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Les Staley

earlmck; That's the first time I've heard the expression "hog trough" sight... I heard my grandpa born 1882 refer to a "pig trough" sight.. and he left me his 1894 long rifle (octogan barrel) rifle in 32 special made in 1902. The muzzle is worn pretty bad, a bullet will drop into...

Les Staley

Ji: pm me. I have a new box of unfired unprimed 225 Win. brass.. I'll donate them to your project..going to district assy this weekend.. will be back Sun. night.. Les

Les Staley

Ji, Darlene and I are spending the summer here in St. Maries Id, at our place on the St. Joe river.. I've been fishing Coeur D' Alene lake for the past two to three weeks.. getting our limits of Kokanee .... and smokeing them. These fish are the smaller size, up to maybe 12".. and smoke up wond...

Les Staley

If''n ya wants sumthin different, n' cheep ta feed.... 6mm X45.. a 223 neked up ta a 6mm. I've got one in an AR platform.. lights out accurate and brass is plentiful and cheep... just a sugestion..... Les

Les Staley

Pitchy and Joe, looks just like my 29K71.. I had a shoe repair shop for a few years back in the '80s. sold all the machinery except my patchers.. had three, two 29-4 s the earlier machines with the shuttle cast in one piece in the free arm, and the 29K71 with the replaceable shuttle. 'Two of my budd...

Les Staley

I did shoot one antelope doe out the bedroom window one year, jus to be able to say I did it. ...in keeping with our theme here, I did it with a 86 Browning 45-70. didn't have anything on cept the rifle... my wife took a picture, but I'll decline to show it to youse guys.... thanks for asking.... dr...

Les Staley

I long haul also, and WILL NOT EVER DARKEN THE DOOR TO CALIFORINIA FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER!!! I own my own rig and flatbed and dispatch myself... thank you very much... and another thing... This being DOT driver appreciation week, I decided to take the week off, and go Kokanee fishing in Lake Cour...

Les Staley

Thanks for all those... I'm gonna print off this page and use 'em to dazzle my friends with my quips....er highly inteligent smart alec remarks... heh heh.... Les

Les Staley

Here's my take on it... sneak in a little closer (it's called HUNTING ) and shoot 'em with a 6X45 and fagitaboutthebrass... one pass through a Redding die makes cheap-affordable-never-ending-supply of 5.56X45 or 223 brass into a handy accurate deer/antelope/coyote/pdog/ground squirrel/easiest wildca...

Les Staley

Thank you, Hobie for your work here ... I didn't realize the problems you face for our benifit... I guess freedom of speech isn't free either... best wishes.......... Les

Les Staley

Used 'em many hours on deer hunts in Northern Michigan when I was a kid.. take the wick off, fill it with lighter fluid, tip it upside down and squeeze it tll any excess runs out, quits dripping, put the wick on, light it, and it will flame up for a minute or two, when the flame is gone there will b...

Les Staley

Just to muddy the water a bit... received my 6X45 upper Friday, had a few handloads ready for it.. wind died down Sat. morning to let me shoot a group at 103 yds , three shots completely covered by a dime.. 75 gr Vmax Hornady with 25 gr Benchmark.. will try some 90 gr partitions later,, should be go...

Les Staley

Me, too, in Pinedale.. had to laugh... Home Depot ad on TV "Look outside,, it's time to grow something" Not here, two inches of white stuff on everything.. guess I'll have an extra cup of Joe before going into the Kingdom Hall for the meeting.. have a good one.. Les

Les Staley

Great story, sir: I, too, start my day with a tab of Lisinipril.. but don't have any turkeys to chase here in Wyoming.. I'll have to settle for ground squirrels.. right now.. anyhow.. GOOD JOB! Les

Les Staley

I've got a buddy in Michigan that used to be a poacher, hunted at night with a light out of a pick-up... it had been a family tradition for him.. After coming to Jesus, he began to follow the game laws , but still shot better out of a pick-up window.. so I helped him take the door off an old truck a...

Les Staley

Sifted through, as in an auction?? just curious... Les

Les Staley

It''s been a L O N G spring here in the high country.. still snowin' this morning.. on my last two times home between truck trips, I've had a total of four (4) hours of sunshine without wind.. gotta use your imagination to spice up such a short squirrel season... the 39A's have had their chance, the...

