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- Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Puma 44 Mag I'd not seen before
- Replies: 4
- Views: 553
Puma 44 Mag I'd not seen before
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...
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A Marlin 444 Question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1249
A Marlin 444 Question
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!)
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!)
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shooting the 22lr
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2337
Re: Shooting the 22lr
You need one of these...66GTO wrote: With bulk ammo I always get a flier or two in a group.
http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... f=1&t=7785
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shooting the 22lr
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2337
Re: Shooting the 22lr
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...
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Back on line, down for a month
- Replies: 9
- Views: 581
Re: Back on line, down for a month
How did you get along without your daily fix of leverguns...?
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Ugly Rifle
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1947
Re: OT - Ugly Rifle
Ugly guns still shoot, and you don't feel bad when you ding them up.
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - New Avatar for Old Savage
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3523
Re: OT - New Avatar for Old Savage
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.
You should never have a bad day as long as you have friends and family with smiles like those.
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: LEVER #16 MOD 444ss 444 1991
- Replies: 1
- Views: 372
Re: LEVER #16 MOD 444ss 444 1991
Love the .44's and .444's !!!
Never did like those little plastic safeties - I always cut them off before shooting the gun...
Never did like those little plastic safeties - I always cut them off before shooting the gun...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Creedmoor Recreation,.... long range shooting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1252
Re: Creedmoor Recreation,.... long range shooting
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...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2220
Re: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
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...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Which is the most versatile 44 mag or 357 mag
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2094
Re: Which is the most versatile 44 mag or 357 mag
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...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who has a Taurus Judge 45/410
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2897
Re: Who has a Taurus Judge 45/410
Gun laws are so stupid!jjames wrote:My dealer says I can't get one in California. I guess it is considered a sawed off shotgun.
I wonder if anyone ever "skeet shoots" with them - I have with a .45/.410 Contender, and didn't do all that bad...!
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2220
Re: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
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...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .35 Remington question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2646
Re: .35 Remington question
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...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2220
Re: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
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...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2220
Humor - If your family isn't careful with your guns...
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... )
http://maniacworld.com:80/firecracker-gun-prank.html
http://maniacworld.com:80/firecracker-gun-prank.html
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3868
Re: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
...of course the post on Remington made me realize - Marlins ARE 'Remingtons' now...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3868
Re: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
Glad you're not offended by 'yet another 'what-if'' post!jumbeaux wrote:GOB Bless you gentlemen and ladies.....ya'll keep me smilin'
jumbeaux
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-Finally finished..
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2159
Re: OT-Finally finished..
: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...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Possible solution to the "What if"s
- Replies: 8
- Views: 854
Re: Possible solution to the "What if"s
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...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT Night Hog Hunting Scope
- Replies: 5
- Views: 795
Re: OT Night Hog Hunting Scope
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...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - OK, way OT - computer programming
- Replies: 6
- Views: 832
Re: OT - OK, way OT - computer programming
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.
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.
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Great day in the woods w/ the 44mag
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1850
Re: Great day in the woods w/ the 44mag
Love the .44's...! Marlins, Pumas, Rugers, Desert Eagles - whatever ones you have.
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ANOTHER CONTROVERSY! WINCHESTER 92 or MARLIN 94?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 6562
Re: ANOTHER CONTROVERSY! WINCHESTER 92 or MARLIN 94?
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...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - OK, way OT - computer programming
- Replies: 6
- Views: 832
OT - OK, way OT - computer programming
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...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Pistols
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4054
Re: OT - Pistols
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...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3868
Re: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
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...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lever #14 Interarms-Rossi -puna 92 srg 38-357
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1030
Re: Lever #14 Interarms-Rossi -puna 92 srg 38-357
What are the rounds in the leather belt...? They look too pointy for either of those guns...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ot-Changed the layout of my website
- Replies: 6
- Views: 496
Re: Ot-Changed the layout of my website
What - we're just finally cooling down here in Indiana...!JReed wrote:I like it. I am looking forward to spring and reading more of your balistics testing.
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ot-Changed the layout of my website
- Replies: 6
- Views: 496
Re: Ot-Changed the layout of my website
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/
Here's our dairy and boer goat website, but we had someone else 'put it up' for us...
http://www.jstonesnubianmeadow.com/
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Eventually I would like to get ---
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1938
Re: Eventually I would like to get ---
Handgun - a Ruger Bearcat
Rifle - a Ruger No.1 in .45-70
Shotgun - unsure
Rifle - a Ruger No.1 in .45-70
Shotgun - unsure
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3868
What if ALL your guns had to be from ONE manufacturer?
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 ...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Which Lever Gun Do You LIKE the best ...
- Replies: 78
- Views: 7718
Re: Which Lever Gun Do You LIKE the best ...
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...
