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Cosmoline

Clint's 1911 wasn't a GI model; I think it was one of the newer pimped out Para Ordnance models. Probably because it actually was Clint's 1911. Or maybe he actually carries that big magnum around with him. Not his best movie, and I agree it was a little unrealistic and contrived. But you have to gi...

Cosmoline

I carry a handgun or two IN ADDITION to a Marlin GS with 525g hard cast bullets that penetrate a dozen water jugs. The hand guns are in case I get disarmed, or set it down and get jumped. Apologies, for some reason I thought you were saying you would carry two handguns. I think we're on the same pa...

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IME the only people who have something to fear from bears are the ones who already know everything there is to know about them. From what I've seen of them, no matter how well you're armed this side of a tank you have something to fear from a bear. It's a very good thing they aren't out to get us o...

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If plan B is to try to draw and fire a handgun from your hip while a brown bear is eating you, may I suggest a different Plan A. If it can knock the rifle from your hands, it can certainly knock a handgun away as well. Or remove the arm. someone who deer called a hungry brown bear that knocked his d...

Cosmoline

To each his own. To me it's like making love through an interpreter.

Cosmoline

I think I have to rethink my bear-woods tactics and carry two handguns.

Or one long gun.

Cosmoline

It's gotten so bad that good rifles no longer come with any irons at all. You have to shell out buckets of cash for a scope set up just to shoot them. Then try, I'm serious, just try to find a gunsmith that is capable of putting irons on a rifle correctly. Those I've found locally are incompetent i...

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and the horrible killings on McHugh in 95. Is this what you are referring to (from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America_by_decade#1990s)? Marcie Trent, 77, female; and her son, Larry Waldron, 45 July 1, 1995 Brown Killed by a bear defending a moose carc...

Cosmoline

Scopes on all rifles are overused and overrated. I avoid them whenever possible. They've kept a generation of shooters tied to a bench and convinced them that they cannot possibly hit anything without optics. Part of the problem is the low-quality of the irons available today, if any irons are avail...

Cosmoline

When I lived off grid north of here I had a nice little handgun range set up using fallen trees as a backstop. I was the only one who wintered there and had five acres surrounded by many undeveloped forest lots. It was neat.

Cosmoline

The only "war" that the lever gun had any major use in were the indian wars and even then only on the indian side or in the hands of civilians, never the military. As Hobie noted, leverguns were indeed used in war. In Turkish hands they had a major impact at Plevna. They were also used in...

Cosmoline

You have to use your imagination and open your mind. Way back when, the levergun was a weapon of war. Would you really consider yourself undergunned with that Marlin in the trenches of WWI? I know I'd rather have it than some clunky Lebel. Think of the bayonet levergun as the American trench gun tha...

Cosmoline

I get that sort of nonsense all the time with CL sales. For guns & ammo I stick to a well established local swap & sell. Other than a few nuts who are invariably from Fairbanks, I've had few problems.

Cosmoline

I believe some of the clothing and guns you see in these photos may be props for people to use when getting a picture taken. I can't remember where, but I have a memory of reading that somewhere. So you can't always tell whether you're looking at a real hunter or someone just posing next to the stud...

Cosmoline

I beg to differ. The ACP uses short, round bullets with a very low sectional density. It's actually designed NOT to penetrate very much, because it's for shooting two legged varmints. The .44 Mag with bear loads has heavier, much longer bullets with a SD many times greater than an ACP's standard loa...

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Looks like a Swiss Vertelli to my eye, with some sporterizing done to it. By that time (certainly past 1895) the Swiss had gone over to the Schmidt-Rubin line and the Vertellis were probably surplussed out.

http://www.swissrifles.com/vetterli/index.html

Cosmoline

That's an impressive run. It's always interested me how Australian national identity is tied up in WWI. They seem to draw a great deal from the defeat at Gallipoli. Not to generalize, but I think it's fair to say we Americans would have tried to forget about such a thing, like we try to forget about...

Cosmoline

The problem I had with it is if my pants were loose it wouldn't stay put, and if they were tighter it tended to "ride up" out of position esp. when I moved my legs way up bike riding or ascending stairs. But I may be the wrong shape for it.

Cosmoline

The long gun is king of the castle. The handgun's only value is for CCW or to help you GET to the long gun :D I'd even take my CZ 452 squirrel killer over a handgun. Hitting the target is the No. 1 goal, and I don't miss with that beauty. There is some argument for a handgun, as it is harder to wres...

Cosmoline

If anyone is planning on coming up here in the near future, remember to bring plenty of spare ammo. Everyone is short right now, shorter than I've ever seen. The shelves are empty and the supply lines are very slow. Don't count on finding what you need when you get here.

Cosmoline

Alaska F&G published what may be the only systematic study of this issue a few years back. After examining hundreds of shootings and tests, they concluded the minimum safe for brown was .30'06 level in the 220 grain range or a slug. Buckshot did not do very well at all. Ah, here it is, or at lea...

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a few years ago in sitka a tourist on a bicycle stopped to "let" a sow with two cubs cross halibut point road in front of him. he was so rapt at being close to 'mother nature' that he completely missed the boar that walked up behind and decapitated him. one whack. I don't remember this. W...

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Drunk rednecks--that's exactly right! Like some big cousin who's usually fine left to himself but will sometimes haul off and start punching people for no apparent reason when he's in his cups. You just leave him be and give him his space. It's odd I suppose, but I don't know many locals who actuall...

