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OJ

Oh man, that 1895 sure is a beauty! I know what you mean about folks stopping you to chat about your guns. While I don’t tend to own anything quite that nice, I do often times have unusual firearms and know what you mean about them generating conversation. More often than not, it's part of the enjo...

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Then there's always a Henry... sorry I couldn't resist. Actually, I think the Henry is a valid suggestion. I’ve looked at Henry’s and for some odd reason, I could never get over the front band being made out of plastic. By the time I deemed that feature acceptable, I’d acquired the Ithaca 72 – whic...

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I remove the aperture to give a ghost ring sight. It is, by far, my favorite rimfire rifle I like that idea and have done something similar on my 94, but used a Lyman "globe" front sight. The ghost sight / globe combination works well for my aging eyes as I'm trying to not resort to using...

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I bought mine in 1968 (paid $115.00 for it the same day I paid $90.00 for my NIB Buffalo Bill Commemorative Winchester 94 - dealer was a good friend) and have shot it regularly since. I really like the short throw and balance of the rifle and I plink small pieces of wood and dirt clods on the 100 ya...

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If you were a Marine in 1950 and were told this fuzzy faced kid was your Assistant Battalion Surgeon - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ASSTBATTALIONSURGEON1949.jpg Would that have inspired confidence - or just another reason to try to avoid getting wounded ? Having lived with Marines (th...

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It was about 1934 when I caught these animals stealing grass from our cattle -

Justice here was much quicker than that on Osama bin Laden -

OJ

Holy smokes 8) are those Mastiffs? The two on the right sure look like it but I haven't quite figured out the one on the far left - y'know, the little one. :shock: She'd love the description as "the little one" - she does stand 5'3" but her weight is "classified" and I don'...

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Pitchy wrote:Holy smokes are those Mastiffs?

Yep - th "little" brindle girl is only 205# and big bro - who can see out on all fours - 250#

Their main threat -

"DROWN'EM IN DROOL"

OJ

Gun Digest 2011 lists a couple of Winchester 94 Custom and High Grade 30-30 rifles - probably from Miroku - Commemorative for Oliver Winchester's birth - 200 years - for only $1959.00. Oliver Winchester's signature in gold is on top of the bolt - who could resist ??? If that's too steep, the High Gr...

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Our dogs share their house with us -

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AJMD429 wrote:
Rusty wrote:It's been almost 40 years since I've flown anywhere and see no reason to change now due to their stupid policies.
Same Here. I just can't take the symbolic stupidity...

A BIG +1 HERE ON THAT

OJ

Could be - but, I doubt there'll ever be better demonstration of a pilot's superior flying talent than Pilot Sullenberger's landing his passenger loaded plane in the Hudson River after birds stopped all his engines - without a single loss of life or even injury of any passenger. Aeorbatics is a lear...

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On a little smaller scale - I've held a commercial license for over 40 years and most of my work consisted of flying cargo into back sountry - mountains & plains - small strips - or often in fields with no strips. I have the greatest respect for those guys in the big stuff but still feel a littl...

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Really no losers here - some just more winners than others. I can't resist nominating the Winchester 95 in 30-06 my wife gave me for our 25th anniversary five years ago - Miroku made some 8000 of them under license in 1995 as century commemoratives types - more or less - about half in Grade 1 and th...

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OJ, that's as pretty a rifle as I've ever seen.... :mrgreen: Thanks - it's the top of the line in my safe. My wife gave it to me for our 25th anniversary six years ago. All she got was this little ring - and she's convinced she got the best of the deal - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/...

OJ

Gun Digest 2011 lists the 1895 in "Safari Centennial High Grade" in .405 for $1749.00 and, in "Custom Grade" (?jeweled hammer and such??) for $3649.00 - IME, the prices they list are on the high side. Look significantly more fancy than mine - which is fancy enough for me - mine i...

