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Jeff H

Great thread. Thanks for sharing that. It was the highlight of a day that ain't even goin' so bad to begin with. EDIT: I just looked and didn't realize that forum was still around. My old bookmarks didn't work and I deleted them. Saw some names I haven't seen in a while. Work got crazy and I got awa...

Jeff H

....... I WOULD go outside, armed, and with a very powerful light handy until I could ascertain where the voices were coming from. Where I live, it would probably be someone broke down on the road looking for a phone (doesn't happen much anymore since there are so many cell towers around now). I wo...

Jeff H

Jeff H, if I heard voices outside my residence at night I'd be amped up for sure, but I'am an LEO so I get amped for the normal reasons plus others. That's why being an LEO is so dangerous. Not only do you have to watch out for the bad guys, who generally always have the jump on you, but you also h...

Jeff H

[quote="vancelw"].......If the police were in the public street or on the sidewalk ,they had no reason to announce themselves.......[quote] OK, I guess I would have supposed that if they were on the street or on a sidewalk that the residents would not have had any reason for concern about ...

Jeff H

Good looking walnut under that coat of paint there.

I would love to see this one as it progresses.

Jeff H

I inquired with a connoisseur of English Doubles quite a number of years ago about getting together and building one of these. He explained that what you would pay for whatever SXS ML rifle was available at the time was a bargain IF (big "IF") the barrels were regulated properly. He explai...

Jeff H

...... I would hope one wouldn't just shoot someone on your property unless justified and under the gravest extreme. Well, I hadn't thought of blasting through the wall in the general direction of the voices, but now that you bring it up, if I were outside a stranger's house at night, I wouldn't ru...

Jeff H

Nice walker, Pitchy.
I have a heavyt steel wheelbarrow wheel and axle I picked up to make a 'wheel with years ago.
Just found it under a bench again this weekend and remembered the project.
Still under the bench.

Jeff H

My daughther a nd a good friend both "butt dial" me frequently. They both have phones with external buttons and when they sit down, they manage to press the button they have me on speed dial. I hear whats going on on their end but they can't hear me asking what they want. Typical absent-mo...

Jeff H

.....That much-touted 158gr. Jacketed Hollow Point at 2153 fps has slowed to 1450 at 150 yards,.........Your basic 30-30/150 is still doing nearly 1800 fps at 150 yards and drops an inch less; it's still over 1600 at 200 yards....... Well stated - the whole post. I just lifted a point or two for th...

Jeff H

I had an original '97 with a 20" barrel. It was ansolutely pristine inside and completely void of blue on the outside . The story was that it was carried around in a police cruised for decades, handled a lot over the course of time and hardly ever used, which was apparent. I picked it up in the...

Jeff H

I have not personally shot a deer with the .357, but I have shot small game and varmints with the .357 in handguns with cast bullets and have shot out to 100 yards with a 4" barrelled Security Six very sucessfully. Given the terminal performance I have seen from 4" and 6" barrels, I c...

Jeff H

I have been using the same RCBS powder measure for 29+ years and I like it. I have had the small ID drum in for everything from a pinch of W231 up through 40+ grains of the various 4350s and it meterd very consistently. I had a Lyman for a while and it was a very nicely made tool, but I am in sort o...

Jeff H

Mescalero wrote:Can I get some dimensions?

Hey, that was your 444th post!!

Don't you have to buy a round of donuts when you hit a post count that matches a popular levergun cartidge designation?

Jeff H

Can I get some dimensions? Yes, but I will have to measure some of them. Give me a few. OK, if my version of AutoCAD would have worked on the new 64 bit machine, I could have drawn it in about twenty minutes and converted it to a PDF. I would have changed a few things - bear in mind, this was a pro...

Jeff H

I've been using 2.5 gr. Bullseye under a 205 gr. bullet in my .357 Maximum 21" barreled Contender for a VERY quiet load but it isn't quite that quiet. This load is actually pretty close to the old .38 Special Super-Police 200 gr. load in a revolver. One could likely drop the charge weight but ...

