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by Grizz
Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
Replies: 7
Views: 170

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...
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
Replies: 7
Views: 170

Re: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears

Ray wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:28 pmPicture1-10.jpg
NICE. . . As the man said, it's the bullet construction and the placement and penetration, but he is way more relaxed around them than I am . . . I might have to get some of Sundle's 357 loads for the wheel gun now . . .
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Phil Shoemaker interview about bears
Replies: 7
Views: 170

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...
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Carry gun for an 89 year old man……good one
Replies: 10
Views: 254

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...
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Replies: 18
Views: 365

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...
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: I wonder how iran can afford…
Replies: 7
Views: 132

Re: I wonder how iran can afford…

Sixgun wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:45 pm The article is 8 years old……what boggles my mind is how does the United States come up with 1.7 billion in foreign cash.
PAYOLA + PAY TO PLAY
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Replies: 18
Views: 365

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...
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
Replies: 15
Views: 270

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...
by Grizz
Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:16 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
Replies: 14
Views: 293

Re: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?

AJMD429 wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:30 am .
Office 75 miles away so I’ll try phone first. !
32 minutes, Ja?
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:lol:
by Grizz
Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: Classifieds
Topic: WTB in Wyoming
Replies: 4
Views: 159

Re: WTB in Wyoming

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
THANKS for the link ! that is a great resource . . .
by Grizz
Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
Replies: 14
Views: 293

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 . . .
by Grizz
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Replies: 18
Views: 365

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...
by Grizz
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Gotta Love Progressives.... LOL
Replies: 2
Views: 63

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...
by Grizz
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:14 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Oh Man - here comes ANOTHER Trump Indictment...!
Replies: 4
Views: 91

Re: Oh Man - here comes ANOTHER Trump Indictment...!

Walt wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:48 amAnd another...
Thanks Walt, I forgot to check that box . . . :(
by Grizz
Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:23 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: I wonder how iran can afford…
Replies: 7
Views: 132

Re: I wonder how iran can afford…

AJMD429 wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:57 pm .
Yep.

Yet the ‘progressssssssssssives’ keep voting Dumascrap.
elections are rigged and the electorate is also rigged against God
righteousness cannot be voted into law
by Grizz
Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: shipping parcels - tips
Replies: 6
Views: 164

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...
by Grizz
Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dealing with Electrical Brownouts....?
Replies: 14
Views: 293

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...
by Grizz
Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 45 Colt, 135 grain bullet
Replies: 11
Views: 257

Re: 45 Colt, 135 grain bullet

JimT wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:56 am You cannot replace Mass and Momentum with "technology" ... no matter how "advanced" the projectile may be. And size matters. If it didn't we would see a lot more ice pick stabbings.
that's concise. I always thought that Mass and Momentum IS technology :)
by Grizz
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: shipping parcels - tips
Replies: 6
Views: 164

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...
by Grizz
Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Howdy Ya'll!
Replies: 32
Views: 1072

Re: Howdy Ya'll!

GunnyMack wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:44 pm I think if I were able to go back to 93 and do it again, it would have been a 41 special, a little less removal work !
KUDOS for that project, that's a super-power for sure, the skill and the gun both.
by Grizz
Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Howdy from Georgia!
Replies: 22
Views: 568

Re: Howdy from Georgia!

welcome from the pacific northwest. looks like the top one is the Top Gun :)

grizz
by Grizz
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 . . .
by Grizz
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: 1049

Re: I was talking with some friends about the S&W Model 10

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.
Nice one. I have the same grips on my 66. It has the best SA trigger i've ever shot . . .
by Grizz
Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HAPPY EASTER
Replies: 15
Views: 385

HAPPY EASTER

Happy Easter from Japan 🙏
by Grizz
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the Horse People ... you know who you are ...
Replies: 9
Views: 368

Re: For the Horse People ... you know who you are ...

wvfarrier wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:23 pm Try a gaited horse.....or do like my buddy and learn to drive a sulky
please explain gaited horse,.. new to me. i know there are various gates, including for dogs, but don't know how it applies. Thanks
by Grizz
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...
by Grizz
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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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...
by Grizz
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...
by Grizz
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 . . .
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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 ...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
Replies: 27
Views: 1136

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...
by Grizz
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...
by Grizz
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
Replies: 27
Views: 1136

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 ...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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...
by Grizz
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: 957

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.
by Grizz
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: 957

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 ...
by Grizz
Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Baseball fans here?
Replies: 22
Views: 654

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...
by Grizz
Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Here was a gal with "true grit"
Replies: 8
Views: 377

Re: Here was a gal with "true grit"

sounds like Alaskans to me
by Grizz
Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...
Replies: 27
Views: 1136

Re: Wonder what the ATF was after this guy for ...

AJMD429 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...
His guns. They stole his guns and shot him in the head. Simple home invasion stuff, nothing to see here
by Grizz
Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
Replies: 11
Views: 699

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...
by Grizz
Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Panic time. . . . an ECLIPSE…!!!
Replies: 18
Views: 604

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...