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- Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who bought the last guns you sold?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 592
Re: Who bought the last guns you sold?
Sold guns are nothing but regret.
- Sat May 17, 2025 12:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Something Cool - A Prototype Marlin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 655
Re: Something Cool - A Prototype Marlin
A former member here had a prototype 336. It had no loading gate and loaded like a tube feed .22 or current Henry. It was chambered in .35Rem. The sight dovetails were not cut. It was obviously a proof of concept or tool room prototype. Pretty neat. I would love to up-grade my Marlins with Henry ma...
- Thu May 01, 2025 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "Better Than a Watch!" (Last day at work -- EVER!!!)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7780
Re: "Better Than a Watch!" (Last day at work -- EVER!!!)
Been retired for nine years. Haven't had a single day of rest, relaxation, or fun since. Good luck!
- Fri Apr 25, 2025 3:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: USA Made Skinning Knives NEED A GOOD SOURCE
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6492
Re: USA Made Skinning Knives NEED A GOOD SOURCE
Search trapping supply houses on the web. https://www.northamericantrapper.com/co ... ebe-knives
- Tue Apr 22, 2025 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30-30 Ammo Bandolier
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5266
Re: 30-30 Ammo Bandolier
Vegetable tanned leather will not corrode brass the way chrome tanned leather will. It's more expensive to tan that way which is why the other is more prevalent. So, you could have a bandoleer made but with vegetable tanned leather and it would resist verdigris. Also, nickel plated cases will resis...
- Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30-30 Ammo Bandolier
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5266
Re: 30-30 Ammo Bandolier
Canvas cartridge belts are available from Buffalo Arms and Wolf Ears Equipment.
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- Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bullet lube
- Replies: 3
- Views: 682
Re: Bullet lube
Sounds like a project for a high school or local collage advanced chemistry class.
- Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gifted a rifle
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11424
Re: Gifted a rifle
Also keep an eye on the Gun Busters page on Gun Brokers.https://www.gunbroker.com/all/search?in ... ageindex=2
- Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dan Brooks is maker of this holster
- Replies: 1
- Views: 725
Re: Dan Brooks is maker of this holster
It appears to be hand-stitched. Mr. Brooks is likely a skilled part-time hobbyist.
- Mon Mar 31, 2025 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cold Weather RABBITS Snowshoe Hare
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1248
Re: Cold Weather RABBITS Snowshoe Hare
In summer rabbits may have bot-fly warbles under the skin. Thus the old custom of only hunting rabbits during months with an R.
- Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another OAC gun show find.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3021
Re: Another OAC gun show find.
I still have the lamp and cap I used when coon hunting. It had been my brothers before me. I also have the Prince Albert can for extra carbide and the hip flask for water. If you are not familiar, you only need a few pebbles of carbide in the bottom of the revivor. Test the drip of the water to find...
- Wed Mar 05, 2025 1:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stuck bullet!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1948
Re: Stuck bullet!
Unfortunately, no longer being produced.marlinman93 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 11:51 amAnd also likely the oldest powder still being produced! I think Moses reloaded with Unique!
- Thu Feb 27, 2025 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wandering through the desert and found this
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3388
Re: Wandering through the desert and found this
A perfect illustration why it was never chambered in a lever-gun.
- Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DMSO is saving my neck
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3592
Re: DMSO is saving my neck
I thought DMSO was a solvent used as a liniment. I didn't know people were drinking it.
- Mon Feb 24, 2025 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: speaking about diet and diets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2449
Re: speaking about diet and diets
I like the cave-man diet. "Whatever is available and easiest to acquire."
- Sat Feb 22, 2025 3:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: overtly spiritual content because TRUTH matters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4365
Re: overtly spiritual content because TRUTH matters
The Advent of Christ and his Church is prophesied throughout the Old Testament. As I learned in my grade school catechism classes from Schuster's "Bible History".
- Sat Feb 15, 2025 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Chasing a piece of history
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3623
Re: Chasing a piece of history
Considering the time period, he may have been referring to his Smith carbine. A later editor, having little knowledge of firearms, would have added the Wesson and maybe even the "target rifle". Or, it could have been a Frank Wesson rifle with the "Smith" added by a later editor. ...
- Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Wildcat cartridge I think we need…
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1898
Re: New Wildcat cartridge I think we need…
Isn't the .480 Achilles close enough for a specially renamed commercial run?
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who Woulda Thunk . . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1693
Re: Who Woulda Thunk . . .
What would happen if a customs agent found a traveler with a note book written in Gregg or Pitman shorthand? 

- Sat Jan 18, 2025 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Don't eat batteries....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2373
Re: Don't eat batteries....
I recall a comedian whose reply for all of these absurd warning was "if you don't know this, we don't need you".
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Getting old hurts.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19993
Re: Getting old hurts.
All of the above happened to me this fall, within days of taking my flu shot that was designated for people over 65. I think they want to get rid of us.
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Savage 99 scope mount location
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12502
- Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loose front sight on a Ruger New Vaquero
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2138
Re: Loose front sight on a Ruger New Vaquero
When the front sight of one of my 1911's came lose, I applied a tiny amount of "JB-Weld" with the point of a toothpick. So-far so-good. It saved me the price of a staking tool from Brownell's.
- Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: USPS stinks!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11372
Re: USPS stinks!
From my eBay selling, I found that Des Moines is the Sargasso Sea of the USPS. Packages that enter take two too three weeks to leave.
- Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: V or U notch rear?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1195
Re: V or U notch rear?
The V-notch works best with inverted V blades.
- Thu Dec 05, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 4/5 oz shotload in 410ga
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1081
Re: 4/5 oz shotload in 410ga
Sounds like an expensive way to load bird shot.
- Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Casting - lube question
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19109
Re: Casting - lube question
Liquid Alox works for everything I load including BP.
- Mon Oct 28, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 21 Sharp
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1808
Re: 21 Sharp
Dimensionally, I wonder how it compares with the .22 Winchester Automatic cartridge? Would it function in the 1903 Winchester semi-auto rifle?
- Wed Oct 16, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not a good day to die
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1684
Re: Not a good day to die
After 200 years of failed western intervention in Afghanistan, we should have known better than to put people on the ground there.
- Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boy have I got a delema Colt .22 WRF PP
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6893
Re: Boy have I got a delema
Success , the 7/32" with 3/16" I.D. worked perfect drilled center out leaving only the copper jackets. Lower one pushed out easily . I'll make a close fit guide to push the other out tomorrow. It's soaking again tonight. I confirmed exactly what CCI noted and warned of . Colt used standar...
- Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: High Cavalry Draw holster
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3170
Re: High Cavalry Draw holster
Any straight hanging left-hand holster should work for a right-hand twist draw.
- Thu Sep 12, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: why
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2075
Re: why
As my favorite lawyer says, "It doesn't have o make sense, it's just the law."
- Tue Sep 10, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Barrel mounted peep
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2841
Re: Barrel mounted peep
I have equipped my Henrys and 10/22 with this sellers apertures. https://www.ebay.com/str/kmayrbfunstuff ... 61.l170197
I have been very happy with them.
I have been very happy with them.
- Sun Sep 01, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I HATE CELL PHONES!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3708
Re: I HATE CELL PHONES!
I still have a land line. Too much trouble to change numbers with all necessary contacts. My cell phone is sent free after each successive obsolescence.
- Thu Aug 15, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Security six problem
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8444
Re: Security six problem
Down load and/or print the manual from the web site. https://ruger-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/_ma ... itySix.pdf
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Alliant Reloader 7 available
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2644
Re: Alliant Reloader 7 available
It has been my understanding that the "Reloader" powders were imported. I wonder if they might become available under another name?
- Mon Aug 05, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Targets!!!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2837
Re: Targets!!!!!
I seldom find enough for more than a taste. Like paw paws and hazel nuts, other critters get to them first.
- Tue Jul 30, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Update: Progress made -- New project - "Tactical Ted" (Ted Williams pump gun
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8105
Re: New project - "Tactical Ted" (Ted Williams pump gun
A $197.00 Walmart "Maverick" might start you off closer to what you want.
- Thu Jul 25, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Reloading .357 Magnums Today
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4846
Re: Reloading .357 Magnums Today
Lil' Gun is all I use for .32 H&R Magnum. I haven't tried it in anything else but .410. With 2400 no longer available that may change.
- Tue Jul 16, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do you clean with mineral spirits?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1767
Re: Do you clean with mineral spirits?
Mineral spirits cleans grease and crud but, won't do much for lead or copper fouling. It does however, instantly dissolve cosmoline.
- Sun Jul 14, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30 super carry question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3414
- Sat Jul 13, 2024 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help needed with front sight
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2057
Re: Help needed with front sight
Replacing the fiber optic with a filler won't solve the problem of the over size bead. However, simply driving out the plastic might leave a sight picture similar to a globe sight.
- Fri Jul 12, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30 super carry question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3414
Re: 30 super carry question
Because it's an updated .30 Pederson / .32 French Long.
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Remington 870 with rifle sights and modified choke
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7893
Re: Remington 870 with rifle sights and modified choke
My Dad's old full choked J.C. Higgins model 20 will group Foster slugs better than my rifle sighted cylinder bore Remington 1100 barrel.
Range time will tell the story.
Range time will tell the story.
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dragoon!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9522
Re: Dragoon!!!
I had a good friend accidentally shoot him self with a Virginian Dragoon. The bullet went under his collar bone and punched a hole through his scapula. The gun fell out of his waistband as he crossed a fence. It could have easily killed him. Keith recommended to Bill Ruger to call the Super Blackha...
- Sun Jun 23, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .410 bore for an adult
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11575
Re: .410 bore for an adult
Pattern! Pattern! Pattern! Short shells often show better patterns than 3 inch shells. If you load your own, petal-less wads will often produce a more open pattern.
- Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: No more bacon for you
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2165
Re: No more bacon for you
The idea is eliminate hogs by trapping entire sounders instead of scattering them to create more sounders.
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Henry 30-30 Barrel Tube Length
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2642
Re: Henry 30-30 Barrel Tube Length
I misunderstood. I thought you had a 18" to cut to 16". Give the ATF 1/4".LeverBen10 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:51 pm It would be closer to 5 inches of barrel length and 2 inches of tube length.
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Henry 30-30 Barrel Tube Length
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2642
Re: Henry 30-30 Barrel Tube Length
My question is, what makes 1.75 inches worth the trouble?
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Skeeter Skelton story
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2345
Re: Skeeter Skelton story
The title is "Flight From Mexico". Found in "Selected Works of Skeeter Skelton: Vol. II." (Hoglegs, Hipshots & Jalapenos)