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Peter M. Eick

I load mine with 4227 and RL7. Mostly 4227. Since I switched to it, heavier bullets (mostly 180's and 200's LSWCs) my top strap cutting has stopped. 158 LSWC's are the lightest I will shoot in mine. I think I have 4 Maxes now. Great guns and lots of fun to shoot. Just stock up on brass. I bought thi...

Peter M. Eick

Chrome because I can right mouse button click and save the thread.

I save every thread I am interested in and then sort them out off line. I have been doing this for over a decade and it has turned into a great resource of information that in some cases is now lost.

Peter M. Eick

Fun gun to shoot. It is accurate enough to really force you to work on your skills but if you do you can get some nice groups out of it.

Highly recommended. It is just fun to shoot!

Peter M. Eick

I read the thread on the M14 forum out of interest. I am an M1A owner and have not bought from SEI so it was just curiosity. To me it was fascinating how the situation progressed. My perception is that CS was poor but the customer was expecting a reasonable product. It is too messed up to really sor...

Peter M. Eick

I have a solution for these type of mice.

Precision air rifle
Patience
A dark dim spot
Peanut butter
A pellet landing spot (trap)

Mix together with a bit of distance between you an the peanut butter and pretty quickly you can have your problem solved.

Peter M. Eick

I cleaned mine up by putting them in my tumbler with fresh media and polish compound. I let them run until they are shiny which can take hours to days. Once they are clean I put them in the box and hose them down with spray tri-flow lubricant. Be generous. I then take my oil patches that are left ov...

Peter M. Eick

The thing I remember about Duluth as a geologist is the "Duluth Gabbro". I large mafic intrusive that should have been great for ore deposits due to its size, age and location. Unfortunately it has the nickname of the "dilute Gabbro" in the industry as it was no where near as pro...

Peter M. Eick

Nice job. I remember that event very well. My dad and I were putting a furnace into our cottage near Traverse City. My job as a kid was to get the tools and keep the fire going so we had heat in the house. We had an AM radio on and listened to the storm reports come in. Even now I can remember how b...

Peter M. Eick

COSteve, On the boats we buy fuel by the cubic meter or sometimes by the ton. Wait till you have to sign off on say 500 cubes of MGO (Marine Gas Oil or basically diesel) at $1100 per ton. That is when you really think about fuel costs. Fortunately for me, I work for the industry that finds and produ...

Peter M. Eick

I stood a foot away from it at the NRA show and I did not like it after I studied it for a bit. The side plates looked wavy to me in the reflections. You could see the impact of over polishing. The rollmark on the barrel was deep and raised a lot of metal around the letters. The gap between the side...

Peter M. Eick

I looked at the new Henry, Henry 1860 at the NRA show today. I was not enthused. The roll mark on the barrel raised a lot of metal around the text and looked cheezy. The side panels are wavy and don't look well fitted. The receiver shows rough edges in my opinion. It was under glass so you could not...

Peter M. Eick

Nice one. I have one but it is not a 1 of 1000. Neat version!

Peter M. Eick

Of all of the guns I have sold over the years, the only one I regretted enough to chase down and buy it back was my G20.

Keep it. Buy more mags and enjoy it.

Peter M. Eick

I just had mine drilled and tapped and kept the same front sight.

Peter M. Eick

As a professional Geologist/Geophysicists, I can say that yes I have panned for gold and have been successful at it. As others have pointed out it is a lot of work for not much reward if you hand pan. I found enough to make a few small things and some decent microscope samples. In the end, if you ar...

Peter M. Eick

Mine is an 8" non-slotted. Excellent shooter.

I use exclusively 4227 in mine and lately it has been with 180 and 200 grn lead bulles. Check your manual but somewhere in the range of 20 grns is a good start.

Peter M. Eick

I am just glad those did not end up in some police gun hand in somewhere.

