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something I don't want to pass up. Now I have to go back and look at it a little harder.

Thanks Pete!

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Hello all....The other day I was in the local gun store and my eye wandered across the revolving rack of leverguns and fell on a Model 36 for $475. I thought it was a little high till I noticed that this one had a half magazine and the bolt was "square" like a Model 1894. I think the tag o...

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My wife treated me to a trip to Vegas for my 50th B-day. I'm not much of a gambler, but I did want to see the desert, so we took day trips. The trip to see the Hoover Dam and then the Valley of Fire was fantastic. I'm going back in March and hope to see some of the other places mentioned in this thr...

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As far as repairing the buttpad, try G-Flex from the WEST epoxy people. They put out a monthly newsletter that is full of examples of how people have used their epoxy to fix odd things. The beautifull thing about G-Flex is that it is designed to tolerate much higher amounts of flexing then normal ep...

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Why would I want to shoot a wart hog? :) While part of me wants to say "because I just want to" and part of me wants to agree with Griff about how I paid for it, so, by God, I'd like to shoot it, the truth is I'd like a European style skull mount. I'm thinking head angled downward, 2 sets ...

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Thanks guys. Those are exactly the types of answers I was looking for.

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Garrett's. That would be a good place to get an idea as to possible comparable loads.
Thanks,
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Hello All. Almost every day I get email from African outfitters advertising their hunting packages. These emails usually contain pictures of smiling hunters crouching over exotic dead animals, etc. I'm sure you've seen them. The email I got today contained a paragraph or 2 or minimum power levels re...

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When I started working at IBM almost 30 years ago, one of the first things my mother asked me was if I could get her a Selectric at a discount? When I looked into it, there was an employee discount purchase plan, but I was limited to buying only 2 a year and had to sign something saying I wasn't goi...

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I have the exact same pistol only with a 6.5" barrel. I put a Tyler T-Grip on it to fit my hand better. I use various 90 grain lead projectiles over the load book qty's of Trail Boss. What a sweet shooter. You will love it.

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Like Streetstar and Buck have alluded to, I know my personal comfort level, and its right at .45 Colt in pistols and 45-70's in a rifle. Anything more can and will cause me to develop a flinch. I'd rather shoot guns at that level well, than try to stretch my way into a heavy thumper 'cause its cool:...

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While I don't want one, they make me think of a couple of thoughts: 1) is that stock one of those recoil reducing stocks? I know some who do not enjot shooting a steel butt plate win '94. 2) hats off to Mossberg for thinking outside of the box 3) if only a very few buy them, then the few that do buy...

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I started with 1894CL in 32-20, and uple of years later a Hand Ejector in 32-20 jumped off a table at a gun show at me, and then a Bowen Blackhawk in 32-20 called my name and just last year a 95% Colt Army Special came to live at my house.

Yeah, 32-20's can get addicting.

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Oh, Oh, Oh! Count me in please!

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86er, I hear you on wanting trophy male birds to put on the wall. I am most of the way through all the black and white ducks found on Lake Champlain. So far I have a common merg, old squaw, buffie, whistler, hooded merg, Canada goose and last week shot a nice ringneck that will go on the wall. That ...

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It has the top eject. In my original post I mentioned the serial # is 25,5XX. Anybody have any idea what year this would put it?

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Good looking animal there Joe....I see a belt pouch with 2 mags. Are you hunting down near the border again?

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Guys, thanks for all the replys. I looked the gun over pretty close for a Model # and found none of any kind.

There was no dust cover either.

Since none of that model were ever made in 38-40, I'm not going to pursue it any farther.

Again, thanks for the help.

Mergus

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Hello all. My local gun pusher has an 1881 in stock that he wants $799 for. It appears to have been reblued and all the heads on the screws are boogered, some worse than others. The top of the barrel says ".38 W". When I asked the dealer what caliber did that mean? He said 38-40. However t...

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My 10 year old nephew did that trying to shoot an arrow with a Wrist Rocket sling shot. Unfortunately he did it while my aged father was visiting his house. darn near gave him a coronary.

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Hello Hobie. How far north in Vt did you go? I live about 45 minutes south of the Canadian border. At my house, we made out OK, but Holy Smokes! didn't Irene tear up southern Vt.

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Rjohns94, thanks for the comment on the personal defense loads...

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Are you planning on doing any shooting with Winchester's PD load? The one with the 3 disks in it? I ask as I nterested in one of those Bond Arms 410's, but don't want to get beat up recoil wise. I know the Winchester PD is rated at 750 FPS, which is quite a bit slower than the usual 1200 to 1300 fps...

