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Doc Hudson

I saw that posted on another forum.

All I can say is give those a**holes hell Game Keeper!

Any way you can get a platoon of the Highland Regiment to book rooms there, have them show up enmasse and act like Highlanders if they get the same sort of guff.

Doc Hudson

I like the looks of the 311. I also hear they are a good deal for your money. I would like to find one in 12ga with 28" tubes with both threaded for choke tubes. I like diversity. Good luck with your new pet and let us know how it patterns if you try it out. By all accounts, the Stevens M-311 ...

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1) Configuration – rifle/carbine (nose cap or barrel bands): Carbine 2) Butt – shotgun/crescent/carbine/pad: shotgun 3) Stock – pistol/straight: Straight 4) Stock – checkered/smooth: checkered 5) Takedown/solid frame: Solid 6) Box mag / tube magazine: Detachable Box Magazine 7) Tube mag length - hal...

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I think Modified and Full were the standard chokes, but I could be wrong. Slick is right about needing to pattern that scattergun to really KNOW how it is choked. One odd thing about that M-311 20 gauge, the one I had produced more felt recoil than my Fox Model B 12 gauge. I'd bought the 20 gauge f...

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IMNSHO, the .45-70 is pre-expanded and also have plenty of penetration.

Doc Hudson

I am not buying that dems were ever good. Once upon a time, long, long ago, the Democrats were the good guys. They were the Party of Thomas Jefferson, and Andwre Jackson. The party that championed the common man against the various parties that attempted to impose a caste system on various parts of...

Doc Hudson

Ihaven't read all the responses, so I might be repeating someone else. IMO the most accurate lever-gun is the Browning BLR, aka Model 81. My .358 Win BLR is the most accurate rifle I've ever owned and one of the most accurate I've ever shot. When I holder it right, it will make one hole groups at 10...

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I suppose where one lives will have something to do with the way we answer, as well as our hunting abilities and range. I don't handgun hunt, and I don't live in an area with major four-legged predators, so I don't need bear stompers. Around here, the bear are small enough, when found, that a 30-30 ...

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Most states have a provision for allowing convicted felons to get their rights back. They have to petition the court and have a hearing. It's not like they don't have an option. Most won't go through the hassle and take their chance. You are correct about the restoration of rights. However, that co...

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I have only met two convicted felons that I know of. I dont want to be in the same county knowing either one had a firearm in his possession. Then you need to move. Because if they are that bad, they are probably packing iron on a regular basis. FWIW, I feel the same way about some folks who have n...

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I saw that a few months ago, but lost the link.

Thanks for posting it again. BTW I posted the link on another forum.

Doc Hudson

Please convey our sympathies to the family of this young man.

And keep working on your sons. If they knew the victim, perhaps it will sink in that they are responsible for their own safety.

Doc

Doc Hudson

Although the moral of the story remains the same, I found somewhat differing accounts of this scrape online. One stated that they were chasing each other around the stove and were so close that Richardson's coat was on fire from Loving's shots. :shock: http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/myers2.html...

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RSY wrote:Was Frank related to Oliver???

I've no idea. However, Oliver Loving was the person Larry McMurtry based Gus MacRae in his Lonsome Dove novels.

Doc Hudson

Anything by Robert Utley is well researched and well written. Among other books, Mr. Utley has written excellent biographies of Custer, Sitting Bull, and Billy the Kid. His A Life Wild and Perilous is an outstanding history of the fur trade. He also wrote a good book on the life of frontier cavalrym...

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Its a proven fact that a hit beats a miss, any day. Unless of course, your shot goes astray and hits the tailgate of your new truck -- but that's a story for another day. I'd like to think that I'd have the nerve to stand fire like Frank Loving and calmly put three holes in my attacker. Especially ...

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There are some stories of properly trained War Horses of Old who were reputed to do things like that to pesant cannon fodder... I'm not certain if it was ever a practice of the US Cavalry, but until fairly recent historical eras, cavalry horses were taught to rear up and strike with their forefeet,...

