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Since returning to the US in 2016 I have stayed involved with the work in Mozambique. Don and Elizabeth Kantel (who Twyla and I worked with while there) have kept up support for the young people we were helping. Don and his wife are retired now, back home in Canada, but have continued to oversee th...

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I loaded a lot of ammo on the old Lee Loader. The only one that I set off primers consistently were the 30 Carbine rounds. I probably popped 1 every 10 or 15 until I read about reaming primer pockets.

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Big Bore Revolvers! Me in my younger days with the .475 Linebaugh ... about 38 years ago. I didn't mind it then.

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Yessir. Mr. Keith's typing/spelling was always interesting. I find that as I get older mine seems to be going the same direction. Especially if I do not go back and read what I wrote.

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Griff wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:43 am In the mdl 94 Winchester carbine, the factory 44 Mag ammo beat my shoulder to death, much worse than .30-30s in the same model carbine ...

Same with the 1894 Marlin .44 Magnum.

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When I passed 60 I was out shooting the .475 Linebaugh .. fairly heavy loads with 420 gr. bullet. I ran 300 rounds that day and was really beat up the next day from it. Somehow I wised up to what was happening and before too long I traded it for two Uberti single actions and some other stuff. Then I...

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That's an amazing letter, and the prices Elmer was asking even moreso. Jim, isn't that the very bullet Elmer had loaded that blew the gate of his Colt SAA and turned his thoughts toward the .44s? Yessir. If I remember correctly, he was using 4Fg under it. It's a great bullet for long-range pistol w...

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I corresponded with Mr. Keith in the 1970's and have kept all the letters he sent. It was his thoughts on the 300 gr. .45-90 bullet #457191 that got me to experiment with them in the .45 Ruger. He wrote to me what he did with that bullet in the old Colt SAA. I knew the Ruger was stronger so I began ...

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I have an old Mosin-Nagant that I have modified and messed with. Finally got it shooting fairly decent a couple years ago.

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This has been coming for quite a few years. When we saw this on the horizon we stocked in a bunch of incandescent bulbs. What people don't realize is, when the voltage drops below a point, only incandescent bulbs will work. They will run on low voltage and give out a little light at least. But the o...

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Nice! The old ones can still do the job.

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Speaking of Sanderson brought back a memory. 35 plus years ago, my son and I were sitting on the side of an arroyo outside of Sanderson TX. We were mule deer hunting with a group of other hunters. Others were set up at various locations. We spotted a single javalina wandering down the arroyo. My so...

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The story I have heard is that the lever action .22 Erma and designed by Louis Imperato, father of Anthony (of Henry Arms) Louis Imperato, after Erma went bust he bought the rights and that's how Henry repeating arms came to be. I had heard that also ... I don't remember where I heard it though ......

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Walt wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 4:01 pm Do you know which has the greater brisance; small rifle or magnum small pistol?

Sorry but no, I do not.

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Walt wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:02 am I have always thought that rifle primers in a handgun cartridge result in a high primers.

Only with large primers. Small primers are all the same size.

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I'm sure you're doing this but H-110 and 296 require a magnum primer and a heavy crimp to maximize powder consumption. All my.357 loads use small rifle primers. Been doing that for years. But I probably need more crimp. No matter what you do, there can always be some unburned powder. It's just part...

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Could be that folks were confused and some map-maker said, "Look! It's totally clear that it is a fork of the Brazos!" Sorry ... too much coffee too early .... A tributary of the Clear Fork Brazos River is Paint Creek ... ??? How did the "clear" turn into "paint?" Now t...

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Yes. I've had the same experience and agree with the previous posts.

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samsi wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:47 am then I spied an OM Single Six convertible in nice shape on the bottom of the case. Guess what came home with me.

GOOD CATCH!

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My Dad had about 4 handguns, but he rarely shot them except for his S&W 586 .357. We counted over 350,000 rounds he put through that gun. How many more would only be guessing, but he shot it 3 to to 5 times week. And not just a few shots. He would put an hour in at the least. He rarely shot magn...

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NOTE: This is something I wrote for the old Sixgunner.Com website about 22/23 years ago, so some things may be out of date. This n' That Driving out to Raton, NM for The Shootists Holiday gave me time to reflect on a number of things that had been festering in the back of my mind. Listening to Milt...

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Thank you! The Henry's are pretty slick. I bought one for my grand-daughter. It will feed the Colibri "silent" loads .. the ones with the little 29 gr. pellet for a bullet. Feeds as slick as the full-size Long Rifles.

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When I hunted down in Terrell County, we'd sometimes take a few for camp meat. Tough and stringy is how I remember them. The pressure cooker and crock pot could've cured that. Would love to try out that recipe. The last Javelina I took was the one with the 480 Achilles. We were camped in hills outs...

