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I don't know about Jerry's, but Williams in Flint is definately good. Jays Sporting Goods in Clare is top notch to this day still. They opened a second shop in Gaylord and still maintain the same quality service.

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Go for it. General class here.

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Dead soft lead Lee 405gr. cast hot. Spg lube. 62gr. Goex2f compressed just enough to thumb seat bullet just above top grease groove, Light crimp. Just to keep bullet from moving. Go through the action without a hitch and shoot 3" @ 100 all day long. Kills em dead. Don't know fps, could care less.

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I do that exact combination. Marlin1895CB. Lee 405 gr hollow base cast out of really hot pure lead, lubed with SPG. I compress 62 gr. of Goex 2f enough to thumb push the bullet down to the front land resting on the powder in a primed unresized case with no wad at all. I then apply just enough of a c...

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That's me 60 years ago. The .22 followed shortly thereafter. Sighhhhhh.......the old days.

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Bulldog pretty well hit it on the head. The Garcias all went for $60 to $80 apiece in the 80's. That Penn levelmatic would have gone for in the $75 bracket in the mid-70's. It's a salt-water quality reel, a really nicely made piece.

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I use three powders. H-4895 for mid-power loads, and H-4198 for full power loads. (both Hodgdon's) The most fun and useful loads around here though are with Unique and cast bullets. 15.5 grains under a 405g lead bullet, or 16.5g under a 365g cast gc ranch dog are both potent deer medicine in upper M...

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Nemhed, Yes there is. That is precisely what I did to mine. I used a small dremel wheel to take the ends of the screws down a tad inside the receiver with the sight mounted, but don't know whether I needed to or not. I replaced the front sight too. Cut the plastic blade off and left the plastic barr...

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I fired a couple mags out of one of those in '66 in Marine Corps Infantry training regiment on a familiarization course before crossing the water. We fired from a prone position using the bipods on dirt shooting off a bluff to a fire zone a couple hundred yards out and below us. It was one of the mo...

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U.S.M.C. -1966-69 - Combat Engineer - E-4 Corporal - PhuBai 1967-68

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Midway is having a sale on some calibers of interest. Just an FYI.

http://www.midwayusa.com/epromolisting. ... st41620094

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Our club does a number of civil service gigs here in town every year, which I take part in. My hamming will increase dramatically again as soon as I retire in a few years. So far, the most fun I've had with it was the first three or four years I was licensed operating CW. I was running an HW-9 QRP r...

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General Class - 1987

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Happened to see this a few minutes ago. There are some vintage caliber reloading dies in here. Thought there might be someone interested here. http://www.midwayusa.com/epromolisting.exe/showpage?promotionid=251742&eblastid=31220094&custnum=100225536&utm_source=leesteel3dieset_arrow&u...

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+1 for El Chivo's discipline.

All my hunting now for the last 5 years= open sights and either a lever or handgun.

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All the new .44 1894's have ballard rifling............

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(1) each in 4, 5, 6, & 8 weights. I live 1/2 mile from the famous AuSable river here in North Mich, but don't fish too many trout. Mostly bass, walleye and panfish in the local inland lakes around here. The 5 weight is an old first run Killwell graphite with a slow action, and the 6 weight is a ...

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Wow,
It's a beauty. You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I never heard of that brand before. Could you share a little more, maybe like where manufactured, approx. year, etc?

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Nice article, and beautiful rifle. I got the trapper bug a while back but grew tired of trying to buy one at the prices people were asking for them. (no hard feelings, I'm just too cheep) So I went and found an inexpensive 1988 336 in .35 rem that really needed some help and have gone to work on it....

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Question, if you were to have the serial #engraved, lets say, on the bottom tang, or on the left front bottom of the receiver before drilling for a Marbles sight, would it be illegal?

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I received a Hornady advertisement DVD last week with all their new products. They show the 338 on there. They talk about all the downrange thump it has, and by what I could see, the reverse was true at the shooter's end also. Doesn't seem it will be all bad if your used to shooting 336EER's in .356...

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Regan Nonneman does good work for a very reasonable price. He's done a couple things for me, and I was very happy with the price for work ratio. I believe an honest job for honest money. I think you'll see he's a bit less expensive than the rest of these fellas.

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Today is the 1st day of the rest of your life. Everything you are or will become evolves from decisions you've made along the way. Simply apply yourself as well as you can in a different (or new) direction. Me, I never stop learning, or doing or pushing. And I'm 62. I've been thrown out of my house ...

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I was an LA county deputy sheriff for six years in the early seventies. we used those old ithaca deerslayers in our cars back then. I truly don't think there was ever a better shotgun made. The way those were used and abused was unbelievable, and they'd just keep coming back for more. I don't believ...

