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I can't handle hunting in the heat anymore, takes away fun, and can't breath in it anyways when doing much walking. Back in my early days, I went whenever I could, regardless the temps, but as i got older, I prefer to save my game spots for the cool days of leaf fall! Hunting at its best then! We ha...

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What a beautiful place to hunt! Harvest Moon, hopefully Elk Harvest!

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We took 22 squirrels, i got 7 fox and 5 grays, but last two days I hunted a place that had numerous grays, and I passed on several shots at them, knowing we'd have plenty meat already. Here's a random Pic I took last day.

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Tuesday 9/30 I got 3 grays and 1 fox squirrel. Wednesday 10/1 I got this bag, my best ever 4 fox squirrels in one day! We had a blast, ate like kings, hunting till about noon, then kicking back rest day! Squirrel hunted lotta good places in my life, but E. Tenn always been my favorite! 20251001_1216...

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Went with my brother to his place in E. Tenn last week for 3 days of squirrel hunting with our 22lr's. It was mostly, fur under the hickories, before the shot! Mast all pretty well fallen, and them mostly flat & clean woods made for easy & great hunting, my favorite way to sniper em with the...

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No, but I'd sure like to, most of all the deer species i think, plus I could breath lot better out there! Everyone that knows me says that we're i need to be!

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Ive just recently got some Birchwood Casey Moly Lube, a Spray on Dry Lube, might do well on Presses? I got it to try on my Leverguns, and maybe a Auto 30-06. Recently cleaned all the actions, and sprayed em with Gun Scrubber. Then sprayed on the Moly. First opinion is it works, especially good big s...

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Believe him and his products to be quality! Gotta admire a man that test his own ammo in his own guns, and not sure of all the ammo, but the 30-30 in particular. Tested in no less than 5 different rifles and he post the results. I got one box of his 357 ammo way back when first heard of him, and a b...

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My post supposed to said late 50's-60's, but wow, it sure is a beauty!

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Great looking 39a, im guessing that's a late 60's model! My 2nd gun purchase in 1977 right after I went to work was a new Marlin 39a, and its my only regretfull rifle trade, few years later! I've let a number of old classics shotguns go i shouldn't have, but that's only rifle that I'd love to have b...

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I'll sure verify the 30-30 Speer 130gr H.C.! Anytime ive gotten into a conversation with a fellow 30-30 shooter, i declare this bullet the All Stat of the 30-30 Cart! 5 years ago, in one my winter reloading fun experiments, using my Mod 64, I reloaded this bullet using LVR, Varget, W748, IMR4895, an...

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Ive been out mowing n weedeatting most day. It was 49 here this morning and only got to maybe 70dgr, unusually cool for this early, but I'd look up at mountains, could hear em calling plainly! Thank Lord for this time of year especially! It's in my blood, since I was 8, trasping along behind dad, he...

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JimT wrote: ↑Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:59 am I am not a rifle guy ... but I have hunted with a blackpowder handgun ... copy of the 1858 Remington .44 ... it worked quite well. I never took a deer with it but it had plenty of power to do it.

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Jim, Matthew Quigley would've met his match against you!

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Your lower load for squirrel with two patched balls complete and thoroughly seated on the powder and on one another will simply snatch the soul out of deer. Round balls penetrate better at 900 fps than at 1400. That 1800 fps. you cite slows down to only 100 to 150 fps higher at 100 yds. than the ve...

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Love that rifle and good shooting! 1 pulled to spoil a great group like that is a heart breaker, done that! No matter the 4 shot shows what it is really! I had a Marlin 336 30-30 set up same way, I put a Marbles Tang on it, had it on it lowest setting which gave a 200yd+ zero. The folding barrel sig...

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Looking Good boys sounding even better! The weather here for next 8-10 days looks almost like heaven on earth! And i got grass mowing n other work next two days :oops: But after that, I'll be shooting this rifle and hunting with something! Looked at my notes, in case of interest to anyone? My best l...

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Thanks everyone! My Rifle shoots .440 RB can't remember what that best load was last fall, ive got it scribbled on notes in my BP Stuff. I want to think 65gr FFg Goex, which is only BP ive ever used, + FFFg. Hey, I growed up with my eyes & brain glued to anything Daniel Boone. Ive roamed same wo...

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Are there any traditional muzzleloader hunters here? Ive had a CVA 45Cal Mountain Rifle since 1977, a kit rifle that I put together. Used it a lot up until early 80’s. I wasn't a deer hunter then, only game I ever took was few fox, we called in, something we did a lot of back then. But that rifle go...

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Sounds like you're good to go, in fact more than good, it's more than capable! Just few years ago, Doug Turnbull took a Rocky Mountain Bighorn with his custom 86. I forget the details, but i read the article. Guessing at near 300yds, with the 375 Turnbull cartridge. In Whelen's article, Only Accurat...

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A beneficial addition in tough terrain for sure!

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First time i ever tried it was few drags off a buddies, while underground mining in my early days. All it did was make me hungry. Not long after that, was at a lake with my brother in law and another buddy, camped & fishing. Already too many beers, BIL, rolled me one said try this. I smoked it, ...

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Finally reshod my mule yesterday. It & me both biting at the bit, pawing ground to get out. It'd been a fine day today, but had babysit my granddaughter today. Looks like rain tomorrow, but most next week looks like Sept weather at its finest! I'll get into the mountains couple times hopefully, ...

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Accurate enough to go head shot some squirrels, so no problem for deer way further!

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Congratulations, a wonderful find!

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Beautiful work, all of it!

