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All my existing powder is 'assigned' to rifle and pistol I need to reload, so I'll have to get powder for shotgun. Sounds like I need the Lyman shotshell manual, and I'm sure I will have a better feel for powders after that, but I'd definitely like to use a powder which would also be useable in rifl...

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THAT sounds like the epitome of a really good gun-shootin' match. One of those events that brings together people of all ages, all economic circumstances, all occupations, and everyone has a good time, without having to have a 'race' gun.

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I have a M-25 that is also PINK which has been cascaded through my three daughters (although now the youngest says the only gun she likes to shoot is my Ruger 96/22). I also have a long-barreled one with a straight 10x old-style Weaver that can hit a penny at 50 yards. I've never shot it 'against' a...

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Wow that is way cool. :mrgreen: Wish I had the time to to develope those sort of skills. I'm glad I don't have the time - gives me an excuse to have ugly guns... :wink: Not only is it a cool stockmaking project, but the photos and writeup are very helpful - maybe inspiring me to do something someti...

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Anyone here reload shotgun shells? I've loaded .410 and 12 gauge YEARS ago (shortly after they invented shotguns, I think...) with a hand tool but now have a couple grocery sacks of Remington, Winchester, and Federal hulls, mostly 12 gauge, some 20 gauge, and a few .410 - when I looked on Midway for...

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Range report....!

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He could see how mad I was and he thought a minute and said " bring me a note from your mom and you can have the shells ". So I walked the mile home, got my note, returned to the store and he sold me the .22 ammo. He is gone now and enough time has passed that I don't think BATF will say ...

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Glad your outta there, never cared much for hospitals. Now to get you on the road to recovery. Start with some chicken noodle soup, rest, and lots of practice with a 22LR and you'll feel better in no time. chicken noodle soup.jpg bearcat.jpg THAT'S what I need to start prescribing my patients...! T...

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IIRC these also fall in the legal cartridge size range for deer here in Indiana. Actually, the case length cannot exceet 1.625 (.500 S&W, conveniently, enough), and the Beowulf is 1.650; The .450 Bushmaster is even longer (1.703), but the .458 SOCOM is 1.575 so is deer legal in Indiana. With a ...

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now I want one of those beowulfs!!!Enablers, every one of you. :lol: Here is where to an 'Entry' model - http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0018846225733a.shtml - $749 now Gunblast review of the .50 Beowulf Entry model - http://www.gunblast.com/50Beowulf.htm Gunblast review of the Overwatch model - http...

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Here are some very sketchy averages (rounded to the nearest 25 fps) I got from browsing 5 reloading manuals, and another 4 or 5 internet sites, plus a few threads from Leverguns. I didn’t really set out to “prove” any one cartridge was ‘better’ than the others, because I think anything I’d ever shoo...

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I then moved back to 100'(33 1/3yds) and put 5 in less than 5" on a plastic bucket standing up completely unsupported. I was stoked. Not great, but a lot better than any of the shooting I had done before. With any luck I will be smacking those paper plates with enough authority in the next 34 ...

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Guide Guns are Cool....

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As a simple minded guy I view the entire "benefits" concept offered by employers as odd. Pay me a wage to compensate for my time. No pension, no health care, just give me the money to save as I see fit without government involvement. All these plans and schemes are the result of a central...

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I've always hoped to see a .500 S&W levergun come into production, as a really big-bore levergun with a shorter throw than the .45-70, which could pack a really POTENT punch, yet 'light' loads deliver 500+ grains at 1,000 fps. Alas, I may have to settle for the used Handi-Rifle I just got ( scra...

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Whew - around our house "DFW" means "don't mess with"

- I thought maybe they were becoming a not-nice company to deal with or something...

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The 'Nam veterans seem to be the last generation that 'gets it' politically. Younger people all think that it is 'normal' for everything to be 'provided' by the government. They accept even blatantly corrupt 'authority' without a blink of an eye. There were the 'hippies' of that generation, but some...

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Our local Gander Mountain is getting more supplies in, although I can't say they ever had 'good' prices - a local place called "Bradis" has stocked up again with LOTS of the major cartridges - 9mm, .45 ACP, .40, .223, .308, .7.62x39, etc., at fairly reasonable prices. Much of it is brass/b...

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Two things happened around the same time, with similar effects... "Pensions" and "Health Benefits" - I think the origin was the government debacle of "wage-price freeze" to "control an unstable economy" (sound familiar...?). Both allowed corporations (ironical...

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The rail has a little lighter price tag -- $60 , but the ghost ring sights are a trifle spendy. In fact, when you start adding up the retail cost of the accessories, which is roughly $310... I just put the Williams 5D on one, and took the aperture out - great sight for $29 on sale; FP is better (ea...

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Now, I want them to make me one in .444 Marlin...!

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Easier to scope Marlins, but both 'tang' sight easily. A bit easier to 'peep' a Marlin, with a Williams FP top/scope hole mount one or some are drilled and tapped already for the side mount ones. Puma, Marlin or any other can be drilled and tapped anyway (I scratched the first one I did myself :oops...

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Thanks for the heads up!

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I like the Marlin's safeties so I feel a little better if I have to cycle every round through to unload, but since we often cross roads and walk maybe 50 yards down them when we shoot, I prefer detachable magazine guns like the Ruger 96/44 (only 'holds' 4, but I have 3 magazines :twisted: ), or the ...

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BlaineG wrote:The 1894s are addicting....... I went from zero to three in under a year The darn things come right up to my shoulder and the sights are perfect for me......

+1... er, I mean "+3"

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You need a better Gong. http://www.metaltargets.com/SpinningTargets.htm#HVSpinning I've got the 10" HV with base. JReed and Mokaw have shot at ti too. It will handle about anythhing... I want a gong I can shoot from 50 yards with a 444 Marlin Factory SP load without making it look like a paper...