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I was looking at a map of the peccary's range/distribution and there is a large gap in west texas & north-central mexico. I guess it has something to do with habitat & elevation. Does anyone know why they are absent there ? I would say it's because of all the traffic of people tromping nort...

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Most of my growin' up years were done on a ranch out east of Kingman and we had no javalinas in the area at that time. But last time I was out messing around on the old place the javalinas had moved in. Be interesting to see if they get further north than that. I've never shot one though I once wen...

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I think the .357 sixgun is probably the perfect round to hunt javelinas. Plenty of power and they are generally shot at close range. Setting up by a windmill or other source of water has been the most productive way for me. They are ideal for the crock pot. I've had .357's since I was 16 .. over 60...

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TraderVic wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 4:59 pm Well, you can put lipstick on a pig, But it's still a pig.

Geez Louise Jim, how many revolvers do you have ?

Not quite enough.

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That's great! I started my kids early also. They are grown now with kids of their own and they still shoot.

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Good info Jim. How did you prepare them? Like pork? Even if they aren't called porkers? Did you render the fat, if they have any? tnx No fat. They are very lean. My wife always added a lot of oil to them. She made tamales with them .. cooked the meat in a pressure cooker and then shredded it. She a...

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Commonly known as Javelina, the Collared Peccary has undergone a name change back in 2020 .. the year that changed a lot of things worldwide. Formerly classified in the genus Pecari, studies in 2020 moved them in the genus Dicotyles. Now the Javelina is known by the name Dicotyles tajacu of the fami...

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Remembering P.O. Ackley's tests of WWII bolt action rifles. The early Arisaka's were the strongest and safest of all of them. He overloaded and blew up a bunch of rifles in his tests. Blew the barrel out of the receiver of an early Arisaka and did not hurt the action! I don't remember the model but ...

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We both have lost quite a bit since then.
I sure enjoyed visiting with you and your wife. We are gonna have to do it again! I will work it out to get down there when you have a bit of time off.

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Wonderful, Jim! You look great! Losing that amount of weight re-opens all kinds of doors, lets you do things you may have not done for years. BTW, I loved your turkey story. Been cutting and splitting firewood today. At 77 my cutting and splitting ain't as fast as it once was, but heck, nothing muc...

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:31 pm You look lean and mean in that pic…..——006

Well ... I was Jack. That was a long time ago .. but I am getting back down there. I am now 180 pounds down from 265 and my waist is now 34" where it was over 40" ... feeling good. This was in November.

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:02 pm Jim is there anything that you haven't hunted with a Sixgun

Yes .. but I never shot everything I hunted.

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Nice work Scott!

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It was the opening day of Turkey Season in Arizona and I was out in the hills with my friend Dale, looking to bag my first turkey. Dale had never hunted them or shot one before this either. We were both newbie turkey hunters. Dale and I had scouted and looked for them. We read magazine articles abou...

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Thanks Nath. I always enjoy other people's perspectives and insights.

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I believe I have a stone tool factory in the creek about 60 yards from the house. There’s LOTS of quartz everywhere and I’ve been finding lots of stuff that could be hammers, axes, known arrowheads in a distinctive form. The area is littered with chips……the only problem is I can’t find anyone who k...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:45 pm I love the RSV translation. Read it every Christmas to get "grounded."
It's the one Linus read in "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

My grandsons read that this year. It's one of their favorites.

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From the title of the original post I thought you were panning and got gold dots. We always called it "dust" but hey, people can call it what they wish.

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uh ... I don't mean to be argumentative but I think you might have that backwards ..... just sayin ...

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What I find so interesting is that folks had thousands of years to study the prophecies of His coming and did not get it correct. The religious teachers and leaders had it all wrong or just didn't understand it or they do not believe it. Those who predict His future coming do the same exact thing to...

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Now THAT is cool Scott!

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I like knives and keep a few handy. Over the years I have used them a few times for peeling more than an apple, but for me they are like an Emergency item because for some reason or other I can't use the pistol. I have several in my truck, at least one mounted where I can reach it easily. I have had...

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I shared Christmas this year with the dogs, chickens and the barn cat. The family celebrated Christmas on Thursday, then flew off to the mountains to ski and snowboard for a week or so. Talked with my daughters on the phone ... and with one of my Grand-daughters and a Great-Grand-daughter as well as...

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…. Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s town, f...

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Sarge wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 4:21 pm I agree 100% on that. I am quite happy to work within a narrow range of bullet weight to enjoy the benefits of clean lines and a zero that can weather hard knocks and remain constant.

Clearly and succinctly stated!! Well done!

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I've had few private rodeos .. especially when breaking them to gunfire. Some were more easily boogered than others. A friend was breaking a couple horses. One of them had run wild until it was about 8 years old. It tried to get over a 14 foot board wall and actually got one front leg over it! I tho...

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