Jeff H

Hey, it happens. :wink: It may bother some, but I live in a farm community and where there are barns, bins and grain, ther will be cats. Most of these cats are not pets and not tame. Most often they stay close to their own barn but there is the occasional rogue to deal with. If a fella thinks a 'coo...

Jeff H

Good luck with it - I hope you have better luck than I did. I bought/tried a .44 Mag Bisley Vaquero when they were first introduced, after years of plowhandled SA's, and found that I just plain didn't like the grip for shooting, no matter how nice / attractive it had seemed. So I sold the BV, and a...

Jeff H

I really like that mount. You could very easily sell those, I would think. Much nicer looking than what I made. Be sure you don't get your velocity so low you risk a stuck-bullet; have you chronographed your load yet? You could always get a suppressor... :twisted: Thanks, AJMD429. If someone could ...

Jeff H

Hey that's pretty cool. I really like my 16" puma too. What powder are you using for the load? Thanks. I am actually using W231 but most seem to prefer Bullseye. W231 may not be the best for this application and I know that I should try a heavier slug as well. If you do an internet search for ...

Jeff H

I had a break while waitng on hardware via UPS today, so since I was in the shop, I made something I couildn't seem to find to buy. Not like I have much to buy anything WITH, but that was beside the point since I couldn't find it. Now that I have my lever set up for business, I really need to start ...

Jeff H

J Miller wrote:......I doubt if anybody would miss me,......Joe

I am careful not to correct my seniors

, but I do believe you are wrong about that.

Arizona is a great place. The people I met there were the most civil I have EVER met.

There is probably still room for at least another couple of folks.

Jeff H

Great news.
Will still keep him, you and your family in mind.

Jeff H

My best luck with alcohol stoves to date is the plain old cat food can stove. For smaller pots, like a GSI mug or Esbit mug, I made one using a slip-top tin that is 1.5" high and 1.5" wide. It barely holds a tablespoon of alcohol but will boil 12 ounces of water in about 6 minutes and hold...

Jeff H

Everything fits in a ammo can pretty nice....... Not so fast, Pitchy....... You still need a "woodgas" stove made from a quart paint can and one Progresso soup can. Then, you can burn litle handfuls of wood or drop your alchol stove inside it when you don't have time to find wood bits. I ...

Jeff H

......It's still not "right" ......... That's not the easiest project you picked, but it looks like you learned a bit from the first go and made improvements. If you're not completely happy with it, don't sweat it. It just means you're picky. That's what drives you to try harder and do th...

Jeff H

I have an April , 2004 issue of Handloader in which he wrote up the .44 Special.
I remember I hung onto that issue because there was a good write-up on the 6.5s and Al's article on the 'Special.

Jeff H

adirondakjack wrote:.....Ok, the stove has been well covered on the oil candle thread, but here's one.....

Great job putting that kit together!
And you did it without any expensive titanium!

Jeff H

Very good and a spare core unit is not only cheap but feather light - in case something happens to the first one. You can also make a second one to simmer by using fewer holes (jets) to switch over to after you get a boil on the first one. It IS addictive. I had a windfall of pop cans when we bouig...

Jeff H

Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing.

Jeff H

Fun to watch though.

Jeff H

I have only ever owned a couple carbines myself, but a longer rifle sure would hold better for offhand shots I'm trhinking. After buying the 16" Rossi for a specific purpose I have begun to really like the gun and may make my next rifle a - rifle,.... with a lever on it.

Jeff H

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I would think that it doesn't matter all that much if you manage to make the first shot count, which is what I would be striving for in a bear/me confrontation. I have never been a guide, never hunted bear, never been hunted BY a bear (that I know of), so I guess my opi...

Jeff H

I use Mora knives , sandvik stainless steel and has a built in angle for easy sharpening, can get thru a elk or steer before I need to touch up the edge best thing their 12$ weight is 4-5 oz. http://www.ragweedforge.com/11824.jpg . danny Now, that's just dangerous and irresponsible - sending a fell...

