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- Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report: Preparing "Old 3120" for Billy Dixon Range
- Replies: 7
- Views: 995
Re: Range Report: Preparing "Old 3120" for Billy Dixon Range
Cowboy, that's fantastic shooting. Beautiful spot to be shooting too. That horizontal stringing may be the gun moving with the flow of blood in your arms. Reason I say this is that when I was a kid my Dad and I did some long range prone shooting and I found I had to wait a while for the blood flow r...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
popeye That's a very good point. It demonstrates why I quit carrying a .338 around the man-eaters and started using hard lead bullets. My testing shows that the lead bullets won't self destruct at point blank impact velocities, but the .338 bullets I was using will. They're moving much to fast at th...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9383
Re: OT-- boat lovin' -- don't look if you hate boat stories
http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Sail/images/Eric-1.gif http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Sail/images/Eric-2.gif Ah Ji, we're connected more than you know. I've wanted to sail around the world all my life. I love Atkins boats too, and I built Thistle, the flush deck version of Eric, out of ferroce...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9383
Re: OT-- boat lovin' -- don't look if you hate boat stories
:mrgreen: When you get Her done, can we Pen Test Her? I'll bet the 525 makes the biggest dent :lol: What, you don't think it would lodge in the offside skin? You can hold the orange skillet. Mike, your boat is gorgeous. Remember, adventures are for readers, sailors don't need any extra excitement. ...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: IF you could have only one rifle, one pistol....
- Replies: 88
- Views: 8055
Re: IF you could have only one rifle, one pistol....
Big Surprise: GS and RH.
That would be my Marlin 1895 Guide Gun and my Ruger Redhawk .44 mag. Both can be loaded down to girlie levels, and loaded up to freight train levels. I'd feel very well armed anywhere anytime.
Grizz
That would be my Marlin 1895 Guide Gun and my Ruger Redhawk .44 mag. Both can be loaded down to girlie levels, and loaded up to freight train levels. I'd feel very well armed anywhere anytime.
Grizz
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
Sort of true, but the one thing that kills and injures more folks in Yellowstone is the bison. Bears get one once in awhile, but not near as many. When a 2000lb bovine has decided humans are evil and need to be erraditcated, they're every bit as deadly as a bear. Too true Don. A friend tells me tha...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9383
Re: OT-- boat lovin' -- don't look if you hate boat stories
Good idea horsesoldier, but I said lever. I wonder about Columbus's arms. I think he had muskets and probably small canon, but don't have any immediate information. Something to explore. JP had a great call and of course gets double kudos because he found a lever I wasn't referring to. The other lev...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9383
Re: OT-- boat lovin' -- don't look if you hate boat stories
Thanks. Yeah, it's fun to see what makes people tick. My boat got me out of the rack for lots of years. Well, and the fish that followed her around. And now it's all good.mescalero1 wrote:I am not a boat person, but that was still cool.
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9383
Re: OT-- boat lovin' -- don't look if you hate boat stories
Very Kewl. I too am a boat person. A sail boat person to be exact. I enjoyed the read and history of the stories. Thanks Mike, Yeah, I've sailed some and am looking at options to go again. Believe it or not, and I hardly believe it myself, I'm considering building a Wharram Cat out of aluminum. She...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9383
OT-- boat lovin' -- look here if you love boat stories
Most of ya know I'm a boat person, whatever that means.
This is part of what it means:
http://empresspublications.com/xy/boat_love.htm
Enjoy. And kudos to whoever figures out where there's lever action to be found aboard...
Grizz
This is part of what it means:
http://empresspublications.com/xy/boat_love.htm
Enjoy. And kudos to whoever figures out where there's lever action to be found aboard...
Grizz
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
I grant you can work the problem backwards. Some years ago a woodsman in Alaska was in the woods. Maybe making the trek to the outhouse. He disappeared. Some number of years later a large menacing bear was killed and investigated to see what it's life story was. In the lower jaw and parts of the bea...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quick 44 WCF range trip and mini-report
- Replies: 11
- Views: 867
Re: Quick 44 WCF range trip and mini-report
Kirk,
If you gave the bullet weight I couldn't find it, regardless of how big I made the type.
That's good shooting I'd say.
If you gave the bullet weight I couldn't find it, regardless of how big I made the type.
That's good shooting I'd say.
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
Grizz, I didn't "skip" your thread, more like I missed it. Some times this forum moves so fast I miss things. If you'll link me to it I'll read it right quick. Joe Here ya go Joe: http://levergunscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7983 that .44 data builds on this earlier test: http://...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
That's the smart way to do it. Find out what the gun likes, Find out how they perform. Just going out and seeing what happens, like with the oak trees in your case, is a great learning experience. And truth is, there probably aren't any skulls that are harder than that oak, so you probably have a go...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
Bluehawk, Not disputing your loads. I was trying to answer Joe's question by 'splaining what I see in the heavies. If we could shoot together you would see the difference. Not to say that your loads aren't good ones, just saying if brer bear is sitting on me, I'd prefer mine. Grizz PS: here's a link...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS --> million lawsuit march
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1750
Re: OT --> million lawsuit march
This is not going to be easy. The statists don't take no for an answer. This is going to be a tough fight, but a smart young lawyer can get rich just on the civil liberties aspect of the case. Kind of the reverse of suing the gun manufacturers, eh? EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE ANTI-GUN LAWS HAS INFRING...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heavy bullet question .....
