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Nice start on your Mancave. If it was mine I would have made the entire area under the stairwell available for more/lager safes and made the opening the safe is in now a hinged swing out bookcase to disguise the opening. But then again I am not building it. Good luck on the project.

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Not to hijack this thread of a very nice rifle but can someone explain why the 66 didn't have removable sideplates and the 723 did? OP, your friend who owns this rifle is one lucky man.

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The 48" fluorescent lights are the ones that really bug me. The 8 footers are are designed completely different and take less than 10 seconds to replace. Commercial and consumer products are worlds apart, the commercial ones are expected to work.

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If you are getting the Dixie reloadable shells just load them with black powder which is what the gun was made for and is available online right now.

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My sister called yesterday from Sask. She said it had been raining hard but no mention of flooding. I hope all of our Northern friends are ok.

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If you go to IMR website they have instructions on how to calculate any loading.

http://www.imrpowder.com/PDF/Trail-Boss-data.pdf

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And it is?

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I think people who complain about crescent buttstocks are being a little overdramatic. When these rifles were made the average man weighed about 130-150 lbs dripping wet if that. Nowadays, I have yet to see very many of the population over the age of 12 this weight, present poster included. If they ...

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I love western and prairie Canada. My sister married a Canadian and has lived in Edam, Sask for over 35 years now. Beautiful country in the summer when I have been there. I helped drive truck during the wheat harvest a few different years when I have been there. Up at 6 am and they are still running...

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Don't move to Oregon, it will cost you as much or even more than California. Oregon used to be a nice little state 60 years ago but then we go invaded by almost 4 million people, mainly from California. There is probably only 1 in 20 native Oregonians over the age of 30.

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I wonder how up to date the pricing is. I saw the SKS's at $198.00, less than half of US price. All the Chinese .22 rifles looked nice, again prices 1\2 of US prices for a comparable gun. I would buy that little levergun in a heartbeat. They have a lot more in stock than I see in US. Didn't know any...

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They are strong. When I was in grade school way, way back in the previous century, my best friend's family had a standard poodle. It was his job to walk the dog after school as both his parents worked (not very common in those days) and the dog had been in the house all day. That dog would drag both...

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Too bad the US government doesn't take tornado safety for it's citizens as seriously as it did for a nuclear attack in the Cold War era. I can remember people digging bomb shelter's and reinforcing basement areas as shelters. My stepfather built a new home in the late 50's and it had a bomb shelter ...

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I had to take SS disability 13 years ago at age 49. I did not want to, I wanted to work but my body gave out early. My doctor said my body's actual age was 15 years older than it's chronological age. Having worked since I was 8 years old it did not exactly set right with me, but years of hard physic...

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In the day a friend of mine had a '62 Galaxy with a factory 406 V8. The Ford 406 is the counterpart to the Chevrolet 409, an earlier version of less displacement to the Ford and Chevrolet 427's. That car was a sleeper. I have driven a lot of muscle cars and I can say they were all fun, drunk or sober.

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I loved my factory job in the 70''s and the 80's. Was making $20,000 a year plus good benefits, health insurance that people would kill for nowadays and retirement plus had worked myself up to three weeks vacation with four weeks pay. Short story after 14 years company gets bought out, close plant a...

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Going thru the same after living in my house for 26 years. Am having a hard time letting go of things having been raised to save things in case you may need them, but I am beginning to realize that I cannot save everything. At 62 this is a new world for me but I am beginning to let go of outdated or...

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Unfortunately incidents of hunters getting shot by other hunters has been happening since the advent of firearms. I am 61 years old and remember the aftermath years later when my dads best friend got shot pheasant hunting. He had survived serving in WWII without a scratch and got shot in the late 40...

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In 1971 a good friend of mine and I were gifted a 1950 Chevrolet pickup. We had drive 70 miles to the farm where it was stored at. When we got there and looked at it we realized it was more of a matter than just putting a battery in it and starting it. The six cylinder engine and transmission lay cr...

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If wolves aren't the devils handmaidens then why are they so reviled in folklore. Centuries of writing about wolves have not portrayed them as anything but bloodthirsty killers. 2000-3000 years ago to the almost present time they have always been written as bloodthirsty killers, about the only anima...

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I don't have the box but I do have some 16 ga. slugs that I bought in the late 60's. I think I also have some older paper shells too. I haven't shot my 16 ga. in a while as it has a problem with the firing pin.

