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Drawdown: Truth be told I doubt there is a better jacketed bullet for the .30 WCF than that Nosler Partition. It would be interesting to test it against the Barnes 190 for both penetration and expansion. I would be willing to bet that either would deliver the goods on elk, bear or moose within 100-1...

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Waiting for my new taller front sight, and when it arrives, I will take the old Marlin 36 out and try all four of these. I shot the 130-grain Speer and the 178-grain Lee GC a while back with reasonable results, although printing 7-ish inches high at 50. I had forgotten I had the Hornady 160 FTXs, an...

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That's a real puzzler all right. I would love to hear the comments in the Ruger service department.

Bill in Oregon

All these years later the .41 police loading in a Smith makes sense. Boy it has been a while since I heard Hal Swigget's name mentioned. The Y.O. Ranch sure seemed to get a workout from gun writers in those days.

Bill in Oregon

I would give their revolvers another chance. I haven't heard anything negative about the newest ones. And I have never had an issue with the Rossi 92s.

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I had one of those for a while. They pack a punch, but I found the sights seemed kinda flimsy for the very hard work they could do -- as they did when Val Forgett and George Nonte took them to Tanzania in 1973. Good grief, I have read that story at least a dozen times in my old falling-apart copy of...

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Once again, gold finds its way into the hands of the "Man with the Midas Touch."

Very nice find, Vall!

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John, it sure looks better, but when I took it apart I discovered that it had a coil spring lock. It is marked FARA Made in Italy, and I have been told that FARA was an early consortium of small builders organized by the Zoli brothers in the early 1960s. I hope to shoot it this week.

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John, I recently came into a mystery Zouave stocked in what I have always thought was European beech, with the lens-shaped grain structures perpendicular to the main grain. I stripped it with CitriStrip and sanding. Despite my concerns that it would unevenly streak, I used alcohol-based Fiebing's da...

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Great Scott, Darryl, how did I miss this? It must be wonderful to get up each morning knowing how much talent one has!

That little Hammond is impressive. I grew up loving the sound of the classic B-3 coming through a Leslie speaker.

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John, that's a great find, and especially at that price. Pretty sure a number of these filtered through the cowboy action community decades ago -- and not just the Baikals.

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Pat, wonderful finds that evoke some serious Old West-era history. I once found a very old, tarnished case with that headstamp on a windy ridgetop near the historic village of Tularosa, New Mexico, and thought to myself, "Bill, you know the Kid himself passed over this very terrain many times, ...

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Jay, I think a gas check mold would be one way to approach the problem. Having none at hand, I will try the .446 sizer route first.

Bill in Oregon

I'd sure say go for it! I only had the Chinese version maybe 15 years ago, and to say it was not smooth would be a hilarious understatement. Just love this old Browning design, though. Rube Burrows may be along here shortly but he runs an original as I recall. When I briefly dipped my toe in CAS som...

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Sam's book first came out 37 years ago. How time flies!
Sarge, I had forgotten about Bengal Bullets. Gracias.

Bill in Oregon

I was fortunate to be able to talk with my great-grandmother, who was born in San Luis Obispo County, California, in 1858, and died days before her 100th birthday in 1958 in Medford, Oregon. Her father moved the family from California to San Saba, Texas, about 1860. She married my great-grandfather ...

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Ray. Wow! I have to wonder, was this before the Richmond Labs bullet, or after?

Bill in Oregon

Yessir. I just cast up some .690 round balls to try in the 13-gauge flint smoothie. They are running about 480 grains apiece.

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Jim, of course you are right. But Elmer certainly upped the ante by designing that big, flat-nosed sixgun bullet.

Ray, why smack when I have some already flat?

That's the Arsenal 230, the Eras Gone Kerr and the Lee 452-255 RF.

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Those will work, fellas. I am looking for a bullet with maximum meplat for hunting purposes. One of the guys over on the muzzleloader forum posted that he had cleanly killed a small buck with the 200-grain Lee REAL out of a "Sheriff's Model" 1858 Remington, taking a very careful shot at un...

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This seems to have been a pretty quiet subject area until Kaido Ojamaa came along with his large-meplat bullets with heeled lower bands to allow them to be seated relatively straight before ramming home in percussion revolver cylinders. Not terribly revolutionary, but his was a well-publicized, prac...

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Thanks Scott. I used to have a copy. And isn't the rifle on the left on the cover the famed "Dale Storey Conversion"?

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Twodot, I remember Sam writing about that. My memory is he liked 748 for .30 WCF, but it might very well have been that he ran 4064 under the 190s. I'll see the Barnes Originals next week, along with a taller Marbles ivory bead front sight. Then I should be in business.

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Agree on that Yamaha 200. Saw a bunch of them being joyfully ridden in eastern Oregon. My stepson and I had a lot of fun with a little Honda Ruckus, but it was lacking in power and traction. I confess I have never gotten over wanting a real mini-bike with lawnmower engine using diagrams from Popular...

