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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Batteries (that leak) Suck…
- Replies: 2
- Views: 50
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Colt, 135 grain bullet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 346
Re: 45 Colt, 135 grain bullet
The math was right. There was a slight Operator Error in that the results were switched ... .355" diameter has a total area of 0.09898 square inches .452" diameter has a total area of 0.412825 square inches Seems I need to hire a someone to double-check my work. Um, the brass fetchers?
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: NEW HENRY 45-70 WITH 22 INCH OCTAGON BARREL
- Replies: 1
- Views: 45
Re: NEW HENRY 45-70 WITH 22 INCH OCTAGON BARREL
DO ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THIS RIFLE? I just bought it and will pick it up on Monday. I am a big fan of 45-70, and have owned Rugers, both #1 and #3, Marlins before Ruger bought them, both the rifle and Guide gun, Henrys , with out the loading gate, and an all weather with the loading gat...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
- Replies: 5
- Views: 723
Re: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
. It keeps getting sillier and sillier and yet the 'progressives' and 'environmentalists' have no self-awareness as to their ignorance... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-the-culprit-for-spike-in-little-known-greenhouse-gas-more-potent-than-co2/ar-AA1nik84 you can say that again, . ai_s...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Carry gun for an 89 year old man……good one
- Replies: 14
- Views: 357
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Movies
- Replies: 16
- Views: 245
Re: Old Movies
They don’t have to be too old to be good. Watching Quigley Down Under right now It is worth watching. One tell, Tom Selleck makes Laura San Giacomo into a real actress, and he elevates the performance of everybody else. I like the dialog a lot. Same with Open Range. Love the dialog, and Robert Duva...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost our pup this week
- Replies: 13
- Views: 152
Re: Lost our pup this week
SO SORRY for your loss, and for Remi's loss. We hate losing our dogs.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Biofire smart gun
- Replies: 4
- Views: 67
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone still shoot handgun silhouette?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 209
Re: Anyone still shoot handgun silhouette?
The Shootists Holiday home range is the Pistol Silhouette Range at The Whittington Center. We shoot a lot of silhouettes .. all of them in fact .. but we have never held a competition. Just there having fun trying to knock targets over with about any handgun ever. We use rifles also but only in pis...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
- Replies: 7
- Views: 200
Re: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
He posts regularly over at AccurateReloading.com as 458Win and you can take his advice to the bank. I like his tagline: "Anyone who claims the 30-06 is ineffective has either not tried one, or is unwittingly commenting on their own marksmanship" https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/fo...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
- Replies: 7
- Views: 200
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
- Replies: 7
- Views: 200
Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
He explains why I am loading 255 Gr HC 45 Super in my 1911 for woods carry. Best straight talk no BS video online . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANI6U-SL4o 4_255 compr 240 ACP.jpeg After thinking about it, I might drop the velocity on that 255 to ball velocities to see how it performs. As it...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Carry gun for an 89 year old man……good one
- Replies: 14
- Views: 357
Re: Carry gun for an 89 year old man……good one
https://youtu.be/q5ev1IH8Xqs?si=_3YRAr3feinTzW30 Not a bad choice. I stupidly sold my brand new Highway Patrolman before it became world famous. dum dum. However my 4" Model 66 shoots great, and has made venison a few times, so I can relate to the Model 28. I sure would like to see what you gu...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
- Replies: 18
- Views: 394
Re: Ruger/Marlin 1894
It could be they stress fractured due to being too hard by barrel harmonics/ pressure as a bullet goes by. Those screws , for what they are doing could almost be dead soft. Heck they could have got a bad batch of screws from the manufacturer!? Good point. Airplanes have crashed and burned because o...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I wonder how iran can afford…
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
- Replies: 18
- Views: 394
Re: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Grade 8s only achieve their strength rating when torqued to a specific value, however they are more brittle than grade 5s and tend to break where movement is allowed. that's true, but it is true of all threaded fasteners, all of which can be broken if the threads get stripped or over-stretched in a...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
- Replies: 17
- Views: 322
Re: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
Thanks Gunny! I'm feeling a heck of a lot better than I was, even before I ended up in the hospital last fall. I knew something was wrong, but it took a while to get it all figured out. Mostly goes back to the respiratory infection I had in '15 that almost did me in. Quint has really changed over t...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 331
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTB in Wyoming
- Replies: 4
- Views: 171
Re: WTB in Wyoming
THANKS for the link ! that is a great resource . . .JBowen wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:42 pm Here is a link to one for sale on Homestead Parts.
https://homesteadparts.com/shop/link-wi ... cPath=1_10
JBowen
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 331
Re: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
Doc, could you possibly walk into the office with some photos, even though they should know the exact voltage at the drop? My guess is there is no one there who can make phone calls, or the que is a hundred cubits long . . . ): The low voltage could kill pumps and other motors . . .