Jeff H

....That's a fine looking rifle!! How did you ever manage to do all of that without a CNC Machining Center and a mountain of money LOL!! All the difficult work was done in Germany about a hundred years ago! :D :D I hate to think what it would cost to have such an action built today,..... maybe $4k?...

Jeff H

Not for me. I once considered making a Sako my go-to rifle and selling off the others but the (then) $750 price tag was off-putting. It has been factory Rugers for the store-bought guns for me mostly and pretty much old Mausers I have picked up for under a hundred bucks - and that's been mostly old ...

Jeff H

Not exactly, but I did have a stainless, 4" .22LR Taurus that was a gem. I know they are suppsed to be "cheap" and aren't much of a status symbol, but I have owned and used enough of the "good" guns (Ruger, Smith, Colt...) to make a fair and honest assessment - and not just ...

Jeff H

Pitchy wrote:....Come on guys say something i`m getting discouraged it was a lot of work.....

Is all I can think to say.

Holy stuff, Pitchy! If you saw a bear at 200 yards and amblin' your way, you could have a trap made and set before by the time he got there!

Jeff H

I have posted on one of the "Ruger Forums," but it seemed like all they ever talked about was Rugers ! :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: When I was messing around with Old Models. I was on there quite a bit and did learn a lot. Honestly, Jerry Kunhausen pretty much tells you all you need to know ab...

Jeff H

I would tumble them too. Brasso will be tedious and I would be cautious using anything that has any chance of residual Brasso on it. Brasso (at least it used to) contains amonia, which is not suppose to be so good for brass (yeah, I know, it's called "BRASS-o") because the amonia causes th...

Jeff H

........I wish he'd been more willing to tell his stories but didn't say much about the war.......Joe That's a really cool picture, Joe. Glad someone saved it. One of my Uncles, who served in the South Pacific, NEVER talked about it. I always wondered about him and his service in particular simply ...

Jeff H

Pitchy posted a pic (almost sure it was him) of a tool he got from Harbor Freight that I had determined that I was going to get. It was like $6 or $7 (maybe $22 :? ) and one of those things that is usually pretty expensive and that you might use twice in your life, but it looked handy and the price ...

Jeff H

Good stuff here. 8) How about instructions on the alcohol burner Pitchy, I will post the link tomorrow to the best alcohol stove making web sight on the planet. I'm at work now, it's on my computer at home. :) I will watch for it! There's a hundred different alcohol stove variations and instruction...

Jeff H

I have visited there but never registered. I prefer this forum due to its inherent exclusivity - aparently due to the high grade of people here. For a few years, I felt that I was being kept out for something someone knew that I had done or said sometime in my life. :wink: Sorry, Hobie. :lol: Hobie ...

Jeff H

Very cool!

I like the idea that it can fit in your tinder box. I have a brass one just like it and may have to add one of those to it.

Been playing with pop-can alcohol stoves and appreciate the respourceful (cheap) projects.

Jeff H

I'm glad someone else commented on the good looks of those loads. Might sound superficial to some, but I think it shows care and attention to detail - both of which are important. Although I have known a few (very few) fellas who's loads looked awful and still shot well. Nice looking leatherwork. I ...

Jeff H

Old Savage wrote:

Did you shoot this one in Autralia?

Jeff H

Just a thought here - regarding the "loose parts" issue. I have toyed with the idea of getting a conservative-looking steel patch box, like on muzzle-loaders for this very purpose. You could even make one if you wanted to make it fit perfectly. Inlet into the stock it woiuld be non-obtrusi...

Jeff H

I thoiught about getting mine out and riding again............. now I think I will leave it hanging in that garage and start walking again.

Hope you heal quickly!

Jeff H

Streetstar wrote:.....PEople ask me all the time "Well aren't you happy you have job security?"........Doug

Well, somebody has to do it and it's probably a relief to those who have lost so much that a decent person is on the job.

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