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by AJMD429
Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Front Sights
Replies: 6
Views: 429

Re: Front Sights

. One of my favorite pistol sights is one I actually made using a roll-pin. I filed down the top of the Patridge sight on an AMT clone of a Ruger Target Pistol to make it concave and match the pin, which I'd drilled out the center of to make it larger, and smoother inside the hole. The rear sight I'...
by AJMD429
Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Getting old hurts.
Replies: 9
Views: 168

Re: Getting old hurts.

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The other problem is arthritis.

When you’re young, the phrase “morning stiffness” sounds like a pleasant thing, but not when you’re old… it starts to affect the wrong body parts:lol:
by AJMD429
Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Nice afternoon project… Unique Slingshot Rifle
Replies: 2
Views: 39

Nice afternoon project… Unique Slingshot Rifle

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https://youtu.be/PIvmThVtsPA

…er, I guess it’s really a smoothbore… :D
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:03 pm
Forum: Classifieds
Topic: Free to a good home
Replies: 2
Views: 224

Re: Free to a good home

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If I would have been the clerk at Cabela's, I would have thanked you for it and given the person who purchased it a call. You know they have those records.
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:57 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Hopefully conditions will be applied
Replies: 5
Views: 123

Re: Hopefully conditions will be applied

. There are indeed gray areas, and some disasters are possible to prepare for and some aren't, but it is true that the Constitution doesn't really empower the federal government to charitably restore things when they go bad. That is a job for the insurance industry. Of course the government has inte...
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: On these 'repurposed' drugs used for cancer...
Replies: 5
Views: 174

On these 'repurposed' drugs used for cancer...

. Gotta admit, I'm impressed... Information on the new use of old drugs, added to enhance cancer treatment. This is information I think should be shared with patients who either have cancer, have had cancer, or are at high enough risk for a particular cancer to consider a prophylactic regimen. One o...
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Old Dog (me) New Trick (hyperbaric oxygen)...
Replies: 1
Views: 82

Old Dog (me) New Trick (hyperbaric oxygen)...

. I don't use it, nor have I learned to prescribe it (it can be dangerous), but I never had heard that it has been shown to lengthen telomeres.... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7746357/ THAT is pretty significant - it basically is the telomere (thought to be the useless tag-end of the chr...
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Downtime
Replies: 6
Views: 314

Re: Downtime

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Cool.

So glad you keep this place up and running.
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The problem with the world today...
Replies: 2
Views: 199

Re: The problem with the world today...

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...and with Liberals, 'stupid' is sort of a way they virtue-signal, and when in control, they don't just fail to punish stupid - they reward it - so they help each other out... :lol:
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I love modern electronics in my truck, but when they don’t work..
Replies: 34
Views: 521

Re: I love modern electronics in my truck, but when they don’t work..

. Same here. Sadly my truck is a 1983 that has so much cab-rust that the cab is 'sinking' and keeps moving the transmission linkage somehow (according to the guy who keeps it running), and that messes things up alot. But I'd rather not have anything 'power' other than the engine, defroster, and heat...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suddenly We Are Wealthy
Replies: 9
Views: 600

Re: Suddenly We Are Wealthy

Our commie governor got a 'cage free' chicken past the commie legislature here in Colorado that went into effect on Jan 1. So now 18 eggs are $9.69 instead of $5.49 the day before. Yep, they're looking out for all of us, aren't they!! Yeah, and if you read most of the rules, the 'cage free' stuff i...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:50 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
Replies: 17
Views: 436

Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires

Doc, With all respect, how in the world could one build a "fire safe" room in even a large home that would not turn out to be where everyone in the house would just go to die together? The ventilation problem alone would prevent any type of safe room solution during a massive, neighborhoo...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)
Replies: 2
Views: 399

Re: It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)

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I definitely believe the agent provocateurs were the problem.
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dennis Pritchard Outdoors, Rifle rest
Replies: 14
Views: 348

Re: Dennis Pritchard Outdoors, Rifle rest

. Here's one I have used for a decade or so. Everything was either scrap wood or a few bits from the hardware store. http://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?t=47960 Apologies for the non-paid-up Photobucket pics (that have the banner across them), but Photobucket just was too messed up at th...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Dissolving the myth" posted to Sixgunner.com
Replies: 21
Views: 522

