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El Chivo

I don't have much firsthand experience with dogs, but a girl up the street from us was attacked by her terrier when she was a toddler, he tore her face up pretty bad. She had huge scars where her cheek was ripped. So I don't know if that's the best choice for a young boy. My mother was bitten by her...

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thanks Paul, I have since found the .177 PBA ammo, it's Gamo Raptor. I just missed it the first time. I would like to stay subsonic and the PBA's are a little faster than lead. So maybe I should get the .22, the mv for lead is 685 and so PBA should be about 800. I like the idea that it weighs less t...

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also I try to load just one type of round in a session, so I don't use the wrong powder or amount or OAL. I have a .357 light load, a .357 medium load, and a 30-30 medium load, and I would hate to get confused on which powder and charge I'm using in the same session.

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after seeing it penetrate several cows

Man you should have gotten that on video.

Was this end to end or side to side?

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I think I'm going to start with a Benjamin Sheridan pump in .177. It may let me shoot in the apartment with one or two pumps, and I can try it on bunnies. If I like it, I was looking at some Diana springers. I would stick to .177, but when looking at pellet choices, didn't see any PBAs in .177, only...

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I would say if he breaks it off (turns and runs) or you can safely get away (duck around the corner or behind a car) then you should not use deadly force. But if you're cornered or he's coming at you, or he's facing you thinking about coming after you, you should shoot him without warning or hesitat...

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I think you should consider some sort of turret or progressive press. That way you can leave your die sets in place. I got one (Lee Classic Cast Turret Press) to save space, but think of the time. Instead of re-installing the dies for each operation, I just rotate the turret one click. With mine it'...

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dude you need to start looking at copper ammo, try the Cor-Bon w/Barnes and tell me how it is.

El Chivo

what has been said about timing with the trigger is true. It's important to know your trigger whether it's light or not. But I shoot best if I don't pull the trigger per se, I hold my finger on it and contract my hand. The other thing that makes a difference for me is posture. I shoot best if my lef...

El Chivo

I noticed in the CA regs you must have a .22 to shoot turkey.

El Chivo

Anybody have ideas for cleaning up spilled gunpowder? My reloading room is also my living room, and after a few sessions I do have some spilled gunpowder. I always picked up what I could with tape, but I'm sure there is still some in the carpet (especially with 2400 having such small granules). I'm ...

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Given the date, can anyone tell me what the Remington 7600 is most famous for? No, I know. But I didn't know the date. It was the guy in the Texas towers. He used a 35 Rem for his distance shots. And shotguns for the people on the stairs. I believe he used something else as well, but I know he used...

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On one of my first scouting trips, I was all enthused because I saw so many rabbits on my way in. This was in the Angeles NF, but in an area barred for firearm use. I looked down the road, and every 20 feet there was another rabbit. As I walked, the near ones would hide, but they'd come back out aft...

El Chivo

Anybody doing a 200 gr copper bullet yet?

I'm going to try later this season, but haven't started yet.

Of course the bullet is much longer than lead. That leaves me with the question, how safe is it to load light with H4895?

El Chivo

Hey, lots of mentions of the 35 Remington today... good advice.

I would get a rifle caliber, then reload for it for plinking. It's better to have too much power than too little. More power gives you more range and a better trajectory. If you get into it a little more, then get the .357 or the .22.

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or "Siamese twins - $100 for both, or will separate"

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Last Friday I was out at the ranger's station to get a map and as I left, I saw two does pass the office. They went trotting down to the road.

Instead of just crossing the road they stopped at the road. Then a car came and stopped for them. Then they crossed the road, and went on into the brush.

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Tanks guys!

El Chivo

try a blow-dryer on the saran wrap after taping, and before painting. It might shrink it tight. There are shrink-wrap materials that will do this. I have a shrink-wrapping setup, so will probably try it instead of saran wrap. My only problem is the wrap is only about a foot wide. But you can buy big...

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Well, I don't have the screw or the guide. I do have lead chips all in the action. Time to order a few from Brownells.

If that's the cause of my jamming, I'll be happy with the replacements.

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Antietam, you're right but it comes down to preference. I like the extra sight radius, but what I really like is the extra short eye relief. I don't have to lean forward to peer into a small aperture, and I can use a smaller aperture because it's so close to my eye. I think the tang sight takes an e...

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I have that very rifle, bought in 2004. It is quite accurate, and has a nice feel. I shot my highest score in silhouette with that rifle (37)! And it looks great. The barrel is thicker than the 30-30 version because it's made from a blank sized for 44 mag and 45 Colt, which were also offered. So bas...

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and even if there wasn't an agenda, media still needs sensationalism to sell themselves, to their editors, to their public.

A random firearm attack is easier to sensationalize than an old lady drowning in her bathtub.

