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- Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - what's wrong with us????????
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3076
I still have to say that I am extremely doubtful that the practical operation of this serialization project is going to fly. The sheer amount of computer input per day and the difficulty of maintaining the database is going to make it a very difficult and expensive project, which will result in del...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Comparing 45 cal cartridges
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3630
My Rossi 454 is the best made (fit, finish, smoothness) of the four Rossi's I've had. Functions fine, too. My 2007-vintage gun's buttstock has a soft plastic 'sleeve' in the tang-screw hole, which may be a response to the stock cracking issues; I don't know if they have always had that. Power-wise, ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Please contact your Senators - Gun Shows
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3063
This kind of thing obviously would apply to relatives - they aim to 'catch' any guns that are transferred to wife, brother, sister, child. Pretty soon owning a gun that is NOT registered with the feds will be tantamount to a federal firearms felony, property seizure, and complete loss of firearms 'p...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can I say "Crappy" Range Day?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2820
I know how it is with the wind, though. We get plenty of that out here on the plains. :) A friend who lived in a semi-urban area (those long narrow lots maybe 3-5 acres in size) rented a backhoe, dug a trench maybe 4' deep and 3' wide straight out from his basement by the little sunken-window there...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Mossberg Leverguns
- Replies: 73
- Views: 12942
I want a rifle with a side-loading gate, like the new Mossberg's apparently have, but can I put a scope on it? Or, do the rings have to be really high up off the rifle?? I may just get the new Henry .30-30 which loads from the mag tube itself instead of a side-loading gate, so that I can put a scop...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Peep sights and light
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3252
There are ALSO some adjustable apertures out there; I believe other postings go into details. If not, someone may re-post, or you can search for them. One kind is a multi-leaf 'iris' and the other simply has a disk with different apertures in it which rotates in or behind the face of the sight which...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: storing guns
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2318
Too bad that our rulers: a) don't do enough to thieves to make them think twice about stealing, so the result is we have too many burglaries by losers who never have to actually get a real job because the state provides 3 hots and a cot when they're briefly in jail, and in between times, probably pr...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Leverguns shouldn't have a safety
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7163
The time I DO like the safety is when I come in like the other day, cold and sleety, stiff fingers, fogged up glasses, and need to unload a magazine full of would-be coyote killers I didn't get to use. I know all I have to do is be careful, and I won't even need to chamber a round as I cycle them th...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT'ish - Top ten movie guns
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6630
Oddest real gun I've seen in a movie = Calico 9mm pistol (100 round magazine is standard) - in Total Recall. You didn't see a Calico in Total Recall . You saw a Concz/Claridge Hi-Tec Model S: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Claridge_Hi-Tec_S9_001.jpg/300px-Claridge_Hi-Tec_S...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How Sudden has the Change (in our culture) been?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9059
So where/when does it end? Not with all the voting you could ever hope to do. Because the voting is like killing ants with a hammer. While it may beat letting the ants run free, eventually you'll loose. It ends when people stop acting like spoiled children and start acting like the men and women th...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Which receiver sight and why?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3056
I like this sight that I put on my M39, tho not correct I like using it with the Lyman 17 front: http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/bsaride/Marlin%2039/VintageWinchester96rearsight.jpg Never had one so nice as that (it looks authentic to me!) but I have to my surprise found that an aperture sig...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: 22 Years Ago Today...Challenger
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3254
I was getting ready to chew the other residents for standing around watching TV during rounds. One memorable thing about it was how at the point one smoke trailgoing up instantaneously became three smoke trails going at other angles (none continuing even remotely on the same path), it was painfully ...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT'ish - Top ten movie guns
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6630
Oddest real gun I've seen in a movie = Calico 9mm pistol (100 round magazine is standard) - in Total Recall. Gotta love Josey Wales' pistols (never could count exactly how many he had). Automag in one of the Dirty Harry flicks was over-rated, but kinda cool. And of course, the Model 29 of Harry's. S...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How Sudden has the Change (in our culture) been?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9059
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics- More on McCain
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8366
After reading on Romney's background as far as gun control, there is NO WAY I could vote for him or Giuliani. McCain I think morphed in from one of many POWs with perhaps some consequent insight, to just another opportunistic and unprincipled politician. He says he's pro-gun, but his votes haven't a...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How Sudden has the Change (in our culture) been?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9059
It isn't all 'doom and gloom' - look what I found on a COLLEGE PROFESSOR'S website, regarding functions of government - HE gets it, and perhaps some of HIS students will get it. After all, WE get it...! From R.J. Rummel http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM Now, one university course I teac...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Hillary vs McCain
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7234
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hobie, about buying that AR-15................
