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Some guy in Nigeria IS a creative shooter. The blog post about shotgun slugs made using a 16mm socket caught my eye... I won't even go into the creative mayhem which can be wrought by 2-3 15 year old boys with ancient damascus-barreled doubles, a sack of old paper shells, a bucket of old bearings a...

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Just caught this thread, Buck. I am so very sorry for your loss and I'll ask God to to send His comfort your way.

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I trim all my rifle brass these days, but I have always just crimped them in the middle of the cannelure and have gotten along just fine.

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I went through 300 in the new packaging and with the Lee Auto Prime they were a royal PITA. No more for me.

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Speaking for myself- 94 Winchester in 30 WCF.

From 135 grain cast on up through the heaviest jacketed bullets, it will handle anything from quail on the ground through getting the winter's meat past 200 yards. It has been, and remains, a friend in troubled times.

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Careful, Ralphie... you'll shoot your eye out.

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Buck, I'm so very sorry for your loss. God bless you & keep you through this.

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I would tend to agree that the 94 is capable well past 200 meters, but having read a lot of Cooper over the years and corresponded with him a bit, I think you have to take his statement in context. Cooper's concept of riflery involved going from 'slung' to 'hit' in about the time it takes most of us...

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mklwhite wrote:We gather those up and eat 'em, so I hope it's not alien!

That is preferable to having it the other way around

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Yes. Stand back a ways when you do.

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I've had everything from pre-64's to Angle Ejects and I've had enough of them to form an opinion. I wish I had kept every darned one of them, except maybe that post-64 that'd sting your fingers with the lever when you fired it. I don't miss that one much. But I digress. 1. Most accurate 94 i ever ha...

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Our 16" Puma in .45 Colt is so light & fast handling that it don't even feel like a rifle; but it will spit 335 Keiths at about 1365 fps when such loads are called for. I sure wouldn't feel nekkid with it (and the Old Vaquero) along. http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/VaqnPuma....

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I won't own a rifle that don't have iron sights on it.

I won't scope a rifle until those irons are zeroed at optimal range for the cartridge it's chambered for.

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I've owned and shot a few of these older Mossbergs. They were indeed slick, and the one I owned longest was an excellent shooter. Good find, Noah.

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First-Class Guy; First-Class Stuff.

http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/2008 ... html#links

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Been booted off a few boards and bailed from others... I generally smile at my good fortune and just shake the dust off.

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My response on TFL- Add me to the skeptics. 1. Round fired from dropping into tube on another flat-point round? Remote, but plausible. 2. Plausibly-fired round, fired from mag tube large enough to admit entire rimmed cartridge (with room to spare) ejected heavy-for-caliber .44 bullet from said tube ...

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Thanks for the report, 86'er. Come to think of it, I don't believe I've ever recovered a 150 grain Winchester or Sierra SP from a deer either, and I've seen about a heaping pickup load of the them fall to one or the other. That's the beauty of the old 30 WCF, enough velocity for decent trajectory an...

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Great post, Joe!

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Thank you gentlemen, I'll update as avaialable.

You bet I did, Blaine

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I like the 99 including the E models. There are options besides tang sights that work well on them. http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/2008/03/jeffs-outfitters-ladder-sight-on-savage.html However- I've had two of these in .308 and both would occasionally leave a case in the chamber when firing 180 o...

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Have a couple here. If you could find a moment to offer a prayer for these guys it would be appreciated. 1. My brother-in-law Roy, whose dentist found a defect in his jaw when fitting him for dentures. Biopsies are in the works. 2. My Chief of Police Brian, who went in for chest pains a week ago- an...

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I'm trying to find a fly detector to wave over my big box of 30-30 reloads so I can cut the culls out of the herd... use them sorry ones for rabbits in the 'mater patch

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That's some great stuff Whit. I watched several of those videos and they are a hoot.

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BTW Sarge have you sent that load over a chrono? If so how does it perform and what kind of groups do you get at 100yd? I checked the H4895 load on March 2nd at 2266 fps, exactly 30 fps slower than it clocked through my old 94AE three years ago. It was about sixty degrees cooler that day than it wa...

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Thanks for the replies and kind words. I think if I had some time, I could improve on the groups. I'm real happy with the load and kudos to Hobie for suggesting it. It shoots right to the same POI as Winchester's 150 grain Power Point load; it's been real close to it in velocity and terminal effect,...

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The inspiration for this exercise was a discussion I had with Joe, regarding the sight steps on my pre-64 Winchester Model 94. I have been working toward determining if the steps correlated to 100 yard increments. After some experimentation I settled on a fine .300 bead for the front. I then set the...

