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More baldwin..... "July 1st. I started early for the Pongola, with three or four Amatongas. In going through the bush I saw a great number of pitfalls, about nine feet deep, and very narrow at the bottom. They are made by the natives to entrap all sorts of game. After walking several miles, the...

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I think sometimes in the past I have had the surnames capstick and ruark confused and or conflated. William Baldwin who referred to hippopotami as "sea cows" and the nile crocodile as "alligators" wrote in 1863 of 1852: " I tried a lot of iron bullets I brought out with me; ...

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I believe my bearcat has the older traditional grip frame and looks something like this.....

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But it's been so long since we've met, I'm not sure anymore.

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. "... The Kenworth was known as the KW before being rebuilt after the son ran over a buffalo , and is now known as 'The Rose' ..." :shock: If it were the little Datsun truck my friend called "The Japster", after that it would have been called "The Flatster"... HT-1 Ge...

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I have got to find that elusive bearcat. The last ruger revolver I lost, I found in a coffee can. I just hope that the lost bearcat has not been purged by the old lady.....er, pardon, beloved bride of 11,894 days straightening the raycave !

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We called that old '84 olds the gender neutral "zulumoblile" on account of its custom chrome and whitewall tires. We imagined fred sanford and grady wilson cruising watts each with a brown paper sheathed half-litre of ripple or mogan-david between their legs to keep out of view of patrolma...

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and selous.... "We were most kindly treated by Mr, William Williams, a trader, who had only the preceding year returned from a hunting and trading trip in the Matabele country. He gave me much information about Matabele Land, and showed me the large-bore elephant guns which are universally used...

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As much as I like reading of the dark continent I confess to never reading capstick. There are quite a number of public domain works by the great hunters that are free. Search for baker and baldwin and finaughty and oswell and selous, et. al...... for fiction there is henry haggard and edgar wallace...

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That sounds like a lot of 5744 but when you are using 20+ grains at a time the 350 or so loads you are supposed to be able to get from a pound don't quite number that many. You einsteinian physicists and theoretical mathematicians out there 'splain that por favor !

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mister griff, have you noticed the $ of 5744 has more thanl doubled of late ? I ordered and paid haz. mat. on 4 lbs. of similar shooters world "buffalo" and only paid a few $ more than one lb. of 5744 on a local shelf. not sure of the wisdom of buying discontinued powders or those of a dub...

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When all of those celebrity personal and intimate and lewd fotos and vids. were leaked about seven years ago a particular actress spent just over a million $ to get them zapped at the search engine level and currently pays (so she says) a geek $75,000 a year to keep zapping. The fotos are still out ...

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My belated condolences for your personal loss. If you have mentioned it before I must have missed it. God bless and comfort.

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I have been following this project with great interest. The .38 s&w cartridge like its era peers like the various .32s and .41 colt was/were meant, I suppose, to point-shoot a brigand at very close range. I like working with the .38 s&w. I run the cases up into a parabellum/luger trim die an...

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On my devices the key to this site is to scroll down the page and wait a few seconds and then back up. The search results based on the parameters prompted from the drop-down options appear out of nowhere just when you might think it isn't working. Yes, sometimes I have to clear search caches and res...

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I got one of the take-down models a few years back. In the carry case it's very compact. I stick it on the floor of the pickup with a couple of 25-round mags. I put a nice Burris red dot on it and its pop can accurate at 100 yards. Sadly, my Idiot State Gov, JayFknInslee and his AG Sideshow Bob mad...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFEzhaNrT4

It is said that ann & sam & jake and their other two dozen + half siblings are still envious at jess for their dad writing a hit song for him.....

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If I remember correctly, our own much respected tubaman damaged the cylinder ratchets of one of the smaller-framed (flattop) ruger .357s with 180 gr. bullets and sanctioned load data.

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I have had a similar experience and just needed to restart my tablet.

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B.T.T. I shoot super .38s in several of my .357s and at least one .38 spl. that I consider stout enough to handle them (sp-101). I have a .357 contender barrel that has shot hundreds of supers to every magnum and special. The trick for those cylinder chambers that the supers will not fit is a gentle...

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Er, right powder but I was thinking quite a bit more. 2400 is not as egregiously as position sensitive as other powders but that weight you mention is way too low for that burn rate. We are talking .223 and not bee or hornet, right ? 8 gr. 2400 is not even max. in those tiny cartridges .When I get a...

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You know the load.....powder developed for the .22 hornet in 1930 and available to handloaders since '32. One cubic centimeter volume or thereabouts. I use it with the speer 46 gr. flat. You know the load.....

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And now they're all gone if you except contributing members rickey medlocke and barry harwood.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7dp1HgZ ... Nh&index=3

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"Still in high school in 1984"??? Ray, I did not realize what a young man you are. I graduated in 1971, and I know we have a LOT of good friends here who are older than I am. That doesn't seem possible, but then I have been installing flooring for the past few days as a total "layman...

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Tough to find a buyer for... nothing. What are you getting? The rights to a brand that name you ran into the ground and killed? Technical packages for items you killed what small market interest there was by not producing any. A darn shame. Therein lies the problem. The bottom $ sale price reflects...

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Back when the redhawk was new (blued .44) there were seldom any problems then came the stainless model in '82 and misfires were attributed to this part, https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1004344985 being assembled incorrectly (upside-down). I was given a stainless .44 5 1/2" in 1984 while still...

