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The chambering that made the Sharps reputation was the .54 percussion.
No brass to buy or form. Roll your cartridges out of any available stout paper.
The metallic cartridge Sharps was just one of many single shots and could not compete for very long.

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No serial number on a long gun means prior to 1968.
Thats all I can tell.

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Most air rifle aficionados claim it takes a full can of 500 pellets for new spring piston air rifle to break-in and achieve its accuracy potential.
Not only the barrel but, also the piston, valves and spring need to break-in and settle down.
Don't give up on your air rifle after one range session.

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I can not comment pro or con on chrome plated chambers. I have spent the last fourteen years copper plating and chrome plating printing and impression cylinders. It is the nature of chrome plating to microscopically craze. Chrome plating provides a hard wear resistant surface but, it is not impervio...

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Before metallic cartridges, the percussion Sharps had little competition and gave a man a huge advantage over muzzle loaders. The later Sharps had no particular advantage over other single shots. Smooth bores won the entire continent from military muskets to trade-guns to inexpensive Belgian shotgun...

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AJMD429 wrote:If old brass cartridge cases get 'brittle' - what about old brass CANNON barrels...!

Cannon barrels are bronze. A different alloy.

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Birchwood-Casey has a product called Aluma-Black that works well on small parts.

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Those will almost disappear against the background of your hunter orange coat and hat.

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May I suggest-- http://www.break.com/index/trunkmonkey.html

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Everyone has overlooked the High Standard Sentinel. An excellent nine-shot swing-out that can still be found at very reasonable prices.

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My brother was there 1951-1953. I was there Jan. 1970-April 1971. Troop B, 4th Squadron, 7th cavalry, camp J.E.B. Stuart, the last compound south of Freedom Bridge, As strike force for the division we were always being called on alert. One compound alert we had just taken our positions when every je...

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Just speculation on my part, I wonder if Winchester developed it for the South American market, to be sold as a 10mm? Maybe someone here knows.

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The bayonet lug is the type used on the 1909 Argentine Mauser to adapt the 1891 bayonet.
Spain also used a version of the '91 and may have adapted later rifles the same way.

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No one had yet invented the word "Magnum".

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A few years ago our city animal control was live-trapping ferrel cats, transporting them to the Four Rivers Conservation Area a few miles from town and releasing them.
Needless to say, the conservation department put a stop to it.

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Dixie Gun Works has several calibers of cases for reloading rim-fires using .22 blanks as the primer.
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/default.ph ... 22_101_287

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If I recall FN bought Winchester and Browning, then FN was taken over by a French conglomerate.
I believe closing the Winchester plant and dropping the '94 was an act of French spite.

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I usually order from Midsouth to avoid Missouri sales tax, service has always been excellent.
The orders I have placed with Midway have always arrived before the computer was cold.

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The only eatable sardines come from Portugal anyway.

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If you are new to muzzle loading or want to wring maximum accuracy from your round ball shooting, send this fine old Gentleman a money order for his wisdom. http://www.blackpowderrifleaccuracy.com/ Read, study, and put his methods into practice and you will agree with me, it is the best money you ha...

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Yeah, you have to go back into WWI to find out why the U.S. stuck with the 30-06 cartridge. Remington tried to get rich with the British contracts, and got left holding the bag when the British canceled the contracts after Remington had already built thousands of rifles. So the U.S stepped in and b...

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...a 7X57mm or 6.5X55mm. Those were the original Mauser cartridges of the mid 1890s... The true original was the 7.92x57mm in 1888. And, the 0.473" case head is still going strong. The original smokeless Mauser cartridge was the 7.65x53 in the 1889 Belgian rifle. Mauser had nothing to do with ...

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The Pattern 14 Enfield would have been a .276 if WWI hadn't gotten in the way.

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I bought a Marlin Lil'buckaroo for my kids many years ago. After they left home, I thought about buying an adult stock so I could use it but never did. A couple of years ago I mounted a scope on it with a set of tall, see-through Leupold rifleman rings. The extra height made it comfortable for an ad...

