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JimT

That old boy in the wheelchair has experience, which definitely outweighs opinion.

JimT

Glad to have you aboard! I have spent a little time in your amazing State .. but mostly up around Fort Yukon. Three of us from down here and one from your town did a wonderful hunt on the Yukon River, starting in Circle and going North until we found a spot we liked. Man I enjoyed that week we spent...

JimT

I've been using the 210 gr. XTP's in my .41 Magnum for a long time ... probably more than 20 years. I have shot deer and Javelina and hogs and 1 elk with them. Never had an issue. Never lost one. The cow elk was hit at about 90 yards. I recovered this bullet in the hide on the off side. It only lost...

JimT

You sound like me and the small primer .45 ACP's.

JimT

That standard .45 Colt load is a lot lighter than the standard .44 Magnum load for sure!

JimT

When I had all those .45 Colt loads tested by Hodgdon's in their pressure gun, none were over 31,000 CUP which is safe in the Ruger Blackhawk. Most of the loads were under 25,000 CUP. I shot 25,000 CUP loads in the Colt SAA (2nd generation) and in Uberti's. A lot! The loads beat up the cross-pin lat...

JimT

I never thought of it that way, but you certainly can make an application of it.

JimT

Yes. And the loading of 2400 and Unique get lower and lower.

If you can find them, the early loads for the .357 Magnum were much hotter then. And the early cases used Large primers.

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I copied this out of loading manuals I have. I went over it a couple times and I THINK I have it right, but I could have made some errors. Just warning ... I copied .357 .... .44 Special and .45 Colt data .. and I only copied the maximum loads listed. The Ideal and Lyman Manuals start in 1940 and pr...

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"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Ofte...

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JBowen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 7:27 pm Jim, did you buy the Republic 99.99 membership to get the free Hazmat and other perks? If so have you been satisfied?

JBowen

No I haven't bought a membership. I have been satisfied with their shipping times and with the primers, though.

JimT

I've loaded several thousand in 9mm .. 38 Special ... .357 Magnum ... never had a problem with seating or firing. They have been good for me and with today's prices, they are a great buy. I tested them against Federal Small Pistol Magnum primers and they had more power than the Federal.

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https://republicammunition.com/product/ ... l-primers/

JimT

While there are ways the home owner could make the bear decide to move, these days most people are re-educated to believe that "someone else" is supposed to take care of it. Being self-reliant is no longer an American trait. At least not for a lot of people.

JimT

And the other question is: The media rarely if ever these days gets things right. Why trust them about this story?

JimT

Good one Scott! Been thinking the same thing myself, though I have not put it in the form of a resolution. Browsing the used guns in Cabela's Gun Library is a dangerous thing so I have been cutting that out. I made a list of loads that I need to test and the guns to test them in and it seems I have ...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 9:32 am Will, good gracious! Glad you are going to be all right.
I slept in 'til about 5:15. Gunfire woke me up at midnight.

Me too! I put in ear plugs and went back to sleep.

JimT

Glad your OK! I started the New Year with a hot shower. That should last me til at least March!

JimT

The thing about old friends is they listen to each other's stories, even if they have heard them before. And they know that each other has had many adventures to talk about and some of them are even true!

JimT

There ain't much better than sitting in the San Antonio sunshine enjoying the company of an o!d friend!

JimT

I remember Jotul from the 1970's and 80's. One of the best wood stove's made at the time. May still be, though I have not followed them in years. They were super efficient with very little heat loss up the chimney.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 10:23 pm Jim, my Ruger shopkeeper is currently at Bobby Tyler’s shop. You can probably guess what he’s doing with it.

Yeah. He told me to send mine. Not yet decided if I want to.

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I've always had some kind of pocket pistol for the last 55 or 60 years. Astra_Cub_22_Short.JPG I carried two of these back in the 1970's .... Astra Cub .22 Short Excam_Derringer_38.jpg .38 Special Derringer ... shot a coyote with it once ... shot a rooster that kept attacking my daughter when she wa...

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the first of the winter season.

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There's a lot more chance that you will run into an evil human than you running into a dogman or sasquatch or yeti.

JimT

This one is good also ..

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JimT

Working on .41 Magnums right now. Loaded 100 round with the 210 gr. XTP over 20 gr. of WC820. That is my hunting round that I have used for a long time now. And am loading a bunch with the 230 gr. NEI flat point cast bullet over 6.6 gr. of Green Dot for just plain fun. I have plenty of loading to do...

