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It seems like we've had more cloudy weather than usual here. There's still some snow from a week or two ago under the trees but the temps have been warm enough that all we've gotten is a few rain showers.

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"Eighty Years with Rod and Rifle" shouldn't be too hard to find. Another of his books, "When the Dogs Bark Treed" was available on Amazon yesterday. It's the author's account of the 100+ mountain lions he killed while a predator control officer. It should arrive soon.

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I bought and read this book about 4 decades ago, then picked it up and read it again today. A short and fascinating account of a fisherman and levergun hunter who eventually became the state game warden of New Mexico. Makes a feller want to go back in time.

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You'd be hard-pressed to get rust in any Freedom Arms guns.

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Between myself and my shooting partner we have enough fixed sight revolvers that I bought a barrel vise from Midway. I think it was less than $100 and I've used it frequently. John Taffin wrote that he mounted a barrel vise to the receiver hitch on his truck so he can make changes and adjust right o...

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I make my own...it's kinda messy but I make enough to last a year or so.

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Yep, pretty strange.

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There's no doubt that different powders affect leading differently. Also, many commercial machine cast bullets are designed for relatively high velocities, otherwise their lube simply doesn't work. I have eliminated most of my leading issues by fire lapping all of my larger bore revolvers and by usi...

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Congratulations, Nath!

You got something that you like and that works well for you. Great shooting....and thanks for the pictures.

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That is extremely abnormal behavior for a mountain lion. Maybe someone's escaped pet?

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I agree completely. Did you see that the armorer gal was arrested a couple of weeks later for carrying concealed in a bar? She has no business in that line of work.

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Scott, I have an acquaintance who loves guns, owns several dozen and has a miserable flinch even with .38s and 9mms. With an 18" gong (angled away to avoid ricochets) at 15 yards he frequently hits 2 to 3' low and left of the gong. When we infrequently shoot, I start him out with .22s, then mil...

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Of course the big question is how did the live round get in with the duds. Apparently, film crew members were shooting live rounds for fun between filming. My guess is that after the recreational shooting, live rounds were put back into a box thought to be only duds and the boxes were not marked or ...

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Yep, congratulations, Scott! Dimensionally the model 97s are just a bit smaller than SAAs. They're wonderful guns.

Typically, flinching sends rounds low and left.

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Hey, cool guns, Six! Very unique 629 and that slip gun is a spectacular prize. I've never owned one of the family of Colt Detective Specials. And I've never owned a nickel plated gun either. What's up with the painted 642?

I do have a 2" model 64 (6 shot) which is a cool gun.

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Nice gun, Jay....beautiful! Thanks for the pic!

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My square butt 37 shoots pretty well. Back when I shot a lot, I could get 4 shots out of ten on a 15" gong at 100 yards offhand. A few times I did better, sometimes worse.

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Best way to stop a charging woman is to take away her credit card. Sound like bull?

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And speaking of accidental (negligent) discharges, a grand jury finally indicted Alec Baldwin today.

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I have a Chief Special made in 1953, a square butt model 37 and a model 642. The 642 never shot well so just for grins I tried to put a range rod down the barrel. It stopped solidly under the frame, about half an inch from the breech face. I know that on large bore Rugers and Smiths and probably oth...

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It's a Freedom Arms revolver so I assume there's nothing wrong with the gun. It appears that the previous owner struggled with sight adjustment based on the appearance of the locking screw and moved the rear sight farther and farther the wrong way.

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Nice-looking place, Jay! And I like your little tractor.

Thanks for the pictures.

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Jim, you are a resourceful man!

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I think Skeeter took bulk casting lead with him and made his bullets at his camp site, then loaded them. If it were me, I would just cast the bullets beforehand.

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Griff, nice collection of old Colts...thanks for the pictures!

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Six, one of my Rugers is like yours, a MKIV Competition model with the flat sided barrel. Yep, the triggers are terrible. Volquartsen sells a trigger kit that includes a part that allows the gun to be fired without the magazine inserted and also a trigger which has take-up and overtravel adjustment ...

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Good one, Grizz!

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Doctor Six, I have a High Standard Supermatic Trophy and it's a fine, very accurate .22lr. The trigger is among the best, better than the 2 Ruger .22 autos I have, both of which I added Volquartsen and Tandemcross trigger parts to. They're a whole lot better than original but not as good as the High...

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Congratulations, Bill....looks just like you!

We have a granddaughter who was two in November and another one on the way, due in February.

