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UPS handles guns everyday a lot less well packed than what you are proposing. I shipped a Cimarron 1876 rifle back to Fredericksburg, TX last year from here in northern Oklahoma. I used the original box + the outer shipping box it came in, then I added a lot more cardboard (especially at the muzzle ...

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My nephew has a .50 BMG bolt action. I've shot it two or three times. It's a hoot to shoot but I'm glad I don't have to feed it. We've got a place on the farm marked out to 850 yds and it's a good thing it has a high power scope on it. I can't even see 850 yards any more :lol:. Wonder when someone w...

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I like my 30 year old #3 Shiloh chambered in .50-2 1/2". When I first got it I shot grease groove bullets but now only use paper patched. If you intend on selling it then the previously mentioned advice about .45-70 probably applies. Good luck.

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When you do your first melt of WW you will probably want to be outside or nearly so. The WW's will be dirty and there will be a lot of smoke. I usually do about 20 pounds at a time from WW to ingots. Sound like you are getting a lot of advice. Read the Lyman book it is a very good source of informat...

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Some of you talk about them not closing the schools back in the day. I remember that too. Back in the '60's when I was a kid they never turned out school because of a little snow. However things have changed. With school consolodation all of the little country schools have closed and the children ar...

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I bought my Uberti '73 in July of 1982 and my Uberti Henry in 1985, both in .44 WCF. I also have two Colt replicas in .44 WCF, a Uberti and an EMF. There is also a Rossi '92 in the safe somewhere in the afore mentioned .44. Do not let anyone steer you wrong. The .44 WCF is a dandy round and easy to ...

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Snow chains are a GOOD thing. Just about 17" outside my front door, it's hard to measure with the wind blowing 50 mph. Never thought I would be looking forward to our high humidity summers here in the Indian Territories.

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It started here around midnight last nite. No rain or sleet, just snow. Looks like about 10" or 12" its hard to tell with the 30 mph wind! Took off work today but should be able to make it in tomorrow ok with the chains. Hwy 99 is usually the last one to get a plow on it.

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I'm sure someone will identify it, but it won't be me.

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I think sweet tea is a southern invention (correct me if I am wrong). When I was a kid, 50 or so years ago, we never had sweet tea. If you wanted your tea to be sweet you put some suger in it. I prefer it straight, no sugar, no lemon.

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There's got to be something in it for the guy predicting the end of the world. My brother used to belong to one of these prophetic churches and their "leader" predicted the end in '68, then in '72 and on and on. Well that sorry so-and-so self appointed prophet lived pretty well on the tith...

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The reciprocating steam engine is a single cycle engine. That is to say that every time the piston moves there is a power/exhaust stroke. A single cylinder steam engine could loosely be compaired to a 4 cycle 4 cylinder gasoline engine. Steam engines also develop their torque at low rpm's compaired ...

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...Nobody building them over there now bombed us. On the other hand, big unions here and the teacher's unions are supporting democrats that are trying to take our rights so if I can avoid buying from big unions I will and I won't be voting for any bonds for the schools. Good points. However, I'm st...

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Bogie35 wrote:And BTW, how much can you change a design and still call it a "Model 94"?

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Good question.

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I have 2 big boxes of gun magazines from the 40s to the 60s, I love reading them, the articles are so much better then todays gun articles, alot of the articles have to do with customizing guns and wildcat cartridges, and the adversizments are a great help, when trying to decide if a item is origin...

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I don't shoot .38-55 but I've had great luck with RCBS. I got a new Redding catalog a few weeks ago and wish I could afford some of their stuff.

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Mmmm, something that shoots between a quarter and a third of a mile. What's been said before is good advice. Go with a bolt and a big scope. Although I too like the idea of a .45 Sharps.

What ever you choose I hope you are good at reading the wind at that distance.

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Great picture.

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I was not aware of Cowboy Leveraction Silhouette. I have a number of rifles to compete in every catagory. All I need to do now is locate some matches in north centeral Oklahoma or Southern Kansas. Thanks for the info.

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I treated myself to a Brownells Magna-tip 44 piece super set this year for Christmas. Don't waste you time with a cheap set of screwdrivers. This set has a standard and a stubby handle and 44 bits that cover all slotted screws. They have a smaller 22 piece set as well as a larger 58 piece set that h...

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I remember the magazine article about the ZZZ a while back. Austin was at Pawnee once and I met him. I think my favorite big engine is the 36 Rumely at Rollag, MN. My friend Lawrence Swanz worked on the 40 Gaar-Scott at Forrest City, IA. They had it running last July. I hope to go to see it run.

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I use a Caldwell Rock and rear bags with good results. I have to agree with the earlier statement though that it doesn't absorb recoil. I use and old Oehler 35P that my nephew bought 15 years ago. It still works great but I think chronograph prices have really come down in the last few years. I've s...

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Someone posted some old hunting pictures a few days ago and one of the hunters was holding what looked like a Remington-Keene.

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That 150 HP Case boiler belonged to George Hedtke of Illinois. He brought it out to Pawnee in 1987 for the J. I. Case Collectors Association meet that we sponsored that year. There were rumors then that Willis Abels was going to build a 150 but nothing came of it. New talk has it that the Andersons ...

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6pt-sika, it's great to meet a steam man no matter where you find him. Yes I know Chaddy Atteberry very well. He is the man that taught me how to run a traction engine. I don't know how many times I have run his 65 or the Elgine watch 40. When his wife was ill with cancer back in the '90's Dale Wolf...

