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Ironsight, I love to instruct at the academy and we do use empty handed techniques as well, but this is a gun forum. I am a Ni-Dan in Shito-Ryu Karate-Do with a heavy emphasis on Goshin-Do, one of the "original" mixed martial arts that stresses grappling and taking the guy to the ground. S...

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Tycer, As you are most likely aware, you are about an hour and a half south of the Bristol/Abingdon area. Wytheville would be about another 45 min to an hour past there.

Does anyone want me to contact the Wytheville CO SO to see if they have a place we could meet?

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The lying spin the company put on the fiasco of an ad campaign was so transparent. I rarely imbibe spirits, but they can ABSOLUTLY shove their product where even the Mexican sun don't shine. I agree with Mescalero because I have stood in what is left of the Alamo. This revisionist history is typical...

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Too many people get caught up in the faulty thought process that they must use the LEAST amount of force necessary to stop a threat. This is incorrect. A person is required to use a REASONABLE amount of force. The SUSPECT pulls a KNIFE...YOU pull a GUN. This is reasonable. If you do not have, or can...

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Paul, JReed, When I instruct Defensive Tactics at the academy I give one of them an Airsoft pistol and have him holster it. Then from 7 yards I run at them with a rubber knife and 99% of the time I "stab" them before they get the gun out and on target. BTW...lateral movement, not backwards...

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Is anyone near the I-81 and I-77 interchange? There would have to be a range obviously...or a possibly a farm? I can make some inquiries. I work until 6AM on Wednesday morning (4-9-08) but I should be able to contact some of the law enforcement officers tin that jurisdiction to see if they know of a...

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Every day...everywhere. No exceptions.

Down to the mailbox in boxers? Check.

To church? Check.

To the bathroom? Wouldn't want to get caught with my pants down. Check.

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+1 for Griff. C'mon...is this for real? "You are close to a populated area so it is less likely that he will want to engage in a struggle which would attract attention." Where do you think most fatal confrontations occur? You want me to "feel" the situation out and address his so...

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Sore Shoulder has become a Sore Loser. What he has just done is called a bait and switch. He had us all focused on his initial complaints. When we addressed those and he did not have a sufficient comeback, he switched tactics and pulled up a fresh case to debate. How about answering the fact that yo...

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Old Ironsights, I can agree with you and disagree with you respectfully. You seem able to see both sides of the issue...as I try to do. Besides, this is a levergun site. Let's talk about those instead. Sore Shoulder...it seems you are just plain SORE at law enforcement. There is nothing I can say ap...

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The first time I saw one of these was when a man living in Alaska posted pictures on another thread. I'll see if I can find the one I am thinking about.

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Well, let me wade in. As my nom de plume clearly states, I am a cop. Just this very fact has some of you spewing venom my way. In my experience this lunacy normally stems from the left wing. I started to respond to several of these flaming posters after reading only their initial posts, but I took t...

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Here is one of a small skinner I own. It is made of Damascus steel and has brass inlay in the handle. I posted it before, but this seemed the place to post it again. It was made by Brian Wilhoite, a smith at the Smokey Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, TN. http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll222...

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I believe that MAY have been ME. I saw some pictures of an 1894SS with a stock sprayed in black bed liner and it was impressive. After buying an 1894SS I think I will leave it au naturale...(natural wood). However, if I decide to go black and never go back...pun intended...(Oh Grow Up...We're MOSTLY...

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oldCop, I didn't think about having a barrel resized. I'm sure many people had rifles resized from 20+ inches to a Trapper in 16". This would leave enough inches to heat and transform a bit of octagon barrel to a tomahawk. Thanks for opening my mind to a possibility that was right in front of m...

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Roanoke would not be very far away from extreme SW VA....Say Bristol or Abingdon. This would allow Asheville, NC and NE TN residents to attend right on I-81. But, if Bluefield, WV is involved then a drive straight down I-77, to I-81 would put them about an hour south of Roanoke, and about an hour no...

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AJ, the peep sight under the scout mount seems WAY too far forward to use. Can you see through the peep sight enough to engage the front sight?

Also, IMHO, one has to establish the same cheek weld in order to shoot the same grouping consistently. Have you experienced otherwise?

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I am relatively new here and this is WAY OT, but I love the picture of your K-9. I was a K-9 officer in the USAF for about five years and love the working class K-9. I have handled German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois (not so affectionately referred to as Belgian Maligators). I have no idea about s...

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BTW... Have you read a magazine called "The Backwoodsman" that is published every two months? The latest issue, Mar/Apr, has an article on how to make a knife sheath.

Again...NICE picture!

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WOW! I am really envious! That is some set. I am making a scabbard for a small skinner but it is no mountain knife like you have there. VERY NICE! Why did the man use a gun barrel to make the tomahawk? It is very ice, but a gun beats an edged weapon any day IMHO. (But d@mn that is a nice tomahawk.) ...

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The latest (Mar / Apr) edition of The Backwoodsman has an article on Big Bore Airguns written by Jock Elliot.The article shows a picture of a 2000 lb Bison shot and killed with a Quackenbush LA .457 Safari airgun. You don't need a SCUBA tank to recharge them either. It is certainly faster, but a han...

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Sixgun, I grew up in NE PA (Scranton) and my parents live in Harrisburg now. Beautiful land. I think you hit it on the head when you said the buyers had more money than sense. Seems like they get in a shark like feeding frenzy and refuse to be outbid. They see the gun they want as "theirs"...

