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Bob Hatfield

I had a 1982 top eject Winchester 94. I thought the front ramp was brazed on but no it was forged with the barrel.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

I always enjoy watching "Cap-N-Ball" and listening to him. I have to translate for the wife. I told her you just catch the key words and figure the rest of it out. She asked me "What is a Sirty-Sirty"?

Bob

Bob Hatfield

I could see me as a Russian fighting in Ukraine and walking up the road and tank pulls up and the commander says, "Поднимитесь дальше. Мы возвращаемся в штаб" ("Hop in we're going back to HQ"). I'd say, "Я бы предпочел прогуляться". ............... (I'd rather walk) Боб...

Bob Hatfield

A friend recently bought a Henry 22 mag lever action that was misfiring. He asked me to look at it. I took it to the range and fired it about 50 times. It seems the problem was that if you chambered a round and fired it without squeezing the grip/lever just a little it would misfire. If you squeezed...

Bob Hatfield

My new one I bought in 2021 was 10 times smoother and much better put together than the one I bought in 2000. I squared the front bead to make it look like a flat square front sight with a little brass aiming square. Much better for old eyes than a bead. Then I had to grind down the sight elevator b...

Bob Hatfield

My pet peeve is when the chips are down, and the good guy disables the bad guy and grabs his pistol or AR/AK and doesn't get any of the bad guy's extra mags. They are always shooting from the hip full auto. Plus, when they actors use an UZI or MP-40 they never extend the stock and aim it. Don't get ...

Bob Hatfield

They are back at the charger.

Seems I heard it's a federal crime to shoot down any drone even if it belongs to you?

Bob Hatfield

I sort of catch enough of his English to determine what was said at the end of each sentence in his videos, but it is a delayed process for me, and he gets ahead really quick. So sometimes I rewind a little. I really enjoy watching and listening to this guy though and use both is 36 and 44 tools.......

Bob Hatfield

Thanks Guys.............The wife bought my supper at Cracker Barrel. I bought myself a cast steel 94 Winchester carrier to replace the stamped one on one of my 94's for my birthday present. The stamped one was a source of jamming and having to double shuffle the lever. I was constantly bending on th...

Bob Hatfield

Praise the Lord and pass me the Wolf and Barnaul ammo!

Bob

Bob Hatfield

Back in the day (2000) Midway had a sale on the Hornady 255 swaged bullet. But it wasn't the normal flavor. It was 500 round boxes for IIRC around $20. They were a commercial bullet made the exact same shape purported to be made by Hornady. There was no knurling but a few little itty-bitty rings wit...

Bob Hatfield

Been making them for a long time. One has to get a system of manufacture that suits him. I use the Colt Cartridge works bullet from Era's gone over 18 grs of 3F Old Eynsford. I use the paper from Guns of the old west and a former from Cap-n-Ball on Ebay/You-tube and dipped the bullet end in MCM lube...

Bob Hatfield

Dang. 20 years ago, I sold my Ruger 96 for $350. Didn't need the money. Just got a wild hair to sell something to justify buying something. I have a hard time sitting now from kicking myself in the buttocks so much every time someone mentions they have one.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

My least favorite to load is the 7.62 Nagant. It can be complicated at first, but you eventually get the hang of it. I use 30 carbine dies to size the case. I have to use a 223-seating die with the seating stem screwed way down to seat the bullet below the case mouth. It has been a few years since I...

Bob Hatfield

For some reason it shows up a month early. But thanks. Looks like I got the month and day mixed up back when I registered in 2008. It is now fixed. I feel 69. But today I'm loading some 45 Colt.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

I wanted one ever since I saw my Uncle Bill's carbine back in the 60's. Uncle Bill was in the Normandy Invasion and was wounded when his Jeep he as driving crashed after it was ambushed and his Lieutenant in the seat beside him was KIA. He sporterized his Carbine back in the 60's by makine a form fi...

Bob Hatfield

If you can make out a star shape in the base cavity or series of marks it would be a Federal pressed and turned bullet. There were many versions of the 58 Burton ball in Federal service.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

I believe it is just the 45-70 LeverEvolution load that is short.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

Got the notification via E-mail today. Probably won't last long. Got my hundred.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

I remember back in the early 80s (I think) buying his book ( big magazine ) on 22 Centerfires. That was my first exposure to his writing. He told of going to live in Montana and needed to make himself a varmint rifle. He said the guy's that lived there outshot him with their 270s and 3006s shooting ...

Bob Hatfield

I only have one 44 Special. A classic Bulldog. I use the Lee Tumble lube 240 grain semi-wadcutter over 5 grains of Bullseye. Seems like it Chrono's about 725 fps. Shoots to the point of aim and accurate enough to knock over the falling plates at 50 yards.
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Bob Hatfield

I've loaded 38 Special since 1981. I've always crimped that button head Lyman wadcutter in the crimp groove. Even seated flush with the 2.7 gr. load in the illustration it was less than 9,000 psi. Back then I used Unique and 231. Never tried Bullseye back then because I just figured it was too old t...

Bob Hatfield

I have been eyeballing that bullet to use in my 1937 Smith in the Auto Rim cases. Hoping the hollow base bumps up to seal the throats.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

Thanks for all the replies. I'll be getting to the range in the morning early if it isn't raining to officially put it to the test. I have three handloads of six rounds each all using the Hornady 200 grain round nose bullet. One using 37 grains of IMR 3031. That is a half grain less than I used back...

