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PaulB

Feast your eyes on some serious ugliness (I mentioned this earlier):

I still can't believe I bought this thing.

PaulB

My Contender Carbine is (I think) an early stainless one. It's got the usual "engraving" of a cat on the side, but it's not the nice one like the blued frames have. It looks like it was modeled after a picture of a cat drawn with a crayon by a 6 year-old. I have to laugh every time I look ...

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I only use offhand at muzzle contact distances, and for that a sling is not needed. :lol: Seriously, I've learned to avoid offhand at all costs for anything but punching holes in paper. There's always a better option. I suppose one could get good enough at it to make it a useful position, but it wou...

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A lot of good ideas here. I will have to think about them some. While I like the idea of a .32H&R/.327Mag or .32-20, I'm annoyed at the bullet diameter nonsense. TC makes these guns with a .308 bore. Why have a .311 bore in the first place? It's just annoying. Should have been dealt with 80 year...

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Can anyone think of any remake that was better than the original? I always thought Cary Grant was great in An Affair to Remember (one of my wife's favorite tear jerkers) but then I saw the original, Love Affair , which I thought was even better. And that remake was done by the same director as the o...

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The newer BLR's w/ an alloy type frame require the frame and barrel to be replaced together Huh? Why would that be? The frame would not even be in the equation, for setting headspace. If you want it heavier up front, just put a brake or flash suppressor on it. Even cooler would be a "can"...

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Appleseeds are aimed at rank beginners. Nothing wrong with that, it's a job that needs to be done; but when you are shooting at a 25 yard target there is no wind in the equation. The general hope is that an Appleseed gets folks started with shooting, but also that people progress beyond that. You're...

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I have a threaded XS ghost ring, so they made them at one time, at least. I'd email them. It's possible not everything is in their catalog. Keep in mind, when you install an aperture, there needs to be room for the larger diameter at the back of the aperture to fit. On one of my XS sights I needed t...

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I have the RCBS 10-0-10 (or whatever that is called) and I did have some problems with it at one point. I found it getting sticky and not going smoothly to the desired weight as I dropped powder in. I went to clean it, looking especially at the pivot groove and making sure I didn't have any rust on ...

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I've bought the book by ferfal:
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

It looks well worth the price. I'm about half way through it.

Look at it this way, if you get one piece of advice that saves your tail, from his book, you've more than paid for it.

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Make your own, then you can experiment and end up with what you want. Can't be that hard. I've slammed my rifles into things as I duck under branches, etc., unless I use one arm to hold it in place (which defeats the purpose, i.e., freeing up my hands). I like a sling with the "African" ca...

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I have XS ghost rings (you can get threaded inserts), Williams and steel Lyman on my guns. I like the XS best by far. I managed to strip the gib lock screw on one of my Williams sights; didn't take much to do it either.

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You can do it yourself. As they say, it's not rocket surgery.

I wish I had done it myself. As it is, the local gunsmith screwed up the job - and charged me for the privilege.

Oh, well, lesson learned. I've got a drill press and will buy some cheap steel and learn to D&T myself.

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People who don't want skin cancer wear hats in high altitude places like Wyoming. And to keep sun out of your eyes. Never could figure out why people wear baseball-style caps. Maybe riding in a truck, but they don't protect your neck at all. They look goofy too, to my eyes. I like the crushable cowb...

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True. You will be handing those extra guns out to former gun haters who have had a change of heart. :lol: One item to think about is handiness. In a defensive situation, you'd just be sitting there and it wouldn't matter how heavy the gun or ammo is, so a nice heavy .308 battle rifle is just the thi...

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Well, it is slightly better than a .380. However good or bad you think that is. I walked into a gun show and saw a guy selling Russian Maks (with holster) for $129 each, new. I bought one of course. Then I played with it for a while, slicked it up some using that info on makarov.com. Put a nice afte...

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In fact, most of the time I suspect that this nation plows on as well as it does in spite of government, not because of government or even with the help of government. Ah, a budding anarchist. :wink: As Murray Rothbard put it, the correct way to think about government, is as if they are an armed ga...

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If they can't handle it without taken their frustrations out on unarmed honest law abiding citizens,.. they should take a sabbatical, quit,...or be sued and then fired! Problem is, they aren't fired. Not all of them anyway (although some departments are better at keeping the riffraff out than other...

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I think sneering at city folk is a big mistake. Yes, some percentage of city folk will just give up and die. But you still have a huge problem if even 10% or 20% don't. The problems will be gangs. They will be run by resourceful and ruthless leaders, who probably will have a military background. The...

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That just puts the burden on the taxpayers. The individual cop making the unlawful arrest needs to be sued. They have to be educated that is they that serve and not the other way around. I have come to the conclusion this is a naive view. Back here in the real world, when you give a group of people ...

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I suspect the barriers to travel will be handled the same way threats of gun confiscation will be handled: by killing those attempting to put controls in place. I think road blocks will eventually turn into war zones. Then the cops and others running them will decide to find a safer line of work. No...

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In situations with large mobs attacking, you have already made a big mistake being around to be attacked. Such situations certainly call for both AR-15's and similar, and even scoped bolt guns to pick them off from a distance. But I've been reading that guy's blog, the fellow in Argentina who has ac...

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Every once in a while I get a hankerin' after one of those 38-55 1885's. Then I cure myself by reading about reloading it.

PaulB

Watch those small charges. Very easy to double-charge a case if your procedure is not perfect. That's the virtue of a powder like Trail Boss; impossible to double-charge.

