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And I'll take any old 1893/1894 Marlin completely down, and put it back together 3 or 4 times for the time it takes someone to take their 1892/1894 Winchester apart and back together! I'm with you there Val: ole John Browning was a gun design genius but he never used just one part when three would ...

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Well Ray, the Candace isn't worrying about any eights or sixteenths or such stuff -- she has so far not found that Kamala's daddy had any black ancestry. Photos put forth as grandmas and uncles have so far seemed to turn out to be family friends or family employees. Gives a whole new perspective to ...

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Doesn't matter how awkward you are or how unintelligible you are, a democrat will garner a whole passel of votes just for being a black woman. Kamala may have trouble with un-scripted talking but she isn't dumb: she knows how to exploit those race and gender cards. 'Course, if it came out that she w...

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Been worrying about our kids on those grey floaty things out there in the Persian Gulf and the Med. Iran just rained a bunch of whoop-az down on all the main Israeli air fields we were counting on for being an "unsinkable aircraft carrier". CNN tells us "no damage was done" which...

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Whoo Haw! -- that'd test the epoxy they used to weld my artificial shoulder to my body. Uh uh; not this kid.

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Been watching Candace Owens and that girl is on a tear. She's been running down the Jamaica Harris family and they are looking pretty Irish. Slave-owning Irish. And not even Black Irish. Kamala apparently wrote a book (I have not seen such a beast but Candace has pictures from it) in which she shows...

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Mighta' staid in the Navy if I coulda' rode on something like that beauty! I got to spend one night on a "tin can" in my short career. A helo flew me off the old Bon Homme (carrier) and dropped me onto a destroyer to help fix their radar, which was my specialty at the time. I recall the jo...

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It just sounds expensive to us olde pharts -- we are stuck thinking of these things as "dollars" when they have actually devalued to be more like yen. Or pesos. What looks like a "dollar" is really just a dime. Took me a while to get my old head wrapped around this little factoid...

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While we're sitting here fat and dumb saying "Well how 'bout them Israelis?" in some admiration -- I'm afraid what the Israelis are really trying to do is to goad Hezbollah into a big enough response that Uncle Stupid comes in to "defend Israel". The Netanyahu crowd really really...

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as for hissbola, when God's hand is on Israel, NO ONE can stand up to them, there's a multitude of examples in Scripture that validates this, it's HisStory - - - I dunno Grizz -- watching Israel's war on women and kids -- I think maybe they got tired of waiting on God and so they threw in with the ...

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as for hissbola, when God's hand is on Israel, NO ONE can stand up to them, there's a multitude of examples in Scripture that validates this, it's HisStory - - - I dunno Grizz -- watching Israel's war on women and kids -- I think maybe they got tired of waiting on God and so they threw in with the ...

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Bullet casting is one of my favorite "Fun Things" -- usually fun and occasionally a bigger adventure than you really wanted. My biggest (mis)-adventures happened back in those good old days when you got wheel weights that were dependably lead for a few cents per pound. I seldom cast them i...

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He said there were really three possibilities. One was that it was simply a coincidence, and such things happen. One was that there had been heightened warnings, and it was simply stupidity, with a miss guided to make things more secure that backfired. And the third was that it was a way to make su...

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That's interesting Yooper. I at one time had a full box of those cartridges but being a kid at the time I just shot 'em up. And never saw another factory load. I looked in QuickLoad and QL thinks that charge of 2400 would produce 24k psi (higher than recommended for the 1873 or old Colt revolvers bu...

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Well there wasn't a treaty as such -- it was leader-to-leader assurances that our side was smart enough to know not to step on the Russian toes by expanding NATO and putting missiles on their borders. And then we elected new leaders who were dumb enough to start doing just that. The Deep State/Milit...

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Bret Weinstein who does the "Darkhorse" podcast (that I catch on Rumble) also posted a tribute to Paul a few days ago. This was most entertaining to me because Prof. Weinstein readily admits that not many years ago he was an anti-gun democrat until life whacked him up alongside the head a ...

