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Oldncrusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 1:21 pm Yep. Horrible stuff. Makes you want to tap your foot. Everyone knows that leads to dancing.

You guys know why the other church in town, down the road, forbids its parishioners to make whoopee standing up, right?

Might lead to dancing!

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Hemingway later used some of his experiences turning his boat a Q-ship in his novel "Islands in the Stream". In real life, there is some debate as to how serious he was about it, and he never actually found any Germans. Probably just as well. Imagine a bunch of drunks in a fishing boat, ar...

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For me, 1886 Lightweight in .33 Win.

I actually got to handle one once, although I didn't shoot. Man, that handles nice.

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The subject line of this thread is grammatically incorrect.

The proper way to conjugate that sentence is "I ain't never done et squirrel".

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Me, I always figure a new gun every year is a whole lot cheaper than a new woman every year.

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There must have been a long shortage (still is) of available 348 ammo...... I read citing where shops back in the day had barrels (like a whiskey barrel, not a rifle barrel) full of M71's on the extra cheap "nobody wanted". Only reason I see that would be is no ammo to be found. When I wa...

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Trump Effect. Not joking.

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A couple of things we haven't talked much about yet -- mobility and balance. I've seen a fair number of guys (*) who managed to retain a surprising level of strength and and muscularity well into their 80's or even 90's. You know what they didn't have? Mobility and balance. It doesn't really matter ...

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:29 am Pretty much all of these features you fear can be turned off.

I'm not sure that "fear" is exactly the right term, but in any case that would give me a concern that The Party would turn them back on, remotely.

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I am searching for a good, systematic way to find out what "features" are present in any new vehicle I might consider. Over-the-air software updates are a non-starter. Geofencing is a non-starter -- if I wanted to live in a "15 minute city" (for which read "to be confined to...

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I'm old enough to remember when small-town diners would have liver and onions on the menu. Later, when I was in college, I worked in a fancy restaurant as a dishwasher. Liver was on the menu there, and it was *good*. The cooks told me that most people don't know how to cook liver. Wish I could remem...

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Lifted.

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No, wait, I have a better idea. We'll cut down a ,45-60 (or .45-70, .45-90, etc.).

Yes, that's right -- the .45-47!

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Ruger -Six's.

Probably all Ruger DA's, although the -Six's are the only ones I have personal experience with.

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Most agencies qualify quarterly so they get shot very little, unless they're SWAT weapons. Shotguns are even a better buy. I got a police trade-in 870 from gunjoker. Stiffest action I ever saw on a pump gun. Action bars were dinged up and twisted, etc. I like to think that some backwoods deputy ham...

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This'n here's mine.

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Hard no. I am old enough (barely) to remember the 5 mm Remington Magnum.

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Grizz wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:27 am The MEDICAL GENIUS INDUSTRY was the source of the suck-the-poison routine.

Punch line to an old dirty joke -- "Doctor says you gonna die".

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Oh, and .45 ACP, too.

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4t5 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 11:45 am Those of you who use this powder, what do you use it for?

Based on Ed Harris's article, I've used it, in various amounts, for .30 Short Russian, .30 Long Russian, and .30-30. I've also used it for .38 Special.

Had plans to do other things with it. This announcement bums me out,

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That's a really good idea.

Also consider carrying some kind of bottled water, no just for drinking, but also any water suitable for drinking can be used for wound irrigation, eye irrigation, etc...

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:03 pm
No good answer, really.

How about "get a warrant"?

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I really believe these little rifles are the quintessential personal defense firearms. They're very simple to operate, even for the uninitiated, I took a young female, one of my EMS rookies, out to the range once. She'd never fired a long before. Let her put a couple of mags through a 10/22 for con...

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hfcable wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 6:48 pm i have an israeli made M1 carbine in 5.7 johnson. is it useful ? i dont know but it sure is a neat little rifle

I am going to stop hanging out here. You people make me Think Bad Thoughts.

Before I go, though, what kind of reloading data you using for the 5.7 Johnson?

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I have a Universal. Put a PSA red dot on it and even set myself up to reload, with a Lee Turret press. I have since stepped boldly into the 1960's and got me an AR, but I still sometimes daydream about going all-in on Carbines...SBR one, get one in 5.7 Johnson, and so on. Maybe when I retire. It's a...

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Still looks better than a levergun with an AR stock and a quad rail with a bunch of stuff bolted to it.

