Dose anyone else remember retailers having to write down your name and ID when purchasing .22 rim-fire and hand gun ammo? That was prior to the 1986 Gun Owners Protection act.
It has happened here before and it can happen again.
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- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: “...Unregistered Ammunition...”
- Replies: 8
- Views: 195
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blackhawk vs KFrame
- Replies: 32
- Views: 457
Re: Blackhawk vs KFrame
I've been watching this one on GB. It has gone begging twice now. Be my guest. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/883899889
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: election fraud ? joe said so
- Replies: 16
- Views: 345
Re: election fraud ? joe said so
We have stacks of sworn affidavits from eye-witnesses. We have libraries of surveillance video's from various states, catching them in the act. We have a public confession from their candidate. Why is this farce continuing?
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:43 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Abolishing the electoral college
- Replies: 8
- Views: 166
Re: Abolishing the electoral college
Term limits for politicians would be great but, unless we term limit the bureaucrats not much will change.Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:08 pmMight be time for a convention of the states to consider constitutional amendments. Like term limits and prohibitions against profiting from an elected or appointed office.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:25 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The bubble WE may be living in...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 161
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What would you like to see in 2021?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 542
Re: What would you like to see in 2021?
Several governors and mayors and at least two CDC physicians hanging upside down from lamp posts.
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 2:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CoVid and Ivermectin...hot off the press
- Replies: 9
- Views: 510
Re: CoVid and Ivermectin...hot off the press
The equine paste form of Ivermectin comes in syringes clearly calibrated in 250 lb. dosage increments. It is supposed to be apple flavored but, it tastes pretty nasty. Yes, I've started taking it after seeing this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w Get your supply while you can. Ther...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Real desperation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 327
Real desperation
This is for when everything goes south. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjc9LOBHlkE&t=830s
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pearl Harbor Day
- Replies: 6
- Views: 477
Pearl Harbor Day
I hope the names will once again awaken Americans to the current threat to our freedom.
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 scope mount location
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1036
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 3:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: La Marseillaise
- Replies: 14
- Views: 835
Re: La Marseillaise
If it were not for our French allies -- and Spanish arms -- we would still be saluting the crown, and then what gun rights would we have? I cut the French a lot of slack, and their cavalry tactics and artillery designs have been an inspiration to the American military. They have earned the title of...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mosseberg M151M
- Replies: 3
- Views: 447
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: La Marseillaise
- Replies: 14
- Views: 835
Re: La Marseillaise
Socialist, anti-Christian and anti-individual liberty. The French revolution, the ultimate reign of terror by mob rule. Ended only by the imposition of dictatorship.
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1762
Re: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
As per my first post. The .32 Special can be successfully loaded with cast bullets and black powder. More to the point, modern powder or black, the .32 Special handles cast bullets very well.
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1762
Re: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
Most bottleneck cartridges work better with smokeless than with BP. The exceptions are the very large bottleneck cartridges like .44-77SBN, which often shoot better with BP. I love the .32 Win. Spl., but wouldn't ever consider it a better BP round vs. smokeless. It will work, but certainly not "bet...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1762
Re: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
Learn to reload. The .32 Special was made with cast bullets and black powder in mind. Not really. The .32 Win. Spl. didn't even arrive on the market until 1902 and the first cartridges were loaded with smokeless powder, and jacketed bullets, at high velocity (for that time). I don't believe the .32...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: shotgun barrel length minutia
- Replies: 23
- Views: 973
Re: shotgun barrel length minutia
There is also an over-all length requirement. I believe it is 28 inches.
If you are doing the cutting for someone else beware of ATF entrapment.
A local gunsmith was entrapped by an undercover agent with a trick tape-measure.
If you are doing the cutting for someone else beware of ATF entrapment.
A local gunsmith was entrapped by an undercover agent with a trick tape-measure.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1762
Re: 32 Win Spcl to 30-30 Conversion?
Learn to reload. The .32 Special was made with cast bullets and black powder in mind.
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .22 Mag Cylinder Swap to different Ruger Single Six?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 463
Re: .22 Mag Cylinder Swap to different Ruger Single Six?
