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I wonder if they can actually use the sights with these boogers? The pics seem to show the suppressors being taller than the front sight.

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N3N Navy biplane trainer--the very same one used in the Cary Grant movie, North by Northwest , where Grant's character was buzzed in the wheat field. Flew the route used by the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor. I was supposed to get a ride in an SNJ (the Navy version of the Army AT6), but the ...

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I've been recording it so we can watch it in one big Hatfield-McCoy fest & skip through the commercials. No kids, so profanity won't bother me (Deadwood got a pretty rough but was so good otherwise I could abide it.) Having lived for the past 43 years in the South I'm guessing the accents won't ...

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Tycer wrote:Isn't the hammer supposed to be cocked?

Yep--cocked, round in the chamber, thumb safety on. It's called "condition one." She could also do with a proper, extra-thick pistol belt. Otherwise perfect!

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Yep, enjoyed that bit of trivia. But, between commericals, etc., naps made for a rather disjointed story line! :P :twisted: :o It couldn't possibly have been the fine bbq dinner I had with friends! It had to be those boring commercials! :P 'Fraid not. This one was just not up to the standards of th...

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Friends Call Me Ji wrote:
Washita wrote:
Umm--are you familiar with the word "sarcasm?" I can't believe you think I really meant that.
Of course it was sarcasm, so was my response.

Glad to get that cleared up.

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Too bad the new series has almost nothing in common with Conan Doyle's stories. I watched The Hound of the Baskervilles recently, & found it disappointing to say the least. The old Basil Rathbone movies were actually closer to the originals, & they hardly resembled them at all. I've DVR'd a ...

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Got it. The Pacific war was all our fault. WOW, Really? :o How about Europe, that too? WWII in Europe was actually WWI part two. German resentment at their unfair treatment in the treaty of Versailles aided the despot Hitler to come to power. As terrible as Hitler was he did restore German pride wh...

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Saw the movie, it was very interesting. Pretty decent CGI to create the Yamato. Japanese officers treated their enlisted men like stuff. My dad was fighting the Japanese in the south Pacific from New Guinea through the Philippines for 3 years. He saw more terrible things than most can image allot o...

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New, octagon 24 inch rifle. Is there an option for a slightly taller front sight? I will be replacing the rear with a folding sight to make room for my tang peep. If you go with a tang sight, you probably won't need to change the front sight. I've put Marbles tang sights on several rifles, and didn...

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Three soldiers went turkey hunting in NE Kansas near Manhattan. Have no frickin' clue what or how to hunt turkeys, just needed to kill something, so the brainiacs set one guy up to shoot, the other two "herd" or drive the turkeys toward the waiting hunter. Alas, he sees something moving a...

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... He killed 2 LEO's who were just doing their job , in cold blood, for no real reason. ... Without examining any of the particulars, THIS OPINION is what allows Tyranny to go unchallenged. The SS were only doing their job too... Meh. I see. You think American LEO's are the modern-day equivalent o...

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If it was a 40-65 and they were shooting PMC ammo I'll just about guarantee key-holing. I lucked up on 10 boxes for $10 ea and most of what I measured were .405- .406 bullets. Lucky for me the brass was worth bout what I had in ammo. Rick talking about the 86 being the cowboy gun that won the west ...

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One could do it in a more legal fashion than Dallas did. He had a reputation for being a poacher, killing game when neither he nor anyone else needed it. It wasn't about living off the land, he did it because he liked to kill stuff, and there may have been some thumbing his nose at the law as well....

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The first rifle powder I ever bought was H4895, back in about 1960. It was surplus powder, and I split a keg with a friend that we bought from the Director of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM), the predecessor of today's CMP. I think it cost us 55 cents a pound. H4895 is still my favorite and most-used ri...

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If you have or can borrow a torque driver, use it. Per Wheeler Engineering, torque should be 10-15 in/lb for aluminum rings, 15-20 for steel. I use mid-range values for both, no loctite and have never had a problem with screws working loose (.22 LR and .223).

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It's been years since I read one of his novels, but Stephen King is the worst offender I know of. In one book, I remember someone used a rifle in .38 Magnum. In another, a shotgun went back & forth between being a pump action and a double barrel. I just guessed that King had seen a picture of a ...

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I've swung like a pendulum on this issue, going from scrupulously cleaning my rimfires after every outing to not cleaning the bore for really extended time periods. When I was cleaning every time, it often took 25-30 rounds to get my rifle shooting right again. Recently I got an Anschutz 2013 BR50, ...

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Haven't seen one of these in years! I had no idea they still made Mogs. Do they still use a wooden frame? The only car I know of that hadda be treated for termites.

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Amazing work, all right. I'm guessing they're made in either the UK or Japan, based on the fact that they all (except the Jeep & single seaters) have the steering wheel on the right (wrong) side.

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game keeper wrote:I bought a new can only the other day.
When I worked for Westley Richards I had an old pellet tin full of 3 in 1 oil on my bench, the level kept going down overnight and then I found out that Mice were drinking it!

Do you suppose it improved their "regularity?"

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I swear that hex keys spontaneously reproduce themselves. I have a set in my mechanical tool box and a set with my shooting stuff yet every time I clean up a work space I find more. I now have 3 1/2 sets without any idea as to where the other 1 1/2 came from. Eric I once had a friend who swore that...

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KirkD wrote:... I have to let her know every time I'm going to let one rip.

We are still talking about guns, right?

