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I'd much rather see an AR done in .30-30 than see a traditional lever action .30-30 done up butt an assault rifle. I think you're too late. seen some the PK marlin site, FB etc. saw at leasr one JM put into a plastic stock with all the fixings. makes you wanna get your hands on whoever did it. Oh I...

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A true thing of beauty! I love old trains and always have. My dad spent most of his adult life as chief electrician for the SP&S Railroad in the Pacific NW and we traveled by train often since it was free to employees. I have fond memories of those trips as a kid.

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I'd much rather see an AR done in .30-30 than see a traditional lever action .30-30 done up butt an assault rifle.

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I like it. Looks almost like tree bark in the pattern you made.

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Got a call yesterday from the young guy in Oklahoma whose contact info I got for building the No.7 Remington stocks! Jason said he's caught up with teaching being done for the year and will make the 90% inletted stocks next week! I gave him my barrel channel dimensions so he will open up the channel...

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Couldn't get this site to open at all yesterday. Tried a couple different times, and finally gave up.

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Well it either got restocked with a board, or it wasn't a Remington. The #6 was the cheapest Rolling Block Remington made, and the stocks all looked like that picture.

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I'd lump all the straight walled pistol cartridges as equally easy to make up good loads. Never had an issue with any standard loads. I did work quite a bit with trying to develop very light .45 ACP loads for my S&W 745 IPSC pistol when I shot it competitively. I wanted the lightest safe load po...

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I cast my own, so don't buy them. But a friend got out of reloading as he got old and gave me a box of nearly 500 Oregon Trail Laser Cast .32-40 bullets that are 170 gr. sized .322" and they're great! $62 per 400 these days, so still very affordably priced. They call them ".32 Special"...

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Mine was a .35-40 Maynard chambering in my Darr barreled Rolling Block. I figured it would be a snap since I'd heard the cartridge could just be fore formed using .32-40 brass, but that idea went away quickly. I tried chambering an empty .32-40 case and it stopped 3/8" shy of chambering! I ran ...

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Deep rifling might look impressive, but it isn't doing much good for accuracy. There's so much distortion on a cast bullet being forced into rifling that deep that the lead has to go somewhere, and the place it ends up is hanging off the base of the bullets as they exit the muzzle. Those fins off th...

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In my experience the benefit of low SD really only comes into play at longer rifle ranges where vertical dispersion is evident by large velocity swings. I have favorite rifle loads with SD in the 20's that are more accurate at 100 yards than a different charge that has a single digit SD. With handg...

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I just got to thinking and remembered that my first gun ever at about 10 years old that I hid from my mom was a 22lr rolling block rifle, I have no idea what brand or how I got it, I'm now 83 years old. It had a flat board shaped like a straight stock like the Daisy BB guns and no forend. The firin...

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I guess I qualify as an "Old Coot" since I've been here over 19 years. And hitting 76 yrs. this fall makes me qualify on two levels!

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Glad you're getting paroled Jim!

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I've always admired Bisley grip frames, but they feel odd in my hand. It always feels like the barrels are pointing downhill and I have to hold the gun up higher to get the proper sight picture. I saw a drawing from a book circa 1900 which had a chapter on pistol target shooting. The fellow picture...

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That's great news! I bet it is tough to sleep in a hospital room! I know I've only done it twice and begged to be sent home so I could sleep better!

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I have had a Tasco Red Dot on my Hi Standard Supermatic since the 1980's. Most of our Bullseye Team switched to either Aimpoint or Tasco back then so I had my barrel D&T to add one also. It's been over 40 years now since I put it on and it still works excellent. No magnification, and it took som...

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I remember that it's been said that you couldn't make a silencer work on a revolver because of the cylinder gap. I still seemed loud in the video, but they were shooting it inside, and that would have made it sound louder than outside on the range, etc. I figure they were using high speed long rifl...

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It's not terribly uncommon. People have been putting silencers on revolvers for as long as there have been silencers. (the world over) It's only our gun culture know it all's who make a big deal out of it. We love to apply a certain logic, but only so far. Why put a "silencer" on a revolv...

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I've always felt that the lowest SD I could get from my hand loads for rifle or pistol will always result in the tightest groups. Velocity in general means less to accuracy, unless the velocity also gives tighter SD readings.

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Try being that kid in grade school in the 1950's who was dyslexic and a boy named Vall too! If that didn't get you picked on enough, then not sure what else would. Since almost no teachers knew what dyslexia was I even had teachers who called me stupid or lazy in front of the class. Lucky for me I f...

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I've always admired Bisley grip frames, but they feel odd in my hand. It always feels like the barrels are pointing downhill and I have to hold the gun up higher to get the proper sight picture. I still shoot the original SAA grips the best, and like the way they point naturally for me.

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Got my shipment from Midway USA for the Starline .44 Russian brass. I'll dig through my old 240 gr. .429" bullets and make up some mild loads with Green Dot at around 700 fps to give it a test run.

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You need to be careful in choosing wood for the grip style on a No.7 Rolling Block. That's likely why you see almost no originals with high grade wood. The extreme pistol grip on these little rifles can test the grain structure of some high grade woods, and something with good straight grain will u...

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Seems like an odd thing to try to silence. Most people don't use a silencer on a revolver since the cylinder to forcing cone gap will allow noise to escape no matter how good the silencer is. Probably why it didn't see production. A good silenced semiauto .22 would be much more effective.

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Pay a little extra for a nice piece of wood and the rolling block should look sharp! You need to be careful in choosing wood for the grip style on a No.7 Rolling Block. That's likely why you see almost no originals with high grade wood. The extreme pistol grip on these little rifles can test the gr...

