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- Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT...I need a compassionate ear tonite....
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3738
Re: OT...I need a compassionate ear tonite....
Mokwaw Sorry to hear about your loss and yes in time you will get over the loss but never the way it happened. You most likely will never know what really did it but something you can do is to one day get another pet and keep them in the house at night. I live in NM and we don't leave anything out a...
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: B-86 "Short Rifle" and Heavy Cast Bullets Pics.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1953
Re: B-86 "Short Rifle" and Heavy Cast Bullets Pics.
Mike D I use 350 and 425 grain bullets in my 86 why? because that is the molds I have and so I use them as I am cheap and don't see any reason to buy another mold. I don't see a reason for a 500 grain in the 86 thou as I know what I am most likely to hunt and that 425 makes a plenty big enough hole ...
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Puma 92 in 454 or Marlin in 45-70?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4586
Re: Puma 92 in 454 or Marlin in 45-70?
For me it is easy 45-70 as it will do more then the 454 period. the old timers shot 7/8 of mile with the 45-70 and I haven't heard of the 454 doing that. besides there is a lot more information on the 45-70 then any of the new calibers and a wider powder selection if you reload and a lot of differen...
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stocking Up & Surviving
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2272
Re: Stocking Up & Surviving
Jim It seems to me that a certain person who is now in the white house made a negative comment about those bible carrying and gun toting folks out there and the funny thing is that more folks having been buying firearms since he won the election then ever before. Yes I am one of those bible carrying...
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4007
Re: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
DBW Now I am really starting to wish I had enough money to get my Miroku model 92 sooner then I can but that is life in the retired lane and it seems I am stuck there. Nice rifle mine has 24 inch barrel which most don't like but I do and always have. I grew up when long barreled firearms were all th...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Does your wife announce the weekend's chores to you?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1900
Re: Does your wife announce the weekend's chores to you?
You guys married 36 years are so lucky My first wife was murdered 29 years ago Second wife hung around for 20 years so she could get the house, 25% of my pension , the house and most of my stuff and I lost all my firearms to lawyer bills third wife and I are just plain nuts we have a house full of k...
- Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - 28 years ago this evening...
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4688
Re: OT - 28 years ago this evening...
Kid I never lost my dad or mom until just a few years ago dad was 93 and mom was 87 good long lives for each. My first wife was murdered in 1981, my best friend died in 1990 and I have seen many a vet who wanted to get out of this life. the loss of someone close scares us for life but with some luck...
- Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Midway's site
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3223
Re: OT- Midway's site
I have to agree getting around Midway or any other gun related supplier has been interesting lately. I have ordered several things from middway and most shows up with 2 weeks even for stuff that I was a little slow in ordering and had to wait for restock. With the Washington Massacre coming folks ar...
- Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I have Unfairly Disparaged Fedex
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1225
Re: I have Unfairly Disparaged Fedex
my experience with Fedex is if its important use someone else as they are the worst shipper. I have had really good luck with UPS thou and even the Post office gets the stuff to me faster then Fedex.
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4007
Re: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
Pathfinder09 auction arms : 8992414 Winchester MODEL 71 348 WIN Fine $1690.00 02-18 08:26 gunbroker: 122373945 Winchester 71 .348 Rifle Lever action 0 $1,200.00 3d 11h + gunbroker: 122731847 Winchester Model 71 RIfle .348 Win. Cal Deluxe 0 $999.00 4d 1h + gunbroker: 122544641 Winchester M-71 .348 Hi...
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4007
Re: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
dbw Might be why I have to have almost every winchester lever I find that fills my wants. I don't have much faith in the government anymore and banks are not the safest place to have money anymore and I am wondering when they will print so much of it that it has no value. this recession will change ...
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4007
Re: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
dbw now if I did that the wife would want some play money also. Wait a minute with the model 92 that is on layaway and if the 86 is there when it is paid for and the shotgun I want and the tc contender I want is available. I have just beat you by a few grand, I better keep quite what I am doing with...
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Making of a Rifled Barrel
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2060
Re: The Making of a Rifled Barrel
hobie
thanks for the night time reading to go to sleep with. yea I like to dream about firearms and the ones I would like to have one day
thanks for the night time reading to go to sleep with. yea I like to dream about firearms and the ones I would like to have one day
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4007
Re: My Next Lever Should be a... (fill in the blank)
My next lever will be a winchester Miroku model 92 in fact it is on layaway already and when that one is paid for if they still have it I will be getting my second 86 also the Miroku flavor. I would love to get an orginal 86 but my own net worth isn't enough to even get close to one so I get the rec...
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hero Died
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2222
Re: Hero Died
Ed Freeman Is what every body hopes is in the seat when you need to fly out and get medical help. He showed that carry for others is more important then carring about what happens to you. I know those who where air lifted out and are still alive will never forget the guy who proved that machine gun ...
