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Big Puff of Carbon Residue?

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I would call Hodgdon. Their techs can tell you.

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Mine is a 99F from about 1956. Well, it's a .300 Savage but they were made in .308 as well. 6.5 lbs, 22" pencil barrel, MOA accuracy for three shots (then the barrel heats up), factory d&t'd. With a light scope, 7# all up. Holds five rounds in the rotary mag, and you can open the bolt half ...

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I have a model 1 1/2 in .32-20. I've only shot it enough to know it goes Bang but I think it's pretty cool. Lyman still makes the tang sights for those rifles, so I'm thinking that, a Beach front sight, and some custom loads. The guys at the fun shop thought I should rebarrel it to some .32-20 spino...

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with .44 specials. I don't think I would pay the price of a Colt for another, even nickel plated.

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Naw, the .218 is the .22 CF .300 Savage. Excellent and underappreciated. I think the .22 Hornet is the .30-30 because, among other things, it has virtually the same trajectory. So, when you're beat down by the recoil of the .30-30 :roll: , you can shoot the .22 H. And when you're tired of the recoil...

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I've seen a couple of times when we needed to drill holes through overly hard home-cast bullets and fire the gun to get them out. You need a really long drill bit extender and a pilot, and even then you just might fiend the rifling. If I ever have another smoker than lacks the removable breech plug,...

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You will like those! I have a blued steel .41 4 5/8" and it is a hoot to shoot.

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A shotgun, a rifle, and a four-tee-five,
Country folks will survive!

(With apologies to Hank Jr.)

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Since the limit on squirrels is 10, I guess I could load my rifle with 10 instead of the full 18 - but then the guys would rag me for showing off. Besides, what if I limit out and find something else that needs shooting? I load the Marlin 94 full up too, but it has only a 20" barrel so it doesn...

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I vote for ballroom. Every woman I know has seen "Scent of a Woman" and every one would like to dance like that - with a man like that. Dancing makes them randy. Hoo-ah!

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15. The ad said 16 but I was already wearing size 11 shoes so nobody questioned me about it. Well, actually the manager did after about 2 weeks, he thought I must have been at least 18. I'm 65 now, I'll start drawing a check this fall at 66 but I haven't retired yet.

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Well, that .40 minimum shoots my idea of getting a Coonan .357/.38 and hunting up a WB club. Guess I'll have to come up with another excuse.

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The point of a full stock is to make it easier to use the rifle for a walking stick in the hills, like the wooded lower portion of the Alps, or the Ozarks or the Appalachians. That's in a sporting rifle. In a military rifle, it lets you grip closer to the bayonet without burning your hand on a hot b...

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I believe you will like that pistol a lot.

When your gun fund comes full again, you might want to look at the Charter Arms Bulldog. (I love to help other guys spend their money.)

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I used to have one of the Sauer "Western Marshall" .44 mags, and it was about the best-shooting .44 special revolver I ever used - shot right to the point of aim of the fixed sights. I never got around to finding out whether it shot magnum loads or not.

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We took the Alaska cruise on our 30th anniversary and enjoyed it a great deal. Best part was on a side trip on a little boat to look at seals and whales. We saw seals and humpbacks, and then a pod of orcas came straight at us from across the bay. They were half in and half out of the water (think br...

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Yes. Why not? I hunt small game with a 39a with a 25" bbl, and like it better than the shorter rifles for the accuracy. This rifle is 8 oz heavier than the 20" 94-22 I no longer have, and the whole 8 oz is hanging on the end of the barrel. Much, much steadier for aiming at small targets. M...

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Sorry you're having to wait so late. The white bass run on the James River will be all over by then, and we'll be hunting turkeys.

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Feller named Hogg here in town named his daughters Ima and Ura. Last I heard they were looking for him, like that boy named Sue.

I can understand Lily White and Pearl White, but I thought their brother Nearly got a bum deal (true story).

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Better. Even the Duke used a '92 Winchester whenever he had the chance. As for holding it near the muzzle, that's exactly how my father taught me to do it. He learned it guarding POWs in France in 1944. When I lived in Kansas City, there was a crew of punks invading homes and hurting people. They tr...

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The Tuskogee Airmen did have the highest casualty rate in the AAF. I'm not about to knock the white men who went to Europe and put Hitler back in Hell whence he came. My father was one of them. But facts are facts. Thanks to Old No. 7 for pointing us to an excellent movie. My wife picked the last mo...

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Never tried it, but it sounds like a lot of fun. Orienteering is fun, but that's more a map reading challenge.

Suggestion: load your rifle while you're catching your breath. That'll make sure you don't dump a powder charge onto a hot ember.

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Either gun would blow a hole clear through a deer if shot broadside. The rifle would do it end to end or diagonal as well. In either case, you could eat right up to the hole because the terminal velocity would be slower than that needed to blood shoot the meat. The cutoff is 2500 fps. If the bullet ...

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A dealer on the Ruger forum has a SP101 with a 4" barrel. I think a limited factory run. Might make a nice sized carry gun.