Re: "Dissolving the myth" posted to Sixgunner.com

JimT wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:27 pm Thank you for keeping some of the old stuff alive.
Yep

That is some GREAT stuff.
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: S&W 1854 Lever Action ** YT Video Added
Replies: 30
Views: 2030

Re: S&W 1854 Lever Action ** YT Video Added

. I think if I just had one firearm for all around use it would be a lever action in a pistol caliber. Personally I would probably choose 45 Colt if I didn't have a bunch of 44 Magnums already, because I find the two almost interchangeable. However if I was picking a levergun for a family that inclu...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:25 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: US vs UK words
Replies: 12
Views: 442

Re: US vs UK words

. At least to some in the United states, the very thought that police would have any authority whatsoever to decide who gets to have a firearm is enough to make our blood pressure rise. They only authority they would have is if a person is a true criminal (as in crime with a victim), the police shou...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:19 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: This will be ironic...
Replies: 3
Views: 105

Re: This will be ironic...

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Yep

The weird thing about liberals is that whenever they mess something up, instead of learning from it, they double down and do the same thing harder, then they act surprised when the results are no better.
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:17 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
Replies: 17
Views: 436

Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires

. Sad, but even more tragically ... predictable. And probably avoidable. I know part of the logistic issue is trying to build a house that is resistant to earthquake but also fires. Frame buildings can tolerate a little shaking whereas masonry ones will shatter, but masonry ones are required to be r...
by AJMD429
Fri Jan 10, 2025 1:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This is disturbing about USCCA…
Replies: 9
Views: 508

Re: This is disturbing about USCCA…

I think it’s a good idea to have some coverage but I’m not sure who does this right. Oh, I'd say... Browning Colt FN Glock H&K Kahr Ruger S&W SIG Springfield Taurus ...and a few others! :wink: Old No7 LOL you don't want me to have to go get Mr. Mossberg, now do you...??? and you REALLY don'...
by AJMD429
Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Off Topic....Life can be Short.
Replies: 12
Views: 426

Re: Off Topic....Life can be Short.

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Thanks for the reminder;
Prayers up for your family.
by AJMD429
Tue Jan 07, 2025 10:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Jerking the Trigger....MAJORLY...!
Replies: 1
Views: 381

Jerking the Trigger....MAJORLY...!

. Hard to believe this little video - https://youtube.com/shorts/glRluO9k1ag - I might try this sometime with another shooter. Of course the targets were really close, but I've seen shooters do far more poorly at that close range and it get blamed on 'poor trigger pull'.... ...perhaps it's really ju...
by AJMD429
Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The REAL 'hush money' scandal...
Replies: 0
Views: 337

The REAL 'hush money' scandal...

. Trump paid his attorneys to arrange a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Stormy Daniels, which is evidently a fairly common - and legal - way wealthy and powerful Republicans deal with the hordes of false (or perhaps even true) allegations. Democrats call it 'hush money', because they are unfamiliar wi...
by AJMD429
Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This is disturbing about USCCA…
Replies: 9
Views: 508

This is disturbing about USCCA…

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Obviously, I am inclined to do some investigation on my own, but it sounds like maybe there’s some better options…

https://youtu.be/FmppJl3fBgM

The ‘Armed Scholar ‘ guy as usually pretty straightforward..
by AJMD429
Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:55 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)
Replies: 2
Views: 399

It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)

. Of course footage can be highly edited (or these days, completely synthesized)... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/here-is-only-video-january-6-you-need/ It is pretty strange how so many on the 'left' - who would be the first to accuse the government of planting violent agent provocateurs ...
by AJMD429
Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: heaviest big game bullets in 44mag
Replies: 20
Views: 630

Re: heaviest big game bullets in 44mag

. 300 grains here also, JSP's. Seem to work ok in my Marlin 1894's, and my Ruger 96/44 and 77/44. Theoretically they should stabilize better in the 1:20 twist of the Rugers, but I didn't see any difference (no obvious keyholing out to 100 yards, which is as far as I typically shoot). They made big h...
by AJMD429
Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OK did I miss something...?
Replies: 2
Views: 408

OK did I miss something...?

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Where did Sixgun go...???
by AJMD429
Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I got a new Wagon... and I like it...
Replies: 6
Views: 495

I got a new Wagon... and I like it...

