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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why isnt there more variety?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1531
Re: Why isnt there more variety?
With the rising popularity of pistol caliber leverguns why hasnt there been a similar rise in the variety of "gummy tip" projectiles? Hornady only makes 140s for 357...why no 125, 115 or even 158? The better ballistic coefficient seems like a no brainer for tubular mags. Heck, a 165 grain...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 934
Re: For all you mule skinners.......
Griff, if you had to pick one day, what would it be? Would love to make that one, but it may already be toooo hot for me. I've gone thru Owens Valley in the heat of summer and it is second only to D.V. for wildly oppressive heat. Gas up at the casino, and up over 8000' in about 40 minutes, where I c...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 934
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1574
Re: Baseball fans here?
BATTER UP.jpg Ah Bill, you posted the first interesting, decent, respectable, and accurate Times article in a hundred or so years!! The only disappointment was that the author neglected to post the Score of the game she attended. Thanks for posting this. My Dad exquisitely summed up my baseball ski...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 573
Re: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
the word "claymore" comes to mind. not a firearm, etc . . .
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Canada is going full-fascist...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 886
Re: Canada is going full-fascist...
Canada doesn't have citizens, Canada has subjects. We had citizens but now we too are subjects, apparently,
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
- Replies: 7
- Views: 641
Re: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
that ticks all the boxes a 44 Mag with a 1:20 barrel !!!!! !! !!new pig hunter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:27 am 2023 Editor’s Choice Award – Marlin 1894 Classic
https://www.ontargetmagazine.com/2024/0 ... 4-classic/
That's about all I'd need, unless I'd need a 454 Casull 1894.
A great rifle
grizz
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: That Adams percussion repro ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 401
Re: That Adams percussion repro ...
The reproduction of this very interesting British .442 revolver from the 1850s by Arsa in Spain is slowly proceeding. Initial pricing of 1,000 € puts it out of my league, but I sure would love to see and handle one. More in this thread over at Britishmilitaria ... https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/br...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:04 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Canada is going full-fascist...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 886
Re: Canada is going full-fascist...
. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-law-endorsed-by-trudeau-government-could-imprison-people-for-life-for-speech-crimes/ar-BB1jR5o2 (of course my Liberal friends think that means they are voting 'conservative'... :roll: ) what that codifies is assaulting Christ followers with hate crime...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheapie AR….
- Replies: 4
- Views: 496
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Last Outlaw movie review
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1995
Re: The Last Outlaw movie review
you are Much More disciplined than I am although I don't go to movies. although i might make an exception for one last drive in flick . . .
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I wonder if it is like this
- Replies: 5
- Views: 785
Re: I wonder if it is like this
I'm guessing we will be speaking a new language, we'll have new names, but I think in a new language. where no disparaging word was ever heard... .Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:52 am I’m betting that being in the presence of our Lord would not easily be described with words.
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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2933
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Well, I've been thinking about a 357 carbine for a while, and would prefer a 16" barrel for sure. I was looking at the 16" henry's but they seem to be non-existant. They pop up on gunbroker sometime, but they go for $1200 - $1500. The new marlins are at least $1200 and don't come with a 1...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2933
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Every time this comes up I read up on Rossi and the 454 Casull, I think that it sounds like a great carbine hunting round. Finally I have to stretch, walk over to the stainless guide gun, says 45 on it, and I re-realize that I am all set in that category, again :!: :lol: I save lots of money failing...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1506
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 904
Re: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
A great friend Doc, sorry for your loss, happy for his new home . . .
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1506
Re: Whatever it takes.
. Matt did good. Kind of disappointed in Kitty that she just stood there looking why the guy was crawling towards a gun; she should have either got in control of the gun and shot the guy or at least got the gun out of his reach. But Doc the script told Kitty to stand there like a helpless woman I'd...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1385
Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
I just bought this JM 336W from a private owner in New Hampshire. He switched the pistol grip plain stock, to a Texan straight stock configuration along with a straight lower trigger tang and a straight finger lever. He also had installed a Beartooth safety delete. I install these in all my cross b...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1654
Re: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
I know its probably not in the category of rounds easy or sensible to fit in a lever action, but I bet someone out there has done or can do it. Or maybe it cant be with that rebated rim? case rim is the same as 44 mag if that helps. I know bighorn does the 500SW and 500 linebaugh but quite a bit bi...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aluminum receivers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1024
Re: Aluminum receivers
I have been seeing 1892 Browning pattern guns with aluminum receivers out of Turkey on YouTube. Given how the 92 locks via two steel lugs on either side the bolt rear and against the rear of the receiver, do you guys think the aluminum will hold up or give headspace issues eventually? Good question...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I lost my willie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1722
Re: I lost my willie
He was an abused horse. I took him to keep the owner from shooting him and we bonded. It took 2 years before he would let me ride him or catch him loose in the field. I am, literally, the only person who could handle him. My wife was terrified of him but we were buds and I darn sure am gonna miss h...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: went to a shooting range yesterday
- Replies: 0
- Views: 876
went to a shooting range yesterday
I mentioned this project somewhere, found a real gunsmith and took the American Classic to him with a box of parts. I got the barrel from Sarco, the sear spring somewhere else, he sourced the 24# recoil spring and the barrel bushing which he hand fitted, he machined out the clearance for the recoil ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Dittos, Beautiful. The Pacific is lovely when he is pacific.Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 731
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age. That's very interesting. There must be a lot of a...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guilty!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1689
Re: Guilty!
