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+1 on Linda! I remember being rankled that Big John didnt appreciate her more - thinking "...idiot" :) If in the area, go over to Old Tucson and the Sonoran Desert Museum, especially taking the Speedway route out of Tucson up over the mountains, over on the flip side of the Tucson Mountain...

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An admitted huge fan to the extent I had the large loop from my 16" Rossi trapper swapped over to a 20" just to have one of my carbines with the Rifleman look. It also seemed to "fit" the scale of the longer carbine better as well -- versus the shorty. As many have said, actual l...

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I'm so sorry. I know too much the loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

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That's tough. My thoughts and prayers are with you and family.

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The Johnson semi auto in .30-06 (US.30 cal) ...used by the Marines in lieu if the Garand early in WWII in the Pacific Theater. IIRC, used a internal rotary mag.

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A shame - with a real script, better acting and a bit of real wear, sweat and curl on the too perfect hat and they might have something. As it is, nothing.

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I watched a Great Horned Owl take a neighbor's kitten once. I had warned them about this before when they had it out in the yard but they did not listen. Same thing happened with a friend's kitty and a hawk. Why I've always encouraged a "catiary" - enclosure or yard covered with sunscreen...

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Good to have you back!

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Welcome aboard!

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Edit - wasnt just my imagination - found this with reference to my "youth" comment below. http://www.gunblast.com/Winchester-Ranger357.htm (address fixed) No, not inappropriately foruming, but failing any quick responses here might put in a WTB in the classifieds here as well. Winchester 9...

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gak, that last car has set me to drooling, I'm about to short out the keyboard ..... there's a fellow out here in SoCal has a beauty: http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh614/carlmyphotobucket/BMW/BeemersandBasco__10FEB2013___20.jpg Cheers, Carl Yes, basically same car as we started with. About 5 ...

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Just a few, some esp recent pretty pedestrian but to a car (except Vega) ultra reliable 61 Buick Special Deluxe Station Wagon, 215 Aluminum V8 (my first (72) and still tops -want it back. Before its time.) 62 Buick Skylark coupe, 215 Alum V8, 4 bbl. Fun in thr straight line. 65 Corvair Monza coupe 1...

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When I was in school in the early 70s in Flagstaff AZ, we had a few nights -35, no wind, and a few unofficial (but consistent) reports of -46 and -48 those same nights. I can vouche, yes cold! To the east 100 miles in our White Mts, we had a now defunct US weather station in a half-horse village tha...

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Does Tia have her own website, er, I mean Facebook page? Guess I dated myself there

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Prayers up and done. Godspeed on his recovery.

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All of the above plans sound good, with i agree Sacramento the most sane transportation connection especially if Yosemite's on the menu.. I'll offer a slightly revised variation on the same theme. IF you've got the time, you can have (most of) it all. In my dozen or so coastal trips over the years I...

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Not really getting rid if anything, but if I had to one it might be .44 Mag now that i've got a passel of .44 Special. So gotta keep .22s. - as in rimfire cheap (formerly?) Plinking and target, and SD BUG. Gotta have at least one each long and short gund in, but preferably four or five, .22s. .30 Ca...

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Another not far at all from NRA/Fairfax (non-objective disclosure, my home 3-8 yrs old and lots of family still close by) and a must-see IMO is the Manassas national battlefield, site of the battle of Bull Run, one (actually two) of the major battles of our Civil War. Hard to believe the close proxi...

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You've got it from here!

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Prayers definitely on their way.

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Good posts all. I was in northern Az last night where it dipped to -6 according to mr car gauge. It used to do that more regularly in Az (we had some -20s, 30s, even some unofficial -40s) back in my youth when I shrugged it off a bit more, but chilly any way you slice it. IIRC wasn't there a long th...

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Your fly and rent idea's a good one. One good thing about that time of year is it's still prior to bad summer traffic, Winnebagos and such. I forget some of the specific redwood locations, but a few are an area just off (west) of the highway from San Jose to Santa Cruz, closer to the latter than for...

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Prayers certainly done. I wish you the best.

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I think this is all good discussion. I have a tendency to think one shooter - Oswald. He was a loser in life, rejected by Russia and Cuba, failed marriage, dead end jobs unrelated to his driving passion, couldn't get anywhere on matters closest to his heart - the Marxist stuff. How much lower could ...

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Heck, I get a little grumpy here in Arizona when the days get shorter -- I can't imagine!! I have spent time up north (not as far as Alaska) in the winter - no thanks.

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I'm so sorry - been there, it's tough but you did the right thing. My thoughts are with you.

