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I can only relate from personal experience - I grew up in a Central Texas German family and we still make sausage every year. Knock on wood, so far we haven't gotten sick from what we produced. In fact, I made smoked venison links today and they are hanging here in the house to dry - about 5 feet fr...

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/HWooldridge/Jessie.jpg The one above is my ancestor Jessie Alexander Pate, Jr. - he was born in 1864. His wife Artimicia Hollis Pate is standing behind him. His father, Jessie Sr, is the one I referenced in the other post as having lived through the Civil War ...

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I can make you anything you want but I'll bet there are some good local smiths near you who can make cattle brands. I get $100 USD for fancy ones with wood handles but a plain working brand should go for around $50 or thereabouts. There are some period Spanish brands on my website if you are interes...

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180 gr is usually a .38-40 weight. I hope they aren't .401 diameter.

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You might also want to hit the rest of the Mission trail - they are full of history and not so commercialized as the Alamo. There is San Jose, Espada, Concepcion and Capistrano. I think Espada is especially interesting and has several restorations in place including a working blacksmith's forge that...

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Great stories - sort of what I was hoping for when I started the thread. I'll tell the only other one I know out of our family, which is a good commentary on using enough gun . One of my mom's uncles was born in 1896 and I knew him pretty well before he passed away in his 90's. He was born near Fred...

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Both of Marlon Brando's guns in "Missouri Breaks" - what did Jack Nicholson call the revolver - his "cabbage shootin' Mexican pistola" or something like that...?

Quigley's rifle is tops for me - of course, the 1860's that Marsten carried were pretty nice.

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my parents and grandparents are from eastern okla. on both sides of the family. grandparents were all born in or near the okla IT prior to the turn of the 20th century around where "hanging judge" parker, heck thomas, bill tilghman and chris madsen were the only law. areas like poteau, zo...

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I did not want to hijack Scott's thread on Comanche fighting so I thought to start this one - how many of you can document any good Indian fighting or other Old West action in your ancestry? Two of my grandparents' lines (both of Dad's parents) immigrated to Virginia in the late 1600's. The families...

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I have no experience with Leverlution ammo but I have killed a bunch of deer with the 45-70 (both Sharps and Marlin 1895). I cannot recall ever finding a slug in a deer although I did once find a perfect mushroom in a hog, this from a 300 gr Sierra. They always pass through whitetails, no matter whi...

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their domestic name for it was the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands). I thought they were called the National Socialist Workers Party, where we got NAZI from? Some time within the next 100 years or less no private citizen in this country will own a firearm...

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Pay attention tonight to the buttplate on Cap'n Call's rifle and tell me if you think it has a white plastic spacer against the wood... :shock: I doubt there would have been many 1858 pistols on the frontier in 1858. Most likely, everyone who had a sidearm would have been carrying a Paterson, Dragoo...

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You guys need to read Unintended Consequences and then make you own decisions quietly . Don't discuss them in a public forum. It could be construed to be conspiracy by a hoplophobic legal system. I agree. There are many posts on the Internet that I do not comment on specifically because I do not wa...

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Has anyone loaded two balls? Seems to me a very small charge of Bullseye would allow a ball under the front pill - two holes for the price of one...

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If you are talking about genealogy, we have three of my grandparents' lines going back several generations. My paternal grandmother's ancestor immigrated in 1603, paternal grandfather's side in 1697 - both came from England. The two families landed in Virginia and my grandparents met here in Texas m...

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My first "real" centerfire rifle was a model 92 20" carbine in 44-40 and I did not handload so I had to use factory ammo. This was in the 1970's and I believe 44-40 WCF ammo was the most expensive on the market (BTW, I was at Sportsman's Warehouse last night and saw a box of Super-X f...

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It's plenty but get close and shoot them in the head. Stay away from body shots since the hide will slow penetration.

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Doesn't really surprise me since the rest of us are working and paying taxes. Mojados have been a fact here for many years, even centuries, which most Tejanos accept as normal - but there is little sense in glorifying it this way.

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My muzzleloaders: One is "Betsy" (I know, Crockett did it first but I still like the name) - she's a very long slender .45 and "Matilda" is a short .54 plains rifle. "Josefina" is my even shorter Rossi M92 16" Trapper.

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I'm getting weary of the debate but for different reasons. IMHO, here are some reasonably unarguable conclusions: Unless you care to say the planet is only 10,000 years old (which I can't argue with), it seems pretty clear the earth has gone through a multitude of climate changes ranging from tropic...

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The hide shield is the problem you encounter with grown hogs as a barrier to projectiles. In addition, they are fairly tough animals to take down quickly. A buddy of mine killed one in fine shape that had a large mass under the hide on a shoulder. Being the curious type, he cut it open and found a B...

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I saw an ad in the paper for an estate sale with "old Sharps rifle" printed with the other miscellany. The house was on my way to work so I dropped by the next morning. The Sharps was an original custom 1874 rifle in .40-50, perfect bore, large tang sight, globe front and Schuetzen style s...

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7.0 gr of WW231 and a 200 gr lead bullet is good for period guns but I used to load my Win 92 with 24grs of 2400 and a jacketed 200gr SP.

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My first centerfire rifle was a Winchester 1892 20" carbine in 44-40 WCF and I was handloading for it the late '70's. If you also handload, it can be stoked up with 2400 or Blue Dot to about 1800 fps (more if you are careful). Don't know if they are still available but Remington used to sell 20...

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Congratulations and welcome back. While in my early 20's, I was laid up for about 4 weeks and read both the Bible cover to cover and Stephen King's "The Stand". However, the trouble with reading the Bible in such fashion is that I did not digest it properly. All these years later, it is mu...

