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airedaleman

More marketing hype. 100th anniversary boots for the Sundance Film Festival Crowd. L.L. Bean is not the supplier I remember, with two catalogs a year and products made in America.

airedaleman

Great picture! How odd that they managed to shoot all those ducks without camouflage and high tech autoloaders. (Gentleman on the right has a Model 10 Remington pump gun - like my Dad's - and a coat much like his too. Both now hang in my den. The coat still has four paper high brass 4's in one pocke...

airedaleman

pwl44m wrote:That aint Here , Those are Foreign Cars. Nice clear Pics though. Makes Ya wanna go out and shoot somthing.
Perry

Gimme a break! The first two vehicles are Fords!

airedaleman

Oh-my-word...

This is getting silly.

airedaleman

The original King's patent has long since expired.. There must be another reason... I'd guess it's a manufacturing decision. Eliminates another cut in the receiver, a tapped hole for the loading gate screw, and the loading gate itself, and an assembly step to install the gate. I suspect Henry or th...

airedaleman

Heck of a gun for two and a quarter...

Use it as is, and keep your eye out for new furniture. Good luck and enjoy it. 99's are something special!

airedaleman

For the Savage try http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthread ... Collectors

airedaleman

[quote="pricedo"] It would be nice if somebody could talk Savage into making another run of Model 99s. This isn't going to happen. Savage had some prototypes manufactured in Spain back in the 80's and decided that, even making the 99 overseas, the project would not be profitable. Look at a...

airedaleman

In this day and age, any time you can get a reasonably decent 99 of any sort for for $225 is the time to buy.
You'd do well not to let it get away from you.

airedaleman

These bogus birthday greetings have nothing to do with Marlin or the Marlin Owners website! Look at the sender's address; firearms@forumfoundry.com

I for one do not wish to explore that address.

airedaleman

airedaleman: I agree that 3c isn't bad, but when I asked if he was open to discussion he said the worst he could say was no. when an offer was presented he refused. Sort of the principle that if someone asks me is that my best price and I say "make an offer" that means i am open to discus...

airedaleman

3 C's shipped for that Model 11A mightn't be a bad deal. Certainly a more interesting gun than the 11-48...

airedaleman

Pointy ones -06's with tin-plated bullets? (There's a 30-30 in there also with tin-plated ball...)

airedaleman

We used to see stories like this in the sporting magazines back in the dim, distant past. Now, Ha!

Thank you for this classic. Merry Christmas!

airedaleman

Ox Goring 101?

airedaleman

How about the Warner-Swasey for the '03 Springfield?

airedaleman

Model 40 (and 45) - Nice pre-WWII lower cost bolt action with rear locking lugs (two - similar to Lee Enfield) and detachable box magazine. Also offered in 250-3000, 30-30 and 30-06. Plenty of info available, especially from the Savage Collectors forum at 24 Hour Campfire.

airedaleman

I can recall Luger American ads from the late 50's and early 60's. I suspect that the company was some sort of spinoff from a supplier to Herter's... Morphed into two other entities as well - Ruhr American and Krupp American. Great discussion of the old line reloading manufacturers at castboolits. (...

airedaleman

BlaineG wrote:
airedaleman wrote:If it's really a .358 WCF, it's a dangerous rifle Even the .356 is pushing the 336 some...
Yes. Which is why I shall be very conservative.

Be careful, and good luck!

airedaleman

If it's really a .358 WCF, it's a dangerous rifle Even the .356 is pushing the 336 some...

airedaleman

Dinna know about the gun on the left, but I believe the other is a higher grade Model 10 Remington. My Dad's plain Model 10 is in my cabinet, and his Duxbak canvas hunting coat hangs on an old coat rack in my room. (We dint need no stinkin' camouflage...)

GREAT pictures! Thanks so much.

airedaleman

As a few here know I have a very nice 1950 vintage Win 94 in 30-30. It's unaltered and mechanically almost new. Pre 64 Win 94 b web.JPG It's only problem is, it's got a bad chamber. I've fired less than a 100 rounds and it's split 28 of them. That is unacceptable even if you don't hand load. So I w...

airedaleman

Sorry guys I don't by it. When old hand loads split I can believe the brass got brittle and died. But not when it starts splitting factory loads. I've had many 30-30s in the over 45 years I've been shooting them and THIS one carbine has split more cases than ALL the others put together. It's a bad ...

airedaleman

Yeah, a new barrel would be a good thing, Joe. But studying your pictures and measurements there is no reason for that brass to be splitting on the first shot except for being too danged brittle a brass. From your measurements it looks like the neck is oversized, allright and you wouldn't get good ...

airedaleman

Yes and yes. Check over at http://www.assra.com

airedaleman

This explains why you need progressive loading equipment. I'm impressed.

airedaleman

Just as an aside, I have a '98 Grand Cherokee 4-liter with the Selec-Trac power train which I bought in August of 2001 (a leased vehicle, he had 36,016 miles on the clock when I got him.) Now has 348,272 miles showing, and still going strong. (Has an occasional hard to start episode, but heck, I do ...