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You can read this http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/2006 ... -duty.html

and buy the Colt, or you can just buy the Colt

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I'll take fixed sights every time and will bend them to my will, if necessary.

http://www.thesixgunjournal.net/repatriatedrugergp.html

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Pick your load... I like 255's in .45, 240's in .44; generally full standard weight for bore diameter. Find a place on private property where you can set up on a bench and shoot with your wrists/hands rested on sandbags, your range bag, etc. Take along plenty of ammo, a file, and some matches, sight...

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I'd keep the 95, myself.

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Amen to your last line. I fiddled with a Foolproof on a 94 Winchester some years ago, out to about 600 yards. The windage wandered pretty bad as the mast went up and you had to be really careful how you tightened the gib screws for the longer setting. Once there however I could worry the hell out of...

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When I bought my Vaquero about a year ago, I priced .45 Colt ammo at two local shops. Over 30 bucks a box for Blazers.... I've shot the dickens out of it since then and it has yet to see a factory load, since it arrived.

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These Remingtons are set up exactly the way I like my personal 1911's- basic GI pattern gun with a good barrel, 'hardball' sights and double-diamonds. It don't get no better'n that.

Wish they had left that silly logo off the slide...

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I get along fine with a flat-topped conventional back sight, and a fine white bead up front. The white bead helps a lot at dusk & dawn when much good game shooting occurs. I've tried about everything and my take is this- time and ammo spent mastering one set of sights, beats money spent on two o...

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Joe, as quick as the sun set today (I shoot into the west) I ripped off three shots of my reload at what worked out to be 335 yards, using the 3rd notch on the elevator. I was shooting at a paper plate stapled in the middle of a 16" wide strip of waferboard, 4' high and backed up by a deadfall....

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I know I'd love to have one'a them Callahans, in a tight-chambered .45 Colt

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I'm not a fan of the tang sights either. My 92 Browning came with a tang sight. I thought it was pretty intersting,....until I handled it. I then couldnt get it off fast enough, and installed a reciever sight. The "ladder" sights are good but not great in my experience. The standard barre...

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You should take that and have it mounted on a piece of wood with a plaque and present it to your friend. That's a great idea. I'll have to give that some thought although I'm not sure he'd see the humor in it. He borrows everything from everyone because he's too cheap to buy things for himself. The...

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It's an interesting idea and one I'd like to see tried. My Puma .45 Colt has a chamber about the size of a Falstaff can, but it runs with anything you can poke in the loading gate.

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God looks after idiots... the first 'hot' load I cooked up for the .45 Colt shot through an 8" weathered old utility pole and buried all 325 grains of itself in a piece of native oak lumber leaned against the far side...knocked it over like it's been hit with a claw hammer. I had great fun with...

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That is the very reason I bought an Oehler rthr than a Chrony. Replacing ski screen cells is bad enough. It is also the reason I have two firm rules. iI will not shoot over another man's chronograph. If I need a load chronographed and mine isn't handy, I will ask the owner to shoot my gun and my lo...

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That is definitely an improvement. I swapped into a button-holed 336 years ago for one of the boys; I was forever getting a CLANK instead of a BANG because my Old Dog Brain refused to acknowledge that dayum little button- where none had existed in my previous 20 years of levergun activities. I might...

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Glad to hear it's working out, Dixieboy. Personally, I'd get that cylinder reamed before I messed with the forcing cone. Anyhow keep us posted on your results!

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One of my all-time favorite movies.

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Gotcha, Malamute. After reading Buck's posts & reading the JES site, I'd tempted to just have a forged 94 rebored.

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I shoot a 30-30 regularly at 200 yards; generally dope the wind by the Miller Method except I toss a handfull of grass in the air, about halfway to the target. I have noted considerable differences in wind along a 200 yard stretch.

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That'll make you a real decent shooter.

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... I once accidentally killed my own cat with just the muzzle blast from a 'caseless' .22 LR round where the round had detonated and the bullet exited, but belatedly some powder remnants ignited and sent a blast down the muzzle sufficient to 'scalp' a cat a foot from the muzzle (...OK, I learned t...

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Hobie- excellent article! Malamute & 2x22- thank you for the field reports. Top notch stuff. BenT- thank you for the late-model Winchester bore diameter info. Very helpful. Goat- I appreciate your referral of a reputable reboring service. Gentlemen, thank you all very much. I now know a whole bu...

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