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Ray Newman

I have three favorite heavy bench rifles: Shiloh-Sharps #1, 34" barrel, .45-2.4" and with scope it weighs just shy of 25 lbs. Sharps Borchardt M1878, 34" barrel, .45- 2 7/8". Weighs about 14 lbs. Browning BPCR rebarreled to .30-40 and with scope it weighs about 10-11 lbs. My leve...

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Soon to be banned in: CA, IL, NY, MA, CN, NJ, etc.

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I watched the video. To me, it looked like the results of believing and watching too many TV cop shows. Thankfully, I do not watch TV. Instead I sit the recliner, turn of the hearing aids, and read. The Squeeze is the TV person and she watches many of the cop/bad guys shows. Several months, there wa...

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Link to auction photographs: https://horstauction.smugmug.com/Januar ... n-Auction/

Link to PDF description of photographs: https://www.horstauction.com/wp-content ... jangun.pdf

No buyers premium.

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Identify as a transgendered Honduran and you might go to the head of the line....

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Blaine wrote: "VA sends insulin for a very reasonable co-pay and the other supplies are free."

Free? Free? Blaine, you paid for them with 20 years of service.

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This natural gas ban on stoves is not surprising. I recall about 15-20 years ago, the Greens here in Washington publicly saying that after coal goes, we'll go for natural gas. People laughed at them. The Left/Greens never give up and keep pushing their agenda until they get what they want either thr...

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Two big questions: when will stocking dealers be supplied and the per pound will be??....

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"They should have called it .360 Creedmoor. Then it could have done anything better than anything else."
--OldWin

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Griff very good point!

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WVFarrier: yup, hard to beat the ol' tried and true Unique.

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JIm: enjoyed reading your experience on Christmas Eve as it brought back a few memories. After reading it, I thought this country really needs more people like John Chovan. Sad to say, but such people are very few and very far between these days. Wishing you and the board members the merriest of Chr...

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Christmas 1965, about 12 miles south of Danang air base. Early morning. Cold rain. Soaked to the skin, water leaked into my boots. So dark I could not see my hand in front of my face, so quiet I heard my own heartbeat, M-14 and cartridge belt weighed me down into the water and mud. Heard something f...

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Ol’ No. 7: yup, the H&R Officers Trapdoor is a good little carbine. I have “waiting in the wings” buyers for mine. As for adjusting the the Buffington sight leaf, I first shot the ol’ infantry rifle at 100 yds, utilizing two targets. One was about 18+” above the other and aimed for the lower tar...

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Back-In-The-Last-Century, I often watched a fellow Black Powder shooter with his Trapdoor infantry rifle, carbine, and cadet rifle shoot at 100 and 200 yards. If memory serves me, he said shooting the Buffington at those distances was not that difficult. Just h remove the arsenal front sight blade a...

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"....One video I recently saw he was talking about one contractor that had NOBODY that would work! THAT is what the govt payouts do, why work when you can get paid for sitting at home and watch TV or play video games!" --1894cfan Or is the result of years of the educational system telling ...

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I and others aid off our student loans. Any chance we'll get a refund?

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For those Not-In-The-Know about the five Sullivan brothers in WW II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers

Then there are the Four Chaplains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Chaplains

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Colleagues: thanks for the information and not so veiled “encouragement” to spend my money. Believe it will be an enjoyable rifle to shoot paper at 50 yds or so. .44Shooter: Lyman #50 has a 250gr jacketed load for IMR 4227, which sort of surprised me. I think the old tried and true Unique will be a ...

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Colleagues: am seriously thinking about a Henry Repeating Arms New original .45 Colt Henry rifle (model Ho11C). I selected the .45 Colt calibre as I am set up to load .45 Colt and a .44-40 would mean buying dies, brass, etc. I have a good supply of Berry copper plated lead 250 grain .45 Colt bullets...

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Back about 40 years ago, I knew a shooter who had a 3rd Model Dragoon with a shoulder stock and barrel leaf sight. Can not recall the manufacturer. For me, it was interesting experience shooting a revolver with a shoulder stock. If I recall correctly, the revolver shined when loaded with a full hous...

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Wishing our UK members a happy Guy Fawkes Night. Enjoy the celebration, bonfires, fireworks, visit the pub, "Remember, remember the fifth of November."

For those Not-In-The-Know about Guy Fawkes: https://www.history.com/news/guy-fawkes ... ef-history

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Nice find and a great calibre. Good luck and much shooting enjoyment with it. I have only heard about the M1888 Marlin, now the myth IS reality!

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Good score! Check to the chamber length as there are two lengths of .38-55 brass now available -- 2.080 and 2.125. More information from Starline -- https://www.starlinebrass.com/articles/ ... -55-rifle/

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Old Savage is onto it!

