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Les Staley

Thanks, Griff. Barbarossa, sorry for your loss. Your son was too young to leave his family. My sympathy goes out to you and family. Les

Les Staley

I'm sure you have something to say, but could someone give me the book review? I'm retired and I still don't have time to read that much text. Thanks

Les Staley

I would have joined but years ago I drilled and tapped a 1902 model 1894 32 special that had been my grandpa's. Have been banned for life.

Les Staley

Welcome to the sickness! May you have a blast with it. There is no known cure. If your Rossi has a brass bead front sight, put it in the small bottom notch of the rear sight, so you can see all of it, and put the bead on the target bullseye. I like to block out the lower half of the bullseye, and pu...

Les Staley

Guess Doc was looking ahead..saving money so he could survive the cuts of Obamacare...JMHO

Les Staley

Wow! Thanks for that article and the Rifleman reprint. Sheds a possible whole new light on the low # Springfield blow-ups.

Les Staley

Guntar, Lee molds and lee push thru sizer kits are available for less than $20 per, liquid alox comes with the sizer kit, mix it 50-50 with Johnson liquid one step floor wax. Put a few boolets in a ziplock sandwich bag, squirt in a little liquid lube, enough to make them wet, tumble them around a li...

Les Staley

Nice bunch of great eating fish! Thanks for showing us. Our ice is gone, will need another real cold snap to get it safe again, temp being in the 40s. I not complaining especially when seeing the storms hitting our eastern side.

Les Staley

The A3s were made of the same 8620 through hardening steel that the M1 Garands were. The design was strong enough with the older case hardened steels of the era for any 30-06 round within reason, and when the newer alloys became available there was no major design change except to speed up productio...

Les Staley

Thanks, Earlmck. It looks to me that a load at 100% density of IMR4227, not compressed should be safe enough to try. I will be happy with a moderate velocity, 1100-1200 fps, as long as it groups. I'll be trying these in my "soon (????) to be delivered" Bighorn 90A in 454 Casull. Hope they ...

Les Staley

I just ordered a Lee mold for 300 gr RNFP bullets for the Cashull and Colt. This will help to give me a starting point for loads. Will gas check them so should be able to boost them pretty good. Range report or obituary to follow..

Les Staley

On Nov 15 1968, a month before my wife and I got married, I killed a 13 point whitetail buck. It was late evening just before dark and all day long a song had been stuck in my head. "My Guy" by Mary Wells, a Mo Town offering from a year or two before. While the Buck was comming out of the ...

Les Staley

I have one of the Ruger American Rimfires in 22 mag. It shoots better than I can hold..death on ground squirrels, boringly accurate. Since I ran on to a 1892 in 25-20 with a relined barrel and figured out an accurate cast bullet load the RAR has languished in the safe. I found a brick of CCI 22WRM M...

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Tried to stop at 20 keepers on Tuesday, but couldn't resist keeping 38.. Took Weds off, and took a buddy out today. We kept 95 today, he took them home. He has a couple of kids/grand kids that like to eat 'em. They're sure tasty!

Les Staley

Come on up.. Non resident license is 12.75 per day, no creel limit, about a 300 yd walk from a state highway. PM me.

Les Staley

We don't get safe ice every year. Sounds like it will warm up in a few days, but if I get to go out again I'll sort out about 20 to keep. 55 is too many to clean in one sitting...I'm pooped!!

Les Staley

Caught these this morning, most of them around 10 inches. Kept 55. Making nice fillets, skinless but rib bones in the fillets...will keep me from making a pig of myself..

Les Staley

Very encouraging to read your post. My son has been sober for a little over fourteen months. I also joined him in total abstenence at that time out of support for his decision. Our whole family is very proud of him. Congrats, Jerry.

Les Staley

"Why would you want to sell one?" I was trying to talk her in to letting me keep it, but eight hundred and fifty little reasons just kept her focused on getting rid of it. I put what I thought was a high price on it hopeing it would not sell, but it lasted just under two weeks..

Les Staley

I turned my wife into a monster with one... She has bought jewelry and collect able dolls as her hobbies for the last thirty or so years, me, not so much. I buy and once in a while sell guns, almost always make a healthy profit. Mostly double my investment. She was carping about how she can't even g...

Les Staley

Run thru a sizer? Good looking group. Would be the cats patoot in my Browning 53. Will put that mold on my "to buy" list.