Just saying.

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The crescent butt is generally narrower than the shotgun butt too. That will increase the felt recoil due to the increased pressure per square inch. nother thing: We load our guns a lot hotter than our great grandfathers did. I have a Marlin 94 with a crescent butt and it is a pussycat with .44 spec...

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.22 blanks come in various power levels. Don't use the starter pistol stuff, go to a hardware store and get some of the blanks they use in nail guns. Even there, there are different power levels. I don't know if Hammond tells you which one to use, but you can buy some different types and try them to...

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No problem, Blaine. We didn't believe you anyway.

Carl

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Pitchy, birdshot works better than buckshot for shooting indoors. It will blow a hole through a man that you can put your arm through (according to my great-grandfather, who saw it done), but is much less likely to penetrate sheet rock and kill a bystander. I recall a few years back when our local p...

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It's just another work day for me, but my wife is taking me out for a steak after work so I'm pretty happy with it. I'm 65 and I spend most of my day training the kids who were hired this year, so going to work is not as bad a deal as it could be. Training is fun if you love the sound of your own vo...

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I used to work with one of those pilots. He was from Texas, went to Marquette to get a law degree after the war, and was an administrative law judge in Kansas City when I worked there. He was a good old boy, a hard worker (a lot harder worker than he had to be), and a hero who didn't act like one. N...

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If they want someone who can handle a rifle like Lucas, they need to cast another baseball player. When they hired Conners, they were testing actors by tossing a rifle to them as they walked in and seeing how badly they fumbled it. Conners, recently "retired" from baseball, caught it like ...

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If nothing more, I can serve as a bad example.

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It isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from there.

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Very popular deer rifle in the East a century ago, especially using the HV loads offered in those days. You can pretty much duplicate the HV load with RL-7, launching a 180 gr. XTP .40 at around 1800 fps. The pressure is pretty low, less than 20K cup, but still NOT for pistols, Model '73s, etc. I us...

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Might need a few vampires. And zombies.

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I inherited a BAR .308 and should have kept it. The 150 grainers were pussycats, but the 180 grain bullets would make it kick some. Either shot very accurately with the 4X scope that was on the rifle. The .308 is a .300 Savage (the perfect deer rifle caliber) with enough neck for good function in au...

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That's one of my favorite meals. I like to add a quart of canned home-grown tomatoes - best thing a man can eat in the winter.

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I hear the new Marlins are no better. darn shame. The best-built rifle I ever owned was a Marlin - made in 1899!

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Those deer rifles won't cut it, because the barrels are too light for sustained fire. I have a 99F that I love, but 3 rounds is it before the group starts walking. How about this: screw a heavy barrel onto a 7600 .308 and get a sack of short mags. Add iron sights, and a QR mount so you can keep a sc...

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My father grew up near Perryton and they hunted snakes when they ran short of jackrabbits. One day they were walking down a canyon and a rattler struck one of the boys in the butt and hung its fangs in the back pocket of his overalls. Too bad they didn't have a timer, that boy set a cross country re...

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I don't think the frame will handle a barrel with that much diameter and recoil. That's more important that the pressure, which is really a barrel issue. A 99 will handle the .358 Winchester, but the .375 Winchester cracked the frame and was discontinued. All I can figure is, the .375 barrel was of ...

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One reason the .30-30 works so well is, it is too slow to create that shock wave through the tissue and blow your meat to blood burger. According to Boothroyd and some others, the shock wave effect happens when the bullet arrives at 2500 fps or more. So, you can shoot a deer in the shoulder with a ....

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I hiked the entire width of the AT last fall. Beautiful place.

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Another reason the .45 Colt wasn't chambered in lever actions was the straight, parallel case walls. With a tapered (.45-70 et. al.) or necked (.44 WCF et. al.) case, the case is free of the chamber walls as soon as it starts to extract. Pistol rounds like the .45 Colt drag on the black powder fouli...

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Well, I vote for the BPS. A good friend of mine lost his right eye and traded his old Model 12 for a BPS, learned to shoot left handed, and has used it ever since. I borrowed it for a few shots one day, and bought one for myself. The BPS is my favorite pump gun - and I'm right handed. For one thing,...

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I bought one of those several years ago, and traded it even up for a Ruger No. 1 after they were discontinued. The 9422m is a nice rifle, but the .22 WRM is pretty useless around here unless you're a deer poacher. Buy it if you want it, you can enjoy it until you get tired of it and it will make a n...

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Savage 99F, .300 Savage
Marlin 39a, .22 LR
LC Smith FW, 12 ga
Star PD, .45 ACP

Not that any of the others are for sale!

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The Savage NRA Match Rifle my grandfather left me has to be the favorite, but the 39a is the one I usually hunt with.

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Or you could use wet fingernail polish. Light it with a match, and it burns for a minute and goes out, leaving a shallow charred place. I used that method to initial the handle of my hatchet when I was a Boy Scout.

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