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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: When I finally learned to shoot.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 940
Re: When I finally learned to shoot.
After reading that article I copied it for my files and read it again. Then I went and got out my Model 25 Daisy BB gun and spent some time shooting it. Knocking small objects around the yard was fun. Shooting stuff in the air ... throwing it myself .. was harder and I need to work on that. This mo...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Now THIS is one wild dog…!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 971
Re: Now THIS is one wild dog…!!!
No kidding. He's just doing that to make me feel bad about my center of gravity.
I new a woman in Alaska whose Lab would ride behind her on the kayak . . .
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
Bears are not harder to kill than large bison, or range bulls, but they have ATTITUDE. They kill for a Living, and get good at it. I do not like shooting bears when there looking at you…..sometimes you have NO choice, they usually go where there looking. If there already coming, and looking right a...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
A friend was stationed in Anchorage, well the AFB, Elmdorf? Anyhow he guided on the side for salmon as did a few other airmen. One of his guys was charged and a Beretta M9 was employed- full magazine brought into play hitting the bear with all of them there 9mms and it died very close to getting th...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
I doubt that I'll ever meet Ursus arctos horribilis in even the wildest parts of Texas, so I stick to what I feel is sufficient for Ursus americanus. I have 4: 1 - 375 Win, 220 JFN @ approx 2250fps from the 22" Marlin 375; 2 - 45 Colt, 250 JFN w/24 grains of H4227 for ~1775 fps from the 20&quo...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
Do you remember that story from half a dozen years ago about a guy in Alaska who was out walking his dog in the morning when he heard a small noise in the bushes just behind him? It was a grizzly bear that charged at him from close by. The man always carried a .454 in a belt holster and he emptied ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
For many years I carried a 454 with 300 grain Sierra Soft Points. They are extremely hard SP bullets, and the most accurate 45 caliber bullet. In a 45, 21.0 grains of 2400, with the Sierra 8830. That and a stouter version in 454 has taken over 200 head of game for me. That’s at revolver velocity, a...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2332
Re: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
[/quote] And any of this is unusual in a case with a warrant and related to trafficking in guns? [/quote] It sends a message. actual real criminals traffic in guns every day, without the jackboot type atf response. in the days of every crooked political crime family skating with millions in loot, an...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2332
Re: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
Well, the guy died in the hospital so there's little likelihood that we'll ever know the truth. the truth is they stole his guns. they were observed with steel cutting equipment and tools for ripping up the house. they were observed carting guns from the house to a trailer or vehicle. the truth is ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
Six Gun wrote:'There’s not too many people who could hold their cool on a moving target intent on eating you so I would opt for a load with the most recoil and then I’d shoot straight down in the ground hoping the recoil would push me high enough to grab a branch."...... exactly.... On the Mar...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
The only heavy load I've worked up in 44 Magnum is Ranch Dog CTL432-265-RF over 22 grains W296. I've not had the chance to work with a heavier bullet yet. I hunted in Alaska for years with a 10" SBH 44 with a 320 grain cast plain base truncated cone at unknown velocity. Made lots of venison. T...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
The OP asked about a 44 vs 45 LC. The 45/70 is no doubt a much bigger hammer. In rifles of the same strength, you can put the greater capacity of the 45LC case to good use. It has about 20% more capacity and the same weight pills are much shorter. A 45LC loaded to the same pressure is probably good...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
My 45.Here's the shot ->
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here is a close up with the plank airborne from they hydraulic down force
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and this is the recovered bullet. started out as a truncated cone.
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Marshal's alloy is the best.
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here is a close up with the plank airborne from they hydraulic down force
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and this is the recovered bullet. started out as a truncated cone.
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Marshal's alloy is the best.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2155
Re: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
okay you have a big bear coming in fast, lets say a grizzly minimum. I wont go into details whether you were hunting or suprized or how this actually occurred. :D But lets say you have a 44 mag or 45 colt lever gun at hand for whatever reason and you will get just 1 shot away. What load and bullet ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1703
Re: Baseball fans here?