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Get your drool towel!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1526
Re: Get your drool towel!
Kind of my sentiment. Still a beautiful piece of work from an aesthetic and gunsmithing standpoint.flatnose wrote:Just needs 4 more receivers to make it a complete set
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: Holocaust Movie review - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 656
Re: OT: Holocaust Movie review - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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.
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How about the "most under-appreciated" cartridge!
- Replies: 137
- Views: 16403
Re: How about the "most under-appreciated" cartridge!
That looks like the fore-runner of the .357/44 Bain & Davis...!KirkD wrote:
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BEST ACTION: WINCHESTER 94 or MARLIN 336?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5277
Re: BEST ACTION: WINCHESTER 94 or MARLIN 336?
Yes, but what the heck would we DO without all these cool controversies to 'settle?'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.
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Storm damage to our gun club
- Replies: 11
- Views: 951
Re: Storm damage to our gun club
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.
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger Blackhawk in 30 Carbine?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4306
Re: Ruger Blackhawk in 30 Carbine?
1. It is without question the loudest gun I've ever shot - (louder than a 16" AR with the politically correct 'compensator' instead of the flash suppressor!). 2. It is VERY strong - I've seen one where a .30-06-level powder charge was mistakenly used when loading on the range bench, and the cas...
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Evil Black.... Bow?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2739
Re: Evil Black.... Bow?
It'll probably be classified as an assault weapon. :lol: Last week when trying to find some gun legislation, I DID come across a proposal which would register/license compound bow owners; I was at work and when I came back to the computer, someone had changed screens, but I think it was out east so...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: One rifle & One pistol for all around use.
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10689
Re: OT: One rifle & One pistol for all around use.
With those parameters here in NE Indiana I'd go with 357 Magnum revolver and 22LR in a long gun. An extra long gun would be a lever 357 if allowed. Yep - that's all the new administration WILL likely allow - they're probably even more interested in our 'minimalist gun battery' ideas than we are... ...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:35 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: FEAR PURCHASING....
- Replies: 87
- Views: 137007
Re: FEAR PURCHASING....
I think enough would come around if it was simply possible to get them to realize what's going on. The problem is that our "mainstream media" doesn't grasp the 'technical' aspects of proposed laws, and the laws are always an 'emergency' so passage is rushed, and even when WE try to educat...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 1892 32-20 on hogs. LONG
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4780
Re: Winchester 1892 32-20 on hogs. LONG
Sure, it may kill a 312-pound hog, but NO WAY is the .32-20 a suitable gun for whitetail deer...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - I'm man enough to admit...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4946
Re: OT - I'm man enough to admit...
I have a friend who could help - he's a top-notch TAXIDERMIST...!
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3045
Re: Ruger LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver)
Oh wait, one of the grownups are calling me into the house. We'll talk later. :oops: Sorry. I'm lucky enough to live in a 'gentle' CCW state, and never have to worry about concealment beyond just social graces, so a paddle-holster under an un-tucked shirt, sweater, or jacket is able to make a 25 oz...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Safety first, fatal firearm accident.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1829
Re: Safety first.
Thanks to the internet and forums like this one, at least anyone who has a 'dumb question' can ask someone before fooling around with something dangerous. You would think adults would at least sense that a gun is at least somewhat dangerous, wouldn't you? Of course, guys don't always ask for help or...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How about the "most under-appreciated" cartridge!
- Replies: 137
- Views: 16403
Re: How about the "most under-appreciated" cartridge!
The lowly 22 LONG. Thats right. In the semi populated areas I sometimes squirrel hunt I prefer not to use the LR with its 40gn bullet. I like using a 30gn bullet in case of deflection off a tree branch etc. I'll use the short, but sometimes I have feeding problems in the 22's I'd use. The long is t...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3045
Re: Ruger LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver)
The only things it seems to offer over the SP-101 is a) it weighs less (recoils more) - if you can't handle carrying a 25 oz. SP-101, perhaps you should stay inside with the grownups? b) it is theft-proof (so ugly nobody would steal it! :lol: ) - sure, I don't care much about 'looks' in a CCW gun, b...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: How do you Yankees Stand it? Transplants + snow
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7780
Re: OT: How do you Yankees Stand it?
What he means, is . . . . . Surf's Up!JReed wrote:That be flaky frozen water my tropical friend.GANJIRO wrote:Is all that white stuff sand or salt? Why are they wearing so my clothes?
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Question for LEO
- Replies: 12
- Views: 747
Re: OT - Question for LEO
I fear that anyone without 'federal' credentials would be regarded as a potential 'threat' by the feds, and that THEY will soon dominate state and local law enforcement under the guise of whatever 'anti-terrorist' BS the new messiah comes up with. Nobody knowledgeable about history, economics, or fi...