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Not sure it is what is happening to you, but I can confirm for a fact that it's possible to lock up a -Six by shooting primer-only wax bullet loads, even with the flash holes drilled out to 1/8th inch.

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Interesting find.

Could the slug be some kind of sintered metal? Would make sense given the application.

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The book-length version, complete with Hunter's usual meticulous research:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Gunfigh ... 0743260694

I imagine most here would enjoy...

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Also, for penetrating German overcoats. (7.62 Tokarev) Fairbairn thought the 7.63 Mauser (essentially a downloaded Tok, of course) was the deadliest pistol caliber. That was then, this is now, but, yeah, if you took a round from a Bolo Mauser to the torso in 1930's Shanghai, you were probably going...

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1894cfan wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 11:14 am If you go that route, might as well make it a 30 Carbine?

I would accept a pump action .30 Carbine.

But my original thought was a niche more like a modern day .32-20.

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I want to see the .30 Super Carry in some kind of light carbine. That would be a mighty fine woods-walking gun.

Extra points for a pump action. The Remington Model 25 of a new generation.

Sigh. I can dream...

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One of the most experienced guys I know did this. Decades of experience with EMS and Fire.

Anyone can space out and go on autopilot. Only takes one time.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:22 am Seems like a new shooter at the minimum would need a 22LR and 9 mm handgun

How about a 9 mil and a .22 conversion unit for same.

Then the same trick for an AR.

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No idea.

I was too busy playing with one of these.

https://www.guns.com/news/2011/08/19/th ... oy-cap-gun

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There's a old university urban legend... Supposedly, decades before DNA, some scientist was doing research on blood typing for some reason. And came to find out that, just based on blood type (i.e., ABO) alone, some shockingly high percentage of the people he studied could not possibly have been the...

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Also of note, these bad boys were the standard arm of the North Woods from 'bout when they started making them up until maybe the 1970's. And why not.

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I remember being a little kid and hanging around the country general store listening to the World War One vets (who were the same age as Vietnam vets are today). They'd say "oh, those dummies -- if we hadn't gone over there they'd still be fighting!" Some historians have lately validated t...

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I'd like to see a .41 *Special* in a Python, GP100, maybe even a K frame?.

It shouldn't be that hard to put a .41 cartridge in a .41 frame.

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The online manual says: The preferred method of trimming using this tool is to orient the tool such that the case is pressed in to the tool using a straight downward or angled downward motion. I'm having trouble understanding how to do that with a cordless drill as a power source. Can someone please...

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would you guys buy a pre-filled first aid kit, or put together one of your own. Put one together myself. Most premade kits are heavy on minor boo-boos, and somewhere between light and "not present" on major stuff. You can buy better ones, but any of the heavy duty ones I am aware of have ...

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...If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:14 pm at 1 point the
" lowly " 25-20 killed the long standing whitetail record buck.

To be fair, that guy shot that buck like eight or nine times.

On the other hand, although I certainly don't need another caliber to reload, I keep hearing the .25-20's siren song.

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I got ahold of some of these back in the 80's. I intended to shoot them in one of those old .22 Mag High Standard Double Derringers or whatever they were called, like shooting Specials in a Magnum. Could barely close the action, took quite a bit of effort. My impression was that the rim thickness wa...

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One of the VFD's around here (not mine) got called to a house fire. Homeowner is standing outside when they get there, says "I'm a reloader and my powder and primers are right behind that window there". Them country boys on that department knew exactly what that meant. They got water throu...

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I had a serrated Spyderco Native since the 90's. I lost it a year or two ago on a Fire call. And when you lose something on a Fire call, it is gone baby gone. darn I miss that blade. As far as I'm concerned, a full serrated Native is the best light/medium utility blade there is. Yeah, you can open i...

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Morning view from the front door of the ambulance base a few weeks ago.

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These were high maintenance rifles due to blowback entering the action and locking surfaces. Big gunstore around here used to offer (and probably still does) a service to convert 74X's to pump action. Probably not the world's worst idea. I do not own a pump action rifle, and never have. I should fi...

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samsi wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:03 pm [
With 38 Specials (or 44 Specials in the 44 mag) I go with 2 Shooter mode, chamber the first round and then load the second in the tube.

Cool hack, thanks!

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While we are talking about Rossi 92's, what's chances of one feeding flush loaded .38 wadcutters? I usually have a bunch of such lying around, so it would be nice to be able to use them. I've gotten the understanding, from lurking here in the past, that it's kind of coin flip if wadcutters will work...

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