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by popeye44
Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ot-Browning GP Comp
Replies: 8
Views: 1450

Re: Ot-Browning GP Comp

Guys I took mine to the range today and ran app 100rds of WWUSA 115gr fmj thru it. Accuracy was great but had lots of doublefeeds, stovepipes,failures of slide to lock open after last round. I think it might be a magazine problem. I was using a Browning magazine but it was not the standard one. An I...
by popeye44
Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ot-Browning GP Comp
Replies: 8
Views: 1450

Re: Ot-Browning GP Comp

I need to fill yall in on this pistol. Stopped in the gunshop a couple of months back after being out of town a while. The owner knows I like the unusual and he pulls this HP out and shows it. He saw that "just have to have it" looked and had me hooked like a seagull on a chicked bone. Wel...
by popeye44
Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ot-Browning GP Comp
Replies: 8
Views: 1450

Ot-Browning GP Comp

Picked up my Browning GP Comp today. Its NIB. Dont have the extra magazine. wrenches. target or case for it.
I know that it will devalue the gun to shoot it but it IT IS BEGGING to be shot.
by popeye44
Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Winchester Records Corrections- Have Ya'll Heard of This?
Replies: 8
Views: 1776

Re: Winchester Records Corrections- Have Ya'll Heard of This?

Griff I guess those Winchester employees went the way most our jobs have gone.Those guys were UAW employees. I did read somewhere that M94's may show up from Goose Creek SC this year. I know FN has a couple plants in SC. One is located in Columbia where they make military weapons. The SAW being made...
by popeye44
Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Winchester Records Corrections- Have Ya'll Heard of This?
Replies: 8
Views: 1776

Re: Winchester Records Corrections- Have Ya'll Heard of This?

So we got warehouse records. Now we got 'polishing room records'. That dont make one wrong and the other right. I dealt with the Cody Museum on a 94 last year and even tho they were unable to shed much lite on my gun. It seems there are other records they dont have. In my case it was the"custom...
by popeye44
Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.
Replies: 13
Views: 2768

Re: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.

How many businesses in this country can get the doors shut almost immediately for good due to clerical error?
by popeye44
Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: gun it does have guns in it
Replies: 26
Views: 2301

Re: OT: gun it does have guns in it

Remember the RUSH?
by popeye44
Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Scoped bolt/single rifle suggestions
Replies: 12
Views: 1667

Re: OT - Scoped bolt/single rifle suggestions

I shoot varmints. Cooper makes the most accurate rifles I have ever owned. That includes some Jarretts. Wea SVM's. Rem 700V's. The only cheap accurate rifle I own is an older Win M70 243 Varmint from '68. Coopers are mostly single shots. They are very reasonable in price. Mostly wood stocks. If you ...
by popeye44
Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:35 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Joe, I need help with a cat...
Replies: 37
Views: 3751

Re: OT - Joe, I need help with a cat...

Hobie. I got a copy of a book called "101 uses for dead cats" put out by Squish Kitty Productions.
You want I should send you it?
by popeye44
Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.
Replies: 13
Views: 2768

Re: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.

Is there no appeal process? Most of the gun shop owners I have dealt with seem to have a couple friends
who are connected to the feds in some way.
by popeye44
Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ot--
Replies: 0
Views: 886

Ot--

omit
by popeye44
Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 44 SPECIAL USERS - A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
Replies: 57
Views: 7188

Re: 44 SPECIAL USERS - A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS

I have a mod 24 Smith 3" barrel Lew Horton 1 of 250. shoots really great. Have only shot Rem factory ammo
in it. Points good but nothing like a Colt SAA.
by popeye44
Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT -- Chicks with Guns
Replies: 25
Views: 3749

Re: OT -- Chicks with Guns

Was at Ft Hood back at the beginning of Desert Storm in 90-91. Saw a nite time shoot from a battery of 8'' howitzers
abrams bradleys and a few others thrown. A real treat. Always wanted to see THE nite time show. A shuttle launch
from the CAPE.
by popeye44
Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Border Update
Replies: 27
Views: 2715

Re: POLITICS - Border Update

Charles. If the rich keep getting richer and the poor get poorer in this country there may be a mass migration "SOUTH". Our people going down there. I hear there is an acute shortage of skilled labor due to the influx of American companies "INTO" Mexico since NAFTA. I think that ...
by popeye44
Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did SASS kill the Winchester model 94?
Replies: 69
Views: 9096

Re: Did SASS kill the Winchester model 94?

