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...I figured out that I am most comfortable carrying whatever I feel familiar with. Whatever I shoot quite a bit. What I can make hits with. What I can use without thinking about how to use it. Caliber is way down toward the bottom of the list. Very wise words Jim -- carry what you know and shoot t...

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How about that?! It combines the benefits of a round HKS speed loader with those of a flat Bianchi Speed Strip -- and was invented decades before the others were ever introduced. Pretty cool!

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Whenever I split a case, it seems it's only good for the recycle bin: Wrong... I get from $160 to $220 per year for 2 to 3 80% full 5-gallon buckets of dirty range brass that others leave behind. I take it to a metal recycling shop in Portland and after they check it all with a magnet, I walk out w...

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Safestuffer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2026 3:20 pm A bit of insider info:
If you are going to recycle a box,
Make sure all the previous shipping labels are removed.
Ive seen packages floated back and forth for weeks, depending on which label was scanned at each stop.

Yup, you GOTTA do that!!!

No doubt that's a contributing factor.

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Probably way more information than anyone needs... :oops: I disagree; I'm familiar with it, but it's great info to share with others -- thanks! So far (knock on wood), I've not had to resort to adding a cap rake, but I do deburr the face of the hammer to help prevent it from grabbing any fired caps...

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Sometimes you get lucky and wind up in the right place at the right time... :wink: Today was one of those days... Walked into a gunshop in western NH and there on the counter -- up for consideration as a partial trade towards a plastic 9mm -- was a new in box, old stock, Uberti "Colt 1861 Navy...

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Necessity is the mother of invention? Well got out of work a little early today and decided it was a good day to design and make the heater cup holder ting-a-ma-jig... ...It makes 4000 btu and I have a feeling I'll be plowing in a t-shirt! Great idea! Awesome ingenuity -- which I might have to copy...

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Streetstar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 21, 2026 5:57 pm
Adams "Bucket List" List

To paraphrase the famous line from Jaws: "We're gonna need a BIGGER bucket!"

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To quote a line from Jerry Seinfeld...

"My bucket list was causing me too much stress.

So I just changed the first letter...

And now it's my F***it list"

If I get to an item -- great! If I do something else instead -- OK. And if I don't get to it -- oh well...

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Wow, that's quite the review Bill!

What is it -- too cold to shoot?

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There was a movie, I think it was called Taking Chance , about a fallen hero being returned to his hometown. Man oh man talk about water works- that movie tore me up! Yes, yes, yes -- that is an awesome movie! It was really VERY WELL done -- I think it's a must-see for anyone who is a vet, knows ve...

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No, he just has a strong core and wicked abs!!!!

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Aw, this video short is awesome!

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Darn it, it was at 375,000 miles. It started perfectly. No, I was not injured. I wanted to hit 400,000 miles, and then see where it went. First of all -- glad you & yours were not hurt! My son ran my old 2009 Camry to 385,000 miles -- he said he "wanted a commercial by Toyota" -- and ...

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...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 . Was only in the show about 45 minutes and on my way home with my new treasure. This rifle , a 1934 issue, is at least 95% and likely better. Metal is unkissed, looks about like ...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 9:00 am I’m going to make a tough one this year.

No new guns. No used guns. No trading guns.

Um, check the date Scott... It's January 1st -- not April 1st!!!

And you thought you'd fool us...

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Awesome -- God Bless Him!!!

Great tone and intonation, and I like his #104 shirt too!

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 4:04 am YK well done with the wreaths

+1 to Jay for doing that!

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Nice images, thanks for sharing. Gee, I need to get visiting some sites down south, as the only Civil War battle site this Yankee * has ever been to was in... -- St. Albans, Vermont! (Check out my posting on this site about that: https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=1018610 ) ( * At le...

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Putting this HERE so more folks will see it -- before it likely gets moved over to the "P" section...

Sure is A LOT OF TRUTH in this!

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OK, let's see your "best" 100-yard groups -- shot with any firearm. I'll start with a 40 gr VMax load shot over 10 years ago from my glass-bedded Rem 700 in Triple Deuce using Benchmark powder, with a Timney trigger set at 2.5 pounds. I've matched this several times, but still haven't sho...

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The image below will show you my version of a "Hunting" TC Hawken... It came to me for just $250 with a perfect bore -- hardly looked shot at all, and with no machining marks either -- but about 40% of the finish on the barrel and 60% on the lock had been scratched down to be silver/grey; ...

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Thank you Bill! Well done!

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I tried fish oil capsules for a while. My wife gagged at the smell of my skin, breath, and sweat. She hates fish more than anyone I have ever known. I got off of it for the same reasons, and especially due to a few news reports possibly linking it to prostate cancer (never did check into that too d...

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Huh, I was expecting to see an "April 1" date on that...............

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earlmck wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 11:11 am ...I am probably rapidly approaching my "sell by" date no matter what I eat...

Not a funny outcome -- but such a funny comment! Let's hope you're not sold for quite awhile!

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Very cool! I've had 2 or 3 "bockbuschflinte" combo guns in 12ga-over-222s over the years, but am without one now. On both my Valmet 412 and a Marochi (both had double triggers and were scoped 1-5X), I made several trips to shoot trap -- with the scope mounted on them! I did that to get pra...