Looking back, prices always seem to be really cheap or economical. That is because we forget how little we or or our parents/grandparents were making Back In The Day.

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Blaine: well done! Convey my best wishes for continued success to her. You did well.

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Pitchy: I read above that you have no insurance. If I recall correctly, VA denied your application for VA disability compensation a few years ago. I have a friend who only receives Social Security and is a honorably discharged Vietnam vet without any service connected disability. After discussing hi...

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"The most accurate .22 I've ever had. "Royal Australian Air Force, No.7 Mk1 .22lr repeating trainer. The contract was for approx. 2500 rifles, but only a few hundred were completed." --2ndDOVC Great score and a hard to find rifle! When I was collecting Enfields, I had a BOLO for a Enf...

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Be still my heart! Nice looking M1885.

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Then there always is a Winchester M1885 .22LR --either Hi or Lo Wall --in schuetzen configuration complete with the manure fork (AKA palm rest):

https://www.merzantiques.com/product/w3 ... iber-22-a/

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Agree with what VanceLW posted above. Currently I own a Browning 1886 rifle and a carbine. Solid, well made with tight fit, smooth action, and accurate. I would not hesitate to recommend one of the Brownings. As for action strength, I keep my loads at about Black Powder velocity. A did try some hi-e...

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Griff: check your PM's. Thanks.

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Griff: I will measure the barrel length tomorrow. Believe it is a 28" octagon.

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Colleagues: I have a .32-40 Winchester M1885 Limited edition .32-40 that needs a new home. Just have not shot it much in the last 10 years or so since I bought it new, so it sits in the safe. Really needs a new home. Problem: I have spent time looking on the net and cannot find any for sale. Anyone ...

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Reminds me of the time I bought a sealed bag of new Winchester .45-70 brass from Cabela's. Did an initial re-sizing and saw that 3-4 were stamped "Hornady".

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I'll add and say as you get older, you become less apt to tolerate or be with people you really do not like.

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Be still my heart!

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Received this in an E-mail from Wolfe Publishing. Hope all the rifles look as good as the one in the article.

https://www.riflemagazine.com/henry-s-n ... gate-rifle

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In the 1870's, the Sharps Rifle Company catalogues gives information as to how to reload their cartridges for hunting or target shooting. The earliest catalogue reprint I have is the 1875 and the information is included in that issue. Sharps also sold reloading equipment for its various calibres. Mo...

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I have no solid/proven facts about the primer situation. All I know for certain is I have cut back on my shooting. The local gun shop for the last 18 months has been talking about a mythical nation-wide primer release within the next 45-60 days. And this from a place that has very little ammunition ...

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This thread brought back A memory. In Fall of 1964, when I was in infantry training regiment at Camp Geiger, the Marine Corps issued M1 rifles. At Parris Island, we trained with the M14, but we were issued M1's at Gieger as the Corps reasoned that our allies were issued M1's and someday, someplace, ...

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"Not everyone gains wisdom with age and experience. Some people just get older without having anything to show for their time lived."
--piller

You mean democrats?

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"A lot of finger pointing is going on now, and everyone is looking to blame somebody. I'm just not certain we'll ever see an accurate, reliable report."
--MarlinMan

Spot on.I keep think of the old saw: "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth comes out"....

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You are spot on. I am 76 and can look back on a number of things that are unknown or alien to too many. One thing that I have observed today, is that political ideas or theory are taken as religious dogma and there is no changing or alteration of that even if the theory or idea is or was in the past...

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My godfather, landed in the gliders night of 6/5-6/'44. He was later wounded and sheltered by a Dutch family during subsequent fighting in the Netherlands. Ne never spoke about any of his military experiences.

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"Remember that we have good folks trying to do a good job. There’s a lot of finger pointing going on. Some may be justified and some is just bull stuff."
--Scott T.

BINGO!

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"Sad day, but he's beyond fretting about what happened all those year ago. May he rest in peace! Glad his daughter has been able to put the past behind her."
--1894CFAN

Agreed!

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25-20 Single Shot or Winchester?

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This malady is known to exist in the H&R Trapdoor M1873 Officers Model. My Officer's Model locks up tight and never ficked open the trapdoor upon firing. But to err on the side of caution, I took it to the local gunsmith who fixed it. If I recall correctly, John Taylor created a "flat"...

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Tutt: interesting campaign you are embarking on. I wish you success. Does the front sight or the barrel have a spirit level to prevent “cant”? For those Not-In-The-Know about “cant”, see: https://www.chuckhawks.com/canting.htm Speaking about a 1-mile shoot, there also is the Wasserburger Mile – Blac...

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