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A spare round.

Hey, it made sense at the ti...*bang*

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This is kinda off topic, but yea. Our barrels were traditionally licenced, by serial number. Not that the barrel always carries a serial number, but if it's part of a gun, that serial number applies. If you buy just a barrel to build a gun, that's the licenced part -- until recently, actions were no...

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No worries 76/444, we all have bad days. And yea Marc, the tools are just tools, and modifying a tool to work is part of the fun. I am looking for a spare seater (non-carbide sets are cheap) to ream out a bit.

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Oooh! I go off to bed, come back the next day, and there's all kind of stuff going down :-) Malamute, no worries. I've been on the 'net since pretty much before www took off, when archie was your friend, and I'm not particularly bothered. I actually thought he was posting to the wrong thread, mentio...

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OK, so here's an update for y'all. Recap: This is one of the better "groups" I got from my Winchester '94, at 25m off a bench. This is a GC reload I got with the rifle. Factory ammo and about 25 different handloads I tried were all similar or worse. Plain base, GC, or jacketed. Fast (pisto...

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I've been known to use some really flowery language when, for example, dropping an anvil on my foot, or spilling (like earlier tonight) a bunch of powder all over the place. I do not however blaspheme. I have also trained my girlfriend / wife / soulmate out of blaspheming. I have sworn in front of m...

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Or you could just drink the stuff, and you won't care about the mildew or the dirty glasses or the aching joints or the wasps or the jellyfish or the poison ivy or the premature baldness... hey, who cares, pass the bottle!

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Question is whether it'll work on spotted owl...

*grin* *duck* *run*

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Brandy is the drink of heroes.

Only a hero would be brave enough to drink it.

-- Ambrose Bierce.

<- note where I am. Brandy is the local firewater

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I'm seeing the same thing on my 357 Rossi, with low power handloads. As far as I know it's because of the low pressures, that the case doesn't expand fully into the chamber, so you get gas blowing around the side of the case. Stuffing more powder in there makes the problem go away. CBC = Companhia B...

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Never is a big word. I believe that if you havn't broken it, you're not shooting enough. I've shot screws out of my revolver (450-ish rounds one weekend, in training, 38 Special handloads in 357 Mag revolver). I have a '45 Remington Rand 1911A1 and it's only stovepiped on me once or twice when I did...

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Well, Big Mike, I won't show *these* men, they're liable to start cutting bits off you :-) Those tatts are pretty horrible, I'm afraid (sheesh, hope none of them belong to someone here). It takes a good artist to do art. Except for the last one, that's kinda cool. Me? I like well done tatts. I like ...

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And to Chas:
INAPPROPRIATE IMAGE DELETED

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Thanks for the headsup, but barrel is not oval. I know the barrel isn't oval fer dern sake!!! The purpose of using an oval weight is that it starts easier into the barrel and is elongated thereby making it impossible to shift postition in the barrel as you push it through. Hey Modoc ED, I was refer...

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ModocED, KirkD, that sounds sane, except that the largest sizer I can see on the web is .431 (OK, I havn't looked much). I did scrub the lead out of the barrel, OK, I didn't flood it with lube. Yea, I use a wooden dowel. Thanks for the headsup, but barrel is not oval. Will try bigger bullets -- I ha...

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Oh, I have a Winny and a Marly, an a Savvy too.

*grin* *duck* *runveryfast*

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I'm different--When something is out of tolerence with a gun, I get rid of it. I just can never seem to happy with junk, you know, kinda like having a car that been wrecked good before. In an ideal world :-) Around here, it takes two years to get a licence and only then are you allowed to take the ...

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I have this '94 in 44 Mag. Post 64, or course. Stuck a lead ball up the barrel, about four or five tight spots and about the same not-tight sports. Ball upset in the barrel so measurements are meaningless. Stuck another ball down the barrel for about half an inch, ball measures 425/433. This sort of...

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You misunderstand. I like Kaylee, while Jewel Staite is (just) a pretty girl. Oh... you're one of those... :D {creepy...} :lol: I guess you saw the first episode where she got the was having intimate relations with the mechanic, got him fired, and took his job. That was if I remember in the flashba...

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I've had a web page for ages, with all the stuff that interests me. I started blogging when we bought the house, almost two years ago. So I'm basically a houseblogger. But now and then I blog about guns as well. Decided to rather document my gun doings on web pages again. Wrote some php to go throug...

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If you like Kaylee and want to see more, she is on Stargate Atlantis. You misunderstand. I like Kaylee, while Jewel Staite is (just) a pretty girl. I don't like Jewel Staite enough to watch Stargate, unless it got a helluva lot better since the first episodes. But Kaylee rocks :-) Same with River. ...

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Good looking women on that show. My oldest daughter liked it. Your oldest daughter likes women? *grin duck run* :-) I know watcha mean. I also share the hots for Kaylee. Geekchicks rule. And as soon as I get my second Rossi it'll end up as a mare's leg*. The "flashback" episode was the be...

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If this were my board I'd post a sticky saying "Firefly will NEVER be off topic on this board"

"This could get interesting"
"Interesting?"
"Oh my God, we're all going to die!"

Or something like that.

