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They are not totally banned in this household but they are now a "seller of last resort".

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:00 am Hell, I would shoot it and look a the empty cartridge cases. I'll bet it doesn't affect function or safety at all.

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My hardware store (Central Commercial in Kingman, Arizona) sold shorts for $0.45, longs for $0.50, and long rifles for $0.55. When I came up with 4 bits I could get a box of shorts and have enough change for a pepsi-cola in the grocery area of the store. Shorts did everything I needed from my trusty...

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If you're loading 30/30 you are probably shooting a lever gun. That OAL in the loading manuals is the length that will work through the action of all lever guns. Your gun will probably take a cartridge a bit longer, but not a lot longer without hanging up. Your main concern is good fit for good func...

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Yep -- generally pretty nice. Good place to escape to in the winter. Good friend of mine likes to go through there on their way to Quartzite area in Arizona which becomes a city of RV's for several months through the late Fall through early Spring.

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Yep. Doesn't that just warm the cockleburs on your heart to know those critical businesses are part of a humongous bureaucracy?

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Now that was a heckuva buy marlinman! Wowser :mrgreen: I don't know about Remington L.P. primers but Remington L.R. primers take a somewhat harder strike to ignite than CCI or Win and much harder than Federal. If you have any rifles that give a light firing pin strike (I have a couple) you will want...

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Big Congrats! Jason. Grandkids are fine things to have and do make changes in a fellow's life. I got a pink Cricket 20 years ago for a granddaughter. It has been a grandkid favorite "first weapon" for quite a bunch since then. Grandboys don't seem to object to the color, either. Coltonwith...

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Wish I'd known there was a gun show close enough to drive to in Oregon! I'm so desperate I'd drive almost anywhere in the state for a gun show fix! I don't think the show was widely advertised, or maybe I just badly missed it. My friend George came by to drop off a couple books I'd loaned him and s...

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Last week end we had our first gun show around these parts in a long long time but it was worth it for us fellows who like the old ones. Almost no newer guns (Oregon is sitting on a 2- week background check time delay last I heard, which is a real wet blanket on selling new guns). But there were '73...

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Beautiful restoration -- thanks for showing it. I also have one of that era that had been worked on before I got it. 2520m9253.jpg Somebody had screwed on a m53 barrel to my early 1900's receiver and had also put on the receiver sight. I have never done a thing to it other than shoot it though It ha...

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My favorite Rossi is a .357 with the 24" octagonal barrel; it sure holds nice for off-hand shooting. I hadn't realized it was "railroad heavy" though. Being a young fellow yet I thought the octagon barrel was just about perfect, but maybe when I get to be an old guy I'll come apprecia...

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I always liked to split with the maul and sledge (and wedges if the going got tough), but after the shoulder replacement the doc said I should avoid jarring the shoulder in the manner that splitting wood would do (but he didn't seem to think shooting would be a problem :D). So I got a 26Ton splitter...

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I have a bunch of Large Pistol Mag primers and no mag pistols any longer. Large Pistol Primer in 45 Acp loads?? They'll work fine: might be a bit more fire than you need for the Acp case and you could likely get your normal velocity with a scosh less powder. But you really don't know until you shoo...

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Some years ago our own COSteve gave us the report that he'd got from a nice lady at CCI, which was that their Small Rifle primers and Small Pistol Magnum primers were identical. Don't know about other brands but I got a good deal on Federal SPM's a few years ago and have been using them interchangea...

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Hondo, the Starr is wonderful for gas-check bullets. It took this ignorant *** 20 years to figure that out -- don't make my mistake. I now feel real abused if I have to do some gas-checked bullets on the old Lyman because I don't yet have the right sized Starr die. I did a post on this very subject ...

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Yep, cars are made to last much better. And with the electronics in them these days I am not the least bit tempted to work on them. That's a large improvement in my automobile situation I'll guarantee you. On the other note; I hope there is a special place in hell reserved for the sucker who came up...