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3517
The Mini-30 I won does not meet my needs for a combat rifle. It's a good rifle, but too many problems lay in hiding on the Mini's. Number one being the gas block system. So I'm thinking of selling the Mini-30 to purcahse an AK. The combat weapon would be covered then but I still want the AR or Spri...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Coyote around the house. Need the infamous cat sneeze load.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3770
And, after going through the yote', the slug'll go skipping across to................. :shock: :roll: THAT would be a potential concern near water, or ice, especially with any large relatively slow projectile. The super-fast ones disintegrate and destabilize on even light impact, and the very light...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How Sudden has the Change (in our culture) been?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9059
But, it was the WWII generation that voted themselves Social Security, Medicare, grew the unions, etc. THEY kept FDR in office for four terms. Sadly, over the years of thinking and observing on this, I realize that this is very true; good people unwittingly setting the stage for the downfall of all...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Para Ord bits needed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 864
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Inexpensive Tang Sight
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3628
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice Inexpensive Tang Sight
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3628
I posted a detailed writeup on the old site :cry: about the Taurus tang sight. I'll try to repost some this weekend if I can find the details about threading and so on. Suffice to say, the sights seem to me to be well made (metal), and have reasonably positive adjustments and reproducibility. I ther...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-any of you have expierence with donkey's or goats?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3311
Only goat thing is they really CAN'T just eat 'everything' - they are very sensitive to too much protein, and they oddly enough don't have upper incisors - just like whitetails. There should be lots of internet info on goats. I know little about them except I'm the fence-maker, but if you have probl...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 22 lever gun suggestions---
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3589
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How Sudden has the Change (in our culture) been?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9059
OT - How Sudden has the Change (in our culture) been?
When I was a kid , we learned: George Washington 'gave' us a Republic, not a Democracy. He was a brilliant leader among a goup of uncommonly insightful political founders of our nation, who were admittedly a 'spirited' bunch. Hiroshima was a devastating but strategic military action which cost thou...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Work as hearing aid?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2554
I'd not want to go spend $4,000 for an 'approved' hearing aid without first trying a $100 'shooting aid.' As a physician, my opinion is that once something is covered by INSURANCE, the quality deteriorates, and the cost escalates needlessly (look at health care overall!). I am fully aware that to an...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Pinewood derby (lots of pics)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13606
Yaz must be a lost twin of mine (sorry for him for the news); last year my son's PWD car was made to look like it had twin 'rocket' engines in the rear - made with two 45-70 jacketed hollow points glued onto the 'trunk' area. Mostly we were just experimenting by the reloading scale to see how much t...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: A single powder
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5357
I think you have to 'sign up' to get the load data, but I've found http://www.ammoguide.com to be helpful on that sort of thing. My printed out list is downstairs, and my connection too slow to just log on and answer you off their site, but I'll check my list and try to remember to post if I see any...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin 1894 SS .44 Mag
- Replies: 66
- Views: 13594
AJMD429, I will definitely have to look at this. You are right. I AM INTIMIDATED by the mere thought of reloading. You make it sound …well…at least manageable…LOL This sounds like a decent way for me to dip a toe into the deep waters of reloading. There is a guy here at the department that re...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - I have been moved to act
- Replies: 63
- Views: 7901
Ron Paul is not a conservative, by the way, he's a Libertarian. I like a lot of that and hate some. The people who would consider the Libertarian party 'except for their position on ____' (usually the relegalization of drugs) are funny, because they'll turn around and vote Republican despite despit...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What model '94 Marlin do I have here?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1937
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 32-20 WCF
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4844
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT? - So is your flag flying this JMB birthday?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5062