Peter M. Eick

http://eickpm.com/picts/dback.jpg Mine is a 76 also. I bought it used in 78 and have owned it ever since. I have shot it now more then 45,000 recorded times. Great gun and it has seen a lot of use over the years. Great gun. I often think about getting a blued nice one to go with it but never have y...

Peter M. Eick

It depends on where you live but I am keeping less than 10,000 primers in my house. I keep 10,000 in my detached garage in the ac-ed part of it. I then have 10,000 primer blocks allocated out to friends. I basically just load up a sleeve and then got to a friend and pull in another sleeve. It is cum...

Peter M. Eick

Likes just like my Iron Framed Henry but I don't have the rear peep.

Love mine. They are sure fun to shoot. I do agree you can't shoot it offhand and hold the mag tube.

Peter M. Eick

Good for at least a few years. A buddy and I went in on roughly 70,000 primers and I have been buying powder and bullets like mad lately. The biggest problem is finding friends who don't reload but are willing to sit on some powder and primers for me. You have to think about the fire code rules befo...

Peter M. Eick

Great music to think of at a Dr's office or anytime.

Good choice...

Peter M. Eick

I have mine. Great gun. Not a single issue in the first 550 rounds of ammo. Pretty impressive for an out of the box gun. Accuracy was good. The trigger was well heavy! The single magazine stinks as it is fun to shoot so you want more mags. It is easy to handle, no hammer bite. Light and fun. It will...

Peter M. Eick

Yeah, they are made here. Good stuff all in all if you want it at home. I find though that it is a lot better fresh at one of the local restaurants.

Peter M. Eick

Nice job on the math. I was just about to figure the same thing!

Peter M. Eick

You can tell if it is alcohol gas or real gas by your mileage. Here in Texas with my Toyota's I can tell quickly if the gas is real or not. 10% alcohol gas normally only gets me around 19mpg in my Highlander. Real gas gets me 24mpg. Buy a tank and look at your mileage. If it is doing well, it is rea...

Peter M. Eick

So far it seems they are spending very little time on actually building the railroad. Having spent months of my life working around the original 1868 grade in Wyoming, I was interested if they would show period correct actions of how they built the grade and the line. So far I am quite disappointed....

Peter M. Eick

As a geologist (hard rock mining was my interest and specialty back in the day), I would tell you that lead is reasonably common. If the prices go up lead will come out quickly. I am surprised though with the silver being so expensive that we are not flooded with lead. Many deposits of lead have sig...

Peter M. Eick

Yah you betcha. Great movie and reminded me of time in the UP.

I still have a "say yah to da UP eh" bumper sticker on the wall.

Peter M. Eick

Thanks Steve.

You are just down the road a bit (I am in Katy). Do you do face to face sales of the Rossi's off your web site?

I am just thinking ahead to when I decide to pull the trigger so to speak.

Peter M. Eick

Thanks.

I found that Cimarron makes 92 takedowns and I have been quite pleased with my Cimarron 1860 Steel framed so I would probably go with them. Besides they are in Texas here so I keep the business in the state.

I see Classic Winchesters are availble but quite expensive.

Peter M. Eick

What is the best manufacturer or importer of the 92's? Is it better to go older or NIB? What is the general opinion of the take down models? Reliable, or more of a gimmick? I am idly curious about the 92's for general plinking, target shooting and general use. Not for cowboy shooting or anything. Ju...

Peter M. Eick

I free hand them myself.

After a bit of practice it can be done quickly and accurately. Not as good as a machine, but I am good enough for wood and soft metal.

Peter M. Eick

Thats exactly what I tell follks. As a geologist, if it weren't for global warming, ice a mile thick would cover MI, ILL, WI, NY, and most of those other states up NE that I don't remember. Then I ask, the non-believers about how did the ice melt when we had very very few poeple on the world, no car...

Peter M. Eick

Back to the question at hand. The two domes serve different purposes and which is which depends on the engine. I cannot tell from here. One dome is the sand dome as other have pointed out. The 2nd dome is the "steam chest". Think about the problem. The boiler has some steam, and some water...