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I also own this .30 army carbine. (Really 30-40 krag) When I bought it many years ago it was sans rear sight. I had a old friend put on a buffington sight on it. We didnt have to drill. The handguard wont fit over it though. This one is right near the end of production in 1931. I have owned it for ...

OJ

I see I forgot to add - some years ago, the largest prize rack elk (Boone & Crockett) was shot west of Crested Butte, Colorado, with a Winchester 95 flat sided 30-40 Krag. A friend of mine had those in his motel where I stayed frequently while skiing there.

OJ

We all have our own likes/dislikes - but - Joe Poyer (Fro collectors Only series) has a three book series on Winchester Lever Action Repeating Firearms - #3 is on the 94 and 95 Winchesters. He lists calibers as - .38-72 and .40-72 "flatsides" originals and modern calibers as .405 W.C.F., ....

OJ

Great pics of a great specimen - never saw a four barrel pepperbox that looked that good - A few years ago a grateful patient gave me this specimen she had inherited - .308 cartridge is for size perspective - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/PISTOLS/P1010020A1.jpg http://i2.photobucket.co...

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Original Series 70 - made in 1970 -

Repro - made since 2002 - low serial number - I've owned some 5 or 6 years -

Basic Colt's Government Model 45 ACP pistols

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I have never found the answer to this question - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/VEHICLES/JACKSCUB.jpg Service ceiling (defined as the level above sea level where the plane can still climb 100 feet per minute at full allowable weight) is 18,000 ft - or so. Question is - how was this dete...

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OK I know you already made your choice, but if this thread is for future reference, I would pick the cheapest/smallest Williams sight - the WGRS I believe. You set it for your point-blank range and keep it there, and it accepts the apertures. It has infinite settings, as precise as you want, then n...

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Great pictures of great planes -

However - here's where it really "got off the ground" - started -

OJ

Check this link - http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7577&start=0 Just a click on searches will give lots of info - there has been more than plenty written about the Mossberg 464 - many problems coming up before one magazine full has gone through it and even before the fir...

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When I bought this place in 1975, it was two years old and within two blocks from the north edge of CS - city limits. Zoned for rustic (lawn planting not required - as it was in most of CS - even across the street) - plus privacy 1/2 acre lots (my dogs were both near 200#) and pine trees (a lot smal...

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In 1940, my two roommates at boarding school and I combined our collective wealth - $15.00 - and bought an old HD - Reputed to have been made in the 1920s. We lived WAY out in the country and titles & licenses didn't get much attention - and, living in boarding school - we didn't want to worry o...

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This 1977 R100S BMW and I have been close since birth (the bike's) Best known as BMW's first liter displacement engine, first Beemer to do the 1/4 mile in under 13 seconds and top 120 MPH on the level (I ran out of courage at 110 but wasn't out of throttle) - only drawback - engine designed for high...

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/VEHICLES/JACKSCUB.jpg Only 5 MPG at 115 MPH - but cuts cross country not having to follow roads http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/VEHICLES/P1010010A.jpg And - 55 MPG on twisty mountain roads staying within not more than 10 MPH over the posted li...

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You can pay more but, IMO, you won't get anything better than Colt's Government Model Series 70 in 45 ACP. Top one original production - from 1970 and bottom one a reproduction mad since 2002 (low serial number suggests first year production). http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/PISTOLS/IMG_...

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/4406%20RIDGECREST/IMG_1660.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/4406%20RIDGECREST/PA260015.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/4406%20RIDGECREST/IMG_1638.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ANIMALS/Buck01.jpg Flies 24/7 ...

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Actually, it was quite common for the boys, at least to start driving around 8 - 10 years of age because tractors and pickups needed to be driven and it was just more practical for young cowboys to drive regularly To funny. I was driving my dad's pickup, clutch w/three speed on the floor, pulling a...

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Love your stories. I grew up after the horseless carriage was invented, but did grow up rural. Did most of my stuff horseback until I was introduced to cars and got my license. Don't get me wrong I drove a lot without a license, just not near civilization and did take a chance of getting caught by ...