Bob Hatfield

In my old age I have about 3 times as much self-restraint as I did when I was younger. But for some reason I found myself without a 35 Remington rifle. So I look around at the pawn shops, gun shops, Gunbroker etc. and came to the conclusion that a "JM" Marlin was going to cost at least 1k....

Bob Hatfield

I ordered last fall and like you no answers to email or phone calls. I was told on the Sixgunner site that I should be patient. The bullets finally arrived after 2 months. Midway and Graf's and 99% of other bullet manufacturers has me spoiled.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

Here is how I test my AR builds.

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Bob Hatfield

Your second model is about the best one I've seen inside. The third model is the ideal shooter. It will have cylinder locking notches like a Smith & Wesson. It was proofed for smokeless. Plus, the owl head will be oriented in a different direction than the 1st and second models. Bob 400px-Iver_J...

Bob Hatfield

In 1960 I got my first lever gun. I was 5 years old living in Detroit Michigan. It was a cap busting 'Rifleman's" rifle. No not a model 70 Winchester but a plastic 92 Winchester with a loop lever and a doo-Hicky on the lever to trip the trigger just like "Pa". My parents didn't know i...

Bob Hatfield

68 now but back in the day it was key punch cards and Fortran for me.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

The 38 Special round nose lead did pretty well in Paul Harrell's meat target. Better than the hollow points that didn't expand. Seems I remember when Bianchi cup shooters used to shoot the round nose 158 grain 38 bullet because it was easier to load with speed loaders than other styles. I have alway...

Bob Hatfield

For what it is worth, the 30-30 Factory crimp die works perfect for the 32 Special also.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

At 68, even after shooting twenty 243 Winchester cartridges with 90 grain bullets at 2850 fps, the recoil affects are a delayed reaction. I think that the recoil causes hydraulic shock to the nervous system that wasn't noticeable when I was younger. It is for this reason I started loading my 45-70 H...

Bob Hatfield

I started getting interested in guns around 1975. It started when I picked up a Guns and Ammo magazine and was glancing through it. From the mid to late 70's I couldn't wait to read "Gun Notes" in Guns and Ammo magazine. I had to travel 10 miles to "Union Cut Rate" drug store to ...

Bob Hatfield

Been loading for a 6.5 Jap for a month or so now. Mine has the infamous oversize chamber which from what I understand all have. I use 2 wraps of scotch tape about 3/16 inch in diameter right at the extractor groove. This centers up the new brass in the chamber so it will fireform without bulging on ...

Bob Hatfield

At least one of those big kitty cats will break your neck and choke you to death before it eats you. I think it will?

Bob Hatfield

I boogered up my Uberti Cattleman using Linebaugh's 8 grains of 231 and a 255 gr RNSP. It hammered the firing pin hole to where the revolver would start locking up because of primer material flowing around the firing pin. Probably took about 200 rounds to do it but I Had to tig weld up the recoil sh...

Bob Hatfield

My grandson brought his M1 Garand over to shoot. His other grandfather gave him some 30-06 to shoot in it. I noticed right away that it was Turkish 8mm Mauser. The hot 8mm. I told him if I hadn't been there, it might have been a disaster. I know 8mm Mauser ammo blew up early 03's........Bob

Bob Hatfield

Newspaper as wallpaper inside glued on with a cornstarch paste blocks the wind pretty well LOL. When I was 11 the old man bought two houses for $35 each to tear down for the lumber as the Federal Govt bought them out to put in a dam. The insides were all wallpapered with newspapers from the 1930's. ...

Bob Hatfield

joepb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:47 pm Brothers Emanuel Hatfield and Armstead Apperson Hatfield.jpg

This is my Hatfield relatives..............Joe

Looks like they have their assault weapons for sure.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

Bob , Thank you for sharing some of your family history. I'm assuming the old homeplace seen in this photo is no longer standing ? Seems like the old double dovetail log cabin was sided later on . I really wouldn't know about the log cabin or where exactly it was located. I bet Barwood Builders wou...

Bob Hatfield

Here are two pages from Coleman Hatfield's book about Anse. It tells the story of my GG grandfather and how Anse saved him from being shot by firing squad.

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Bob Hatfield

Here is a photo of my GG grandfather and his wife Rachel Toler. He was Devil Anse's uncle and the reason Anse and Uncle Jim Vance left the Confederate army.

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Bob Hatfield

The only thing my old man taught me was to hit first and how to dig a ditch with mattock and shovel. What I was taught about reloading, hunting, fishing, baseball, football, or basketball by him, I could write about it on the back of a gnat's butt. Every time he would give me a 22 or a shotgun, he w...

Bob Hatfield

My GGG grandfather Jim "Slater" Hatfield fought with Anderson Hatfield on the side of the Confederacy, So I will not be getting any reparations.

Bob Hatfield

In addition to Doc Hudson, there was a "Doc O'meara" also?

Bob Hatfield

I launched off Estes rockets in my youth also. Recently I bought a couple kits and a launch kit. I had a bunch of C6-5 engines left over and gave it all to a friend's 9-year-old. We successfully launched the rockets on their farm and soon found out that a plastic Kroger bag makes a better parachute ...

Bob Hatfield

1911 magazines make excellent speed loaders for the 45 ACP single actions. Just thumb them out and let the rounds drop in.

Bob

Bob Hatfield

I picked up one of the cavalry/bicycle carbines a few years ago to tinker with. Located several boxes of Norma brass. found some dies and already had some 160 gr. .264 Sierra bullets shot fair but very high on the lowest sight setting. Also, the Norma brass has the wrong extractor groove. PPU has th...

Bob Hatfield

Thank you, Blaine. I must have my DOB wrong in my account. My birthday is December 11th............Bob

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