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Nath wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 2:46 pmA depression usually takes hold by the end of winter.

I don’t usually suffer that at this latitude, but when we lived in England I sure did. At mid day in late December, one’s shadow was remarkably long and the sun rather dim even on a clear day. I don’t miss that.

Good to have you back.

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stretch wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:06 amNo anasthetic. And it didn't get infected.

The Wikipedia article on Bradmore says honey and wine were used to treat the wound. I recall reading honey can have some antibiotic properties, and also that wine was believed then to be safer than the water from most sources.

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Odd they kept the tube loading in place with side gate. I guess it does allow for a quick unload. Nice to see them always working on their product line.

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Perhaps Sharpe was talking about the original loads as compared to the later, "high velocity" smokeless loads. Whelen's WW-I era book said the 1300 fps BP load could be used on deer, but the 1600 fps smokeless load was a big step up in performance.

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Though not on question, I've always thought the '76 a handsome rifle but the '73 rather unattractive--something about the proportions of the side plate, I think. Using the Powley computer, I dreamed up some .30 and .35 wildcats on the .40-60 case.

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I have read, but cannot prove, that the black powder loads for WWII Battleships were used during the first Gulf War..... As I recall reading, the main charge is smokeless but not cordite. The large, multi perforated grains are difficult to get going, so a charge of BP is what the primer first light...

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Nice work. Mine I lost during one of 3 overseas moves. It was a commercial unit, and the blade could be rotated 90 degrees to the frame. I once ripped a 1x6 in half with it just to see how that went, which was a mild work out. They are a good tool. I should get another one. Most wood I cut I still d...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:18 pmThat young lady looks perfect to me...

A fine looking gal indeed, but the last movie in the series was not interesting.

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I had to look up what an Evans was.

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there was a henry in 44 CF at a big time auction house... the write up said there were at least 3 of them made Thanks. I didn't realize there were as many as a few thousand '66 made in CF, and I'd never heard of the Henry being made in it. I'm really surprised by the Henry. I thought the Henry CF c...

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Good work. And what is the cartridge?

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I know technology is really cool and stuff, but I would think the amount of stretch at firing of a rifle barrel at the chamber would be super-small Strain gauges were developed around WW-II and could be read by the electronics of the era. It's easier with modern electronics, of course. The ratio of...

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... the action is just too short... Rock Island Armory mentions "A few late production 1866s were configured to fire .44 Henry centerfire, and period conversions may have been performed to fire .44 Henry CF or other .44 caliber cartridges available at the time." This cartridge collector's...

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Wasn't the 44 American the same physical size as the 44 RF only CF? The dimensions in Barnes' book shows them close but not quite the same, but he used calipers instead of referring to factory drawings. He did speculate you could form it from .44 Mag brass and claimed there were RCBS dies to do so....

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Very nice, Shrapnel. Barnes suggested making brass from .303 Savage cases. However, the easy approach is to just buy turned brass from Rocky Mtn. Does anyone know how many rifles were made in Henry CF? Hmmm, you said "it should be a 44-40 as late as it is"; did they actually make them in ....

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What they are doing is making any rifle capable of taking a magazine of more than 5 rounds illegal. Okay, I misinterpreted what you had first written. Seems the original Ruger .44 Carbine will be desirable there. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another semi that will pass the law. Your com...

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Several Hurricane pilots were quite vociferous that their mounts should never be discounted. Roland Beamont comes to mind first. The early Hurricanes were quite remarkable beasts, derived from a biplane. These first jobs had cloth covered wings and fixed wood propellers. I doubt any of these were st...

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The general idea was his name should never be spoken... they are changing the law so no one can have AR15, AK47 or any form of semi auto rifle that is capable of taking a detachable magazine holding greater than 5 rounds. I'm surprised any detachable magazine would be permitted. How does one guaran...

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Nice! I had thought of looking for Ordnance reports from that era but decided to fetch from the UIUC Library another book which google had located. I’ve read Ordnance reports from the 1890s when looking for information on the development of the .30-40, the cartridge for my rolling block. I wonder if...

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I don't have years for all the methods; sorry. The US Ordnance Dept was using a system in 1861 in which the piston drove a knife edge into a copper plate; Rodman was the name I think. About the same time, Nobel in Europe developed the crusher similar to that used today. Both systems have the piston ...

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... while others like Winchester Super-X are manufactured up to 15% less than map pressures. SAAMI is a voluntary industry agreement. No maker is required to use its standards. In Europe there is a different set of standards, and I believe all the national labs there by law conform to it. With thei...

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I believe the goal of reference ammo is consistency, not a particular pressure. It's performance is averaged over several firings in several (nominally) identical test set ups around the country. If it is suitably consistent, it is blessed as so. If you look at the SAAMI documents, they describe tak...