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
- Replies: 18
- Views: 394
Re: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Gunny has it. Especially evident on the left screw. Look at the distinctly different color and structure of the one on the left as opposed to the solid color of the one on the right. You should send that photo to Ruger. if so, then they weren't tempered after hardening, they should not be much over...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Gotta Love Progressives.... LOL
- Replies: 3
- Views: 90
Re: Gotta Love Progressives.... LOL
. They just can't get past "identity" and virtue-signaling how "inclusive" they are... :roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Nn3bD-9u0 The story about that 'groundbreaking' judge even penetrated the pop-culture 'news' this week... :o https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/syste...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Oh Man - here comes ANOTHER Trump Indictment...!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 103
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I wonder how iran can afford…
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: shipping parcels - tips
- Replies: 6
- Views: 174
Re: shipping parcels - tips
Thanks Guys. When I lived in bush Alaska there was a break in the chain of custody as parcels for the outlying communities were often sent out on a plane that couldn't land at the destination, and the entire aircraft package load was sitting around the terminal until the weather cooperated. During t...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 331
Re: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
. I have OCD and so I framed, plumbed, a wired my house, and all the wiring is in metal conduit, so I’m sure no rodent damage there…! With all buildings affected it has to be at the power company end. look at the voltage on the main breaker panel ahead of the breaker where the power enters the main...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Colt, 135 grain bullet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 346
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: shipping parcels - tips
- Replies: 6
- Views: 174
shipping parcels - tips
I stumbled across this file I saved on an external drive, it's worth a read . . , A UPS DRIVER’S SUGGESTIONS FOR SHIPPING FIREARMS [and other valuables] ( March 1st, 2013) As a gun owner and an 11-year UPS driver, I get a lot of questions from people regarding the safest way to ship and insure firea...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Howdy Ya'll!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1081
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Howdy from Georgia!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 575
Re: Howdy from Georgia!
welcome from the pacific northwest. looks like the top one is the Top Gun :)
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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: An old experiment that I need to get back to
- Replies: 24
- Views: 687
Re: An old experiment that I need to get back to
I like the front sight and the hammer . . .
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I was talking with some friends about the S&W Model 10
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1050
Re: I was talking with some friends about the S&W Model 10
Nice one. I have the same grips on my 66. It has the best SA trigger i've ever shot . . .Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:05 am I like the 4 inch heavy barrel Model 10s and 13s.
But I shoot better with a little heavier gun. SAPD marked 681.
A fixed sight service revolver is still the top of the heap as far as I am concerned.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HAPPY EASTER
- Replies: 15
- Views: 387
HAPPY EASTER
Happy Easter from Japan ❤
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the Horse People ... you know who you are ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 368
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 654
Re: Baseball fans here?
It's funny, but it's not so much that I love baseball as it is loving the idea of loving baseball. I usually don't pay much attention until the Series starts, but the world seems a better place when spring training is underway. A half century ago, a Saturday was incomplete without having a Giants g...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The completely deranged individuals who want to run things
- Replies: 1
- Views: 116
Re: The completely deranged individuals who want to run things
. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-nearly-all-of-america-s-400-million-guns-have-got-to-go/ar-AA1ahkCx But check out this interview - I always thought Alex Jones was 'crazy', and I still tend to, but a lot LESS crazy than before watching Tucker Carlson interview him. https://youtu.be/zKHa...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: one shot with a 44 or 45 lever, whats you load
- Replies: 30
- Views: 970
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...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: 'They' are watching to see what you watch...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 151
Re: 'They' are watching to see what you watch...
. This is pretty creepy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/03/22/feds-ordered-google-to-unmask-certain-youtube-users-critics-say-its-terrifying/ No wonder people get VPN and other stuff; innocent curiosity could easily be (mis)used to create a 'pattern' to incriminate whoever poses a...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: When I finally learned to shoot.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 351
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: 324
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: 970
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: 970
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: 970
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: 970
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: 970
- 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: 970
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: 1145
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 10:46 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: It's all our fault (cancer in LGBT's)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 114
Re: It's all our fault (cancer in LGBT's)
Follow the facts. That twisted and demented world view is the exact thing that God said would happen to the people who chose to believe the lie. They call good 'evil', and they call evil 'good' because God has given them strong delusion: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that t...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1145
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: 970
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...