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A Lawman's Carbine

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by Jim Wilson


I hope that I’m not revealing a fatal character flaw when I tell you that I just never cared much for the Colt AR15. I’d spent a lot of years shooting rifles before I ever fired my first AR15. To be honest, they just didn’t look to me like real rifles and they damn sure didn’t feel like real rifles either. Oh, I could hit stationary targets well enough but I never could get the hang of snap shooting at a moving target. Pretty quickly, I realized that this was one backward lawman who needed something else.

My old friend Dan Westbrook had been in the Texas Rangers in the 1940s. Dan relied on a really slick Trapper’s Model 92 Winchester in .38/40...to match the Colt single action that he carried. I thought about that, but didn’t know where to find a Winchester 92, nor did I, at that time, know of anyone who could convert it to a more modern caliber...say .357 or .44 Mag.

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