airedaleman

Check with the people at http://marlin-collectors.com. Regnier may even be able to tell you how many 44-40 1889 SRC's were made. (I'll bet there were fewer than you might think...)
Given my feeling that gun prices nowadays are astounding - or, in some cases , ridiculous - $700 doesn't sound too
bad.

airedaleman

A few thoughts... As we all know, the 99's magazine rotor is quite caliber specific. Will the mystery "303" accept and feed 35 Remington cartridges? Also, aren't the actions on the early guns are too short to handle cartridges (like the .358) based on the .308 case? I guess a chamber cast ...

airedaleman

Ein deutscher Jagdverein im mittel Amerika... Wisconsin?

airedaleman

32-40 an early Ballard cartridge, very popular with target shooters. Briefly, basis for the 30-30 and original chambering (along with 38-55) for the Model 1893 Marlin and 1894 Winchester. (30-30 [30WCF] introduced about a year later.)

airedaleman

Topside wrote:Morning, can a 2.3 ounce Uncle Mike's holster 9 inches long just be stuffed in a padded envelope and sent (domestic) for proper first class postage for 2.3 oz.?.
T.

Yes. It'll get there just fine.

airedaleman

Then too there are those who refuse to believe that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is part of the United States of America...

(I lived there for 33 years, and I think there may be some basis for the doubters' beliefs.)

airedaleman

Well after careful inspection of Barrel I see nowhere that it says either Black Powder or Smokeless. I am going to assume BP. Were all the 93s called safety's or did some come marked as 1893. An early unmarked barrel is soft steel. As I mentioned, your gun appears to be a very early 1893 (a partial...

airedaleman

This is apparently a very early 1893 that lacks the trigger plate support screw on the left side of the receiver. They were originally introduced in .32-40 and 38-55. It wasn't until the 30-30 chambering was made available more than a year later that the "Special Smokeless Steel" - marked ...

airedaleman

Hate to differ regarding the receivers on these guns, but they are a Zamak casting, not aluminum. (Just heft one.) Have one (S/L/LR) that I bought for my first boy back in 1974 that's still ticking without a hitch. If I could find another for 27 bucks, i guess I'd snap it up. (Edit: 47, not 27, dumm...

airedaleman

Pretty skinny top strap on that pistola, too. There were buckets of Spanish copies of American revolvers, mostly four or five notches below inferior...

airedaleman

Cast Bullet Hunter wrote:My recollection, from back in the 1960s, it that it was Federal that made a lot of house-branded ammunition. Back when Federal was not really common under its' own brand.

Give that man a cigar!

airedaleman

Check with the folks at http://marlinowners.com. There should be a source for the white spacers there.

airedaleman

I have a Wickliffe 76, in a .243 caliber. I believe that it is the mid-quality model as it has a cast silver grip cap. At any rate, does anyone know how I can get an exploded drawing of the rolling-block itself, or better yet, tell me how I can adjust the trigger pull. Thanks, Single-shot Go to the...

airedaleman

Go to marlin-collectors.com. You will get the straight dope on Ballards as well as early Marlin repeating rifles.

airedaleman

You can still get that kind of service in a levergun; just buy a Henry. And, the letter (email) will be from the President of Henry Firearms. I bought one two years ago, a super little rifle. Happy Birthday to me when I turned 70. No need to talk to Mr Imperato, except to commend him for a remarkab...

airedaleman

A letter ******************************************************************************************** Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. Hartford 14, Connecticut, U.S.A. (Rampant Colt image) April 17, 1963 Mr. Michael B. Leck 30 Yahara Ave. Rutherford, N.J. Dear Mr. Leck: We have r...

airedaleman

THE bolt action if you ask me. I want a .375 2-1/2" NE. http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Lee-Speed.htm Extremely rare B.S.A. Lee Speed No. 1 Pattern 375 x 2.5" Flanged express sporting rifle retailed by Army & Navy Cooperative Society Limited with military-type safety, serial # 128XX, Army ...

airedaleman

Proper designation of those rifles is Lee Speed. English sporting rifles built on early Lee actions, and very elegant. I had one that I bought for $25.00 at Navy Arms' shop in Ridgefield, NJ circa '64 or '65. These rifles were coming over by the crateful from newly independent British colonies in Af...

airedaleman

Wrong butt stock? You were more than fair with your offer. I'd look further...

airedaleman

No wonder there are anti-gun people out there

airedaleman

About 30 seconds worth of lateral shaking here in Lanexa. Never experienced anything like it. No damage here, thank God,
but there are reports of phone lines down and some damage in Richmond. USGS reports a 5.9 magnitude quake with epicenter between Louisa and Mineral...

airedaleman

Do I remember correctly? Classic rule of thumb - decent gun equals a working man's weekly wage plus a bit... (scrimp on the beer and smokes for a week or two)

airedaleman

Marlin "dying" three years ago? That'll be news to a lot of people. (I'd also like to know what kind of an offer Freedom Group made to Marlin employees to transfer to the Ilion operation. Must have been a humdinger.)

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