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Well they are. Even funny at times. If they were out for human blood there would be a lot more maulings around here. I've had many trail and fishing encounters with them, brown and black, and none have involved injuries to me or the bears. They know what we are, and so long as they don't get fed or ...

Cosmoline

That's why you need to use your ears and other senses as well as your eyes. They seem to pop out of the underbrush. I've always been able to hear them rustle around before I see them. They have these sort of tunnels in the dense undergrowth they barrel along. It's a different noise than a moose make...

Cosmoline

You really think it got that big as a feral pig?

Cosmoline

I'm personally covered in bees.

Cosmoline

Different people are different. I find anything beyond a standard .44 Mag out of a handgun to be nasty, but I can tolerate a great deal of recoil from a rifle or shotgun. Small wrists, big shoulders. Still, the folks who can actually bullseye something as small and difficult to hit as a bear's key b...

Cosmoline

We're still in bad shape up here in AK. Just today I met up with a fella to swap primers so we could keep handloading. Hopefully the next few ships will restock the shops. After this past year I'm going to be sure to have ample supplies.

Cosmoline

Here are some more I've discovered: The Far Country (1954). This is a very unusual role for Jimmy Stewart, who plays a cynical and pretty ruthless cattle drover heading into the Yukon with the law on his trail. He does some handy work with a Winchester 92. I have to admit I prefer him in this sort o...

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Rifle or slug gun is always preferrable. But, there are way too many times during the day when you won't have you rifle slung much less in your hands. Carry a rifle yes, but also wear a belt gun. I'd sure hate to get ate a couple of feet from my rifle with nothing but a sharp knife to fight against...

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Where did you say you were fishing? Are you here in AK? If so I'd suggest cruising the swap & sell for a Mossy or Rem. shotgun and pick up some brenneke magnums. These days it's much easier to find the shotgun now than the proper slugs, but Mnt. View Sports had some mid-week when I was last ther...

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That's within spitting distance! Thanks!!

Cosmoline

These are .458" so they must be for a rifle, but I can't find any rifle loads for this brand. Or any rifle loads for a 420 grain hard cast bullet for that matter. 405 grains seems to be much more common.

Cosmoline

I picked up a box of the Cast Performance heat treated LBT solid cast bullets, because frankly that's about all they had in stock. I believe these are made for the .45 Colt and Casull, but I'm hoping to load them reasonably hot in the .450 Marlin. I can't find any load info for a 420 grain bullet th...

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The short guns are overrated as bear protection. Unless you can bullseye a running squirrel at 25 yards with your hand cannon, it's not going to help much against the big bruins. Rule No. 1 in my book, based on what I've seen of these beasts--BRING A RIFLE OR A SLUG GUN. It almost doesn't matter wha...

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Out of a levergun, it's acceptable. A 180 hardcast will easily penetrate a bear's skull if you aim in the proper place. It's not going to bounce off or fail to penetrate. These myths come from people who have shot the hump of muscle and skin on top of the bear's cranium thinking *THAT* is the brain....

Cosmoline

Meh. Alaska has Texas beat. Midnight Sun has some of the most extraordinary brews going anywhere in the world right now. This one is my favorite:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/385/42102

Cosmoline

BTW, Everywhere I've seen it, it was 125 gr.. That was why I bought the 125 grainers, since I normally buy 158's. BTW, I'm looking for data, not ammo. You may be thinking of the so-called "Treasury Load," which used 110 JHP's. The stats I've seen on the 158 LSWCHP FBI +P loads are between...

Cosmoline

I lucked out and bought 1,000 rounds of the 158 LSWCHP FBI's. They're about the best .38 Special round ever made.

Cosmoline

The situation is getting insane. I got some Reloader 7 at a local store today. The fella says they got them in Tuesday and they'll be gone by the weekend. Primers are a long-forgotten memory. I'm very glad I stocked up on several thousand last year.

Cosmoline

I seem to remember the author of "45 Years with the .45-70" working up some roundball loads as well. But my copy got legs and ran off years ago. Anyone have access to this classic?

Cosmoline

I am by no means an expert however 8.0 grains of Unique in a case the size of the 450 and in a non-single shot rifle would scare the dickens out of me.

That's why I pack it down with grits. I'm not entirely convinced on the whole mega-explosion theory of light loads.

Cosmoline

I love Lee's hand press and hand primer. For precise table-top handloading they can't be beat. I can feel the seating of primer and bullet, and control the process at every step. I've always preferred the Lee hand press when doing complex handloading such as the 7.62 Nagant, or when working up small...

Cosmoline

"The Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world."
--Del Gue

Cosmoline

I've seen this sort of thing before. Personally I've had much better luck with USPS.

Cosmoline

Beautiful! I got one of the Doc's rifles too. I can say without hesitation that he's my favorite radiologist now.

Cosmoline

Great pics!

My 90+ yr old buddy (godfather to my #2 son) and his .410 laying-in-wait for a gopher

He looks like he's saying "You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, gopher?"

Cosmoline

Beautiful!

Is that a handgun under federal law or do you need a "tax stamp"?

Cosmoline

Is everyone else using a filler? I didn't used to, but I got nervy about the freak explosions I've heard about. Not sure if that's a myth, but it can't hurt to pack the powder against the primer for consistent ignition.

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