. ....no, not a station wagon, nor a toy wagon, or a stage coach.... just a utility cart/wagon to replace my wheelbarrow and 'garden cart' that were getting worn out. I ordered this on-line because none of the local stores had anything other than over-priced flimsy wagons (that I've had before and t...
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Gun cleaning
Replies: 18
Views: 762

Re: Gun cleaning

. My biggest gun cleaning frustration is when I wind up making the mistake of taking a levergun (other than my ‘non-traditional’ ones) out to hunt or woods-walk in bad weather. It seems like rain, or even snow or light drizzle, inevitably finds its way under the forend, which is such a pain in the r...
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Gun cleaning
Replies: 18
Views: 762

Re: Gun cleaning

should a .22lr rifle be cleaned after each session, ive read both nay and yea on this subject I am not sure if I’ve ever cleaned the barrel on most of my 22 LR guns, but the actions certainly tend to get gummed up, especially with semiauto rifles and pistols. I clean out the gunk fairly regularly, ...
by AJMD429
Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New .22 mag levergun
Replies: 22
Views: 994

Re: New .22 mag levergun

. I agree that the cost of ammunition is someone off-putting, however, it’s still cheaper than about anything I could reload, so in that sense it may be illogical to fret about the cost. Thinking about it, I think maybe there is a deeper issue that bugs me, which is that for ammunition I reload, I p...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 44-40 2025 Targets Thread
Replies: 27
Views: 889

Re: 44-40 2025 Targets Thread

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Beautiful place to shoot. Even if I missed all the bullseyes, I think I'd have a good time just taking in the countryside...!

Sure is fun taking an old cartridge, or old gun, and shooting it to see what it can do. Most of them can do just about anything needing done from a practical standpoint.
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Soros and Clinton awarded Presidential FREEDOM Medals...
Replies: 10
Views: 516

Soros and Clinton awarded Presidential FREEDOM Medals...

<r>.<br/> You'd think it was a Babylon Bee headline, but it's today's twisted reality - <URL url="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/outrage-as-biden-set-to-award-hillary-clinton-george-soros-with-presidential-medal-of-freedom/ar-AA1wXmCg"><s>[url]</s><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.msn.com/en-us/n...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:59 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Liberals just LOVE stuff like this...
Replies: 1
Views: 360

Liberals just LOVE stuff like this...

. They love 'immigrants' and 'people of color' (good or bad - just like they despise Caucasians - good or bad) They love violence - they use it to attain political goals, and they love to use it against others (that's why they want to disarm everyone else) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/sh...
by AJMD429
Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:19 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Good 2A Arguments
Replies: 0
Views: 445

Good 2A Arguments

Concise 2A arguments from Nick Frietas

https://youtu.be/7rD7YhuUiqs
by AJMD429
Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:10 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Three Fascinating News Articles from TGWP
Replies: 2
Views: 381

Three Fascinating News Articles from TGWP

. On the Trump-bomber dude - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/report-retired-intelligence-officer-sam-shoemate-received-email/ On the New Orleans running-over-people dude - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/update-new-orleans-terrorist-home-left-unsecured-before/ On the 'Pipe Bomber' ...
by AJMD429
Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New .22 mag levergun
Replies: 22
Views: 994

Re: New .22 mag levergun

. I love my little Ruger 96/22M's - I swapped barrels (on the Ruger 96's it takes about 5 minutes and an Allen wrench) in one though to convert it to a 17 HMR... Now I have both of the 'magnum Rimfires''...8) The 17 is a tack-driver despite the pencil-thin barrel I ordered for it, but I really haven...
by AJMD429
Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The Republican Party is Suicidal I Guess...
Replies: 0
Views: 462

The Republican Party is Suicidal I Guess...

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Why put Schiff on ANY committee, let alone the Judiciary...???

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0 ... signments/

He should be in JAIL...
by AJMD429
Fri Jan 03, 2025 12:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Converting a Marlin 1894 .32 H&R Mag to ..327 Fed. Mag
Replies: 13
Views: 806

Re: Converting a Marlin 1894 .32 H&R Mag to ..327 Fed. Mag

. I'd be concerned about the pressures if the gun isn't "designed" for it, although my MAIN reason for wanting a levergun in 327 Fed was in case I got a revolver in the same round, and the brass seems sturdier than 32-20. I just didn't think I'd ever pony up for a custom 32-20 Ruger SP101 ...
by AJMD429
Fri Jan 03, 2025 12:40 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Maybe the same guy who made the DC pipe bombs...
Replies: 0
Views: 530

Maybe the same guy who made the DC pipe bombs...

