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Cool find.....one thing about old, long forgotten then found ammo, if you have a dud is it due to age or would it have been a dud when it was still young ? No way of knowing but we seem to always assume age/moisture the cause when it might have indeed been a bad one from the factory.

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Ray .. I do know an 8" Juniper log ... if shot into the end grain with a roundnose .45 Colt bullet at about 750 fps will turn the bullet right back to you and smack you in the big toe hard enough to raise a large blood blister ... if you happen to be barefoot. :oops: And, they tend to bounce b...

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I'm no ballistician by any definition of the term but I do shoot chunks and rounds of stove wood quite often. I don't know where the idea that a 30-06 will only move a 25 pound block one inch came from. A green 8"x8"x16" log will weigh 30+ pounds and whether you suspend it or set it o...

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When you first described the .44 before posting the first fotos I had doubts but those two are okay by my mister mcgoo vision and not at all gaudy.....I hope they serve you well !

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guitar pickers here amongst us...... But first a little background......the lead guitarist of our church's praise band does a subtlety restrained overdriven bluesy zippity-doo-dah in between the singing but there are songs which something more primitive and twangy would be more appropriate. So I was...

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There is a refrigerator sized, oft recidivistic, son of ham hereabouts who is legendary for carrying some ounces of lead/copper in his flesh from several different violent encounters without resorting to the emergency room. Thus far he has survived .380, 9x19, & .38 special......multiple shots !...

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Ray .. you have a great way with words. A wordsmith such as yourself should have at least some of it in print. burger king seemed the logical choice for breakfast this morning. Bad idea. Agony not far from that described in the above narrative. One chamomile capsule chased by a mug of chamomile tea...

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Old Doc. Ham (affectionate diminutive of Hamilton) got his M.D. courtesy of uncle sam, did a year in korea with a m.a.s.h. unit then another year at walter reed with the promise of fulfilling the obligations of his commission in the indeterminate future in either the reserve or ohio national guard. ...

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the telly. Send the old lady shopping. Run the grand-imps outdoors. Pop some corn. Fetch the refreshing beverage of choice and go back in time..... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TWMEC1JDHf_uRpHMpzeZG2w1TDEhxZe6/view You might recognize misters taffin & taylor...... You might also need a magni...

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The Lee product is often mixed with paste wax and thinned with mineral spirits. Below is pre-mixed bulk amount. https://www.lsstuff.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=13&zenid=quq9t0fqgrljq5mflfol981sv2 wax/grease too..... https://www.lsstuff.com/ Straight all...

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I've been doing this for nigh-on four decades but only about 20 years with the .40. If a full poured lead wadcutter is too heavy you can fill the case with hot glue, epoxy, caulking, r.t.v., cotton ball (tightly packed and wetted with elmers), drywall mud, etc. One of your navy balls dropped-in then...

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Over the years I've seen doctored x-rays in dead body shows and actual news (lol) broadcasts where there was an entire cartridge in the wound. They're incredibly stupid people, which doesn't make them any less dangerous. Maybe even the opposite. While most of those fotos are obvious fakes..... The ...

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These folk have quite an assortment of bullet lubes.....

https://www.lsstuff.com/

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Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:54 pm I always enjoy his videos.

A little hard on the ears what with the thick accent but imagine how hard it would be for them to watch/listen to me butchering magyar !

I once joked that balzeth is bela lugosi's grandson

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I found exactly one henry rifle on the shelf in de leon, texas for $1,000 and the ammo is out there in very limited supplies.....

https://www.powdervalley.com/product/re ... mmunition/

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The federal american eagle 158 gr. soft nose seems to be quite popular. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0dMXKHUxjgQ&pp=ygUqZmVkZXJhbCBhbWVyaWNhbiBlYWdsZSAzNTcgbWFnIDE1OCBnciBqc3Ag "it is easy to mistake thinking a broadside shot is what your seeing when in reality the deer is standing at an a...

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Pardon the o.t. threaddrift but here is a strum-strum built from a kit that I stained with about three black sharpies. I got the idea from using them to stain a cva m.l. kit gunstock circa 1983. The black ink faded to plum purple on application and matched the pseudo rust browning on the steel/iron....

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Just to clarify .. Ray WAS NOT writing about me! I have never lived or spawned in that part of the world. PS - I still have my spleen. Goodness, I sure hope folk don't take my tales too serious. The ones told first person give the idea that they are autobiographical but I assure you that is just th...

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putting-up hay together the indian summer just before he was to muster with uncle lyndon's yacht club for basic training on lake michigan. She weren't no beauty by any means what with her dumpiness and moon face and frizzy doo but nature finds a way as the saying goes and they wound-up coitus in her...

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My uncle was there. Landed with Company F, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division in the 1st wave at Omaha Beach. He was a medic and very busy that day. Of the almost 200 men in the company, only 50 or so made it off the beach alive. He made it through the entire war, had a very full life,...

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Yet another T.V.Z. tuesday..... There are so many stories on the inspirations of his songs that contradict one another that it is impossible to know the truth(s). In one interview Townes said, "we were at a birthday party in a bar and my girlfriend at the time ordered either a pitcher of margar...

