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oldebear1950

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oldebear1950

thats pretty good shootin for what is normally thought of as a pistol round,

oldebear1950

I have one but do not use it much. In fact have thought of selling it.
I only have one rifle that I can use it for, but do not bother using it .

oldebear1950

I load a lot of revolver cartridges and have been told I need a taper crimp die for all automatic cartridges. I bought one that taper crimps the
380, 9mm, 38auto and 38 super.
It seems that all these cartridges use the same bullet, and the taper crimp is the same for them all

oldebear1950

I have two of these guns, both stainless, one is 38/357 with 16 inch barrel, the other is 454 casull/45 colt with 20 inch barrel. When I received them changed the rear sight, removed the safety and replaced with a pin from Steves gunz, and replaced the magazine follower with a stainless steel follow...

oldebear1950

That's cool.

oldebear1950

happy birthday to 3008magtip, and Ysabel Kid. And here I thought I was the only reader of J T EDSON

oldebear1950

I am blessed to have both a Henry 45-70 22 inch octagon barrel with the loading gate, and a 20 inch stainless 454 Rossi R 92. For ease of handling I think I would go with the Rossi, 454, but for sheer power the 45-70 with some of GARRETTS heavy loads. I do reload, but think his bullets are superb

oldebear1950

The Spanish using German engineers even developed a 5.56 mm version of the MG 42, was developed by CETME, who also developed the first version of HK assult rifle, using those same GERMAN engineers. and in the 1980s the GERMANS were using a version of the MG 42 in 7.62 NATO, I think was called the MG...

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with morse code I have talked to GERMANS, JAPANESE, RUSSIANS, FRENCH, BRITISH, and almost any and all nationalities .

I do not think any navy/coast guard will ever bring back morse code operations unless something drastic happens.

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no that was all code, we did use radio teletype, but that was between ships, navy and coast guard, between shore stations, headquarters, and even between NATO FLEETS. When I was in SAN jUAN we had a NATO FLEET come into port, consisting of 1 BRITISH DESTROYER, CANADIAN SHIP, GERMAN SHIP, DUTCH SHIP,...

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From what I hear a lot has changed there in Kodiak, since the 1980s. I can remember walking the road with a Marlin 1895 on one shoulder and a Ruger 44 mag on one hip, and a Ruger 45 colt on the other hip, and getting a ride from one of the locals. But that was in 1976 and always kept loads in the pi...

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I am retired from the US COAST GUARD, and was stationed in KODIAK, ALASKA for 5 and 1/2 years. the ALASKAN FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENT recommeded two guns for bear protection at that time. 1975 - 1978 and 1983 - 1986. These two guns were a good 18 inch barrel pump 12 guage shotgun with slugs, and the 1...

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I was a radioman on a weather cutter on ocean station in the north Atlantic, and at two COAST GUARD radio stations. NMC radio station/communication station SAN FRANCISCO, CA, and radio station NMR San Juan Puerto Rico. We copied code, especially weather obs they were called from every one including ...

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but I did learn and still remember the code, not as quick as used to be but still remember the letters and numbers

oldebear1950

as a COAST GUARD radioman we had to copy 30 words a minute to grad from school. But was kinda hard for a guy that had to learn to type before I could get the code down. I had never had any typing lessons.
In those days , the mid 1960s only the girls took typing in high school

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On October 31, 1969, I went to US COAST GUARD RADIO SCHOOL, in New York City, at what is now called FORT JAY, and old army base , but was called GOVERNORS ISLAND by the Coast Guard. For those that don't know, is a small island that is located off the tip of Manhattan island in New York City. Only wa...

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I used to work behind the counter of a sporting good store, and always recommended revolvers for ladies not real familiar with guns. I still do. No slide to mess with, no safety to think about , just point and shoot, as long is a double action revolver. A lot of ladies have problem working slides.

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I do reload, and have fired both my reloads and factory loads but all in 45 colt, and not 454 loads, but I also keep my reloads to factory length .

oldebear1950

It is my understanding that all the new 454s have the screw in mag tubes. The one I have does have the loading gate, but not the tube loading and unloading. So far, all I have shot have been 45 colt loads, and while I have read that some have issues with 45 colt loads, I have not. But then I have on...

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I was able to trade for a new 454 Rossi R 92 stainless with 20 inch barrel and so far am really happy with the one I have. It seems Rossi makes two models of this gun. The one I got was made for cowboy action shooting and does not have the loading thru the mag tube that some of the other ones have. ...

oldebear1950

So far have had no problem with my 38/357 . I have had mine over a year now with no problem. Most of the guys I have chatted on here do not seem to have a problem with the 38/357 doing that

oldebear1950

I have a 16 inch 38/357 stainless, but I still clean it after shooting, like someone else said , just cause is stainless doesn't mean you don't have to clean it up now and then

oldebear1950

back in 1970 I was stationed on a USCG cutter in Boston , Ma, and toured all those places, I was young and walked all the way from Boston to Lexington and back. Couse was with a cute young lady and did not mind the walk. Not only was that was before cell phones, but was before the internet.

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yep, back about 1994, my ex and I drove from Mobile, AL to Hemet, CA, then up to outside of Sacramento. After visiting my two sisters (who still live in CA, though I don't know why) we drove the interstate from Sacramento, through Donner Pass, to Reno, was in mid may, and it was snowing as we went t...