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My first choice among large-frame pistols would be a CZ 75B, second would be one of the Springfield XD series, either one of these in 9mm. I like the CZ 'cuz you can carry it "cocked & Locked" like a 1911. Jeff Cooper was right when he picked it over all other hi-cap 9mm's many years a...

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Don't mean to step all over your post, but I've got a Google question myself. I use the Comcast home page, and loaded the Google toolbar. But every time I shut down the PC, I lose the Google toolbar if I come back later by clicking on the Internet Explorer shortcut icon. I have Comcast set as my def...

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I've never heard of a Colt/Wesson, but back in the same era (ca 1960) there was a fairly popular conversion called a "Smolt" being done. These were Colt Python barrels on S&W K-frames. Don't ask me why.

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I remember reading, back in the day (1950's, I think), a case where an M48 tank ran over a parked VW somewhere in Germany. The MP who wrote up the report described the damage as "tank tracks on roof."

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I've had several posts about getting my 1873 Special Sporting Rifle 45 Colt to shoot better groups. I sluuged the barrel, found some leading, bought another mold and 455 sizer, ect. The Rem factory loads shoot acceptable, mine do not. I even bought those Rem 455 swaged bullets. Is there somewhere t...

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Yep. A boolit is made of lead. A bullet has a jacket. That's how I use it. It's kind of my way of paying homage to the Cast Boolits board - it really is the premeninant board on the subject. Just like this is with leverguns... :D So get used to it. But if that's the case, why is it so often written...

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Figured. But is has "25 yard" on it... so thought I'd get that clarified :) I bet if that perp in the other thread that got shot 17 times was hit a few times with a 30-30, it would have gone differently. As I recall, the 25 yd. pistol target and 100 yd. rifle targets are the same. But you...

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Of the two choices, the 1911 is by far the superior fighting weapon. Since personal defense is what you're getting it for, that's the obvious choice. You say that if you get the 1911 then the companion rifle would be an M1A1, then IMO the decision is made. The new Remington and Ruger 1911's both loo...

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pwl44m wrote:That aint Here , Those are Foreign Cars. Nice clear Pics though. Makes Ya wanna go out and shoot somthing.
Perry

I think the car with the deer on the fender is a Willys, but I'm not sure. The one in the near background is a '35 Ford, not sure about the one with only one side showing.

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And UPS is SO expensive! Cost me $95 to ship a SAA 600 miles. Course most of it was insurance but why is their insurance so expensive? In my experience, most of it is the cost of overnight air, not insurance. If you were shipping anything else of comparable value via UPS Ground, insured, it'd be a ...

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Beautiful!! I'd love to see somebody--Browning or Rossi, maybe--make a reissue of these in .327 Federal Mag. or .32 H&R mag! Or even the original .32-20.

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That is some mighty fine shootin'! It looked like you were single loading--what kind of rifle were you using? Tang sight, I presume? Bullet weight?

I'm not a BP Silh. shooter, wouldn't have thought a .44-40 would reliably take down pigs at 300 meters. Shows how wrong I can be!

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I'd say that's a lifetime supply of firewood here in Arkansas, but you'd have to live a very long time to use it all!

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Sounds like a cool movie. Is it on cable? Yep, they were having a Lon Chaney marathon on TCM. Pretty darn good. I've seen the 1930 talkie and from what I remember it was pretty much an exact reproduction of the 1925 movie except that it has sound. Somewhat regrettably, and as is my habit, it was th...

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Maybe the BATF would grant you an exception if you are a violent drug smuggler & killer, as they've done with Mexican drug lords.

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Not me personally, but a friend had a .270 bullet do that back in about 1960. I saw the hide, and it was by far the biggest black bear rug I've ever seen. He was hunting muleys in some heavy fallen timber in Utah when the bear rose up directly in front of him, possibly having been woken from early h...

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Do you use those plated bullets for full-power .357 loads?

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I musta missed something: what was it that the dog did to deserve that kind of treatment? Sounded to me like you guys shoulda gone after the 1st Sgt, not the dog.

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Henry 001 carbine .22 LR with a good receiver sight.

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Here are the values provided by Wheeler Engineering for rings & bases with their FAT driver (all values in-lb): Base Screws= 30 Windage Screws= 30-40 Ring Screws: Alum. = 10-15 Steel = 15-20 I've used these values and found they work well. For action screws, the best values vary from rifle to ri...

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The color on the star, face & hands are hand-tinted, so could've originally been any color. Tintypes are negative images, so are always reversed.

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Looks like a kit for starting a fire w/o matches; flint & steel, tinder, magnifying glass (solar fire starter?)

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You just bought the twin of my '06. It's also a Model 70, Dad bought it in '49, I believe, S/N also 172XXX. Near mint condition, with the original sling & sights. Congrats on your gun buying coup--there's no way I'd part with mine for twice that price, even if it wasn't a family heirloom! I know...

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Beautiful pics--thanks!

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Some really great pics in this thread--I've filched a bunch of 'em to use as wallpaper on my PC. Anybody got some really nice shots of a Navy F7F or an RAF Mosquito?

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How about using .45 Schofield brass, available from Starline? 1/8" or so shorter, I think, so you might have to reduce the powder charge a bit, but should be a perfect fit.

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How about George Maddox. Quantrill's Chief Scout http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/jwheeler331/Cowboy%20Stuff/GeorgeMaddox.jpg You know you wouldn't want to meet that dude in a dark alley. If you look close, you can see he has a total of 4 revolvers on him. Twenty four shots of 44 caliber i...

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