I purchased a magnum cylinder for my SS Bisley, from Brochardt Rifle Co. http://www.rugercyl.com/ It functions perfectly and is more accurate than the LR cylinder. They are available in 6 or 8 shot configuration. I spoke with Al Story. He told me they had no problems with any New Model Rugers. I als...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone have experience with the 6.5-06?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 331
Re: Anyone have experience with the 6.5-06?
How different could it be from the 6.8/06 aka .270 Winchester?
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shiloh Sharps
- Replies: 23
- Views: 819
Re: Shiloh Sharps
It is possible the tack holes could be steamed closed with a damp cloth and a hot iron.
However, I suspect the idiot predrilled the holes. They are too perfectly aligned.
However, I suspect the idiot predrilled the holes. They are too perfectly aligned.
- Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lets talk boots.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 713
- Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lets talk boots.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 713
Re: Lets talk boots.
For thirty-eight years, I got a free pair each year from my employer. My choice of brands. Only restriction was safety toe and ESD rated. Now that the last pair is wearing out, I'll have to fall back on my 1970 army boots. Some day I my have to buy a pair of boots. 

- Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: No offense to John Browning, but....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1154
Re: No offense to John Browning, but....
Here are a couple of alternatives. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1018201020?pid=480426,
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1014693378?pid=818496
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1014693378?pid=818496
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: “...if only one gun...” [eyeball roll]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 763
Re: “...if only one gun...” [eyeball roll]
This game is so old, I don't want to play any more. 

- Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stevens 425 High Power .35 Remington
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1259
Re: Stevens 425 High Power .35 Remington
Another place there's a lot of 425 expertise is the Savage Collectors Forum on www.24hourcampfire.com/forums. I think there's a sticky at the front of the forum with 425 info. They AREN'T common, that's for sure. The .25 Remington "rimless .25-35" seems to be the rarest. Not sure why Savage made th...
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Good Netflix Series
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: Good Netflix Series
Here is one I have been watching. Very loosely based on historical incidents, the twists and turns of political intrigue are addictive. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7094780/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Will Henry .44 Mag feed Keith and LBT WFN bullets?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 328
Re: Will Henry .44 Mag feed Keith and LBT WFN bullets?
I can' say about Keith bullets. I have been loading some commercial semi-wadcutters that look like an RCBS design and my own Lee tumble lubed semi-wadcutters. They function in my brass Henry carbine. As for WFN bullets, I have also used the Ranch Dog 265 grain designed for the .444 Marlin, with no p...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smoothbore this season.....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 600
Re: Smoothbore this season.....
Using .55 balls from a Layman mold, 90 grains volume of Pyrodex RS, and a .010 patch lubed with Dutch Schultz's dry lube formula, my TC .56 smooth bore will print sub 3 inch groups at 100 yards. Smooth bores can be very accurate with careful loading. After examining my file of targets, change that t...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage mod 24-A
- Replies: 6
- Views: 399
Re: Savage mod 24-A
If the selector is on the hammer, make sure it fully engages in the lower position. Crud or debris could be blocking it.
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Easy Off oven cleaner for gunstock?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 794
Re: Easy Off oven cleaner for gunstock?
For something a little milder.
For many years I have been using this formula from "Shopsmith" :
2 qt. toluol or xylol;
1 qt. denatured alcohol;
1 qt. acetone;
Apply with 0000 steel wool and remove as much or as little finish as desired.
For many years I have been using this formula from "Shopsmith" :
2 qt. toluol or xylol;
1 qt. denatured alcohol;
1 qt. acetone;
Apply with 0000 steel wool and remove as much or as little finish as desired.
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is the Henry Original Henry rifle worth the price compared to the uberti henry rifle
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1093
Re: Is the Henry Original Henry rifle worth the price compared to the uberti henry rifle
One of those replicas is American made. The company has legal ownership of the Henry name. That makes it more authentic than a "Genuine" Winchester made in Japan. ....Except that the original guns made in the 1860s werent made by a company named Henry, its a modern company name trying to ride the c...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is the Henry Original Henry rifle worth the price compared to the uberti henry rifle
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1093
Re: Is the Henry Original Henry rifle worth the price compared to the uberti henry rifle
I've had a couple of Uberti Henry rifles and still have several Uberti/Cimarron 1866 and 1873 rifles. I've seen and handled several "Henry Original" rifles at the guns stores but never owned or shot one. Even at the same price, I'd buy an Uberti. Both are replicas. The brand name is worth nothing, ...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is the Henry Original Henry rifle worth the price compared to the uberti henry rifle
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1093
Re: Is the Henry Original Henry rifle worth the price compared to the uberti henry rifle
MSRP is seldom reality. Try shopping around. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/878863285
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: fanner 50
- Replies: 16
- Views: 687
Re: fanner 50
I remember a wood and metal double barrel shotgun.