Dont give me bull about lawyer mods and worries about suits. It was all about greed. Esp when you cant buy a
car from "ANYBODY" with a safe jack or spare.
by popeye44
Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Any .480 Ruger levergun users out there?
Replies: 12
Views: 1835

Re: Any .480 Ruger levergun users out there?

I remember seeing the 480 listed in one of Winchester's last few catalogs in 04-05 maybe. Did they ever make
anything in that caliber?
by popeye44
Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What Changed?
Replies: 48
Views: 5089

Re: What Changed?

JT I love Handloader because it does not perpetuate the "Bigger+Newer=Better" like all the gunmags seem to. Gave my adopted son a Win M70 223Rem a few years for helping me. He's 38 and I adopted him at 35 so he needed some Instruction in guns. Doesnt matter he was raised by his real daddy ...
by popeye44
Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - mountain land
Replies: 39
Views: 3934

Re: OT - mountain land

RF
Why not trade that HOT Florida acre for some COOL Colorado acres. :D
by popeye44
Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Border Update
Replies: 27
Views: 2715

Re: POLITICS - Border Update

You mean the guvment is actually starting to enforce laws that help US(me&u)? Sounds like what most other countries have been doing for years. I am all for helping others. Having personally packed medicine and cash into China to keep a childrens hospital/orphanage going and sending money monthly...
by popeye44
Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Am I too picky?
Replies: 23
Views: 2522

Re: Am I too picky?

My wife's bil knows everything. He's the one that keeps telling me his Charles Daley 45 is "Just like a Colt". Told him I was thinking of retiring in Sept at #62. First thing he wanted to know is how much s I would get. I politely said I would be getting half of his. He thought for a momen...
by popeye44
Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What would YOU do?
Replies: 24
Views: 2820

Re: What would YOU do?

The shop owner is also a neighbor and friend. This is a pawn/gun shop that deals in gold and guns only. He has given me lots of good deals over the years. It has happened before. But never on something I REALLY wanted. My wife LIKES for me to go there too. Her favorite diamond bracelet came from the...
by popeye44
Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What would YOU do?
Replies: 24
Views: 2820

What would YOU do?

Was sitting in the gun shop today and in comes this guy wanting to sell a Winchetser levergun. Had a brass butt plate, Brass rcvr, saddle ring. Octigan barrel and medallion in stock.Said he was hard up and needed to sell it. Gunshop guy looked at it and said 150usd. THe guy said thanks, that he had ...
by popeye44
Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:26 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT CATS & DOGS BANNED.
Replies: 9
Views: 1367

Re: OT CATS & DOGS BANNED.

FW-I agree with you 400%. I hated to see the poor women suffer when I spent time over there a few years back. Those men would be out in their white bed sheets. The poor women wore black head to toe. Middle of summer .120f in the shade. Sweating in pure misery while their men strut around caring noth...
by popeye44
Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did SASS kill the Winchester model 94?
Replies: 69
Views: 9096

Re: Did SASS kill the Winchester model 94?

CJ, Rossi Henry Marlin seem to be doing well and I dont think they are making AK47's.
by popeye44
Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did SASS kill the Winchester model 94?
Replies: 69
Views: 9096

Re: Did SASS kill the Winchester model 94?

Wallyworld did not help Winchester with their anti-American no profit for the vendor business practices. If there
is a heel there will be :evil: a wallyworld there.
by popeye44
Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT _Glock no longer imported???????????????????
Replies: 11
Views: 1629

Re: OT _Glock no longer imported???????????????????

Cant seem to find link. So please disregard post.
by popeye44
Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT _Glock no longer imported???????????????????
Replies: 11
Views: 1629

OT _Glock no longer imported???????????????????

Heard or read a rumor that Glock pistols were no longer being imported or Steyr Manlicher because of
sales of their products by the Austrian govt to Iran. Is this true or false? No more Glocks for import
to USA?
by popeye44
Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: Small Carry Gun - What do recommend?
Replies: 61
Views: 6294

Re: OT: Small Carry Gun - What do recommend?

Working on a guvment site I cant cary anything that even looks like gun or any weapon. At home its a different story. I like my PPK 380ss. Also my PP 32acp bl. I use flush magazines in both. No holster. Autos are flatter than a wheel gun. I
think that helps me to hide it better.
by popeye44
Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT _ DRILL NOW, Keep up the pressure...
Replies: 17
Views: 1788

Re: OT _ DRILL NOW, Keep up the pressure...