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As my eyes have aged over these past 80 years I have noticed major shifts in what iron sights work best for me. Used to be a tang sight with one of those aperture sights up front was totally wonderful. As the eyes aged that combo has become the worst for me and I am now gravitating toward barrel mou...

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Congratulations Earl! As John says, that's time well spent with grandsons indeed. 8) I have only had Lyman and RCBS lubrisizers but always admired the Star. I got the Star years ago when I was shooting revolvers a lot and being able to triple my lubed bullets/hour seemed important to a guy who was ...

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A grandkid called me yesterday, said if I was going to be around he would bring his older brother and they would like to do some bullet casting and lube-sizing. Holy smokes! Of course I was "going to be around". In fact to gainfully employ two fellows I needed a head start so I fired up th...

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That has to be good news for us reloaders. May they get up and running with a prosperous operation!

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Now I really like that!

I could use several of those. But if you tell us they are rare, I'm sure they are RARE!

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A little off topic , but what ever came of the MARLIN JAM I heard so much about years ago ? AKA "Letting two in". That's a good question, hopefully they've solved the issue on the re-engineered new production. I've only encountered it once, on a stainless Guide Gun belonging to a friend w...

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I gather the video comes out in September. Sounds like it'll be worth watching.

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Earl, any chance those four were twice- or thrice-fireds that had work-hardened at the mouths? I wonder if annealing would have helped. Really pleased that you'll have one of your grandsons along! It's a healthy addiction for a young man to acquire. 8) Hmmm... Hadn't thought of that ... yes, that's...

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I have a little addition to the 40/65 story. Last week a fellow on "Castboolits" advertised a nice batch of once-fired 45/70's for sale. I jumped on them and they showed up yesterday. Amongst the batch were 24 Hornady brand and sure enough, they were quite a bit short of regular; 2.03"...

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I have the RCBS Cowboy 410 - .40/65 die set, also. So I have a question to anyone with these specific RCBS Cowboy Dies. What is the diameter of your expander stem? Well smith, since they are right handy I went out and got out the micrometer. My RCBS Cowboy dies use the same .406 expander as your se...

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I have a buffalo silhouette match coming up this weekend for which I need a bit over a hundred rounds of ammo. I did not have that many cases in cal 40/65 so knew I needed to make some out of 45/70 but kinda' put it off until I "got around tuit". You know how that is. Grandson had found a ...

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Real fine haul there Steve. 30 years ago I lived in Carson City NV and could stop by the public range on my way home from work. I have a lifetime supply of 30/30, 30/06, 357, 44 mag, 45 auto. Never even thought of picking up other brass for the resale. I coulda' retired a year sooner on the 9mm and ...

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Some years ago I did some primer sensitivity testing. Federals were easiest to ignite, Remington hardest by a significant margin, and Winchester and CCI in the middle. And I at one time had some failures of Winchester small pistol primers to ignite H110 in my 357 revolver (for which magnum primers w...

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Earl, I immediately thought of the COSSA quarter-bore shoot when I saw it. :lol: And it's getting to be our most competitive event. Two of the newer Marlins, a winchester single-shot with custom barrel, a Stevens 44 in 25ss, dad's old m92 that seldom misses, and the m92 32/20 with re-lined barrel I...

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Re-education is pretty mild. We've got one old kid in prison 'cause he re-tweeted something making fun of Hillary. And we bankrupted Alex Jones 'cause we didn't like what he said on-line. And de-platformed/de-monetized a whole slew of folks critical of the establishment narrative on Covid or Electio...

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Dang but that would create a sensation on the line at our quarter-bore shoot. Bee-yootiful!

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1800 yards is a heckuva long way to try to hit with the old blackpowder babes if the wind is blowing the least little bit (which it obviously was here). In our BPCR shoot our farthest target is a 4X8 buffalo at 1200 yards. We give out a "pin" award for 10 straight hits at each range. Never...