Peter M. Eick

Our local range set up some reactionary targets. These steel prairie dogs that if hit will cycle down and come back up. They go from 25 yards to 60. My shooting buddy and I decided to have some fun since normally we just shoot paper. So off with some 22's. I chose my 9422 and he used a SIG 522. Whil...

Peter M. Eick

Nice area and as described it is pretty wooded. I go camping up in Palestine and Rusk down to Weches. Great parks in there for us mini-rv'ers in the pop-up. I have been looking for land up there myself, but as pointed out it can be pretty hot in the summer so I am starting to look further west. I ha...

Peter M. Eick

Well, you are lucky that you don't have an HD model. Mine is heading back for the 2nd time with a soft slide, extraction and spring issues. If yours works great to hear. I really want mine to work eventually.

Peter M. Eick

I read it that you are doing 5.5 grns of unique with a 158.

By todays standards that is a hot +P load and close to the FBI load. You are probably duplicating it.

I shoot 5.0 grns of Unique with a 158 lead swc and have shot them for about 30 years with no problems. Great load.

Peter M. Eick

Looking for one of these? http://pages.sbcglobal.net/eickpm/henry_barrel.jpg http://pages.sbcglobal.net/eickpm/henry_032908.jpg Mine is a Cimarron in 44/40 and the iron (steel) framed one. I love it and find it accurate, reliable and just plain a hoot to shoot. The gun is so heavy that lobbing 200 g...

Peter M. Eick

While I read the article and can see his point, I find it odd that we don't see many blown up that way around here or on other forums. I cannot honestly say i remember one that I have seen a picture like that of the gun blown out that way. To me, I thought about it and racked it up to another thing ...

Peter M. Eick

Last summer I spent a big chunk of it exploring for oil around Creston Junction in Wyoming. We had the original 1868 grade running right through our project so it is now an archeological site. I can say I have now walked about 30 miles of the original grade looking at it. I found many sites where fo...

Peter M. Eick

Another vote for the 35P. I love mine and use it reasonably often. I will probably buy another just to have a spare around. I personally need the paper print out so I can log all of my shooting notes on it. I think it works great for that.

Peter M. Eick

Yeah I have a thing for 38/44's. I need to reshoot this picture because I have at least 8 or 9 more to go in it. I just have not taken the time to restage the shot again.

Nothing like that pre-war steel!

Peter M. Eick

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/eickpm/3844hd_target.jpg This guy turned 80 today and it is still banging away. I have proper pre-war wood on it now as the ivory's are too small for my hands. That is 50 rounds at 15 yrds offhand. http://pages.sbcglobal.net/eickpm/old_3844s.jpg The one on the top turned ...

Peter M. Eick

I went all adcom back in the day and then Magneplaner speakers. The Maggies want horsepower so I went individual amps for each side so I am running 3000 watts a side with 1000 watt subwoffer.

There is nothing like the sound of Magneplaner's when you feed them a good clean signal!

Peter M. Eick

As a Geologist, I would tell you these things can go on for years or decades. Volcanoes are not well understood. The reason for the ash is the hot lava is interacting with the melted glacier which flashes the lava to tephra and blasts it high into the atmosphere. This is the junk that is killing the...

Peter M. Eick

Its in Norway. It is a heck of hike back to it as I remember. I did not know what I agreed to when I said I would go but the view is quite nice. One advantage of working for an oil company is the travel. I regret not duplicating this photograph on my own. I tend to shoot the shots. Also it was windy...

Peter M. Eick

I finished mine on friday.

I screwed up and they owe me money. Only $650 but I hate the thought I have given them an interest free loan for a year.

Truly amazing to me that I pay twice as much in taxes as my whole salary 20 years ago. Astonishing how much money they take from me.

Peter M. Eick

Those came out during my period I was in college and could not even afford to think about buying a gun.

Thanks for the advice guys. I will have to seriously consider it.

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