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Tue Dec 09, 2025 4:38 am The working class in Britain have traditionally voted for socialism even though it has proven disastrous time and time again but at last they are waking up to reality.

And how will they get rid of it? (see image below...)

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Praying she does well! I weighed in at even less than that as a premie twin -- that they didn't even know about -- and the Doc had left the hospital and they had to send a police car after him to bring him back. My twin, who came out first (that means I went in first, right?) weighed just a pound mo...

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This is for John (Gamekeeper), Nath and our other friends from across the pond...

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Come on over here and shoot & hunt with us -- we'll just be careful not to post the pictures on social media.

Cheers!

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Ouch... Gee Jay -- crack a smile, crack a joke, crack a beer even -- but cracking a stock?! Not good! That happened to my brother's old wall-hanger, and what he did was force the wood together tightly on the side that faced the room, which left a slight gap on the other side (there was no way he co...

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I have a superbly accurate Triple Deuce; if I'd ever used it for deer (hunting from my fixed stand) I'd probably try a Nosler Partition bullet. Haven't done it yet -- 'cause I like my leveraction! (Savage 99A in .250 Savage)

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 11:15 am The main benefit would be that they could be switched off.....

How about TURNED ON ? ? ?

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Fortunately they taste the same as any other deer. Quite true. I shot a small 3 pointer one year -- 1 small point on one side, 2 spikes on the other -- as he had walked right up on me... The guys in deer camp teased me that I'd "Shot the village idiot..." and they were glad that his genes...

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ANDYLARSSON wrote: ↑Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:18 am We have 600 pins of everything except the Old Army coming through.

Are the pins for the Old Army coming later, or maybe not at all? There's a small market for those due to bent pins. *

( * I haven't joined that club "yet"... )

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Just saw this on a .22 website, and figured I'd share it here. Here's the poster's 1st post -- we do this at deer camp, where the rifles are outside in the cold, but safe from the elements or theft. And it works... "Another way was to just leave the rifle out in the cold. An unheated porch woul...

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I find that some air rifles, particularly spring air rifles, are very sensitive as to how you hold them. If you are very consistent, your gun will shoot noticeably better. I’ve never thought about this with firearms but I’m wondering about it. I know that the more consistent you can be with a SAA t...

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I have always been touched by Jay Ungar's "Ashokan Farewell," a recent melody that made the 19th century and the soulful spirit of "The Civil War" of Ken Burns come alive. That was great -- thanks for sharing this Bill! This is most entertaining ! Sad & mournfull ? To be sur...

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...it takes a certain temperament to ride out the weather on those boats. True that. A friend of mine did dozens of trips across the North & South Atlantic as an engineer on merchant vessels. He only did 2 or 3 trips on the Great Lakes -- as he said that's where he saw the wildest weather and w...

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I just saw that the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 50 years ago today... November 10th. RIP to the captain & crew -- fair winds and following seas. I've always like the haunting song by Gordon Lightfoot (RIP), which is a fascinating and captivating piece of song/storytelling history. I've se...

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 7:07 pm That's one of the reasons hitting a horse is so bad. They are huge and the body is at the height of the windshield.

Yup, that's the problem/risk when hitting a moose too!!!

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Wow, really nice! But you know -- you can't shoot them all -- so you ought to loan them out to us here; we'll shoot them for you, get them on target, put them through their paces, etc. You'd eventually get them back there (right....) This is no time to be greedy... But lucky -- yes! I'd say you were...

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I'm curious if anyone here has experience with Spanish-made side-by-side doubles... :?: I looked at a few nice ones by Aya, Sarasqueta, and Uggy (Ugartechea) earlier today, but they were all out of my budget range as I'd also picked up a new Browning O/U (Cynergy CX, 20 gauge). So I picked up this K...

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Maybe it's time for the Vikings to return and sack the church?!?!

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I just learned about this history during a recent trip driving from ME, across NH, then northwest over to Lake Champlain at Burlington VT, then driving up to the northern islands of the lake and coming back south on the mainland via St. Albans, VT. The northern most land action of the Civil War occu...

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That’s funny Jay! Sorry for your loss… Just found this online… ”Kahr Arms got its name from founder Justin Moon's belief that a European-sounding, specifically German, surname would help market the brand as a quality engineering product. He chose the name "Kahr" as a nod to the reputation ...

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Streetstar wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:44 pm ...but -- German engineering is usually quite satisfactory

I think the owner/designer is Korean?!?! I recall hearing that "Kahr" was selected as the name as it sounded harsh and European.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 7:35 pm I've started multiplying everything by seven to put it in 'dog years' - it sounds even more impressive...

LOL. I'm having a few tonight to de-stress -- but in "dog beers" -- I've only had ONE!!!!!

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jnyork wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 3:59 pm
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!!

Amen to that!!!

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What is the difference between the MK9 and the CW9? Hi Jim: * The MK9 is all metal, 4" tall (6 + 1 capacity), 5.3" OAL and weighs in at 24 oz. * The CW9 has a poly lower, is 4.5" tall (7 + 1 capacity), 5.9" OAL and weighs 17.7 oz. I tend to shoot heavier handguns a bit better, s...

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