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The best dove hunter know shot 15 doves with 23 shots one day, including 3 doubles! I couldn't believe it. I really felt better later that year when he MISSED a standing turkey at 15 yards. I The worst dove hunter was explained to me at Doc Carlson's Shop one afternoon in dove season. Doc told me ab...

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Was it Omar Bradley? who told a private one time... " The farther up the tree the monkey may be the more of his *** hole you can see".

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If you mean what gun put the most settlers in the west you would have to consider the Sharps rifle at the top of the list. Until the buffalo were gone the settlers didn't come in. The SETTLERS carried and brough the shotguns. Yes the shotgun is versetile and a favorite of many, but it was the big bo...

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Never heard of such a thing and I have fixed a few M87 originals and even welded up cracked frames on a couple. I trashed the leather on my 87 copy after i choked it and most of the ones around here have done the same.

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I have handled three of these and shot mine with match grade hand loads. It will group under 1" at 100 yards with the target grade peep sights IF you are that good a shot! All I have seen had excellent bores and were still shooters, but they did have what I would term as moderate throat wear. I...

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I started sahooting damascus shotuns over 30 years ago. I was lucky enough to get instruction and some tooling from V. M . Starr and I shot a M/L double he smooted oout for a long time. I just finished reboring a hudson bay doulbe gun for a buddy to use for rabbits. Alltogether I must have worked on...

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EVERYTHING is dangerous, you just choose how much danger you can live with. Hey for some folks walking and chewing gum is DANGEROUS. I think the idea here is to get the newbie thinking safety right off the bat.

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Factory specs on revolvers runs from 6 to 9 thousands gap. I prefer 4 thou but can live with 6. Yes it can be too close, for example I shot a Merwin and Hulbert that had 3 thou gap and it was almost unusable with black powder, the fouling tied up the gun in 6 shots or less. More than 9 thou won't ca...

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First sand the butt stock flat. Then put the pad in place and scribe around it. Then put the pad in your butt pad jig and set the angle for the slant of the stock. Then just sand to the scribed line. Or put masking tape on the stock. Sand right to the tape and don't sand into the stock.

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I'd say a 28" barrel on the long winchester, although you could get them up to 36 inches at a dollar per inch. That would put the cowboy at 5-6 to 5-8" or just about average.

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Many thanks for the link.

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Take a screwdriver insert and cut off the shank, then slot with a diamond tool on the dremel. Works much better and you have a GOOD handle to boot. I always make my own.

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That 3000 grain bulllet will be HOW long? Trail boss is dandy for plinking loads in the 45-70 and for 45 Colt 5.0 grains is a nice 700+ fps load. I shoot 4.5 in my 45 Schofield as the standard load.

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I use either a Weaver 3x or a Redfield 1.5 to 5 for all my scoped rifle hunting. I have killed deer out to a measured 268 yards with the scope set at 2.5X and I don't think I ever shot anything at over 3X. Had a 222 with a 6X scope on it once and couldn't pick up running coyotes fast enough with it ...

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Re line it ! That will make a swell shooter in 25-20 a perfect small game round that is reloadable.

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"So send not to ask for whome the bell tolls, It tolls for thee."

That he toched your like made his life woth while, would that I could be remembered like that.

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Wait a minute, originals not expensive? In 1950 my Dad was a homicide investigator and made the princely sum of $4500 a year! He scrimped and saved to by a $35 dollar rifle. It's nice to look in the old books and see what they cost , but you still have to take into account what wages were. And who w...

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All right the 25-Remington was made to deliver just a little better ballistics than the 25-35 and used a pointed bullet. The cases while not identical are close and 25 remington cases can be formed from 30-30 brass with the rim trimmed off and a extractor groove cut in. I made a special cutter for m...

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I have a bunch of badges from Nebraska. My Dad was an investigator for Omaha/Douglas County and went all over the State on loan out. Seem like he usually came home with a badge. Adding to the fake info, some of the small agencies bought some of the cheapest badges you ever did see and some MADE thei...

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Ever watch Pawn Stars ? The short answer is you paid full manufacturers suggested retail when 6 mo later the discount houses were floggin off the reamins at 2/3 the price. BUT I have never heard of shooting a ruger so loose the cylinder turns backwards? I think that one would go back to the factory ...

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Haviing dealt with a few Feds just like that I laugh every time.

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I also made meat this year with a 35 Remington but I was shooting a 200 gr cast bullet at 2100 fps. That was some good shooting though.

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That's how I was taught to use a buckhorn by my grandfather. A good shot can do surprisingly well out to 300 yards or more with a buckhorn, IF he is willing to learn and PRACTICE.

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What you don't realize until you are actually there is what it takes to make a movie safely and what the prop department goes through. First off until recently there simply wern't replica's. I remember buying the FIRST replica 1851 Navy that anyone had ever seen. The porp departments up until the bi...