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"Didn't know they made them in that persuasion." It started out with a 3" .357 barrel that I could miss an oil drum at 10 paces with. Then came extra barrels anytime I found them on-sale/clearanced-out. A 3" .40 then a 2.5" .44 spl. and same in .45 acp. I believe there is al...

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if you'll forgive the idiomatic contraction, but I'm not going to waste scarce full .327 loads on this excrescence.

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Standard .32 h & r loads will do. Not to mention the sks fmjs loaded in .32 longs to .327 o.a.l.

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This reminds me that I have a long neglected Bearcat somewheres that needs care and attention.....

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I've found some of these.....

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I hope they work in the 1 in 14" twist maximum barrel.....

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From the factory website circa 2015..... "its available in .243, .44 Mag, .357 Mag and .300 blackout." I've also seen .223 and both 6.5 grendel and creedmore and .350 legend and of course, .50 muzzleloader. https://muzzle-loaders.com/products/cva-optima-v2-pistol-pp221sm The muzzleloader p...

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Did not intend to infer above that I had that many frames or assembled pistols. It was just the barrels that I found. I only have two 1980s era contender frames.....A stainless set-up for carbine use and a blued one for short barrels. The CVA seems to be the only alternative, if and until someone re...

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. There is a 358 BOSS that is a monster for the top end I'll bet that 9x19 is kind of interesting. I've always wondered the potential of that cartridge in a match-grade gun like that. Minute of pizza box at 40 paces in my caffeine and early on-set dementia addled hands :) I cannot seem to find anyt...

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A recent experience with sticker shock for thompson center contender/g2/encore frames prompted me to dig about in the ray cave. I found..... 10" iron-sighted blued .357 magnum. 10" scoped stainless .357 magnum. 10" scoped stainless .357 maximum. 8" scoped stainless 9x19mm match g...

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Just in case you have nigh on a half-hour to waste listening to one song.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQNjzaTlMRo

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Just because you see something doesn't necessarily mean it is actually there.

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of the grave about you, whatever you are!”

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JimT wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 9:18 am I like this girl!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWZ9dCFh4Y

"It is like a glock for grownups....."

Priceless !

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I ordered some of these oddities. 185 grain 9x19 ! Think of that..... I often shoot 185 gr. In .45 acp. Even 180 gr. .357 magnum factory loaded ammo is rare. I think I'll try it in this first, though I probably need to obama engineer a blast protector of sorts to keep that front lense clear. IMG_202...

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There is a scientific term for making this point and getting it across successfully to your better half.....

It is called Doing without ! for a fortnight (or even longer)....

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the gimmicky luger/parabellum ammunition has been rather on the light side of the bullet weight spectrum. This changes that somewhat..... https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/ammo-review-seismic-ammo-185gr-m-9mm/ Vid. with too shallow penetration in the jello..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqqnAdZ...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:14 am Ray, I had forgotten. Was that about 2018-2019 that you took possession? I ask because I recently found a handful of .44-40 handloads of mine dated 2018 ...

The p.m.s are circa nov. 2017.....

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Makes me honored to be the owner.....no, current custodian, of one of your hand-me-downs.....a '73 japchester.

B.T.W., really enjoying your posts over on H.H.I.

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I wonder how long it will be before someone offers a 22TCM conversion barrel for Glock 19/23? https://lonewolfdist.com/barrels/glock-compatible-barrels/g19-23-32-compact/rock-island-armory-rev22-conversion-kit-g19/ https://lonewolfdist.com/barrels/glock-compatible-barrels/g17-22-31-full-size/rock-i...

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. I'm assuming they say the hollow base version is only for gallery loads just because high pressure might blow a hole through the center of the bullet and leave it in the bore...??? I bought it for loading a .38 S&W (nominal .361") so the base would expand to engage the rifling. Not a hig...

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This was never an issue during the first four decades of the two cartridges except for the warning from ruger re. the mini-14. Then someone wrote an article and we have been anxious over this for the last two decades.

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If you'll scroll down the page of the above link you'll find the cyclops single barrel 45-70. Notice the m.s.r.p...... As a long-time buyer and supporter of bond arms I consider that an insult. $400 would be too much. Yes, all the tactitardish leveractions that have debuted lately are egregiously ho...

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Thank you Col. Sam !

Pvt. Cherry climbed a tree and exclaimed, "Indians ! There must be a thousand of them !"

Capt. Hays ordered, "Get close. Powder burn 'em !"

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bassists and drummers just get the picker's rejected groupies I'm told. The fact that keyboardists are lonely is just karma for composing music in guitar unfriendly keys. IMG_20230203_115512250~2.jpg Talk about lonely, when you play on only three strings and you walk the heifer to her door, you don'...

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This one (leveraction .410) almost looks normal..... https://www.classicfirearms.com/rock-island-la410-lever-action-51-20/?trk_msg=E1V11M6UIFO4BCT40S1P2CFBG4&trk_contact=7KE7BSE4KOQSP4O7CAK55EI8SC&trk_sid=D3S8K4VHC7HO6U1MFH0U0T8500&trk_link=H716NU6V2LGK55KIACPQ9JTNK0&utm_source=listr...

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I understand that it is not needed everywhere. In Texas, the limits are pretty much no limits. If it brings a few more people into our group of hunters and/or firearms users, then it cannot be too bad. Maybe there are other guns which cover the bases it covers. I am not not planning on buying anyth...

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Notice that that is s h o r t gun and not shotgun in the title.

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