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A few weeks ago I was offered a couple old single shots, and since one was a Marlin Ballard, and the other a Rolling Block, I bought both from pictures sent to me. The Ballard was a #3 in .22RF, and the Rolling Block was supposedly a "Sporting Rifle" in an unknown "big cartridge"...

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Any series 70 Colt is a great purchase, but the added Germany provenance is just a little bit neater!

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Do they eliminate the need to slug the bore for fit ? Not really. Still need to know if your bullets are too large, or too small. Once the bore is slugged a hollowbase bullet is more forgiving if it's slightly smaller than groove diameter. It only takes a couple minutes to slug a bore, so not sure ...

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I have an older Weaver 3x-9x on my bolt action .22 rifle and it's served me well for plinking and varmint hunting for over 40 years.

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Of course the simple solution is to stop monetizing their videos. No sponsor ads, no problem. I have a friend whose channel has been active for many years with millions of hits. Youtube has asked him numerous times to monetize his channel, but he's refused just because he doesn't want anyone telling...

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If you shoot lotta them old Hyphen calibers you gotta reload. In my old age now I wish I had several of em, money well spent! Very true! If I hadn't started reloading before my interest in oddball obsolete cartridge rifles began I'd have been stuck with a bunch of safe queens I couldn't shoot and r...

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Pull the plate and put a thin shim under the side that has the screw. I use aluminum pop cans and cut them with scissors. Punch the hole with a drill bit first, and then cut around the hole to make the shim. Should give enough clearance to not need to loosen it.

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I think a lot of folks new to reloading look at the investment to start out and cringe. They don't consider the investment is returned very quickly. They also don't consider looking at quality used reloading tools that can be purchased for a fraction of new prices. I recently got my son inlaw starte...

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Drawdown wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 3:38 pm You found a jewel there! I'd love to have an old Springfield 03 Sporterized with Lyman Alaskan!

I think this will go on my engraved Hepburn that has scope bases already for a full length scope.

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Seems like things like this smack of laziness. I was taught to take guns apart and brush parts with Hoppes #9, and dry them. The lubricate key points, and the whole gun.

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Perusing Ebay about a week ago when I stumbled upon a Lyman Centennial Model long tube telescope for auction. It was near the end and the price was way too low, so I tossed a bid in and won it. It looked sort of worn, and maybe dirty, but auction description said the optics were great. 1978 vintage....

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Thomas Matthew Crooks registered as a Republican as a ruse because he only donated to 'Progressive Turnout Project', a Chicago-based political action committee that supports Democrat candidates for public office and claims to advocate for "key Democratic constituencies: young people, minoritie...

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For me it boils down to a couple things. First off Alec Baldwin was the man in charge. It was his production company, and ultimately his responsibility to ensure the set was a safe place to work. There's zero reason for live ammo to ever be on a movie set, and the fact he allowed that to be is all o...

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I watched that interview not long after the first reports of the attempted assassination came out. I came to the same conclusion that something smelled to high heaven. How multiple people could see the shooter belly crawling up the roof with a rifle and be yelling and pointing for the police to see ...

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The first time I was given laughing gas by my dentist I got sick and nearly tossed my cookies. Not sure why, but I can't take it at all. Just makes my stomach turn.

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When you look at what a terribly incompetent job the prosecutors did it makes me wonder. How can anyone be that bad and hold the positions they hold? Almost makes me think this ineptness was intentional to create a mistrial. But I question the judge's decision to add "with prejudice" to th...

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My dad was born in 1904, and said during times when money was tight they often mixed in some diesel into their gas fill ups to make their money go further. The difference between gas and diesel back then was more significant, and every penny counted. He said they eventually figured out how much dies...

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Those guns make me wish I'd never seen them. Uglier than sin, and can't get that image out of my mind now. I need to go open my safe and hug some blued steel and walnut now.

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A set of bolt cutters would make even faster work of it! And the brass shields they made to somehow hinder bolt cutters can be easily cut through too.

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Can't say I've been impressed or wanted almost any new cartridge development? None of them seem to do anything that hundreds of older cartridges can't do, so no desire to get a gun, dies, brass, etc. for some new whiz bang cartridge.

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Not even gonna show a picture of my bench!

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Around here FedEx is delivered by USPS on Sundays. Not sure how USPS on overtime can deliver cheaper than FedUps employees?

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I think it is call 5R rifling! Boots obermeyer was the first to use it! Obermeyer True 5R® rifling is an official registered trademark of Boots Obermeyer of Obermeyer Barrels. Krieger Barrels has express permission to use both his "5R" terminology and the groove geometry he developed to p...

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My sister in law has owned a Remington 1100 Skeet in .410 for decades. My brother bought it specifically for her to shoot skeet when they were stationed in Germany in the 1970's, and it's the sweetest shooting shotgun I've ever fired. Tried numerous times to talk her out of it, but even though she h...

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Guess it's time to buy a lottery ticket after reuniting consecutive serial number shotguns! Nice find!

