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JimT

No sir. I bought a Cimarron .45 Colt last June and am working with that. They hsve a lot of nice stuff in the store!

JimT

YOU WIN JEEPNIK!

JimT

Thank you one and all. We had a great afternoon in Luckenbach, then went into Fredericksburg and visited Cimarron Arms. Afterward we ended with a great meal at Martini's Seafood. I recommend it if you are in Fredericksburg.

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Thank you!

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Thank you Scott!

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I was in Wal-Mart and had to use the restroom. There was a sign in the restroom that said in bold letters EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS. I waited for maybe 20 minutes and no employees ever came and washed my hands!
I don't know what this country is coming to!

JimT

Thank ya'll! It's a perfect day to have a perfect day!

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Celebrating my 80th birthday!

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One of The Shootings was pharmacist who had an FFL and sold through his place of business. He always said he dealt in drugs and guns. Located here in Texas. No problems.

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BFF = Best Friend Fell
TTYL = Talk To You Louder
BYOT = Bring Your Own Teeth
FWIW = Forgot Where I Was
OMSG = Oh my! Sorry. Gas

JimT

I hope it turns up Scott!

JimT

He has "seen the elephant" and I don't discount that. He knows gunfighting and I do not doubt it works at those distances. But for hunting and long range shooting with handguns, you don't tilt them. Try adjusting the sights whether scope, peep sights or open sights .. with the gun tilted. ...

JimT

.41 day is a Great Day. A Quadruple .41 Day is Something Special!!

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I have never been a fishing person. My wife was. She loved it. I went along to eat fresh fish!

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No. My reloading "cave" is in our shop. The shop is 45 x 90 and I have a corner. I have fans and doors I open.

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A well used but not abused sixgun is a beautiful piece of machinery!

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IMG_8711.JPG Using my old NEI mold. What a pleasure to use. Heats quickly and evenly. Drops good bullets quickly. And they pop right out of the mold like they are anxious to get going! IMG_8712.JPG These are .41 caliber, 230 grains. I size them to .410" for my sixgun, lubed with Paco's Apache ...

JimT

Yes .. it explains how the forend broke.

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This is interesting. Correct me if I am wrong, but the cracked for end stock looks to me like gas was vented, but if there's no ruptured barrel, and no ruptured case, can the gas be redirected somehow, in the toggle link lock up. Could it somehow vent around the outside of the case, and end up in b...

JimT

I am with you on the Green Dot. I have used it in .38 Special .. .44 Special ... .45 ACP .... .45 Colt ... all with good results.

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Wow. I am sorry to hear that, but it makes sense of the forend splitting. Thank the Lord it wasn't worse. Take your time, search around, I am sure you will find a way to repair it and get it going again. It's not impossible but it may take time and patience to find it. EDIT: I am glad you didn't get...

JimT

I carry mine in my pocket a lot. I have never had it hook on anything in the 3 years or more that I have carried it. I ain't saying it cannot happen but so far it hasn't so I am happy. I rounded the corners off enough they quit hurting my fingers.

JimT

Sorry to hear that. It can be rebarreled. Once you get the bullet out, clean the bore and then shoot some of your regular ammo, testing the accuracy. It may surprise you. And more than likely the second shot pushed the stopped bullet out of the barrel and that was the slow velocity reading. I would ...

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Wow, what a shock that must have been. I love an 1876, too, although I don't have one in the rack anymore. I hope that bullet comes out easily and that you don't have a ring. If you do, it's either rebarrel or reline, although an occasional ringed barrel has been known to shoot better than it shoul...

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If the barrel is not bulged and if it did not rupture any place .... and if the magazine is not damaged .. the forend had to break because it was cracked in my opinion. Probably internally ... on the inside .. where it was not visible. A bullet stopping the bore does not exert pressure on the outsid...

JimT

If it were mine, I would push the bullet out of the barrel and see if the barrel is ringed.
If it's not .. and if the magazine isn't damaged, all you did was break the forend.

JimT

The bullet is lodged 12 inches from the muzzle or the breech?
Is the barrel bulged anyplace?