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Guns of the Gunfighters by Doc O'Meara goes into this in detail and covers most of the TV and Movie Western heros. One of the best was Annie Oakley (Gail Davis) who carried a Colt Poliice Positive with an ejector rod, because she couldn't get her hands around a SAA. The book not only describes the g...

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He did it exactly right too. I've done a few that way and the gun will last forever for you now.

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Cooper's Hawk? They are know for lurking over feeding areas. I got a picture just about like this off a neighbor's feeder last year, just to identify the hawk.

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Watch out it's a ... Hambush!

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I checked my 94 book and that is not a a factory sight for a M94 Winchester. It is not a C/C Winchester sight as I have one of those in the drawer in front of me. I do have several identical to that sight and they all came off of 22's and Savage may be right.

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Shot a whitetail through the lungs with a .50 muzzleloader one year and my flashlight conked out on me while tracking. By the time I found it the next morning the coyotes had got the meat. I have tracked wounded deer up to 4 miles but I have pretty much always found them. I was called in to track a ...

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Shortly after reading this I had a fellow calll and ask if I couold find him some 348. I checked Buffalo Arms and $63.00 a box plus shipping. WOW it's been a long time since I got any of that stuff. You done good!

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As to the original photo... if that is a real pre 1900 picture that would either be a VERY independent women or a soiled dove. As late as the 1950's my grandmother would have considered that clothing and that pose as disgusting and somewhat immoral. No DECENT women wore pants, or mannish looking clo...

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That's a rear sight off a 22 of some sort, it is not what shold be on the 94 Rifle.

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At $500 DEALER cost that is one spendy derringer! I like the looks but I think I'll wait and see if the price comes down.

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Love it I have had one for years and it's used ragged.

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Try Track of the Wolf, I seem to remember adapting one of their Hawken butt plates for the 73 one time. The catalog has full size pictures so you can match up pretty good. Otherwise go to Cimarron Fiirearms and order a Uberti.

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Well it was born at Dedll in 2008 and...

Deer camp with deer hanging from the meat pole and a 1886 leaning on the cabin door.

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Two flat brass bars drfilled and tapped like a big tap wrench works nice or I have a 22" cresent wrench with brass jaw liners. Remember to put a spacer in the action if the barrel is tight.

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Check the bore real careful with a tight patch for a loose spot. That failing try GPC for a used 336 barrel they aren.t that much and would be easy to change. I have a couple I got for $30 each.

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A friend of mine near Wahoo had a couple of Burgess guns and one was a cutaway. The gun pumps by sliding the pistol grip back and forth. Gun Digest in about 1967??? had a real good write up on these. I have handled them and worked them but nrever got to shoot one.

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If the hole in the nipple is anywhere close to say a #51 drill bit it is too big and you need a new nipple. Also the mainpring should be fairly stiff, most of the new repro's are a tad weak to start with. A GOOD lock will have a crisp and stout hammer pull.

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Get some Brownell's Acra Glass Gel and glue and fill the cracks. Then cut yur rawhide into strips and wet well. Bind the staff with the wet rawhide and tuck under the end of the wrap. Let it dry hard and then coat it with waterproofing, cactus juice works ok and so does Tru Oil if you don't have any...

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Uh Teddy started with a 1876 then a 1886 in 45-90 and then a 405 Model 1895. In his various writings he refers to both the 1876 and the 1895 as big medecine. In Ranch Life he gives his loading data for his 45-90, if I remember right a 300 grain bullet and Lightning powder. I also have a Harper's mag...

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I just finished a 336 Marlin for a customer. The gun started as a cheap birchwood carbine. We sent the barrel to JES Reboring and it came back perfect. The bore is 376 on the nose and the chamber is perfectly cut. The 3 groove barrel is deep cut rifling and it handles cast like a dream, the test gro...

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One more time Chapparral and quality don't go in the same sentence. They buy the parts from the lowest bidder in Italy and then when they are shipped here they mix and match to build a rifle. 38-40 rifle with a bore big enough to stick a 40 jacketed slug in from the muzzle. Sights with two milling c...

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First as to the repairs, just clean it and get it working and leave it as is, that gun worked hard to get those dings and each one is a whole story. The forearm wear looks like it was rubbing on a buggy seat as one I fixed for a buddy a while back. In that case the owners granddaughter told of how t...

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When the guns were marked they were in military possession and were ISSUED for DRILL and were supervised by the Sgt in charge. When truck loads were sold to various folks here some greedy folks failed to tell customers the guns were wall hangers only. That isn't the fault of anyone but the greedy gu...

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Just finished rebuilding two of them for a frined. Both had short/long breech blocks with a reversible stop that lets the gun shoot short or long. Another friend has an original in 22 short that is in about mint condition. Every rendevous he brings it out to shoot squirrels for the pot. They are fun...

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I saw Tycer's photo and thought it was ME. That's my reply the 86 is IMHO much smoother than the Marlin. I wouldn't trade my 86 for 3 Marlins.

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The DP means DRILL PURPOSE and were not meant to be fired! It would take very little research to prevent this.

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