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When I quit hunting with my modern bolt action rifles, the first old rifle I chose to take hunting was this Ballard Union Hill rifle in .38-55 caliber. https://i.imgur.com/hdHE0NRl.jpg I had shot it a lot at ranges from 100-200 yds. and after some practice at these distances, I decided I'd set the t...

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Praying for a good outcome, and peace of mind for you on this journey Scott!

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I clicked on all the various cameras at the link, and all are marked "unavailable"? Seems they're either way behind, or not made anymore?

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Johnny's song reminds me of some guns I've built!

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I'm old school, so even though almost any new hi performance car will run circles around most of the old cars, I'll still take an older car just for the old school cool they have! Drive a new muscle car and most people don't even notice it unless you're showing off and laying down black stripes. But...

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Those are great looking, high quality 1911 style handguns! And nice to have both barrel lengths also.
All mine are full length barrels, which I love, but not the best size for a carry gun all year around. I find myself going to a compact 9mm in the hot weather as a T shirt covers them easier.

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Those are excellent groups!
I love the .32-40 in a lever gun or single shot. Just a joy to shoot, and very pleasant on the shooter. Great out to 400 yds. easily, and further if a guy wants to play with them.

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We have a Firman generator that's 11,000/9200w. depending on whether I use gasoline or propane. It will easily run our two refridgerators, the freezer, and almost anything we need during a power outage. We got it a couple years ago when Costco had them on a sale for only $730 with rolling stand, and...

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I'd venture to say there are likely more gasoline fires from leaky fuel lines than LPG or natural gas fires. And there are millions of homes heated with, and cooking with natural gas. Anything that can cause an explosion inside a engine can explode outside if the system gets in poor shape. The one d...

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Don't worry, I wont ever quote you again.

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We had our monthly collector gun show yesterday, and I drug in numerous loads to put out on my two tables for sale. I left 100+ 12ga. shotgun shells in my truck, as just to heavy to haul around. The scene was like a field of dead animals, and vultures swooping in! In a few hours all but a handful of...

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I've not seen one in person but they do look to be well fitted in the magazine articles. Ruger as did Marlin is turning out the same boring products as before, 20" barrels with hooded ramp sights and barrel bands. The cowboy line and the guide gun configurations certainly changed the catalog f...

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Propane? They can be problematic. Gasoline for mine and easier to get if things go bad….my Generac 6500 will run an easy 12 hours on one tank. I run all of my small engines….at least 8-10…..at least 15 minutes every other month and always with stabilizer and 93 octane gas. Like Griz says, if it’s b...

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I installed generators of every size imaginable for decades, and every generator should be exercised once a month. A brand new generator, or not, sitting with valves partially open in various levels of humidity will be worrisome to me. It's all bare metal inside, and without being turned over occasi...

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Just got my latest copy of The American Rifleman with a writeup on the R-M 336 and 1894 in the Classic models with nice walnut stocks, checkering, etc. They look like extremely nice guns, and if everything Ruger makes is as nice they'll sell. I of course never bought new Marlins, even when the Kenna...

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Funny how different people grow up with different perspectives based on where they grow up, and how isolated their environment was. Not having input from others who might sway one's way of thinking about what's "normal" about shooting. We've mentioned before that my grandparents, and my fa...

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That's a beauty to my eyes Bill! Not sure I'd do much to it, as upgrading the wood much will only make wear on metal parts stand out more. Right now it all is equal, and I'd want to either keep it this way, or do a total restoration. But I'd lean to doing very little to this! Maybe a good cleaning o...

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Thanks all, MarlinMan my main reason for the 24" is the sighting radius, I'e tried a tang sight and a receiver peep sight and I find target acquisition slower for Boar on the run, some say a longer barrel slows you down but on a light levergun I have found this isn't so. I agree with COSteve r...

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I'm still not too concerned since buffalo only drop one calf, or on rare occasion two per year. Whereas most rodents drop large litters, multiple times a year. I doubt even a huge number of hunters like there were in the buffalo days would put much of a dent towards extinction of rodents.

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Vall, if you're like me, you'll love that 10-10 scale. I had their mid-range scale, I believe it was a 5-10-5(?), anyway it started giving erratic results and contacted RCBS about it. They said to send it back & they'd try rebuilding it. A couple weeks after sending it in, I received a new 10-1...

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Personally I don't think the velocity gained by a longer barrel is as beneficial as the sighting radius gained by the extra length! Having an extra 4"-8" of extra barrel length with iron sights is a huge factor in more accurate shooting.

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My Saeco molds are some of the best molds I own and use! Not just the design, but how nicely bullets drop from them. Back when Barry Darr ran the mold design at Saeco I was buying a lot of Saeco molds. I still do on occasion, but sure miss his input when I called to discuss a bullet mold.

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The areas where prairie dogs or sage rats live is usually not very good farm land. Even if a farmer breaks up the hard surface, and farmers break it up far better than rodents do. So looking at areas where we varmint hunt that have thousands of sage rats burrowing I don't see any better growth becau...

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Started casting and reloading to save money, and shoot more. But quickly learned that my hand loads shot better than what I bought, and were always milder too!

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Just remember the prarie rats carry bubonic plague! I'm not sure varmint hunters could ever wipe them out unless you camped out on 1 town at a time, had a truck load of ammo, multiple barrels/rifles every day sun up to sun down for years. I know I shot my share of them, 22 for under 100, my 25-20 &...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:14 am I'm sure you'll move a bunch of that stuff at those prices!

I hope so! I want this to be a quick finish and get the back of my Suburban back without hauling stuff into my gun room!