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Hey, something to add. I was thinking about my deer silhouette, and realized I could paint the vital areas red and the other areas something else like yellow. Then cover the whole thing with brown shootnsee and the vital hits would come out red and the others yellow. Guess what I'll be doing this we...

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just got one on my .357, it works fine. It's pretty close clearance when the bolt is open, but there's just enough.

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I took my Model 39A in to the gunsmith because it was jamming frequently. Cases would stick in the chamber and not eject. I changed the extractor and no difference. I thought the gunsmith would check the chamber for sizing, polish it maybe, just take a look. I picked it up and put about 200 rounds t...

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thanks, I've been wondering about this.

I would like to make some silhouette animals, it's hard to tell if you hit the swingers at long range.

I have a shrink-wrap setup, maybe I'll try that.

El Chivo

funny you should ask, I just shot up two boxes of the subsonic. I really liked it. I can't claim sub moa results, but the 100 yard swinger was plastered with hits. Other brands were jamming in my chamber, and this did it much less, and was easy to remove. Strange smell, a chemical smell, not cordite...

El Chivo

There was a pretty good article by a gentleman who lived in Argentina when they had their economic crash, and a lot of people turned to crime. He made the point that rifles are fine tools, but attacks come on streets, in parking lots, in your driveway, etc, and there isn't time to find a rifle if yo...

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That's why you shoot it in the chest. There are people who lived their whole lives with lead bullets lodged in them, I doubt if a pellet or some dust passing through would cause that much harm. I'm not going to eat any lead or lick my fingers after reloading, but does the lead even absorb into the s...

El Chivo

great now those guys have to eat squirrel for a year

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I think about that pistol/rifle saying every now and then, and it seems to me that if perps are close to you, your rifle wouldn't be any better than the pistol, perhaps worse. The only way it makes sense is if there's a war situation, where you know the enemy on sight. Or if you're Bonnie and Clyde ...

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with me it's been only the first shot, the rest are right on target.

I think it's a matter of clean, not cold. I shot groups with various wait periods and they seem to be on target regardless.

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ok add biscuit dough to the EPA hazardous materials list.

El Chivo

I was researching before buying my first gun about 4 years ago. I ran across some threads and started asking questions. Got a lot of help, between this forum and Chuckhawks site I decided leverguns were right for me.

El Chivo

Jason, if you buy a 35 Rem you will walk up on a nice buck eating grass not paying attention.

With the 35 Rem you are always upwind.

El Chivo

In LA County you can't get a permit, unless you're Robert Blake.

I haven't tried though, I don't own a handgun. Am thinking about getting one for the old homestead. It's almost the season where the patio door is generally open, somebody could rush in if they wanted to.

El Chivo

I haven't had it in years, it's really not that cheap, either.

I have a movie, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" where he's flashing back to his war experiences. His Italian Girlfriend tearfully confesses "I wish I had some SPAM"

El Chivo

What I've noticed is the parents don't learn much English but the kids do, they get it from television and later, in school. So you've only got to wait for that one generation. I suspect that this happened in other ethnic groups in our history. There would be a grandmother or somebody who didn't lea...

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El Chivo

Si, Inglais es la lengua oficial del Estado del Calfornia!

El Chivo

I think you could get by with 2, one handgun powder and one rifle powder.

2400 is on the edge of both, but you would limit your rifle velocity, so it depends on what you mean by "everything".

El Chivo

Yeah, but he's 'Boomer45' and he'd have to change to 'Boomer444'

That's like the guy named 29cows, then one died, he had to change his name

I just meant, if you want to really be loud you have to go big.

El Chivo

I'm going back to a 6:00 hold with the point of impact slightly above the flat blade. I'm shooting mostly silhouette and this is the most accurate hold for that. For hunting, I've decided to stick to deer so I could use the same system. A bullet impacting 3" or so above the belly line would wor...

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There are some 2 income families where both incomes are equal, but usually the wife raises the kids and then works either part-time or at less pay than the husband. Studies show that her income exactly corresponds with the increase in taxes since the 1950's. So, she's working strictly to pay the ext...

El Chivo

I agree that we're all quite wealthy, however, it's just that society has gotten quite good at producing goods. So it gives us a sense that we're working for ourselves, not the bosses. I was raised lower middle class, we took a vacation every ten years whether we needed one or not. Annually we went ...

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They confuse me with that H-IMR stuff. H4198, H4895, IMR4895, etc.

Is that a good thing to do with explosive material?

I guess they just don't want to alienate long-time customers by consolidating.

The guy at the reloading store swears the IMR4895 and H4895 are very different.

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I've been trying 2400 in a Marlin .357 rifle and it is quite accurate. I was hitting rams at 200 meters with a 180 grain bullet. 10 grains was most accurate in my gun, I think I get about 1300-1400 fps. However, it's not that clean burning. I took a look down the barrel (from the chamber end) after ...

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Wow I had to pay $379.00 on sale here at the Big 5. Sounds like a great deal.

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