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My riding/shooting buddy and I went for an ATV ride today. It takes a couple of hours of driving time to get to the Jemez mountains from my house, maybe a bit less time from his house which is 30 miles away across town. We rode just a bit over 50 miles and it was so nice and cool, the sky so blue. W...

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I have read several stories about life in the Appalachians. One incident was a guy doing a documentary about the depths of poverty in the hollers and a local shot him dead because he didn't want anyone to write about how poor those people are. Another was about a census worker who was shot and kille...

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Scott, I meant to ask how you were doing with your new job but you beat me to it. I don't know how much time off you'll take before the new one begins but make the most of it! Best of luck to you.

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I hear you, Six. I am extremely claustrophobic. I once got stuck in a cave....I get uncomfortable even thinking about it. I have a sadistic mind that presents me with dreams at night which often lead me into tiny places from which I can't escape. When that happens I leap out of bed, walk really fast...

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Sounds wonderful.....thanks!

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All your hard labor has paid off, Capt Six....your place is beautiful! Regarding the tarantulas, when I was in grade school boys would sometimes come to school with a big hairy-legged one on their shoulder, sometimes walkng along on the sidewalk with a string tied to them like a leash. I've always f...

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I have an Old Model SBH as well as several New Models. With 20.5 grains of 2400 the 7 1/2" guns shoot at about 1335 fps and I've found that when I have sticky extraction with loads that should be within normal pressure ranges, my chambers are generally rough. I use 000 or 0000 steel wool on a m...

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I've never owned a Krag although I've shot a couple of them and really liked them. Seems like a really practical cast bullet gun. However, I've never civilized anything more deserving with them than steel gongs. Jay, when my wife and I went down to Weatherford, TX, just west of Ft Worth a couple of ...

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Six, my son's Kubota is a Z252KW-54. He only has a couple of acres to mow so he did not get one of the high dollar diesel models like his neighbor thought he should have. He has a low spot in his yard that stays pretty muddy and he's had the mower stuck a couple of times. There are thousands of frog...

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I use 20.5 grains of 2400 and standard primers which has served me well for decades. I don't shoot that load in my 4" m29 but I do shoot it in my 5" m629 and several Rugers and a Freedom Arms 44 mag.

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I remember that in order to lighten their trucks and thus improve gas mileage, Ford cut big holes in the frames of their pickups in the early 80s. That was a bad joke. I don't know whether other manufacturers did that or not.

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Yeah, cars and trucks from the rust belt sure don't last long. The Southwest is so dry though, that rust is never an issue for vehicles that have spent their lives here. Most trucks from the 40s and 50s here have only surface rust if any at all. My son's Chevy still has its original paint and no rus...

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After selling his 72 Chevy C-10 my son bought an 86 K-10. A previous owner had swapped a 2002 LS engine into it and had given up on it due to the enormous effort needed to change everything over to an engine management computer required by the newer engine. This truck has 37" tires and unfortun...

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I owned a '76 Ford F-150 with a 460 for 6 or 7 years. I loved it....it would pass about everything but a gas station. It's understandable why it had 2 gas tanks. Yeah, that was back in the days when gas was pretty cheap. I'm quite pleased that I no longer own it, though. GK, having the realization t...

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Poor Griff, you musta had a helluva load of iron in that canoe.

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JRD, I believe you're exactly right. They're good-looking bases at that.

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Oh yeah, WAAAY too offensive! Nice picture, Jim. Thanks

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Jim, for what it's worth this what I do. I recorded a greeting that says, "Please leave a message or I will block your number". If a message is not left I will give it a couple of minutes and if there's no response to that I do indeed block the number. After I had blocked several dozen num...

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EG73, according to the math, the front sight would need to be .066" higher to hit at point of aim at 50 yards if your sight radius is 20" and .05" if your sight radius is 15". I have used a sharp punch to dimple the bottom of the dovetail as well as the bottom of the sight and th...

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Speaking of douche bags, the crime rate in Albuquerque is outta control. We're up to 2 or 3 murders per day now and a good portion of it is teenagers who know that the worst the justice system can do to them is put them in juvenile detention for a couple of years. Early this week in town, a guy woke...