Recently I have been working on construction of a powerhouse that burns WOOD. Not a big powerhouse. The primary boiler is 900hp. The secondary is 300hp. This powerhouse is located on a high profile DOE nuclear site. I have never worked at a place that has so many tours. Two or three a day all week l...
by popeye44
Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - SP101 in socal
Replies: 15
Views: 1987

Re: OT - SP101 in socal

My sw mod 24 44spcl has adj sites and 3'' barrel.
My sw mod 15 38spcl has adj sites and 2'' barrel
My diamondback has adj sites also and2.5''barrel.

Never owned a sp101. They shoot good?
by popeye44
Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: Ft Wayne In. info
Replies: 40
Views: 3931

Re: OT: Ft Wayne In. info

Its been a few years but from what I remember the girls are free spirits and eat lots of beef and potatoes.
I remember them being well rounded too. Nice people and they like guns too. They welcomed this southern
boy with open arms.
by popeye44
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Boolits for Californians...
Replies: 39
Views: 4096

Re: Boolits for Californians...

I need to relate a true story that happened to me years ago with bismuth. I got hold of some bismuth sticks and saw that it was soft and shiney. These were 1lb sticks.I melted some in a small Lee 3lb pot and really liked the melt because the temp was lower than lead. I was using a Lee 240swc mold. T...
by popeye44
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Shafted on Colt SAA
Replies: 18
Views: 2792

Re: OT - Shafted on Colt SAA

If that 45 is shooting high you might try some lighter bullets. Better still trade it for a 44.
The ONLY caliber.
by popeye44
Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - WOW!! Stumbled into This 112 Page Thread.
Replies: 26
Views: 3746

Re: OT - WOW!! Stumbled into This 112 Page Thread.

Was gonna post, but prefer to look instead. Starting with page 30.
by popeye44
Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Shafted on Colt SAA
Replies: 18
Views: 2792

Re: Shafted on Colt SAA-OT

Could you get just the cylinder reblued?
by popeye44
Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
Replies: 36
Views: 3818

Re: Heavy bullet question .....

Remember the old tests I believe Hatcher did with a bow and arrow and a 30'06. If memory serves correctly the arrow always penetrated MORE.. Read a while back about bombs being able to penetrate more than 50' of solid rock before detonating. They were supposed to be made from old naval gun barrels. ...
by popeye44
Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
Replies: 36
Views: 3818

Re: Heavy bullet question .....

Remember the old tests I believe Hatcher did with a bow and arrow and a 30'06. If memory serves correctly the arrow always penetrated MORE.. Read a while back about bombs being able to penetrate more than 50' of solid rock before detonating. They were supposed to be made from old naval gun barrels. ...
by popeye44
Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
Replies: 36
Views: 3818

Re: Heavy bullet question .....

Have survived 3 wars with guns. Shot a few head of game. Elk size down. Jillions o varmints. Hardest thing ever
hit the ground was a 700lb steer shot tween the eyes with my 10/22.
by popeye44
Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
Replies: 60
Views: 6001

Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration

Thunder, I understand why oil is high now. Its a simple supply and demand. China and India have more people than the rest of the world put together. These 2 now have a little money because of the last half century of making goods because of all their people. Indian and Chinese want the same for thei...
by popeye44
Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
Replies: 60
Views: 6001

Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration

If the demoNcrats see the beaches turn black they will blame it on George Bush. If all the oil in the world dried
up tomorrow they'd blame that on Bush too. If Al Sharpton ran out of hair gease that'd be Bush's fault too.
by popeye44
Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
Replies: 60
Views: 6001

Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration

I dont know too much about oil and gas. I hunt a lot in different places where gas and oil wells are. From 1990 to 2000 3/4 of the wells I saw were not pumping. Since 05-06 most of them are. The areas I hunt are pa tx wy. I work in the nuclear industry. There are app 103 reactors on line in the USA....
by popeye44
Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt 45 -What Bullet?
Replies: 8
Views: 1385

Colt 45 -What Bullet?

I love Colts. Any Colt. I have 45's in both revolver and pistol. My question. Is there one bullet that I could load for
both 45Colt and 45ACP?
Thank You
by popeye44
Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt SAA-- When was it made?
Replies: 12
Views: 1546

Re: Colt SAA-- When was it made?

Griff if you know where to get Colt SAA's for a hundred bucks apeice I'll take a dozen.
Just let me know where to send the cash. Ha Ha Ha. :lol: :lol: :lol:
by popeye44
Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt SAA-- When was it made?
Replies: 12
Views: 1546

Re: Colt SAA-- When was it made?

Hi. I am new here. My bil has a Charles Daley 45. He says its "just like a Colt". And he only paid $300 for his.
I offered him a c-note for it. Thanks,but as they used to say in the Coke ads, I'll stick to the "Real Thing".