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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2010, 03:23:39 PM »
Reinz:

I read the fine print on your blog and, if true, you also own an "oh yeah!"

What is meant is the Bren Ten. I, too, like the unconventional but I have never owned, (or seen for sale), a Bren Ten. I have owned a 10mm and that round is the "Cobra" of pistol cartidges.

(Yes, I know; .454 Casull, 460 & 500 S&W Magnum...But still).
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #46 on: July 15, 2010, 03:44:03 PM »
Yep!  How well we know those!  except the 460; went for the 500.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #47 on: July 15, 2010, 05:35:43 PM »
A pistol is distingusihed from a revolver in the context of my reference to the 10mm cartridge.

I have read the posts about the monster revolver cartridges and I must admit that they have a lot of appeal.

I have fired the .454 Casull but not the two S&W cartridges. You could really get crazy with big bore cartridges besides those mentioned.....475 & .500 Linebaugh; you know the rest.

For myself, .45ACP is the cartridge, although a hand cannon would certainly come in handy if a moose or grizzly bear came knocking at my door.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #48 on: July 15, 2010, 07:44:54 PM »
ACP - this will make you sick, I have 6 or 7 Bren Tens.  One of them is a Factory 45, called the Marksman.
I got hooked on them after the company went belly up in the 80's.  
It is the Rorhbaugh of all the 10mm pistols made.  Each basically hand fitted- but due to factory flaws.  But still the best shooting one out there except maybe a new modern longslide by nighthawk, I don't know without trying.

I have other tens as well, auto and revolver, but the Brens rule! ;D
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #49 on: July 15, 2010, 07:54:13 PM »
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Yep!  How well we know those!  except the 460; went for the 500.

I'm glad the 460 , 500  wasn't around when I was shooting the 44 Auto Mag, 45 Win Mag Wildey and 475 Wildey.

Since then I have developed severe nerve damage from the tips of fingers to tops of my shoulders.  All from too my magnum handgun shooting.  
Also developed carpel tunnel in each wrist as well. (I thought I would go blind first)
So had to give up big bore shooting about 15 years ago and it just kills this gun addict not being able to buy a 454 Alaskan, a .460. .500. etc.  
For I love big bores! :D
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #50 on: July 15, 2010, 07:58:20 PM »
Yep!  You're really missing something.  Sorry you have that problem.  I can see where that would limit stuff like the .500.  However, there's plenty of other out there.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #51 on: July 15, 2010, 08:10:05 PM »
I manage to keep myself busy.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #52 on: July 15, 2010, 08:26:49 PM »
Reinz

I'm here to help. Why don't you make yourself busy by sending me one of those Bren Tens? Having one is great. Two is too many. 4 or 5 is showing off.

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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #53 on: July 15, 2010, 08:28:32 PM »

He said you could have one without a magazine.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #54 on: July 15, 2010, 08:29:56 PM »
I guess I'm the "ccoorreey" of the Bren 10s  ;D
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #55 on: July 15, 2010, 08:32:06 PM »
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He said you could have one without a magazine.


Ah Tracker, you must remember the Bren 10 days!  

All those folks receiving guns with no mags,
  
Touche'   :D
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #56 on: July 15, 2010, 08:37:31 PM »
Indeed, what a bummer; talk about anticlimactic--that must have been the worst.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #57 on: July 15, 2010, 08:38:31 PM »
Thanks for clarification guys. I didn't get tracker's cleverness until I read the bit about shipping without magazines.

No wonder Dornaus & Dixon went out of business.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #58 on: July 15, 2010, 08:52:07 PM »
That was a big part of it.  

The mag supplier really screwed them over with delays and  mags out of spec.
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Re: Broomhandle Mauser
« Reply #59 on: July 15, 2010, 09:18:36 PM »

Maybe they were Mussolini heirs extracting payback for WWII.
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