Opening the action cocked it. It would shoot corks placed in the muzzle.
I remember the Mattel "Shootin' Shell" guns but, they were out of my reach.
Opening the action cocked it. It would shoot corks placed in the muzzle.
I remember the Mattel "Shootin' Shell" guns but, they were out of my reach.
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BANDITS!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 823
Re: BANDITS!
Fur bearer populations used to rise and fall with the fickleness of the fashion industry.
Political correctness seems to have upset the balance of nature.
Political correctness seems to have upset the balance of nature.
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 12
- Views: 477
Re: What to Do With Your Primer Pickup Tubes?
I've never understood how loading primers one by one into a tube is more convenient than loading one by one into a primer arm.
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 9
- Views: 601
Re: Say What??
Gaming the welfare system, both government and private, is a family business that has been passed from generation to generation since FDR.
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gearing up for the fall, made a total hand operated washer.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 870
Re: Gearing up for the fall, made a toal hand operated washer.
Women appreciate a thoughtful husband. 

- Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Best Stocked GunShop in Your Area
- Replies: 16
- Views: 633
Re: Best Stocked GunShop in Your Area
Steve's Trading Post, Joplin, Mo. ; Bear Arms, El Dorado Springs, Mo. ; John's Sports Center, Pittsburgh, Kan.
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: how to pray for America?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 257
Re: how to pray for America?
God judges nations as well as individuals. We will all receive judgement one day but, nations receive judgement in this World. For more than forty years, we have offered daily human sacrifice on a scale that would have shocked the Aztecs. More recently, we normalized sodomy AND equated it with matri...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your favourite muzzleloader
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1421
Re: What's your favourite muzzleloader
Mine is .54 also. One of the earliest ones. I had to install a new front sight. The rear sight couldn't be lowered enough to get on paper.
TC's first round barrel. Apparently they did not take into account the taper of the barrel.
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wow - what a resource (on the 'gun debate')
- Replies: 1
- Views: 296
Re: Wow - what a resource (on the 'gun debate')
What debate?
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Speaking of grumpy men
- Replies: 15
- Views: 514
Re: Speaking of grumpy men
I usually encounter the owner, the clerk, and a non-buying visitor discussing politics, ballistics, or hunting, while I wait for service.
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 3:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The 'worst' AR-15 Jam...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 603
Re: The 'worst' AR-15 Jam...
A problem I will never have.
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 38 Super
- Replies: 10
- Views: 596
Re: 38 Super
Dunno, but the Rural King near me had 1,500 rounds of 38 Super I'm guessing they ordered by mistake; sadly, on the days the less experienced staff were there, or they were just super-busy, it gradually got purchased, and I'm betting many of these new gun purchasers were disappointed to find out it ...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bull-pup, belt-feed, .44mag., lever-gun
- Replies: 2
- Views: 310
- Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Found a match for my .44 Magnum Vaquero
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1509
Re: Found a match for my .44 Magnum Vaquero
You said you, "...wanted a pair of nickel Colt Single Action Army revolvers with 7 1/2" barrels...". A Single Action Army Colt revolver refers to the Army model which has a 5 1/2" barrel. Colt referred to the Single Action 7 1/2" barreled model as their Cavalry model. That's what I was explaining. ...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: another crazy theory ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 744
Re: another crazy theory ?
Some form of flu is always out there. I intend to live until I die. If masks become mandatory, I'll make my own. Here is my prototype.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/08/ ... anti-hero/
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/08/ ... anti-hero/
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: American Ingenuity
- Replies: 13
- Views: 960
Re: American Ingenuity
I would like to replace skunk in the illustration with a caricature of a masked burglar, then have stickers made to place on all my doors and windows. Better than a ADT sign.