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A bit late follow up but I arrived Dullus in one piece no lost or delayed luggage . However instead of walking in my front door around 2 AM Saturday I walked in at 4 AM . Long day to say the least but I spent the week with my friend of sixty years .

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On the way out here I had three flights all delayed luckily decent sized layovers . Now on the way home both my flights are already delayed and I’m still waiting in Colorado Springs with it appears thirty minutes to spare in Denver to get to my connector . If I never fly this airline again it’ll be ...

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In my travels Wednesday I saw plenty mulies , pronghorn and Boghorns in NM and today I saw quite a few pronghorns in CO . Wish I’d seen a few elk but maybe another time as I’m in Colorado Springs airport waiting to start the truck back to Dullus . Only downside to the shooting experience was the bac...

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I was in Raton NM Wednesday at the Whittington Center and it was a rather pleasent couple hours shooting clay targets .

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You guys in AZ have my utmost sympathy . I’m sitting in the Phoenix airport and it’s 105 degrees outside in early may . That’s certainly not for me .

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Never been a great fan of the 303 Brit cartridge or the SMLE for that matter but a 303 in an H&H double would be just fine with me .

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So now... I have to compliment you both and two gorgeous shotguns. :mrgreen: Thanks ! I’m actually supposed to be selling off stuff in prep for the big move to the Philippines and had sold the gun I bought last Friday because of that , but I sure was missing it . So I bought it back ! I have one fr...

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Thanks Craig and John! So the guys on the Parker forum have noted this could be 1 of 18 or 20 guns made in this configuration. I knew it was probably a rarity as it is a V grade gun, to have a vent rib you would think a higher grade would be in order. I think it’s somewhere in the 18-23 area of 32”...

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Very nice

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Mannlicher Schoenauer MC or MCA carbine in 6.5x54MS , Parker DH 8 gauge 34 or 36 inch barrels , Parker DH 10 gauge 3 frame 32” , Parker Grade 3 10 gauge top lever hammer gun 32” on a 3 or 4 frame and finally a Parker 12 gauge 32” VHE , GHE or DHE on a 1 1/2 or 2 frame with trap stock dimensions for ...

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The more I shoot this 112 yr old Parker the more I'm convinced I NEED more Parkers! They grow on you ! I’ve had Parker guns around me for about fifty years , but the accumulating started in earnest about ten years ago . I think at the apex of my Parker accumulation I had between 40 and 50 . At pres...

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Will, I'd much rather double on a 20 than a 12! Sage had a great season. 8) I had a 10 gauge 2 7/8” double on me once . I know a guy that had an 8 gauge double on him once at a tower shoot (and no it wasn’t me), if I’m not mistaken it doubled at a tower shoot when he had the gun pointing almost str...

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Boo Radley gets to rest at last RIP

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Very nice !

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Unlike Americans, the British consider restoration as good maintenance, and don't care about leaving a firearm looking old and used. They are always more inclined to restore a fine firearm than we are, and pay premiums for nicely restored firearms. We had a beautiful cased British 8 bore fully rifl...

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You ever get any friction from diehard collectors turning a nose at a parts build rifle ? Ive done a few myself over the years mostly Winchester .Most people find it saving old classic guns much like a vintage automobile. But you always have those few that really frown on such things . I get someon...

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Very nice and thank you !

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Out of curiosity do you have any Ballards that left the factory with checkered wood ?

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. Search the forum and there are some old threads that have references to pressure curve data and real-world performance with many smokeless substitutes - 5744 comes to mind, and I think several others like SR 4759. I've used 5744 in my muzzleloader mostly. Search on 'KirkD' (author of many of the ...

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I actually shoot H4198 in my ML . If I were forced to use something that smoked like the regs in FL say I’d use 777 . I used Purodex over forty years ago and have never liked that stuff I truely think it’s more corrosive than BP . And with that being said the only thing I ever used BP in was an orig...

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I’ve got a buddy up in Susquehanna PA that’s usually filled his tags with xbow and ML before gun season arrive and he did this year as well . His ten year old grandson got his first with the Xbow early in archery but the young man still had an antlerless tag in gun season so grandpa took him out and...

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There you go ! We’ve got until the end of March for antlerless in my county but once antlered is over I kinda loose intrest . But I do have two stands still out just in case a wild hair hits me .

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I had three a bit back . One for a 338 Frderal one for 30 cal and one for 22 LR . I’m down to the 30 cal can only and to be honest I rarely fire the rifle it’s on .

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Everybody seems to overlook the 25s. I've always been a fan of .257s. I have 3 25-20s, a custom 257 Roberts Ackley Improved. The AI will sling 60gr bullets at 3800+ and up to 120gr bullets which will handle every deer or antelope or goat just fine. The newest 25 bore is the 25 Creedmore and from wh...

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Guy was shaking a bit for sure . I’m bassackwards I shake after the shot of the deer runs off enough that I don’t see it drop . My friends used to say I was cold blooded when it came to deer .

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Yeah, I just can't imagine a better deer rifle than the 99 in 300 savage. At least for the kind of hunting I do. I would never need "more gun" than that. super accurate. has a lever (essential requirement). 2.5x post reticle scope. You’re in the valley correct ? I hunted Elkins WV area in...

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Great Job with some beautiful rifles! A 99 in 300 Savage jyst spells Deer! But 6pts MS 6.5x54ms just about drives me crazy with lust! I’ve got my eye on a Mannlicher Schoenauer MC Premier in 280 REM I’d like to have but it’s way over my pay grade . I’ve had quite a bit of experience with 280’s so t...