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I've got one of these but in an officers model. Ditto on what has been said, do not try to hot rod this action. There are a lot of great trapdoor loadings in most manuals. With the facory tang sight on mine I am able to keep 405g cast bullets in groups of 2" or so at 100 yards. Good luck.

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Let's see, the movie was set in the winter of 1878. The 2nd model Dragoons were made from 1850 to 1851 so the one in the movie would have been from 27 to 28 years old. The Henry rifle was made from 1860 to 1866 so the one in the movie would have been from 12 to 18 years old. The Colt single action, ...

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I don't have a clue to the make of the revolvers that they are making. Looks like a nice line of horizontal milling machines all being run by an overhead line shaft. Everything powered by a Corless steam engine in the basement of the factory, possibly. The fellow half way down on the left side is we...

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David Carrico the outfitter that did some of the leather goods for the film, including Matt Damon's cartridge belt, has posted on the "cascity" forum that it was .45-70. The film is set in the winter of 1878 and while the .45-70 govt. was available, so too was the .50-70 govt.. At the time...

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Dad burn it, now I'm gona have to finde a copy of it to watch!

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...[/quote] The James gang was only celebrated by some folks in Missouri and of course their Robin Hood like reputation was largely the creation of dime store novelists which continues to this day. Very few bank robbers were well thought of. Also, there was the fact that he was decidedly ungentleman...

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I thought it was very good and worth seeing, but then I thought the John Wayne version was very good back in 1969 when I saw it in the theater. Westerns are always better on the big screen.

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Looked more like the Ouachita Mountains in the Choctaw Nation but I guess it was cheaper to film in Texas and New Mexico. It is a very good motion picture and they got a lot of things right. I saw the 1969 John Wayne version in 1969 (I was 15 then) and I liked that film very much too. I went to just...

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They have had Christmas music playing at work since the day before Thanksgiving. I think I have heard every version of every Christmas song that there is. When I was a kid we didn't put the tree up more than 7 days before the 25th and it was down after new years day.

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I'm looking forward to it no matter what the critics say. Westerns are too few and far between these days. I wonder where they filmed this one. It's supposed to take place in Indian Territory (eastern Oklahoma). I always laughed at the vistas of the rocky mountains in the John Wayne version and wond...

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Larryo-1: Back 27 years ago when I first got into BPCR the only selection in powders was Goex or Pyrodex. Things have come a long way in the last 27 years. What is it now, about 5 or 6 black powders to choose from and 3 or 4 substitutes? It's too bad we don't have the selection of black powders that...

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One more thing. Cimarron should perchance to check out our 45-75 site on the CAS site for alot of goodies about the 45-75. Larro-1 I have been a posting memeber on the CAS site since about last May before I bought my .45-75. Thats where I learned about the Uberti .45-75 UCF wildcat chamber. Hobie i...

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I've got the one my great uncle carried in France in 1918. It's been in our family for 92 years now. I have others but none I treasure more that it.

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I bought a set of RCBS Heritage dies. I've always had very good service from RCBS and the price is reasonable. As for brass there are a couple of makers. I bought Jamison (seemingly the lowest cost for ready made brass) and have been satisfied. I have also had good results from IMR 4198 and AA5744 s...

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I have a Cimarron with the 28" barrel in .45-75 WCF. I ordered it direct from Cimarron through a dealer friend. I've been working up smokless loads and have put several hundred rounds through mine. I am looking around for some Swiss 1 1/2F to start working on a black powder loading. Fit and fin...

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I've seen it written that Winchester used the 350 grain bullet because the '76 action couldn't handle the stress of a heavier slug, but according to the book "The Winchester Model 1876 Centennial Rifle" Winchester actually offered a long range factory 45-75 round that was loaded with a pa...

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If you haven't tried it, I would recommend giving some AA5744 a try. It does wonderful things in those big old cases with cast bullets. I'm trying to find some. The only dealer stocking powder in OKC anymore doesn't stock it. Paying hazmat fees on just a couple of pounds of powder doesn't appeal to...

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My dads brother enlisted in the Navy on Dec. 8, 1941. After basic training he was assigned to the battleship U.S.S. Maryland which had been damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Never forget

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game keeper wrote:Maybe a member of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West".

He could be fom either Pawnee Bill's or the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch shows too.

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What a magnificent brass era automobile. Note the acetylene head lamps. Either an acetylene generator (carbide + water = acetylene) or a Prestolite tank was mounted on the running board. The cowl mounted running lamps are kerosene! My mom used to talk about the mid teens Overland touring car that my...

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The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Management does a very good job. Initial reports indicate 2010 will be better than 2009 which was a record year for the deer harvest in Oklahoma. The Wildlife Department receives no general state tax appropriations and is supported by hunting and fishing license f...

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C. Cash wrote:
gak wrote:Check out "Strategic Air Command" for some great B-36 and B-47 footage--with real life AF pilot Jimmy Stewart. Neat stuff!
A great flick indeed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk

It's one of my favorites, along with "Twelve O'Clock High"!

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Powder has remained pretty consistent. Main difference between new max loads and old max loads comes about from better pressure-measuring technology. The boys found out what pressures those old loads were really generating. A few cries of "holy goose poop" or similar, and they backed off ...

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I have been working on the front sight for my SRC as it was WAY to short. I posted about that. I used JB Weld and blackened with a pen and it now looks like a bayonet lug more than a front sight but it works. It seem like I read that thread. I guess the JB Weld is temporary until you find the best ...

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