Not sayin' anything about her guilt, she was the official armorer. But they got their sacrificial lamb now, throat cut and bleeding. Baldwin, who violated every one of the unofficial rules of gun safety will walk free. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't. yeah I agree. . . Baldwin has enough money...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 731
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
shot first deer and a wolf up on the Mogollon Rim in Zane Gray country. wolf was stalking meBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:37 am You'll love this one. Not trying to sell it for the guy, but wow what a beauty!
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
Model 99 in .243
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Soothing.....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 471
Re: Soothing.....
thanks for the links Ray, much appreciated
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 709
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Thanks for sharing Darryl! My uncle was on the ground then, with the 29th ID, 116th IR, Company F. Served from D-Day (1st wave) all the way to the fall of Germany. I had an uncle in an engineer unit early in the landings. they had the pipe bombs that were supposed to cut the barb wire. They made it...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in the summer of 2002 I was making a maintenance inspection of Kaunakakai Harbor on the island of Molokaʻi, and I spotted a St. Pierre dory moored there, it was beautiful, in great condition, and best of all it was for sale! I took several photos and emailed them to my dad, and letting him kno...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New To Me Winchesters
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1430
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories. Thanks so much Ji ! I agree with you Bill, they are, to my eye, unbelievably beautiful. Proper dorys have no bad angles from which to paint them . . . Ji's photos bring to mind a gggdad sitting on a French Mediterranean beac...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 709
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
That's a fantastic legacy and great tribute to your Dad and his buddies and their incredible achievements. Thanks for posting!
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 619
Re: 70-150 winchester video
Good video. Thots ->
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 619
Re: 70-150 winchester video
I know this was somewhat of a mythical round in the day but found this repro so to speak interesting. The fella claiming it gets better taylor knockout factor than 577 nitro is a bit miss-applied since that factor overly favors the fat 12ga. But still seems a lot of power. 4700ftlbs with a 900 grai...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
And a follow-up to the machinery sounds fork -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPf0lKx5UvA careful with the volume, enjoy !!
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1151
Re: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
Beauty and the beast ! What a rifle !
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2240
Re: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
I think the 44s have inherent accuracy. but i think the 7mms are also inherently accurate. the 10inch sbh I hunted with seemed inherently accurate shooting plain base cast bullets at unknown velocity. the bullets hit the dot every time, when it was centered....... LOL made lots of venison, and daugh...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) Speaking of machinery I stumbled on an aircraft site with some video of small plane grass field flights. The really great aircraft engines make r...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1544
Re: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
I couldn't stay awake long enough to read it . . . is this an admission that SuddenAdultDeathSyndrome, [SADS], is IN FACT caused by the jabs and boost-jabs ?AJMD429 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:38 pm .
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... ehf2.14680
The myocarditis keeps coming up.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smokehouse Creek Fire
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1091
Re: Smokehouse Creek Fire
A conflagration in real-time. Prayers UP for all involved, and for the fires to end now . . .
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) That's a fact. About those engine sounds -> when we were drifting at night in bouncy seas and the sound of 2000 gallons of fuel sloshing around b...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 995
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The talking Bibles we gave out were searchable by Book, Chapter and Verse. They were complete Bibles .. Old and New Testaments. We got them from South Africa ... about $25 each. We gave out several hundred of them. A friend of mine brought in 500 by himself. Also had some friends who ran a radio st...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 995
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The Official State language is Portuguese. There are 26 or 27 tribal languages. The area where I was had 2 predominant ones. What we have written in the Bible was passed orally for a long time before it began being written down ... at least great parts of it were. The thing about oral cultures is t...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
good link, thanks BillBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:38 am Good stuff on old iron and marine engines in particular right here:
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/forums/a ... motors.38/
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 995
Re: crowd funding the gospel
We used the audio Bibles a lot in Mozambique and my friends there still are giving them out. When I was there the government admitted at least 45% of the country was illiterate. I knew a lot of Mozambicans that could not read or write, including pastors and evangelists. They loved the audio Bibles....
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Córdoba Argentina 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1645
Re: Córdoba Argentina 2024
Dittos on all, it's epic for sure . . .Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:09 pm That looks like an amazing trip. Great pictures ... appreciate the post. Bummer that it's too risky to take your own guns.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 995
crowd funding the gospel
https://jashow.org/the-john-ankerberg-show/ I have mentioned this before, but right now there is a very heart-warming feel-good video with one of the most amazing men in the world doing the most amazing thing in the world. I want you to see this video, because the results of the Good News everywhere...