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From Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marsha l, Chapter #17 Dodge Goes Humdrum "Levi Richardson," Wyatt said, "had been a buffalo hunter, and was one of the best shots with rifle or pistol on the range. He had a touchy disposition that often got him into trouble, but he had the courage to back it...

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Parson my ignorance, but which of the .450/400 cartridges are you talking about?

The .450/400 Blackpowder Express 2 3/8" Bottlenecked case?

The .450/400 Nitro Express 3" Straight case?

Or the .450/400 Magnum Nitro Express 3 1/4" Straight case?

Doc Hudson

You should be shooting a cast bullet in that rifle and cartridge. The heck with those jacketed bullets in the 358 Winnie. That rifle is screaming for cast bullets, so you need to buy a mold and get on with it. Tom. Maybe, but it his rifle is like mine, he will be using Hornady 200 grain Spire Point...

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Pay close attention to Sixgun and Mike Hunter. If it were easy to do, there would be lots more than just a handful of people doing this. In fact, until I read this thread, I was unaware of anyone other than Doug Turnbull who did case coloring these days.

Doc Hudson

Well, if ol' Berry was treating dead cats like that five years ago, by now he's probably hunting the things by himself.

Doc Hudson

If it was a long centerfire .22, perhaps it was chambered for .22-15-60 Stevens or possibly .22 WCF.

Doc Hudson

That's exactly right Doc and what I do with all my cartridges. Never have had a lick of trouble with crimping or "needed" a Lee FCD. AKRay, I'm glad you're up and running. That's a pretty good cartridge for your neck of the woods! Hobie, IMNSHO, the .358 Winchester is a mighty fine cartri...

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There is a photo of one of Will Bill's Navy Colts, the one in the Autry Museum, on page 88 of Rattenbury's Packing Iron along with a Slim Jim-style holster that allegedly belonged to Wild Bill.

Doc Hudson

Here is another trick to try if you haven't already. Screw your crimp die out far enough that it won't crimp at all. Lever a cartridge into the die and adjust the seating plug to seat the bullet at the depth you desire. Then screw the seating plug as high as it will go and screw the die down to remo...

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I'd have gone with the Ferguson myself. In addition to fascination with the rifle, one of my ancestors took part in the fight in which Major Ferguson was killed

Doc Hudson

Yet another innocent gunower ruined for life if he gets convicted.

Doc Hudson

Iffen you ain't Vin Lupo, you are certainly chasing after his record. Nice buff!

Doc Hudson

How about adding Don Juan of Lepanto to the Pantheon? Read G. K. Chesterton's poem... And since we're fighting Islamic enemies, why not El Cid and James Puckle? I can understand Don Juan de Lepanto, aka Don John of Austria, after all his victory at Lepanto saved Europe from Turkish domination, but ...

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How about adding Don Juan of Lepanto to the Pantheon? Read G. K. Chesterton's poem... And since we're fighting Islamic enemies, why not El Cid and James Puckle? I can understand Don Juan de Lepanto, aka Don John of Austria, after all his victory at Lepanto saved Europe from Turkish domination, but ...

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A little off topic but we are shooters/hunters and good vision is paramount. I am considering Lasik when the kids braces are paid. Anyone have any experience? It seems much less exotic and hopefully expensive than it once was. Thanks. 1886. All I can say is don't wait around! I waited too long, the...

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I suspect if any of us met him in person, we would like him or at the least respect him. -Tutt If even just 2/3 of what Lake wrote about Wyatt Earp was true, and in many cases he was quoting eyewitness descriptions from people other than Earp, you can bet the farm that we'd respect the man whether ...

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I like catfish but am always too lazy to fish them myself. Store bought is ok for the most part, but there is just something about getting it fresh. Be careful to buy either wild caught American fish, or American Farm-raised Catfish. I don't trust the ChiCom produced catfish, or any other food prod...

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Very impressive lists all. I have never taken the time to compile a list as it would be rather large and full of people who most have never heard of having been lucky enough to live through some very trying times and locations. Hell man!! You walk around with a bunch of HEROES every day, and in fac...

