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Cosmoline

I was trying out some .450 Marlin handloads this morning, including one using .457 soft lead roundballs. I haven't experimented with roundballs out of a modern rifle much and didn't expect much in the way of accuracy. The load is 8 grains of Unique with instant grits packed on top to keep the powder...

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If he's armed and has threatened me and is within range he's an imminent threat to my life. "Your money or your life" is not a binding contract. you did that by giving him what he wanted. Absolutely not. It has NOTHING to do with the money. The money doesn't protect me, and it doesn't keep...

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You have to realize a PROPERLY TRAINED person can and will take your gun.Now if the guy just walks up to you and BANG,then your dead.But if he is within a certain distance and says give me your money?I will give him my money Of course you give him the money. Then when his back is turned you draw an...

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I think that critter must have been getting fat eating her garden plants. Mistake!

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My stance? Modified weaver

I carry everywhere except the courthouse, no permit. Don't need one.

Cosmoline

I've been saying all along that the .327 would make the most sense out of a levergun. I don't know why they opted to target the CCW crowd. It recoils slightly less than a .357, but also produces a heck of a lot of flash and blast out of short barrel. In a carbine levergun that issue is moot, and the...

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Thanks for the insights! I do not care for the new style Guide Gun with the BIG LOOP LEVER and the Scout Scope Mount ! Marlin is clearly trying to copy some of the custom 1895's that have been built in the past decade, esp. from Wild West. I don't really care for it, either. The big loops slow down ...

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Ditto that. This state loves hard workers who know what they're doing. COL is a problem. Anchorage is on par with Seattle, and the rest of the state is much worse. The bush is downright outrageous. But you learn to adapt. One way I've kept ends together is by ditching the car completely. I go by bik...

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I kinda like them, but the real test will be in the heft, cycle and balance.

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Australia got me thinking about some films-with-leverguns that are actually good, and seem to be off of most lists for some reason. Conagher (1991). This is a made-for-TV western with Sam Elliot and his wife Katherine Ross. It's a very low-key western that in many ways could have been made in 1935. ...

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Get up bright and early Saturday and take the mighty Fram, my year-round mountain bike, 15 miles across town to the Turnagain trailhead. Do some hiking, head back up the highway and get some shooting in at Rabbit Creek range. I'm almost finished getting the Big Bore 94 rifle/shotgun ready for huntin...

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That's what everyone is saying, but they said that about "The Alamo" remake and I actually liked it.

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I had a three AE's, each worse than the last. One shot a foot off center at fifty yards, another was so badly fitted the .45 Colt shells would slip out of the tube under the elevator and jam the rifle hopelessly. That is of course apart from the innane external safety toggle, the cheap parts, the cr...

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Re. the photo, it seems this was taken by a Kodiak guide, either Bill Pinnell or Morris Talifson, on a hunt where they found the bones. Probably back a few decades, no later than the 60's. It may be from the book "Last of the Great Brown Bear Men," so I'll see if I can find out more.

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I have nothing good to say about USRAC angle ejects and I have absolutely no idea why people are willing to spend that kind of cash on them. If you're willing to spend six bills, get a REAL Winchester 94. I did, and I'm never ever looking back. It's better in every single respect than the USRACs I f...

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Not HALF as cool as ROCKET BALLS!

That gun was head of *our* time.

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In the better quality pic it was pretty clearly a Savage 99, or what was left of it.

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You fellers have it all wrong... This is OUR world, and we only sometimes tolerate the existence of such nasty critters as (including, but not limited to...) bears, wolves, coyotes, lions, jackals, hyenas, wolverines & left-wing wackos. Having lived up here for a decade, I find woods I used to ...

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In an old gunshop up here I remember seeing a cut-out of the photo with some text from a newspaper describing it. I can't remember much of the detail though, and the owner since retried so the shop is gone. I'll toss it around a local forum and see if anyone knows more.

Cosmoline

Old Savage wrote:The man chose to enter the bear's territory.

Of course, up here it's ALL the bear's territory

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This is an old photo I was reminded of by another thread a month or so ago. From what I understand it was taken on one of the islands up here and shows what's left of a levergun in the undergrowth between what's left of a man and bear who killed each other. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Guss...

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Like when we run over moose up here

Very interesting. Two shot kill sounds like you're using a big enough rifle.

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Order it 3rd Day Air. Negatory. Midway won't do it and I've never heard anyone pulling it off. One of the prices of living in the greatland. Why are you stopping at 1500fps? I run hardcast 405's in 45-70 up to 1700-1800fps I should have explained, accuracy drops off badly. I have buffalo bores but ...

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Here's some factory loaded Hornady .450 Marlin that is AVAILABLE in case you want some. Sadly it's not available to me thanks to Alaska's neighbor the Soviet Kanukistan Republics. I could get into the fact that the Alaska Highway was built with US labor on the understanding that Americans and their...

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It looks fine if it's the real thing on a vintage firearm. The wild tie-dye stuff that seems to be en vouge right now looks very ugly to me, and is an excuse for the FAILURE of modern arms makers to provide a quality blue. It gets really weird when you see revolvers that were never made in the 19th ...