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Now there's an interesting question that I didn't even realize was a question until your post Fess. Obviously I don't know the answer; hopefully somebody here does.

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Dang! I'm just about needing to replace my 20 yr old Carhart insulated coveralls. Maybe I'll see about if little more patching will keep them going. I'm with you on the quality of stuff, mickbr; constant irritation. Used to be I figured I'd pay up to 3x for "made in USA" vs. "made in ...

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Here's what QL has to say about it, mickbr: 200 grain RCBS RFN, 6 grains Bullseye, 44 spcl cartridge 24" bbl: 10K psi chamber; 616 psi muzzle; 1190 fps 5" bbl: 10K psi chamber; 3930 psi muzzle; 834 fps 200 grain RCBS RFN, 16 grains 2400, 44 spcl cartridge 24" bbl: 14K psi chamber; 128...

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38/40 made from 44/40 is the easiest forming you'll ever do. But you make sure the mouth is perfectly round before you run the 44/40 into your 38/40 size die. The least little dent (like is so common in new brass) will result in a wrinkle. I like to do mine in the progressive press where I use the 4...

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I had a box of those 300 grain 44 cal bevel bases one time I picked up cheap when I lived in Nevada. They didn't shoot like anything else I was shooting so I melted them down and made them into the bullets I normally use. The lube smokes a bit when dropped in a pot of molten lead -- I took my pot ou...

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I was size/checking a batch of 25/85's for my 25/20 yesterday and it occurred to me that I didn't really know if this bullet (from a nice 4-cavity NOE mould I got a couple years ago) was what you'd call a "tight fit" or an "easy-peasy". Used to be I knew which moulds were going t...

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Thanks for posting that Grizz -- very interesting. And lots of other good stuff in the "journal". I had almost forgot that my all-time favorite revolver (7.5" bbl Redhawk) did indeed require quite a bit of honing to get it to allow my .430" bullets to slide through. That was 30 y...

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"If they had a reasonable sized Board of Directors (5 or certainly no more than 7) the board would be able to control his excesses and send him packing. But with such a huge number of board members, the board is it's own bureaucracy and therefore ineffective." --earlmc Not always true. I ...

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My first guess that Lil' Gun or H110 would be among the the top powder was wrong -- they are down there with the "also rans". Howdy Earl, that surprises me too. Will you run 7.5 grains of LG under the 3118 and the 311316 for me? I’m curious as to what QL says about velocity. 6” and 22” QL...

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I've been a Life Member for 50 years (yeah, I guess I got my money out of that one). And I still send 'em a Benjamin every January whether they look like they need it or not. But it is real hard to feel good about it so long as WLP is there. If they had a reasonable sized Board of Directors (5 or ce...

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The .32 WCF holds more powder, the .327 is a higher pressure round, but the difference in powder weight is just too much to overcome. My remaining 32/20 doesn't get high velocity loads -- it is used by grandkids shooting tin cans to about 50 yards. I no longer have a 327 Federal but intend to have ...

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I don't have any good advice on a source for you Scott as I'm a "roll your own" sort of guy. My Rossi is a full .430 bore diameter and I'll bet yours is about the same. I'd guess any cowboy action bullet in the 200 to 240 grain range, of .430 diameter or greater will do the job for you. An...

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Now that is quite the find! And right here in my neck of the woods. Er... "high desert" in the local terminology; "sagebrush steppe" as the ecologist would say. If it would have been me stumbling over it I'd have just said "ouch" and left her right there and never known...

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I've been buying lead whenever I see a decent deal: 50 to 65 lbs in a medium flat rate box. Those USPS flat rate box deals have been the only thing making shipping lead a reasonable proposition. So far all my boxes have wandered in -- sometimes a few days past the "projected delivery date"...

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I did say I was shooting quite a lot following shoulder surgery but forgot to mention that I cheat quite a bit. I don't shoot the BPCR rifle, the trapdoor Springfield or the Rossi 454 (and several others if shooting off a rest) without one of these -- called a "PQ Shooter's Friend" that I ...

