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I know it is a kinda crazy question. On the one hand a holster in full relief, even if you can hardly see the gun quite likely no more evident than a lot of concealed carry, it is obvious that you have a honking big holster there, and what you have in it, unless you are bluffing. On the other hand, ...

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I looked at some old threads, but it seems like a moving target, on quality. What is the current thinking on whether this gun is a buy or not. One thing I didn't like the sound of is that apparently it voids the warranty if you take it apart. That combined with the marinecoat, which is not going to ...

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As fabulous as the 45-70 is for everything from mastodons to squirrels, it would be nice if at least one maker would offer the 50 alaskan in some rifle. I can get an 1886 in demountable, 12" barrel, stainless, blacked out with a muzzle break, and that is just one maker, Chiappa. The 50 is a cer...

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. . . hopefully it will in fact wake some people up and get them on board with not choosing "good" guns over "bad" guns when the talk of controls comes up. Throwing some under the bus to supposedly keep the "good" ones isn't realistically going to appease anyone. Not t...

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Any of you guys do the vaccine? I am very seriously considering it. Please, it takes some kind of pre-existing condition to think this is passing on as fact the existence of a working vaccine. I wanted to believe it for about 1 post having thought they only had one for horses. There are any number ...

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Probably because they believe the racists are right. Once you take a place or incorporate it, never say sorry.

I keep hearing about good hunting.

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Not sure exactly what you are asking. But as mentioned, stainless is often weaker, however it wears better in some cases. Strength is only so important, one does not need stronger than strong enough. You also have to be careful about what is really in silver guns. Some are chromed carbon, and in oth...

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Seems like a lot of the news readers in the US are either Canadian or Texan, apparently nobody much wants to listen to the ones in-between. During the second world war the Canadian accent was regarded as being the most generally understood, so you got Canadians like Lorne Greene doing the news from ...

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Yeah, those are some of the issues. The problem for Romney was that the Tea Party win in the midterms shifted the momentum to a place where it does not exist in the national race. Romney was the right candidate for a republican party that did not show up.

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I had an F 300s back in the 70s, sold it about 10 years ago. Off a rest, it will put every shot through the same hole at 10 mm, I mean the same hole, not the same group. With iron sights. The recoil compensation moves the upper receiver and barrel back with the same energy as the smaller piston. The...

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H&R makes a couple of good rifled slug guns. They are single shots, but that doesn't bother me. I want one shot exactly where I point the gun. I use super heavy full size slugs that are fitted to the bore, and can produce rifle like accuracy (At least handi rifle like accuracy). Particularly wit...

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Maybe a useful item if democratic canvasers are plaguing the neighbourhood.

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Thanks for the info, I think I know where there might be one I can pick up. I like stainless if it is well done, and laminate for that mater. On the stainless, it makes the gunsmithing easier since one can polish, no bluing. I may trim the barrel to 20 if I don't like the longer one though it is sho...

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Up here in Canada, these rifles seem to be getting scarce. I was wondering if they are still making them, and if they were all made pre-remington? How can one tell the Rem made ones, if they exist from others?

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From a Canadian, or Brooklyn Special perspective, I think this thing has legs. When it suits them, gun guys are always talking about how a gun is a tool... Jeff Cooper suggested the perfect defense gun for a jurisdiction where the laws preclude handguns, is what he called the Brooklyn Special. It is...

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I would not buy a semi-dangerous game rifle without a loading gate. That is like buying an AR-15 that uses striper clips.

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Canada on leverguns is basically as free as the US, and on pistols basically as free as the UK. So I don't have much practical experience on 1911s other than retail sales, and now make holsters for them. Now that Wild Bunch shooting is gaining popularity in some areas, there is a drive back to more ...

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Google Brooklyn special. Another Jeff Cooper development.

http://www.gunweek.com/2007/feature0701.html

http://gunrightsmedia.net/showthread.php?t=407382

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In building a spinning wheel for my wife, I read a lot of books. One of these that I thought was technical was actually mostly history, and the history of spinning was far more opressive than I had imagined. It consisted of forcing all women in England at one time to spin a certain amount of thread....

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To state the obvious, you drill the hole first, then lay out the final position of everything else after the hole is drilled.

Another option if a two piece stock is an option is to rout the hole, then assemble both sides of the forestock.

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I have thought of doing that, but now that I see it done, with my hands I think 1/4" would do. So thanks for the photos. That is how Turnbull does his levers, he cuts and extends them, but he doesn't have build pics!

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What is the feeling about this new offering? Unlike the 94, there are not a lot of these around in good condition second hand, cheap. They have all of a sudden shown up in the local stores. I realize they have a safety, I have heard that has messed up the trigger group. Any feeling as to whether thi...

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So... get your Marlin .22 while you can.

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I think the Turnbull exercise got one out of three parts down. The one being the Cartridge which was designed to be within conventional parameters. The second part is the mechanical orientation, where the action and rifle have all/most of the attributes of a world class stopping rifle. Controlled fe...

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A real stopping rifle. More power than a 45-70. And made really reliable. Possibly stronger or integral tube. Controlled feed. stronger stock attachment Something to shut the guys in the double gun forum up. A factory Marlin in 50 AK would be a start. Express Sights.