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What do you think wheel weights are before adding linotype? I used to use straight wheel weights as they seemed to be fairly hard without anything added. Stopped using them when so many wheel weights started being made of zinc or other metals that aren't good for anything but fishing weights.

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If it is linotype it will be too hard melted as is for bullets. I mix mine 2 parts pure lead to one part linotype. Could even go 3 to 1 and be hard enough.

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I love fishing small waters with light gear! Some of the most fun I have fishing. And I've caught fish up to 24" long in water you could easily jump across.

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It's a reaction based on no scientific findings at all. To say hogs got smarter because they are hunted is just plain silly. Their claim that it makes trapping efforts less successful is even sillier. If hogs don't fall for their traps at night, then maybe hogs are getting wise to traps, not avoidin...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 8:24 am Same for me, Vall. It is discouraging. Admins warn it could go on for a few more days.

Just tried it again a few minutes ago and it worked fine. Really screwy. I posted at a topic there about site issues and mentioned a lot of people can't get on almost daily. So we'll see if they respond.

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Seems to be an every morning thing for me. Down again yesterday, but worked in the afternoon. Just tried a few minutes ago and down again this morning. They really need to fix it, or I'm just going to give up on the site.

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For my .177 pellet rifle I've found the heavier 10 gr. pellets to be the most accurate. Lighter 7 gr. give higher velocities across my chonograph, but they don't group as well at 25 yds. as the heavier pellets. I'm not too concerned with penetration since squirrels aren't very tough to penetrate. Ac...

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Down again this morning.

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I have linotype bars, but also some ingots that weigh in the 35-40 lb. range. But my ingots are not rounded shape, or marked with any letters. Just weight written in black felt pen on them.

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Same here too Bill. Just tried a second ago and wouldn't open the site.

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MM, those are really cool, beautiful firearms that I don't think I've ever heard of or seen. Can you tell us more about them??? I for one, would be very interested!!! -Tutt The Remington target pistols were built off the previous Remington Model 1871 Army .50 caliber pistols. Remington had built wa...

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Some years ago we were sitting in the living room watching a movie one afternoon when we suddenly heard a big boom right outside our front door, and the power went out! I jumped up to see if the transformer on the pole at our driveway had blown, and saw feathers floating down in front of my deck! I ...

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https://i.imgur.com/Z9PpL7Zl.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/Z9mQUf6l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/opcbEo8l.jpg I previously bought the single wood case from Hampels for my Hubalek (lower pistol) but then got the HM Pope 2 months later, so ordered a glass top case from him to fit both pistols. The case also h...

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Although it was not a surprise to hear of Mike's passing yesterday, it's still very sad news. He was an old school style gun writer who loved what he did, and wrote articles worth reading, and books I still go back to often. He will be sorely missed.

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Give DuckDuckGo a try as your search engine, it's all I use and I was able to log in here or CB without any issues! I do everything possible to avoid using the Gword search engines. They don't need to know what I'm looking at! I always use Duck-Duck Go everywhere, but hasn't changed issues I occasi...

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It's running normal today, but yesterday was so slow here I gave up finally.

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The question is whether your 336 is an A or ADL for sure? Marlin often put barrels stamped "336 ADL" on 336A rifles, so it's caused much confusion for owners who saw the ADL but wondered why their rifle didn't have the ADL features. If it has the correct features of a 336 ADL I'd expect ma...

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It was working fine for me, then yesterday didn't work at all. Then I noticed the site had me logged out, so I logged back in and it worked fine again. But the same thing happened here today! I went to open a post to read and it took a full minute to open. Then it said "You don't have privilege...

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Seems like maybe a year ago I told myself I was done buying, unless it was something really neat or special. Since I told myself that I've stumbled into more great guns and antique rifle scopes than I've seen in most of my life of collecting! So guess I just needed to tell myself that earlier!

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Didn't work yesterday, but just looked in a few minutes ago and it's working fine.

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 1:19 pm That will do just fine! Still waiting for a range report

I think I've got 5 new to me old guns since last fall and still haven't found time to take them to the range! This retirement thing sure keeps me busy!

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Seems the report of Mike's demise was a bit premature! Prayer seemed to have worked a miracle, and he's at home and posted this: Mike posted this 5hrs ago on Colt Forums!...Power of prayer. :D "I have experienced a miracle and found my own personal angel. Last Wednesday May 22 four doctors stoo...

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Got the rubber bands off this morning and began the job of whittling down the donor wood. Started by cutting off the excess closely with my jewelers saw. Then used blue tape to mask around the filler so I could rough file down to the tape. Once I hit the tape all around I removed it and began using ...

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LED lamps have multiple reasons to make them better than incandescent or fluorescent lamps. Of course the biggest is savings on your electric bill. But a very close 2nd is the lifespan. That lifespan isn't just the savings of buying lamps, but in a commercial situation the cost of maintenance paid t...

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I have LED 4 ft. lights all over my shop and garage. I love them and plan on putting them over my reloading bench soon too! I bought the style that plug in also and plug fixture to fixture. I simply installed a switched duplex receptacle to the first light, and then ran one every 5 ft. apart daisy c...

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