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Supreme Court The Supreme Court Update - January 14, 2026 January 14, 2026 On January 14, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions: This is presumably the one cited in the linked video..... Case v. Montana, No. 24-624: This case addresses whether the “objective reasonablen...

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It’s important to watch for changes. For instance, I tend to have coffee at a certain place and pray while the sun come up. There are a variety of middle eastern men who I see every Sunday morning without fail. None of them were present this morning. Does it mean anything? Perhaps, perhaps not. But...

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Way, way back in the day, a famous gunwriter (the subject was suppressed ruger self-loading pistols) instructed that the best reactive targets were pingpong balls. Then about 15 years later.....in the same glossy periodical, a former texican high-sheriff wrote that common compressed charcoal briquet...

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I just realized (as is noted above) that the Feb. 2026 N.R.A. American Rifleman is the last print issue. Digital from now on. Most disappointing. I had read on other forums that the issue with the board member ballots inserted was said to be the last physical print edition but I did not quite believ...

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One good use of the modern starliine brand schofield brass is that when handloading afield or on your truck tailgate at the range, using either yellow lee dippers or a fixed rotor mechanical measure (little dandy, etc.), the tried and true charge weights for the "long" colts often fall bet...

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Bringing a deceased member's post(s) back to the top is a good way to honour his contributions to the forum but obviously he cannot answer questions.....

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I have had to trim brass to shorter than specs. in similar situations..... That does not logically seem applicable but it has almost always sufficed. How much to trim ? Trial and error, just enough to close the lever normally. I have had to resize the loaded rounds as well and like to have a sizer w...

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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34063/pg34063-images.html#C34 An excerpt from chapter 25..... I always wanted as good a gun as there was on the market. By this I do not mean the highest priced, nor the highest power gun, but the gun that would do the business. A man by the name of Orlando Reese...

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Those few minutes that I have been able to stand before I muted the telly every year for as long as I can remember have been really bad acts that cost many millions of $. The NFL should ask for at least a partial refund or else stop the check's clearing. I remember that here were great expectations ...

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. Yeah, I have actually had both single action and double action revolvers lock up. It's pretty darn rare, but it certainly can happen. Probably about the only thing more reliable than a crowbar or a baseball bat would be a break open single shot shotgun, but I'm sure even those sometimes fail to f...

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Smith and Wesson changed the ejector rod threads from right hand to left hand in 1961 with the standard weight barrel model 10-2 and with the heavy barrel model 10-3 the same year so the isssue of the cylinder locking up was eliminated. I guess my example from '73/'74 did not get the message that t...

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I just realized that above when I cited to historic handgun hunters with using the .221 fireball to good effect, I said Dalrymple, thinking Byron of outdoor life fame. I was incorrect. I meant Jim Dougherty the famous pioneering modern bow hunter and handgun predator hunting enthusiast.

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The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed. Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an ...

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The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed. Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an a...

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There is a photo in Keith's autobiography (page 144 in my edition) of which the caption cites 1935. Same rifle , shirt and hat but clearly a different photo than that in the video. There is also a similar photograph that I downloaded from online that cites 1933 and mrs. Keith's .300 h & h "...

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I don't know why Keith and O'Connor were at such odds with each other. But Keith had very little use for the .30-06, proving he had huge blind spots. Ask Alaskan moose and bear guide Phil Shoemaker, whose sig line on accuratereloading.com is: Anyone who claims the 30-06 is ineffective has either no...

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There are other factors involved that greatly muddle the issue..... Very frangible varmint bullets of medium (not the lightest avail.) weight at slower than optimal velocities perform quite well on larger animals. How is less more ? Think a 6.5 jdj with the 120gr. speer leaving at 2400 fps. The inim...

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Paul105, that 986 looks cool. I have tried quite a few d.a. 9x19 revolvers and always experiment if they'll fire without the clips. So far I have only had one factory loaded cartridge prove to be too short without the support of the clip(s) but I have had several more than that of my own handloads g...

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Here is an interesting excerpt from chapter 20 of the electronic version of martin hunter's "canadian wilds" that I linked above. Seeing a small shark brought ashore the other day by one of the salmon fishermen, who had found it rolled up in his net, put me in mind of an exciting adventure...

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Someone once posted a video link of a sixgunner who was quite practiced at swiftly ejecting empties and used an improvised speedloader of sorts like a tube with a stopper on one end. Could it have been the rev. j.a.t. ?

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Hydrogen peroxide used to come with a warning that it lowered intelligence upon application to hair. Has anyone else noticed the prevalence of fake blondes on fox news ? Most all are quite attractive but some of them need to groom those dark, near unibrows. It's like leonid brezhnev has a bunch of ...

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I also like those "anti-type blonde" jokes which draw you into them then in the end the blonde is much more clever than expected..... A somewhat trophy blonde pulled her ferrari convertible into a long term parking garage and was told that the price, including insurance would be $500 for t...

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Alas, several of these are out of print but the "canadian wilds" edition that is apropos to the theme of the o.p. seems available. https://www.furfishgame.com/shop_online/ff_harding_historical_books.php Here is the electronic book online..... https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34173/34173-h/3...

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I just realized that Y.K.'s foto above is most probably a pietta instead of the uberti I mentioned. For those who did not understand the hollywood /television reference I made above, here is some context..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3uF5t9NOJLI&pp=ygUXYmF0IG1hc3RlcnNvbiB0diBzZXJpZXM%3D Fas...