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Is It About The 357 Mag. In a rifle?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3371
Re: What Is It About The 357 Mag. In a rifle?
casastahle This is the first one I have actually had my grimy mitts on and I was not about to let it get away. I thought something was strange when I saw it with a lot of other 20 inch barrel levers and then I made the mistake of picking it up and it was all over. I also make the mistake of telling ...
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Is It About The 357 Mag. In a rifle?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3371
Re: What Is It About The 357 Mag. In a rifle?
I just this week put a winchester model 92 in 357 mag on layaway that has a 24 inch barrel and made in Japan. I don't care where it was made this is an ideal platform for this cartridge as I had a model 94 in 357 and hated it traded in on a model 86. I wanted a rifle that would shoot the same thing ...
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My latest lever
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2311
Re: My latest lever
I am not a marlin person but that is one nice looking marlin. Me I am a winchester person just because they feel right to me and that was what my first lever was so I got spoiled or conditioned that was what a lever gun was. I have a Japanese model 92 on layaway with 24 inch barrel. Yes I like long ...
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT---Support Your Local Gun Buy Back Program
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3254
Re: OT---Support Your Local Gun Buy Back Program
All my junks firearms are for my going to my kids, grand kids and a friend of mine who likes some of them and I know they will be abused by being used and loved.
My firearms all work and are still in good shape.
My firearms all work and are still in good shape.
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: my .375 winchester and old friend
- Replies: 8
- Views: 773
Re: my .375 winchester and old friend
Joe no neither do I that is why layways at my dealer is a good and bad thing but it keeps me on my toes. He usually has some good things in Jan, Feb, and sometimes march then it gets hard for the rest of the year. My wife let me spend a few thousand a couple years ago so i can stand getting only 3 o...
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: my .375 winchester and old friend
- Replies: 8
- Views: 773
Re: my .375 winchester and old friend
I have to stop looking for lever action rifles!! I stopped into my local firearm store today to see about getting a shotgun and while waiting for one of the clerks/assistant manager to show up what did I find but model 92 in 357 with a long barrel made in japan so of course I had to put it on layawa...
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: my .375 winchester and old friend
- Replies: 8
- Views: 773
Re: my .375 winchester and old friend
Joe it has a brown duracoat finish that I need to touch up. I really like it and shoot it when I can. Some don't like a heavy rifle but I am old school and with big calibers you want a heavy rifle. the felt recoil is much less then the short 20 inch one in the same caliber I got. Lets see I have a 2...
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: my .375 winchester and old friend
- Replies: 8
- Views: 773
my .375 winchester and old friend
This is a winchester big bore that I had built up the way they all should have been
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: what gun you wish
- Replies: 181
- Views: 42793
Re: what gun you wish
My 264 mag in remington model 700 bdl and my brand new browning 9mm. I found a browning in the 1970's style like I let go but have never seen another 264 mag like I had. Only mag that I could shoot worth a darn.
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - World for Obama!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1749
Re: POLITICS - World for Obama!
Slick the only thing good about that is when McCain and Palin take the White House we can greatly reduce our foreign aid to all those who wanted Obama. Should help out with the budget issue if we don't have to throw all that money to countries that didn't want our ticket to win. Should also make the...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Where were YOU on 9-11-2001?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6108
Re: Where were YOU on 9-11-2001?
I was talking with some former co-workers that I had left for a promotion when one of my friends who was a really techie like me and into current events ran up and said one of the twin towers was on fire. Well we went to the tv and found out that a jet had crashed into the building and before that s...
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 44 magnum vs 30-30
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7366
Re: 44 magnum vs 30-30
If it where me I would use my 375 winchester with 280 grain lead bullet. Out of my 26 inch barrel I would think twice about not having enough gun. My other choice would be my 45-70 with 460 grain lead bullet. If I did my part there would be bear meat.
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Out of brass!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1844
Re: Out of brass!!
I got my last 32-20 brass from buffalo Arms Co. Page 7 they have remington, winchester and starline just checked
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Weatherproofing a 94 for hunting.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3248
Re: Weatherproofing a 94 for hunting.
I have an old 94 that someone parkerized and no one wanted seems they wanted a collector and I was looking for a shooter that weather wouldn't bother to much and I found it a good price.
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - McCain taps AK governor Sarah Palin as VP
- Replies: 97
- Views: 10398
Re: Politics - McCain taps AK governor Sarah Palin as VP
byron You never know how little you did and just how big a thing was for some other group. Don't put yourself down for the length of time you played. I have some really bad nightmarish dreams that haunt me from time to time but I can usually realize it isn't real just a bad memory and put it in the ...
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: One rifle & One pistol for all around use.
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10609
Re: OT: One rifle & One pistol for all around use.
