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- Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prayer warriors: Harper had surgery in Dallas
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4061
Re: Prayer warriors: Harper had surgery in Dallas
Sorry to hear this , will be praying for you all .
- Mon Jan 26, 2026 11:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I think I'd trade an AR-15 for one of these
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1027
Re: I think I'd trade an AR-15 for one of these
That's entirely too ugly for me to ever own one, I'll hang on to my AR.
- Mon Dec 29, 2025 11:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Any 16-gauge shooters here?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1025
Re: Any 16-gauge shooters here?
Currently only have two but have owned a bunch over the years . I have a first year (1913) Winchester model 1912 pump and a Remington Sportsman 48 . Had my dads late 50's 870 but gave it to my oldest son.
- Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I received my Christmas present yesterday!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1331
Re: I received my Christmas present yesterday!
Congratulations and Merry Christmas.
- Sun Dec 14, 2025 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is a takedown less strong than a non takedown?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1605
- Fri Dec 05, 2025 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Die Hard is a Christmas movie!!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1422
Re: Die Hard is a Christmas movie!!
Can't , it is a Christmas movie . My favorite though is It's A Wonderful Life .
- Wed Nov 19, 2025 11:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Eddie Southgate.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 267
Re: Happy Birthday Eddie Southgate.
Thank you ! 
- Sat Nov 08, 2025 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: He would have turned 111 years old this week.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4502
Re: He would have turned 111 years old this week.
My pap died in 1990 and would have been 115 this year , he's the one that taught me about guns and reloading .He was my dad's father . My mothers dad , my papa would have been 131 this year. He died the day after my third birthday .
- Sat Nov 08, 2025 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shots (injections)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6941
Re: Shots (injections)
The shingle vac I took a few years back was two part , the second shot was no problem but the first one was beyond rough . I got it about noon and by bedtime my shoulder was at least three different shades , none of which human skin is supposed to be and looked like someone had stuffed a golf ball u...
- Fri Nov 07, 2025 10:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Leverguns Down / Nov 1 - 4 BACK UP NOW
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5471
Re: Leverguns Down / Nov 1 - 4 BACK UP NOW
Strangely , I could get to the home page , get to the general section , then couldn't open any post . Got a timeout notice indicating that the forum was down , Everything working and fast today.
- Sun Sep 28, 2025 2:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I ain't a-shootin' this'n neither ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4968
Re: I ain't a-shootin' this'n neither ...
That shivering he was doing takes flinching to a whole new level . I'd pass .
- Thu Sep 25, 2025 1:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The current UFO revelations
- Replies: 29
- Views: 38944
Re: The current UFO revelations
Anybody got any good loads for UFO's ? 
- Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hmmm... Should you carry a gun in your own home...???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7779
Re: Hmmm... SHould you carry a gun in your own home...???
I got a couple that carry easy when I just have my bath robe on with no pants . Actually have one in the shower in a plastic bag incase someone comes in while I'm getting clean . Fits perfectly in a soap dish and will be enough to get me to a real gun if anything more is needed. I don’t do this. An...
- Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hmmm... Should you carry a gun in your own home...???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7779
Re: Hmmm... SHould you carry a gun in your own home...???
If my pants are on, I’m packing. I got a couple that carry easy when I just have my bath robe on with no pants . Actually have one in the shower in a plastic bag incase someone comes in while I'm getting clean . Fits perfectly in a soap dish and will be enough to get me to a real gun if anything mo...
- Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hmmm... Should you carry a gun in your own home...???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7779
Re: Hmmm... SHould you carry a gun in your own home...???
I do 100 % of the time . I'm out in the sticks surrounded by mostly trailer trash so you never know who might knock on your door . One of the guys at the closest trailer has done time for manufacturing meth and murder. Seems like a nice enough guy just to speak to him on the street but with his reco...
