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24thMICH

Am I nuts or is this something some of you guys have experienced also? I'm used to shooting my 30-30 Winchester '94 (made in '52) and thinking nothing of it. The 30-30 has always seemed like a reasonably mild cartridge. Then I inherit a Western Field 30-30 from my deceased father-in-law that's essen...

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Just my 2¢ worth, but I've got a '94 from 1952 that's the cat's meow for me. I managed to get it in very fine to almost unused condition (a long story) and ended up putting a Marble's tang sight on it. Couldn't be happier with it--and overall I count myself as a Marlin kind of guy. The action is smo...

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Hey!!

This is cool!!

Thank you guys!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7932158.stm According to this article, Vitamin C helps prevent gout and probably helps relieve it. I usually take 2-3,000 mg. of Vitamin C daily, which may explain something, I dunno. I was taught that when you're on the verge of a cold or any other illness, you up...

24thMICH

Hey Guys!!

Get out there and vote!!

A good number of the polls immediately after the debate indicated the average listener thought McCain won.

I'm not fond of McCain, but Obamammma's clearly the Darth Vader of this election cycle.

Don't quit until it's over.

24thMICH

For those of you in Michigan's District 1 Congressional Seat, Tom Casperson would be a better pick than Bart Stupak, even though both candidates receive an "A" from the NRA. Tom Casperson's the Republican in this race, and apart from his support for the 2nd Amendment, Stupak generally vote...

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If you ever get a chance, there's a book out there called "Molotov Cocktail" written by John Virtanen, who I understand fought in the war. The Finns invented the "Molotov cocktail" to pop into tops of tanks after they disabled the treads by sticking logs into them. They named the...

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A good deal indeed!

Very good-looking wood!

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24thMICH

Sweet! It makes me miss the '94SS I traded in for my .308 MX. Now don't get me wrong. I love my .308. Wouldn't give it up for anything (well, almost). But I'm due to inherit a 336 in .30-30 late this summer. I already have a Winnie '94 in .30-30, so I don't need another one. You got me thinking... M...

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I remember seeing "Gettysburg" during its premier showing at the Fox Theatre in Detroit (if any of you know Detroit history, you'll know and love the Fox. It was built in Detroit's glory days during the 1920's--when Detroit was the wealthiest city in the United States. The Fox had really g...

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This leaves me virtually certain that this "Westernfield" lever action is actually a Marlin 336 in drag. :lol: It doesn't have a crescent butt, and the trigger stays in place when you work the lever. All I can say is, I'm looking forward to "inheriting" it come late summer. I'll ...

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Re: the Mossburg 472, I did a search on that and found that when you work the lever, the trigger on that firearm travels down with the lever. The trigger on the one I'm likely to inherit stays with the receiver. This is getting interesting. Re: the Che picture: it's supposed to morph into an almost ...

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Hi guys! I just discovered this weekend that sometime around the end of this summer I'm going to inherit my late father-in-law's Westerfield .30-30 leveraction. I got a chance to take a look at it: it looks like a Marlin 336 with what seems like an 18" barrel and a pistol grip lever. It looks l...

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I almost took a job there 2.5 years ago. It's got a small river running through it, but otherwise is nicely above the water. I really doubt it could flood beyond a few swampy areas in the north end of the city. It's a really nice city with friendly people as far as I'm concerned. Having to turn down...

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Up until the early 1970s, Texas had a law which defined a "Negro" as a person who contained 1/8 or greater negro blood. Under the 'Jim Crow" laws, such a law was needed. I doubt if there are any statutatory racial definitions any more, but these are the roots of theat sort of things....

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I was told about 25 years ago that I was going to need reading glasses ("eye crutches"). I ignored the suggestion and instead started practicing various eye exercises based on the Bates Method of eye improvement. Suffice it to say, I'm 56 years old and only wear the weakest prescription I ...

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... s-man.html

I remember a discussion a couple years ago now where this one guy insisted that bear spray was a cure-all for this kind of stuff.

I don't think so!

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24thMICH

I've been shooting it out of an old 1952-issue Winchester '94 and never had a hang-up problem with the last round.

If I'm not having a problem with an old Winnie, I can't imagine anybody else having a problem with it either!

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24thMICH

It seems like at least two weeks, I've been trying to get onto Marlinowners and have hit dead air. Anybody else have that experience? Anybody know what's going on over there? Actually, the same has been happening whenever I try to log onto Levergunluvers also, except it's been going on for a lot lon...

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It was back in the Blizzard of '79 when I was living in Chicago for a while under the Jane Byrd administration that I finally saw the Democrat Party for what it was and left it for good. They paid some political hack something like $325,000 to come up with an emergency snow removal plan for the city...

24thMICH

I know God is a man. The Bible says he forgets our sins.

Truer words were never spoken!!

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24thMICH

My understanding is that PayPal is simply an extension of eBay.

It's a case of one company coming up with another company that works with the first company so customers don't feel uneasy dealing in two realms with the first company.

A bit like Ford Motor Company selling Philco products.

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24thMICH

Hawaii has been very, very liberal for a long time now, from Sen. "In No Way's" opposition to the Second Amendment to the longstanding tolerance of a racial double standard where Euro-Americans like my sister who lives there can be called a "haule" (the Hawaiian equivalent of the...

24thMICH

Thank you for posting that!

It made my day, and of all days to improve, for me today was the day.

To think it came out of Aspen!

Talk about breaking up a stereotype!