As I read these posts my choices kept changing but I think I would have to pick my 30-30 with a 24 inch barrel and my 45 auto. But if I could add another rifle and pistol it would be my 1886 and my ruger single six and I would be set. If I were going to be in place for some time I would also add my ...
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How far can you shoot with iron sights?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5771
Re: How far can you shoot with iron sights?
I didn't see where you mention your age as the older you are the harder it gets to see the target as the range increases. Now if you are talking when I was a young pup and in service I used to go pick on the sniper students with an open sighted M14 and with the help of a spotter hit the silhouette t...
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - McCain taps AK governor Sarah Palin as VP
- Replies: 97
- Views: 10398
Re: Politics - McCain taps AK governor Sarah Palin as VP
bryon then you go with the dem candidate who will not go and be around our troops(in case you forgot we have lots of them dieing and being wounded daily), will not say the pledge, has to be forced to wear a lapel pin of the American flag, has said he will listen to Muslims ahead of anyone, Will do a...
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How many states still have decent gun laws?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5956
Re: How many states still have decent gun laws?
New Mexico is pretty fair and idaho where I maybe moving to seems to be ok I know NY is only one step behind California and that is one reason I don't live there anymore. They were in the process of making the winchester model 94 and assault weapon. Don't if they ever did but their ccw laws are real...
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Mr. and Mrs. Ranch Dog need your prayers !
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5069
Re: OT - Mr. and Mrs. Ranch Dog need your prayers !
I am so sorry to hear that Mrs. Ranch dog has taken a turn for the worse and yes prayers for both sent. I am very pleased with his molds and I had to wait the last time she was in the hospital and never minded a bit. I know he needs to be with her and that she needs him now and he is taking care of ...
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My birthday present arrived about 2 hours late...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4020
Re: My birthday present arrived about 2 hours late...
One of the best birthday presents ever to get. Glad mom and baby and dad are doing fine. Now were are his leverguns?? I have a 2 year old boy and a 1 year old girl in the house and can't wait to get them out shooting. I also have 3 handicap kids at the moment with another maybe showing up when we ca...
- Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WOT: Need some advice Me, going back to school?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3039
Re: WOT: Need some advice Me, going back to school?
mklwhite I am returning to college to get my masters degree and I am 60 years old and on my third family. I have kids home that range in age from 18 to 1 1/2 years old. My old tools for work don't work anymore so it is time to go back and get new ones. If you really want something there is always a ...
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Gas Prices in memory
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5217
- Mon May 26, 2008 11:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Memorial Day - Remember what was fought for... and lost
- Replies: 4
- Views: 521
Old Ironsights good post but your forgot the men and women who fought to create this great land and the Civil War that almost destroyed it completely. I know I have forgot some battles and wars but I haven't forgot what it cost us to be a free people and how today we see all that trying to be taken ...
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - New Five Dollar Bill...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1414
Now that is funny can't wait until the government sees it and then they most likely make in on the $10 bill as that is what it will cost by the time they get it. Maybe if we get a Pres and a VP who aren't owned by the oil companies we will see some better prices on fuel. You know you can't let the g...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor: Free Cat
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5408
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor: Free Cat
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5408
How do you know I didn't find it funny?? I can see the same pic with some big fat drunk laying in the road with the sign saying free drunk. I think you find yourself a rather smug and smart person but not everyone thinks the same things are funny. Now if you want to go back a few years I can tell yo...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor: Free Cat
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5408
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HUMOR - BWAHAHAHAH OORAH!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3673
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Do you ever get tired of fighting it all?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4075
What I am sick of is all of the so called Americans who don't want to know what the price of freedom is. They would sooner give all our rights away and then be the first to cry foul when someone is doing them some harm because they no longer have any way to protect themselves. War is not a fun vacat...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor: Free Cat
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5408
Some of you may hate cats and some of you are like me that cats are nice to have around. My place has no mice, rats or any other small vermin and I have had a cat or more with me since I was a little guy even found one while in the military and that cat was smarter then all the dogs I met and much q...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor: Hillary was under sniper fire
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1154
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Bug out bags (long)
- Replies: 96
- Views: 15245
I don't know about the rest of you but my bug out place is 40 miles from anything and in the high mountain desert area and that dictates what I need to have. Military training is good but the reason you have to leave your home dictates more what you need to take. Storms are one of the first and then...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT--Artificial Limbs for my niece--need advice
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2026
My one son has prosthetic limbs here are some things I have dealt with. first we had Hanger and they were stuff. Shriners made several for him that took his abuse(lasted for a year) We now have a hospital do it for us and have had good luck Prices are very high all I am going to say He goes back sev...
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 375, 356Win & 35 Rem. Comparison
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3786
I have two .375 winchesters one with a 20 inch barrel and one with a 26 inch octagon. If you have never tried the .375 don't believe the statics on the round. I shoot 250 grain lead and am waiting for a 270 grain lead mold. Some one stated that the .375 was only top eject well everything made after ...