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BlaineG wrote:Perhaps, as a family, we can have our default reaction to a thread be positive instead of looking for a hidden meaning or somehow choose to be offended.

...now what exactly did you mean by that...?

(Sorry -- couldn't resist.)

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I wish we could get politicians in office who talk straight like Joe! Too many wishy-washy, non-committal, namby-pambies in office. It's winter, I can't find the leak in my daughter's ceiling, despite working 60 hours a week, I haven't got a paycheck since November (I might get one in March), I don'...

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We used to vacation at an old boy scout camp on Washington Island, WI, and they had some old 4 and 5-holers there! Must have been like when our first grade teacher would herd us all down the restroom for 'p-break' and peek in the door to make sure we weren't having bad aim and any resultant fights, ...

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We can all try to keep posts more 'gun related' but the reality is that there are lots of associated hobbies MOST of us have (hunting, fishing, military history, aviation, knives and other outdoor tools, etc.) that we're going to occasionally share. Purists may not like those posts, but I find them ...

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We shoot a few shots each week at the gongs; will try to post a few pics of some paper.

Still - the off-topic posts are sometimes interesting, so I don't mind them.

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I've used a peep in the original open sight dovetail (on the barrel) for several of my guns, although mostly as a 'backup' sight. I was surprised how EASY and ACCURATE I found the arrangement. It IS totally different than a tang, or a rear-mounted peep, in terms of speed and the way you even use it....

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AJMD, if that stands for a real MD you hit the nail on the head with the antibiotic! do you know the shelf life of amoxicillian? Most antibiotics come out with shelf lives similar to dry cell batteries. Don't trust tetracycline/doxycycline unless it has an expiration date on it. Samples given out u...

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I got a little varmit rig from "Sportsman's Guide" a couple years ago for under $50. It is a flashlight and laser combo that attaches to a scope. Perfect for the pellet gun or .22 used to control small pests. Probably wouldn't be the thing for anything larger, but I'm with you AJ, just ha...

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With regards to medicine has anyone here thought of the possibilities of using meds from the vet supply house on you and your family? You need to cut a lot of red tape to get the stuff for yourself, but you can buy it mail order for your horse. Rusty <>< A friend who practices medicine in Canada (h...

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(...not OT if you use a light on your lever gun, I guess... :? ) I've looked at all the 'super-tough' (and super- expensive ) lights out there that you can put on a gun, and never wanted to lay out that kind of money for something I'm really only going to use to shoot a possum or raccoon in the chic...

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Of course, once you get that perfect little 'battery' of core guns, you just have to go out and get something weird you don't really need - an Encore rifle with bull barrel in .380 ACP or some such...

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We had some printed up after Tiananmen Square that had the shortest letter-to-the-editor I've ever had printed in the Indianapolis paper:

In China, only the Police and Military
are allowed to own Assault Weapons.

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Used to be a book by Mel Tappan (Tappin?) called "Survival Guns" and we practically sudied it in high school. The author even queried the 'gunnies' of the time like Jeff Cooper, and listed their thoughts on the ideal 'battery' of 6 to 12 guns, or a 'core' battery for a family, plus ones fo...

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A baggie full of AAA batteries and a head-lamp light using them. Get one with multiple LED's so if one burns out (they eventually do) you have still some light. The head-lamps are so useful we keep one for each family member hung on the hall coat racks, for chores or power outages. Pick an antibioti...

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I've only tried a couple setups, but never could warm up to them. I like receiver or tang 'peeps' or a conventional scope in rear position. Now I HAVE used red dot sights in 'scout' position, and I find them very fast and easy to use.

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You could think of it 'from scratch': Rimfire - (quiet, and cheapest to shoot long term and ammo compact and lightweight) get a handgun and a long gun - i.e. 10/22 and Mark II or 39a and Single Six Shotgun - one should cover the basics - Pump 12ga, perhaps with a 20"rifled slug barrel and a lon...

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Great job! He might want to say "5 inch 'cartridge'" though instead of 'bullet' - just to be proper.

Nice to see some kids are learning how to find out truth about a topic, rather than just go with what the NY Times or their teacher says.