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Wow, that sounds like a very personal sounding letter. Is that way all such discharge letters were written?

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Hi Pete. Please put my name in for the book drawing.

Thanks,
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I am by no means an expert on Bug Out bags, but I have been reading up on them and I currently have 2 of them, one in the truck and one at home. I have one at each place in case for some reason I am seperated from my truck when something bad happens. One thing you want to think about before outfitti...

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I didn't want to high jack the other Askins/New Service thread to ask my question, so I'm starting a new thread.... I own 3 New Service revolvers and bought the slim little book by Murphy that gives a history of the guns. In it, the author quotes Askins as saying he choose the New Service for the Bo...

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Hi Rusty. Thanks for posting about the model 1889. As I had never heard of it, I googled it and like you said, there are a few examples around and for sale. In looking at the years they were made, can you tell me if they are intended for black powder only, or can modern level ammo be fired through t...

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YK, that looks very cool! So.....can we start sending you orders for similar boxes? I'd like a 32-20 box just like that with a pic of a Marlin 1894CL instead of the Win 1873, and my name in place of yours.....Seriously...

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Guys, thanks for the feedback. I figured there was more to it than just a rebore, I just didn't know what that something might be. A 44-40 as is, or perhaps as a starter sounds like the way to go.

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Guys, recently I've developed a hankering for a new model Marlin 1894 in 38-40, preferably in blue with a walnut stock. Since they don't make that model in that caliber, I was wondering about finding one used in .357 and having it bored out? Is this feasable? Would I need anything else on the inside...

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I have one of those on my key ring. They are GREAT little lights.

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Any of you guys ever shoot one? I'd love to know how loud they are...

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Since I won't ever be able to take an 8 ga duck hunting (one of my obsessive hunting fantasies), I was thinking of buying one of those Spanish 10 ga SxS's and send the barrels out to be back bored, lengthen the forcing cones, and bore both chokes to Imp Cyl. I'm thinking doing all that would get a f...

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No expert here, but I would love to learn more about them. I saw the movie Appaloosa about the time I read the book about duck hunting on the island that became Aberdeen Proving Grounds. In that book there are quite a few references to gunning with an 8 ga.

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Kirk, enjoy! Twenty two years ago my blushing bride and I honeymooned at the Bavarro Beach Resort in Punta Cana. And have to tell you, it was great! We've been wanting to go back ever since.

I'm jealous, so please post pics....

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Thanks much, I should have thought to look at the home page in the 1st place.....Any idea how many of these 1936's were made?

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Hi Guys. This evening, a friend showed me a Marlin Model 1936 in 30-30 that he had just aquired from his aunt. Before that the rifle belonged to my friend's grandfather. This rifle has the pistol grip stock and 3/4 length magazine tube. The serial # starts with a B and is below 6000. The receiver lo...

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Thanks Hobie.

Man you're fast.....

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Guys, I'm having a serious brain cramp here....whats the name of that stuff you make chamber casts out of? And where can you get it?

Thanks,
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I've owned a couple of Rem Mod 11's along with a 3" Browning A-5. One day I took them all apart at the same time and laid the parts on the table to see how similar the parts were. I was surprised to see that although they looked similiar in design, the parts on the Model 11 were quite a bit dif...

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2 Dogs, thanks for penning that article. I printed it out and took it home to study before firelapping my 1894 Marlin 32-20.

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When I bought my 32-20 Ruger from Hamilton Bowen, I learned it had a .308 bore. I emailed him to ask if that meant I should stick to .308 projectiles for handloading? He replied that I did'nt have to, that I could shoot factory 32-20 ammo, which comes with .312 projectiles. Maybe its because factory...

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Please check your PM's....

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Guys, for those of you who take your roll crimped shells duck hunting....How do they hold up in wet conditions? I assume you can't submerse them, but does splashing get them instantly unusable?

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delighted to take you up on this. Please book 2 spots, one for me and one for my buddy. I will send a PM with the particulars.

Thanks very much

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Hi guys. This past summer while visiting my brother in Brunswick, I took a ride south and wound up in Folkston Ga, just north of the Fla line. There I stopped in a store that specialises in bow hunting and struck up a conversation with the owner about the possibility of hog hunting in the area. He a...

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Nate, please check your PM's.....

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the Model 1894 rifle in .38 WCF? I have a hankering for a .38 WCF rifle and I was thinking that I'd like it to be a Marlin.

Thanks,
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insisting I consult several loading manuals before doing anything. When I said that's what I love about this place, in my brevity I neglected to mention that I meant that I love the advice for what alternate powders to consider. Right after reading the reccomendations for Reloader 7 I pulled out sev...

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