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Not a fan of adjustable sights on a SAA design handgun, but they sure aid in getting zeroed at whatever distance with whatever ammo I want to shoot. I've got a couple SAA clones I had to file the rear notch on one side to center the front post, and occasionally have to file the front post. But most ...

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Wish I could say it's consistently good. Today is very good, but I have maybe every other day when it either runs very slow, or wont open at all. Or I post a reply and it takes forever, or times out to post.

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Not to disparage the remingtons in any way but that old S & W has intrinsic historic appeal that even the tactitardish amongst us hopefully look at the photos with appreciation. The New Model #3 was such a major leap forward in design with the automatic extractor system that it became the choic...

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Pay a little extra for a nice piece of wood and the rolling block should look sharp! You need to be careful in choosing wood for the grip style on a No.7 Rolling Block. That's likely why you see almost no originals with high grade wood. The extreme pistol grip on these little rifles can test the gr...

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Great rifle project, Vall. And by the way, Starline makes excellent .44 Russian brass. What a great cartridge. I was going to do the usual and cut down longer .44 Special or Magnum brass, but checked Midway USA and they sell Starline cheaper than Starline sells it. $.28 cents a piece in bags of 100...

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I believe it depends on when they were made whether grips are checkered or plain, and not a special order thing. Not even sure if H&R ever did any special orders or not? My H&R isn't a Sporstman, it's an earlier .22 Special Model from the late 1920's. Purchased new at Browning Bros in Ogden,...

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Long range gongs with pistol length cartridge rifles are lots of fun, and just as challenging as bigger cartridge rifles at 1000 yds.! I've shot my .32-20 rifles out to 500 yds., and hits are not common. For whatever reason 400 yds. for me is far more consistent at hits. I only have one .25-20 and i...

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That top tang is really interesting. I have not seen that before. Remington had a lot of 1871 pistol actions leftover, so they had workers heat and bend the top tangs in a jig to alter them for a rifle stock. It must have been a major project for the factory as these were $24 rifles in the early 19...

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Got back from the CGCA show in Colorado and didn't buy much. I did trade a #1 Rolling Block in .32-20WCF for a project Rolling Block. It's a Rodney Storie casting kit that Rodney had been working on and got quite a ways along before he traded it to me. It still needs a front sight dovetail, a rear t...

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I've never owned an old rifle I wont shoot. I've been fortunate to add some rifles that are worth five figure numbers, and had them out to the range as soon as I could after getting them. I handle them carefully and don't take them out hunting, but I do shoot them a lot. I know they were all built t...

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They look complicated. And there are lots of parts. But they are just stacked on a few shafts. It's time consuming but there isn't any magic to them. If you can use hand tools and have patience, the hard part is getting in in & out of the vehicle. I just don't do enough tranny work to justify b...

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I have two loads for a number of rifles and pistols. For rifles I load heavy bullets for my .40-85, .40-65, .45-90, .45-70 that vary from 410 gr. for the .40's to 530 gr. for the .45's to shoot long range out 650-1000 yds. For handguns I have heavy loads for hunting or self defense, but lightweight ...

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I am considering taking it in this coming weekend, however, as it's only about 1½ hours drive from my home I'll likely decide on Saturday morning. Hope you'll stop by to say hello Steve! I'll have tables at the very back row to the left of the roll up door a bit. There's maps at the entry showing t...

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Perfect example of why I tell guys starting out to buy used, not new reloading equipment. Quality brand equipment lasts over many decades and never wears out. I bought my Lyman Lubrisizer used with a bunch of sizing dies probably 40 years ago, and it's still chugging along like new, just dirtier.

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piller wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2026 10:53 pm Trannys are way beyond my skill level.

I can do almost anything on cars, but I don't even bother with automatic transmissions.

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Thanks guys. It sounds like they all list the same IMR 4198 loads. 4198 is my favorite powder for all my old single shot cartridges I reload. Just one of the finest BP alternatives ever made. I use either IMR or Hodgdon equally as Hodgdon owns both names and their tech told me the powders are ident...

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I have the 10th addition and it does have the 50/95 in it. I started to post a screenshot of it, but then I realized that I would be violating the reproducing laws for the book. So, I am hesitant to post a screen shot. It would just be the same as already posted above, so no reason to. I have the 9...

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Next weekend is the big antique gun show in Greeley, Co. on Fri.-Sat.-Sun.! The event is 800 tables and dedicated to antique or curio and relic firearms only. Colorado has a 3 day waiting period on newer guns, but their rules exempt antique and C&R guns. We're heading out Wed. morning for the tw...

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I almost dread car projects I think will be easy to do. Seems like those are the ones that often go sideways! And the tough jobs I start early thinking they'll be bad just seem to fall together.

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Last couple days it's been either not able to open this site again, or not able to first thing, then later it worked. And then occasionally it takes forever for a reply to finally post after I finish it. Today it came right up, but had logged me out again, and yesterday I just gave up trying. And re...

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Now I don't feel so alone in this Griff! About a year ago I dropped my granddaughter's 2002 Saturn off at the local garage to have the hard lines to her AC changed. One was leaking and the mechanic said it required unbolting the motor mounts and raising the engine to install new lines. I figured not...

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Texas is still the leader in oil production in the US today, but North Dakota is 2nd and just under half of Texas. So depends on which climate you prefer. Both a great conservative states that are gun friendly. North Dakota can get darned cold in winter months, and Texas can get pretty hot. Take you...

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Thanks guys!
Here's an old advertisement showing Maxim's factory cutaway in a drawing. Baffles look a bit different than the real Maxim baffles. Maybe a design change along the way somewhere?

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