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I don't know about pre-70 year models. But that original article was a good one on the BLR's. Me and my extended family and I have owned quite a few BLR's of different vintages, over the years. My first one, and still my favorite and most used, is an 89 or 90 year model, which of course is a steel f...

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Don't know about any of their guns, but that reminds me of a story my dad told me, several times, regarding the James Brothers. They had a sister, who lived over at what is called Cane Hill, (that much I know is true) so they had been known to travel through this area, where I live on their way back...

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I have several J-frames, but I have almost bought one of the SP 101's on a couple of occasions. The Ruger may be more shootable, being a slightly beefier gun, which I guess is the reason I didn't buy one, because I prefer the lighter J-frame for actual carry in the application that I would use one i...

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Not familiar with Carpenter Bees. There are lots of regional insects. I didn't know what they were called for a long time, and finally someone told me at work, when it came up. And then later, I researched them, to figure out how to deal with them. They maybe beneficial, but I would rather they ben...

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I don't know why one would shoot a bee, but I would think that a Red Rider BB gun would be the proper tool for that. If you had ever had an infestation of Carpenter bees, you would understand. I have Western Cedar posts and beam framework on my porches and Carpenter Bees are about the only thing th...

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piller wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:08 pm One thing I might worry about. Sand is hard enough to potentially scratch the barrel.

Yep, I have heard that before, but with my old (and cheap) .410 shotguns, it doesn't matter to me even if it did.

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I played around with shot shells out of a .22 LR quite a bit. I have killed lots of carpenter bees with a Ruger single six with 22 long rifle birdshot. For me, I seemed to get more kills using the Winchester crimped load, as opposed the the plastic shot shell loads. However, I did not shoot that man...

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Welcome! You should feel at home here.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:11 pm I carry this gun a lot in the summer because .22 Magnum CCI shot cartridges are pretty effective on snakes. But it also shoots pretty well.

I have one of those guns, but I have never tried to shoot a snake with birdshot, using it.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:33 pm .

Definitely a risk-taker...
His book ‘Hell, I was there!” Is one of the most inspiring I’ve ever read.

Yep, great book! I also liked all of his earlier books. I think I may own them all.

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Was that the one, where he had his bullets sized for a 45/70 instead of a 45 colt; .458 instead of .454?

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:49 am Lastmohecken, I had that Remington 300-grain JHP loaded to about 2,000, which proved to be beyond its design capabilities.

That makes perfect sense to me.

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@ Lastmohecken I had the same thing happen many years ago with the 240 gr factory 444 load was that a hollow point? early in the 444 story they were loaded with 240g JSP 44 mag bullets. I've read that was corrected somewhere along the line and replaced with a heavier duty bullet for the 444. Not a ...

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I once had a hand-loaded 300-grain Remington hollowpoint out of my Marlin .45-70 Classic blow up on the shoulder/spine of a small mule deer at about 50 yards. I was quite surprised and disappointed. Was it a lot hotter load then factory? I am thinking that the 300 grain hollowpoint maybe be constru...

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I don't know about the big bears, but I have shot several head of deer, also some big hogs and found the 300 gr factory hollowpoint to be very decisive at close range, but I wouldn't want to shoot one a long ways off, as that bullet in my opinion starts to run out of steam, at the longer ranges, but...

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Back around the mid 1980's i bought a Legendary Frontiersman in .38-55, NIB, with all the papers, receipt, and of course unfired. I got it for $450, and thought I'd stash it away and watch it grow in value. Too funny. The gun never seemed to grow in value, and actually went down in value from my pu...

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I'm pretty fickle. I carry whatever strikes my fancy on any given day. Mostly it's a full size 1911, but often it is a .45 Blackhawk. Then again I like J, K & N frame smiths (sorry never saw the appeal of the L's). But I do carry a revolver every single day. Sometimes as my only backup others a...