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I don't know how much time some of you guys spend in canoes.... Or otherwise in the rain forest. The marlin isn't all stainless, and I guess one would need to tear this baby down to see how much she was also. They seem to say she is all stainless or composite with the exception of the sights. Also, ...

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Will you make any of the CAS type guns short stroke. Seems a pity to pass up on the opportunity if you are doing all the parts from scratch anyway. While you are at it, you will need a lever shotgun also!

Very impressive work!

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I remember reading something about how all sporting powders were milled from stuff dating from WWII. That was a while back that I read that, don't know if it was ever true, or how long it held up as true. Anyone know?

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They have the 223s in the non-bull/standard barrels at some ridiculous prices. I was wondering how much difference in accuracy there would be. The .223 is a pretty small hole. Around here, one doesn't see a lot of groundhogs, so the rate of fire wouldn't be that heavy.

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With all the folks going after hogs with knives, would it have been possible, what with the dogs and all to just get in there and point shoot the hog? I always practice a few contact distance shots with anything I own. Used to go to these 3d archery shoots, and there were a lot of good shooters. Ama...

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Anyone know of a place where one can hunt Nilgai on public land, or unguided for fee on private land. Years back I saw a package on the King Ranch for a you camp, you hunt, you don't pay much, or probably see much hunt... :) I prefer hunting on my own resources, it isn't so much to save money, if on...

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I'm mostly joking, but I love working on guns, and yet I hate that the guns need basic work out of the box. On the one side they are making me happy by making the guns a virtual kid build, on the other it sucks they don't care more.

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Look at the instructions on levergun.com. Very good. I said levergun.com

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Fabulous work! Great thread. I found the pistol thread the other day, and then this one today. Happy Happy. One thing that did depress me a little is that I want to learn to drill and rifle barrels as expediently as possible. That was how I found the pistol thread. Now that the US is controlling it'...

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I don't think you can sign away your rights if a person makes a dangerous product. Obviously we don't think the safety is an improvement, though it might stop idiots from hurting themselves, which is still a product safety issue given demographics. But we know that it can be argued that the lack of ...

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That's why I like Stainless guns, if something like that offends me I can just smooth it out with some emery and stones, and don't have to worry about refinishing the whole thing, or will cold blue hold up or blend in. I like blued guns a lot, but this is one of the reasons mine tend to be stainless...

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Ted, how did you inlet the magazine tube into the forend. Seems like a full length hole would be the starting point, and I can think of a number of ways of handling that, but I would like to know how it is normally done.

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The only Winchester 92s I know are the repros. They aren't all that smooth coming from the box, my trigger is pretty good, but a lot of other stuff is way too stiff: For me in Canada, I am cut off from US smiths, and parts. For me that makes the existence of Steve's tapes and parts (the parts are ch...

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"I don't think it's about trying to improve on the 45-70 or any other cartridge. Some people just like something different, or perhaps custom. " I think it is a little bit. The 475 is there to get classic Africa performance out of a levergun. The velocity, bullet weight and SD criterion th...

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I seem to remember predicting this a while back when the prices were at their highest and despair reigned. I have to say I have no idea what is going to happen in the general economy. I kinda feel nostalgic for the strong economy and high fuel prices!

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What about some of these in the 1894?

http://levergun.com/Marlin/index.html

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"a bad shot will look to a bigger, more powerfull STOPPING ROUND, except no such thing exists." There is a big difference between shooting animals that are undisturbed or moving in the opposite direction, and shooting animals that are trying to kill someone. In average, competant hands, as...

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Another cool project Salvo. I want to do it bad, but I sorta like the 20" barrel. I love doing the work, but maybe don't need the result. In my case I wouldn't be too scared to try since the sight seems to be crooked on mine anyway. :? The butt plate is so overhanging it can't be wood shrinkage...

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http://www.303british.com/id1.html

Up here we get some levers chambered for the round, never handled one myself.

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Interesting discusion. There tends to be some heat about what needs to be done to the lawyers, in this kind of thread. Seems to me there is a deep hole in these guns issues, and it is going to take a lot of lawyers to get out of it. Let's not darn them too much - though a few lawyer jokes always go ...

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"They are legal to hunt with here, but not during the archery seasons, only during rifle season." Man they get it! I didn't know any states did that. You should get a pass through on a doe with a 30 pound hickory longbow. Of course the longer arrows are heavier, but any Xbow is pretty pote...

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Only if the barrel is totally coplanar with the gravitational field. For instance if you shoot straight up bullet will not land same time as one dropped from muzzle height.

Downhill and uphill shots are basically the same deal, hold for horizontal distance.

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"it seems to me that people who have the least knowledge and experience with these matters are the ones who determine policy." That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Check this out. They are talking about letting folks travelling in our provincial parks (black and polar bears) to be arme...

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Well there isn't anything stopping one from using both. I do think that a can of spray, is lighter and easier to carry and might be at hand. But I also think it might be hard to spray-stop a bear in high wind, or if the animal was a attacking someone out of range, while a gun would still be useful. ...

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You are right, Shatner was an archer. Even though he started out at Stratford in Shakespear, Shatner's characters are all over the top. People expect it, so it probably doesn't have as much effect as it would if others were doing a take off. In his case it's Shatner, being Shatner, in someone else's...

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