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OldWin

I had a similar problem with 125gr. Plated bullets in .38 with 4.5gr. of Unique. Velocity was very erratic and if shot in a .357, squibs were common. First thing I tried was more crimp but it didn't help. I think it was caused by rapid pressure drop from the bullet starting too easily but having mor...

OldWin

Very nice work. That is really nice.

OldWin

Pretty cool. Always thought about giving that a try.

OldWin

May have been. That buffalo coat dust is very explosive. Thats why I keep a ground wire on mine when I hang it in the closet.

Hey Jack,
Sent you the video on FB messenger. Best 0art is listening to the hicks in the truck and on the CB.

OldWin

Wow! Nice job Griff. Well, another spring, another explosion. Last year it was the propane explosion over in Farmington. Today, the digester exploded at the paper mill in Jay, west of Farmington. Guy sitting in a log truck got it on video. It's on FB. Looks like a mushroom cloud from an A-bomb. It's...

OldWin

Glad to see the kid came across with the cash buddy!

OldWin

Nice! Great looking dog.
We have a half shepherd/black lab. Best dog we've ever had. I'm betting yours will be great, also.

OldWin

Hey Jack,
Oh man I'm SO sorry about the pup. I believe we met when Kristy and I were there.
Please give your wife our deepest sympathy. Nothing worse than losing a good pup.

OldWin

Sounds like a good plan of attack Stretch.
I load mine on a Dillon 550 and haven't had to worry about case length.
If you aren't loading mixed brass by the thousands, it makes sense to start with a uniform length I think.

OldWin

When you say "newer", I'm not sure what you mean. If you stick with pre-war 94 parts, there will be no issue. If you go to post war, some of the springs and pins will be ok, but the fitted parts like the lever and locking bolt may give fitting issues. The locking bolt may or may not change...

OldWin

.358/38 Blackout.

OldWin

I shoot a lot of plated bullets in .38/.357 and 45ACP. Until they went under, I preferred Rainer to Berry's, but they work fine. For 38, I use between 5 and 5.2gr. of Unique. In .357, I use 6.5gr of Unique. This gives about 950fps in a 4" barrel and 1350 in a 20" Rossi. I tried the 125gr i...

OldWin

Ha! That's how I got away with so much. I LOOKED like a clean cut and upstanding fellow. And I was..... it was Kristy and her wild and crazy ways that dragged me down to be a degenerate. :D It is true. Of course my mom made me look decent for my senior picture. I didn't look that clean cut normally....

OldWin

I've seen guys like that before! Trouble....... just plain trouble. People like that are why this country has sunk to where it is.

I hear you though buddy. It is scary in the good ole USA lately.
Here come dad dark man!

OldWin

The jelly belly beans are great but some of those flavors are gutwretching disgusting!! Seriously they made a vomit flavor!!! Yeah, I agree. Nasty. Well, it was a special day Friday. Bought a new chainsaw. That heavy snow made a mess Thursday night. Limbs and trees down everywhere. One beside the r...

OldWin

Haha yeah. Truth is, I like black licorice and jelly beans too. Really the only ones.

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Happy Easter everyone.

OldWin

Hey Six! You let me know if my kid don't pay up! :D I'll kick his..........ah, who am I kidding. He could beat the snot outta me. :D Hey Gunny! Kristy said she has an extra bag in reserve she can send to a "fellow beaner". Man, if I didn't know better, I'd think you two got a thing goin. S...

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Yeah. I have plenty of time to take. About 2 months worth. Just hate to use it for stuff like that.
We are getting a foot or more out of this. Worst part is, in typical spring fashion, it's wet and heavy. Hate that garbage. It had been drying up good too......

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Well, made it to work but it wasn't pretty. Roads not plowed, trees down in the roads everywhere. Some hanging down into the road. Snowing so hard you can't see em until its too late. Just gotta hope and hit em. Sitting in the parking lot waiting to go in and get in line for my nightly temperature t...

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Griff wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:41 pm I used to work in the building just north of it... in fact, my office window looked right into the building from the north side. I was in the 8th grade, in gym class.

Hmmmm?
Don't happen to have a 6.5 Carcano do you Griff?

OldWin

Looks good. A leather loop for your wrist would be neat too.
When my dad was a kid, he had a similar rig to kill porcupines for the bounty they had on the feet. It was just a little longer.

OldWin

Haha that's funny!
Well......maybe not.

OldWin

I tell ya, it's hard to keep up here when you work nights. I'm cryin foul on my 71! Oh well. I'd let Six borrow it for a while anyway. Just saves having to send it back. He is pretty good guy, so I don't mind. :D They called one of my buddies at work and said he may have been exposed to an assumed p...

OldWin

Nice Whitney-Kennedy! I handled one at a gun show once: Smooooooth. Burgess is an under-appreciated designer. yes, he was. I have an 1878 Burgess 45/70 [ actually I have two of them ] , the first commercially available 45/70 lever gun. it was short lived but really was the predecessor of the 1881 M...

