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Although black powder is considered an explosive whereas smokeless is not, I believe black powder is more forgiving in terms of explosions. Regarding Elmer Keith's notorious .45 Colt explosion, the fact that he ground black powder to the consistency of flour, which certainly altered its characterist...

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Years ago I used to make up plinking loads in my m70 in .375 H&H using small charges of IMR3031 behind 260gr cast bullets but considering that this was apparently the perfect formula for a detonation, I cut up toilet paper sheets into fourths and stuffed a piece on top of the powder to hold it a...

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The Skeeter load of 7.5 gr of Unique behind a 240 gr lead bullet is a fine, moderately warm load at around 1,000 fps. However, my favorite is 7.0 gr of Power Pistol behind almost any 240 gr lead bullet. I have half a dozen .44 specials in Smiths and Rugers with barrel lengths from 3" to 6 1/2&q...

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Of course it does. Glad you decided to stay.

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I have heard of detonations in large capacity rifle cartridges loaded with moderate charges of medium burning rate rifle powders but detonations in handguns for any reason other than wrong powder, double charges of powder, barrel obstructions etc. are news to me. I don't doubt him but Venturino's st...

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As a pre-Father's Day surprise, Amy took me on a ride up the Sandia Peak Tram to the fancy restaurant on top of the mountain (10,300') for a nice lunch. We hiked around for a little while waiting for the resaurant to open and then enjoyed a nice lunch. tramride4.jpg There is a ski run on the east si...

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My riding buddy with his Harley (the Blue Behemoth) and my bike at Jack's Creek in New Mexico's Pecos Wilderness at 9300' elevation.

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Thanks, Jay! It was a TT600, not an XT. The Honda was a better bike from many standpoints.

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I did own Yamaha's version, an XT600 (it's been a long time ago; is that the designation for the dirt-only bike?) but I always had a heck of a hard time re-starting it after I'd dumped it. A friend of a friend, a big husky guy had an XR400 that he couldn't afford the payments on and we traded. I sho...

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I never owned an XR600 but they sure had a reputation for being kickass bikes.

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Jay, KLR Kawasakis are cool. I think they are considered 75%/25% street to dirt capable. I had an early one that I have to admit I had in a few places it really didn't belong. They are truly adventure bikes and any number of them have been ridden to Alaska or down to South America as well as on tour...

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Yep, I think those would be hard to squish between your fingers...

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ywaltz, great minds think alike. I also have an R-7 and an R-1 as well as a Chinese Beeman. Yeah, right. That R-7 is the sweetest little airgun that I've handled. The velocity is around 650fps as you say; much less than the larger R-1 but just as accurate and much more fun to carry around the woods ...

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Any way you look at it, speed is expensive.... from maintenance to fuel to insurance to traffic tickets. In four wheel drives, I've had only a few. I had a couple of early Broncos but between rusting rocker panels, tailgates and door hinge posts they left a lot to be desired. My 98 Toyota 4Runner wa...

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Yep, ya did good, Six....it looks great! And no kidding about being strong enough to hold your Jeep.

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I'll have to say that nowadays the Indians are not that careful with their environment. There are lots of Indian reservations and pueblos around the state and generally they're more trashed up than comparably-sized white villages.

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Not Walter and certainly not Jeff Dunham.....

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Heck, usually he looks like Jeff Dunham's dummy, Walter. In a couple of other pictures he looks just like Kenny Rogers minus the beard. The two mentioned, however, are honorable.

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In this part of the country most people have swamp coolers....evaporative coolers; the number of refrigerated air conditioners is smaller. They only work when the humidity is less than about 35%. We have two of them; one on the upstairs roof and the other on the ground for downstairs. Our highs are ...

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Thank you, Six!

Hey, that makes perfect sense....a parade gun! I don't imagine very many of those were made. And some of them were likely used in 21 gun salutes and such so they weren't neutered.

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My wife and I went on an early morning hike today. We live on the side of the Sandia Mountains opposite that of Albuquerque. We hiked a trail that goes from the paved road to the top of the tramway billed as the longest tram in the world. The top of the tram is at 10,300 ', the top of the mountain i...

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Enjoy your visit, Jim....and have a safe trip.

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Prof. Six, I suppose I could look it up but you're the authority on matters of this sort.... was nickel plating a factory option on Krags? Were there any Krags that were designated strictly for a civilian market or were all of them military issue?

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I have shot a couple of FN-FALs and I really enjoyed them. They are so much better that the HK-91s and 93s from a reloading standpoint. I understand that the HK design requires the chambers to be grooved for maximum reliability under the most extreme conditions but it ain't pretty. I am half-hearted...

