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Powder spilled into a rug grain by grain over months and years can constitute a major fire hazard. Don't ask how I know -- but my advice is, no rug underneath a reloading bench...

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.45-70 is a great classic cartridge. But never forget, it was the ,30-30 that put it and the other big-bore BP cartridges in the shade. They weren't stupid back in them days...

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Of course he is absolutely correct if we define "better" as meaning" the one that penetrates the most out to 100 yards". This can be tested and proven. The proper response is, "So what?" Well, nothing -- unless you apply that one narrow definition, and then it is fact. ...

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Another trap: Currently to legally build an SBR you must submit your request for registration BEFEORE YOU ASSEMBLE THE GUN. Note that in applying for the permit to reclassify your pistol as an SBR you are required to SUBMIT A PHOTO OF THE PISTOL. In other words, they are requiring you to provide the...

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That barrel really sucks...

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60+ years ago I would take my .22 rifle to school every Friday, because after school I would ride the bus home with my friends who lived on a farm in the county and spend all day Saturday hunting squirrels. I'd drop the rifle off at the Principal's office, pick it up after school, and spend a few mi...

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State laws do vary, and a wise man knows his state's law. I follow my own law, which is plain and simple: if a miscreant is armed and I feel he is a genuine threat, I shoot; if I come out of a store and he's driving away, no weapon displayed and not trying to run me down, I make a police report and ...

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Brings to mind my favorite recipe for coot: Clean and pluck one coot. Season the bird well with salt, pepper, rosemary, sage, and thyme. Stuff the body cavity with a cut lemon. Coat the entire bird with a thick paste of red clay until it is the size of a small football. Lay the clay-coated bird on r...

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Up until a few years ago, carrying that in my state was a felony, while carrying a handgun unlicensed was a misdemeanor. Nowadays, the law allows a sword or even an axe ...

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1894cfan wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 12:26 pm Anybody here remember when there was no internet?

Fondly... fondly...

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Darn it! Now, right there was this forum's chance to post someone in the annual Darwin Awards, and you guys blew it.

Quick, somebody else ask a question ...

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What's the best use for a dulcimer? Kindling for an autoharp fire.

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Beautiful rifle built for serious work. Congratulations, and enjoy.

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I believe that may be plating. I would try it on some inconspicuous part like the inside of the buttplate first. Sometimes polishing plated surfaces can be problematic. While Brasso is very mildly abrasive, as are things like Flitz, it still pays to try it discreetly first.

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Stable low earth orbit requires a minimum speed of 17.000 mph; the exact speed is altitude-dependent. The great potential of this technology is not that it will eliminate rockets altogether, but that they should be able to boost loads to almost-orbit altitude and then bump them the rest of the way w...

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"...accidents would occur..."

No kidding.

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Over the past 40 years I have accumulated 3 Model 500's. All came with removeable chokes, so I guarantee barrels are out there. It might be easier/cheaper to find an entire used 500 that has one than to find a replacement ...

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UFO's are nothing to worry about. They are time-travelling humans from the future.

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With all the sophisticated equipment, and all the finely-honed skills -- still, no one can say how much a part luck played. Might have been a very, very small part -- or the whole thing.

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It's been a while since I was loading for a .45 Colt Rossi 92, but it definitely preferred hard cast bullets, and the critters didn't care.

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I may well have used some in the past, but don't recall specifically. Records are available, but it's too hot to go digging for them right now. Needless to say, I certainly have nothing negative to report about them, and would find it very unusual if anyone else did. A 170 gr. anything loaded to sta...

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At my stage in life, I am perfectly willing to accept that explanation.

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I am also of the big bullet/moderate velocity school. Stepping up a load like the .44 Special or .45 Colt undoubtedly makes it more useful as a big game or long-range cartridge; but for true, all-around usefulness, for anything from squirrels to moose, those amblin'-along loads will work just fine i...

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I wish I knew, Doc. I found a small plastic bag by the side of the road containing small 4 connectors that looked like they could have come from the Roswell crash ... Come to think of it, a cable company truck had been parked there earlier in the day, and I am pretty sure those guys are aliens.

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Great shot, sure would be nice to be able to trace those guys. Did you ever notice, looking at photos from the earliest days of photograph until about the end of WW1, the subjects are almost never smiling. In those days, having your portrait (photo) taken was serious business indeed, smiling would ...

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Count me in the crowd that loves a standard grip with a Tyler T added. The stags make a wonderful, dressy, go-to-church option ...