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Yes, glad to pray for him and you, and all involved! I had broken neck in 1996 from mining accident, fusion surgery, not as severe as his im sure! But I understand!

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Thanks 450F, good explanation! I found out about to much lube causing dents my self. When I first started reloading I was using the Lee Lube water-based, and I was soaking my fingers in it, really rubbing em down. Would start getting dents couldn't figure it out, thought there must be something in t...

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CN, I read all your prep of old factory ammo before reloading. One thing caught my interest, that I've not heard before? You annealed by holding base of case in your fingers, spinning only until about to hot to hold? Ive not been annealing long, gotta lot to learn. But is there benefit in this light...

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And? Mom always quartered em, most everyone does. I used too. If I was gonna fry em, I would quarter. But in slow cooker I've learned to half em behind ribcage. Why? Except for the really old tough squirrels, they'll cook so tender they start falling apart, and it's easiest to eat, without getting b...

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I was raised, soak em in salt water! Everyone i knew, same, still its the normal for everyone i know! But Ive been soaking em in aprox 1/4-1/3 vinegar to 2/3 water, for over 10 years. It's best, vinegar is a key in most marinade, and 4-5 hours in my solution they're as clean & white, no blood, a...

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Dangerous game hunting not for me

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Ive got 3 soaking in water&vinegar now, be putting in slow cooker shortly. Man, nothing like days cooling n getting shorter, leaves be changing n falling soon, college football and barbecue squirrel wings, Mmmmm

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That was excellent video of the similarities of these cartridges! Not so sure i swallow his 1:38 Twist excepantance just because of a faster muzzle velocity? Not saying he's wrong, but I'm not sure if understand and believe it? I'd have to prove that one for myself! But I watch most all his when I g...

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Welcome and it's a great Winchester anyway you look at it, I've got two similar! And I'd be willing to bet good money those FTX are very accurate, they're very accurate in all three my 30-30's! At least they look like the 160ftx?

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Glad to help for sure, hope this gets you going where you need go! When you get lined out, post your results, hopefully they're positive! I'd read that article online back when I first joined WACA, but had forgotten about the Load Data Cards. Got interested other day, went back to it, Bingo! Why i f...

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CoyoteNose, I didn't reread this thread just now, but followed it several days ago. But I'm assuming you hadn't found any definitive original reload data of the original Winchester loads. But I was just reading an article by Brad Dunbar from the Spring 2023 WACA Magazine "Late Season 33", ...

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I'll say truth of one thing. I quit packing autos in these woods many moons ago, SS so much better for packing. But if I was young, starting over, this is the one and only auto id consider! He's had it about 3 years, I've shot it quite a bit, but not hunted with it. But it is almost as light as my S...

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My brother came up yesterday, he lives about 1.5 hour away. We loaded up on the Honda Mule, took him to a little patch of hickories I found couple years ago. They sit in a big slow sloping swag, surrounded by oak and other hardwoods that have regrown from past logging. I'd not hunted it before, ther...

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Hey, finished product looks great to me! Actually for most deer hunting around here, that'd be hard to beat, brush & heavy cover deer rifle 2nd to none, a 12ga slug is awesome load. Can't hunt with 00Buck here, but lotta states down south permit it, and rightfully so!

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#4, 5, or 6 is 95% of what every hunter around here has always used. #5 would be my choice to settle upon for one for all! However, I past idk, seems 20 years most companies have quit making 16ga in #5 shot, according to what's being sold anyways. Fiocchi is only company I've seen selling #5 shot in...

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You know, this thread has convinced me that I need to take Dad's old Model 37 16 for a walk in the Gila National Forest and look for grays. Squirrel season here starts September 1 and runs through November 30. I notice all I have right now for ammo is this box of Vintage Remington paper shells in N...

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This thread is so good, especially with that link you just posted CN, I'm saving it for good! I know one thing for sure? I just really became aware of the "good possibilities for my personal hunting", the 33wcf could've been all along, if I had one! Really just discovered it's strong point...

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Loved this movie since I saw it when first came out, when? But them two where the ultimate to play the characters they portrayed, and probably my two favorite actors ever, considering the men they really where! Bronson raised in coal mining camp in Pennsylvania, a tail gunner on i believe B25. Marvi...

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Yes they do, best my memory. We, my dad n brothers never rabbit hunted. My uncle that squirrel hunted so often with us, when I was young had a beagle that him n cousins rabbit hunted, I went few times is all. I haven't ate a rabbit since I was a kid. Really they're best eating best I remember, but t...

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Thanks everyone, anyone who's spent any time in good squirrel woods, most all say same thing? Not much in the hunting world any more fun! And as to the gun, i can honestly say, I've yet to hunt with a Singleshot i didn't like! Few autos wasn't crazy about several pumps, but in ones preferred bore, a...

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It sure is a beautiful rifle, and apparently a one of a kind! Good luck finding out what you're looking for towards it. No better rifle & cartridge to be in a baffle with, wish I could help, but I'm not 33 knowledgeable! Wouldn't mind be in same circumstances with it myself, it'd be an enjoyable...

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The ole 16ga barked only 5 times!

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Own three original Winchester 1886 rifles in 33 WCF and reload for them with C-H dies in that caliber. Also have 3 or 4 boxes of W-W original ammunition. These old boxes are collectible, as are the cartridges inside. These are nickel steel smokeless 86 rifles, including one full magazine rifle made...

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This is an outstanding thread, an 86 in 33wcf being to me the most desirable for my use, I'd sure like to try for a hunting rifle, but they're as rare as hens teeth and cost a fortune if possible, plus the next to no components to reload! And I'm in the thought agreement of Six, as concerning the ne...

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