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AJMD429

I usually replace the rear barrel-mounted sights with Williams FP's mounted on the side of the receiver, or use the B-Square scope mounts, but when I fiddled with one of them to put in a 'dovetail blank' - I think the standard dovetail blank didn't fit because the rifle's groove was just slightly bi...

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If you can persuade Ruger to do a No. 1 in .444 Marlin (heck, they do them in .45-70!), THAT would be the coolest; you could run pressures up into the stratosphere, use evil long, pointy bullets (think 400-500 grain in a .430 diameter), and it would sit right up there between the .416 Rigby and .458...

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I have a 10/22 that I've been improving for some time. Thus far it has a Green Mountain heavy SS barrel. I put it in a Houge overmoulded stock, but it has it's own problems. I think I'll go back to the wood. The range I go to has a monthly shoot where we shoot the USBR targets. You'd be surprised w...

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I have a Mark II 22/45. LOVE IT. I gave it to my daughter for her 12th birthday. She's 21 now and I'm not giving it to her until she takes the concealed carry course (NRA course) and gets the NC pistol purchase permit. I don't think she'll ever do either. I'll keep shooting it. MAKE her take the co...

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Usually the people who say money isn't everything, don't have any. :lol: That is possibly quite true. But then again, I have been with a number of people at their death. So far not one of them died wishing they had more money. :o Yep - when I talk to patients with terminal illness about their lives...

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The JBTs would love to nail someone over an issue like this. It's easy, the guy isn't an actual "criminal" so he wouldn't fight much. It's your tax dollars at work! What do you mean, "not an actual 'criminal'," THESE are the violent gun-loving people who are causing our violent ...

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The only thing I can complain about is that the stainless finish was good enough that any scratches really show up, and it has gotten a few; in a way, that is a compliment. Consider bead-blasting it. I scratched (...er, I mean 'engraved') my Puma when installing a Williams FP - I think I'll do that...

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That was a REALLY good deal. Lots of others will chime in who no doubt shoot Rossi's more and know more about them, but I've shot a couple thousand rounds through a few Rossi 92's, and they've all functioned fine. They are NOT fun to take apart and reassemble, but you really shouldn't have to do tha...

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At thirty I was in debt enough to have just bought a 20-room mansion, yet lived in a ghetto apartment and drove a 20 year old car, but had in my hand a diploma and the promise of the nice income I would make as a doctor. By fifty, I had spent three different times going 6 to 9 months without ANY pay...

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The .22 handgun and .45-70 rifle or the .44 Mag handgun and .22 LR rifle is the PRACTICAL answer unless you're so far from supply sources you really need to stick with one cartridge. Being that I seldom walk more than a half mile from my house, I can usually 'fight my way back to the supply depo' no...

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BlaineG wrote:Because you NEED one more .444 than a 45-70

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I can see the green but lose the red on background. Those are my eyes and color deficient sight. Your photos aren't that bad. That last one has everything in focus. I'm pretty sure Williams sells a kit for the Firesights that allows you to switch colors and so forth. That way you could have a green...

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I saw a used Puma .44 Magnum, round barrel, blued, which loaded through the tubular magazine, having the knurled end-cap, and the attachment of the magazine was with an oblong 'O' shaped ring with a screw through the middle like my Marlin 1894, instead of the flimsier attachments I've seen (no littl...

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Why does the Marlin .444 hold one more round in the magazine than the .45-70...?
I can't believe any small difference in cartridge length is the factor (if so, a similarly small difference in magazine tube length would allow the extra round in a .45-70!)

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66GTO wrote: With bulk ammo I always get a flier or two in a group.

You need one of these...

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... f=1&t=7785

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I like lever actions, but since you don't reload .22 LR anyway, I don't figure it is a problem that the semiautos throw the brass all over. I think the 10/22 is supposedly more accurate than either the bolt 77/22 or the lever 96/22. It would be a 'fun' shoot to get three shooters, a 10/22, 96/22, an...

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How did you get along without your daily fix of leverguns...?

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Ugly guns still shoot, and you don't feel bad when you ding them up.

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I know - ditch the 'Minie Pearl' one, and just post pics of the girls/women in your life...

You should never have a bad day as long as you have friends and family with smiles like those.

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Love the .44's and .444's !!!

Never did like those little plastic safeties - I always cut them off before shooting the gun...

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Not exactly Creedmoor, but in the same spirit, I've heard of people using standard-velocity .22 LR's (some 'historic' scale-downs, some just regular guns) to shoot out to maybe 300 yards with the .22's, and get practice with the extended ranging and elevation issues. Sounds fun. I'm guessing they us...

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AJMD429, I must disagree with you on this topic. What? DISAGREE with me? Impossible! That's not RIGHT! It isn't fair... ...and here I thought all you guys were just my personal minions and nearly ready to call to duty in my Empire! Talk about bursting my bubble... :cry: OK - I promise to be good fo...

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Now, if you need something that can also be used as extra weight on the rear of your truck for the purpose of gaining traction in dirt, get the Ruger Redhawk.

They're still almost as fun to shoot as the Super Blackhawks...

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jjames wrote:My dealer says I can't get one in California. I guess it is considered a sawed off shotgun.

Gun laws are so stupid!

I wonder if anyone ever "skeet shoots" with them - I have with a .45/.410 Contender, and didn't do all that bad...!