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My buddy has 2 high-dollar, whizbang trailcams that he bought so he could leisurely check his photos via phone each morning as he sips his coffee. What he got is endless frustration, and an almost daily dose of bitterness and woe before 7AM when he tries to check them. I bought two new-old-stock Wil...

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Just to answer your questions without adding stuff to impress you with my vast knowledge --

Yes, the handload you quote is fine in your rifle, as will be any handload or commercial load not designated as a +P or "Ruger Only" load.

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I've said it for years -- I believe the Clintons and Obama were paid off and foisted upon us by the gun industry. They were the greatest gun salesmen of all time -- although Joe is in the running ...

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Hey, I'm an Easterner, but you can't fool me. That is no deer. That is an elk...

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Wow. I knew such existed, but have never seen even a photo that I can recall. It must feel like carrying a broomstick in the woods -- not a bad thing!

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When hybrid vehicles came out I was working as a 911 dispatcher. We received and were required to study a lengthy new protocol manual on how to handle hybrid vehicle wrecks. It was an eye-opener -- even a fender-bender was to be treated as a full-on Haz-Mat call-out, with immediate response from Fir...

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What velocity are these "bunny loads"? Are they falling below what the data would suggest? The Vihtavuori data I am looking at shows 2419 fps from a 20" barrel for a 130 gr bullet and max load of 32 gr. , and that's right up there with comparable loads with other powders from a 24&quo...

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I guess even the military has moved away from teaching much of the art of the peep sight anymore, but it's too bad. While different sighting arrangements might work better in a specific situation, a good peep sight is about as all-around good as sights get. A vast improvement over open sights with n...

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Personally, once the cartridges get beefier than the .44 mag the No. 1 seems more appropriate to me than any revolver. That's going to be the absolute Hammer of Thor under 100 yards...

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Big-bodied deer! He can share with the neighhhhbors.

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For sure, something in the fire control group has gone amiss. Personally, I once installed springs that were supposed to lower the trigger pull, which they did -- but also they very neatly converted my normal, semiauto, lousy-trigger AR in to an unpredictable full-auto. Oops. Rather than attempt to ...

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We never got up the nerve to shoot one from hand or shoulder, but I and my nerd buddies in high school built guns almost identical in operation to that one --- in 1968. A pipe, a pipe cap with a hole drilled, some wire, a pinch of steel wool, a battery, some black powder. I would say it's not rocket...

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Proverbs has it right. The man who fails to discipline his children hates them.

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It's heavy, has poor ergonomics and so-so accuracy, and is ugly as homemade sin -- but it is a machine that is absolutely as reliable as a rock, and that makes up for a lot.

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It's heavy, has poor ergonomics and so-so accuracy, and is ugly as homemade sin -- but it is a machine that is absolutely as reliable as a rock, and that makes up for a lot.

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A friend owns a Ridgeline, and likes it. But he also says "I didn't need a real truck, so I got a Ridgeline."

His wife thinks it's "adorable"...

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The 336 in .44 was problematic. The action could cycle the shorter cartridge, but everything had to line up j-u-s-t so, and essentially you never knew if you were getting a "good one" or not until you shot it. In the end, they weren't manufactured for long and the 1904 was reissued. They a...

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I go to WTT at least twice a year. There's really no other museum quite like it. Even friends who have no interest in motorcycles have come away planning their next visit. If you're in Western NC it's a must-see. Plan several hours, because every time you turn around you'll find something else you h...

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My experience, FWIW. Damage to the nose MAY affect accuracy, but usually not seriously; damage to the base is ALWAYS ruinous to accuracy.

But I do like my loads to look purty...

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Was it ever really popular though? This is what I wonder, too. It just seems to me that there would not be enough fans out there to support the behemoths like .460 and .500. Among my considerable circle of shooting friends, 'nary a one has one (or even any particular interest in having one), althou...

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Few realize today how much the German army was horse-drawn even in WW2. To his dying day, the suffering of the horses haunted my then-farm-boy future dad more than the suffering of the men. The humans, he felt, at least knew why they were there.

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We had a total eclipse a few years back. I really cannot describe the experience, except to say that if you can see one without going halfway around the world to do it, be SURE to do it. You will not forget it, ever.

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Beautiful rifle. Well-conceived and beautifully executed.

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If I knew where one was for sale at a halfway reasonable price I'd buy it.

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