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The easy way to find out, chamber the empty brass in your rifle. If the bolt closes, neck size.

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Here's another link for Americans of all backgrounds.
http://jpfo.org/

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Mutt wrote:The feller in the 2nd photo looks like a fine Cajon from the south swamps of
Gator-run Louisiana to me.,,,,,,,,,,,

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mutt

Or a Metif from Canada.

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The shoes in the second picture look like Ojibwa moccasins.
He rides a canoe instead of a horse.

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Bite the bullet untill the first time she says something about "all those guns". Then you know you are home free. She doesn't know how many you have.

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Nearly every year when deer and duck season are both open, the sheriff's report will indicate that someone reported gun fire in the river bottoms north of town.

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Les Staley wrote:I think it refers to "If I remember correctly", IIRC....... Les

Thanks, it finally makes sense.

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Something that I have been wondering about since I stumbled onto this forum.
What in the world does "IIRC" mean? I have figured out most of the other teenage texting codes but, that one still has me stumped.

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Kerosene or mineral spirits (paint thinner) will melt cosmoline with no effort at all.

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I used to reload Federal paper shells. They always loaded easily and turned out as pretty as factory new. I had a couple of hundred stored in my garage for many years. When I started loading again they would crumple when resizing and crimping. I figured out that they had absorbed moisture over the y...

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The recoil reducers in this link have proven effective for me. http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=4927/Product/MERCURY_RECOIL_SUPPRESSOR The magazine model in my 870 replaces the plug, reduces jump against the cheek and smooths the swing. Add ultra lite target loads and trap shooting is all pleasure...

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I can squeeze 40 grains of Pyrodex P under a 220 grain .456 Lee conical. That's all the powder and more lead than a 44/40 or all the powder an a little less lead than a .45 Colt. But, I get better accuracy with 35 grains. I have both solid and hollow point molds, but I have never used them on game, ...

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Carrying a gun under the seat, the worst thing that can happen is spilling pop or beer on it.
Both will eat it like acid. If it gets into the bore the rifling will be ruined.

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Amazing!
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/12 ... airplanes/

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My three cheep Stack-On lockers are bolted to wall and floor in the back of three different closets.
In the hall leading to the bedrooms, my wall hangers are "grab and run" bait.

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OT, maybe. I've seen this before. We can't see it enough.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=33934

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Back in the '70's or 80's, I believe Ram-Line made plastic add-on sights that looked similar.

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You might be interested in this link.
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_in ... ts_id=8154
Other rim-fire calibers are also available.

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So, what's next? A remake of Casablanca? No, wait! I've got it! Remake It's A Wonderful Life! I'm sure today's actors and producers could do a better job capturing the magic than those dusty oldtimers did. :roll: Why mess with timeless icons? But hey, what does an old grouch like me know, anyway? T...

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Thanks for the memories. I also had a "Tales of the Texas Rangers" badge as well as a plastic model of Wyatt Earp's Buntline, a Heinz 57 foreign legion kepi, and a deed to one square inch of land in the Klondike from the Sergeant Preston show. One of the more memorable shows was "The ...

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I believe the greatest disservice to the BP community was early on, when the makers of "natural" lubricants gave the impression that immediate cleaning was not necessary with their products. BP and pyrodex contain salts and no amount of oil, natural or otherwise, will stop salt from corrod...

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Chemical fertilizer , pesticide, and herbicide. Without them most of us would not exist.

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Beater or not, I've never sold any firearm that
I didn't regret later.

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I once had a Hornady "C" press that I picked up at a garage sale along with several bullet molds and other odds and ends for $15.

I can"t imagine any operation that could spring it or break it.

I sold it because I could never get used to the shell holder setting at an angle.

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It's not so much the size of the packaging, it is just more of a pain, and more time consuming for me to mess with Federal primers. I do like them or I wouldn't even mess with them. It just seems like whenever I turn them over to dump them onto the primer tray, they don't all land with the right si...

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If the price is right, you couldn't go wrong buying both.

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