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samsi

Yes it does. I'm the guy swapping 3-4 guns these days, but I remember how good I got when I used to stick with one.

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My little Sis has a Henry for a barnyard gun, it's the only one I have ever used but seems pretty decent. I've never been able to talk myself into one since the Winchester 9422 ruined me for anything else as a kid. Funny, like Tycer I stopped at a local shop yesterday and they had an Ithaca 49 on th...

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Careful with the Neatsfoot, a little goes a long way. Too much can ruin leather.

I use Obenaufs when things get too dry, otherwise I leave it alone.

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I've ordered from them quite a few times, it's a good source for trying some of the older numbers without having to source a mould. It generally takes at least a month for a package to show up at the door.

A friend has purchased some old moulds from him and the deals reportedly went well also.

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A few years back we were in Florida and stopped at a place called Manatee Lagoon or some-such. There wasn't a single sea cow evident, but we got the refrigerator magnet to show for it.

Personally, I'm generally good with not seeing bears.

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I guess this is one of those Everyone's-experiences-are-different scenarios. I've actually experienced less variation with a .357 carbine than with other rifles. My '06 is drastically different shooting 150's vs 165's. Now I'm going to take another look (oh no, another excuse for a range day!).

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Good one! (I LOL'd)

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That's one of Skeeter's best, although he wrote on the .357 quite a bit. There's another where he laid out his idea of the perfect .357, which I believe strongly influenced the Lipsey's 5" half-lug GP100. I bet if Ol' Skeeter was still around he'd be tickled with the FA97.

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I've never heard of her, mainly because I evidently live under a rock, but that was pretty cool. Maybe there is hope for the future.

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I can relate, have a Maxpedition Jumbo Versapack I've been dragging around for over 10 years. Every now & again it feels heavier and it's time to cull the surplus. The energy bars are particularly humorous since they end up hard, unbreakable lumps when they're years past the "best by" ...

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A friend gave me some 85 grain FN .312's that I thought would be pretty neat loaded in 32 Long brass. It turned out that there was enough of a lateral POI shift vs. my .32 H&R load to make it a non-starter for me. Just something to consider if the short case exhibits the same.

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I doubt that's from the factory but who knows. In any case the last person to assemble it was evidently a graduate of The School for the Mechanically Declined (yes, that's a Far Side reference).

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I was not expecting that! (runs off to look at back side of 550...)

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jkbrea wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 6:10 pm I have no idea why this picture is sideways….

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Because those antlers won't fit on the screen normally!!!

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Yeah, that's a pretty spectacular Bullwinkle!

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I take it that your dad was a Bonanza Airlines pilot? I knew a few of the old Bonanza/Hughes guys. Most all are gone now, but they had some great stories. I've only seen 2 flyable T50's that I can recall. One belonged to Frank Borman, who had a couple really neat airplanes and would bring one over t...

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A co-worker who was also a gun guy and I got some Colibris and had the bright idea that we could build a backstop of 2x10's in a storage room at work. Equipped with the Colibris and a K22 we commenced our break time target practice, only to be pelted by the Colibri bullets bouncing off the lumber - ...

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I've got a 64 Deluxe that appears to have ridden a lot of miles in a saddle scabbard to where it isn't so deluxe anymore, but it's still tight and shoots good. I feel the 64 is possibly the easiest handling offhand hunting rifle ever, need to get mine out more often. I passed up a cheap 64 in .32WS ...

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I recall that it hasn't been a very long time since the last person drawing an Arizona Ranger retirement passed away, though it wasn't one of the original Rangers. One of the Rangers had a young Mexican gal for a housekeeper that he married in his later years and she was drawing the survivor benefit...

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I've used a set of Burris 10x50 roof prisms for the last 15 years or so. Besides the obvious open country use, I've found binos are great for spotting stuff in timber. It's pretty amazing how close you can be to elk without seeing them until you start scanning while rolling the focus in and out. I'v...

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I saw that one too, which is odd since I haven't watched it in 20 years. The Washington skit was pretty funny, as was the host's monologue about being out of place since he was from the 20th Century, and Tennessee. I had no idea who anyone was among the whole cast, guess I'm one of "the Olds&qu...

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8 grains of Unique is pretty sporty, any idea how fast that's running? I picked up an old 6 cavity H&G51 mold at a yard sale a couple years ago, supposedly it's the original Phil Sharpe 357 bullet design. Problem is that this one's a bevel base and the bevel is so pronounced that you could load ...

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saw a few Chihuahuas in Mx. the ranch dogs are aloof and don't cozy up to gringos. there are still buildings that have the dog trot around the house where the chihuahuas patrol and are very effective alarms. I was told that those dogs more or less lived up there. most of the dogs I saw there were f...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:07 am
I come out without a stitch of clothes but with a pistol in my paw.

There's a disturbing image just in time for Halloween!

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That's a nice classic pistol. I've shot a couple but never owned one myself.

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I started out reloading with Unique and dippers then moved to a Dillon. The Dillon slide-bar measure never gave me any problems either, although I only checked the charge against a scale every 100 rounds once I was comfortable with the machine. I do get variations of .3-.4 with a Uniflow and Unique ...

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I have a B92 "kit gun" stored in a plastic tub. had a bulged barrel that I have still not removed from the frame. It had a badly damaged barrel at the bulge, but shot pretty good for a wreck. Maybe I'll hear about someone with a 1 in 20 barrel that is threaded right. That would be a worth...