- Thu Sep 18, 2025 12:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: your best 45 colt loads
- Replies: 165
- Views: 47973
Re: your best 45 colt loads
Resurrecting a thread from 2012 but it is a very interesting discussion about the use of 18-18.5 gr of 2400 in the .45 Colt. A bit contentious at times but it was an interesting read. I could see that being a thing in a Ruger but it does not sound like anything I will be feeding my Colts or Italian...
- Thu Sep 18, 2025 12:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: your best 45 colt loads
- Replies: 165
- Views: 47973
Re: your best 45 colt loads
All come out of an Elmer Keith book and are normally loaded with a Lyman 310 tool. 
- Tue Sep 16, 2025 3:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lever Action Rifles And The Desert!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7172
Re: Lever Action Rifles And The Desert!
Some place Wide Open .
- Sat Sep 13, 2025 3:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 44 Lyman HPs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8501
Re: 44 Lyman HPs
So, my bullets won't work. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board. Put gas checks on them. Need to lube and load. Want to see what these will do in a Marlin 1894 Rifle around 1600 fps on deer. They will work fine if you hit the correct spot . If you hit too high , Low , far forward of too far back , n...
- Sun Sep 07, 2025 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Traditional Muzzleloaders??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4534
Re: Traditional Muzzleloaders??
Round balls kill as good as anything you can shoot . Quit thinking about it and go kill something . 
- Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prayer Request (Update)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7743
Re: Prayer Request (Update)
If the pain is well controlled for the first 24 hours, it seems to me that I dispense a lot fewer pain meds to the patients in the first month out of the hospital, and a whole bunch fewer narcotics overall. Hope he does well. Yep. That first 24 hours or so really sets the stage for a lot. Aggressiv...
- Sat Aug 23, 2025 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: When I Was A Kid This Is What Was Preached Against ...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5303
Re: When I Was A Kid This Is What Was Preached Against ...
" When I was a kid this is what was preached against "
This !
This !
- Sat Aug 23, 2025 11:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday BenT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2829
Re: Happy Birthday BenT
Happy Birthday Ben . 
- Sat Aug 23, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Latest on the Web site?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8377
Re: Latest on the Web site?
Faster than a fanny burp for me this morning . Could not get it to work yesterday.
- Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1892 25-20 take down carbine
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18204
Re: 1892 25-20 take down carbine
Your pictures are not loading.
- Sat Aug 09, 2025 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 94 30-30 SR # 4262XXX
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2178
Re: Winchester 94 30-30 SR # 4262XXX
Anyway, I've been told that this vintage of Winchesters used metal that may not be weldable, truth or myth? I think some of the receivers of this era were sintered and then iron plated to take the finish. Maybe that's what you're referring to. I might be wrong. There are plenty of 1894 people here ...
- Mon Aug 04, 2025 4:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Griff.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2402
Re: Happy Birthday Griff.
Happy Birthday ! 
- Fri Aug 01, 2025 6:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Erosion Control the old-fashioned way
- Replies: 4
- Views: 878
Re: Erosion Control the old-fashioned way
Squeal like a pig !
- Fri Aug 01, 2025 6:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rare Speer and Winchester .348 bullets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1772
Re: Rare Speer and Winchester .348 bullets
Tried the Wnchester 150 factory loads and found them to be a waste of time in my rifle . There was a reason they dropped them long before cutting back to the 200 grain load only. I'm betting you will like the Speer bullets though . I have never had any 150 GN 348 bullet group well in my 71, results...
- Thu Jul 31, 2025 12:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where are all the old coots???
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23696
Re: Where are all the old coots???
Saw a bunch of old Coots floating in Wheeler lake the other day . 
- Tue Jul 22, 2025 10:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Problem still with the Forum.
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15971
Re: Problem still with the Forum.
Yup ! Working good now .
- Mon Jul 21, 2025 6:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Problem still with the Forum.
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15971
Re: Problem still with the Forum.
Seems like it took longer to post this second attempt than it did for me to graduate high school. I click and it churns and churns and churns and says this site can't be reached and may be down .
- Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Afraid you’ll get sued if you use a gun in self defense…?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2580
Re: Afraid you’ll get sued if you use a gun in self defense…?
I ain't scared.
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are 45 colt/454 lever actions as accurate as 44mags
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2382
Re: are 45 colt/454 lever actions as accurate as 44mags
Off the bench my Marlin .45 Colt Cowboy LTD will put all bullets touching at 50 yards all day long with three different loads , never seen a .44 Magnum do any better,
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HUNTING WITH THE CORRECT CALIBER
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4719
Re: HUNTING WITH THE CORRECT CALIBER
Need one of those in .348 .
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Picked up a Win. '94, cheap.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3352
Re: Picked up a Win. '94, cheap.
$350 is a deal even on a post 64 . You did good .
- Mon Jun 30, 2025 1:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Of all the Winchester leverguns ...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14587
Re: Of all the Winchester leverguns ...
1886 in .33 Winchester and a custom m71 in .450 Alaskan .
- Sun Jun 29, 2025 12:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "How much ammo to carry...?"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2781
Re: "How much ammo to carry...?"
That's why there is a loaded M1 carbine and two spare mags next to my bed , right by the 1911 . Multiple home invaders are a thing , zombies or not.
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rare Speer and Winchester .348 bullets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1772
Re: Rare Speer and Winchester .348 bullets
Tried the Wnchester 150 factory loads and found them to be a waste of time in my rifle . There was a reason they dropped them long before cutting back to the 200 grain load only. I'm betting you will like the Speer bullets though .
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who bought the last guns you sold?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4267
Re: Who bought the last guns you sold?
Pablo Escobar . 
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bowen Classic Arms and Mr. Bowen
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4095
Re: Bowen Classic Arms and Mr. Bowen
Sad to hear about Mr. Bowen! I'd always planned to send my dad's old 3 screw SB to him and have a twin of yours made. As you know, I've always loved that revolver. I was so glad to hear you had gotten it back. It just made my day. Anyway, it's my own fault for putting it off. Now I guess Ive "...
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gone to Texas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 821
Re: Gone to Texas
I thought this was gonna ba a post on one of my favorite Sam Elliott movies . Have fun.
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1886 winchester breach bolt interchangable?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2481
Re: 1886 winchester breach bolt interchangable?
Other than the poetry and long walks on the beach you have interests in common with RFK Jr . Ever considered running for office ?Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 4:08 pm Nice eBay score there ... 71 bolt with the 98a still in the wrapper.
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1886 winchester breach bolt interchangable?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2481
Re: 1886 winchester breach bolt interchangable?
I see the bolts occasionally for sale in the $225- 300.00 range with the sight by itself always over $400.00 . I got it just like you see it for $450.00 . I was thrilled .
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 11:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A memorable Levergun Hunt
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4177
Re: A memorable Levergun Hunt
Awesome !!
- Thu Jun 05, 2025 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: More forum problems
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1698
Re: More forum problems
Same here . Some pictures show and some don't .
- Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Upcoming Auction of Jamison Brass & Ammo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3778
Re: Upcoming Auction of Jamison Brass & Ammo
He put a post on Cast Boolits with his email address where you can request a list . it is ssdave@rushmore.com . I sent a request a while ago but have not heard from him.
- Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Am I missing some subtle humor here…???
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2675
Re: Am I missing some subtle humor here…???
Sounds like Up It and Stuff It are gonna be pretty much the same . I don't deal with Asians if I can help it .
- Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1886 winchester breach bolt interchangable?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2481
Re: 1886 winchester breach bolt interchangable?
Hi Eddie, The 86 breechbolt has the cutout for a cartridge guide spur on the right side (that semi-circular one). The Model 71 cartridge guide lacks the top spur so no cutout was needed. I've got both and other than that cutout they appear to be the same. Mr. Pickle's The Models of 1886 and 1892 on...
- Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bye my love. I will miss you.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10632
Re: Bye my love. I will miss you.
Sorry for your loss . Prayers sent.