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Dirty Dan, I agree with you. I admit that I have a problem with how CPS conducted the raid. If the perpetrators would have been have arrested if the evidence was there, then I would have wholeheartedly supported it. Again, two wrongs do not make a right. I am concerned now that if there is child abu...

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My Father retired from Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company, and I used to work for an Enron subsidary. There is enough natural gas which is being forcibly stopped from removal from the ground by Severance (double) Taxation that we could run this country on Natural Gas for 100 years at the present gro...

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I don't remember it mentioning the Sackett's name, but one of the two female main characters was a Higgins. The Sackett and Higgins families had a fued and the Higgins men were all wiped out based on information in The Daybreakers. I like the way Louis L'Amour tied so many of his books together. For...

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The Gold Standard meant that there was gold enough in the Federal Treasury to take up all of the paper Federal Reserve Notes and replace them with gold. The paper now has only the value assigned to it by the economy. With the size of today's economy, there probably isn't enough gold available to go ...

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Try a little WD-40 and some elbow grease. I'm not sure if it will do the job, but it works on a whole bunch of stuff.

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Happy Birthday. Hope you had fun all day.

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Two wrongs do not make a right.

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Congratulations! May you enjoy the retired life to complete satisfaction.

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Awwww! Hard to find anything better than spending time shooting with your kids. You all made my evening. Next time I take my kids to the range, I'll have to take pics and post them.

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Minimum of 1,000 grains, are you kidding. Joe would not even notice that going off. How about something based on the 20mm Vulcan round. That oughta take anything on 4 legs, and cripple whoever shoots it. You would only need 1 solid hit from it and hopefully you would find something left to mount. Jo...

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Really cool. Thanks for the pictures.

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Big hole in the end, looks kinda mean. I don't really see that it is getting more than about 100fps above what my handloads in my Puma .480 are getting in the same bullet weights. Since the .480 the dies, bullets, and brass are already on my loading bench, there really is not much gain for me and th...

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I have a couple of knives by Angel Sword, and Tycer can vouch that the one he borrowed to help process his game was a pretty decent knife even if the blade was only 440C. I don't know if they really did make the knives for the movie. If Daniel really did make the knife, then it probably is a pretty ...

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What about the .376 Steyr as is used in the Dragoon version of the Scout. If not that, then the .375 H&H, or the .375 Ackley Improved, or a 9.3 x whatever is most common in Africa. Doesn't the Ackley Improved still fire the parent cartridge? If so, then it would be a good possible choice.

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OK, now what do we do with all of the not-so-clever people?

It really seems that most of the College Professors I met were in this category. Can we round them all up and drop them off in the wilderness someplace. They would hug the trees and bunnies and bears-----OH, that would fix the problem.

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I am starting to save for a trip to Africa in 2 or 3 years. I plan on taking my 1895GS .45-70 and a Rem. 700 in .30-06. From Joe's information, those two rifles with the suggested loads should work better than I can shoot. Now it just will take some practice.

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I don't like gasahol, tastes terrible. :wink: There are better crops than corn to make alcohol out of, and one called milo grows in dry land as opposed to irrigated. Milo works so well that all McCormick alcohol is made from it, and the distilleries are a little North and West of Lawrence, Kansas. M...

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Sounds like you had fun. Hope you enjoy the meat.

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If you research the Men who wrote the constitution, you will find that words were chosen due to a LACK of interpretation. Will and Shall are totally different. Anyone with a copy of Blackstone can understand the language and the words meanings in the Constitution, just as designed.

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Good questions.

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So, I am not the only one who has firearms follow them home, or even mysteriously multiply while in the gun safe. I still haven't figured out how this happens. Any ideas?

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I like the .357, and have no experience with any of the others except the .22lr. I wish there were leverguns in production with box magazines, because a 6.8 SPC or 6.5 Grendel or something similar would really be useful in a short, handy levergun. You can get these cartridges in AR-15 type rifles, b...

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Ricky, the difference in holding is probably due to size of the holder. You are one of those long, tall Texans and Joe is about what height I expect from people born in the North East of the U.S. Seriously, the height and arm length difference may make the difference in hold. It can't be that either...

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You can load through the loading gate. In fact, you can get 1 more round in that way than loading through the cutout on the magazine tube. No, I don't know why it was made that way, but the tube is long enough that the spring compressed beyond the cutout point. As far as the little gain in the carbi...

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The Obama's live in a large, expensive mansion, Mrs. Obama has a much more expensive education than 98% of the rest of the U.S., they are treated as well as anyone here in the U.S. could ask to be treated. I don't understand why she didn't feel proud of her country before. I am extremely proud that ...

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From one who served, (while saluting) "All the way and then some, Sir!" I have a suggestion, next time you see a soldier with a patch on his right shoulder (for those few who didn't serve, it means he/she was in an area of combat, or saw combat) invite them to lunch or dinner and pay for i...