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24thMICH

I very much enjoyed "Lonesome Dove" as well as its prequil "Dead Man's Walk." "Open Range" is another "modern" western I'd recommend viewing. I'd also suggest getting a hold of the "The Quick and the Dead" movie starring Sam Elliott (as opposed to th...

24thMICH

And the Olde English words came from good ol' Saxon German.

These days our wiener-schnitzel and sauerkraut -lovin' buddies have words like "scheiÃŸ" and "ficken" to compete with our venerable cuss words, to name just a few goodies.

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24thMICH

Well, for me as far as overall feel goes, I'd have to say my favorite is my Winnie '94 made in 1952 with its Marbles tang sight. It just feels good in the hands. But beyond feel, if you want the best overall, I'd have to say for me at least is my Marlin .308 MX. Feel-wise, it's a close second to my ...

24thMICH

In this month's issue of Gun World they're reporting on Henry's issuing a new 30-30. You can get the receiver in iron or brass.

The magazine tube extends the full length of the 20" barrel and holds 6 shots.

Hmmmmm.....

This might be interesting!

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24thMICH

This guy's accident is on par with what I saw as a teenager. This kid I knew was talking to his girlfriend at the same time as he was lighting a firecracker he was planning to throw. He lit the firecracker at the same time as his girlfriend said something that ticked him off. He turned to her to mak...

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Actually, I'm kind of relieved.... After reading "Marlin carved up" I thought that Remington went ahead and broke the Marlin company up into a few smaller companies, y'know, like one company specializing in leveractions, another specializing in .22's, and yet another company specializing i...

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Yeah, too bad.

Hopefully things will stiffen up after Super Tuesday.

Until then we'll just have to hang out and watch the proceedings from the sidelines.

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Hmmmmm....

I wonder if Marlin might go with this or maybeeeeee...

with the .327 magnum just put out by Federal for the Ruger SP-101.

This could be interesting!

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24thMICH

Just out of curiosity I tried resting the hammer pin of my (*unloaded*) Cimarron in between the chambers of my SAA. It worked I suppose, but I for one would not want to walk around with all six chambers full like that. It *might* handle being dropped, but any kind of rubbing against the revolver and...

24thMICH

Oh heck!

I thought you'd bought a bolt action!

Semi-auto?

Have fun!

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24thMICH

A little over a year ago I picked up a '94 30-30 made in 1952, the year I was born. I bought it for $400 from my local dealer. It looks as though it was hardly ever fired by the previous owner. My dealer has come across a few other '94's since, but nothing this nice from what I've seen. I spent some...

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Besides many of the ones already mentioned, I was surprised with "Tin Star" starring Henry Fonda. I bought it at the bargain bin expecting it to at least pass the time. I was *very* surprised at the character Fonda portrays: a former sheriff turned bounty hunter, who then goes on to mentor...

24thMICH

Whad he say???!!!

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Hey, instead of stars, can we have a little line of Rockettes or belly dancers or something?

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Swampman, Sometimes psychiatric cases can be complicated. If this kid has a history of beating up his grandparents and his parents, the first question I have is whether or not these elders have reported his behaviors to the kid's psychiatrist. Kids with histories of repeated assaults need to be in s...

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Just a side note to whoever said the doctor was running up the bill by removing that section of skull... I'm pretty sure he put it back. But he did have to take it out to make sure the brain didn't have any bleeders around the wound site. Fortunately, that area of the skull is one of the thickest. H...

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Sorry to say, but the Dems have a history of stealing elections, going back to at least Ol' Joe Kennedy. Remember that Kennedy won the election by a hairsbreadth? Well that was accomplished by Ol' Joe playing games with the Democratic machine in Cook County. Nixon by all historical accounts probably...

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Junior, I share your concern for your granddaughter. Last year in June I had to open the door on my dead sister-in-law after many episodes where my son and I found her with blood sugars lower than 30. One time it had so low the EMS had it up to 15 after a tube of glucophage. She was 44 years old and...

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Junior, You're making the assertion that embryonic stem cells have some substantiated research behind them. Can you cite your sources and the actual breakthroughs that have been accomplished with embryonic stem cells vs. adult stem cells? Again, the issue isn't legality vs. illegality. It's Federal ...

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To those of you interested in such things, I recommend reading some of Thomas Woods' work. He wrote "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History," among other things. Here are a few of his articles relevant to our discussion here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods59.html http:...

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Well, I for one will give Junior the benefit of the doubt; that he was well-intended but misinformed. Working in a university, I can tell you there are two types of graduate student research funding: corporate and federal. Corporate grants are readily given for research that shows any promise of pro...

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Scott64a, I understand and respect your point, but at the same time suggest you consider a couple of things: 1) The quotes "The price of freedom is eternal vigilence" and "Never forget." Some folks take these quotes very seriously. I can think of some friends in Skokie, IL in par...

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I have wondered if it really had to be fought. Thomas Sowell, in his book (I believe titled) "Race and Economics" makes a cogent argument that because of the self-defeating economics of cotton (it badly depleted the nitrogen in the soil, resulting in many plantations moving westwards as t...

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As much as I appreciate your wife's scholarship and her generosity in sharing this, the libertarian and historian in me feels compelled to do a friendly point-counterpoint posting of L. Neil Smith's essay on Lincoln to balance out your wife's collegiate praise of "honest Abe." from http://...

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At the University where I work we occasionally have students who are worried about one of their fellow students and says something to either Public Safety, one of the Judicial Affairs officers, to a professor or to one of us. If there hasn't been any clear behavioral infraction, however, we don't do...

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Don't tell me bear spray would've worked in this situation!

Is it just me, or has Marlinowners vaporized into the ether?

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