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earlmck

Quite a job to do a comprehensive review like that Bill; I much appreciate your good work. The only one of those available around here locally is the Hampton Farm and I concur in your rating of those. We used to get Hoody's here and they were a decent peanut though you occasionally got a sub-par bag...

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Looks like you've given up making sense of the serial numbers?

I can contribute MAD266XX to the confusion. Blued, 20", screwed-in magazine, top safety I replaced with NKJ peep. Bought used, 10 years ago.

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Thanks for the fine views Safestuffer and for the history Marlinman. Very interesting for us shooters of old rifles.

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For us folks in the rural areas and small towns this is hard to fathom because it is different out in our world. But not surprising in the cities, where unfortunately most of the people live these days. My observation is that there must be a virus found in cities that infects the folks. Turns their ...

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My 250 savage is an older model with the 1 in 14 twist rate so to save time and frustration, I just stuck with the 87 grain bullet when I was working up a load for it. The first load I tried with 3031 hit 3000 fps and is accurate. Also, the Speer Hot Cor bullet is not a varmint bullet like the 87 g...

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200yearstoolate wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 9:10 pm
samsi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:37 pm
I just went on the Hodgdon site and boy am I out of touch

Do they own all the brands listed on there now?

Hodgdon, Accurate, IMR, Winchester, etc?
Yes they do. Removed a lot of competition from the powder mfg. industry the last few years...

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Glad you're OK Brian. Dang, if your 09 Camry is only worth 200 dollars I wonder what my 06 Corolla is worth. Probably have to pay somebody to haul it to the junkyard. But goes 7k between oil changes without needing any added and seems to run flawlessly plus it was so loved by my late wife that she g...

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I have not loaded 9mm but have loaded plenty of 40 s&w and 45 auto. All using range pick-up brass of many different makes and ages. Never bothered sorting and have never even thought of trimming such brass. I load my casties for general practice and tin can shooting with satisfactory results (mi...

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Dang fine uncle to have Bill.

I had an uncle who flew B17's and he was a fine fellow but not a fly fisherman so I never got the tutoring. Serious alcoholic and smoker and died way too young of the lung cancer.

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I must have missed your post about shingles. I not heard of chlorine dioxide as a treatment. What exactly does the C.D. do? It certainly doesn't seem all that palatable! :lol: No, chlorine dioxide is not real palatable but it has antibiotic properties that no other medicine has. It can apparently c...

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Some time back I posted about using chlorine dioxide to (almost) cure my nasty case of shingles. In use you get the two-part bottles ($32 at Amazon) and put 4 drops of A in glass, add 4 drops of B, let react for 30 or 40 seconds, add a dabule of DMSO and 4 oz of water. Drink it down (doesn't taste r...

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What a fine find!

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Welcome to the campfire Michael. I'm just down the road from you in Oregon. Also have a 25/35 amongst my levers but it is a newer Winchester. And 44/40 in the Rossi version, which mostly gets fed the Lee 200 grain bullet tumble-lubed and just gets used (so far) for plinking of tin cans. And another ...

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I hope you are wrong but fear you are right about that. Considerable disappointment felt here in our "new" DOJ/FBI.

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And the worst news on the doorstep in my lifetime? From the Tacoma News Tribune, November 22, 1963, in 200-point bold caps: "SNIPER'S BULLET KILLS KENNEDY!" I think you nailed her there Bill. That was a major inflection point when the "Deep State" or the "Matrix" or wh...

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'Well I like the looks of that!

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Yes, interesting video: as an old 38/55 reloader I was interested that Buffalo Bore just threw up their hands and went to a small diameter jacketed bullet to accommodate the differing bore diameters. Us old bullet casters have to come at it from another direction and produce bullets pretty much size...

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Oh man, I haven't sat at the loading bench since I messed up my right wing back there in early November. Missing it bad, but I'm ready to get back to doing something, even if it's all left-handed. Maybe get the progressive set up and crank out some pistol stuff.

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And here I like to wander the hills packing the 25/20. Sounds like I am dangerously under-gunned

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Good 'un Jim -- thanks!

Got me trying to remember my Christmas of '66 which I can't do. Must have been somewhere out in the Pacific on big grey floaty thing. Navy cooks would have laid on a pretty fine meal.

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All of the above and then some. And now California, Oregon, Washington have formed their own CDC. And the Left-coast version of CDC recommends the Covid "vaccine" for everyone, including the babies. Evil bureaucrats, trippling down.

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.:| Nothing shocks me these days. I was going to say something like "me too" But I think I am actually in a permanent state of shock. Kennedy assassination an inside job; Gulf of Tonkin a false flag to get us into Viet Nam. Second Kennedy assassination an inside job. I handled those, bare...

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20 years ago I ruptured a disc which pushed against the sciatic nerve. I had thought I had high pain tolerance but discovered I am actually a total wuss. Oxy barely touched that pain. Lord I wish I'd known about DMSO back then. Good surgeon looked at me on Friday and scheduled me for Monday surgery....

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Keep in mind the huge ring we wear in our noses. A little tug and we are breathing fire and ready to tear up any target put in front of us. As in the 9/11 deal where we launched global attacks on "terror" to the tune of trillions of our dollars and gave up gobs of our rights via the Patrio...