For the whole effect, go to http://www.frfrogspad.com/jmb.htm , but here is the best part. The Gospel According To John (Moses Browning) As translated from the original ancient manuscripts by Fr. Frog. © copyright 2002 by John C. Schaefer 1 I n the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pisto...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Peep Sights for Marlin 1894 357 Magnum
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5346
I mounted my little Williams (I think it is the FP - long time since I bought it) on the FRONT scope holes, because I didn't want it back over the hammer area. Works fine for gongs. Going to find out if Bambi is similarly vulnerable next year... :twisted: The other gun in photo is Marlin's Puma 'twi...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-gun related Finished research paper
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4066
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: 2008 Marlin Catalog
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1999
You'd think Marlin would have gone gangbusters since their other US rival in the levergun business is out of commission, but I'm sure the Puma's are giving them a run for their money. Additionally, there is the fact that guns generally last a LONG time - how many of us are shooting guns made over 10...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin 1894 SS .44 Mag
- Replies: 66
- Views: 13594
If I ever learn to reload I could then make this a moot point by increasing the load for the rifle...Correct? Don't be hesitant to reload! The first gun I ever reloaded for was a Super Blackhawk, and all you need to make your first batch is a mallet (I just used a broken hatchet handle) and this to...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: Any Masons here?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 17230
At any rate, it looks like I put way too much stock in the freemasonrywatch website, and let my misinformation get the better of me. Sadly, I went so far as to come here and rant in a pretty irate fashion and I'm sorry. I'm pretty embarrased, but can't think of anything to say but I'm sorry. I'm wr...
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Macrostamping
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3544
... thanks to the Stupid Generation now serving as electorate and elected. Which would be the generation following the oft-labeled 'Greatest Generation'? I love it. Sad but true. I'm ashamed to be part of the 'boomer' generation - generally the most spoiled, clueless, and selfish yet. I can't help ...
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What can you shoot any time?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5849
Criminals ... Illegal aliens ... Liberals Now I was going to post an answer like that, but I didn't want you all to think I was that kind of feller... I can see how the third one would be viewed as politically incorrect, even though it is in jest. (Liberals usually just need hugs and a blankie, not...
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - I have been moved to act
- Replies: 63
- Views: 7901
You go, DavidF!! Ron Paul is the first guy running for president in years who's not gonna whore himself to the major media and rich corporations, and has the record in Congress to prove it. He's a breath of fresh air. That's why the major media is alternately making fun of and then ignoring him. -S...
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I put my big heavy 45-70 against LeverRevolutions today ...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2198
Do you think that's because the pointy tip just still can't make that big fat bullet 'streamlined' enough to retain velocity well? (I don't know the ballistic coefficients involved.) I always figured with a large diameter bullet, unless you care to make it v-e-r-y long (way beyond the 'Hornady' prof...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 450 Marlin info needed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1144
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hearing Protection
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4175
Howard Leight Impactâ„¢ Sport Earmuff - $59 Cabela's - best so far, in that they are a bit quieter as far as electronic hiss than the Peltor's I have - but my Peltor's are 10-15 years old, and very well made also. I think the Peltor 's use N and the Leight's use AA, but you literally will replace t...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: A good phone call
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3430
If I had a daughter and some dude was abusive to her in any way. I'd probably be hauled away in handcuffs in no time flat. Men who beat women are half a notch above child molesters on the totem pole of scumbaggery. Not casting stones, and my comment is intended to be contemplated outside the realm ...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What can you shoot any time?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5849
For sport.... :twisted: ...don't forget mice, rats, and BUGS! I used to blast rats at an open trash dump as a kid - LOVED it when they'd scurry behind an old ceramic toilet or sink. The 10/22 seemed like a Ma Deuce shattering an enemy bunker to me as a 12 year old kid. No more dumps like that around...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Constitutional math
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3326
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - It could happen to you
- Replies: 1
- Views: 653
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Way OT- Turn in firearms...
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8814
Kicking in the door of Joe deer hunter at 3 am doesn't look good. Yes, but when the news media reports it, 'Joe Deer Hunter' is simply renamed 'a suspected terrorist/arms dealer/drug dealer/baby killer/wife beater/spotted owl killer' and nobody outside the guy's circle of friends thinks much about ...