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Deliberately startling someone holding a gun, especially someone who is known to be unfamiliar with guns, as a way of emphasizing gun safety, is itself an inherently reckless and unsafe act. Besides, the video looks staged. I guess I was assuming that the gun was definitely unloaded (I know there i...

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Try a Williams FP peep sight too. Rugged and many folks can keep 2" groups at 100 yards with one, although I'm not that good with a peep. Scopes are better in low-light conditions, also. Most any good lever action gun will keep inside 4" at 100 yards, I'd think, which means a clean deer ki...

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I've done similar things to teach family members caution, whether with guns, chain saws, lawn mowers (my wife kept saying she 'checked' for hoses but always managed to run over some, so I got some old hoses from a neighbor, slashed them up real good, and put them out in the grass she was going to mo...

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This guy taught his wife not to play with his gun (warning, she uses the colloquial term for the anal orifice when she discovers his evil ploy...it shocked me, since my wife would never say such things about me...

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http://maniacworld.com:80/firecracker-gun-prank.html

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...of course the post on Remington made me realize - Marlins ARE 'Remingtons' now...

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jumbeaux wrote:GOB Bless you gentlemen and ladies.....ya'll keep me smilin'
jumbeaux

Glad you're not offended by 'yet another 'what-if'' post!

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:evil: :evil: :evil: Man, that's ENOUGH of these durned 'OT' thing . . . . . . er, well, uh, that's kinda cool , actually . . . 8) . . . trade you a levergun for it...? :mrgreen: . . . but NEXT time, there'd better be a LEVERGUN in the picture! :lol: :lol: :lol: If the economy keeps tanking, we'll a...

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If I were in a gun shop or around the campfire, and someone were to ask, "If you just had one gun in .35 caliber, what would you pick?" or some such question, I would NOT expect a disgusted "Harrumph!" and exodus of customers or firesitters, but rather some might chime in with an...

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I can post a picture later but I have had great success on feral cats and dogs and raccoons as far as 75-80 yards in pitch black, using a red-dot sight on the lowest dot setting, and a THREE-AA Maglight mounted in scope rings under or beside the barrel, with rubber hose to give it a 1" diameter...

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Thanks - I'll check it out.

I just remember that in addition to enabling to do something with my computer that was not possible with the then-available software, learning to program helped me think differently in terms of organizing thoughts, developing procedures from the ground up, and so forth.

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Love the .44's...! Marlins, Pumas, Rugers, Desert Eagles - whatever ones you have.

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this isn't a question where somebody didn't bone up on a subject, it's another opinion poll about favorites and preferences. Sometimes something good comes out of these posts, which is why I read them. No different than standing around the gunshop or campfire and starting up with a conversation abo...

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I want to find some software like the old MS-DOS Turbo Pascal editor/complier I had that can run under Windows and I can use it to demonstrate some basic programming to my kids - defining variables, arrays, and developing algorithms for sorting or whatever. I've seen Visual Basic for a few hundred d...

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Before you buy anything (so you have an excuse to dry-fire it because you actually might buy it), just TRY a ParaOrdnance 1911 LDA in some configuration. It comes in Small - http://www.para-usa.com/new/product_pistol.php?id=14 , Medium - http://www.para-usa.com/new/product_pistol.php?id=17 , and Lar...

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How about Colt - SA Army, 1911, Lightning pump rifle, AR-15...? I like the answer above, "Uberti" - they make about everything, I think...! :lol: And how do you define a "Browning" - if you go by inventor, then old John Moses Browning made almost everything you'd need at one time...

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What are the rounds in the leather belt...? They look too pointy for either of those guns...

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JReed wrote:I like it. I am looking forward to spring and reading more of your balistics testing.

What - we're just finally cooling down here in Indiana...!

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Looks nicer and seems easier to navigate. Someday I'd like to do a small website, and I enjoy seeing your progress - hopefully someday I'll get the nerve.

Here's our dairy and boer goat website, but we had someone else 'put it up' for us...

http://www.jstonesnubianmeadow.com/

AJMD429

Handgun - a Ruger Bearcat
Rifle - a Ruger No.1 in .45-70
Shotgun - unsure

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I don't know why we play these "what-if" games, but I thought of another one...! :roll: :roll: Much as I love my Marlins - they don't make much in the way of handguns; nor did Winchester, Henry, etc. "Browning" (depending on the definition being the man or the company) made just ...

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I cant answer that, havent figured it out yet. I'll just keep accumulating them until I figger it out & then I'll let you know. :mrgreen: +1 :lol: :lol: :lol: Actually, I really like the 1894, but the 'beefier' 336 Guide Gun is nice too... Maybe either one with a curved lever instead of the str...

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flatnose wrote:Just needs 4 more receivers to make it a complete set

Kind of my sentiment. Still a beautiful piece of work from an aesthetic and gunsmithing standpoint.

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Another one we watched and liked about that era was Enemy at the Gates. There are several others and if I can pry the titles from my wife's memory, I'll post them.

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KirkD wrote:

That looks like the fore-runner of the .357/44 Bain & Davis...!

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J Miller wrote:This is just another episode of the:
Chevy / Ford
Colt / S&W
9mm / 45 ACP
Revolvers / Autos
Light-fast / heavy-slow
Blond / Brunette / Redhead
arguments.

Yes, but what the heck would we DO without all these cool controversies to 'settle?'

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I'm just a dumb midwesterner, but I hope whoever builds the next one uses a steeper pitch on the roof - even around here, we occasionally get over a foot of snow, and unless you have a very slick metal roof and it slides off, that builds up alot of weight.

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