EDIT: This is an 1886 made in 1903 that blew because of metal fatigue. It was fired for years with smokeless loads but the metal was not designed for smokeless loads.

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Yessir. That is where I first heard it.

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2026 8:40 am Oh, the joy of the day of the Resurrection!

AMEN!!

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I'm sharing an old one ... but it's a much older story so that's OK. I pray you all have a Blessed Day! SIGNS They had made camp nearly a week before. The old men said the signs were good for this place. There was an abundance of water, firewood and game. The grass was still green even though it was...

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Thank you Bill!

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piller wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2026 6:26 pm Considering that one supreme being made it all, set up rules, sent his living word to live by his rules and die to show that life was part of the rules, then I feel very fortunate to have been given a second chance.

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Home sweet home, in a minor solar system in a minor spur of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, whose core is 27,000 light years from us in a Universe of millions if not billions of galaxies. Kinda makes it feel small and special, like we ought to take care of it, and of each other. The Author o...

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Thanks. I like it. Just look how badly the relatives have messed it up!
(sarcasm in case it didn't come across)

I noticed one day flying at 40,000 feet that you could not really see any damage done by mankind like those who have been educated beyond their intelligence preach.

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It's Friday.
But ..
SUNDAY'S COMIN"!!

JimT

The Bearcat Shopkeeper strikes again!

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Raccoons been getting our chicken feed ... and a chicken now and again. Stopped this one.

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I rounded the corners on the ejector rod just after I got mine. They were sharp on the fingers.

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I think that was a pretty foolish prank. You don't mess with someone else's gun. I understand what you are saying and don't disagree. But in this case, I did not get upset about it. Deacon and I were family and close friends. We had been around each other a lot. I knew him and what he was like. And...

JimT

This last August I called Freedom Arms for a different front sight for my Model 97. It arrived in the mail later that week. They have always been great doing business with.

JimT

I played with the Accelerators in .30-30. The little .22 bullet worked wonders on Javelina. I helped clean one that was shot at about a hundred yards. Dropped it right there and the insides were a mess! The 06 load was quite a bit faster. I still have a full box of .30-30 and a partial box.

JimT

Good story Jim. I’ve seen talented men do amazing work with a variety of handguns. I’ve come to believe that Bill Jordan was right. There’s nothing faster for the first shot from the holster than the SAA. Elmer said that also. And I agree with them. The fastest draw and shooting that I have done wa...

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It all comes down to practice, doesn't it? :D Yessir. I found I could draw the 7 1/2" single action using standard power loads just about as fast as the shorter barrel. I just practiced and shot all the time. When you do that you find out that it's you, not the piece of machinery. The human fa...

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Back in the late 1980's I carried a Colt .45ACP Officers Model for a year or so. I shot it a lot and practiced a lot with it. One of the things I practiced was how to get it into action when the chamber wasn't loaded. (Condition 3) I know that Condition 3 is frowned upon by most, but I figured I cou...

JimT

That USFA is a Beautiful gun!

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He asked me, "Did all Winchester 64s have a long tang?"

I have no clue but I am pretty sure one of you all know the answer.

Thanks in advance ....

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For me the longer barrel pointed more naturally. In those days I did a lot of point shooting, rapid fire at times.

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Nice work. I had an old model 357 that I shot until it was loose. The bolt had battered against the frame from years of cocking really fast, and it got wobbly on the screw and messed up the lockup. I shimmed the bolt into place and put in a new screw and it ran just fine, didn't spit or lose accurac...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2026 12:37 pm I could never shoot as much as I do without the Dillon. But there are certain cartridges that I insist on loading with a tong tool. .50-70 Govt. for my Sharps rifle is one of those.

I can understand that! You really feel connected. A taste of how our ancestors not too long ago survived.

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I learned to load on a 357 Magnum Lee Loader in the late eighties. I bought the Lee dipper set too but I think they were marked in cc by then. I “moved up “ to a Lee Hand Press and then to their Turret press in the early nineties. Now I have a Dillon 550, a Redding turret, and my grandpa’s C-H Tool...

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