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not sure if this one has been posted on here before

found it browsing the "gallery of the open frontier" gallery.unl.edu

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My wife went today too with her LCP, she said it was packed!

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So along this train of thought, can i use a 30-30. Fc die on other .30 cal cartridges? Whats the difference between one for 30-30 and one for 30-40?

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been listening to a book about the Little Bighorn. It said after 8-10 rounds some troopers were having to use their knives to pry cartridges out of their trapdoor springfields, as either the actions were too gunked up or the copper shells were too soft. which made me wonder about the Sharps rifle (w...

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First picture I've seen of it. quite a price tag though!! http://www.galleryofguns.com/genie/Default.aspx?item=H011&mfg=All&mdl=All&cat=All&type=All&cal=44-40&fin=&sit=&zipcode=85650 If the link doesn't work, go to www.galleryofguns.com and search by caliber for .44-40

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Very cool gun! I like the hacked down enfield too. I got to handle a trapper length 1885 highwall recently, i suppose that'd be heresy to some but i thought it was pretty cool and handy. One in 38-55 would be pretty neat. I also love some of the sporterized and scouterized krags i see. There's a fel...

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Cool, thats a cartridge that i wish would make a comeback!

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Wonderful, congrats!

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Welcome! Would love to see some vintage hunting pictures!

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This led me to enfield-snider.com. Neat site! I really like the look of those carbines. Would look awful nice next to a trapdoor, sharps in 50-70, and a spencer! I'd better go win the lottery.

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BlaineG, This was the first year (since i've been down here) that you could get two tags instead of one. You could get one in the draw and later buy a leftover tag, though your second tag had to be for a different hunt. But since the west bank is a different hunt unit than the east bank, i got a tag...

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Thanks for the info. Going to consult cartridges of the world now to educate myself on 450 adams and 476 enfield.

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javelinas are not the most delicious table-fare, but a hoot to hunt. I was still-hunting the San Pedro River here in southern Arizona and came upon a herd spread across the river. I managed to take a pig from either bank before they scooted out of the river and into the mesquite thickets. The shots ...

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going to a bachelor party?

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I know about the winchester '76s in 45-75 for the Mounties, and the 1895s chambered in .303 most likely for the Canadian and British markets, and that got me wondering. . . What are Canada's most historically significant cartridges? What are the similarities and differences from the cartridges that ...

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thanks for the info guys. i have some mule deer left that's just over a year, and it didn't seem right to pitch it. glad i can save it. thanks!

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How long can you safely/tastily keep frozen game meat?

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Cool! Is it an original? Any idea what year?

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Like Buck said, I'd love to see the rebirth of the 44 henry centerfire. Heck, the 56-50 was reincarnated as a centerfire for the spencer repros with starline making brass. Seems like the henry could get a new lease on life. Cant be too far off from 44 russian

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Like Griff said, it's been the service rifle since the mid-sixties. 3 generations of americans have carried these. My leverguns are my favorite guns, but holding an ar is like visiting my hometown. A roots gun, so to speak.

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thanks for the heads-up, i believe i'll grab one if i see it

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damienph wrote:No kidding, I put off buying a BCG for an AR build I did. Just used one out of one of my other ones. Too late, if you can find one in stock somewhere they are going for. $300+/- for a part that a was $125 last Thursday.

American Spirit Arms had BCGs in stock as of this morning for $160.

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But who would own remington? Maybe remington wouldn't want them anymore? I guess we'll see.

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I see on news that Cerberus, the parent company of the Freedom Group, which controls Marlin is going to dump these companies. Hopefully this turns out to be a good thing for Marlin, and not Marlin's death, since at the moment Remington seems to be producing pretty gross copies of the New Haven Marli...

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You know I actually like a collapsible buttstock. 1. People of all sizes can shoot it comfortably. 2. You can adjust the length of pull to suit yourself in different clothing, t-shirt vs winter parka. But I got to admit that wood buttstock does take away a little of the homeliness.

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Boy, i would love to know the answer. I'm going to guess the AR has sold more, just because the military probably buys alot more rifles than pistols.

