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Bill, I know you're working on your house but I feel your pain in having to sell your babies.

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Although no solid statistics for this seem to be available, probably between a third and half of the houses in New Mexico have flat roofs. The upside of this is that in this dry climate, flat roofs are low maintenance, cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The downside is that when it does rain...

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That 12° below sounds like it's fairly routine in your area. Yep, I guess summer is over. Temps like that are very unusual here. I remember in the early 70s we had a period of a week when it never got up to 0° and it was a catastrophe. People were moving into hotels, leaving their homes because they...

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Wonderful!!

Glad everyone is doing all right.....the wonders of modern medicine.

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Congratulations, Bill! Nuttin like grandkids.

I have three granddaughters with another on the way. They will all be here over the holidays.

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That's a shame, Jay. I wish your mother in law a speedy recovery. Best wishes.

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On new aluminum molds I spray down the cavities, the pour holes and the underside of the sprue plate with brake cleaner. Then I use 90% isopropyl alcohol on q-tips to wipe out each cavity and the result is that I get perfectly filled out bullets in 6 or 7 cycles and the weight is correct. I made a s...

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Good luck, Vall! I hope you receive it without further delay.

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We saw a lot of deer tracks, saw tasselear squirrels in the trees, saw a few bear tracks. On the way up we passed three very dark deer and one bobcat. The bobcats are generally nocturnal so that was pretty rare.

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Amy and I went on a hike on our backyard mountain this morning. First we dropped off a car at our exit point, then drove back down to the trailhead where we began our hike. There was some snow on the ground and it got deeper during our 1500' elevation gain. We crossed various trails of the Sandia Mo...

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I have read that the military had at one time planned to use the .222 mag for its NATO cartridge but it was found that the shorter neck of the .223/5.56 worked better in full-auto fire. Performance was nearly identical.

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Although Veral made some fine molds, I found him to be a cantankerous old poot. I had ordered a 325 gr mold for my .454 Casull with the understanding that it would include the top punch. It didn't and I had to pester him for a couple of months before I finally received it. In the meantime I had to u...

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I still have a Remington model 722 in .222 mag which is a splendid combination. It works for me.

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I don't know what the SAAMI spec for .223 barrel twist is these days but my 1980 Hornady loading manual shows their test rifle's twist was 1 in 12". Same with their test rifle in the 2021 manual. However, Lyman's 51st edition from 2022 shows their rifle used a 1 in 7" twist. As shooters ar...

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A 60 or so grain bullet is likely the heaviest that can be shot in a rifle with standard twist. Shooting 70 or more grain projectiles requires a shorter twist to properly stabilize them.

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I ordered a 4 cavity mold from Accurate Molds about a month ago and it came in over the weekend. It's an aluminum mold which weighs about the same as a traditional iron 2 cavity mold. I have half a dozen other Accurate molds and I can't say enough good about them. They heat up quickly and when they'...

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Years ago I experimented with cast bullets and greatly reduced loads in .375 H&H using 3031 powder 3031 was one of the medium burning rate powders that apparently had a history of detonations in large capacity cases. I used one quarter of a single sheet of toilet paper to hold the powder against...

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Two questions:

How far is it from your house to camp.....and

what kind of snow shoes have you settled on, all-natural ones or synthetics?

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Very nice, Jim!

Congratulations to all.

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Thank you, Buddy!

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Very, very nice, Jay!

Hard to imagine the dedication, expense and energy that would be required to assemble a collection like yours these days. Congratulations!

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Great pictures, Jay....thanks!

What is an Eastern carbine m92? Where in your pictures is it?

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I had a Browning B92 in .357 years ago but one of my acquaintances, I can't remember who, relentlessly bugged me for it and unfortunately I eventually gave in and sold it. That's one I've always regretted selling. It was a smooth gun. Several months ago I decided to finally buy a Rossi m92 in .45 Co...

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Very nice, Jay!! That's a Very nice collection of Winchesters. What's your next favorite levergun after the m94s? Of course it depends upon what you're doing with them. I know I sometimes have a sudden interest in one type of gun or another and I mess with those for a while before moving on to anoth...

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I don't have any collectibles but in Winchesters I do have those m94s mentioned and a m94 Big Bore in .375, a couple of 9422s, one in 22 lr and the other in .22 mag, m61 and m62A pumps and two m70s, one in .30-06 and the other in .375 H&H. They are all genuine Winchesters, no clones.