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I enjoyed the feedback Guys! I'm not going to abandon my autos over one incident, but just thinking out loud. jb 8) Over 40 years of shooting and carrying, and just plain being around guns a lot, I have seen failures and jams with every single type of gun. Even revolvers can jam or have problems. A...

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I see he had a Legendary Lawmen #0. I have #25. Yeah, I know....it ain't zero. But I paid way, way less money for it. :D In researching, I found it to be one of the only commemoratives that is configured as it should be as to features. I have one of those, unfired, way back in the back of the safe....

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I see he had a Legendary Lawmen #0. I have #25. Yeah, I know....it ain't zero. But I paid way, way less money for it. :D In researching, I found it to be one of the only commemoratives that is configured as it should be as to features. I have one of those, unfired, way back in the back of the safe....

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I think it is the shooter more then the gun, there is no magic handgun. When I was a teenager, my first gun handgun was a Ruger single six, and I literally wore that that gun out in about 3 years or so, and had to have it rebuilt, and about that time, I acquired a Smith and Wesson K22 and also wore ...

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I had a Taurus PT-92 for a while, once. And that thing was one of my most accurate 9mm's I believe I ever had. It was a great shooter, but it's a bulky gun and I never carried it on me for self-defense. I finally got to wanting something else and traded it off, but I wish I had kept it. My favorite ...

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I carry a Colt Lightweight Commander in 45 acp (cocked and locked) the most. When I am going places that I feel more comfortable, (known places to me), sometimes I carry a 9mm shield. I keep a Glock model 22 (full sized 40 cal) in the truck but will also carry it on me, at times. But also, sometimes...

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Water it. Mow it. Water it. Mow it...This has to be one of finest wastes of time ever perpetuated on an unwary man, I might speculate it was initiated by someone's wife. Grass has been doing fine for a kajillian years before it was first cut, and watered... We never had much of a yard on the farm, ...

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We have had a lot of rain, here. But I have only mowed one time this year, so far. I have the cows trained where, all I have to do is rattle the chains on the gates and holler once or twice and they come a running. I let them in the yard for about 6 hrs or so, and they mow it almost as good as I can...

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I have a custom flintlock .69 cal smooth bore, fowler. I have killed squirrels with a .69 fowler and found that to be a hoot, using it as a shotgun. I think I will play around with it, using ball and try to kill a deer with it this fall. I understand they can work just fine with ball out to 75 yards...

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I am not much into tactical shotguns but keep an old Browning A5 for home defense, with about a 24" barrel with a Cutts Compensator choke on it. And among others, a mostly wore out, cut off single barrel Winchester 101 trap gun which I like because it has a fairly loose action, and it's so simp...

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Are these once fired brass, and how do you re-prime the cases? They are new factory primed cases. I have the tools to re-prime them but I doubt I will do it. Nice to have "just in case". There are people on the internet who sell the reloading kits and the priming compound. One is here - h...

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Are these once fired brass, and how do you re-prime the cases?

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That's a cool idea, let us know how that pans out.

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Browning BLR (older gun, steel frame) .308 win with Leupold 2 x 7 power scope. It's pretty versatile, capable of a 300 yard standing or a 20yd running shot, moderate recoil for fast follow up shots, fairly light to carry and just as compact as a Marlin 336 with scope.

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Let's see Jim, since I shot IPSC in NE Oklahoma and NW Arkansas for several years in the late 70s and early 80s I guess I'll pick the Colt 1911A1 first and the S&W 1917 second as I really liked the revolver class. As a youngster well teenager, (barely) I got into Cap and Ball and shot it with a...

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The law changed several years ago, here in Arkansas and you can carry about any kind of knife or blade length. Years ago, the blade length was maxed at 3.5", I think, but I always carried a knife with an average blade length of about 4", like a Buck 110, or similar sized. Frankly, I never ...

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I would like to go, but that many people, I don't know. And I can't stand to wear a mask for very long. I may pass till fall show.