Yeah OK but, what about professional airplane drivers? conceited and some might think over paid. what about professional medical "healthcare" experts? They seem to be continually wrong with herd momentum, and big paychecks to boot. And what about professional truck drivers? I mean, yeah th...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Here was a gal with "true grit"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 804
Re: Here was a gal with "true grit"
sounds like Alaskans to me
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2332
Re: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
His guns. They stole his guns and shot him in the head. Simple home invasion stuff, nothing to see hereAJMD429 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:31 pm .
https://www.yahoo.com/news/airport-exec ... 16972.html
Kinda creepy, given the 'overkill' so often politically motivated...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 999
Re: For all you mule skinners.......
Grizz, the last time I was there was over 40 years ago... There were more wild n' wooly events back then... such as a two man wild mule packin' contest, and the chuck wagon races were also using barely broke mules... as it often turned into a wild chase for the drivers & partners racing on foot...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Panic time. . . . an ECLIPSE…!!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1281
Re: If you think that's crazy ...
several counties in Texas have issued disaster declarations about the eclipse. Travis County (Austin) is one of the leading ones. If you have 50 people or more to watch the eclipse you have to register with the county. Sounds sorta like the judge in the original post above, warning people it's gonn...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SPAMMERS
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1961
Re: SPAMMERS
Kudos gamekeeper for the stick-to-it-ivness .
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a second monitor could be a big help with the swinging back and forth between two instances and the copy/paste. or two pages up on a split screen. would that help?
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a second monitor could be a big help with the swinging back and forth between two instances and the copy/paste. or two pages up on a split screen. would that help?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Missing my sixguns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1759
Re: Missing my sixguns
nice photos. did you go up in the monument? hope it's still open . . .
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1274
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 999
Re: For all you mule skinners.......
The few times the wife & I went we tent camped up in the mountains, frosty mornings and chilly evenings. It's some distance to drive into Bishop, but the nights were cold for us then Southern California residents. This year during the week scheduled the forecast shows daytime temps in the low 8...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Guns for newbies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2000
Re: First Guns for newbies
. Another interesting option for frail-handed people is the KelTec PMR-30 Pistol. Screenshot_20240313-095139-390.png Easy racking, very light weight, little recoil, and a bunch (30+1) of 22 WMR rounds. Not a CCW gun for most ( I'd do it, but then again I carried a Super Blackhawk for awhile :? ), b...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1274
Re: The Term "pistol" ....
There are varieties of people who've been described as a pistol-something, or a something-pistol, but I can't think of any. Can you?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why isnt there more variety?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1666
Re: Why isnt there more variety?
With the rising popularity of pistol caliber leverguns why hasnt there been a similar rise in the variety of "gummy tip" projectiles? Hornady only makes 140s for 357...why no 125, 115 or even 158? The better ballistic coefficient seems like a no brainer for tubular mags. Heck, a 165 grain...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 999
Re: For all you mule skinners.......
Griff, if you had to pick one day, what would it be? Would love to make that one, but it may already be toooo hot for me. I've gone thru Owens Valley in the heat of summer and it is second only to D.V. for wildly oppressive heat. Gas up at the casino, and up over 8000' in about 40 minutes, where I c...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 999
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1703
Re: Baseball fans here?
BATTER UP.jpg Ah Bill, you posted the first interesting, decent, respectable, and accurate Times article in a hundred or so years!! The only disappointment was that the author neglected to post the Score of the game she attended. Thanks for posting this. My Dad exquisitely summed up my baseball ski...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 651
Re: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
the word "claymore" comes to mind. not a firearm, etc . . .
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
- Replies: 7
- Views: 654
Re: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
that ticks all the boxes a 44 Mag with a 1:20 barrel !!!!! !! !!new pig hunter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:27 am 2023 Editor’s Choice Award – Marlin 1894 Classic
https://www.ontargetmagazine.com/2024/0 ... 4-classic/
That's about all I'd need, unless I'd need a 454 Casull 1894.