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Although I am an NRA member, I requested years ago that they not send me American Rifleman any more. I dropped Guns and Ammo and Shooting Times cuz there's hardly a revolver or a levergun to be found in them these days. I do still get Guns Magazine and American Handgunner, mostly because of John Taf...

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Thankfully most Smiths have pinned front sights and I have replaced a number of mine. Rugers come with medium height rear sight blades that can either be replaced or cut down. Replacing a Smith rear sight blade when the front is not pinned can be a very frustrating chore. I imagine manufacturers cho...

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I have a heavy barrel model 10 like yours too. They really are fine guns but like you, I don't shoot mine often enough. Ya can't beat them for fun, economical shooting.

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Jeepnik, I don't think it's even a lawyer issue. I think the tire shops are in the business of selling tires and if you don't play their game then you're on your own. I cannot imagine that there's a liability issue with Fix-A-Flat. There's nothing that is more of a hazard than the tire leaking down ...

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Darn, I hate when someone gives guns to the police! They'll either be destroyed or more likely will end up at some policeman's home.

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RIHMFIRE, what's the excuse for not wanting to patch it? Is it in the sidewall or is there Fix-A-Flat in the tire? There is Fix-A-Flat that's not supposed to affect tire pressure sensors and also the older style that does kill them. I know about that type. I have also had tire shops refuse to patch/...

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Back when I was working I drove little 2wd single cab Toyota Tacomas and on several occasions I got over 100K with Michelin tires. At that time I was driving about 800 miles per week.

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Loading manuals and burn rate charts show differing pressures and velocities with the same loads with H110 and W296 as well, although everyone insists they're the same powder. I'm a little confused there.

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Back in the mid-80s I was a district sales manager for the company I worked with for 43 years. In a three year period I flew well over 500 times, sometimes 6 flights a week. Worst job I've ever had. Now I despise airports and travel in general. Amy and I flew to Ft Worth on Wednesday to visit our so...

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From what I've read, H414 is identical to W760.

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Crazy, wonderful collection....thanks for the pictures, Six

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Family has to take precedence over career; otherwise you are an empty shell.

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Silver City? Very good choice, Bill! My family lived in Ft Bayard for a time; my father was a TB doctor. We kids went to school in Bayard at Cobre High School. Unfortunately Ft Bayard has fallen into disrepair, the doctors' residences were some grand old houses. I don't get back down there nearly en...

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I sympathize, Jason. I have been through that trauma twice and it's the most painful and demeaning experience a guy can have. I wish you happiness and good health.

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I agree, Jim. Although I do watch a couple of news stories on my computer which in itself is a corruption of my time, I gave up on television years ago.

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Scott, I hope you get this resolved soon and that it turns out to be a win/win situation. Tomorrow will be a new day.

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Too many illegals?

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Nice lineup of green and yellow, Jay. I like your shop...it looks roomy but I know that however large they are, you quickly run out of space.

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Mine is no Turnbull and it doesn't have a color cased receiver but I find the factory laminated stock very attractive. The laminations are so thin that the checkering goes through the first layer.

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My wife and I are flying into DFW next Wednesday to visit our son, his wife and our 6 month old granddaughter in Weatherford. He will pick us up at the airport....he says the drive is not that bad.

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My motorcycle riding buddy and I usually have lunch together on Thursdays. Today we rode to Santa Fe which is about 50 miles north of here and had a great green chile cheeseburger at a little hole-in-the-wall cafe which we've been to many times. Santa Fe is a traffic nightmare. It's an ancient town,...

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What kind of primo stuff, Jay?

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To my favorite gun writer...best wishes.

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Your place looks neater than a pin, Six! You do great work.

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I agree. Your loads are so low powered that the primers are backing out. Try standard loads and the problem should be solved.

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Mark of "Mark and Sam After Work" is a truly remarkable shot. A Marlin Guide Gun at over 1,000 yards offhand, unsupported? A borrowed m94 with a tall sight double-sided taped onto the front of the receiver at 1100 yards? Wow!

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Hey now, are you a responsible individual, Jay? I try hard not to be.....

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Don't do it! That other stuff can wait until next year.

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I saw one of those on Google Earth in southern Arizona. The satellite simply took a picture of an airplane in flight. If the imagery is updated the airplane will be gone. Of course, the satellite that snapped the picture was at very high elevation.

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