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I think if I cut the petals on the wad I’m using or an SP-10 it would be about the same .

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The makeup of these 10 gauge slugs I’d not tried in a 10 until I started messing with this very open gun . A Gualandi/BPI wad with the petals removed , five 1/8” 16 gauge card wads and then the .775” 730 grain slug roll crimped . Today or tommorrow I wanna try two from the right barrel offhand then ...

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I tried some .775” 730 grain slugs pushed with SR7625 in my Grade 1 top lever 10 gauge hammer gun with the 26” barrels . This gun left the factory quite open in the 26” barrels a kinda tight in the 30” barrels . WVA says no buckshot for deer but inside 35 or so yards the right barrel should drill a ...

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If what I saw yesterday is any indication I should have a positive hunt as I saw deer from 9 AM until I was heading home at 2 PM . Granted you usually see deer a lot more in the summer , but it still looks quite positive . Now I need to refine my 8 gauge slug load and have it along over there .

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Went over to the Elkins WVA area sunday to check out my cousins vacation cabin to see if I wanna hunt it for deer this year . Let me begin by saying Route 33 from Stanardsville VA to Harrisonburg VA I always thought quite crooked over the Blue Ridge . But I’m here to say the road over in that stretc...

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Initially that RCBS 41-210 could be had as a GC version and I wanted one but never found one . I did however have pretty decent luck with the Lyman version . Not saying you need gas checks I just prefer them . I however used them more in the couple Marlin 1894’s I had in 41 MAG . To the best of my k...

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My father and I used to collect tools . I suppose there are a couple hundred wooden planes in the wooden cabinet we kept them . Have three wooden brace’s as well not to mention the broad axe’s , slick’s , adze’s , froe’s , draw knives and God only knows what else .I even have two or three sets of ro...

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That things rather sporty !

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Good gracious, I about got wrung out with sweat just thinking about hauling four 10-gauge doubles, ammo and a cooler on a humid afternoon. In my book, going three for four with a shotgun qualifies for good shooting! If I’ve got a golf cart or UTV I can go a bit longer . But pushing that cart with a...

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Some pics from yesterday ! Wish I’d taken a picture of the cart I borrowed loaded down with shotguns ammo and cooler !

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I shot in a Virginia Vintagers get together shoot at The Flying Rabbit Sporting Clays in Mount Crawford Virginia yesterday . I like the course I just don’t like that they don’t have golf carts and I have to walk luckily I was able to borrow a friends push cart that holds four guns shells and a small...

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I've been wondering which would be better, the Rock Island 9mm/22 TCM conversion or the new Springfield Prodigy. Not trying to be rude or negative , but if it isn’t a 1911 platform in usually not intrested . Rock Island from all I’ve seen makes a good product for the amount of scheckels you have to...

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I've been wondering which would be better, the Rock Island 9mm/22 TCM conversion or the new Springfield Prodigy. Not trying to be rude or negative , but if it isn’t a 1911 platform in usually not intrested . Rock Island from all I’ve seen makes a good product for the amount of scheckels you have to...

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I’ve shot a nice like new if not brand new Rock Island 1911 22 TCM at the Armsco/Rock Island indoor shooting range in Davao Philippines . The little cartridge is pretty much a 9mm necked down . They had one of the bolt action rifles at the range but for some reason they wouldn’t let me shoot it as i...

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My shotguns I run Tico rods in and out each barrel a dozen or so times and wipe all the metal with a silicone cloth . Rifles I shoot a lot are a bit more time consuming . When at the bench shooting groups I’ll generally take a clean bore foul it then shoot two five shot groups or four three shot gro...

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Hey 6pt has anyone told you that you need a hobby... :D Good luck at the Northern SxS... Hopefully I’m going to do something this coming February I’ve wanted to do for forty years . A friend is putting together a group to go to Cordoba Argentina to shoot dove for three days and it’s my intention to...

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A friend got an FN 5.7x28 pistol for Xmas one year . I went out with him and shot it a bit . Later he traded it to me for a Para P-14 . I immediately put the FN on Gunbroker with several boxes of ammo which at that time was hard to get your hands on . Anyway I sold the package for about $500 more th...