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nemhed, it's a 99EG from 1949, not drilled and tapped for a scope. And no, I don't want to do anything permanent to it, which is completely irrational [1], but hey. But I also want to shoot it, and at the range a 300 Savage is effective, for me, that means a scope is essential. So I'm waiting for so...

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It's only a minus if you're planning to use the (no good) safety. I carry empty, or hammer down, and this one's safe both ways. You have to face it, Norinco makes good guns. Yea, the finish is rough, but Winchester themselves made some less than perfect guns. As does a lot of other 'merkin manufactu...

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That's a very interesting rifle. Too bad it's made in commie China. You have the opportunity of buying the 9422. That's a win in my books :-) By your pictures I can tell that with the exception of the tang safety and it's parts Well, lemme tell ya, that's the only thing on this rifle that's in my o...

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rjohns94 wrote:Do you need it?

What is this "need" you speak of, Master?

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gglass, I see my details got lost in one of the moves. Have updated. I'm in Cape Town, South Africa. The Chinese are trying to take over Africa, so no problem getting Chinese... anything, I guess. So I went to the range again on Sunday. I suck at shooting with open sights (coke bottle glasses, right...

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I have a lathe. But not a mill.

Have ordered some Weaver blanks from Brownells, will post here if it works out.

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Thanks Pete44, I checked the Winchester schematic and it does indeed match. Mescalero, as far as I know a number of them got imported to SA. I bought this one from an auction (well, I asked someone who went to bid on my behalf) about four years ago. So basically bought it sight unseen. I also had a ...

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Collected my Norinco JW-21 22 levergun yesterday. Went shooting this morning. Man, I should have had this little gun 30 years ago. It's got an incredibly complicated two piece bolt assembly, but that enables it to feed anything from a 22LR to an empty shell. Takes 15 LRs in the magazine. 1" at ...

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http://www.retro.co.za/firearms/article ... lephant22/

There ya go

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There is no good time for something like this, but at this time, it especially sucks. My thoughts are with you and others in a similar situation.

Will definitely follow your advice about extra hugs to mine.

Thanks for sharing.

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Fsck. 1970. This makes me feel so old.

OK, I was like 3 in 1970. But I have very few guns made after 1970.

I'd guess about 3/4 or more of my guns were made a decade or more before 1970.

1950 is history. 1970 is just the other day.

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2ndovc wrote: Don't touch the spark plug if'n the engine's runnin'

Don't P on a running engine.

(Wasn't me, honest, was sumdood)

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Mine's a 1949 in 300 Savage.

Got it for free in 2005. Just heard that they've granted me a licence, so I might even get to shoot it before Christmas.

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I found a Marlin 94 in 38-40 the other day. We have this new law in South Africa and a lot of people sold, gave away, or handed in their firearms. All kinds of stuff, from Baby Brownings to Purdeys, got melted down. I managed to save a few :-) I still have to licence the thing, which takes about a y...

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http://www.dw.co.za/~wrm/lara/TubularMagazinesAreSafe1.jpg http://www.dw.co.za/~wrm/lara/TubularMagazinesAreSafe2.jpg http://www.dw.co.za/~wrm/lara/TubularMagazinesAreSafe3.jpg http://www.dw.co.za/~wrm/lara/TubularMagazinesAreSafe4.jpg Note: I have done this, with a 150 grain round nose JSP. No worr...

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Hang on Mescalero, you're saying the mount off a Savage Scout (boltgun) will fit a Savage '99?

86er, thanks. Would have preferred something that uses existing holes, but it's a lead.

Thanks

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Hi all After two years of battling with the paperwork and a year of battling with the police, seems my current set of licences have been approved. Five leverguns in there, a Winchester '94 in 44 Mag, a Savage '99 in 300 Savage, a Rossi in 357, and a Miroku and Norinco 22. I want to mount a scope (ac...

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Yup. It ain't "handgun cartridge" vs "rifle cartridge" it's handgun vs rifle.

If you havn't seen it you have no idea how much more powerful a rifle is, compared to a handgun.

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Hi all I came across an unloved 1873 in 32-20. The magazine tube and front magazine band is missing. I've seen some spares on eBay but the prices are somewhat crazy. The plug for the magazine, for example, there's one without the screw or anything for $55... I didn't pay that much more for the whole...

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+1 for Track of the Wolf.

Good people.

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190 grainers, but close enough.

12.2 grains (well, a 0.95 disk) of a local powder which is supposed to be close to 2400/4227.

Clocks about 1030, I want to up it a bit.

Paco got 1450 fps with 15 grains 2400 behind a 180 grainer. That sounds... high

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I've only ever been as far north as Bazaruto but it's a great country...

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(1) What is the most unusual/unique/interesting cartridge you shoot (have shot regularly)? 7mm SuperMag. (2) Why does it qualify for that designation? It's a 357 SuperMag necked down to 7mm. Except that the 357 SuperMag was an Elgin Gates wildcat, a bit longer than the 357 Maximum. When Remington ma...

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Yea, I would have thought she should check for spark...

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stew71 wrote:How hard can it be

I'm not touching that with a 10... erm... I'm not going there.

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1. This here forum is a powerful prayer engine.

2. Listen to Hobie.

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Hobie wrote:So, how many here STILL read sci-fi?

Spider Robinson, and John Scalzi, if you like Heinlein.

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