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https://texasescapes.com/JefferyRobenalt/Battle-of-Walkers-Creek-and-Colt-Paterson-Revolver.htm "they fired only 150 shots....." Let this soak into the little grey cells for a minute. Certainly there was much gun emptying and multiple cylinder recharging ongoing that afternoon in/on arms t...

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that uberti is gene barry in character as b.w.b. masterson cool !.....if that makes any sense.....

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Way back in the day I-40 from memphis to little rock was a runner-up for the "lunar landscape" poster child but last summer I-59 from gadsden to the georgia line took the title.

Glad you are back and it is rio san gabriel wading weather. Be careful of those slippery rocks.

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Plum Wodehouse had a bit of a lark with the movement but then the plot hit too close to home in just a few years......

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I just discovered that all of my old 2.5x compact scopes that have been faithful companions on leverguns & single-shots & slug-loaded fowling-pieces & somewhat modern muzzleloaders have dimmed and yellowed inside. They still look as if they might work but I miss the clear, bright view. S...

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As for the o.p. topic self-loading gat...... Good old-fashioned configuration : https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/10964 And the subsequent replies re. the h&r so-called magnum roscoes..... https://choiceammunition.com/product/32-hr-magnum-78-grain-rn-black-hi-tek-coated-lead...

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Wilhelm, I know exactly what you mean about the overdone bitter nuts but I drink so much strong, black coffee and, being diabetic, the chocolate I am allowed is 70% + unsweetened cocoa so I have learned to almost like the dried-out ones. To a diabetic, a handful of peanuts can seem like a lifesaving...

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There was a S & W model 431 that georgia arms brand .32 h & r with the old speer 100 gr. locked-up and while it wasn't wrecked, it now has a hitch in its get-along double-action wise. Once upon a time, we had a largish shoe box (boots?) full of self-loaders that the products from several of ...

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After 45 years of battling percussion revolvers that shoot exceedingly high, the problem of a low-shooting, fixed-sighted sixgun is incredibly easy and requires no filing. Simply raise the front blade in your sight picture. It is repeatable, especially with a horizontal reference line or mark on the...

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to ken this example of the obtuseness of chinese programmed so-called artificial intelligence.....

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anyone who grew-up crappie fishing with a roadrunner jig can see the absurdity.....

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And we thought it was difficult to find a bride forty years ago when the criteria was, if her virtue had been indeed already compromised, at least a model with low mileage and had not been with a spade.

Today ? Is she even a woman ?

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Immediately the Henry H14 Long Ranger in .243 win. came to mind......running that model through Davidson's search engine gives a quote from a local shop for $1185.22 inc. tax, shipping & transfer fee.....

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Anyone remember back when waltz was the v.p. candidate and he had that pheasant hunting gun handling difficulties about the same time his military combat service activities were being scrutinized. He was said to have said, "that self-loading shotgun operated much differently than the one I kill...

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It is thought that the arrest of his wife's nephews in Haiti with a large amount of drugs gave them the green light for including Tio Nicolás

Why N.Y ?......Did mister T have any publicly known legal problems there that early in 2020 ?

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And here is what those honorable, philosophic indians did of an evening after dinner to wind down a bit before retiring for the night..... "Having gone about eight leagues in the evening, the indians took one of their captives of another tribe and kindled a fire, each taking brands and made thi...

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One of Lefty Frizzell's sons was at the Church I go to recently. You're probably familiar with Van Zandt and his history but many don't know his youthful, erratic and irresponsible demeanour caused his family to have him institutionalized and chemically lobotomized (insulin shock therapy) for behav...

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And the great texican storytellers in song...... Michael Merchant penned sung by the inimitable Don Williams..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdtaE-fEmvY&list=RDXdtaE-fEmvY&start_radio=1&pp=ygUWUG96byBzZWNvIG1hcnkgamVua2luc6AHAQ%3D%3D Townes Van Zandt...... https://m.youtube.com/watch?...

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The field reports are many for the xtp due to the popularity of .44 & .45 in sabots for .50 & .54. With 80 to 150 gr. equivalent of b.p. substitute powder or pellets, the muzzle velocities in these instances are comparable to our leveractions. B U T ....Is there a discernible difference betw...

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This is most interesting & entertaining.....

Though a bit hidden, on the link you provided there are links to the archived back issues. I am starting at may-dec. 1972 and endeavour to follow to the present.

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Good job wilhelm..... great grandpa william henry was a spanish-american war era veteran but missed the outbound train for the first leg of the convulated trip to central florida on account of a recalcitrant mule. his son-in-law, oscar lee mustered into the army for the great war but wound-up peelin...

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XTP's are easily converted from hollow to soft nose by just holding (needle-noses) up to the lead pot spout very firmly for just long enough for the molten lead to melt the core and top-off the hollow cavitly. With practice......you'll ruin a few.....you can get proficient at it without spilling but...

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Wilhelm, have you ever watched these ?

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Neither fry(e) or laurie there though.....

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I liked them in character as bertram & reginald as I am a lifelong wodehouse reader but we'll have to agree to disagree. Conway & Korman they ain't. As for bertram & reginald, this scene is priceless for the typical dry humour of the englishers..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUffPcD1...

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A gun was taken out in a snowstorm and developed rust and everybody but the one who is responsible for oiling it is to blame ?

Product warranties would insolve every firearms and associated aftermarket manufactory if they were responsible for ferrous parts that rust.

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Perhaps we'll "h e a r" you out. Any wildcats based of the .44 & .45 (rimless) mags. , .454 & .460 s&w are intriguing. As for the .35-30, even using new starline .375 brass as a starting point, those bullet weights you cite at even 400 fps. slower than your goals will only give...

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