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I've met Mas Ayoob when we were both speakers at a GOA/SAF conference, and I can tell you he cuts to the chase, and will likely give you a great class. He's Cooperesque in being a no-nonsense kind of guy. Read his "In the Gravest Extreme" and you'll know what I mean. Down to earth and pers...

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That's the core problem with the whole U.S. - we all want our own freedom, but we seem to very easily restrict others' freedom. I don't think smoking is healthful, so I want it BANNED. I think gambling is sinful, so I want it TAXED. So on, & so forth. Look how many "support gun ownership&qu...

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I think main issue isn't brass hurting scope or changing zero, but rather brass bouncing back down into receiver and jamming action. Maybe a really high mount would work, especially if with a sheet of steel to deflect the brass to the side rather than just bounce it back down off the scope bottom. S...

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Voted. 1/3 of the voters

actually think it is a bad idea. Let's give them 1/3 of the parks, with NO guns, then we can enjoy ourselves safely in the others, along with the folks who don't personally want to carry a gun, but don't go around telling us we can't. To hell with the others.

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The difference which is important is between VICE and CRIME. A Christian candidate who believes in our form of government would ONLY seek to regulate CRIME (where a true victim suffers real harm - not some trumped up being 'offended' or 'degrading society' stuff that is subjective), and not VICE. Th...

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All those thorny problems are AVOIDED if the federal government sticks to what it is supposed to do - 'provide for the common defense' and settle any disputes between states. The feds really shouldn't be attractive to special interest groups, and wouldn't be, if they stuck to their Constitutionally ...

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Clinton's or Obama's would be the worst kind of "living-constitution", "European-following", liberal-activist pond scum she or he could dredge up

Yaz - this is a close-knit forum here - you don't have to hold back, really - tell us how you really feel...

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How many of us have written our State or Federal representatives this year? Or last year - if only once? I know, I know - I get form letters as replies sometimes, too. But one cannot win even a small battle if he isn't in the fight. If I were 'king' I'd enact ONE gun law - you couldn't buy a gun un...

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The GOA sight was an eye-opener; I'd thought he was at least a tiny bit pro-gun. This quote from Ann Coulter sums up my sentiments somewhat: If Hillary is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with Republicans ferociously opposing her, followed by Republicans zooming back into power, a...

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If I can't shoot or pee off my own back porch when I want to then I'm not free and I won't live there. Thank you God for my freedom! That's sort of irreverent, but God's used to me by now, and evidently either finds me tolerable, or is saving up the bad stuff for me, so I think that may be my new f...

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Bullard4075 wrote:I've been living in a closet, shielded from the world.
Google my all knowing, powerful mentor and friend is no help.

What is AJMD429 ??

My initials, occupation, and favorite bore diameter

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Just don't miss it... Consider putting behind it (in case of a 'flyer') some tall 4x4 posts with plywood, pvc sheeting, or even hardware cloth on both sides, filled with pea gravel. You can make something rather large this way cheaply, and keep replacing/repairing it when needed for the occasional f...

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Yea - sure - but who makes a lever shotgun ??? I THINK either Marlin or the former Winchester made a lever-action 410 shotgun... Granted, I'd rather have a 12 gauge, and settle for the pump vs. lever to get the 12 gauge vs. 410 bore, but I don't think an intruder would notice the difference; would ...

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Seems like either a scaled-up version of the 92 or Marlin 1894 could handle it if they wanted to make one, or even the 336 or other longer action beefed if necessary for the pressure. It does seem that if you can make a durn REVOLVER for the .460, you ought to be able to make a non-'splody barrel fo...

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My 1894 Marlin 44 Mag Stainless.

Rugged, Reliable, Accurate enough for my needs with ghost ring sights, Potent enough to drop whatever needs dropped at 100 yards, and Light and Short enough to grab when I go check on the livestock.

Lots of others I like, but you asked for the favorite!

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1. pro-gun
2. pro-gun
3. pro-gun
4. pro-fair-tax
5. federalist/constitutionalist

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That kind of thing always happens with SCOPES for me. I'll think it is aligned, then I'll shoulder it more quickly/naturally, and it will look tipped. Then I use the other shoulder, and it 'tips' the other way. Drives me Nuts! At least with scopes, I can 'settle' matters by putting the gun buttstock...