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I usually go with 3.5 if loading 158's with Bullseye for two reasons. First, it comes out to an even 2000 rounds to a pound of powder, which works with my reloading OCD. Second (but not least) I think that I recall Terry Murbach saying that 3.5 with a 158 was more accurate than 3.0 and I believe him...

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I believe the Cimmarons are made by Uberti. Not an '86 but a friend picked up a '94 Short Rifle that's impressive with regard to build quality, nice case colors too. On the range it shoots like any good '94. I had a Miroku '86 and never had any issues with it, including light strikes. Full length ri...

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we used white box 240Gr jsp in the Marlin 1894 to take a lot of sitka blacktails. worked every time. . Screenshot 2023-10-03 055954 Winchester 44 JSP.png . This is a great round in my Marlin and Rossi carbines. I shoot irons on both so my accuracy is that I can hit what I see. But it punches a good...

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Fun project, and I like that 1860. Was it built that way or did you chop it?

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Can you not weigh them and sort them that way? In mixed brass the variation between case weights would likely be more than the half grain powder difference. I once ended up with a batch of medium 44 loads with 10 grains of Unique where a handful didn't get charged due to an old Dillon measure hangi...

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the thought I've been having is that they'all might about to do the same thing here. the marxistcrats are sympathetic to and jealous of the murdering animals in Israel and would like to do the same to us. marxists have more in common with the murderers than with Americans. My Question is WHERE WERE...

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Yesterday I loaded the Winchester component bullets with Alliant 300MP, which is supposed to yield higher velocities than a lot of traditional magnum pistol powders. Hopefully I'll get a chance this coming weekend to chrono some.

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I'm always misplacing things; tools, guns, even myself (to paraphrase Daniel Boone, I wasn't exactly lost but I wasn't quite sure where I was for an extended period of time). I lost a bicycle for about a month one time, and there was an unfortunate incident where a pistol turned up in the washing ma...

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One of my co-workers has one, it's become his favorite walking-the-dog gun. I believe that internally they're very much modeled on S&W.

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I've got one bag of 100 of those Winchester bullets as components, so went looking for specific data. Found a post from '19 on the Marlin forum where a fellow posted that he'd clocked the WWB factory load at 1830 from a Microgroove '94. It's a smokin' load in any case, and will be tough to equal in ...

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I used to keep an ammo can full of 44 Special range loads - a 240 swc over 5.5 W231 in mixed brass. Some years back I opened the can to find a speedloader with 6 rounds loaded with what I believe was a 200HP. I couldn't remember what the load was or when I'd loaded them, so to be on the "safe&q...

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I've used the already mentioned Winchester White Box 240's and gotten good accuracy, never shot anything but paper with it. They do buck a little. My most used handload for the carbine is 22.5 H110 and a machine cast 240 SWC for 1630 fps average from a 16", and it's much more polite recoil-wis...

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I've used the already mentioned Winchester White Box 240's and gotten good accuracy, never shot anything but paper with it. They do buck a little. My most used handload for the carbine is 22.5 H110 and a machine cast 240 SWC for 1630 fps average from a 16", and it's much more polite recoil-wise...

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Thanks, I'll check that out. Back in the 20th Century a friend had a cabin in Pinos Altos and the two-track going into the place had an old open shaft on either side of the path. I was never totally comfortable driving between those two holes with the state of the earth below a bit questionable. It'...

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Thunderstick Trading in Tucson carries Bear Creek bullets, it's where I "discovered" them the first time. There aren't many outfits that still make bullets for .43 Mauser, which I haven't purchased yet but need to give them a call about. I do know that their 170 grain 30-30 bullet works ni...

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I'm thinking entrenching tool, aka old-school melee weapon. Oddly enough, I thought of that Brad Pitt zombie movie just this morning.

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Nice write-up, and it's very true, as I've stood at that spot in the picture and felt the pull myself. The Massacre Grounds is another interesting hike, as you get to experience the shock of the surprise dead-end that the Spaniards found themselves in with Apaches in pursuit. I suspect that's where ...

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I have a number of Ruger and Smith .44 specials and the load I've come to like the most is 7.0 gr of Power Pistol under a 240 gr machine cast bullet. The velocity runs around 880 fps and the standard deviation is less than 10 fps with the loads I've chronographed. Thanks, next time I get some 240's...

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I haven't seen one of those but think it would make a nifty Walking Around Rifle.

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Yep, looks like the old "Half-Jacket" bullet. The later ones had a nearly full jacket (2/3's?), though they've been discontinued for a while too. Wish they still made 'em.

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and is not exactly round (the proverbial cluster of grapes) and it is difficult to make-out non illuminated reticles. . cataract surgery fixes this. Not always, I still have some astigmatism after surgery. It's usually not an issue but if I really focus on the dot it looks like a figure eight leani...

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Working up a subsonic "barnyard load" for general purposes around the homestead is one thing, but depending on the same low velocity load for serious purposes? Not me. Potential poor terminal performance, not to mention possibly sticking a bullet in the bore when you need it most. As state...

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I don't recall seeing this at the time, but reading it over it's a bit surprising how fast the torches and pitchforks came out.

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Scott, have you tried Power Pistol yet? It's become a favorite of mine in 44 Special and 45 Colt - and this is coming from someone who used to swear by Unique in all things. On a related note, some years ago I was lamenting to a friend my troubles in finding a 44 Special load that shot well in vario...

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