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Howdy Earl - Yes, the schools have been filling up for a few years now. Given that I was teaching right up until last summer I saw some of the folks who were giving "more education" a try, in an effort to become more employable. Nothing wrong with that, but one thing that I used to see tha...

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Thought I'd jump in and uplift this conversation a bit. :lol: It's been years, back when I was a teenager, since I cut firewood. But I had the same thought that Kirk D expressed about that woodpile you've put together Pitchy. That is a really satisfying sight. I used to always feel great after hours...

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Larry Madman4570, earlmck, Blaine, OI, and all the rest of you guys. I want to let you know that today (Thursday, Oct. 25) I received the first five envelopes from members of the crew here. The words thank you don't even come close to saying what needs saying. You guys are not just helping me keep m...

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Prayers sent up from my way too Rangerider. - DixieBoy

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Larry madman4570 - You, and the rest of the crew here have flat blown me away. I listed a Marlin 1895 in the classifieds that I really, REALLY, did not want to sell. She probably gets fired less than my other few guns, but she IS my honey. And she'll stay my honey. I had no idea that classified ad w...

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You said it madman Larry. There is no better bunch of guys. This has been very humbling and has touched me in a big way. Don't want to get all blubbery here, but I keep thinking that this barely scratches the surface of what I feel and would like to say. More from me later, that's a promise. - Joe &...

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I didn't know any of this about McGovern. Thank you for posting this. - DixieBoy

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Mescalero - This has all been very humbling this morning. Thanks for a bit of a laugh about Santa Fe. Yes, that is one place I do believe it would be best for me to avoid. Larry madman4570 has been getting my address to folks. I woke up this morning to see what he'd been doing and it pretty much ove...

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OS Fred - That is a will do. Once again, Earl is on to something here too. I will vote to help give this country at least half a chance at getting on its feet again, and not long after that I see the same happening for me too. I will PM these guys from the crew. And I promise that I will do all I ca...

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Madman Larry - You guys really are the best. That doesn't begin to say it. Earl and I have talked via PM and he's aware of the fix I'm in and my strategery (a nod to GW there) for fixing it. I've been focusing my job searches on places where (I hope this isn't too un-politically correct, but it is t...

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Nice find O.S.O.K.

I have a dumb question to ask so all the other folks with dumb questions will have the ice broken for them ...

... is this an Angle Eject rifle ? Just curious. - DixieBoy

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Hey, this last post, if it's accurate, is good news. Blaine said something that got me thinking, and I don't have a clue why this is: years back we fried Ted Bundy in Florida. A more deserving guy ever sat in the chair. He too had made a track basically running from the northwest, to the southeast. ...

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Don - This same guy was doing this stuff on the Ruger Forum, and while some enjoyed his posts about the old west, his other stuff showed me that he liked to pick fights online. "Roid rage" maybe, I don't know. He lost me when he went off on you. I think that he started some bru-ha at Ruger...

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I don't know if this will be of help to you, but years ago a buddy of mine came across two old tractor-trailer rigs. Not the cabs/engines, but just the trailers. The floors of these things were oak strips, if I remember right, they were 1" x 1 1/2, maybe 2". Long strips, which had been joi...

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Glad that all is repairable. I learned my lesson once and for all about particle board after Hurricane Jeanne in 2004. The roof came off our building and all the ceilings came down with the sustained rains. I had bookshelves that were particle board, and even with the veneer covering they were lite...

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Howdy - I'm posting this here for you guys who hunt Africa or those who hope to. I've placed an ad in our classified section for an extremely cool item for a trophy room - a Rand McNally Map of Africa from 1895. Thought I would place the ad here on Leverguns before I listed it elsewhere as a tip of ...

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Joe - I think you caught Mr. Sweeney talking out his backside and "took him aback" as they say. Good on ya ! I don't have an axe to grind with Sweeney, but I think he's mediocre at best. And I think you caught him putting together an article about nothing during a slow month. Must not have...

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Yes, it is me, Boris Badenuff (spelling?). Natasha never really did like our Russian winters and Montana was just as cold !

So, we come south, in search of Moose and Squirrel.

- DixieBoy

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Here's the extent of my Russian:

"Must get Moose and Squirrel."

That's it. - DixieBoy

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My GAWD ! If this isn't an infringement of the 2nd Amendment I don't know what is. I had no idea california played this game. This just stinks. A once great state ... I know you said moving is out. If it was me, moving would be the plan. Along with a letter telling the state that they just lost yet ...

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Well now. THAT was interesting. I don't know enough about either animal to have figured out who would come out on top there. I guess the Rhino's thicker hide gave him an edge. A couple other things I found interesting: The buffalo who picked the fight seemed to be looking for help from the other bul...

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Well, you could put a real tan on that Pacific Northwest skin of yours down at Gitmo.

Don't they play pinochle down there on Thursday nights too ?

- DixieBoy

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Your TV is lonely ?

Heck, your DOG is lonely !

- DixieBoy

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John - I admit that it sounds strange that any brass might shrink in length after firing, when we're all familiar with brass stretching, or growing a bit, in most rifle cartridges or rimmed revolver cases. Like I said, I stumbled onto this while measuring brass before sizing, and finding that some o...

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Well for me, I purposely didn't read the book for a while. It had almost too much "critical acclaim," and in my experience that has often meant a book is rotten with political correctness. I had this book here for almost a year before I gave it a chance. Very glad I did. Don't want to stee...