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Heading to Meshoppen PA for the Northern SxS on July 26th and will return on the 30th . If my shoulder holds up I’ll shoot 550-600 targets . Mostly 10 gauge a handful of 8 gauge , four 12 gauge events and a 20 gauge event . But one or two evenings after the shotgun blasting is done the owner has a s...

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Organized sheeezzzz ! My loading room and it’s quite large is quite unorganized . And that’s because I time to time get good deals on this that or the other and it gets stacked piled in there . I have an oak conference table with four or five things bolted on top that I’ve not used in a couple years...

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Yeah even the 'gentleman's 16 bore ' will beat ya up! Those guns were not meant to be shot that much all at once! Even a hard butt 28 will make you feel it . Sounds like you had fun none the less. Boy those 8ga sure look BIG! what is the pellet count in that 0 buck? That gun beat me up because I he...

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If I could get away I'd come up to meet you but I've got a club engagement and with the puppies here I'm not going very far ! Two weekends ago at Prospect Hall in WVA I shot a 145 target 16 gauge shoot , I was using a Parker VHE straight grip checked but 16 and it over the course of the day did a n...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 2:22 pm Should be a great time- drive safe and keep your head down & follow through!!

This stuff has turned more into a social thing than competitive for me anymore . But thanks

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I’m headed out Thursday morning at 4 AM to Hausemann’s Hidden Hollow Sporting Clays in Friendsville PA for the Northeastern event . Hadn’t planned on attending this year since the Parker annual meeting isn’t being held there this year . Anyway one of my friends in the AH Fox collectors group puts on...

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I got a 12 pound keg of Red Dot from a friend about a year ago that was from the same time period . The deal was I could try it before I paid him for it . And sure enough after trying it turned out fine !

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I bought in well above bulk quantities over the last two years as I was getting stuff at cut rate prices . I most likely had in excess of way over the top . Anyway I’ve sold off some . Mostly at SxS shoots , think I sold about 109 pounds last month at the Southern . I had stocked up in anticipation ...

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To me handloading and casting is to shooting what tying your own flies is to fly fishing . Just seems right ! I had an epiphany a few years back it dawned on me , I cast the projectile - loaded the cartridge - killed the deer - cleaned processed the animal and cooked the edible portion then of cours...

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I started loading when I got hung up on competitive skeet and trap 12-20-28 and 410 . Not to long after I added the 16 and 10 ga 3 1/2” . Another year or so I got into loading for my deer rifles as well as a couple handguns . At the apex of it all I was loading for eighty separate metallic cartridge...

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Bo-whoop? Not familiar with that. Rock Mountain? Is that the shoot in the Poconos? Bo-Whoop is an event that the AH Fox collectors Assoc put together each year at Hausemanns Hidden Hollow Sporting Clays “Northeastern Side by Side” each year in June . Hausemanns and Rock Mountain are in the Poconos ...

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I am planning on doing the Northern SxS at RockMountain in late July and the Vintage Cup in early September . Both will have 8 gauge events .

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Sounds like despite your not feeling well you had a good time! I hadn’t planned on going to Hausemanns in early June , but the AH Fox Collectors Assoc puts on a Bo-Whoop game and this year they’re planning g on adding an 8 gauge event to the festivities . I’m contemplating going and take four guns ...

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Sad to say I shot only 158 targets the whole time as I didn’t feel so great while down there . Thursday I shot 48 on the course with a Parker Grade 1 top lever hammer 10 gauge and tied for 2nd a single target behind first but I was long runner out of second . Friday in the am I shot two rounds of 8 ...

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No worries 6pt! Actually I'm kinda tapped out at the moment, had to pay state taxman , just dropped a grand getting my truck fixed! How did you do at the shoot ? The week went well ! I abstained from buying anything . And I sold my last Parker 8 gauge hammer , a MacFarlane 10 gauge double ML , the ...

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I’ve had three guns for the cartridge . Two were Super RedHawks that I actually enjoyed shooting cast in . The third was a Puma lever I had someone order for me , after recieving the gun I paid the guy took it home and put it in the safe for a year and traded it away unfired ,point being once in my ...

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Super! Thank you & good luck at the shoot!!! Sorry to have to tell you the VHE 20 26” left my possession in NC also the DHE 20 30” . So I’m down to a single 20 a VH 20 32” . And the 32” will stay in my possession for awhile . I sold a DH 16 2 frame 32” that i shoot well kinda wish I hadn’t but ...