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I have just recently bought a 1895GS, and while I can't give any help here, it is helping me a lot. Thank you all for your information.

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I have been lucky, the only sticking issues in my SRH are with factory Speer nickeled brass case loads. Only Speer does that in mine. The .460 sounds like a good idea, too. My one question is how well do the bullets hold together at .460 velocities. I don't know much about the bullets designed for i...

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What I am waiting on is to find oud if CPS loses in court and if they then follow court orders. I am not going to hold my breath for it. Next, will the original caller be prosecuted, or will the state law be ignored. Texas has a law that a fraudulent call to CPS is a felony. I think I will just wait.

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The .480 was my 3rd foray into reloading. I started with a .45lc, then a .30-30. I like the .480 because it gets the job done. It is not as powerful as a .45-70, but with 400 grain bullets it is pretty useful. Whatever you get, I hope you have fun with it.

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I get very tired of people telling me that since I am white that my ancestors must have been slave owners, or even hinting at it. I have a lot of Irish in me, and there was an Irish coastal town taken in a slave raid by Africans in the 1600's. One of my ancestors, a Welsh immigrant, was noted in Vir...

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Nice to have expert advice like 86ers, isn't it. I have hunted with him once, and you will have fun.

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I don't remember where I heard it, maybe on FrFrog's favorite wise and witty sayings, but THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS THE RESET BUTTON OF THE CONSTITUTION. I am not advocating violence, but if a politician doesn't trust me to keep the means to defend myself from tyranny, then by the same logic, I should...

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OI, while I agree with you, shouldn't we be acting like every one here is family and trying to bite our tongues at times. I'm not afraid of controversy, but didn't some get upset a while back. I am not trying to make you change your attitude or anything, as I said I agree with you. Lets just give ev...

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Even if it is possible, I don't have the skill to take anything like that with a handgun. Mike Rintoul of Grizzley Cartridge/Cast Performance is probably good enough, and he posts here in this forum. It does sound like fun to try, if and only if you have a P.H. such as 86er backing you up with somet...

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Well, a Pediatrician made my daughter deaf, and I could do nothing because of the laws in the state where it happened. I am still angry, but the Pediatrician went totally scott-free. The laws required proof that no other physician was willing to provide as it would open them up to malpractice suits,...

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Ysabel, great pics. Keeping our kids interested in shooting and maybe hunting is a very worthwhile pursuit. If my 18 year old daughter finds a handgun in purple, I'll have to buy it for her. If anyone knows of one, please DON'T tell her until she is 21 and can buy it for herself.

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If you put wheels on that Smith it would work pretty well for the gun-bunnies over in DivArty. Does it come with RAP rounds to really reach out and touch something?

Actually I would like to try a cylinder full from one.

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Looks like you had a great time. Congratulations on the marriage. May it be long and happy.

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It appears that the current system is working. Even the Psychiatrists that the CPS fired said that the children were not being abused. I know this will create some controversy, but I would rather see 5 guilty go free on a technicality than to have 1 innocent put in prison. Feel free to disagree with...

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Good post. I am former Army, and I still love my country.

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Never tried Rye either. Sounds like something worth putting on my to-do list. Love those old songs. Big Rock Candy Mountains is another good one with lines about a lake of stew and another of whiskey, too.

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Very nice. Hope to hear a range report and an after hunt report sometime soon.

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Nice rifle, and a good shooter too. Someday I'll have to get a .30-30 again, too. My wife stole mine and she is a better shot with it to boot. Hope you can use it on a hunt and post the results here soon.

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She likes the factory loads. The hot loads are a little more than she can handle. I have loaded it to the point once where I pulled the bullets and re-did the loads. Funny, but the accuracy was bad on the really hot loads even before I started flinching. The accuracy is better a little less than fac...

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Joe, you are just a heartbreaker.

Maybe it was just jealous of the amount of use his 86 receives.

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The Past pad probably would make it rather enjoyable. The factory 325 grain bullets are my 18 year old daughter's favorite. She regularly shoots 40 to 60 shots in a range session when I load it to factory duplicates. Here is a picture of her from Friday night before Prom. As you can see she is about...

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Ricky, at least I wasn't there to help break it. 86er would probably never let me shoot a Water Buffalo again if he thought I helped break it. :lol: :lol: :lol: Seriously, that scope soulds like it held up to a lot more than anything I'll ever put a scope through. If I get another scope I think it w...

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I have never fired those combos in a .45-70, but the recoil from my Puma was less than the recoil from 86ers model 86. 86ers had what felt to me like a much better recoil pad than mine and the recoil was not at all painful. I equate my .480 Puma's recoil to that of a 20 gauge slug. If I load the 400...

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