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Thanks, guys, for the kind words about my old cowboy stories. Our entertainment then didn't have such things a tV, Video games, and such - so we made do by inventing ways to get in trouble.

As a result, most of us old cowboys have wild stories like mine - some of them are even true -

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I sincerely hope I'm not boring or invading this thread too much but, talk of horses pulling stagecoaches at full run (I always doubted that) reminded me of an "incident" of my young cowboy days somewhat related. Young cowboys about age 12 are big and strong enough to get into trouble and ...

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I see I forgot the last half of the title "Who's Who in Grant County, Nebraska, in 1940 ". That was when the circle dot herd size was estimated by Mrs. Willard Hayward. I forgot this thread was about horse speed - and I do have some experience there. My dad was on the Grant County Rodeo Bo...

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Where were you located in the Sandhills? I have some good friends who still ranch in that area on a family ranch that is headed to their fifth generation soon. The ranch is call the Circle Dot and covers just over one hundred sixty thousand continuous acres. Been a while since I have been out there...

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This August I'll celebrate my 85th anniversary of my arrival on this planet - and, I was nearly 16 when my folks moved from the cattle ranching Sandhills of Nebraska to the city (Denver) and I found out there were other ways to make a living besides being a cowboy. My dad was the first white child b...

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Nope, it will not only not improve your iron sight use, it may hurt it. Sometimes the correction of distance eyesight with lasiks will increase the need for reading glasses. Therefore your vision for iron sights will be a little more blurred. Not always but something to discuss with your eye surgeo...

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I have a 1967 Canadian Centennial 94 - 1867-1967 - in 30-30 (20" octagonal barrel) I bought used but in very good condition $350.00 last year - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/IMG_2491.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/003.jpg I bought my 1968 Buffalo Bil...

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RIP - SIR !!

OJ

Here' my Winchester 95 in 30-06 - given to me by my wife about 6 years ago for our 25th anniversary - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/AWINCHESTER95-1.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/IMG_1494_edited-1.jpg Good looks and a sweet shooter. I zeroed the sights to...

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Dunno how or whether this is helpful but, Arthur Pirkle lists te firing pin for any 92 as 3 + 19/32" long by 9/32" in diameter. The tip was 19/64" long by 3/32" in diameter. All were blued and only one type was manufactured. That from the North Cape Publications Vol 2 on the 1886...

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Good one !!! I think these days we need to remember how to show proper respect and how to treat our government athorities - A DEA officer stopped by a ranch in West Texas, and had a talk with the old rancher there. He told the rancher, "I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.&qu...

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This was safe for all but the jack rabbits in 1933 -

I was deadly on rabbits and prairie dogs but, so far, have never had an ND -

OJ

Actually, the problem the !st Division Marines at the "Frozen Chosin" reservoir fighting those some 300.000 Chinese who came over the Yalu river was not that their guns got too hot. For openers, they didn't have winter equipment and clothing and, it was so cold, the semi-automatic weapons ...

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In December, 1950, the Eighth army on the west side of Korea and th 1st Division Marines were at the Yalu river and Chosin reservoir on the east side when some 300,000 Chinese troops crossed the river and attacked. The Eighth Army retreated in total disarray leaving equipment, etc. where it was. The...

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I see I left out what, to me, was the most ironic thing about the "Cease Fire" was that our president then was the Army General whose philosophy stated was "Never accept anything except complete surrender.". However, the decision was made by the UN and not the USA. Ike was right,...

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I just wanted to remind those who might not know that the war in Korea is NOT over. There IS a truce but recent events have demonstrated that the North Koreans (PRK), at least the government, do see this war as continuing. They would like nothing more than to reunite the peninsula under their contr...

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I come from a long line of Masons on both sides of the family - my dad was a state lecturer in Nebraska then also. I was a DeMolay as a teen-ager and was raised to Master Mason my last year of Korean War duty (1955). I went on to finish 32 degrees in Scottish Rite that year also. I joined the Shrine...

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