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About 26 years ago, not too long after I bought the house I'm still in, I was walking out back and came on a bull and cow. That bull gave me "the look" and I backed off fast as heck till I was able to get to the house. The farmer that owned those cows was known for not keeping his fences u...

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Congrats on the grand baby and successfully selling your company!

1 year, 8 months and 17 days to go for me.....not that I'm counting. That will give me 35.5 years in this business. I am so ready to do something else.

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I like it! I had a Plain Jane '94 bronco with bench seats and a 302....Loved that truck! I wish you could get a stripped 4WD V8 Bronco without all the computer display stuff they put in trucks now. Heck, I would even rather have crank windows and non electric locks. In 2013 I wanted to buy a Plain J...

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That's it! Thank you very much......and yes, if I get it I will post a review. I want to mount it on to an older round top single shot shotgun, one that doesn't have a provision for scope mounts or has screw holes. If it works out well, a review and an installation picture tour will be forthcoming. ...

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A couple of weeks ago I saw a post about a type of rifle sight that was open on top, and the green aiming point on it disappeared when the rifle wasn't aligned with your eyes. I think it was called "See something" or such, but my Google Fu is failing me today and I can't find it. Anybody r...

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30 years ago I lived in a little town on the Eastern Shore of Md called Queenstown. Back then they had 7 or 8 albino greys. It was quite something to see them all chasing around at once.

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Thanks guys.....you can tell this is a society of gentlemen when I get 2 replies with good advice and 1 reply with great advice!

I will have the wife order the medium kit.

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Hello All. Its that time of year again, when the wife starts bugging me for Christmas present ideas. I think I want to tell her I'd like a holster kit. When I looked online for such things, The Tandy Co. seemed to have what I was looking for. Then the question of size came up. I'd like to make a hol...

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Hi Sitka! Nice collection of short 10's you have there. I have 2 Rem 1894's, one with 32" barrels and the other with 28" barrels. The 28"s look to be original.... Any how, the reason I'm commenting is on reloading short 10's. I've bought and not been too happy with some of the various...

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JNYORK, your comment about certain things being crass to ask about got me to wondering about regional differences in common conversation. For instance, here in Vt, most any farmer I've ever talked to was very happy to discuss how many cows they had, whether they be actively milking or just out to pa...

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I got to shoot one once. Not in the service, but I rented one at an indoor gun range near Laconia N.H. Most of my shooting is with 3" duck guns, so I leaned into it just before pulling trigger out of habit and, it felt like a 22 going off. Even full auto didn't rise all that much. What a hoot! ...

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Those videos are an absolute riot! We have red squirrels here in Vermont, and they are so destructive, they make the greys look down right domesticated. 2 years ago I declared jihad on red squirrels, and have been using my old Daisy 880 pump up pellet rifle to introduce them to their maker. Its ben ...

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so I figured I would start this one. John DeFresno's post about the stresses encountered by someone in a combat/life threatning situation sounded like a book I'd read once about what happens to a person's body when faced with a sudden deadly threat. "On Combat" by Dave Grossman was one of ...

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Wow, Oregon sounds tremendous. I had no idea....

Sounds like N. Mich has the same problem Vt has....all the young people are moving away. The Vt unemployment rate is only 3.4%. They can't find a decent job and can't afford to stay here.

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Very nice! That things darn near begs to be shot at high flying geese. Think Bismuth 2's....

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Guys, thank you all very, very much for your opinions. I am going to get out my atlas and study each of the areas mentioned. I may well PM some of you with follow up questions. The wife and I have lived in the current house for 25 years now and I/we feel like we are unknowledgable in moving related ...

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Gentlemen. in about 18 months or so, the wife and I will both be retiring from our full time jobs here in Vermont. As we can't afford to live here in retirement, we've made up our minds to leave for a less expensive state. 2 states that are on our radar are Ky and Tenn. We're looking to live a rural...

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Way back, like 30 years ago, when I was younger and broke'er, I used to load all my .45 ACP for my Colt 1917 with that exact loading tool. Never once did it jump crimp, and I wasn't bright enough to start out on the light loads...

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I once saw a red squirrel grab a dead chick-a-dee and carry it up into a tree and lay it in the fork of 2 branches and leave it there.

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The wife and I saw it last night. We thought it was a great action filled movie. It may well be the first western themed movie I've ever seen her warm up to.

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"How do I keep the ball from getting pushed down the case?" Truthfully, that was a concern before I started. I adjusted the amount of flare on the case mouth so that there is very little flare, Then I use the bullet seating die, adjusted way out, to just barely push the ball into the case ...

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On Friday, I whipped up a light load to fire in my 45-70 Marlin 1895. A buddy from work had given me a box of .457 round balls he gotten in trade for something else. I had some 45-70 brass kicking around, so I lubed and sized them and used a 2.1cc dipper to scoop of approx 9.9 grains of Trail Boss i...

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While I freely admit I don't know anything about cows, unhappy fathers are something I'm pretty familiar with...

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Sore Shoulder -- help an uninformed easterner understand the requirement to shoot a bull where its not supposed to be?

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I like it! I would like to suggest one additional modification. That is, lengthen the forcing cone. Doing so will decrease perceived recoil and tighten the pattern (due to less pellet deformation as it goes through the forcing cone).

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Its a good flick. Took the wife and teenage daughter to it this weekend. Saw it on a 62 foot wide screen. Love the visual when Enterprise engages Warp drive!