Les Staley

It's lunchtime guys, believe me,, you don't want to see pictures.. sighted in a luepy 2-7 on the little carbine.. loaded some 125 gr hollow point jacketed bullets I ahead of 12.5 gr blue dot. groups under an inch at 50 yds.. cuts the little buggers in half...I've got about 30 acres of grass pasture ...

Les Staley

How about a strip of skate board tape... should be easily removable.... Les

Les Staley

Antilley: Here's what I did to get some good hunting ammo for the 7.62X54r..... get an inertia (Hammer type) bullet puller... dissassemble 20 rounds of Mil-surp ammo.. weigh each powder charge.. average the weights and reload with the hunting bullet of your choice. reference a good reloading book to...

Les Staley

After a steady diet of 38 specials, you should CLEAN the chamber before shooting the longer 357 mag as they will stick on the crud ring the 38s leave behind.. Les

Les Staley

Check to see if your Inland is a "handstamp". late production carbines were produced in two types.. either M1 or M2 (full auto). The designation was added after they were finished... the letter 1 or 2 handstamped in line with the M.. always a little off, out of line.. Mine is a handstamp.....

Les Staley

There is a used one in a shop near me... if anyone is interested, pm me and I'll tell you where... Les

Les Staley

My wife of 43 years and I went in for His 'n Hers colonoscopys last winter... both got a clean bill of health for 10 years.. and some dynamite pictures to put on our greeting cards next winter...totaly agree.. a non-event.. even the pre-op cleanout.. a piece of cake.... Les

Les Staley

Get a 22 rifle of the same type action, lever, bolt, etc.. and reduce your range accordingly.. 30 to 40 yds.. You will get the same practice with lots more ammo at a cheaper price,, will develop the same hand/eye/brain coordination .. then return to the bigger guns, and take Terry's advice.. (He's g...

Les Staley

If I may interject...... my wife and I love our H3.. great little snow car..never been stuck.. tried to do a cookie with it on icey roads, couldn't do it.. She feel safe in it.. long ways between towns here in Wyoming.. If mama's happy, everybody's happy.... Les

Les Staley

Awp101: E.R.Shaw oughta be able to spin you one up....... Hobie: check out New Frontier Armory out of Vegas... web site, just google 'em up...look for complete uppers... Yankee Hill Machine free float handguard, Black Hole Weaponry 3 groove polyagonal standard profile match bbl.. flat top upper, lo ...

Les Staley

simply a 223 remington necked up to 6mm.. a one pass operation with Redding dies, available from Midway USA.. same bolt, same magazines.. just a barrel change.. or upper change.. 70 gr bullets out the tube at 3000+fps.. 90 grainers at 2770 A complete range report will follow one of these days...Les

Les Staley

I, too, had trouble with a tight chambered BLR in 308. Small base dies did help some, but didn't eliminate all the problems.. mine was an early one, made in Belgium.. I finaly sold it to a guy that wanted to use only factory ammo.. he was happy and so was I... Les

Les Staley

I have been loading the 200 gr Hornady FTX in the 358 win.. , with great results on whitetail deer.. should have a better bc than the round nose bullets.. don't have my data with me, but try it out... hth...Les

Les Staley

Check on Ni ihau Safaris.. $1750 for the day... one hog and one Marino ram.. a guide, a skinner and transportion to and on the island.. helo flight from port Allen airport ..lots of fun.. I ended up shooting three hogs and two rams.. (they have a rifle to rent for around $50.... Les

Les Staley

I picked one up a couple of years ago for $750 buy it now price.. almost broke my fingers clicking on the buy-it-now box...came with all the reloading dies bullets, new brass and about 200 loaded rounds and a Leupold 4 power scope....That price was about half the going price at the time... still is,...

Les Staley

Greetings and congrats from Wyoming... Darlene and I wish you two the best.. we're working on 43.. time flies when you're having fun... give a call when you get stateside.... Les

Les Staley

My third grandson will start hunting deer in Idaho next fall.. with a 6.5 X 55 Adams and Bennet barrel on a turk 98 mauser I'm putting together for him.. just got the barrel yesterday and the reamer and headspace gauge soon to follow,,(back-ordered).. should have it together in time for better weath...