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3818
Re: Heavy bullet question .....
Joe, Did you skip my post on the field tests? Look over the data for my .44 handgun load. That bullet penetrated 13.5" of douglas fir at the lower velocity. I upped the velocity to make it perform that way at 50 yards. It is not a high pressure, high velocity load. It is a low pressure, low vel...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45-70 load with these bullets:
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1742
Re: 45-70 load with these bullets:
Mike, I don't have specific data, but I look for the closest thing I can find in a copper jacketed bullet and study the loads and pressures. It's generally safe shooting the loads for the copper bullets under cast lead ones because the lead bullets are more slippery and produce less pressure, ALL EL...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS --> million lawsuit march
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1750
POLITICS --> million lawsuit march
it's time, isn't it, to go after the brady's and the boxers and the rest of them who have violated our civil rights for all these years, and gotten away with violating the constitution. the law didn't change, the constitution didn't change, and we've suffered grievous loss of our civil liberties. it...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Home defence in OZ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2050
Re: POLITICS - Home defence in OZ...
Kirk, please, what are they?There are a number of standard terms, phrases, distances, etc. that if used in your statement, can make a very large difference in whether you are charged or not.
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A Whack of Photos of Some Older Winchesters
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4589
Re: A Whack of Photos of Some Older Winchesters
very fine Kirk, you have refined taste in leverguns
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Added a couple of special order Marlin's to the safe
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1439
Re: Added a couple of special order Marlin's to the safe
just plain beautiful, big smile makers those are...
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report A levergun results video
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1962
Re: A levergun results video
Wayne Miller You can shoot in national forests, you can shoot in capitol state forest, probably some others too. I just look for the old logging roads, they usually have some wide outs and dead ends that are useful. I hate shooting at gun ranges and go out of my way to find spots. It's kind of fun e...
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report A levergun results video
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1962
Re: A levergun results video
Now if you could run that PileDriver through those four round pieces of wood you've got all that soft water stacked on; I'd be impressed. Rio Hondo Hank was traversing them sideways last year in WY with his Marlin .50 Alaskan, my dinky 525 load wouldn't do it. But Hank loads them up on the cusp and...
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Spur of the moment purchase TODAY !
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2993
Re: Spur of the moment purchase TODAY !
TODAY
again ?
there I go cracking myself up again.....
again ?
there I go cracking myself up again.....
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report A levergun results video
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1962
Re: A levergun results video
We shoot in the forest near the east boundry of Grays Harbor Co.
multipurpose recreation area
we've tried a lot of places, but this one gives us 140 open yards
what's that range like? can you set up gongs and shoot water jugs?
multipurpose recreation area
we've tried a lot of places, but this one gives us 140 open yards
what's that range like? can you set up gongs and shoot water jugs?
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report A levergun results video
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1962
Range Report A levergun results video
Went out with Blaine and some more of the good guys last weekend. I got myself a chrono and set up a little ballistic station off to the side of the main events. If you recall my RedHawk subsonic load report, I added a half grain to the charge and documented the results. I ran out of bullets so the ...
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My One Political Post (before I go to Africa)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2062
Re: My One Political Post (before I go to Africa)
Amen Jim and Godspeed.....,
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Traded Into A 1895 In 405--UpDated With Pics!!!!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2326
Re: Traded Into A 1895 In 405--UpDated With Pics!!!!
I figured, it's a beaut.BlaineG wrote:My Grandparents got that when they were married.....I think is was made in the late 1800s and kind of a family thing....Daughter would kill me if sold it......Grizz wrote:What would you trade for that chest of drawers?
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
I will say it again , IT ain't a Market, It's GAMBLING, where only the consumer looses!!!!! I will say it again. it IS a market. It is NOT gambling. And consumers benefit from it. Willful ignorance isn't informed opinion. Folks are entitled to any opinion they desire, but when it's wrong, it's wron...
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A grab bag - M1886, 475 Turnbull, tang sights & cast bullets
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3057
Re: A grab bag - M1886, 475 Turnbull, tang sights & cast bullets
I hate folding barrel sights. Here's why: I was walking one of my favorite game trails near the timber break at alpine level. There was bear sign around, and being overly imaginative every rock, stump, and moss covered log lying in shadow looked like a bear to me. When I raised my rifle to my should...
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Traded Into A 1895 In 405--UpDated With Pics!!!!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2326
Re: Traded Into A 1895 In 405--UpDated With Pics!!!!
What would you trade for that chest of drawers?
