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- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BEST ACTION: WINCHESTER 94 or MARLIN 336?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5194
Re: BEST ACTION: WINCHESTER 94 or MARLIN 336?
And if you're a certified Harley mechanic with a parts truck following you around, you can drive it almost all the time you're not fixing it! :lol: Since you brought it up, the more I learn about Harleys, the more I miss my old Triumph Bonneville! I drive Jeeps, I prefer (real) blondes, and I like ...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Get your drool towel!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1521
Re: Get your drool towel!
How well do they shoot?
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT; IDIOT OF THE WEEK
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2602
Re: OT; IDIOT OF THE WEEK
That's called "adding insult to injury"! Ouch!!bogus bill wrote:Many years ago I was rideing with a older guy. He parked on a narrow street, swung the drivers door open and a kid rideing a bike fast hit the door. I really felt sorry for the kid as he laid in pain with by buddy bawling him out!
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question about Ruger Old Army
- Replies: 7
- Views: 842
Re: Question about Ruger Old Army
To this day, I kick myself for not having $200 in cash at a gun show in '92. Somebody (who wouldn't take a check) had a stainless Old Army he wanted to get rid of. It looked new. Excuse me while I go cry....
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: FEAR PURCHASING....
- Replies: 87
- Views: 136403
Re: FEAR PURCHASING....
But does he still own stock and thus still make money from Cooper Firearms? If so, I wouldn't buy anything from them--if I had the money in the first place. I refused to buy anything from Wendy's hamburger joint after I learned that James A. Rhodes, former governor of Ohio, was a major shareholder i...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unique in the 45 Colt
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2793
Re: Unique in the 45 Colt
Sounds like an Internet Commando to me.
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is there only one serial number on the 357 1894 Marlins?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2529
Re: Is there only one serial number on the 357 1894 Marlins?
The JBTs would love to nail someone over an issue like this. It's easy, the guy isn't an actual "criminal" so he wouldn't fight much. It's your tax dollars at work!
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: Cats in house
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3856
Re: OT: Cats in house
I don't have a "better half", I just have a cat. She's crazy, too. However, she hasn't done anything to deserve capital punishment. She's probably wondering what she did to get sentenced to life in my house....
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - I'm man enough to admit...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4868
Re: OT - I'm man enough to admit...
"Thou shalt count to three, three being the number thou shalt count to..."Ysabel Kid wrote:Looks like I will need the "Holy Hand Gernade"!!!
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Joined the reloading fray
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2297
Re: Joined the reloading fray
I had both, but I gave the old-fashioned one to a buddy in an effort to bring him into the reloading world.Travis Morgan wrote:Just get both!
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: SA base pin lube question
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2650
Re: OT: SA base pin lube question
I like Gunslick. I also like Super Lube grease, but I don't know if it's available any more.
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stetson hats
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2087
Re: Stetson hats
I looked at that Bailey website. That's a BIG hat if it's 3-1/2 feet!
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Joined the reloading fray
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2297
Re: Joined the reloading fray
The only problem with a digital scale is that you need power. Whether it's an outlet or a battery, you can't use it if you don't have power. Now I've talked myself into getting an old-fashioned scale again....
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ATF Form 4473 Shortage
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3351
Re: ATF Form 4473 Shortage
What?? A government agency not well organized??Hobie wrote:Their page is way too busy and not well organized.
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blackhawk Rib?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 695
Re: Blackhawk Rib?
I'm lucky then that I never had the money to buy anything from them.Travis Morgan wrote:B-square stuff has an awful bad habit of sucking real bad.
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pistol Caliber Primer Questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3958
Re: Pistol Caliber Primer Questions
And I walked right into it....oh, man....I guess I could edit it out. But where's the fun in that?
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - I'm man enough to admit...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4868
Re: OT - I'm man enough to admit...
My cat (still fully-clawed) tagged me in the eye once. My vision got blurry immediately, and I immediately started worrying, since I was unemployed with no insurance etc. I naturally pictured my cornea ripped off or something; I looked in the mirror and saw my eye full of blood. I popped out my cont...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody Shoot "Pacoized" .22 CB's?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 745
Re: Anybody Shoot "Pacoized" .22 CB's?
SGB= Small Game Bullet? Isn't that the one where you file the tip off the bullet?
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pistol Caliber Primer Questions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3958
Re: Pistol Caliber Primer Questions
I've read many, many times in the last 27 years that WW296 and H-110 are the same, too, but I've also read that H-110 is actually "WW295". I've also seen many loads shown where there are different charge weights for H-110 and 296 for a given bullet/case/primer. If they're the same, why wou...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blackhawk Rib?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 695
Re: Blackhawk Rib?
B-Square makes (made? I'm not sure) a scope mount for almost everything, including the Blackhawk. The Ruger Hunter model wasn't ever chambered in .45 Colt--or am I mistaken?
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ATF Form 4473 Shortage
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3351
Re: Atf fORM 4473 Shortage (Jengle etc)
What?? A government agency incompetent?? Heaven forbid!Hobie wrote:Some might think this is a conspiracy to enact gun control but I think they are just simply incompetent.
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2996
Re: Ruger LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver)
I'll bet anything that the first complaints Ruger gets about that piece will be from people wanting a non-fluted cylinder.
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: To the Kids who Survived the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, or 70s
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2232
Re: OT: To the Kids who Survived the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, or 70s
Not exactly on topic, but does anyone else remember when STOP signs were yellow and not red?
- Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New model 1895sbl from Marlin
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3162
Re: New model 1895sbl from Marlin
Well, you don't have to buy one if you don't like it. I wish they'd made them when I bought my last Marlin in 2001.
- Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: the glaciers are coming, run for your life
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1427
Re: the glaciers are coming, run for your life
How come Al Gore didn't learn the same thing at the time?
- Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: How do you Yankees Stand it? Transplants + snow
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7625
Re: OT: How do you Yankees Stand it?
When it's cold, you can always put on more clothes. When it's hot, you can only take off so much...
- Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hares ?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3328
Re: Hares ?
And how did she like her jacks cooked?
- Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New model 1895sbl from Marlin
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3162
Re: New model 1895sbl from Marlin
I still want to know why Marlin wouldn't make anything out of stainless when I had the money.
- Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Price check please
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1566
Re: Price check please
I'll look into it. Thanks!
- Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Sort of. Interesting ( to me) Surplus .303s/ powder and
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2042
Re: OT- Sort of. Interesting ( to me) Surplus .303s/ powder and
Yeah, who would think of chewing on Cordite??
- Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2843
Re: Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee
AmBraCol wrote:Made it to a full 6' tall, wonder what I'd have measured up to if I'd never drunk the stuff...
- Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question on Henry .357's
- Replies: 5
- Views: 726
Re: Question on Henry .357's
Well, there's one way to find out....Just think of it as a "learning experience"....like the time I found out a Sierra 200-gr. jhp in a .44 Special case was too short for proper feeding in my Marlin 1894...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Sort of. Interesting ( to me) Surplus .303s/ powder and
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2042
Re: OT- Sort of. Interesting ( to me) Surplus .303s/ powder and
I've seen pics of Cordite before, but I don't think they were color pics. Very interesting post.
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Boeing 40C; Oldest Air Worthy Boeing Airliner
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1974
Re: OT - Boeing 40C; Oldest Air Worthy Boeing Airliner
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how long it took Boeing to build the plane in the first place.
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: '95 Winchester TR "Big Medicine"
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2305
Re: '95 Winchester TR "Big Medicine"
From an article in Google.................. "The Winchester .405 is, at least for me personally the medicine gun for lions!' Thank you for that quote. I wouldn't have known where to start searching. On another note, T.R. was the most prolific author of America's Presidents. For a guy who died ...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Price check please
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1566
Re: Price check please
How does one procure this DVD? Is there a website to check or what?Travis Morgan wrote:...ever since Hornady sent me another bullet porn DVD...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'm tired of my modern levers
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4302
Re: I'm tired of my modern levers
It will probably be too late for Joe then, but won't the modern guns have "personality" in 50 years? It would be hard to measure up to the old timers. Many of them were working guns back in the days when the horse and buggy was the main mode of travel and coal oil lanterns were how you li...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2843
Re: Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee
I once worked with a guy who asked me nearly every day for 3 months, "How could you have spent 5 years in the Navy and never learned to drink coffee?" I told him every time, "I can't get past the stench!" I hated standing the engineroom messenger watch. Messenger watch had to mak...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Casting non-lead bullets-can it be done?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4531
Re: Casting non-lead bullets-can it be done?
Cool! And of course, you can always alloy it to get the hardness you like.
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GILLE SUIT
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1955
Re: GILLE SUIT
Now THAT'S FUNNY!!JReed wrote:No one seems to notice much but I did get run over by a lawn mower when I took a nap in the park.
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'm tired of my modern levers
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4302
Re: I'm tired of my modern levers
It will probably be too late for Joe then, but won't the modern guns have "personality" in 50 years?KirkD wrote:They got personality like no modern gun has.
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: '95 Winchester TR "Big Medicine"
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2305
Re: '95 Winchester TR "Big Medicine"
I've seen the T.R. quote as "Lion medicine" and "big medicine" and "medicine gun". Does anyone know what was the EXACT phrase T.R. used?
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2843
Re: Not OT - Maxwell House Coffee
Just don't give that forklift driver a copy of Gun Digest, right?
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Casting non-lead bullets-can it be done?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4531
Re: Casting non-lead bullets-can it be done?
I don't mean to hijack the thread but I have always wondered about babbit. While it is expensive, I used to have quite abit from old bearings laying around. Definitely not to cast a bullet pure but as a mixture. Bearing babbitt is just lead and tin, if I'm not mistaken (if I am, it's not the first ...
- Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Altering my 336 xlr
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1231
Re: Altering my 336 xlr
If you cut it off, you can't put it back. I second the "buy a 20-incher" suggestion.
- Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Western movies - did you know?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2098
Re: OT - Western movies - did you know?
The only Dean Martin western I remember seeing is "Texas Across The River". I don't remember anything about it other than I saw it l-o-o-o-o-o-n-g ago.
- Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Check out this doll...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1520
Re: Check out this doll...
JohndeFresno wrote:Beautiful rifle. I wouldn't mind having it; but I can't find a price. Is it over $350? All is saw was a partial 1-800 number after the dollar sign.
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: want a leveror pump 357 maximum
- Replies: 7
- Views: 776
Re: want a leveror pump 357 maximum
Even if it weren't a gift from the wife, you shouldn't sell the Maximum! Even if you weren't going to shoot it, you shouldn't sell the Maximum. You just can't GET those any more!
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Western movies - did you know?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2098
Re: OT - Western movies - did you know?
No, John Wayne died in 1979. Long before Lonesome Dove was written. Somebody must have been speculating on how it would have been with those actors in those roles.Gun Smith wrote: John Wayne died 20 years ago, was the story written way back then?
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What to do with this Win94
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2664
Re: What to do with this Win94
I don't know why, but I'm kind of surprised that the factory did it that long ago.