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LeverGunner wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 10:53 pm Wow, that brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for sharing it with me. Was that your grandpa Jim?

No sir. That was an inspiration that came to me one evening.

JimT

That's very kind of you Scott! I don't experiment much with different loads anymore. I have several favorites that I like. But the shortage of Alliant powders has moved me to try some that I haven't messed with in years.

JimT

Yes, pleasant to spend the afternoon shooting. I am gonna load more .. I had just loaded 50 to see how they did. I am gonna load a couple hundred in anticipation of nice weather and spending an afternoon plinking. Weather is nice now ... 87 today .. but colder weather coming the first of the week. I...

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I hit the range about 10 this morning. Ran the 50 rounds of .41 Magnum loaded with the 230 gr. NEI flat point over 6.6 gr. of Green Dot. My chronograph died last year and I have not replaced it ... probably won't. But velocity seemed about like a standard .44 Special. My sixgun is sighted for the 21...

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I have only had 2 .308's in my life. 1966 I was issued an M14. I really liked that thing. 1995 (or close to then) I bought a Savage .308 ... shot it for a couple years and sold it to a friend. An accurate rifle but the .30-30 Trapper Model 94 was much handier and did everything I wanted to do with a...

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I am close friends with a person who slept with a pistol. They sat up in the middle of the night one time and fired it. They were asleep when they did it. Woke 'em up of course. Had a traumatized dog and sleeping partner. And a hole in the house to repair.

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Sixth Great-Grandchild ... the 3rd boy ... Luca Léon.

JimT

Supposed to hit 80 tomorrow. Nice weather. Not as warm as Mozambique was on Christmas but it'll do!

The San Gabriel River today.

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https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38450- ... t-hard-men

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I like simple guns. Singleaction and doubleactin sixguns with fixed sights. Semi-automatics with a minimum of operational controls (1911 .. High Power etc.) The less there is to go wrong. Just my preference.

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The old man leaned forward and began speaking. The look in his eyes and his voice kept me spellbound, and transported me back to a time long ago....... It was along about suppertime Christmas Eve when I noticed one of the calves was gone. We had them in a pen by the barn where they could get in out...

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There are people who believe Jesus of Nazareth never existed. Some say he is just a made up figure while others agree he probably did exist several thousand years ago but deny the stories told about him in the ancient writings. They dismiss these as myths and fables. Yet here is an individual who ha...

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Get both! In 6 months you won't miss spending the extra money and if it turns out you don't like one of 'em you can always get most of your money back ............

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Looks good to me Paul. Remember though ... that's how "they" suck you in. Give you something you like until you're hooked!

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if you haven't read it, there is an article I did years ago testing various factory .30-30 loads and handloads. One test was a penetration test where I shot through the leg bones of a steer we had butchered. I had a solid oak door covered with carpet behind the bone. I measured how deep each load we...

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6.6 of green dot eh? I'll try to remember to try that load Jim. I didn't load anything today but I did shoot 4 of my 20ga reloads this morning for 3 pheasants! It's a SWAG load. Speer #8 has Green Dot loads. For the .41 with a 210 gr. cast bullet, 8.0 gr. is the starting load and 9.0 gr. is the max...

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I loaded .41 Magnums with the 230 gr. NEI cast flat point over 6.6 gr. of Green Dot.

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I have used the .30-30 to take Mule Deer and Whitetail, but I have never used the standard 150 or 170 gr. bullets. For most hunting I use the Speer HotCor 130 gr. bullet. Running at 2400 fps or better it never failed me. For something totally different I loaded the 150 gr. Winchester Silver Tip spiz...

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AmBraCol wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 10:38 am I really like Jim's target. Doubt I'll ever get close to that with a sixgun.

I like it also. And I doubt I will ever get close to that again with a sixgun.

JimT

:lol: :lol: :lol: The SLED (South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) qualification course is geared towards pistols. At some point I am going to try it with a double-action revolver, which should be doable albeit a challenge. Doing it with a single-action revolver could require a pair for sure. I t...

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Shot with custom Ruger .41 Magnum by Bowen. 110 yards. 5 shots. Sitting on the ground, leaning back against a fence post and holding the gun with both hands between my upraised knees.

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The Pistol

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I sent word out to people around the country, Bill, as well as to friends in Africa.

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