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JimT is right. There was a fellow in Idaho who wrote some articles for Precision Shooting magazine about shooting .44 Mag out of a Freedom Arms 83 and a Smith 629 at 1000 yards. Very interesting stories; he got amazingly good at it. He was using 300+ gr bullets. I was at the Worland range one time w...

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I read a review of the movie seen in a theatre, where the reviewer noted there was a scene where the inglorious bastards were torturing a German, and all the people in the theatre were laughing. Talk about creepy. I decided I was not interested in seeing a movie like that.

PaulB

I like mine but it is a gunsafe queen. It's a .358 with aluminum receiver. I've done enough shooting of 250gr Speers into recycled milkjugs to get that this is a nice combination of thump at the muzzle end with no discomfort at the butt end. And yet it is quite a light gun. That I like. What I reall...

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I carry a CZ-75 with 124gr Gold Dots. Wondernines are good if you are planning on being attacked by a mob. :D Actually, my main reason for it is that I can use it like a revolver (just pull the trigger, no safety) and because it points well (way better than any revolver I've ever tried) and because ...

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I had an M1A with a GI barrel. I took the flash hider off and found the most damaged crown I've ever seen in a rifle. Had Springfield recrown it. Jointed rods are evil. I think aluminum rods are worse than steel because they hold grit and bend more easily. It's better to avoid cleaning from the muzz...

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Number 1 for me was always Isabelle Adjani:

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I went into moly-plating my own bullets with a tumbler, back during the moly rage. Warhawk has the right idea on cleaning. I would use or at least consider moly in these circumstances: very long range shooting (moly actually improves BC on a bullet due to it not being torn up as much by rifling,and ...

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Time to stave off a crash? Not a chance. That slow-motion train wreck already started in the Bush II regime. There is no stopping it, probably not even if Ron Paul had got himself elected president. This is a great day for America!!!! That might be exaggerating a tad. However there certainly is humo...

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Great thread, guys! I have bookmarked it for when I go USFA shopping.

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What the heck is wrong with 2500fps? I often load my 308's down to that just to have a more relaxing load. Don't virtually all bullets expand above 2000 fps? I'd be a little leery of using 30-30 bullets unless you load down to 30-30 velocities. Nosler Ballistic Tips and some Sierras (Gamekings or Pr...

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Zoe, yum.

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For everything but the heaviest loads, use TiteGroup. Burns very clean, uses little powder, and is very "powder position insensitive". The only drawback I know of, is that it is easy to double-charge cases, so you have to have your procedure down right. I like Blue Dot for some application...

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Without a doubt if you own only one handgun it should be a medium frame .357 Magnum with a 3" or 4" barrel. Agree. If this is the first of many guns, get any old thing that tickles your fancy. But if it's likely to be your only gun, or almost your only gun, get this: http://gunblast.com/S...

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So... if the .357 is harsher due to it's smaller bore, then the .22LR must be really harsh, right? :wink: I think it has to do with the burning rate of the powder, the amount of the powder, the weight of the bullet, and the length of the barrel. And presence of a cylinder gap (revolvers vs pistols)....

PaulB

Thanks for posting a great article. I always liked Steve McQueen. I watched "Wanted" as a kid.

I believe his first movie was the sci-fi classic "The Blob". Don't miss it!

PaulB

Why does "True Grit" need a remake? No kidding. I'm not interested. When I think of late John Wayne movies, I always think of "The Shootist". Talk about a swan song... Coen bros. make really, really good movies. I liked "Raising Arizona" (prepare to spend half the time...

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I don't see it going anywhere. There are already too many 6.5's, splitting a market that is too small. 6.5 Grendel will continue but not bloom, to service the AR market, competing against the 6.8. 260 will increase, easy to make and fits standard bolt faces. It does everything the Creedmoor does, al...

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It has proved to be utterly useless in preventing gun crime It's not for preventing crime. It's for making political hay, and harrassing gun owners. Governments in general have no interest in curbing crime. Why would they do something that would reduce their income? I don't like the phrase "gu...

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What, no duct tape? :lol: Why not slide the eotech forward as far as you can, making the gun handy to pick up around the action? I bet you'll get tired of that flashlight hanging down there. Maybe a smaller straight-barreled light taped in the "v" between barrel and tube would work. Or one...

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I saw this on Gunbroker,Is this a homemade boltpeep on this 71? what do You Guys make of it???

I have one exactly like it. Got it from that guy in Montana who makes scout rifles, Brockman, on a gun I bought from him. Don't know if he made it or bought it from somebody else.

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I was over at lewrockwell.com and ran across this amusing blog entry about watching disaster movies: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/44694.html I love disaster movies. I just wanted to pass along a tip that has helped me enjoy them even more than ever: Hope that everybody gets killed....

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I use RCBS or Imperial Die sizing wax - depending on the application the latter is for the tougher stuff...

Exactly what I use. Imperial for the heavy-duty work, RCBS for normal sizing.

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Mold is not good for your health. So I've heard, anyway. Get some plastic down in the crawl space. If you have a basement, there are vapor-barrier type paints you can use on the wall. Think about improving drainage around the house. There are probably internet resources out there for these kinds of ...

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If you want a gun useful for everything, something you will carry all the time, get the .357. If you want a gunsafe queen to impress your buds with, get the .480.

The .357 can be a low pressure round too. Just put less powder in it.

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Laugh back at the guys hauling around big, clunky 7 Mags and .300 Mags for killing whitetails.

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Francis Sell thought a .25-35 wildcat the Tomcat was the perfect rifle for those pesky Blacktail deer you have out there. I would think a HV .32-20 would do well on those deer. The problem west of the Cascades is not the ability to kill the smallish Blacktails, but being able to find them after you...

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