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I'd really like to find a 20 ga, 26" with open chokes. I think my Parker flushing pheasants for me to shoot with a Parker would be the most enjoyable thing! I’ve got a VHE 20 26” with a Parker single trigger that’s IC/M that I’m taking to Sanford for a friend to decide if they want . If they d...

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Ya did it again ! Nice find, can't imagine how many Trojan models left the factory as 2 barrel sets- I'd bet not many! Well done. At present I have three Parker two barrel sets this 12 Trogan , a 12 VH with 28 and 32 barrels and last and my most favorite a Grade 0 top lever hammer 10 gauge with fac...

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Good for You 6pt !! I only wish it could talk... :D ..Yesterday was my birthday and I celebrated by buying an expensive sporting item that I could never afford before. At dinner My Son said Dad "use it and have Fun .....you will never take it with You."................... The money. If I ...

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Incidentally I failed to mention the barrels are 30” and 26” . With a Galazan flat choke gauge they show the 30” as M&F and the 26” as M&M . I checked the gun out on pine cones in the front yard Friday . Wanted to make sure the safety worked and that the gun didn’t double regardless of which...

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The case that came with the gun says Edw. K Tryon which I’ve been told was a rather large sporting goods store in Philly . I was also informed that they were a rather large seller of Parker shotguns . As to the doctor I’ve not tried to figure out who he was or is . Suppose I oughtta order a Parker l...

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Well I think I did pretty well by almost making it four months without a purchase . However I walked in the shop Thursday sat down and got started loading some slightly lower pressure 12 gauge 0 buck loads for a friend to use in a Parker VH . While sitting there our youngster gunsmith asked me if I’...

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In preparation for the Southern I shot at Prospect Hall in WVA this past Friday with my Parker VH 20 32” which was the first time I’ve shot claybirds with the gun . This coming Thursday I’m planning to attend an Old Doimion Vintagers shoot in Providence Forge VA and shoot a Parker Grade 2 top lever ...

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The Southern Side by Side in Sanford NC is upon us ! Starts April 26 ends April 30th . Plenty of competitions in various classes and events . There’s even a pump class ! Also plenty of vendors with guns you may only see once in a lifetime . I’ll be there if for nothing else but to shoot in the Parke...

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We had a J Manton double 8 bore hammer rifle at the shop recently for sale . It was a consignment the owner wanted to clear 25K . I’d loved to have bought it but it was about 8k overpriced . An 8 or 10 bore paradox or fully rifled gun would be awesome .

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Six, I saw that, too, in "Dances with Wolves" -- tumbling a bull bison head over heels with a long-range shot from a .44 Henry. Gosh, do you think it wasn't real? :lol: As to the main point, I wonder how many bison were actually taken with the 1876. I'd sure want it in .45-75 if forced to...

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I for one am tired of the current trend in everything political to look backwards focusing on all of the wrongs that have occured through our history as a nation while ignoring what we got right and the blood shed as a cost. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating ignoring our history by any means a...

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I like the old Python's quite a bit . However I’ve never liked the way you released the cylinder on aColt DA it’s assbackwards to S&W’s or Ruger’s and just seemed un natural to me .

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I suspect all of the old boy writers by todays standards would be called drunks . But in their time it was socially accepted to get sloshed or close to sloshed the night before as long as you were ready for work on time the next day . And I also suspect a PH in that time period had enough experience...

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Thanks for the reply 6pt-sika! :D When I did look at the Parker, the gentlemen said he thinks the chambers are 2 1/2" which really threw me off! The shotgun belongs to a friend who passed away a while ago. He's not into shotguns so doesn't know much about it. From what I gathered it's on a &qu...

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FWIW , usually if the chamber length on a Parker is stamped on the underside of the barrels it was done if someone ran the chamber out themselves and not done at the factory . Only ones I’ve seen that the factory stamped had the chamber length stamped on the side of the barrel lug .

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No stamping except on some 10 gauge 3 1/2” Parker’s and maybe a few 3” 12 gauge . If you’ve got chamber gauges the chamber should show 2 5/8” . Parker as a general rule cut chambers an 1/8” short . I do however have a Parker on a 2 frame with 32” barrels that left the factory with 2 7/8” chambers . ...

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