching him shoot it for the first time when he asked if I'd like to shoot. I was pleased to do so, and he was pleased when I put 2 shots @ 6 o-clock in his sight-in square within two inches of each other with the peep site set up @ 100yards. It had a very light, crisp trigger, and was very comfortable from the bench with his 240gr JHP Remington Green box ammo.
I was impressed with this peace.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #8 on:** June 02, 2005, 01:01:08 PM »

Quote from: mag41vance

... and was very comfortable from the bench with his 240gr JHP Remington Green box ammo.

RV, don't ya mean 300gr JHP???

jason280 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 02, 2005, 01:08:06 PM »

Tim,

I don't know if I'll ever be man enough to have a .45-120 (except in a cartridge collection)!!

But, to be honest, I have toyed with the idea of reaming it out to 120. I mean, after all, I all ready have a 22" .45-70 Handi, so why not a 32" .45-120? I guess I need to try out my 1900+ fps 405gr loads before I go even heavier!

:-D :-D

quickdtoo · « **Reply #10 on:** June 02, 2005, 01:12:09 PM »

Jason,

I don't shoot heavy loads in mine, but I can shoot any size bullet I want at any reasonable speed. One of the problems with the 45-70 Handi barrels is just the opposite of the rest of the Handi calibers, it has a short throat which limits powder capacity when loading big bullets. That's not an issue with the 45-120.... :wink:

Tim