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The advent of decent SP ammo for the carbine sure changed everything in making it a more viable home/self defense or close in small-to-medium game or dangerous pest round. As mentioned, unfortunately ball is all that was permitted, militarily speaking (but may have aided in making it a decent close ...

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"I have read that the cartridge did not score so good in terms of being potent in battle. "Light in the britches." My father was in the south pacific in WW2. He and those close to him threw their carbines in the ocean (literally - so there was no chance of getting them back) as soon ...

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Mescalero, the quote function wouldnt work right for me but you speaketh truth in your posts. +1 much bertter guns/cartridge than often given credit for. I have a pair of Inlands. One is an unmolested one-owner (us) "original war baby" with rare war-issue , ie not a refit, bayo lug my fath...

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Another +1 for Merrells. Look no further. Their "jungle moc" is all I wear anymore 'cept for heavy hiking or winter, weddings and funerals. Two types of soles depending on exterior shoe material, one a broadly ribbed type I prefer for all but snow/ice. The more aggressive type (finer lugs ...

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All the domestic cats I have been around kill in this manner. The part of town I live in had a problem with " roof rats " some years ago. We did not have a problem, we had an outside stray that we fed. She killed rats that were bigger than her, because we fed her; she did not eat them. I ...

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I agree, it was a great, gritty show. Can't imagine being in such a predicament.

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Excellent and important discussion. Seems every year or two we have a tragedy - especially it seems in our " Kaibab" country (legendary hunting but isolated and often very cold - north of the Grand Canyon) of a few hunters found dead in their camper due to CO. Usually due to beoing so cold...

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Still, pretty cool. I wonder what they would say at the dock when I roll up with that at my next Bass tournement? :lol: Maybe a PT Boat for that would suffice? :) :) I always thought it'd be fun to have a 1:1 (or more like 1:2 or 1:3) scale PT, fully operational (well, I'll allow maybe empty tubes!...

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Nice, but I was thinking of something more in the Iowa/Missouri class

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Kokopelli - just PM'd you about a possible part source or route for your project. We can post resullts if pans out, but for now probably too much of an indirect/ c***shoot link to be overly public about

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M&M Gunsmithing ( www.mmgunsmithing.com ) is or was for many years the warranty repair for Rossi. Give them a jingle.

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Others have given a pretty good array of ptions, including the OP"s own. A few thoughts - - Early .44 stainless in either 16" or 20" are pretty rare beasts (I think I found what I swear is the only 20" Interarms SS .44 in the country - for a friend several years back--of all plac...

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Griff wrote:Prayers up for you big sis, El Chivo, and for you dennie.

+1 prayers sent up for all

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Prayers sent from Az, - Jeff let's kick this thing in the butt! Get back soon!

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I don't sail and this stuff is great!! Amazing today!

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For the OP, I'd think about getting a new Rossi from Steve (Nate Kiowa Jones) if he's got one set to go as he occasionally does (I did not see any though, I may have not been at the right spot on his site) - or if not in a hurry, buy used and send it off to him to do his magic (action job, mag follo...

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Hey Steve, good luck with the kerneloscopy,...as you probably know already, the prep's by far the worst part of it! I didn't know the regular (steel) Ubertis were in short supply these days. I sure enjoy my .44 Sp Cimarron Model P - also 5.5." I haven't been in my favorite local wester toy stor...

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Once upon a time, I would have listed the Winchester originals first, Browning/Miroku second, with both head and shoulders above the others. Then, I bought my Hartford-branded Rossi 92 -- 24" octagon barrel, curved steel buttplate, .45 Colt. In side-by-side comparisons with both an original Wi...

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Quote: ...The Italian M92s..." ....All are peepable, with the Browning,..." Among the Chiappas, the "Puma" name is only associated with Legacy (LSI), and is also extended to their 1886s as well. LSI is but one of at least three Chiappa 92 importers, the other two being Cimarron a...

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Steve, good write up. I actually quite like the .40, having shot a Daewoo DH40 for almost twenty years now. It's exactly what was intended, a tweener round between the 9 and .45 - in "pow" and capacity...but unlike what many say--especially for those that haven't actually owned or spent qu...

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I prefer the square bolt. I don't imagine the round bolt smoothed the action much, especially since rifles don't see as much hand fitting an polishing today, but there was one thing the round bolt did do - it made it less expensive to manufacture. A byproduct has to be a stiffer receiver, since the...

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What they ^ ^ said.

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Congrats Steve! My best bud just had his 40th - something in the Summer 1973 water?! The trip sounds amazing in the planning--I'm sure it'll be that + in execution!

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