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I just printed it for my son to read. Sons need to know that being more kind and tender than the average woman might be is a good thing, and part of being a complete man. Likewise, our daughters should know that being a better shot and fighter than the average man might be is also a part of being a ...

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If you wanted to trim down to bare essentials, but wanted major power if you had to have it, seems like it would be hard to beat a pair of .454 Casulls - like a Puma and a SA revolver (or DA for that matter). Short, handy, but powerful. The 44 Magnum or .45 Colt or 357 Magnum pairs would be nice if ...

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Nice job, but why are you shooting holes in a red outhouse? It's actually an old non-road-worthy horse trailer we use as a shelter for the goats when we let them graze down the range. There are ricochet holes from some friends :?: who were a bit wild shooting paint cans on the ground in front of it...

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Thanks for the great information. Sounds like none of them are outright 'junk' so that's good to know. I found a bunch of .357's I'd cast a few years ago, and never lubed, so I tried for the first time the 'tumble' method with some 'alox' and I've only shot about 50 of them, but they don't seem to ...

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I'm trying to flesh out my casting equipment and I have used both Lee and Lyman bullet moulds for .44 and .357 in the past, but saw little difference, other than the aluminum Lee ones I didn't see any surface rust on after 20 years of storage (the inside of the Lymans were greased well, but the outs...

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McCain is bad. Romney is even worse though. The only really decent ones still on the table are Paul and Huckabee, but since the east coast big media says they "aren't electable" the Republicans so far have stepped in line and voted for the 'lesser evil of the electables' even among their p...

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How amazing it is that the earth just happens to be the right distance from the sun. Don McCullough I was going up a long on-ramp to an elevated highway aimed directly into the sun, and mused about what if I could get the truck up to 1,000 mph how long would it take to the sun. I think the sun is 9...

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Well, the ol' Christmas gingerbread house bit the dust this afternoon. It's demise was not by Red Ryder, as I originally thought, but instead via firecrackers! I remember when my friends and I decided we'd outgrown our plastic toy soldiers, so we staged their 'final battle' and used rubber-band gun...

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I got a nice compound bow several years ago to 'hunt' with - but quickly realized I was not that patient, and the deer seemed to waltz around about 50 yards out, and mock me - "Hey, nice bow!" "Cool sights!" So I waited for GUN season and got my revenge :twisted: . This year, how...

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I think I posted this on the old site, but Iâ€™m not sure. Hopefully, it will be of interest to those who find the existing shooting rests too EXPENSIVE, too DIFFICULT TO ADJUST, too FLIMSY, and TOO RESTRICTING. The last straw was our interest in leverguns , and trying to sight them off the bench wi...

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If I recall, Lewis & Clark had a rather awesome 'air rifle' on their journey - big enough to hunt large game (and impress the heck out of some Indians). They also took their powder for their conventional guns in lead containers, balanced out by volume so the amount of lead in a container would a...

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I'm amazed when I think of the rotation. A 3000fps bullet from a 1 in 12 bore is spinning 3000 RPS, thats 180,000RPM & some spin faster than that. Alot of stress to place on a hunk of lead sheathed in copper eh? That's something to think about - bullet RPM actually depends not only on rifling t...

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Perhaps if 'they' (our rulers, since we long ago ceded citizen authority to the government) changed the rules so we were allowed to vote for more than one candidate, and we weren't pressured to vote for the lesser of two evils or the most 'electable' one, we could get where we need to be. 'They' won...

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McCain is likely just another big-government idiot like most of the politicians we've let the New York Times 'pick' for us by calling them 'electable' BUT at least he isn't blatantly ANTI-GUN like ROMNEY is. McCain has actually voted pro-gun most of the time. Huckabee is legitimately and completely ...

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I still have to say that I am extremely doubtful that the practical operation of this serialization project is going to fly. The sheer amount of computer input per day and the difficulty of maintaining the database is going to make it a very difficult and expensive project, which will result in del...

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My Rossi 454 is the best made (fit, finish, smoothness) of the four Rossi's I've had. Functions fine, too. My 2007-vintage gun's buttstock has a soft plastic 'sleeve' in the tang-screw hole, which may be a response to the stock cracking issues; I don't know if they have always had that. Power-wise, ...

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