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Oops, sorry Val- I had just posted on one of JimTs posted previously! There were many bamboo markers, some are quite desirable by collectors. I spent some time yesterday looking into pricing of bamboo fly rods and came up with a few I have that are worth in the $200-$300 range. Most others were in ...

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As bad as the slaughter and near extinction of the buffalo was, it does my heart good to know some were caring enough to try to save them before they became extinct. Even though almost all who worked to save them were involved to some extent in eliminating them. As for prairie dogs, I've taken far m...

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Jim some of those fly rids can be very valuable- do your homework! Not sure who Jim is Gunny? I've begun attempting to research bamboo fly rods, and overwhelmed and more confused than I previously was! Digging further through my truck load, I have found 15 of them, and still only identified maybe 6...

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Great story Scott!
We have guard cats here. Not a sound usually, but they got nuts standing up on the back of the couch and pawing on the window glass anytime they see a person, or critter outside!

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My son in law has been busy spreading the word among the guys he works with, and a couple guys want cases of the 12 ga. trap that I told him to let them have for $3 a box. Just want to make $1 a box and get this to people who shoot it. They're taking a bunch of .45 and 9mm also at $7 a box too. We'l...

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Sounds like a fun project! Do you know the family well enough to trust the reloads? JBowen Yes, and I'd not hesitate to shoot any of them, or I wouldn't have even taken them if they were free. But reloads are always tough to re-sell, so whatever I don't keep will be sold to friends and family who k...

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I enjoyed both parts 1 & 2, along with the short companion film. Learned a lot about the folks and wide variety of them who worked and are working to bring them back. But, I worry about the fervor of environmentalists(?) that would displace humans at the benefit of animals. Or other humans base...

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I was asked by a friend to help his friend's son sell off his dad's reloading room. The estate sales company wanted nothing to do with the room in his basement as it was all ammo, reloading equipment, and gun related stuff. So I asked my son in law to give me a hand in loading it all into my old '69...

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good stuff. someone I know knows someone who clerked in a sheriff's office and said all they did at that office is issue and renew carry permits. the entire office staff was inundated daily with new applications. the waiting time for renewal can be 2 months. now I want to see a check box that says ...

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I have no set maintenance schedule to clean dies. I use them until I have a problem. Some have never been taken apart to clean in 4 decades. Only a couple have been cleaned out of about 35 die sets.

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I watched part one, but thought the 2nd was a replay so turned off the set. Now I'm waiting for the replay so I can see part two. A fair amount is info I knew because the demise and return of buffalo in America has always been something I'm interested in for most of my life. But I still learned a fe...

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I've told my wife numerous times that if it was up to me every inch of lawn would be dug up, and concrete poured over it! Never mentioned green paint, but if that would persuade her to let me do it, I'd paint it all a nice dark green too! I hate yard work!

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My late dad was always the same about carrying or even a need to own a handgun. He didn't see a need to, and questioned my need to also. Then after years of not owning a handgun he one day mentioned he was tired of taking a rifle along in their camp trailer when they went camping! I of course was sm...

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When working up accurate loads for my rifles for decades, I've used my Oehler to not just see what the bullets are traveling at, but more importantly velocity spread between shots. Fir me velocity deviations between shots on rifle loads are far more important a factor than anything else. So although...

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I found this review on the Garmin Xero, and it sounds like quite a chronograph, and very easy to use!

https://www.outdoorlife.com/gear/garmin ... ro-review/

We'll see what the prices run once it's been out awhile.

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It certainly is in the price range to make everything else obsolete or at least drop their sales to low levels. But I doubt at my age I'll pop for one, unless I see some even cheaper bargain price. Mainly because I don't chronograph my loads that often, so my old Oehler will probably serve me well s...

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I have no idea about the situation here? I reload, and cast my own bullets, and my supply is plentiful, so don't even look at gun shops to see what's up?

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My Sharps has a patchbox on the buttstock and I have a spare firing pin assembly with certain spare springs. They are all fitted and because I have them, I’ll likely never need them! Glad you found a part that can be easily modified to work. That's my thinking too Scott. If I get one repaired, and ...

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Anytime the wives can go along is a great time of shooting! Looks like fun Walt!

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I imagine the DA/SA action is based on the Walther design. Yes, it's a DA/SA, which I really like since they have such smooth trigger pulls, and get better after the first DA pull. I set this 39 next to my 59, which I remembered as being a bit larger. But I quickly noticed they share a lot of parts...

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Nice find, hope it works. Funny how you look for a certain part from all the usual vendors for what is a commonly found thing and no joy is found. Then an obscure part like your transfer bar breaks and the parts are 'everywhere '. I was pretty surprised the Italian Dixie transfer bar was a two piec...

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Looks like another guy who just loves recoil, and always wants bigger. My Ballard Pacific in .40-85 Ballard Everlasting using a 410 gr. Snover bullet at 1335 fps penetrated 23 milk jugs filled with water, and exited the last jug to parts unknown. And recoil is very comfortable, and not leaving marks...

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At our annual long-range shoot at the U-Pick Sagebrush Ranch, among the rifles and handguns I hauled with me was my Freund Sharps in .50-3.25" to shoot. But unfortunately it chose this outing to give up and it wouldn't make a good primer strike. I took it apart at the shoot and saw no issues, s...

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Yes, single stack semiautos are old school and not the in thing these days. Everybody needs at least 13 rds., and 18 are even better! I guess I never understood why, as I came from the school of make your shots count, and not the new school of spray and pray. ;) But this 39 will see plenty of shooti...

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