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Holy freaking smokes! Gun room envy. :mrgreen: Very nice sir. Stay safe. My son and his family are on Kodiak. She is due in a month and we are hopeful she won't have to go to Anchorage. Kodiak has been fairly safe. good luck to her, they have good facilities in Kodiak and she should be fine there. ...

OldWin

Very cool. Good skills to possess in these times.

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Beautiful. Very nice work.

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We are just all too spread out if you ask me. Then again, the good Lord probably did that for a reason. :D Just had my "wake up coffee". Now gotta make a dump run for me and the old man. Yes sir, mighty exciting around here. :D Last week the Sherriff of Franklin county posted this message ...

OldWin

Holy freaking smokes! Gun room envy.

Very nice sir. Stay safe. My son and his family are on Kodiak. She is due in a month and we are hopeful she won't have to go to Anchorage. Kodiak has been fairly safe.

OldWin

Yeah no frogs here haha. Seen a few robins though. Geese here and there.
It's just about 525 miles from my place to yours.

OldWin

Whoa! Frog porn!

Yagottabekiddingme!
Calling for a foot of snow Thursday night.

Please pray for me boys.
What did ole Buffalo Jay do to deserve this?

Just don't want to deal with it anymore.

OldWin

Thanks Six.
I appreciate you taking care of Cody so well.
I'm hoping he will be a repeat customer. Maybe buy something nice for his old daddy.

I hope that was a non-corrosive fanny burp! Hate to see that fine rifle pitted when it gets there.

OldWin

Thanks old buddy.
Without the vein.......WTH.

FW,
Shouldn't be too tough to find really. They used em for a long time. Many people replaced them and you can fund them in old gunshops in their piles of sights.
It will be harder to find the elevator than the sight itself.

OldWin

Well FW, if Jack wants to sleep in......
This is on an 1887 manufactured 73 standard rifle.
As far as I know, it's a "standard sporting rear leaf".

OldWin

Very true!
If you are lucky enough to get your "golf balls in order", the rest is pretty much gravy IMO.
Your family, their well being and happiness, make everything else that much easier to deal with.

I hear that Six! Now that would be hoot!

OldWin

Well I'm glad you at least have some recourse buddy.
Best of luck Six!

Yeah, I hear you on the nose cutting. Nothing gets my back up more than gov't corruption and overreach.
NOTHING

OldWin

Man! That sucks Gunny! I had that happen before. Coil plate rusted out. Had to replace my furnace. Wow Six! Two hundred K for 2 acres? :shock: Holy smokes! My property taxes are about a grand a year. My 200 acre lot is about 500 a year. Of course, there is a lot less potential up here haha. You are ...

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I tell ya buddy, if I wasn't keeping a low profile so I can get out of this rathole, I'd be scraping up all I could and heading down. You got some stuff I'd sorely like to have. Who knows, I may even weaken and have to grab at least one. :D You know.......if you take pity on this poor ole hick. :D H...

OldWin

Very nice. That was a lot of work.

OldWin

That's pretty neat. Good work.
That would be slick on a 4 wheeler rack or a sled in winter.

OldWin

Wow! Cool buddy. I only have one 86. A full octagon 45-90 from 1888. It's not too bad. Has about 70-75% finish on the barrel. Tube is turned. Receiver has traces of colors. Don't get me wrong, I like 86s plenty. I just don't use the big boomers much. Too heavy to lug around. I don't use my 71 either...

OldWin

Yup. I should've kept it.

OldWin

Nice!
Thats weird with the 86. Is it a first year full octagon rifle? Mine had the early heavy wood and factory sling swivels. Not a lot of finish. Mostly grey.

OldWin

I've never had a reline done either. Seen a few that looked good though. Matter of fact, I'd like to have my only 32-20 done maybe. I did have an 86 one time that had been rebored many, many years before it came to me. It was a first year, probably a 38-56, that had been bored to 45-70. I was a grea...

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Jay Bird wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:10 pm
OldWin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:46 am Yeah. I got this hanging over my head too. I guess I just won't think about it now.

If I remember correctly when I was taking pictures of my garage TWO years ago you said the same thing.... 2 years?

Ha! I make an Olympic sport out of lazy.

OldWin

Hahaha.......Recon!

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Yeah. I got this hanging over my head too. I guess I just won't think about it now.

OldWin

Good deal Gunny! I like the Leupold 1.5-5x a lot. I also like the 1-4x shotgun scope on an AR. It only weighs 8oz. Well, the middle kid got his Challenger out of my garage the other day. I guess I can get the Rubicon off the jackstands and out of the back if the garage if I want. Still too early to ...

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Hey Jack,

Just heard from Cody. He was out on the boat. He got your email and pics.
Thought the 95 looked great.

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