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T.V.Z. thursday.....

https://youtu.be/ITh33OlMzHg

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Any songwriters amongst us ? Do you like a sad song ? Townes Van Zandt is (was) the master of penning "tears in the beer" .....perhaps second only to old Hank.

https://youtu.be/VZUE7KTtUwE

Pardon the annoying ads.

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The most pitiful fellow since Job in the O.T. is said to be an important influence on Russell. Townes' parents had him chemically lobotomized for behaviour unbecoming of a van zandt.....

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2829917E1888E88

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Just this a.m. on the spanish version of deutsche world news there was a report of a pseudo terrorist group dedicated to tracking down "climate change deniers" who post such denials on social media. Their goal is vehement ostracizing and shaming and "cancelling" to begin with wit...

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With mister quinn's much respected endorsement I'll go as high as $500 including sales tax....or $454.44.....

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"I do not shop in Dallas anymore."

Bobby & Jerry singing an old folkie tune about the disreputable blocks of elm street.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hreN9fNQh ... IGVsdW0%3D

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https://www.henryusa.com/handguns/big-boy-revolver/

Doomed to failure at that price. Could only compete with Charter so $400 would be too much.....

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No resemblance. The Empress is much better dressed. According to whiffle in his most excellent tome re. swineherding, to render a pig as round as it can possibly be without bursting open requires a daily intake of 57,800 calories consisting of 4 pounds five ounces of proteins and 25 pounds of carbo...

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piller wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 7:08 pm Miss Piggy is not that bad. Killary? YUCK!!!!

The porcine actress who portrayed the "empress of blandings" in the 2012 b.b.c. miniseries.....

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I see some resemblance with the former first lady turned candidate.....

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When it was announced that kermit the frog had died of swine flu, a spokesman for miss piggie said that she had no comment on how he (kermit) could have contracted it.....

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Perhaps the wrong link ?

Every englisher or anglophile ought to read wodehouse's tales that feature pigs.....berkshires to be precise.....

Here's one.....

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... up&seq=133

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Way back in the day, it is said that when joyce hornady or john nosler or vernon speer would receive customer complaints of failed bullets they would ask, "where did this bullet come from ?" The irate customer would reply, "from a dead _____" All three said a variation on, "...

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My first thoughts were that colorado steve and the essay he cites is just "preaching to the choir" but there have been a few replies to recent posts re. the environment that infers that there are "co2 bad/global warming" folk here amongst us. One fellow mentioned his electric car...

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Hmmm... .357 or .45 Colt? My answer: Yes! Finally, the correct answer ! I have a few boxes of these..... https://www.sgammo.com/product/45-long-colt-ammo/50-round-box-45-colt-230-grain-jhp-hollow-point-ammo-made-sellier-bellot-s Though I'm not going to make any bets on expansion. Factory specificat...

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"postdate".....duh !.....that's a bidenish gaff that I cannot blame on autocorrect !

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Earl, tell us more about this 244 powder. Back when powders of any name or number became scarce, I bought four pounds of 244 at a bargain price but it predates all of my manuals.

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An example of a 244 load for a .45 colt from a trustworthy online database.....

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I've never considered minimum fill with smokeless powders. It's different for every powder, and not something to contemplate. More important is minimum charge, not based on fill, but based on sealing the chamber from blowback. I used to be concerned about this until I realized that 70%+ of factory ...

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Way back in the days before there were grandsons climbing the curtains, I was never more than 20 ft. away from a heavy sixgun hanging on a dowel or coathook hidden behind an outergarment in our home. All of those .41, .44, and .45s were loaded with the then new "cowboy action" factory load...

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Four of my eight g.g. grandfathers served the Confederacy. However, there was also a g.g. grandfather and a g.g.g. grandfather listed in the 1850 and 1830 censuses respectively as "free persons of colour". The tendency for most folk when they find surprising (embarassing?) anomalies in the...

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uno, dos, tres, quatro y cinco !

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Azorean whaling documentary.circa 1968..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K5yF13lPhUU&pp=ygUNQXpvcmUgd2hhbGluZw%3D%3D Mind, other than orson welles narration, the dialogue is in portuguese. Perhaps ambracol can translate. Scroll forward to 39:34 to see processing. Blubber is boiled to render tra...

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1:7 to 1:10 ballistol/water in a trigger pump spray bottle is all you need to care for blackpowder arms. The water both washes away and renders the fouling noncorrosive then readily evaporates leaving just the right amount of metal protection. If you start out with as weak a solution as 1:10 (or eve...

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I ordered a sample pack from the above linked quick draw folk. They worked flawlessly from a bond derringer, a ruger sixgun and a pietta fivegun and all hit the cardboard box at about 15 feet. There is no problem with the shotshell primer being loose in the case. The problem is the inherent design o...

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A little difficult to read due to being an actual scanned library book but quite interesting nonetheless. Much more followable to me than melville's "moby"..... https://archive.org/details/whaleandhiscapt00cheegoog/page/n2/mode/2up Why is it applicable here other than in relation to the o....

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Half inch diameter hot glue sticks are seldom as much as that..... 7/16" is more like it.....nigh-on .44 cal. If you can ever dope-out the arkansan elevation, they make for excellent gato dissuaders. Cut in 3/8" length (wadcutters) shoehorned into a case over a pinch or bullseye or reddot.

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