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Chandler is a large suburb attached to Phoenix on the SE corner.

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JerryB, The Grayling area is still probably much the same as you remember. Aside of different restaurants in town and a few businesses changing owners, nothing outside of town has changed very much in a lot of years. This area doesn't do too much growth wise as all the government owned land. I like ...

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I've never chronoed it, but I'm thinking about 1,300. It's puff pastry soft to shoot. The accuracy is what I like. I'm fast becoming a believer in slow heavy bullets regardless of the trajectory. I'm very lucky as where I live I have my own range and can practice all I want. I've been living in the ...

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I've hunted like crazy this year for something with antlers, but no luck. The only buck I saw all season was a really nice 4-point right in my front yard the weekend between regular deer season and black powder season. The grandkids won't be here this year because they are a Military family statione...

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The dies are $225/set.

Bullets are preportionetly expensive. I think he'd sell a lot more conversions if he could drop the price some on the extras.

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Yep, I think you can do the same velocities with Hornady roundnoses and healthy doses of 4198. So that's what shooting a Turnbull is like!

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I'm nuts about mine. There isn't a thing not to like about it. Offhand shooting is outstanding with the balance set up the way it is.

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Thanks for the assesment. I appreciate the opinion. I think I'll go kerplunk some cash down on it at lunch. I turned my newer 336 into a .356 winchester a couple years ago, and while I really love that caliber, I like the .35 remmie just as much and thought about buying another ever since. That and ...

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I was by the local gunshop earlier this morning and ran across a marlin 336sc in .35 rem with I believe and old redfield wide field scope on it. It's for sale. The rifle is in reasonably good shape with a few little pits on the receiver it and the action is as smooth as butter. He's asking $ 289.00 ...

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Thanks a lot guys, I'll put some pics up when I get it done.

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Thanks Marlinman, I appreciate it.

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I just finished the handwork, (cutting, grinding, sanding etc.) on a project Marlin 336. I've changed it from a pistol grip configuration to a straight grip, and the conversion went well. I'm down to the finish work now. The stock is all prepped for re-finishing and is looking really good. I was giv...

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I know they have black powder shoots for rifles and carbines up here too. I'm going to have to find out when they are. I think I'll go next summer. Problem is a busy time of year. Just have to make the time I guess...........

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I go to the Black Powder Cannon shoot here at Camp Grayling every year. They have a 1,000 yard cannon competition and a random distance mortar competition. I get a big kick out of the brass mortars and their telltale 'PING' when they discharge. Every year they also set up a couple hundred steel silh...

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He was the hi-powered German sniper in "Enemy at the Gates" also.

Him and Alec Baldwin.

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I think Obama is no more to the democratic party than a lacky that's being groomed to sign every piece of kneejerk legislation the dems can come up with. Whatever pipe dreams they push will automatically be considered to have "presidential approval" by the whole bunch, and they will enthus...

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Good question. I don't have an answer for that specific situation, but I do shoot regularily at a 5"x5" piece of rusty 1-1/4" thick hanging steel plate at 100 yards against a similarily colored woods background. Again, I guess it's just a matter of what you can and can't see. In all f...

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I'm 61 and can shoot 4" at 100 yards pretty consistently with aperature sights. I use Williams FP's with a Merit #4 adjustable aperature on all my lever guns. For a front sight, I've equipped all mine with brass blades that I regulate to height myself and file a sharper profile on the tip. I ca...

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What scares the heck out of me is him drumming up support from outside the US. I get a little worried that something is going to scew(sp?) out of round somehow because of it. In my estimation, his lack of respect for the flag or his lack of enthusiasm for being connected with it is what worries me. ...

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JReed- I graduated from the recruit depot there in San Diego in November, 1966. Now my own son is a Marine Lt. Col. now about to go to work for the Nato tactical group in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1999 he was stationed with his family in San Diego. He is a pilot and was assigned to Miramar at the time. W...

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Congrats, 4 years, 11 months and 15 days for me.

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Good point. I can't answer that. I often wonder because in the articles I have read about loading that particular bullet, none of them even mention neck turning the cases. It seems that if that were the case, the situation would get more attention than it does. I think I'll email Marshall and ask him.

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There you go, everything in the last 9 years will send 405 grainers down range accurately.

Thank you dawei.

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All the .444's now have the faster twist with the ballard rifling. Mine is about 5 years old with the faster twist.

I don't know exactly when they dropped the micro-groove.

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Beartooth shows a 405 gr. bullet handloaded at over 1850 fps with a 22" barrel and RL-7. No slouch there. FYI - Buffalo Bore lists a .45-70 - 430 gr. LBT @ 1,925 fps for one of their penetrator loads for game up to 2,500 lbs. I'd be willing to bet there's very little difference in terminal fiel...

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