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Do you remember the Edgar Allen Poe story called, "The Telltale Heart"? In short, the person telling the story kills his hated landlord and stashes the body under the boards of the floor. In his crazed state he can "hear" the beating of his landlord's heart and reaches a point of...

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The people most at risk are the ones living in the deep south because their homes are simply not built in a way to protect from extreme cold. Friday's low in Little Rock was forecast at 3°.

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Deaf Smith, you were successful using penetrating oil to loosen those screws. If you had suspected that Loctite had been used on those screws you could have also used heat to break them loose. A pencil type soldering iron touching the screw head works well and since both blue and red Loctite deterio...

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Alliant powders are definitely scarce around here as well but I'm well stocked up on 231, Power Pistol, Tite Group and doing pretty well on Unique and 2400. Between HS-6, AA5, AA9 and 4227 I have the pistol powder spectrum pretty well covered.

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Why did you even put it into the safe?

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Thanks for the info, GK....personally, I like the plum color.

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You're a good friend to many, Jim. Bless you.

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I have a Smith m696 which is a 5 shot .44 Spl only, with a 2 1/2" bbl. I have read warnings about not to shoot hot loads through it because of the possibility of cracking the thin barrel skirt. The m69 has a longer cylinder so the skirt is shorter, thus eliminating the issue, I believe the mode...

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Weren't some of the custom gunsmiths like Linebaugh and Huntington getting those extended frames directly from Pinetree Casting rather than going through Ruger?

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This is that .308 Savage model 12. I think it's a decent rifle.

https://savagearms.com/content?p=firear ... ry&s=18464

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I learned not to do that at an early age. When I was a kid, we had a chest type freezer in the basement and I sometimes sneaked down there with a spoon to eat some ice cream. Once I dropped a chunk of ice cream onto the metal bar of the freezer basket and yep, I left a piece of my tongue on the bar....

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You have some very fine guns, Six! I'm not into competition these days, preferring to shoot by myself or one other trusted person. Years ago I did shoot in Hunter Silhouette which is the 100 meter competition with handguns. I'm not much of a fan of automatics because I would rather shoot than pick u...

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I think my son in the bottom picture is shooting a Tikka in 6.5 Creedmoor. I also have one in 6.5 that I shoot out there; I've had to do some load adjustments on it and haven't shot it since. My buddy is shooting a Savage in 6.5 also. My favorite out there is also a Savage. It's a model 12 .308 with...

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Old Savage, I have a Smith 24-3 like yours but I put a taller front sight on mine. I couldn't get the rear sight low enough despite cutting down the blade. It's much better now.

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I like 4227 for several calibers. I use 19.0 gr in .41 mag with a 210 gr cast load for velocity on the low end of hot. It shoots well. BTW, I have a letter from Hodgdon stating that IMR and H4227 are completely interchangeable, that differences in lot numbers are greater than differences between the...

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GK, New Mexico is the fifth largest state in the nation with a population of about 2 million, about 40% of which lives in the Albuquerque metropolitan area. That means that Albuquerque is a pain in the butt but the remainder of the state allows plenty of room between humanoids. Six, there's a sectio...

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We live in a community but the houses are spread apart a bit. The roads are all paved but there are probably fewer than a dozen cars that pass by on the nearby street each day. No, there are lots of teeth here. NM is at the southern end of the Rockies. I looked it up on Google; we have 37 mountain p...

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I really like .44 spls and .45 Colts. I probably use 4 of them more often than the rest; a 5 1/2" Bisley and a 5 1/2" Colt NF in .44 spl and a blued Smith Mountain Gun and a 5 1/2" FA m97 in .45 Colt. If it came down to being able to keep only one of all my handguns, rifles and shotgu...

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Dr Six, Albuquerque is at a mile high, just like Colorado Springs. We live on the other side of the mountain that's just east of town at just under 7000' elevation. The mountain is 10,300. I-40 runs east and west through NM and there were several road closures due to snow and icy conditions, acciden...

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Ross Seyfried is certainly an amazing gun handler and talented writer. He too has moved from the heavy hitters with which he accomplished his storied hunting feats to shooting mostly guns at moderate power levels like .44 spl and .45 Colt.

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You're right, of course, Scott. By far most of my shooting these days is at steel gongs so I have no need to carry while doing that. I was pointing out that it's certainly understandable why you prefer shooting .45 Colts out of your short FA because the short barreled ones kick harder than the longe...

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