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - AnarchoCapitalisim, somthing to think about
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1136
Re: Politics - AnarchoCapitalisim, somthing to think about
first, I don't call "liberals" by the old term, I call them commies or more appropriately STATISTS. There is nothing liberal about them. "...a social philosophy whose central tenet is that human beings can live justly and harmoniously without government and that the imposition of gove...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - If The First Were Treated Like The Second
- Replies: 8
- Views: 747
Re: Politics - If The First Were Treated Like The Second
Paul, I have thought about that a lot. I've often wondered what the newspapers would say when we told them that the ink they use is damaging a spotted lame tick, only three of which are known to exist. I also think we should register print media as dangerous to human life, based on the cases of peop...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT..OT...OT....Tired of political posts?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4507
Re: OT..OT...OT....Tired of political posts?
Oh man, you guys don't know what you've been missing, and probably never will. It is an absolute blast to shoot fish, but I cannot reveal the source of this information.
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - AnarchoCapitalisim, somthing to think about
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1136
Re: Politics - AnarchoCapitalisim, somthing to think about
I'll tell you why as nicely as I can. If you can show that in the past, say in Webster's First Dictionary, or even the Second, the definition is what you desire it to be, then I can go along with that. But, if you are telling me that you want to make up a definition based on what you wish it means, ...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - AnarchoCapitalisim, somthing to think about
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1136
Re: Politics - AnarchoCapitalisim, somthing to think about
an·ar·chist –noun 1. a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism. 2. a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed. 3. a person who p...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
oldmax there's excess and corruption in everything. it's human nature. look at congress. look at the senate. there's excess and corruption on a scale of trillions of dollars originating from that oligarchy. just about NO ONE understands the commodity markets and the function they have in the economy...
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
well, that's one person's opinion. there's not one citation or shred of evidence that anything the writer alleges is in fact true. in addition to which there's not one link to the web page's origins, positions, or any other bona fides. in other words, it's a rant by someone who appears to make up st...
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Video capture
- Replies: 2
- Views: 363
Re: OT- Video capture
Digital video is easy to upload onto windows boxes. Then you can use the microsoft application called "movie maker". It's free software, runs on winxp and I suppose others, and is surprisingly easy to use and fairly powerful given its cost.
- Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How many years does it take to build a refinery?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2636
Re: OT - How many years does it take to build a refinery?
If McCain and the GOP leadership had half a brain cell between them they would start non-stop hammering the Dem's day and night between now and the election on the topic of energy independence. Show the American public, relentlessly, how the Dem's alliance with the environmentalists have brought ab...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Puzzle Four's New Sight (bolt mounted Williams)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1501
Re: Puzzle Four's New Sight (bolt molunted Williams)
- these aren't benchrest target rifles, and that's a fact. Pete, I was commenting about this statement, which is correct. But my corollary comment proves that the "not benchrest rifles" are capable of pretty impressive bench rest performance: http://www.levergunpm.com/ on the left pane cl...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - How many years does it take to build a refinery?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2636
Re: OT - How many years does it take to build a refinery?
Those WERE the good old days...Old Time Hunter wrote:I believe the Army Corp of Engineers built one in New Zealand during WWII, up and running in 45 days!
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
Oh, what the heck, I'll nit-pick on one of the points, on the electric cars. I wouldn't be surprised if your summary is correct regarding the current state of the art, but American ingenuity is working on super-capacitors which would change the equation. If they could deliver a 75 mi range, most co...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
MARKET: Implies Buying a product for use or for resale . HEDGE FUND, Does this imply Buying a product for resale ???? I THINK NOT! It Implies a " Get Rich Quick " scheme with no regard to others... There is NO intention to securing the product for resale. It is only the paper ( promise to...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Browning 1886
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2140
Re: Browning 1886
Two holes on the tang a half inch apart? That doesnt sound right for the normal tang sights used on lever guns, there should be one hole just behind the hammer, and the rear tang sight mounting hole is the stock screw. Yea, you know, someone not interested in aesthetics, just make what ya got, fit!...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
Well, see there, we don't always not see eye-to-eye, and that's a good thing.KWK wrote:Geeze, a post from Grizz I feel no great need to argue with.
(Not that I agree with all the points, mind you.)
Grizz
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Puzzle Four's New Sight (bolt mounted Williams)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1501
Re: Puzzle Four's New Sight (bolt molunted Williams)
Uh, um, ah, have you looked at the ranch dog targets? I'm just saying,Pete44ru wrote: IMHO, there's not enough "slop" in any of these bolts to make a gnat's butt worth of difference when shooting - these aren't benchrest target rifles, and that's a fact.
Grizz
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Puzzle Four's New Sight (bolt mounted Williams)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1501
Re: Puzzle Four's New Sight (bolt molunted Williams)
Lo-Pro... GOTTA HAVE THAT ONE...
what's the contact info please ?
Grizz
what's the contact info please ?
Grizz
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6002
Re: POLITICS - Oil Exploration
We have a sparsely regulated comodities market, and a bubble in oil prices. That's the fast way back down. It's fashionable to blame the commodities markets, but let me ask you, when oil was trading for 10$ a barrel a few years ago, why weren't those nasty markets just bidding the price up to where...