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Wow. A 420-grain slug moving at 1300 fps out of a six-pound Rossi. That has to be a hammer on both ends!
Thanks for that link Ray.

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Flint, thanks for that link. Hope to have some handloads with the Barnes 190 to chronograph here in coming days, and will report.

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Same, and Andy, thank you so very much for keeping the lights on here!

Bill in Oregon

Thanks, Rgates. I know letting go has been awful hard on Lenn. Broke my heart when he put the sign on the sawmill, but understand. Lenn, if you are out there, we really are thinking of you, praying for you. Hope this Thanksgiving is a good day at your house.

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Doc, I think that might even start fights in an old folks' home!

Bill in Oregon

Thanks for copying the load data, Jim. I sure burned a lot of 3031 in my first 20 years of loading for the .30-30 -- all jacketed in those days. Here's a link to that big Barnes beauty. Impressive S.D. and B.C., too! https://www.barnesbullets.com/product/barnes-originals/?attribute_pa_bullet-diamete...

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Vic, these Barnes Originals are conventional copper-cup lead-core softnoses. Jim, I think it might have been Sam Fadala who mentioned pulling the 190s from .303 shells to load in his .30-30. Ken Waters tells us in his Pet Loads profile of the .303 Savage that it was originally loaded with a 195-grai...

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I am a member of a Facebook group dedicated to hunting, fishing and camping "in the old way," focused on the era from 1890 to 1930. We're talking Nessmuk, Horace Kephart, Ernest Thompson Seton, Roosevelt -- good company! Anyway, one of the fellas posted an image of a moose taken with a Sav...

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I tip my hat to the two Jims for being able to shoot those heavy bullet loads well. I took a 5 1/2-inch stainless Redhawk and handloads with a commercial 320-grain RNFP over a bunch of 296 to Alaska about 1998 or so. Wore it in a chest holster above my waders while Dad and brothers and I fished a tr...

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Walt, what a kindness. Thank you.
Too much food you say?

Doing Matt's Meat Church Creole butter turkey breast on the pellet grill, sweet taters, green beans and Key lime pie for dessert.
God bless us, everyone.

Bill in Oregon

Jim, looking back over your post, that is really a doozy of a mold. I ordered a couple from Walt Mellander before he passed. Good stuff.

Bill in Oregon

Very nice, Jim. Boy, I wish I could shoot a sixgun like that.

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"... but I brought three books with me to my "C" school at portsmouth, va. A king james bible and a hornady #2 and a speer #9."
Ray, I like how you roll!

(But I prefer the Revised Standard Version ... )

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Ted, I am sorry as well. I have been thinking of friends and family who have gone on ahead lately. Sometimes it feels like life is just one sadness after another.

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Well, I would call that a good hunt! Always wanted a 6.5X54 Mannlicher. Closest I ever came was a Hembrug Model 1895 in 6.5X53R, but the bore was gone ...

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I have three collars. I hope to be buried with them.

Bill in Oregon

I gave up reloading for 9mm, but much prefer to handload everything else save the rimfires (and that would be fun, too!). I feel kind of ashamed firing factory ammo. I also feel kind of ashamed fishing a commercially tied fly. I almost never eat out, either, because I so enjoy cooking -- and will ma...

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Well, I would take $200 plus the $26 for the large flat-rate USPS priority box to send this to its new home in the "polar regions" north of Texas.

Bill in Oregon

Wow. Hadn't heard Rick Jamison's name mentioned in quite a spell. Used to read his stuff in Shooting Times back in the day. I tried calling a few times in the Cascade foothills of southern Oregon with zero success as far as I was aware of. I had ordered a Circe dying rabbit call from somewhere -- He...

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We are on the cusp of the holiday season, and it goes hard with me that there is an empty chair for Lenn at our table here. Lenn, I hope you and Norma are warm, snug and well-fed -- and that you are dreaming of projects to take your mind off your pain. I wish you both a wonderful Thanksgiving! Your ...

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That's just excellent Vall. Hope he has many more hunts while that fire burns brightly. Was this in Oregon? Washington?

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Fellers, I believe you can click on that original link to see the updates -- now on Page 12. Hudson apparently contracted an astrovirus a couple of days ago, but the antibiotics seem to have worked and they are moving this young man out of ICU! https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topi...

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Oh, what fun! You can see the lightbulbs go on!

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Nath, good work. You are the most inspirational poster on Leverguns, mister!

Bill in Oregon

Grizz, that cold-smoked venison does sound delicious. Wonder what the temperature graph looked like.
I cold-smoke cheese with a smoke tube and Traeger pellets on my Weber, but only for about two hours, and on a morning when it is below 50.

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Will, hard to believe but a long time ago I was young and impressionable, and after going to see "Lady and the Tramp" as a grasshopper, convinced the folks (Mom was easier) we needed a Siamese. Old SooLing was a good cat as cats go. Then I discovered dogs and never went back. But I do ackn...

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