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Yuma AZ gunshow yesterday . This is a smaller show but usually has interesting things on display. Not so big a crowd in attendance so did not have to elbow around . Young fellow had a Savage Model 19 NRA on his table, I have a fetish for these older .22 target rifles and so we came to an agreement ....

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Sig P238 .380 in a Galco pocket holster. Never leave home without it.

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When I was a kid, one of my father's friends always kept a revolver under his pillow at night until eventually he got to thrashing around in his sleep and set it off. Luckily, he only got a nick in his ear, 1/2 inch further in and he would have been dead.

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Get both, even if you have to do without Starbucks for a month or two.

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Just another day in breezy Wyoming:

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/19 ... windstorm/

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Part of pilot training involves being able at all times to be aware of where you can put it down if you have to. Nice straight and wide roads are usually excellent runways if the traffic allows.

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https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/10 ... Vh4.UXPtrV

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I'd take it apart, metal from wood, see how well the break goes back together, get a feel for how well it will actually go back together then decide on how to get it to stay together, wood glue , epoxy, acraglas. Might even inlet a piece of threaded rod or two. To get it looking period correct eith...

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News report this morning, only 12 veterans of the attack are still living.

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I'm sorry to hear that the .223 has replaced the .222 , sad to find out the .222 is no longer any good for anything. You fellows that have .222's still wasting space in your gun safes can just send them on out to me and I wlll take care of the funeral arrangements, no charge to you of course except ...

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I struggled with feeding problems with my .357 Rossi, switched to Berry's Plated Bullets and problem disappeared, never to be seen again.

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I have one in .22 Hornet, makes red mist on the prairie reliably when fed a diet of Lil Gun and 35 grain bullets, anything under 150 yards or so is meat in the pan.

From my cold dead fingers......

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If the bore is very bad, you could have it relined with a .22 liner.

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Fri Oct 10, 2025 8:36 pm Mr. York, I am 13 years behind you and doubt I will reach your mark. Congratulations sir!

Hang in there, Bill, might happen despite your doubts. There was a 5 year period when I doubted if I would see 30.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments, much appreciated.

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Thanks for that.

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 3:53 pm One day at a time. And on some days only with the grace of God.

Got that right!!

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Tomorrow, October 10, will be the 45th anniversary of my 40th birthday.

How the devil did I get so old so quickly?

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Got this in an email today, thought some of you might be interested:

Buffalo Arms <sales-buffaloarms.com@shared1.ccsend.com

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mickbr wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 2:36 pm Doc my take is some kids can have guns but maybe some people shouldnt have kids.

Well said, I gotta remember that line.

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I subscribe to the theory that " Having A gun is better than having NO gun". Sig P238 .380 in a Galco pocket holster, never leave home without it, never been "made" that I know of. I have a 1911 but it's just too much for me now at 85 years old.

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Southwest Chupacabra turds?

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I hunted the pronghorn for 25 years with traditional muzzleloaders, only got skunked once. Used a Lyman Great Plains 50 and a flinter Tennessee Mountain rifle also a .50. Never used anything but real black powder and round balls, never had to shoot twice. Longest shot was about 70 yards and most und...

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Not even once in my life. Never will.

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Faster than a speeding bullet this morning.

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Here I am again after a prolonged absence, Thanks AmBraCol.

AmBraCol, you have an email from webservant@sixshootercommunity.com

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So apparently Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking a page from DOGE. I just received an e-mail from him to provide a 5 bullet-point list of what I ate last week. I responded: (1) Maple old-fashioned doughnut from Voodoo Doughnuts (2) Maple old-fashioned doughnut from Voodoo Doughnuts (3) Maple old-fashi...

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COSteve wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:11 am
jnyork wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 1:15 pm Yuma AZ, 82 degrees today, light winds. Sunny and pleasant.

No snow in the forecast..
Chuckle now but we'll talk to you in August when it's 119°!

