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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: 290

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: 478

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: 60

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 82

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: 280

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: 262

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 25
Views: 829

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: 67

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: 25
Views: 829

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 29
Views: 692

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: 478

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: 300

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: 25
Views: 829

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: 628

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: 512

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...
by Grizz
Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: SPAMMERS
Replies: 26
Views: 602

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?
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: CDC released CoVid Vaccine Myocardis Report
Replies: 4
Views: 146

Re: CDC released CoVid Vaccine Myocardis Report

AJMD429 wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:10 pm .
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... oving-foia

There's more about it in the details on the Twitter post
i saw that. there are 148 blank pages in the cdc "document", but what does foia have to do with it, Oh, I get it . . .
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Missing my sixguns
Replies: 19
Views: 665

Re: Missing my sixguns

nice photos. did you go up in the monument? hope it's still open . . .
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
Replies: 19
Views: 491

Re: The Term "pistol" ....

JimT wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:28 pm They probably use the term "pistol" because they are too polite or too religious to add "ser" instead of "tol" to the first part. :lol:
good one. some of my pistols rock and some of them roll :)
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
Replies: 11
Views: 628

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: CDC released CoVid Vaccine Myocardis Report
Replies: 4
Views: 146

Re: CDC released CoVid Vaccine Myocardis Report

AJMD429 wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:56 am .
...and no - it isn't a Babylon Bee report - https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/ ... 4606726557

I guess the CDC and ATF are trying to see which agency can be the most blatant... :roll:
do you have a link to the actual website url for that document?
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: First Guns for newbies
Replies: 22
Views: 1447

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
Replies: 19
Views: 491

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?
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Why isnt there more variety?
Replies: 20
Views: 1003

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
Replies: 11
Views: 628

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...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
Replies: 11
Views: 628

Re: For all you mule skinners.......

BigSky56 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:41 pm I am old school cowboy, I ride horses and pack mules, I won't ride anything smarter than me. danny
laughed out loud, THANKS :)
by Grizz
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Talk about being totally 'inclusive'...!!!!
Replies: 1
Views: 69

Re: Talk about being totally 'inclusive'...!!!!

. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/hohmann-another-country-announces-it-will-require-its/ Digital ID from birth for all citizens (not yet in the US, but I'm sure they want to bring it here too....) The main passage in the Bible that mentions the “mark of the beast” is Revelation 13:15-18. O...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Baseball fans here?
Replies: 22
Views: 478

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...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
Replies: 7
Views: 386

Re: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...

the word "claymore" comes to mind. not a firearm, etc . . .
by Grizz
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Canada is going full-fascist...
Replies: 4
Views: 241

Re: Canada is going full-fascist...

Canada doesn't have citizens, Canada has subjects. We had citizens but now we too are subjects, apparently,
by Grizz
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
Replies: 7
Views: 335

Re: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award

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 ticks all the boxes a 44 Mag with a 1:20 barrel !!!!! !! !!

That's about all I'd need, unless I'd need a 454 Casull 1894.
A great rifle

grizz
by Grizz
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:06 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: My 'pronouns' are ...
Replies: 5
Views: 221

Re: My 'pronouns' are ...

My pronouns are the ones God gave us in the Bible, those are the ones I use. For me and for you you you . . .

grizz
by Grizz
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: That Adams percussion repro ...
Replies: 3
Views: 280

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...
by Grizz
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:04 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Canada is going full-fascist...
Replies: 4
Views: 241

Re: Canada is going full-fascist...

. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-law-endorsed-by-trudeau-government-could-imprison-people-for-life-for-speech-crimes/ar-BB1jR5o2 (of course my Liberal friends think that means they are voting 'conservative'... :roll: ) what that codifies is assaulting Christ followers with hate crime...
by Grizz
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cheapie AR….
Replies: 4
Views: 349

Re: Cheapie AR….

jeepnik wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:53 am We constantly here that the term AR stands for Armalite Rifle. Yet so many use it to rifles obviously not from Armalite?
Goodness! Here all along I've been thinking that AR stands for America's Rifle
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my mistake . . .

† grizz
by Grizz
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:42 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Geez....do they have to water down EVERYTHING...???
Replies: 1
Views: 139

Re: Geez....do they have to water down EVERYTHING...???

AJMD429 wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:42 am .
...now West Point...

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1767963985377210815
they just made West Pointers into Traitors . . .
by Grizz
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Last Outlaw movie review
Replies: 21
Views: 1566

Re: The Last Outlaw movie review

Walt wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:33 pm My solution to that is to avoid TVs and to never go to movies. I have no reason to watch people pretending to be someone they're not.
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 . . .
by Grizz
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:20 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Weed vs Melanoma - could be interesting
Replies: 4
Views: 390

Re: Weed vs Melanoma - could be interesting

. Some (probably most) of my high school (and many of my pharmacy school, and who knows of my medical school) frients might be immune from melanoma... https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cannabis-extract-found-to-have-deadly-effect-on-common-form-of-cancer/ar-BB1jGtUO and then, right over on the...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I wonder if it is like this
Replies: 5
Views: 646

Re: I wonder if it is like this

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.
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... .
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