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I went out and bought a standard m94 carbine in .30-30 yesterday. I've always wanted one, I have had a m94 Trapper for decades and a Buffalo Bill commemorative for a couple of years. This new one was made in 1971 but it looks practically unfired. The action is pretty darned stiff and will take a bit...

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My shooting buddy and I went out to a range yesterday rather than just to our usual BLM shooting spot. The longest distance there is just under 200 yards as well. It's a pretty nice place with covered benches and I set a 12" gong out at 100 yards and an 18" gong at 195. Years ago I used to...

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Re that Precision Rifle Shooting (PRS) competition, it's timed fire at steel targets at from 350 to 1200 yards. Competitors shoot fast, flat shooting calibers like 6mm Dasher or 6mm GT so they can see their hits....low recoil... in rifles weighing 25 to 35 lbs. They use a heavy 8 - 10 lb bag at the ...

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I never knew any of my grandparents but my father was born in Germany on November 13, 1913 so would have been 112 years old just under 2 weeks ago.

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Ray, I was going through an unwanted divorce at the time that Dan Seals song came out. That line about "someday you'll know the cost" was a consolation of sorts.....karma...

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Farmerjohn, that 4 3/4" Blackhawk in .41 mag is such a nice combination! I hope you get out and enjoy it.

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nwcatman, I can't answer your question about length to cannelure, etc. because I shoot only cast bullets. My 300 and 405 gr bullets have never given me feeding problems in my Guide Gun. The only factory loads I shoot in any caliber are rimfires.

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About ten years ago our son, Victor and I did some long-range shooting. The picture below is of him shooting a Tika 6.5 Ceedmoor (I think) at a 15" plate at 1060 yards. Those experiences got him interested in Precision Rifle Shooting in which he's been competing for the past couple of years. He...

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nmcatman, I have Skinner sights on all my Marlin levers and I'm happy with them. I'm sure you can correct your sighting issues with just a new front sight. I prefer peep sights to buckhorns although I do have a red dot on my Guide Gun. I like the red dot enough that the traditional look had to take ...

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I'm with you, Will. But I had subscriptions to both Guns and American Handgunner. That's aggravating as heck and it brings my magazine subscriptions down to just one; Handloader, which I enjoy. Honestly though, after losing Mike Venturino and John Taffin from their list of writers, I don't really ca...

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Great pictures, Jay! I especially like the first one.

Just being there is always the best part.

Thanks

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Very nice, Scott! Way to go!

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I have read that more than half of motorcycle fatalities east of the Mississippi are from collisions with deer.

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John, good luck avoiding your ex. Time just seems to crawl when you're waiting for someone to leave.

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HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS, WINS

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Good to see you on the forum again, Jay. Looks like you got a touch of early season snow. What do you tow with your TW? Is it handier to haul a light utility trailer than doing it with an ATV? Is that Old Forester whisky one of your favorites? I love the taste of whiskys but they screw up my stomach...

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GK, this is a bit blurry but it's a bobcat, one of our mid-size kitties about the same size as a lynx taken last week just off my driveway.

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Coming down my driveway last Tuesday night.....big kitty

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Good old all-purpose model 94! Do you sell coyote hides?

That's a slick rifle rack on your TW; does that work to your satisfaction?

Thanks for the pictures, OW. Glad to be on the forum again.

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I have half a dozen ,41 mags, half Smiths and half Rugers. My favorite load is 17.5 gr of AA9 behind either a Hornady XTP 210 grain JHP or an RCBS 215 gr cast plain base bullet. They both shoot great in my guns and that cast bullet doesn't lead at all. My Garmin chronograph says my cast load flies a...

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I'm with you, Scott. I shoot more .45 Colt than any others so I must enjoy loading them. But .44 Spl and .41 mag are close behind. I have a Smith 586 that I'm more and more happy with so .357 mag is slowly gaining on the pack.

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I put andy@skinnersights.com into my contacts list and I fully intend to email him about any forum failures when, not if, they happen.

Man, it's been beautiful here. It has been up around 70° for the past few days. Blue skies, mild evenings, no wind....what's not to like?

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I have used Glen Fryxell's lube formula for years and have always been pleased with it. It works well despite the smell.

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