. ...cuz evidently whatever this dude used, was pretty lame (not that that's a bad thing, I guess)... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/update-he-would-have-been-able-make-more/ Anyway, it is weird and something just doesn't add up - a military-trained person with enough money to run around r...
by AJMD429
Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Converting a Marlin 1894 .32 H&R Mag to ..327 Fed. Mag
Replies: 13
Views: 806

Re: Converting a Marlin 1894 .32 H&R Mag to ..327 Fed. Mag

. I thought about that myself at one point, but decided just to buy a Henry lever action already chambered in 327 FedMag. https://www.henryusa.com/rifles/henry-big-boy-steel/ https://www.henryusa.com/wp-content/uploads/rifles/H012-Big-Boy-Steel-Hero-retouched-scaled.webp As soon as I can get a decen...
by AJMD429
Tue Dec 31, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy New Year from Paco and me ...
Replies: 8
Views: 551

Re: Happy New Year from Paco and me ...

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Thanks for the wishes and the same hope for you guys.
by AJMD429
Tue Dec 31, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ISP going out of business
Replies: 4
Views: 807

Re: ISP going out of business

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I used to program computers when in college (knew three different compiling languages and was semi-fluent in assembler for the 8088 series), but NOW, more and more I find I dislike computers. Our society is too dependent on them.
by AJMD429
Tue Dec 31, 2024 7:06 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: I guess Caucasian-Americans are gonna burn down all the cities now...
Replies: 5
Views: 505

Re: I guess Caucasian=Americans are gonna burn down all the cities now...

. Many rural people live in places and have property sizes large enough, that NOBODY ever knocks on their door. We've lived in our house 36 years, and not once has anyone appeared at our door. If someone did, you bet we'd have a gun-in-hand when answering. Granted, that gun would NOT be pointing at ...
by AJMD429
Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Carter's last words
Replies: 4
Views: 496

Re: Carter's last words

. Obama was worst - he hated the US and was very charismatic, so he was able to be very divisive and destructive, yet many citizens were oblivious. Biden was next worst, because he didn't love or hate the US; he was just crooked and selfish, far less eloquent, and in the end, the parkinsonian dement...
by AJMD429
Mon Dec 30, 2024 6:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Now even Tsunamis somehow are related to 'Climate Change'...
Replies: 2
Views: 486

Now even Tsunamis somehow are related to 'Climate Change'...

. Personally, if I'm reading an article, and they do the virtue-signaling thing of inserting 'man-made climate change' into what might otherwise be an interesting or even compelling story, I quit reading it, as I assume at that point I cannot trust the author, because they are inserting an 'agenda' ...
by AJMD429
Sun Dec 29, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: I guess Caucasian-Americans are gonna burn down all the cities now...
Replies: 5
Views: 505

I guess Caucasian-Americans are gonna burn down all the cities now...

. Police shot an innocent Caucasian-American, so it must have been racism...! It will be interesting to see if they loot different stores, or steal different stuff, to compensate for the discrimination... :roll: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/london-kentucky-police-killed-man-his-home-late/
by AJMD429
Sun Dec 29, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Long Range with 22LR - super vs sub-sonic...
Replies: 9
Views: 907

Re: Long Range with 22LR - super vs sub-sonic...

. More long-range 22 LR (450 yards) - using CCI standard velocity ammo and high power scopes with lots of MOA adjustment, on bolt-action chassis rifle setups. This couple are both good shots, especially given the major amount of wind at the time...! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Empju7ewLVI He doe...
by AJMD429
Sun Dec 29, 2024 8:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Know whats beyond your target
Replies: 3
Views: 479

Re: Know whats beyond your target

. That's one reason I actually kind of like the places in the midwest that have rules allowing 'straight walled pistol cartridges' for whitetail, since the short fat bullets do a nice job on deer out to reasonable midwestern ranges of 150 yards or so, but fall out of the sky rapidly after that. WAY ...