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That's cool, Jeepnik! An Apache Black Nylon 66. I have a regular brown one that it was easy to get my kids starting in shooting at a young age with because of its light weight. I don't know that I've ever had a misfire with it....had it for over 40 years.

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Wonderful pictures, gentlemen....thanks!

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A good reminder of what it's all about. Thanks, Gunny!

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Here it's supposed to be bright blue skies, highs around 80°, lows around 50° for the next ten days. Humidity is right at 20% but it should get a bit windy on Saturday. Planning an ATV trip to the mountains tomorrow, my first of the year. The Forest Service finally opened the gates to all the old lo...

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Nice find, Vall. Beautiful checkering...

Thanks for the pictures

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A couple of my favorites are a Winchester 9422M with a laminated stock and a High Standard Supermatic Trophy...

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And she's not talking to you?! That just doesn't seem fair.

But I'm curious why you had to jump outta bed to rip it off. Were you afraid of brown sheets?

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Bill, you had said that you'd ordered a copy of Elliott Barker's "80 Years with Rod and Rifle". Have you had a chance to read it?

I have 8 or 9 books by Roosevelt. When I want to read something told plainly and sensibly, I read from one of his books. Truly a man of honor.

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Beautiful!! Thanks, Will. Great video...

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Churchill must have won the competition as it was said he had the most experience and he was the closest at only 25 yards. It's hard to say who chose the distances at which each shot but since Bradley shot at 75 yards he may have been the one expected to do the best. Heck, I don't know but it's fun ...

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BEWARE THE MAN WITH JUST ONE GUN That's been said for generations and I admit that's probably a valid statement. However, I'm more interested in the beauty, practicality and ownership of more than one. Okay, I'm not as good a shot with handguns as I was in my earlier years and I shoot a bunch of dif...

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I'm not sure you can weld up to 1/4" with a 110V mig welder but 3/16" can certainly be done. I bought a 110V years ago but found it couldn't do everything I wanted so about 10 years ago I bought a Miller 220V on sale new and have really enjoyed it. It will definitely do anything I might wa...

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Thanks for the load suggestions, Jim....and some mighty fine shooting!

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Bill, although I agree with you that Wayne is a scoundrel, I also have to think back that he very ably brought the NRA a long way while defending our freedoms during his time as executive VP.

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Gunny, I had an RCBS Jr press I bought in the early 70s that I used for all metallic cartridge reloading until I bought a couple of Dillon 550 progressives 25+ years ago. I use the Dillons solely for straight-walled cartridges and did only bottle-necked rifle rounds on the RCBS, oh and .45-70s. I pr...

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Black River Smith, there are several powders that will substitute well for Bullseye. Accurate Arms #2, Red Dot, Power Pistol and TiteGroup ought to work just fine. Of those, TiteGroup is my favorite. It's a very versatile powder which works well through a broad range of pressure levels just like Uni...

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That's really unfortunate. The bear has no fear of humans and it has already been tagged at least once for coming too close to people. This video could well put it on a death sentence list.

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Absolutely! I understand that the US has dug deep into our own stocks of military weaponry in order to supply especially Ukraine. We need to catch up again and that does not bode well for future availability of Alliant powders.

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I think the most significant reason for the shortage of Alliant powders is that they are based on nitrocellulose. Nitrocellulose is also the primary component of artillery shell propellants. The fact that the US has sent hundreds of thousands of tons of artillery shells to Ukraine over the last coup...

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They're both great books; "bibles" to me and have gorgeous pictures of Colt SAAs. They also have detailed suggestions of what has worked for the author through decades of experience.

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Also an excellent book, Dave Scoville's follow-up "Colt's Single Action Army - Loading and shooting the Peacemaker".

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There are lots of powders that can be substituted with the suspension of Alliant powder availability. One of my favorite substitutes in .45 Colt with standard loads is TiteGroup. Using 250 gr machine cast bullets over 6.2 gr of TiteGroup results in 825 fps with standard deviations under 10 fps commo...

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Me too! Hunting steel gongs spaced up a hillside from 12" at 35 yards to an 8" at 65 yards with various handguns and an occasiional levergun. It's a weekly occurrence and I've been doing it for years.

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Great idea....no?

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Around our community, people have thought it was cute to leave food out for the bears. That's pretty much a death sentence for the bears. When someone complains to the Game and Fish Dept about a bear rummaging around their house, they send out a couple of guys who find the bear, tranquilize and tag ...

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Hey, I hope you get over that today, Jay. Have a better day!

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