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[quote="Bruce Scott"]It's fiction. I'll be darned :oops: - I 'snoped' it* when I first came across it maybe 8-10 years ago, and it came up clean. You learn something every day (at least I do, on Leverguns :wink: ). *(hey, 'Google' is now a verb, so I say 'Snoped' is too!) This was a really...

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Read some of James Thom's historic novels about the Revolutionary to Civil war era, and they are filled with such things; evidently when he researched his facts on the many famous people he wrote about, there were many 'spirit' type things which shaped their lives. For that matter, read George Wash...

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20cows wrote:Sounds "On Topic" to me!

...but what if he's reloading for a BOLT action...! Perish the thought!

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I'd recommend the .357 if you want a lever and handgun and you're just starting into shooting or would want the handgun mostly for personal protection, but either of the others will do. I like Ruger's ugly little lever action .22 - short lever throw, magazines come out (we cross the road alot to sho...

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I like the .44's because if you step up to a long action you can still shoot the same bullets - the regular old 240 grain ones just go way faster from the .444 but still do a good job. You can do the same 'stepping up' from .45 Colt to .45-70, but you change bullet diameters. Like the .45 Colt, you ...

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Can a person who isn't interested in 'match' quality bullets possibly take a dremel tool and polish/ream a normal-size mould to an 'overbore Marlin/Puma' size...? It 'seems' like it would be fairly easy to do if you didn't demand exact dimensions and symmetry.

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The bullets that I have are .430, I tried to get them in .431. Sounds like a job for . . . . . . Paco's ".44 Mag A'curizer" - soon to be follwed by a .454 one and so on.... Seriously, is there a reason one couldn't swage 'up' cast bullets with a tool like that...? Sign me up.

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Sure - it is obvious - the Ghost of Freedom Past has been displaced by Evil incarnate. We all saw that back in November...

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Hobie wrote:Frankly, my wife is simply uninterested in my shooting stuff except as possible dollars after my demise.

That is a good thing to point out to her - they ARE a valuable investment, and basically hers to sell if you precede her in death. (Just don't make her too tempted...!)

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I think there's a law against having those together in the same household - if you send me one right away, I won't tell...

I'll even pay postage.

Just to be nice, I'll let you decide which one you want to keep...

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I am trying to get peeps on my Springfield and Mauser, and I've procrastinated on finishing the 1903, but got the Williams FP on my 98 Mauser (.308) and even got a higher front blade which I hadn't suspected I'd need, but did need to be on the bullseye at 100 yards with milspec ball ammo. So far, so...

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Most of the guns I'd want to take are banned in Australia :evil: , but leaving aside that consideration, if I'm correct that there's nothing there 'dangerous' as in grizzly or lion type critters, I'd not feel I needed anything bigger than .44 Mag. Option one (if my hunting would be critters less tha...

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DBW wrote:I spotted a Henry .22 not long ago while in Wally World while shopping for groceries to stock the Kenworth. Walked out with it... and a new Marlin .30-30 and a .44 Rem Mag lever!

Next time you want to go grocery shopping, mebbe I should tag along just to keep you out of trouble!

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My son got his first shot at one yesterday, with a .223 bolt gun, but it was moving, and he lead like you would with a bird and shotgun, so all it got was a really close sniff of hot gilding metal. Maybe next time. He was using some sort of mouth call, and a goat placenta for bait. Today he's going ...

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Yep - them 10/22's are junk - I have one I'm stuck with though, so if you want to send me yours I can probably part it out. I'll cover postage...

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Maybe we should start a separate forum for these. You know they'll never stop. It would be nice to have them all together. A 'humor' sub-forum - Oh NO..! Actually, it IS hard to know whether to post some of them in "general" or in "politics" due to their often political nature, ...

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Think I will be sleeping on the couch the rest of the weekend. You could try putting a little nightie on the gun and snuggling up next to it on the couch, just to be funny.... ....or not. I keep an old empty gun case in the truck and even if I get a pristine collector-grade something-or-other, I st...

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Unless she's the type who likes to kick-box, please don't let that be the FIRST gun she's shot - the noise and recoil won't make a future 'shooter' out of her! Take some other 'warm up' guns if she's not shot before...

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You got some detailed and analytical feedback, but as just another 'gun guy' who would go more by gut feeling, I'd just say I'd not want to part with over $600 for it unless I was already into that cartridge, but If I walked by it at a gun show and it was $400 or less, I'd be borrowing money from wh...

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Sadly enough, I have a Pharmacy Technician who would probably volunteer to do that. She is as liberal as it is possible to be and still have brain wave activity. They say that when you're young, if you're not liberal, you don't have a heart - but when you're old, if you're not a conservative, you d...

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If you have relatively large hands, I would consider the any of the ParaOrdnance .45 doublestacks - over the years I've owned three of them and was impressed with them all (I sold the LDA just because I'm not a double action fan - even though it was the DA auto equivalent of a Thompson Contender tri...

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1. We don't disrespect the right of "new" posters to post things.

2. Henry doesn't disrespect the right of customers to want things right.

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These are what I use... http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0044358228573a.shtml ...whether I'm shooting 'ported' or 'normal' guns - the only exception will be that sometimes I'll shoot a .22LR from a rifle without them. Inconvenience, maybe - but I can still listen to classical music and make out the fai...

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Not to twist the thread or anything, but was just thinking about 'formal training' and my job... The discipline was instilled in early years and was more part of a family/upbringing thing, rather than task-specific, and then there was the classroom/didactic stuff - mostly to weed out the lazy, rathe...

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