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We were shooting Hornady 200s with IMR-4064 in the 71. I took a box of factory loads, but the rains came before we got to them.

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My son (26) and I went to the range today. Took the 1941 (20xxx) Model 71. We didn't shoot that one any better than usual, 4"-5" at 100 yds using the bolt peep sight. Then I broke out the Sako/Shilen .243 I've had for 30+ years. I shot 1" or a bit over, but my kid shot a 3-shot group ...

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Don, My 1941 deluxe, 20xxx, is a "transition", so called because it has the short tang but still has the hammer with the fine knurling instaed of the later "serrated" hammer. Note that the Gunbroker 25xxx also has the knurled hammer, so it's a "transition" piece as well...

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I watched it one night a week or so ago when they ran the ones on machine guns, tanks, and handguns. Pretty good. I swear old R. Lee has more hair in his eyebrows than I have on my head.

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The yurts are new in the state park campgrounds this year. I wondered how they'd be.

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My dad wasn't a big-time hunter, but we spent a LOT of time hunting woodchucks when I was growing up. Now, of course, I wish it had been even more. He was a gun collector, but only to the extent that a schoolteacher's salary would allow (moms didn't work in those days). He got me into relaoding when...

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Don,
"As new", with the sling & swivels, a late (short tang) model, $3000 to $3500, with the high end reserved for a truly MINT specimen.

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What Victor said, plus how about the original sling?

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Victor's photos of the 3 types of Sako peep sights spurred me on to dig out the one I knew I had around here somewhere. Found it with only an hour or so of searching, it's a mint condition example of the 2nd type. Fully adjustable for windage and elevation (a big screw on each side, and a big screw ...

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Very nice rifles Victor, I've always liked the Finnwolf but never owned one. Those Sako peep sights are very pricey items, particularly the earlier type like the one you have on the .308. The later style is easier to find, they generally go for $50 to $75, usually at the high end of that range. Here...

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Nice rifle, you'll enjoy hell out of it for years. Gonna load it up with IMR4064? That was the powder used in the original factory loads & I've always stuck with it, out of respect for the .348's "heritage" I guess.

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You've got some very old cases there. The "UMC S H" cases are solid head, that's what the SH stood for. They were loaded by the old Union Metallic Cartridge Co., later bought by Remington. The USC Co are from the U.S. Cartridge Company, Lowell Mass. They went out of business in 1926. The &...

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The local WallyWorld had plenty of the bulk 500 packs of Winchester Xpert HV today, still $12.97 per. They didn't have any other bulk .22s.

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Is the Perry White gun shop still going out in Rindge? I haven't been there in 20 years or so. Nice area the southwestern part of our state.

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I just don't understand why this annoys anyone so badly. They are out seeking money to do what needs to be done. Like somebody said, they get about $3 back for every dollar spent. Do we want them to stop, and have a lot less money available for the fight, out of concern for annoying someone????? For...

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Both prices are well in line assuming, of course, condition is as represented.

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I have full sets of both (missing 2 issues of Rifle) stored in the Wolfe binders (2 yrs per binder) in by reloading room. They're the only magazines I keep, Shooting Times, G&A, and the NRA magazines I give way. I wouldn't be interested in the online option, I like to read where & when the u...

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Merry Christmas from New Hampshire!

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I load the .348 fairly stout, & haven't had any trouble at all as long as I use the Lee Factory Crimp die and, most importantly, get the crimp exactly into the bullet's cannelure on the Hornady 200 FP.

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Snowed all night here (New Hampshire), about 8"-10" to blow out this morning. Another 6"-8" due tomorrow. White Christmas to be sure. Time to get in some time (a/k/a/ therapy) at the loading bench.

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The ones I remember from the 60s came in a little cardboard can with a screw-on metal lid. The flat area of the lid was punched from the inside with lots of tiny holes so that lots of little rought bits of metal stuck up. You used this to rough up the area around the puncture. In the cardboard can w...

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Every time someone puts up a thread like this, there are always those who whine-in with "they're paid too much" or "yeah, but they did such-and-such so I won't support them". It happens on every gun-rights forum I've seen. These are the same s%!"heads who will whine the loud...

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Great story, this is the kind of thing that renews your faith in your fellow man.

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I've seen stories about little boys being suspended from public schools for doodling pictures of cowboys or army men shooting. It's what we have come to, and it's enough to make you puke.

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Sounds frustrating. I always had the best luck with IMR4064 with the jacketed bullets, but with the lighter cast bullet (350447) my best results were with IMR4198 as I remember.

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Don, I found mine on ebay a few years ago, an RCBS. Somebody offered a regular 2-die FL set plus the extra neck sizer. Makes a lot of difference in reloading the .348, there's a lot less effort involved & the cases last a good deal longer when the brass doesn't get worked like it does in a FL di...

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Rifle and Handloader magazines do very well on ebay, I filled in my sets of both that way. If I were selling any of those, I'd do it in lots of one year of issues per lot. The real large odd-lots don't seem to do quite as well. The couple of complete sets I have seen offered did quite well.

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At WallyWorld this morning, Federal 550 rd were $13.47. Remington 550 rd $15.47.

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A Maine farmwife was lying on her bed reading Yankee magazine when her farmer husband steps into the bedroom doorway leading a great big old sheep on a rope. He steps in and says "this is the pig I $?#! when you've got a headache". The woman looks at him and says "Lem, you're just wic...

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Here's the history I can find, taken from original Browning catalogs: 1st year: 1978 -.44 Mag. only. Stayed with just the one caliber through '81. 1st year of .357 & .44: 1982 Note: I don't have an '82 Browning catalog, but both calibers are in the '83 Gun Digest which would have come out in the...

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I'd say that's a hell of a buy. Nice old ones like that need a home where they're appreciated. I grew up shooting a 39 in the early 60s, serial number was "C195x" as I remember (could be mistaken). I think my dad said he had bought it in the early-to-mid 50s.

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The .32 WSL and .35 WSL were a couple of underpowered rounds chambered in Winchester's first centerfire autoloader, the model (19)05. They were followed by the .351 WSL in the model (19)07, and the .401 WSL in the model (19)10.

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Congrats from an old Navy E7!

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Great report. My kind of lunch break.

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ENJOY!!!

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The vise-grips and the loading press without a die do it for me. Never had it fail. I wouldn't use the inertial puller with a black powder load, if it gets set off on a fluke, it could be pretty nasty.

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Like they say........Going to war without the French is like going hunting without your accordion.

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Original 71 with the bolt peep.

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My favorite has been IMR-3031 for a lot of years.

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The expression has some meaning in New York state, where I grew up. You couldn't own a handgun without a CCW permit, and each handgun was individually listed on the permit itself. Before you could buy a new handgun, you had to get the make/model/serial no. from the dealer & go to the county seat...

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