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To be specific, the load I'm working up will throw the 350 grain .458" hardcast bullet at a rather sedate speed of 1500 FPS, generating only about 1750 ft. lbs. at the muzzle. That's a big drop down from what this rifle is capable of with jacketed rounds. Assuming a lower right quadrant hit ins...

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Old Time Hunter wrote:That .458 diameter is big enough on its own, as others have said. Just might slow it down some though. Yes there is a shortage of bullets, brass, primers, and powder.

By the way, how's the job hunt going?

Who's job hunt?

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That's good to know. BTW, have other people been noticing that everything is running out? I can't get .450 brass anywhere including Midway. Local powder supply is kaput. The reloading shelves remind me of a Soviet supermarket. The local ads are full of requests for basic supplies like primers. I've ...

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I'm running into a distinct shortage of bullets and brass for my .450 Marlin. The only thing I have a ton of are 350 grain hardcast FN bullets from Oregon Trail. Loading these up got me wondering, with a bullet .458" diameter to start with, and a flat nose, do you really need to use expanding b...

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I've had much better luck going with USPS priority mail, plus it's faster and cheaper.

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More refinements. As noted earlier the front sight base is canted a notch right, which causes shots to veer left and forced me to adjust the rear sight way to the right to compensate. I had a few options to fix this. One was to drill and tap a new screw hole for the base, but after taking it off I s...

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Playing Holmes for a moment, I deduce: --A cold climate (a large number of blankets and heavy clothes, longjohns underneath) --A rough area in the wilderness (guns close plus he just bought a new Savage--not a small investment back then) --Someplace where there's a mix of fowl, small game and big ga...

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The sainted Roddenberry had some far-out beliefs and tried to work them into the series as much as possible. In fairness the notion of a militarized socialist state was not really his preference, but was the result of combining the studio's demands for action with his message du jour about peace, fr...

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That reminds me of the fellow up here who stuck his head into the frozen corpse of a moose to see if there was a wolverine in there.

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Those rounds look way too big for that carbine.

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I'm taking this plunge myself. I opted to start with a mid-level .54 smooth rifle kit from Sitting Fox. I did not want to spend extra to get ultra-nice wood, since there's a fair chance I'll be screwing something up on my first attempt. If all else fails pipe clamps and duct tape will work

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Isn't that the new Ultra ultra ultra short magnum?

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If you do decide to hunt with it, *THE* bullets for hunting big game with a .303 Brit are the Woodleighs from Australia. They've taken everything on the planet this side of Elephant and are fine-tuned to expand well at low impact velocities. Midway has them in stock from time to time. I've always wa...

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Folks up here loved the 99 and used it extensively. I see far more of them in period photos than the bigger 86's. My bet is if you went back to 1910 and asked hunters what was better bear medicine, they'd tell you a 99 over an "outdated" .45-70 black powder round. A hunter on Kodiak called...

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Well first range trip went well. The doctor says my right arm will be fully functional again in three weeks after a round of physical therapy :lol: As Traister wrote about this rifle: ".. recoil was violent. At each shot, my brain felt like it was bouncing around inside my skull. Five rounds of...

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Yeah I'm not entirely sure what would happen if a .450 bullet went through the choke. It would probably just get swaged down by the lands, and the spin would be neutralized. The only way I'm going to find out is if some bruin interrupts a ptarmigan hunt.

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OK, I've worked out one possible method of shotshelling the .450. .410 shotshells are way undersized. While they might chamber and fire, the only thing that remotely fits the .450 chamber is the rim. Everything else would have to expand--including the brass base. I know from experience you can get a...

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No, but that's a fine idea.

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I did a little preemptive troubleshooting. The little thing (can't remember the name) that blocks the cartridges in the tube then lets one come back as you cycle it was still geared for .458x2. With .450 Marlins it was catching on the brass. I very,very carefully filed off little bit by little bit u...

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I had a similar issue come up. From what I could tell, Illinois considers ML'rs firearms. I had the buyer verify in writing that he was legally allowed to own the musket under Illinois law. The very safest option would be to go through an FFL I suppose, but I could not find anything in Illinois law ...

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I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but here's the Alaska job center:

http://www.jobs.state.ak.us/

Click the "job bank" link in the center to search.

The current economic problems haven't hit full force up here yet, and hopefully they won't.

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I cant see why you can't just shoot 410 Shot shells from it. They will chamber . Just might be a little long. Eather way Cutting down a 410 would be eassier than rounding over your brass. J.Michael That's an interesting idea. The rim diameters seem very similar, but isn't the .410 shell case consid...

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Very odd combo, but that's what interested me. The only test that matters is simple--will it work? Getting a decent pattern of shot with sufficient force to kill small game out of a RIFLE, even at 25 yards, is going to be tough. In past efforts I've ended up with a scattered "O" pattern at...

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If I can find the right loads for it I'll be sorely tempted to take it out for a walk and see what I can collect with it.

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I've been trying hold back on buying firearms lately, but a local collector has been clearing out some of his items and I had to have this one: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Gussick/BB941.jpg http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Gussick/BB942.jpg http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Gussic...

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