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I just bought a box of Winchester 250 GR. Platinum Tip Hollow Points for my .44 Mag. Has anyone used these for hunting? The bullet has striations along the tip which weaken the casing to aid in expansion. I use duty ammo at work that is made the same way. Over the years I have been issued Black Talo...

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I just recently rented one of his movies, "The Omega Man." He and Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah are probably chatting right now. I wonder what Moses thought of his interpretation of himself...guess he'll be able to ask him now. God Rest His Soul.

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Welcome and tell us about your rifles...post some pics. As someone told me when I joined, pull up a stump and enjoy the campfire.

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I posted pretty much the same question a few months ago and ended up with a .44 Mag Marlin 1894SS. I like big bore cartridges though. I intend on hunting with this rifle in thick brush and the handy, short barreled rifle, with open sights, is exactly what suited MY needs. Will you be shooting over l...

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I just got my nephew back from the sandbox. I shouldn't call him a kid anymore but d@mn I'm proud of that kid! One of the first things he did was to go on a trophy deer hunt in a private, guided tours. Got himself a nice 8 or 10 point...can't remember which right now. I will have to start reading th...

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Gary, nice to meet someone from Kalifornia that likes firearms. Is that rifle stainless or did the flash just make the blued steel look that shiny?

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AZMARK, I just bought a 1894SS and I had to drive an hour to get it...but it was worth it! As Buffboy stated, Marlin goes through a drought this time of year. It was explained to me that Marlin makes one batch of rifles at a time and then waits for most of the rifles to sell before making another ba...

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I found an interesting article on Contact Dermatitis From Japanese Rifles. http://www.gunboards.com/sites/banzai/Rifles/Finish/UpM99Fin.htm In a Reader's Digest nutshell version, the article details how a varnish made from Sumac was used on Japanese rifles and caused a rash on some service men. OT.....

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AJ, I like your idea of using the multi colored Poison Ivy as grips. Being a vine, will they stand up to the rigors of shooting? I know dried rattan, a vine, is used in the martial art stick fighting system called Escrima, so I think the Poison Ivy could work. Once the sap dries anyone should be abl...

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Noah, Thanks, I am really enjoying this rifle...even though I haven't shot it yet. If the weather holds out I will remedy that predicament today. Mike, I am making my own pouch sheath for the knife. The one that came with the knife is less than sufficient. AJ, I like your photo array. I want to get ...

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Ysabel Kid, Now that you mention it...I think I would like that inlay done to the stock as well. Maybe a craftsman could inlay some silver wire that would match the steel of the receiver...or steel wire...or aluminum wire. What do you guys think would corrode least? Kirk, I really like the Damascus ...

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Jarhead, the knife was a custom made knife. You can find other knives made by the same man, Brain Wilhoite, on line or at the Smokey Mountain Knife Works. The rifle, a .44 Mag Marlin 1894SS, has had no custom work done.

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http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll222/Irish_Cop/RifleandKnife.jpg Here is my favorite picture of my new Marlin 1894SS. There are some more in another post titled For better or worse...'til death do us part. I should have named the post better but I was trying to convey that I now had a new rifle...

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God Bless! God wiling, I'm sure everything will go fine.

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I was looking for information about buying my first levergun and I came across a link to this site. There seemed to be (and was later independently verified...IMHO) a wealth of knowledge here on the subject matter.

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Kismet wrote: "the apparent goal is not just your salvation, but the conversion (or subjugation) of anyone who doesn't believe what you do. Sorry, but in that aspect it's no different than Islam." Wrong. Proselytizing is about sharing the Good Word of Jesus Christ, not subjugation. In the ...

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More like 1 in 100,000 tries, but he was good though, I couldn't do any of that in 1,000,000 tries.

And don't worry about the neigh sayers. You clearly marked it OT...and it was entertaining!

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I will have to go look for some morels myself. I didn't realize they were out right now. I used to be afraid to eat what I'd hunted myself, but my mother-in-law taught me how to locate the edible ones. I haven't had any in a few years, but if I find any I will be defrosting some deer backstrap to go...

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This was great and thanks for the lovely narrative. I agree with the last poster, LeverBob, when he said that is the kind of post I ilike to read.

I have egg on my face though....I just bought a .44 because I wasn't sure a .357 would drop a feral hog...Guess you showed me.

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Smoke Eater, Thanks for the compliments. You are the first to see them I think. Brian Wilhoite does custom work for the Smoky Mountains Kinfe Company in Sevierville, TN. I really liked the Damascus steel that makes the blade, but I also bought that 'lil skinner because of the embedded fourleaf clove...

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And one more for now...

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And another...

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Here is another...

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Here is one of the butt stock.

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Here is another...just don't tell my wife I put that steel barrel on her piano before I used the sheet music to raise it off the wood.

It is a bit washed out from the flash...sorry.

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Here is one photo I took of the receiver and a custom Damascus steel knife along with a full load of ammo. I will try to load more later, but I am on a dial-up modem and it took forever to load just the one pic.

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I have been reading old posts looking for the information to smooth the action of the Marlin 1894. The best post I found was titled, "Marlin 1894 disassembly." It has several excellent links and book titles that detail how to do the job properly.

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Picture are coming...I promise.

I took several last night but I am not happy because I has to use the flash and is washed the rifle out. I will use daylight and post some in a few hours.

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.44 Mag 250 GR. PTHP

My favorite pic of new Marlin 1894SS