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Bill in Oregon

Such handsome leverguns!

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Will, that lumber is just gorgeous. Is it a softwood? Fir? Pine? Where would be the source? Canada?

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Vance, you are not the only one who has bought something you already have and had forgotten about!

Doc, I have been told by more than one old timer that head shots from a .32-20, or even a .25-20, quietly put a lot of venison on the table back in Depression days.

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OPS, a friend put it succinctly: "Bill, we're in the fourth quarter."

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I'm completely impressed, Will. I have used 1-inch bronze ringshank boat nails, but can scarcely imagine a 40-penny!

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It's beautiful in my eyes. Nearly 140 years later and there are still no flies on the .303.

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Depressing news, Jim, offset by the warm memories but I am sorry for your losses. I've about reached this point myself. My best friend seems to have survived prostate cancer that had begun to metastasize (thank you Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center), but now faces heart valve replacement on Monday. Two ...

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Had a little luck today. After realizing I was completely out of small pistol primers and had to go pick up a spindle sander in Abilene, I checked the Academy Sports Web site, and lo and behold, they had CCI 500s, limit four trays, at $7.99. The other place in town wants $12 ...

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I am sorry to say it, but I would be fully behind an effort by the USFS to post trail cameras and spy on range users if it meant catching the scum that do these things. It's a serious problem on national forest and BLM land. In Oregon, I loved just a few miles from the Siskiyou National Forest bound...

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I so appreciate you reposting this Jim. Linebaugh's insights are a continuing gift to sixgunners.

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John, thanks for that link. There is actually data for the 75- and 85-grain lead bullets in .32 S&W in the 51st Lyman Reloading Handbook. Lee makes a 93-grain RN bullet mold that would certainly give a traditional appearance, but it wouldn't be much use to me in the .327. Their 90-grain semi-wad...

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I seem to be tumbling down the .32 rabbit hole and I blame Will for the heads up on the .327 brass! :lol: What intrigues me is that having a sixgun in .327 means you can also run the charming little .32 S&W (not the Long) through the thing. I have always wanted to mess with this little toot and ...

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Bless you for posting this, Jay! I have not touched any of my several fly rods here in Texas, and in New Mexico but a few times in the five years I lived there. Back home in Oregon and Washington, I was catching brook and cutthroat trout on flies by junior high. I lived to fly fish. I miss it terrib...

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Wow. Glad he is expected to recover. Ian McCollum had a gun blow up on him a while back on Forgotten Weapons.

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I always think back to Ross Seyfried writing about the first time he met John Linebaugh. He took a safe position around the corner of the barn and expected to see Linebaugh's gun blow up. Of course it didn't -- and Seyfried became a big fan. Reading the commentary above, I am reminded of another vig...

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Nath I used to live in that country, and shoot with Earl. You would absolutely love it.

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Jason: Buy lottery tickets immediately!

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JH, don't feel bad about this. I am 16 years younger and still totally confused by my iPhone ...

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Pietta really upped its game a few years back going all in on CNC machines and improved QC. One thing I like about the Uberti clones is that the cylinders are a smidge beefier than the Colt originals, and Brian Pearce says they can handle "class two" loads safely.

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There are urban legends about Bob Keeshan but he actually enlisted too late to see any WWII combat. Fred Rogers did not serve, God rest his soul.

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Someone might have posted this once before, but just in case, here goes. I started watching the captain when a mere grasshopper.

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Great thread fellas. Six, Marlin sure knew how to get case colors right, didn't it?
Veeman, I had chances to buy the Crazy Horse commemorative and didn't -- of course!

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Earl, so very glad to hear that you and Butch are still chasing elk! I treasure my memories of cutting juniper with your counsel on those snowy winter days out near Post, I think it was. I believe that .260 in a 99 will be just dandy for the work at hand. Wish you and all the kids and grandkids a tr...

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I sure wish I had bought 10 Finn Model 39 Mosins at $79 from Big Five ...

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Unexpectedly so. Sniff ... HONK!

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Iowegan is an invaluable resource.

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Cleaning up "steamers" left by Lab puppies at 2 a.m. when you should be recruiting your strength with sleep surely does not help!

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Will, you are so blessed to be doing this kind of work. I think making/building things and healing human beings are the two greatest callings.

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Sorry that Canada apparently has its share of dangerous nincompoops as well as the States.

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Galatin, that is some very fine shooting! Have to hand it to the BLRs for re-defining modern lever gun accuracy. I suspect my Marlin Model 36 could do some very fine work, but with my 70-year-old vision and iron sights -- even with an aperture rear -- I would not expect anything particularly notewor...

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Great report, Drawdown. I should probably load five of the 190s over some LVR, too, to test the Barnes data in my 24-inch barreled Model 36.

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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.

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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.

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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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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, 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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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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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.

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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.

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