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The old 1992 standard gave an example for each method firing the same lots of reference loads, and the copper crushers, using tarage tables for calibration, produced over 23% difference in average pressure for 10 shots among 9 labs. I have a copy of the 1992 book. I find only one example of testing...

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Yes, I had seen your page on pressure test results. It's quite useful information. I would add that I doubt 11,000 psi is the same as 13,000 CUP in the .44-40. In the .357, data shot to the CUP standard is generally faster than that shot to psi. This suggests the older CUP standard is actually highe...

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COSteve wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:09 amUsing a full charge of Lil'Gun... my 24" Rossi .357mag rifle shooting 158grn Zero JSP bullets... produced 2,005fps.

Nice! That exceeds the performance of the early .30 WCF loads.

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Wow, 240 gr cast lead to 1373 fps from a 20" barrel at 10 ksi? Right impressive that. I imagine it leaves behind a mess of partly burned powder in the barrel. Is it sooty, too?

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An older S&W 10 and a Hagn miniature in .357 or .300 AAC would do what I care to do with firearms.

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I think it would be more effective to have those required to own one also train in military order as well. As I recall the history, the militia was never kept well trained in the early US and proved not particularly effective. The voters would likely be quite annoyed were they also required to train...

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I looked over his "manifesto." Claims that he is a white supremacist are false. Rather, his "thing" is purity in ethnicity, which he ties somewhat to race. He has no desire to enslave or conquer other races, ethnicities, or religions. He hates immigrants, truly hates them, obviou...

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Not my cup of tea. I'd rather have a J frame or LCR or Bulldog or...

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 6:14 pmYeah, but none of them are any fun without a MINIGUN attached.

The video claims $3000 per second to feed that minigun, which would take all the fun out of it for me.

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No such laws in IL, and in CO the laws do not apply to electric cars, for they have no (direct) emissions. The hybrids only have to pass the usual 7 year inspections (OBD test). At least that is what Colorado says on their site . (Search for the phrase Emissions Exempt near the top of the page.) I d...

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... you and I are all paying through tax relief, for every one of those polluting, overpriced POSes. Calm down, Steve. The topic was the Prius. Your rant, to which there is some truth, is on electric cars, which the Prius is not. The Prius and its ilk replace the mechanical transmission in part wit...

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Right spiffy--but I enjoy my longbows.

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Good read.

While for the most part a city boy from Illinois, I spent many months on my grandparent's farm in Indiana, and I feel claustrophobic when in a forest or in a mountain valley. I've read people from Switzerland often feel exposed when on open plains.

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... probably the lightest trigger pull was on the Ruger LCR series. I, too, find the LCR has the lightest DA pull. A range in the next city over has one, with many rounds through it, and the DA trigger is incredible. Even new ones are smooth. That said, I've come across older K frames which have ha...

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:26 pmYea, those darned French. Why without them we'd still be kneeling to the queen.

And without us, they'd be speaking Russian as a second language, or perhaps German.

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... brass that is 2.082" and brass that is 2.125" I've never read why SAAMI standardized on the 2.082". The original spec was for 2-1/8". I imagine Winchester or the like made runs of .38-55 with the brass trimmed back a bit (perhaps to mate up with some bullets they had on hand...

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That made me chuckle--and go pick up a similar glass from the cabinet

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Old No7 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:14 amOh my, what a beautiful plane!

The Brits of that era could knock out some truly gorgeous airplanes, such as the Mosquito and the Hornet from de Havilland.

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I'm extra lazy and don't even properly clean my cases, just wipe them off. The carbide dies handle this fine. I've become so lazy I select chamberings based on whether I can get either a carbide or a Lee Collet die for it.

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I managed to miss all this recent news here but am sorry to hear of her passing. As you said, it could have been much worse for her; it was for my father in law. Always keep the good times with her in mind.

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Which one of these calibers does everyone find interesting? The 4 choices on the web site are all good. Among them, I'd likely select .30-30. My .30-40 is 6-3/4 lb and I find the recoil quite acceptable, but I hand load to the original specs, 220 @ 2000 from 30" (which my rifle has). Factory a...

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Spiffy!, thank you.

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I had a .22LR with a longer than average barrel. It was quite inaccurate even with a larger after market grip and was soon traded off.

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Ouch! Here's hoping it all holds.

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Classy exit. Best wishes to your family.

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Thank you! I didn't realize I'd ever entered my birthday into my profile here. My parents married on Valentine's day, and I came along 9 months later. It appears my parents weren't the only ones inspired so...

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A little milling here and there and a trimmer hammer action make the ugly duckling 1874 into the shapely 1877. I wish someone made a scaled down version.

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Thanks; happy to contribute.

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