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Earl, the rock chucks have gone back to bed already? Yeah, they seldom stay up much past mid July here. A few will poke their heads out for a few minutes in September but you gotta' be quick to catch those shy fellows. And this year the sage rats went down about the same time which is quite a bit e...

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Purty purty! But that tang sight would be a hazard to my shootin' eye with my style of hold.

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Thanks Steve -- you make me realize how fortunate I have been so far. Plenty of fires burning in Oregon these days but they haven't closed off our shooting access (yet). We have our annual BPCR Buffalo Shoot coming up in weekend after next. Hope our fire bureaucrats don't get nuts and close us down ...

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I think a new Marlin owner is apt to look at that "Bullseye" and think that is where the sling swivel should go and -- out comes the Bullseye. Then that isn't quite the right spot but -- oh well. I'm just guessin' how they go missing. But it's not uncommon for a used Marlin to be missing t...

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I've been playing with a new "soulless side-lever" thingy so was back at the range yesterday. While I had a 100 yard target box set up I thought I'd run some 22's through to see how they looked on paper instead of my usual "bounce of the tin-cans" testing. The day was warm/sunny ...

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I had tried to go to MVA a few weeks ago and got the "site down" message. But it works OK for me now.

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I was wandering (online0 thru Natchez stuff and saw that they had RL 7 available. A mere $60/lb in the 5# jugs, which as more than double from last time I bought any. But my dollars are worth a lot less now than they were then so -- what the heck. I ordered up a couple jugs which should keep me from...

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Earl, I used the SS 60 Gr in an MCA adapter in my suppressed M-16 for food addition to MREs. Very quiet, accurate, and handy when you fired the .22 you just cycled the action for 5.56. Arch's 2010 094.jpg Now that looks like a slick way to use these quiet 60 grainers. The twist on that 5.56 should ...

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Interesting report! So no baffle strikes with the 60-grainers - that is good news! :D I made sure they shot straight before I screwed on the suppressor. I'll do the same with the pistols where maybe they aren't stabilizing as well. Earl, I recall getting poor accuracy when I played with that 60-gra...

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I bought a new toy the other day -- one of those "radar chronographs". Pretty slick! It is so easy to check velocities that I've been chrono-ing stuff I hadn't bothered with previously -- pellet guns, 22's with different ammo. Anyway, I recall some time back folks here discussed the use of...

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I found some of the best accuracy with 190 gr. cast bullet using H335. Well thanks for the tip Jim. I don't think I ever used H335 with cast bullets in the 30/30. 4759 until that ran out and now 5744 which is running kinda' low. Lots of H335 on hand so I'm going to give that a go. Coupla' grand kid...

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The main thing to know about Vitamin D is that Big Pharma don't want you taking it. Research in the 1980's scared Pharma enough that they then took over the major medical journals so they could kill all the "D" articles. That's why it was so easy for them to kill Ivermectin -- they already...

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I just laid in a couple jugs H335 so I can keep the fambly AR's running through the coming hard times. That'd do real fine for light 30/30 jacketed stuff. Powder Valley seemed to have plenty.

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Sheesh guys -- get yer gol danged vitamin D level up where it otta be and you'll quit gettin that junk. Young guys running around all day in their swim trunks get plenty D from the sun. The rest of us will need to supplement.

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Neat! Thanks for sharing with us Val. Fine pieces of history there.

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I don't know why anyone uses Youtube anymore since Rumble became available. Anybody who doesn't put their stuff on Rumble doesn't get my attention because I figure they are OK with a "little light censorship".

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When they took us Navy boys out to Camp Pendleton for weapons training before we headed over to 'Nam, that's how they had us clean the 45's. A big deep tub of what I thought at the time was kerosene where several of us at a time scrubbed our pistols. I don't remember what we did with all the other g...

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