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Very nice ! I’ve not fired at a deer since the first day of gun season 11/15/25 but we have antlerless season in my county until 3/30/26 . Attached are a couple pictures of the buck I killed 11/15/25 using a Mannlicher Schoenauer MCA in 6.5x54 MS shooting Handloaded Hornady 123 SST at 65ish yards at...

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I’ve killed a pile of deer using the 45-70 , 450 Marlin and 444 Marlin and have no qualms with any of the three . In the 450 I only used jacketed bullets both factory and handloads . And as you would assume they did a very adequate job . In the 45-70 and 444 I used factory and handloads in both . My...

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First deer I ever witnessed being killed was done in with a Remington 722 chambered in 222 REM this was in 1970 . My grandfather poppers very wide and heavy 6 point in the temple and as you would expect DRT . I still have the rifle and the rack the deer was 23” wide . My grandfather was using handlo...

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95% of the time I’m upstairs and if someone knocks on the door instead of going down and opening the door I open the window and ask what they need . A 1911 is within arms reach .

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I’ve owned a boat load of 16 gauge guns . Two A-5’s , a couple Model 12’s , a trio of Citori’s in different configurations , an old H&R single with a top lever not the Topper type and five Parker 16 doubles of which one was a quite rare DH 2 frame 32” gun that was heck on high high tower pheasan...

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Let’s see in all the Marlin levers I had there were a good many straight and I never really noticed any difference . In shotguns both SxS and O/U I e had both straight and pg and I gotta say I can do equally well or equally bad depending on your perspective with either . Bolt action rifles the only ...

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Let’s see in all the Marlin levers I had there were a good many straight and I never really noticed any difference . In shotguns both SxS and O/U I e had both straight and pg and I gotta say I can do equally well or equally bad depending on your perspective with either . Bolt action rifles the only ...

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Great to see you posting again Nath! Cheers to you! I just thought of this.... With the wide variety of game you have to harvest over there, I would think that either a Drilling (3 bores: 16 ga, .22 Magnum insert (an Einstecklauf) in one 16 bore, and an 8mm Mauser barrel below), or a Bockbuschflint...

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Back when I had a few Marlin 1894’s in 41 MAG I was eager to find gas check molds . At the time Lyman had one and at the times RCBS was making their 41 mold n a GC version , later they made it plain base . Anyway the gas checks were a bit difficult to get as well . Finally Gator checks became availa...

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About this time last year I was in Panama City Panama in the airport connecting between Dullus and Cordoba . Wish I was there now ! Heck of a lot warmer for sure

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Be careful how many max 454 loads you shoot in a revolver. My Super Red Hawk has had around 600 near max loads through it and the bottom of the top strap has significant gas cutting where the cylinder and forcing cone gap is. Had 2 gunsmiths look at it and both said the cutting is deep enough to be...

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I’ve owned a pile of lever actions but none now , I’ve owned another pile of single shots , owned a few semi auto’s , no centerfire pumps and a mountain of bolt guns . Bear in mind I tend to go with collectible or a bit more pricey bolt guns 95% of the time . Started with a Remington 700 , then went...

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I’d liked to have had one of the supposed to be Marlin 1895RL’s they advertised as being in 480 . Think they had them in the yearly catalog two years in a row but to the best of my knowledge NONE ever saw the light of day . This was in pre Remington days the same time they made the 1894CB in 32 H&am...

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I bought a Rossi/Puma 1892 in 480 Ruger NIB from a now deceased friend that had a gunshop . Had him order it for me , so when it arrived I paid him and took it home . It sat in my safe unfired for two years . I never liked anything about it , nothing against those that like them . I eventually trade...

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Grizz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:27 am
6pt-sika wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:21 am I used that load data as a basis for a good deal of what I did with cast in the 444 . Now I no longer own a 444 . But oh my my I have a pile of cast bullets in jars for the 44/444 .
have a 44 mag?

Yeah but I’m not shooting cast in a Ruger 44R carbine .

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I’ve had whitetail , mulie , fallow and sika but as of yet no axis . But I vividly remmember John Wooters writing that he thought Blackbuck , Axis and Nilgai were the three most palatable exotics . Now I’m rather partial to sika but I’d like to try some axis .

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I used that load data as a basis for a good deal of what I did with cast in the 444 . Now I no longer own a 444 . But oh my my I have a pile of cast bullets in jars for the 44/444 .

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I was partial to the Lyman 358156 . Had SWC molds and a SWC HP mold as well . I also had a mold that I’ve forgotten the actual number but it was a 215 grain SWC GC Lyman that was if memory serves initially made for the IHMSA guys to use in the 357 MAX , anyway that one shot very well for me in a cou...

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I wrote a couple articles for “The Fouling Shot” close to twenty years ago . The first was about a Marlin 1892 32 cal and shooting squirrels with a 90 grain home cast heel bullet . Which worked its way into some tree rat guns talked about cast bullet loads in the 32 Long Colt , 218 Bee , 25-20 , 32-...

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So if this stuff is about the same as 572 it should work in the 10 , 12 , 16 , 20 and possibly 28 gauge guns . There is quite a thread on "Castboolits" under the "Factory & Surplus Powder" topic. One fellow sent some 28 Gauge loads out for testing -- said in that application...

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We’re on our second Lyman sonic cleaner both were the larger size . Anyway to begin we used the Lyman solutions for brass or steel whichever we were trying to clean . In the last two years we’ve gone to a high octane cleaning solution the stuffs called I think Evergreen and it works well on both . A...

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So if this stuff is about the same as 572 it should work in the 10 , 12 , 16 , 20 and possibly 28 gauge guns .

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