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Fred - Did you go off the rails while smoking a faster powder, as opposed to a magnum powder ? Is that what you're saying here ?

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Count me in for at least one of these new calendars too Kirk. Your photos are flat out gorgeous. You manage to make the great old leverguns look even better than they already do. Please let us know when you're ready for orders. Looking forward to it. - DixieBoy

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Just watched the video. Unbelievable ! Just unreal. That's some beautiful countryside there too, not that those boys get to enjoy the scenery too much. Incredible speeds, and no doubt, some serious skill in all of those riders. Gave me the willies just sitting in my chair watching. Holy Cow ! - Dixi...

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YK - Alright ! I remember when you first got the paperwork rolling. Now you're the quietest guy on the block. Very cool. We've got to see a range report soon. - DixieBoy

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Not to "give anything away" because there are mountains of things you'll learn in this book, but one thing that I've been particularly interested in for a long time, concerning the Indian Wars. There were laws against selling guns to the Indians going back to Jefferson's days. Yet, there w...

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rangerider - Well now I understand the bottle opener description of the spurs. How you saw that from the picture posted here still amazes me. You should have been a detective. - DixieBoy

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Charles - This has been a really educational thread. Love when I learn stuff here on Leverguns. You know it's funny, I almost felt like a heretic when I bought a Redding Turret press, because most of the older guys I'd learned from had Rockchuckers. So, I was "going fancy" on them. But it'...

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I will second that recommendation. Sounds like rbertalotto and me have very similar reading interests. During an average month I'm burning through 4 or 5 books on the Old West a month, but it sometimes goes slower because I take notes. Yeah, for real. Been working on a book idea for a few years and ...

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rangerider - Pretty cool. You've got better eyes than a lot of us. I can see spurs, but that's all. How do you know what kind you're looking at ? Also, any information on who the Ranger is ? Nice photograph, and I bet more than just me wonder how you spot these details. - DixieBoy

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I was just going to mention your spelling. Not to bust your chops, but you're more likely to get people to take you seriously as a seller when you spell the name of your goods correctly. Good luck. - DixieBoy

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Not looking to bust anyone's butt here, however ... You've got me wondering if your friend never truly established a routine after you'd showed him how things work. As others mentioned here, remove magazine, pull charging handle, visually inspect after working charging handle. This is essentially th...

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Well, that is really something. I wonder how many folks in Mozambique could say, on any given day, that they'd spent the afternoon watching Monte Walsh. Might be able to count them on one hand, and have a few fingers to spare. Pretty cool. - DixieBoy

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Howdy - I thought I would throw a "head's up" over here in the general discussion section about a unique piece I've just listed on the classifieds. It is an 8 panel full color 55th anniversary brochure for the Kalishnikov AK-47, from Russia, and in Russian. Just one page, the back page, is...

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Wow ! Now that's darn nice country Blaine. As a Floridian, I've got a question to ask you : what are those bumpy things in the background of the picture ? Are those what they call mountains ? :lol: Yeah, I've seen and played in the mountains, but as a guy who has lived in a place for 40 years that i...

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Griff - Your response made me smile. I've got a Redding Turret press and I love it. It is mounted hanging over the bench so that the shellholder is away from the bench by a couple inches I guess. There is clear piece of surgical tubing that attaches to the whole thing down by the bottom of the ram. ...

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C. Cash - I think you're right. I checked one of my books after I'd written that, as I was just going from memory when I posted it. But you're right, I got Jim and Bob Younger mixed up. Either way, I think the citizens of Northfield's response to the robbery and the shooting of the first innocents u...

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John - I never would have noticed except for the fact that I'm really anal about my reloading. I used to measure how much cases would lengthen when they were sized. It was while doing this that I noticed that some (by all means, not all) cases did indeed shrink over time with repeated firings. This ...

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... the James-Younger Gang had a very bad day up in Northfield, Minnesota. The gang hoped to rob a very juicy Yankee bank. Alerted to the fact that the town's bank was being robbed, the citizens of Northfield went into action. Virtually none of the defense of the town was due to "law enforcemen...

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Not trying to be argumentative, but I agree with the old boy's choice of a .22 rifle. He's 92 years old now, same age my Dad was when he died. Dad was tough, but getting older stinks, and I think this old boy knew that he could always put his rifle skills to work (very well) with his very familiar ....

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John - The last thing I want to do is throw another variable your way, but in the case of your .45 Colt loads this could make a big difference in your brass life with the .45 Colt cases. Brian Pearce wrote about the grossly oversized chambers in many Ruger Blackhawks in .45 Colt. He's right. John Li...

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My old buddy is a leaseholder on 28,000 acres to the west of here. We always used to take electronics that had let us down out there and blast the beejeezus out of them. VERY satisfying ! Of course, we cleaned up the ... remnants. I remember taking an old cathode ray computer monitor out there and h...

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rbertalotto - Now THAT is a reloading room ! Hot darn !! I live in a small very apartment, but my reloading bench is the largest piece of furniture in the place (yes, divorce does have its benefits). Your setup blows mine away, and I've got more reloading space than a lot of my buddies do. Very nice...

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Bill - He's the Most Interesting Man In The World. And if you really have missed it, he's the focus of a very funny ad campaign Dos Equis Beer has been running. One that I liked was "His Mother has a tatoo ... that says "Son." There are quite a few really funny bits they've put togeth...

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Fred - You back on them pain pills again ?

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"as it were" ??

Who you been hangin' out with ?

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