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I really like my Cimarron 1911. They call it a 1911A1, but there isn't really much A1ish about it, it's more of just an old school 1911, the target audience is Wild Bunch CAS shooters. The gun was made by armscor, the same folks who make the RIA pistols. I thought maybe it was a bit rough until i co...

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They are slow, and i've found it really hard to get a hold of a real person there or get an email reply, but take heart, your stuff will get to you. I just got an upper from them that took 17 business days to ship, which is to say, a month. It's nice though.

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Thank you for your knowledge gents, I'll pass it on and later ressurect this thread when I know his results.

Thanks!

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A friend had his 336 reamed to .30-30 Ackley Improved. He's going to start tinkering around with Hornady's Leverevolution powder, 160gr FTX bullets, and 140gr Monoflex bullets. Has anyone here cooked up any recipes with these ingrediants for the Ackley? If he gets a load worked up in time he's looki...

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Wow! Beautiful! Sure would be fun to take that one squirrel hunting!

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Prayers sent

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Neat! I think I'll get one, for my sons of course, ahem.

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Boy, i say keep it and do lots of fun and cheap plinking with it! I dont know if you can shoot doe in maine, but i think trying to take a doe with it a close range would be a real fun challenge! If you get rid of it you're going to end up singing the 32-20 blues! Do a search for "robert johnson...

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I do as well and don't find it difficult. I did the math and decided it was going to be alot cheaper than buying factory ammo.

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old border patrol picture

keep an eye on them Canadians, Pitchy, eh?

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Wow! That would be a great one for the calendar!

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great! Thank you! That's the same headstamp. After reading that article Winchester used that headstamp up until 1946. So there's no knowing if it is from the Revolution, however it is correct for that period. Check the primer size....Didn't it say Winchester went from small to large in 1920? by gum...

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great! Thank you! That's the same headstamp. After reading that article Winchester used that headstamp up until 1946. So there's no knowing if it is from the Revolution, however it is correct for that period.

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I wonder if the javelina would like it? might save me a bunch of stumpin' around.

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I was wondering if anyone could give me a rough guess of the age of a 30-30 shell I found. The reason I'm so interested in one of the most common cartridges you'll ever find brass laying around for is that I found this shell on a former battleground of the Mexican Revolution and it would be neat to ...

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They're great! WWI in color is airing now too

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Pitchy, Throw a 94 with a 20" and a 92 with a 16" barrel up to your shoulder. If you can get your hands on an M4, try it also. The conventional wisdom was always a longer barrel produced a greater site radius hence greater accuraccy. The opposite always held true for me, even as a young m...

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if you settle on the browning, make sure you try cycling one first. the lever throw is so short that, to me anyway, it doesn't feel "lever-gunish" enough.

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Old Ironsights wrote:I'd say "Talcum" and "Corn Starch"...

HA! nice. Gold Bond these days.

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my uncle is a gun guy, and a SASS guy, and a western author! so if you'd like to read some westerns that don't have firearms errors, I can recommend Bruce Thorstad. as I recall, he was annoyed by the cover art (in which he had no say-so) as the clothing or firearms weren't quite right.

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It is obvious you have never been exposed to the Mescalero res. in south central N.M. This tribe has it together. As for the poster who said the only tribe that has never signed a treaty with the U.S. I beg to differ. Ever hear of the battle of round rock? real pretty up there! gotta say I'd much r...

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JohndeFresno wrote:We can start with IMR 4895 (that's what immediately comes to mind).

IMR = "Improved Military Rifle"

no kidding! I didn't know that's what IMR stood for. was it a .30-06 powder initially?

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I had seen that too! Very nice. They got the chambering wrong though - it's in 6.5mm Norwegian. :twisted: Oly Darn straight, Oly. You know vat dey say: ten tousand svedes ran troo da weeds, chased by one norvegian! http://www.pbase.com/olyinaz/image/127743529/original.jpg :lol: This is the only Nor...

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Just curious. which reloading powders in common usage today began life in a military application?

the only one I know of is BL-C2

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