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The Finnish/Russian war is quite an interesting conflict, the Russians really got their butts kicked in the beginning. Hence the joke.... :lol: :lol: That's putting it lightly. The Finns would ski into a Soviet camp, kill everyone, steal all their stuff and ski out like ghosts. A friend of mine act...

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Yep, I am pretty ate up with it, on the chainsaws, etc.

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IMG_0440.jpg IMG_0287.jpg BIG PIN OAK, AND STIHL 362.jpg HOLZHAUSEN 14, CLOSEUP FROM SOUTH VIEW.jpg AX storage rack.jpg Anything to do with guns Hunting all of my life. Motorcycles Fishing, if they are biting. Building things, Fabrication, Welding, Carpenter work And my latest interest since retiri...

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Was it Jeff Cooper that said...the 45 goes in at the diameter other calibers hope to achieve, and hard ball for reliability.? Well, in a lot of ways, that why I like the 45 acp, or 40 cal, or .357 even with hollowpoints or at least cast lead semi-wadcutters. A 45 doesn't take a trick, state of the ...

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I have carried CCW for nearly 30 years, and most of that time, if I was traveling out of my home territory, I almost always carried a Colt Lightweight Commander with jacketed hollowpoints, but if I was to run out of jacketed hollowpoints, (Covid 19 era and current ammo shortages) I would not hesitat...

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I am just glad that I live in a deep red state, where this doesn't or least hasn't happened much, and certainly not locally. And I don't plan to travel into areas where this is likely to happen to me.

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This is UPS, not USPS; left my package, for a couple of chains for my chainsaw, from Bailey's hanging on a fence post by my gate. They usually always bring it to my house or leave it in the mailbox. I guess it would fit in the mailbox, and there was snow on the ground, but melting. I wonder if they ...

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Well, I think we should watch the news enough to know what is going on (being said, actually) but CNN and their likes are the biggest liars of all. Fox, not as bad, but I tend to watch too much if it. I am going to trim down on the news this year. I want to know what is happening but I am not going ...

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I pay my all of my bills every month with a credit card and then pay it off every month. And I prefer to do paper billing, and write a check and mail it each month. Well, I should have gotten the credit card bill several days ago. It's obviously lost in the mail. I am not late yet, but I guess I wil...

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I am a night owl, and since I have retired I am bad to stay up until midnight and sometimes a late as 2 am. And sleep till maybe 8:30 am. But I am often up by 7:30. I never liked getting up early, even though I had to do it, most of my life.

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Yep, I have bought a lot of parts for my chainsaws lately and I ordered a longer lightweight chainsaw guide bar, from a place in MI and they shipped right away, but it took a whole week to get out of the state of MI, but once it got out of that black hole, it came the rest of the way pretty quick. I...

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Yep, I am glad 2020 has passed. Although, I got by pretty much unscathed. I was going to retire anyway, and the Covid 19 just helped push me out the door. None of my family or myself got sick, although I did know some who died of it. The stock market was good to me, because I was scared of it for a ...

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That's kind of cool. I have a fat tire bike, that I was considering turning into a trike, and I might still yet. I never thought about just add another full bicycle to it. In your case, if you are not ever going to have a second person riding and peddling with you, I would probably remove the chain,...

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I grew up watching westerns on TV, so I got to see my hero's mostly with leveractions, however, they were often not period correct but we put up with it. Being left handed certainly enforced my love for leveractions. I grew up forced to use bolt action .22's and my dad's old Swedish Mauser carbine, ...

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I grew up listening to Charlie Pride, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, and all of the old country singers. I have see Charlie Pride in concert, years ago. May he rest in piece. I don't listen to the radio much anymore, as I really don't like the New Country, and I can't stand rock or rap, any of stuff....

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I grew up listening to Charlie Pride, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, and all of the old country singers. I have see Charlie Pride in concert, years ago. May he rest in piece.

I don't listen to the radio much anymore, as I really don't like the New Country, and I can't stand rock or rap, any of stuff.

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