A great rifle
grizz
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: That Adams percussion repro ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 412
Re: That Adams percussion repro ...
The reproduction of this very interesting British .442 revolver from the 1850s by Arsa in Spain is slowly proceeding. Initial pricing of 1,000 € puts it out of my league, but I sure would love to see and handle one. More in this thread over at Britishmilitaria ... https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/br...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheapie AR….
- Replies: 4
- Views: 505
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Last Outlaw movie review
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2064
Re: The Last Outlaw movie review
you are Much More disciplined than I am although I don't go to movies. although i might make an exception for one last drive in flick . . .
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I wonder if it is like this
- Replies: 5
- Views: 807
Re: I wonder if it is like this
I'm guessing we will be speaking a new language, we'll have new names, but I think in a new language. where no disparaging word was ever heard... .Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:52 am I’m betting that being in the presence of our Lord would not easily be described with words.
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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3037
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Well, I've been thinking about a 357 carbine for a while, and would prefer a 16" barrel for sure. I was looking at the 16" henry's but they seem to be non-existant. They pop up on gunbroker sometime, but they go for $1200 - $1500. The new marlins are at least $1200 and don't come with a 1...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3037
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Every time this comes up I read up on Rossi and the 454 Casull, I think that it sounds like a great carbine hunting round. Finally I have to stretch, walk over to the stainless guide gun, says 45 on it, and I re-realize that I am all set in that category, again :!: :lol: I save lots of money failing...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1526
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 927
Re: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
A great friend Doc, sorry for your loss, happy for his new home . . .
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1526
Re: Whatever it takes.
. Matt did good. Kind of disappointed in Kitty that she just stood there looking why the guy was crawling towards a gun; she should have either got in control of the gun and shot the guy or at least got the gun out of his reach. But Doc the script told Kitty to stand there like a helpless woman I'd...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1428
Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
I just bought this JM 336W from a private owner in New Hampshire. He switched the pistol grip plain stock, to a Texan straight stock configuration along with a straight lower trigger tang and a straight finger lever. He also had installed a Beartooth safety delete. I install these in all my cross b...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1710
Re: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
I know its probably not in the category of rounds easy or sensible to fit in a lever action, but I bet someone out there has done or can do it. Or maybe it cant be with that rebated rim? case rim is the same as 44 mag if that helps. I know bighorn does the 500SW and 500 linebaugh but quite a bit bi...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aluminum receivers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1055
Re: Aluminum receivers
I have been seeing 1892 Browning pattern guns with aluminum receivers out of Turkey on YouTube. Given how the 92 locks via two steel lugs on either side the bolt rear and against the rear of the receiver, do you guys think the aluminum will hold up or give headspace issues eventually? Good question...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I lost my willie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1801
Re: I lost my willie
He was an abused horse. I took him to keep the owner from shooting him and we bonded. It took 2 years before he would let me ride him or catch him loose in the field. I am, literally, the only person who could handle him. My wife was terrified of him but we were buds and I darn sure am gonna miss h...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: went to a shooting range yesterday
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1133
went to a shooting range yesterday
I mentioned this project somewhere, found a real gunsmith and took the American Classic to him with a box of parts. I got the barrel from Sarco, the sear spring somewhere else, he sourced the 24# recoil spring and the barrel bushing which he hand fitted, he machined out the clearance for the recoil ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5171
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5171
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Dittos, Beautiful. The Pacific is lovely when he is pacific.Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 757
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age. That's very interesting. There must be a lot of a...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guilty!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1757
Re: Guilty!
Not sayin' anything about her guilt, she was the official armorer. But they got their sacrificial lamb now, throat cut and bleeding. Baldwin, who violated every one of the unofficial rules of gun safety will walk free. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't. yeah I agree. . . Baldwin has enough money...