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Boy that fire looks cozy, Earl. Burning juniper? I heard juniper dries cases faster than most other fuel woods. 8) Yeah, nice to sit here and keep the fire fed while the weather happens outside. I don't know if other wood would work to dry brass but the juniper had 'em nicely dry in a couple hours....

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One of the ggdaughters is coming over today to make these as a Christmas treat for her family. Hopefully there will be a few left over for me. Now regular ole' chocolate chip is probably my favorite but these are not too bad!

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Processing empties -- one of my wintertime projects. 30/30 is one of my main cartridges, I have this little "system" whereby I shoot all the R-P brass up and then switch to the WW brass while the R-P gets readied for re-use . Yesterday seemed a good time to size/deprime and then go ahead a...

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And isn't it pretty dang fine that several outfits are making fine leverguns for our enjoyment?

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I think you'll be happy you did this JNG. And be sure to keep the new shoulder immobile as best you can for the 6 weeks. My Aunt Frankie had hers done not long after mine. Her doc didn't tell her to keep the shoulder immobile, and she was using it fairly soon. It took some years for her shoulder to ...

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gcs, you got some bad info -- you need to talk to a surgeon who is beyond the "practice" phase and has done enough of these shoulder replacements to know what he is doing. I waited way too long to get mine done -- I was to the point where I couldn't lift my right arm enough to get the car ...

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Oh boy -- sorry for the multiple posts there. For some reason the site decided to make a new post each time I did an "edit". Never had that happen before. Maybe I'd better be more careful to get everything said right the first time (not my usual skill set unfortunately).

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Thanks for posting McPherson's write up Vance. That was highly informative. When Hodgdon came out with LVR powder they tilted the power factor in favor of the 30/30 over the 32 Special. LVR gives the 170 grain bullet an extra couple hundred fps over other powders we normally use in the 30/30 but do...

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Thanks for posting McPherson's write up Vance. That was highly informative. When Hodgdon came out with LVR powder they tilted the power factor in favor of the 30/30 over the 32 Special. LVR gives the 170 grain bullet an extra couple hundred fps over other powders we normally use in the 30/30 but do...

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When Hodgdon came out with LVR powder they tilted the power factor in favor of the 30/30 over the 32 Special. LVR gives the 170 grain bullet an extra couple hundred fps over other powders we normally use in the 30/30 but doesn't do anything much for the 32 Spcl. But as I look at the Hodgdon reloadin...

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Friend Butch has a back pasture which used to be solid with pine trees -- both ponderosa and lodgepole. The pine beetle works these hard and over the years has killed many of his trees. I went over yesterday to help cut a few of the dead ones out of his pasture -- three lodgepole pines made barely a...

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Sounds like that was a real Hunt, and not just a Shoot. And a real fine rifle to use, too. That fellow did quite well.

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Yikes! that is back there where the mount is on the sloped part of the receiver. Seems like such a dumb location it definitely reduces the value of the rifle. I have several scoped 99's and whether factory or 'smith drilled, the rear mount is located in front of that indicator on the level part of t...

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Steve has inspired me. Gotta' get me some of that Varathane for my loading area.

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Any of us olde pharts caught by surprise by the present shortage have been asleep for the past decade.

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Nice old gun. Fine old cartridge. Good find.

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Streetstar, if you are already riding a bike after just 10 days you are coming along fast: I don't think I would have had the flex and strength until at least week 3 or more. I got my replacements about 5 1/2 years ago, managed a backpack trip 3 months later (very light pack, fairly gentle terrain),...

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Back around 1989, I shot a buck in East Texas with a .308 165gr Nosler Balistic Tip over a heavy charge of 4064. Placement was right behind the shoulder and the shot was less than 20 yards with the deer perfectly broadside. That deer ran off and left a great blood trail. I waited a while and then t...

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