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Tom,

I think both are closing - the one near 281 on 1604 and the one on the West side.

That's a pain because I don't like having to drive to Buda to the Cabela's.

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I owned a Colt Trooper with 6" bbl and it was one of the best .357 pistols I ever owned. Very good trigger pull and quite accurate. I bought it new in the early 1980's and probably put 10,000 rounds through it because at the time, a friend of mine had access to a commercial progressive loader t...

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I agree on the CCI problem - I typically use Winchester for any type of primer: rifle, pistol or shotgun. I used to load Federal Mag Rifle Primers in my .338 Win but don't own it anymore. Winchester works fine for me on any caliber plus I no longer buy Mag primers as I think they are a waste of money.

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Dachshund - best small dogs around for my money. (Edit for pic) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/HWooldridge/Putts.jpg Mama dog is in the foreground; she is 9 years old and weighs 15 lbs. The daughter is in the rear and weighs 9 lbs - she is 5 yrs. They are great hunters and keep the barn free...

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Neil,

Based on your past experience and description of events, I'd say you got a bad batch of primers. Hopefully, this next group will not give trouble.

Good luck, Hollis

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I grew up with a Marlin Model 39 rifle with a gold bead front and buckhorn rear. It was superbly accurate out to 50 yds but my eyes were also young. Some years later, I was shooting a friend's rifle with an ivory sight and I really liked that against dark backgrounds. Silver also shines well for me ...

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Any type of light oil can contaminate primers. I have reloaded for 30 years and made thousands of rounds with only two misfires during that time. One was a pistol round that I could not trace the root cause to but suspect it was handling primers with oil on my fingers. The second was a rifle round a...

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I was watching "The Man from Laramie" the other night (Jimmy Stewart), which was made in the mid 50's. The old 'widder woman' who saves him in the corral fistfight, looked to be using a REAL brass frame Henry. Considering the time period, it could be that a few were available for props.

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From a legal perspective, I think the success of the DA's case shows that entrapment did not occur because the defendant should have deferred and shown his manhood behind closed doors. The logical conclusion behind this chain of events after exposing himself would be a sex act of some sort, which I ...

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Try Blue Dot - I use it in several calibers of heavy handgun loads.

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I built my own from a Track of the Wolf basic kit, using a .45, 1-66" Green Mountain barrel, 42" long. With a .440 patched ball over 70grs of FFFg, it will one-hole at 50 yds and stay under 2" at 100. It will also shoot pretty flat out to about 125 yds with not much sight holdover and...

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Looks like Freer or Carrizo Springs area - am I close? I used to hunt Choke Canyon and Uvalde but that is a definitely un muy grande venado.

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With regards to long distance, it boils down to what you can consistently do that will produce a quick and humane kill. I am good to about 200 yds with a rest but I have a buddy who lives with his 300 Win Mag and he is deadly to 400 yds, every day of the world. He has a natural range out to that dis...

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For some reason unknown to me at the time, my uncle always hunted deer with #1 buckshot - so as a kid, I followed his lead. One evening, I saw a doe at about 40 yds with W-W Super-X shells in the shotgun. I shot once and she disappeared in the recoil. I walked up to where I thought she lay and there...

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About 15 years ago, I bought a new 4-3/4" Colt SAA in .44 Special. A local gun shop was selling their stock at year end for $350 each (those were the days). I already had a .44 Mag so to get some brass, I bought some factory shells and shot up the box. Very comfortable to shoot and the accuracy...

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Well, I don't like any of them but I like Huckabee the most so far on issues and he doesn't seem to flip-flop much (yet...). Don't know enough about Paul to be able to voice an opinion.

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Well, since it sounds like you know how to use a lathe, I would vote to turn them. I think trying to cast might injure your molds from the higher temps and the tendency of silver to possibly bond to an unwanted surface. Just my 2 pence...

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/23/ ... index.html

Looks like the Dem liberals are most worried about Romney. Note the scathing editorial.

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I second everyone's comments. I have always been partial to Marlins because my first real rifle was a model 39 I was given as a small boy. You have a GREAT collection - I had a 32-20 and a 25-20 which were both 24" rifles. Another thought: I have been to some of the major arms makers factories ...

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Like the 32-20, it will shine if handloaded. It's a great small game caliber and in a pinch, you could headshoot a deer under the right circumstances. I owned one about 20 years ago in an old Marlin 1894 and we regularly hunted raccoons at night with it.

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I'd shoot her and leave the carcass for the varmints. They get to eat, too. A couple of years ago, my son put down a buck deer that had been arrowed in the top of the back with a broadhead. He was moving very slowly and about 20 yds away when he looked straight at Clayton right before the shot. I'm ...

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I'm in Central Texas. Off the top of my head, I know of the following being used among my friends - all bolt actions: (1) .30-06, (1) .300 Win Mag, (2) .264 Win Mag, (2) .270, (2) .243 and (1) 7x57mm. The gun shops are full of .243's and .270's but the 7mm Mag also seems to be popular. We don't need...

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I had a set of .44 Mag RCBS dies that would not quite reach the crimp roll inside the seating die. The case mouth flare from the expander would collapse but the crimp was always too loose to use the loaded shell in a tube magazine. The root cause was that the shell holder would always bottom out bef...

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I double dawg dare you to shoot a doe in the head!

Seriously, that is a very nice group. There ain't much nicer than an accurate rifle.

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I will usually take a new gun (Marlin or whatever) and put 600 grit Clover compound in the innards - all moving surfaces - then cycle it for 300 to 500 strokes. No dry or live firing - just full cycles then take it apart and completely clean it. At this point, you can see the polished areas so I fin...

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