Les Staley

Think I'll take a 308 with 150 sst bullets. I'm going down to Claude Tx 2-22,23,24 for a hog hunt with Tex Hunts. Just came in the house from shooting a few loads in my 243, and my wife was watching HOG's Gone Wild... or so I thought.. It was a recorded segment of the Bachler... my mistake... Les

Les Staley

My dad told me about a lake near our home that was surrounded by rubber trees.. so much of the root systems were in the water, that the water absorbed the rubber... in winter time no one could spud a hole in the ice as the ice was so rubbery your spud would just bounce off... the only way you could ...

Les Staley

All good information.. here's my suggestion. Get yourself a Lee Loader kit, caliber specific, for about $20.. comes with instructions on it's use... get a pound of the suggested powder, the right primers and bullets, and get yourself a block of firewood to work on, (between your knees on the floor i...

Les Staley

In 1985 an over heating clothes dryer caused a house fire which burned our mobile home to the ground.. no one hurt not even the cat, thankfully.. hard lesson... Les

Les Staley

New England Westinghouse and Remington both made mosin nagants M91s.. no collection is complete without one of each.. at one time the NRA sold 'em for three or four dollars apiece.. The American made Mosins were made on contract to the Czarist government and when they defaulted and didn't buy them, ...

Les Staley

try the hornady FTX 200 gr... spire point and is a hammer in my 99 Savage and my BLR... Les

Les Staley

My buddy up here in St. Maries Idaho has something to be thankful for... that he doesn't have to buy factory 300 Win mag ammo.. blew six shots at a magnificent whitetail buck this morning up the Joe.. all handloads.. finally killed him with shot #7 ..... eighteen inches wide... eight inch tines.. gr...

Les Staley

Don't diss your 358 .. I use 200 gr Hornady FTX bullets in a handload, sighted in 3.5 inches high at 125yds they print 8" low at 300. that is fine long range trajectory for a lever gun.. mine is a Jap BLR steel frame.. What model 358 do you have? PM me for the load specifics.. Les

Les Staley

sounds like the report of an accident where a woman was impaled by the radio antana of her econoline van... the paper listed her cause of death of vanariel disease....

Les Staley

nice shape for $649... also have some Marlin 1894C carbines in stock,,(I bought one).. also have at least three Rossi Puma 357s , one trapper stainless, one 20" carbine and a 24" oct. barrel blue/CC I was there yesterday.. hope this helps one of you diseased bitter clingers... Les

Les Staley

Yes that country has changed, even since I've been here.. nothing stays the same.. I still find a few places that has escaped the madding crowd.. I'll sign off for now.. gotta hit the road with the semi... takeing a load of alfalfa hay from southern Idaho to an organic dairy in Texas.. see you guys ...

Les Staley

Don: yeah, when I moved here 20 yrs ago, the deer season ran till Oct 31, and guys were whacking monster Muley Bucks out in the sage brush off the hoods of their pickups.. Boulder lake, Soda, Fremont, Willow.. everywhere they would come out of the high country.. I've quit hunting muleys, find whitet...

Les Staley

Don: Six miles north of Pinedale on the road to Willow lake sets Soda Lake.. Wyoming Game and Fish land... they plant it with Brown trout, and manage it for replanting stock, eggs ... also manage an elk feedground there, generations of elk have been migrateing to this feedground.. as soon as it snow...

Les Staley

Well, I'm back.. no Ilks, but saw a lot of deer.. they're migrateing through to the desert..28 degrees.. five inches of snow and comeing hard..'pose to get with it tonight 'cording to the weather... when this stops will be the prime time to be watching some of the trails. some of my buds and I have ...

Les Staley

Elk season is getting along, could use some meat.. open for bulls or cows, starting to snow today.. got the day off.. the rifle is feeling neglected.. all sighted in with 200 gr FTX Hornadys.. should be some elk moveing down into the open cottonwood timber above Soda Lake... I'll check back in later...

Les Staley

Nice fox squirrel.. great way to start a boy out... when he can shoot a 22 rifle, that will help him get to be a rifleman, and you won't have to watch for lead shot in your squirrel pie w/biscuts.. makes me drool just to think about it.. Les

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