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Can you post a link to his post advertising his bullets. I went over there but did have any luck finding him. Thank you

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When my wife and I were first married (27 yrs ago) she wanted to get a cat. I said yes and this cat went everywhere with us. We used to go camping, fishing and boating almost every weekend for 5 months out of the year and we took the cat with us. We would put him in the camper with the boat behind u...

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I don't remember where I read it but according to what I read was that he bought a .35 cal Remington model 8 and had it modified for a 20 round magazine. People today take fixed magazine rifles and convert them so why couldn't they do this in the 1930's?

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One of the worst beer I ever tasted was an off brand called Rhinelander. Cost me $1.99 a case in 1971. Yuk| Some other bad beers were Blitz, Blatz, Olympia, Schlitz and Rainer. Now a days in Oregon we have lots of good beers. There are lots of brewpubs which are mini breweries and taverns combined. ...

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One thing is when cats of any size don't want to be seen or found they won't. All a housecat is a junior size mountain lion. Years ago we were going to give a cat away to our brother in laws mother. We kept the cat in the house and when she came to get him he was no where to be had. We tore the hous...

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Today is the first time I found this thread. I read it beginning to end non stop. I am just speechless at this man's ability to create such a beautiful and functional rifle. He is a true old fashioned craftsman that seems to be a dying breed in America. I really enjoyed reading the entire thread and...

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Anyone know who he is? Looks like a lot of people in the West in the mid 1850's.

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If your rifle is 32 S&W Long why don't you buy 32 H&R Magnum cases and cut them to the right length. All the 32 H&R are just longer version of a 32 S&W.

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I have a 1972 Dodge 3\4 ton PU with no rust. In Oregon we do not salt the roads so our cars & trucks last a long time. Also my daily driver is a 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury in original condition with 98,000 miles and also no rust.

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My dad passed away 30 years ago at the age of 56. He was the one who taught me how to shoot, hunt, fish, work on cars and all the other things fathers teach their sons. There has not been a day that I have not thought about him since. He was in the Marines in WWII having joined the day after Pearl H...

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The animal rights people would have a different tune to play if they had to spend a couple of days unarmed in the wilderness surrounded by a wolf pack. Maybe I could start a new business: Campouts In The Wilderness With Wolves. The survivors if any might have a complete new tune.

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I wonder if this can be made with black powder to shoot in a .44 1858 Remington reproduction with a cartridge conversion? If you could figure out how much black powder to load it should work as well ones loaded with Unique.

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The Greyhound racing tracks have an adoption program for them and they do not charge for them from what I have read. Seems like it would be the way to get a coyote eliminating pack of Greyhounds.

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I love your reply to her. Every time I go to Wallmart(which is about as little as possible) I see dozens of her clones in the store. Makes me want to rush home and take a shower to wash off the feeling. To me it is not humor, it is an unpleasant fact that these people exist.

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My dad joined the Marine Corp Dec 8, 1941. He was in the first wave to the Solomon Islands, spending two years there. When I was kid watching John Wayne movies on TV he said he had met him several times. The way he said it was the Duke would frequent bars where servicemen were and buy rounds of drin...

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People have been improvising or making do with what they have for centuries. One time years ago I was out hunting with a couple of friends in my $50.00 1950 Chev PU when the engine quit 30 miles from the nearest town. We discovered that the distributor cap rotor had self destructed the metal tang th...

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I remember when St. Helens blew. The first time was about noon, everything went dark and the street lights came on. Then the ash started falling. It was eerie, like something out of a scifi movie. And this was in Portland, Oregon. To get rid of the ash my neighbors & I connected fire hoses to th...

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My two cats are unafraid of dogs. More than once have people walking their dogs let the dog on our lawn and the cats have attacked the dogs. There are several of the regular dog walkers who walk their dogs on the other side of the street now. When I was a kid we had one of our cats get in a fight wi...

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Everyone that I have played poker with for the last 45 years has always referred a full house of 3 aces & 2 eights as the "deadman's hand". I never knew the supposed reason for it until about 10 years after starting to play poker. For some reason in a lot of the late and all night card...

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I watched some of the shows on the History Channel on cowboys and cattle drives in the last couple of weeks. In one they said one of the first things they did at the end of the drive was to buy some new, fancy clothes before going out hellraising in the saloons, gambling halls and whorehouses. I don...

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You might want to try Dan & Louis Oyster Bar Restaurant. They are a Portland icon and have been around since 1907 in the same family. Just a suggestion and the website is http://danandlouis.com/

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