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In the past I've had a pretty negative opinions about convicted felons and their firearms rights. But John Taffin and a few other incidents have changed my mind. As has already been said, if a man pays his debt to society and behaves like an honest upright citizen, he should have his full rights res...

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I have a question? Does anyone know where the name RED NECK came from. !! I was told years ago that the term "redneck" was originally about a group of West Virginia coal miners that wore red bandanas around their necks to show they were part of the predecessor of a union ! Now how true th...

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I'd delete Billy Dixon (one lucky shot does not make a hero) You are correct that one lucky shot, which is what he called it himself, does not make a hero. Winning the Congressional Medal of Honor does. And Billy Dixon won the CMH for his actions during the Buffalo Wallow Fight not long after Adobe...

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Some of Earp's more nefarious activities can be found at http://www.wyattearp.net and at http://wyattsearp.com/history.html His status as a gunfighter is not in question. I just wonder at why he has become the fantasy ideal of a western lawman. There were many others who did as much as he did, or a...

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Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain: is one of the most un-heralded men in US history and one of the finest I like your list Jeff I've no great regard for Chamberlin. One of his Maine troops put a bullet in my great-great grandpa's buttock. If it had not been for that danged stubborn Mainer, Gettysburg mi...

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Kt your list is long on Yankees and short on Confederates, but what can you expect from someone from Upstate New York? LOL My heroes? Oddly enough I was giving thought to that very matter some little while back and started writing a rather lengthy article about the heroes we chose. So here is my abb...

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Marcia and I have a similar plan. She does a very convincing faint. Before we married, we had a long discussion about the fact that I carry a gun virtually all the time. We discussed various scenarios, including being in a restaurant of business that was being robbed. I told her if we were in a plac...

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As much as I love my sister I was compelled to ask her a tough question. We were at a restaurant with a large group of family. Gun control came up (Heller). My sister is opposed to firearm ownership. Given: Evil exists in the world and bad guys have guns. It is unrealistic to get all of the guns ou...

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Here is a similar story I posted on another forum a few weeks ago. Why jackalopes is the fiercest, most dangerous, critter to roam the West. Buffalo would stampede at the mere suspicion that jackalope were in the area. And more than once large Indian war parties were scattered by a single ill-temper...

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Let me strongly recommend Robert Utley's biographies of George Custer, Sitting Bull and Billy the Kid. In addition to the Billy the Kid bio, Utley wrote an outstanding book on the Lincoln County War. Utley gets his facts straight, and presents them in an interesting form. I consider him to be one of...

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Andrew, once you've held a 1860, you're gone - no point even trying to fight off that urge for a traditional C&B. IMHO the 1860 was the pinnacle of the development of the blackpowder cap and ball revolver. The balance is extraordinary. It is simply a work of art! :mrgreen: Now we could have us ...

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Hey, Navy's are nothing to sneeze at. They handle real well, and I'd sure hate to be hit by one of the soft .36 caliber balls. Didn't Hicock prefer the Navy? If so, that says alot. Yep, Wild bill Hickok and Doc Holiday both continued to use Navy Colts long after metallic cartridge handguns were ava...

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The "Safety" and "mag" ones always bugged me, since rifle has both a safety and a magazine, it seems to be written by a firearms neophyte. As does the description of recoil. :roll: By Magazine, I believe he was talking about those long, bulky, detachable things hanging beneath E...

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My old friend Bryant Grace once made an error in his alloy and cast his SWC's way too hard. They were a bit inconsistently sized as the hard alloy didn't fill out the drive bands very well, and accuracy was not outstanding, but those sucker sure did penetrate. Bryant loaded some up over a heavy load...

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The other day, the subject of gun-fanning came up and I mentioned something I read in Lake's biography of Wyatt Earp. Since he's been on my mind lately, I decided to reread Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal . I've just scratched the surface, but I found these rather interesting comments that I thought I'...

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