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Since you asked, I would go with the 20" 38-55, round barrel. I would put some sort of peep sight on the rear with a nice flat topped post up front. For a finish on the metal, I'd Duracoat it in black with zombie green Duracoat lightning bolt stripes at an angle. On the stock, I'd have a thin r...

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I'll tell you what I'd like ot see in the way of a new rimfire....a .25 rimfire with a 60 grain SWC bullet in a case the same length as the .22 mag. Then I'd like to see NAA come out with a 5 shot mini revolver just big enough to handle it. To me, that would be a great carry gun.

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I read a story once in one of my gun mags about a .357 Colt SAA that went full auto. It seems that in the early production .357 SAA's Colt used the same size firing pin hole for the .357's that they used on the .45's. The higher pressure of the .357 combined with the unsupported area of the primer a...

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I was using mine just the other day. 6 taps on each bullet with the blunt/wadcutter insert and I see a big difference in impact on items floating in the water (belive it or not, thats a safe shooting activity where I live). I loaned it to a friend who owns a Kimber .22 rifle. He tried it on paper an...

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Due to the thread in the link, I bought the book and loved it. I gave it to my father, who is a real Civil War buff and he loved it also.

Its a great book.

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I've had one for about 20 years now. Its an interesting little gun. The trigger pull on mine is very light, the front sight is a hard to see inverted V and the finish on mine is beat up. Having said all that, I find it to be a fun gun. Its light, has no kick, and would make a great introductory shoo...

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Years ago, many years ago, when I worked in a boat yard on the Eastern Shore of Md, when the bosses would go home for the weekend, we would cut up a few shells and shoot them into the sunken wrecks that were exposed at low tide. Typically, these were large wooden yachts with serious planking on the ...

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Thank you all for you comments, both pro and con. I'm excited to try this. There will be pics posted.....

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PS. powderinc.com is now bookmarked

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Hi Roy. Yes, that does help, thanks much.

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Guys, thank you all very much for the advice. I will go find a Lyman's Blackpowder loading book and buy it. I'm also going to buy the adj dipper from Track of the Wolf. I don't know how I missed that when I was on that site buying the hulls..... I was on the phone today with "Mike" the tec...

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Hi Roy. I have a question for you about the height of the wad column and shot. I see that on your shells the over shot card appears to be about 3/8" below the mouth of the hull. Is that because that where top of the shot happened to be or did you choose to use a total wad height that would term...

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Guys, thank you all for your advice. Hawkeye, please help me understand that term "square load". Is that where the height of the powder in the shell is equal to the diameter of the powder in the shell?

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Hello all...The day after Christmas I bought myself a present. It is a 10 ga. Remington 1894 SxS with 32 inch Damascas barrels. Even though the gun is at least 115 years old, it is in very good condition. I would say it locks up as tight as my Citori, with NO wiggle in it. I've shot some low pressur...

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Hi Casastahle....that is a neat looking tool. I've seen pictures of such things before, but I've never seen pics of them in use. Whats the possibility you can post pics of it in use when you get around to it?

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Hello Shatterhand. I'm tickled pink to hear my merganser recipe is going to go international.

And I will be trying the recipe you posted....

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FWeidner, there are 3 species of merganser in North America, the hooded, the common, and the red breasted. The red breasted is mostly a salt water bird, with the other 2 being seen mostly on fresh water. Mergansers have long thin bills with teeth showing on the sides. They are capable of long under ...

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In Stew71's thread titled "Any Day Duck Hunting", 86'er asked for merganser receipes. I didn't want them to be unnoticed as mergansers can be great eating, BUT you do have to know how to cook them. Here in Vt, we have tons of mergansers. The daily bag limit is 6, and thats above and beyond...

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Nothing weird about bolt action shotguns.....My father has a bolt shotgun exactly like the one in the OP's post, except it has rifle sights on it. He bought it new from Mongomery Wards 45 or 50 years ago. It has the 2 shot clip and with foster type slugs he has killed several deer with it. A couple ...

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If you can lay your hands on a Spartan coach gun, the Russian Remington some call it, do it. My father bought a 20 ga to have for an around the house gun. It was very tight. Actually hard to open. I sent it off to Kiowa Nate Jones and got his action job, and it is a very sweet gun. I have used it fo...

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Guys, thanks again for all the info on these scopes. I'm much further down the learning trail than I was....

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Its my fascination with old guns that brought me to the 45-70 and 32-30. Likewise, it brought me to owning 3 Colt New Service revolvers. My desire to own a Marlin 1894 and a Colt New Service in 38-40 is an extension of that fascination. I have to imagine the Colt would be pleasant to shoot even with...

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Guys, thanks much for all the suggestions. I will be reading all the links in the threads...One follow up question though, are the terms, red dot, reflex, holo all interchangable? Do scopes labeled each work the same way?

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Hello Guys.....I didn't want to hijack the Scope on a Marlin thread, but I do have a similar question. I want to get a Model 1894 Marlin in .44 magnum to go along with my 1894CL and my 1895. Both of the Marlins I have now I have put 4x scopes on due to vision issues where I just can't see open sight...

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I think you done good! To me, that pistol is in the perfect condition, complete, non cracked grips, with a patina that would encourage continued usage of the gun.

Mergus

Committed Colt fanatic and fan of old guns.....

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