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I keep telling friends here in south Alabama that in the 1950s and 1960s California was a different kind of place than it is today. I grad from high school in 1969, and during high school, every time I got a dime I was out riding horses. I was never part of a Sherrif's posse, but in those days a lot...

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Was an article in the Alaska Magazine about 6 months ago, they were raffling off bison hunts on Kodiak, Island Alaska,

They are truely an awesome animals, and so are hugh bull moose.

oldebear1950

I have to admit when I was young spent a lot of my free time on the back of a horse.
When I was stationed at the USCG COMMUNICATION STATION POINT REYES, CA, rented horses so much the stable use to let me guide tourists, I got paid and rode for free, Best of all times. Was all in my off time

oldebear1950

I was stationed twice in Kodiak , Alaska when I was younger , was 20 years in the US COAST GUARD.
Was 3 ranchers up there told me horses don't care for bears either. He had one almost run away on him one time.

oldebear1950

When I was young, we lived in both Hobbs and Farmington New Mexico. We also lived in Oklahoma, Texas, and the area around Bakersfield, CA. We spent time around the high desert area of California, near the back gate of Edwards Air Force Base, China Lake Naval Air Station, Barstow, Tehatchapi, Victorv...

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When I was in high school, about 20 miles outside of Bakersfield, CA, was an incident in the desert outside Mohavia, CA, where a woman and her three kids drove out into the desert, the car broke down. The car was found about 3 hours later. The family unfortunately was found about 4 days later, decea...

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I have a 38/357 stainless, 16 inch barrel ROSSI 92, and a 20 inch ROSSI 92 , also stainless in 454 casull/45 colt. They are awsome. I purchased pins to replace the safeties from STEVES GUNZ, and stainless steel magazine followers from him. They are awesome. Other than being stainless steel are so mu...

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May he rest in Peace, and prayers to his family and friends.
My two favorites were GHOST AND THE DARKNESS and TOMBSTONE

oldebear1950

I was am retired after 20 years, from the US COAST GUARD, and was stationed in Kodiak, from 1975-1978, and again from 1983-1986. Both times I had a Marlin 1895 for use against brown bears. That was before the guide guns and the internet. Was also about the only repeater available. Now there is a bun...

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As I read this, I think of the 2 brothers I have lost. I am the eldest of 6, 4 boys and 2 girls. I lost my youngest brother in 2018 of a massive heart attack, the the brother 2 years younger than myself, my oldest brother from cancer in 2022. loosing a sybling is heart breaking! My prayers and thoug...

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My prayers go out to his family and good friends.

oldebear1950

He was definitely one of the GOOD GUYS!! LOVED his writings.

Been reading his work since the mid 1970s.

oldebear1950

guess is cold all over, here on the GULF COAST, is supposed to be 26 degrees tonight. And that is bitterly cold here on the gulf coast.

Mobile, AL to be exact

oldebear1950

is the 480 more powerful than the 454? I have a 454 casull that all I have fired in it has been 45 colt. I have two pistols in 45 colt is the reason I ordered it. I also have one in 38/357 mag, to go with my Ruger security six. Both of these are stainless steel, the 38/357 with 16 inch barrel, and t...

oldebear1950

When we left California none of us went back to stay the politics got really bad if you like to fish and hunt as we did

oldebear1950

I retired from the COAST GUARD in 1989 and my brother stayed in and retired from the Air Force in 1991

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what was your job? My brother was 2 years younger than me, I had reenlisted in 1973, was transferred to the COAST GUARD RADIO STATION IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO We had been reading gun books and magazines since we were 10 years old, and always wanted to go to Alaska, but I was the only one that got to...

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My brother went there from tech school, at Chanute Ill. he was a jet engine mechanic. George was a TAC base at least that was what he said. He got there from 1972 to 1975. In 1975 I was at a COAST GUARD school in Petaluma, CA. In July I grad and was transferred to Kodiak , AK. He had reenlisted and ...

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I live in Mobile, AL and we had 7 1/2 inches of snow. Pensacola , FL had 10 inches and Navarre FL had 8 and 1/2 inches.

BUT HECK WE NEVER GET SNOW SO THIS WAS REALLY BIG HERE

oldebear1950

but I went to the ROY ROGERS MEUSEUM IN 1973 when it was in Apple Valley, and then again in 1999 when it was in Victorville, before it moved to Branson Mo. The one in Apple Valley was larger and had a lot more exhibits. my brother was stationed at George AFB., just down the road from the back gate o...

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No , my dad had quit working in the shipyards, as he had a finger cut off there.

By the time you are talking about he had retired, and passed away in 2008.

oldebear1950

I think ROSSI makes two versions of the 454. One with the tube and loading gate , and one with just the loading gate. I traded earlier in the year and was hoping for that version and got the one with just the loading gate, and am trying to get ROSSI to change it. Mine is the 20 inch stainless and I ...

oldebear1950

I went to my 50 year reunion in 2019, and from the San Juaquin valley and the mountains north and west of Sacramento vote republican and the big cities vote democrat

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costeve, My family moved from Oklahoma to San Francisco in 1958, My granddad got my dad a job at Bethlehem Steel shipyard. We left the San Francisco area and moved to a small town outside of Bakersfield, 20 miles outside, named Arvin, CA. That was in the summer of 1962. I stayed there until I grad f...

oldebear1950

we are not used to cold like this here along the gulf coast

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