I will not be here, I spend the summers in Lander WY. Makes me chuckle plenty.

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Yuma AZ, 82 degrees today, light winds. Sunny and pleasant.

No snow in the forecast..

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Considering the time period, he may have been referring to his Smith carbine. A later editor, having little knowledge of firearms, would have added the Wesson and maybe even the "target rifle". Or, it could have been a Frank Wesson rifle with the "Smith" added by a later editor....

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I think Bill In Oregon is on the right track, the Smith and Wesson 320 wasn't produced until 1870 according to my books. Writing 45 years after the events in the book, the author might very well have remembered "Smith and Wesson" for "Wesson". In those days, it was common for fac...

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I just finished reading a copy of "The Indian War of 1864" written by Captain Eugene F. Ware, first published in 1911 and reprinted in the 1960s by Bison Books. This person fought in several battles of the Civil War and was then assigned duties as a Cavalry officer guarding the Immigrant t...

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I absolutely cannot get a piece of liver into my mouth, not any kind of liver in any form whatsoever. I would lie right down beside a liver and starve to death.

Liver is the reason God invented coyotes.

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Probably more truth than fiction there.

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Ha, ha, best post of the month.

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Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:44 pm 7-day jail. So anti-American...

Thank you, God, for giving me Wyoming and Arizona.

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Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:50 pm

Where are threaded barrels illegal?
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People's Democratic Republic of Kali?

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I' m 83 now and my competition days are about over. Starting at age 12, I shot indoor smallbore, outdoor smallbore, NRA High Power and Service Rifle, IHMSA handgun silhouette , several years of .22 benchrest, for the last 20 years or so my main concentration has been Lever Action Silhouette both wit...

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Some of the radials I had experience with over the years: C7A Caribou at Phu Cat RVN https://i.imgur.com/7Qt9ikxh.jpg Mechaniced on KB50 at Biggs AFB TX and Yokota AFB Japan https://i.imgur.com/7YBXawbh.jpg T28D at Udorn Thailand 1964, that's me in the rear cockpit https://i.imgur.com/peEWG7th.jpg E...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2024 11:35 am
jnyork wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:11 pm Aw, shucks. From the title I thought I was gonna get to tell you fellers about my R and R in Bangkok.
Well…..you can’t leave us hanging after dropping that!

Don't mind telling you, it left me hanging for a couple of days.

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Aw, shucks. From the title I thought I was gonna get to tell you fellers about my R and R in Bangkok.

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Well, I think I have it whipped and it wasn't the primers. I tested my trigger pull with my Lyman gauge and got 1 pound 6 ounces so I put a few little washers under the hammer spring, brought it up to 2 pounds 4 ounces. Went back out to the range and fired 20 rounds without a misfire, included were ...

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Another time I thought I got a bad batch of CCI rifle primers. Turned out they were just slightly larger diameter than I was accustomed to and required a much firmer press to seat the primer fully and again this was an Earl failure and not a primer failure. I bought 2000 of those many years ago, ab...

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I have been having misfires with my Marlin 1894CL 32-20 after I loaded up some Winchester primers. Are these harder to ignite than other brands, I have not had trouble with this rifle before.

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Speed limit is 65 and I was doing 87. The ticket was for going too slow and holding up traffic. :lol: Going through Utah on I-15 up the Wasatch Front is that way, about 125 miles of high speed urban freeway . Local drivers in that area are all convinced they are going to Heaven, they drive with no ...

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12:30 PM the 10th, Avast still blocking me for a viral infection on the website.

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Tried twice to go to Montana Vintage Arms but no joy, virus blocker would not let me in due to viral infection on the website. Anyone else have this problem?

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My Father was born in 1899, my Mom in 1906. They were always poor when poor meant something, lived a hardscrabble life in rural Wyoming, the Great Depression never ended for them. In later years my Mom was fond of saying "The only good thing about the good old days is that they're gone".

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