Les Staley

Earlmck, thanks for nice clear pictures. Enjoy seeing those old cartridges.

Les Staley

Great insight into the era. Who didn't READ the letter?

Les Staley

I hear you about the payload..had a deuce of a time getting a big whitetail doe to the house with the Wrangler. I also had a hard time finding one that hadn't been "child owned". Lifted till the drive lines won't work, tires so big they now need a V8, now too much power for the differentia...

Les Staley

OI, I like your choice. It's worlds more practical than all the expensive SXS ATVs I see being dragged on a flatbed trailer past my place to run the logging roads. I've had the pleasure of riding in a couple. In the summer the dust boils in behind the windshield covering you and your gear with a thi...

Les Staley

Thanks, you mean the stuff I leave on my dresser when I'm changing pants..got it!

Les Staley

Okay, guys, what the heck is EDC ? I'm not tacticool enough, I guess.

Les Staley

JDJHNTR, you are not in completely uncharted waters, as I have sailed the same shoals before. I can almost always solve rifle related problems on my own. Have "built" (rebarrelled) several Mauser and Springfield 03s into decent sporters, installed triggers, safetys, scope mounts (shimmed t...

Les Staley

'Preciate the heads up..two on the way!! Have a Burris Fastfire II ready to go in a 44 mag trapper.

Les Staley

Not to derail your thread, but here's what I see when the shot flies true..

Les Staley

Good shooting, Doc! I'm reading of your adventure while eating back strap butterflies skillet fried to a crisp edged goodness. This backstrap is from the buck of my post and surprisingly is tender enough to cut with the side of your fork. You should have even better meat from that doe! Congrats inde...

Les Staley

I load 28 gr 5744 behind a 422 gr flat point from a RCBS mold cast of clip on wheel weight with a copper gas check bullet. I lube with 50/50 liquid alox and Johnson's liquid floor wax. Sized to .457 in a lee push thru sizing die that goes in your reloading press. Shilo Sharps Hartford model with the...

Les Staley

Maybe a Federal Government planted "dog"?

Les Staley

Need some help IDing this scat. Just closed on 11 timbered acres on a mountainside with a good road to the center of the property. Lots of deer, elk and moose as evidenced by their leavings on the road in and on the leveled area excavated out of the mountainside. No close neighbors as this is the la...

Les Staley

Congrats on a big mature older whitetail buck. Usually the only thing that trips them up is the rut, as us mere mortals can rarely see them during daylight hours the rest of the year. Good job nralover!

Les Staley

Sorry Jerry. It won't happen again. But here's my sons eight point he killed that evening just before dark. We didn't get any field pics of him.

Les Staley

Man, that's a classic whitetail taken with a classic rifle in a classic caliber!! What's not to like??

Les Staley

Jerry, we're hunting up by Devils Tower a few miles out of Hulett. My wife likes to see them on the wall, so it's caped out and heading for Faler's in Pinedale. I guess it's like having kids, always room for one more. This buck is one of four in my lifetime I would rate right up there.

Les Staley

Ed, congrats on a real nice buck! Bet you're glad you kept on shooting. Many nice meals right there!

Les Staley

Here's another

Les Staley

Took a real nice buck this morning. Grunted him off a private ranch on to a public parcel. Was able to make it stick. Plain vanilla 30-06 (it's what I had with me). My son killed a beautiful 8 point tonight at last legal light. Pics of that one tomorrow. http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc519/Les...

Les Staley

Thanks. Now I can see it! Great Bull!

Les Staley

Me too, no new accounts allowed. Somebody post this. Thanks

Les Staley

Blaine, PM sent

Les Staley

Hey Marlin, you hail from Michigan? Nov 15 opener?

Les Staley

Those two holes are generally 6-48. Our local Ace (did I spell that right?) Hardware has a tray of gunsmith size machine screws in the bolt/nut/washer dept. Might be worth a try. Les

Les Staley

FYI just listed a Ruger 96/44 on classifieds.

Les Staley

Forget the poison. Those "tree rats" are delicious fried and served with taters n gravey. Better than chicken!!

Les Staley

What??? Retirement??? Yeah, right!!

Les Staley

Interesting guns. The originals were made with very long barrels for a comercial reason. Traded for a stack of furs as tall as the gun, that extra barrel length really increased the profit margin with a very cheap initial investment.

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