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Well I know us vets could choose to rest alongside a bunch of others of the same, but my choice is for my ashes to go off the same cliff we scattered the wife's ashes a few years ago. Be a pretty good hike involved in trying to place a flag over my "grave" on Memorial Day. Lotta' vets have...

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Dang fine job, Bill. I see where we just added 3 more graves from an ambush in Syria. Good grief, what are we doing still in blipping Syria? Oh yes-- protecting Israel. Being an old 'Nam vet I don't have much room for whimpering, with my "service" being used to fight against Democracy and ...

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The last few days as I watch TV one of the new adds is for some pill that takes the place of opioids in fighting post-operative pain. "So you don't need to put off your surgery over worries of opioid addiction". New wonderdrug has minor side effects of nausea, constipation, low red-blood c...

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Some crappy-looking barrels will shoot jacketed fine but won't shoot lead worth a hoot. If they won't shoot my lead bullets I don't count them as satisfactory.

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Well at least you recognized your old friend, Jim. I was going through my "accumulation" the other day looking for a 45 mold I vaguely recalled having. Didn't find it but found a couple of molds I don't think I ever used and can't recall when or why I acquired them. Senility!

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Now that was interesting. Guess I've been just lucky so far to keep the old duramax ticking along. My old station must have been giving me some pretty fine fuel and I didn't even know it. And they sold to some other outfit. Might spell trouble ahead.

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I went to Kroger, and bought two 24-can cases of Salmon, and choked down a whole can of it every day for 48 days, and on the last day had a lipid panel. Salmon was supposed to raises the HDL ('good cholesterol'), and mine was only 32 (should be at least 40). After the 48 cans of salmon in 48 days, ...

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Good info doc, though I might go ahead and die early rather than have to eat a regular diet of salmon. Maybe could handle some krill pills... As one of those "octogenarians" I am probably rapidly approaching my "sell by" date no matter what I eat (mostly beef, occasionally chicke...

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I also watched the Vit D video by John Campbell -- it explained the weird prescription I'd received from my surgeon who patched up my shattered arm a few weeks ago. Along with Oxy for pain and muscle relaxer and anti-nausea and stuff I didn't recognize (and wasn't going to allow in my body) was a pr...

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Dang fine job dad!

I remember when my kids (and grandkids) were 8 years old they were still in the stage where their interest was all in the "bang" part and I was having trouble getting them to even care if they hit anything...

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Yep, Accurate makes great moulds, Arsenal makes great ones. My only complaint about the 6-cavity Lees moulds is they don't make them in enough styles. I guess I am just easy to please.

Moping around here with a wounded wing that isn't gonna' let me cast anything for a few weeks yet.

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I wish I had got the shingles vaccine. I had an attack of that stuff that started Nov. 5th. I had severely underestimated how bad it could be. I'm still hurting from it, and apparently it can last several weeks to months. I had got the shingles shot back when it was just the one shot. Came down wit...

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Also paid over $1200 for a case of black powder that is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Seems spendy but grateful to find it! [/qu Holy cow, it that Swiss that costs that much or did you order 20#'s of the stuff? How long will that last? Yeah, a case of the Swiss 1-1/2 FG 25#. With me, 2 grandboys mos...

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My Virginia peanuts ordered from Whitley's came in yesterday and friend Butch and I consumed a number of these fine goobers along with a few beers. Aaah -- a diet to heal broken wings! $37 for 5# delivered here in lakapeanutland. Grateful to have them. Thanks for initiating the thread that located t...

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Also Brett Weinstein on "Darkhorse" podcast just interviewed an architect who has been looking at this for years, knowing how ridiculous the original narrative is. It is hard for me to get my head around the now obvious fact that those World Trade buildings were all controlled demolitions....

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Dang, I don't know just what it took Andy but it looks like we are back. Much thanks!

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I've got both Rossi and Miroku plus originals and they are all good.

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A species that often appears too dumb to survive needs to spread its genes far and wide...

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Wow! That is quite a story.

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Now there's a picture!

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Well hey, I also got my Whitley order in. Now to make sure the beer stock is adequate...

Thanks for your attention to this matter, Bill

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My late wife was scared off her hormone replacement by the hype. GRRR HATE HATE!

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Waste of time figuring out how an '06 figured in our shooting: that rifle and shooter were just decoys to divert our attention from some Deep State actor. Another Sirhan Sirhan so to speak--"shooter" still doing time for killing RFK who was 6' out front of RFK while RFK was being killed by...

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. "...Without some young blood we're on slow downward trajectory here..." True of the firearms hobby in general, and true of FREEDOM in general. The solutions involve: >>> Get them back to church (take them with you, and do something more 'fun' afterwards - even something THEY like...) >>...

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Lord I know whereof you speak Bill. The 5# bag of Hoody's we got from COSTSO was a vital staple all during my tree cutting career and they have disappeared, also leaving us Oregon boys stuck with those puny Hampton Farms things. Gotta' be a workaround?

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I dropped by yesterday to see if we were "up". Watched the snake chase his tail for 20 seconds or so and just went on in disgust. But dang, today it seems we are functioning! It is good to hear you olde pharts a going on again. 3 of the grandboys been joining me with levers and singles (fe...

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