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Bryan, I looked at your photos from this morning of the plate with 4, 5, and 6 gr of charge. It looks as if the primer was on the plate in all 3 tries. If so, I can't conclude bolt thrust is zero, unless there is something about the plate or it's motion that I'm missing. There are two gas pistons ac...

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It's coming here in the US as well. Even my sister, a life long Democrat, says she's becoming worried by the attitude of the American left toward free speech. Their intolerance of opposing viewpoints is, as she puts it, almost religious in its zeal. My Chinese wife, who grew up under the communists,...

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... new 73's are offered in 44 Magnum using the same parts for other calibers.. Factory 240gr 44 Magnum loads would certainty be safe in the 44 Magnum 73's. I've exchanged messages with guys who own .44 Mag '73's and they seem happy with them. I asked one of the importers what they'd seen over they...

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I have to disagree with the 2,000 psi case mouth seal... I'll explain my 2000 psi estimate of case sealing in this post, then this evening I'll go review all your posts of the last few days and see what I misunderstood in those. If one sections a .44 WCF case longitudinally, then the case neck make...

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In all your tests, the primer has reached the blast plate. Clearly, then, there is thrust on the bolt at these pressures. I think that at the minimum, the force off the primer will be peak pressure times the area over the ID of the primer cup. I suspect the area at the OD of the primer cup is closer...

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With the greater head space currently in your set up, the pressurized primer will not apply as much drag to help resist the case coming backward. Just to see if there is any effect, you might move the blast plate forward and try to replicate John Kort's test. Excellent work, Bryan, thank you. I look...

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Nice work. I'm surprised by what appears to be blowby at the primer. I'd have thought it would seal pretty much instantly.

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... still puzzle me... during the rapid pressure drop that occurs once the bullet is out, the pressure in the case will drop to the point cling stops and the case should blow rearward. Thinking about it again, the drag of the primer on its pocket must be the explanation. The case mouth would be the...

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You're a brave man, Bryan, or should I use a different adjective?

That firing pin and hammer have more inertia than the typical lever action does, apparently more than the impulse from the primer can bother. I'm looking forward to your future results; please post them here.

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There are a number of points which still puzzle me. I'm satisfied there can be enough case cling to keep the case from crushing the clay under peak pressure. However, as Nath points out, during the rapid pressure drop that occurs once the bullet is out, the pressure in the case will drop to the poin...

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I went back and reworded my post, hoping to make it easier to follow.

Yes, I’d forgotten the example of firing a primer in an empty case. This shows what’s seen in Al’s simulation, that the primer backs out to the breech.

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In a revolver, you've seen light loads can leave the primer proud of the case base. (In my S&W Model 12, which has a slightly recessed hammer nose bushing, this creates a real problem.) The explanation for this has been around a long time. The hammer shoves the cartridge forward. The primer's bl...

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It certainly doesn't seem that it's been 7 years since the good John Kort posted his test results. I know when 3 years ago I read he had passed away that I regretted I had never gotten around to making a basic analysis of this problem, as I had said I would. So in John's memory, here goes (as Nath p...

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My favorite "Fox from the UK" A bit too much of a good thing those. We lived in the UK for a few years. The gals did seem to be, ah, well endowed. One other thing I noticed was the gals over 40 were often more attractive than the younger ones, the latter tending to carry too much weight a...

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From McCutcheon's 1910 In Africa , on the sea voyage to east Africa: In this voyage of the Woermann there were about twenty Englishmen and thirty Germans in the first class, not including women and children. There was practically no communication between the two nationalities, which seemed deeply si...

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Hopefully Ruger will see fit to remove those goofy QR codes etched into the receiver sides!

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Thanks JimT. I see that one is also available in the Archive.

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Bell's The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is out of copyright in the US, and a nicely scanned copy, in several different formats, is available on the Internet Archive . He illustrated it with many hand drawn sketches and some photographs. It can be read in one's spare time over a few days. His des...

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Spiffy! Powder from the heyday of the single shot rifle, with load data for the .25-25, .25-21, and .25-20 SS.

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USPS is carrying pensions and a physical plant sized for a company twice its current business. Letter volume has crashed due to electronic transfers of documents, and their package service has fierce competition. They are a mess.

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Combine the two options: Mini-14?

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Yes, very good point. I've not owned a .32-20 and so haven't been bitten by the chamber concerns. Those pressures I felt confident in because, scaling the size of the action, it should stress a '92 less than a .45-70 does a an '86. However, thin brass and the often strange chambers of the .32-20 are...

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:57 pm KWK...nothing personal but you ought to edit your post.

No offense taken. What do you suggest I change?

I do wonder about that sort of pressure in a relined barrel, but I think the action would be up to it.

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The .32-20 is pretty close to the .30 Carbine. The Carbine is a little longer COL, freeing up some case capacity, but the .32-20 has a little more case capacity to begin with. Hodgdon has Lil'Gun data for 85 gr bullets in the Carbine. It looks as if upwards of 17 gr will give you nearly 2300 fps at ...

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While Remington rushed to get the old Marlin in production and botched it, the new Marlins I was seeing locally were fine. Their investment in new drawings and tooling seemed to have paid off. I was planning to buy a .44 this summer, but the 1894 have become unavailable. I do hope they are revived.

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I’m sorry to hear of his passing.

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Hodgdon's data for 240 gr suggests 4 gr of one of the faster powders might do the same with a wee bit less recoil and blast. Thanks for the note. I've been thinking of late about getting one of their Classic Bulldogs.

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I do. I just wanted to let others get a feel for the odds.

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I had some soreness in the arm with each of the two shots, and that was the extent of it.

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fordwannabe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:16 pm I gotta get one of those

Here you go. Pretty girl not included.

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Interesting feed. Seems it would have been simpler and lighter to have skipped the bullpup configuration.

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What sort of barrels do those 10-5 have? My 12-3 has a slender, finely tapered barrel, and I'm a sucker for such (as well as for slender, finely tapered females). Perhaps in those decades all Model 10 had such?

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I'm getting close to Old fanny burp territory myself, but I actually prefer the self scan lanes at the grocery store. I'm far more efficient and mindful at packing the bags, and doing it myself that's two fewer sets of possibly infections fingers (cashier and bagger) touching my goods. Unless I have...

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When Google comes out with an update, I get it on my phone in a week or two while a buddy with his Samsung has to wait a couple months while Samsung makes sure their junk works correctly with the update before they release their version of the update. A good point, one which I should have made, too...

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My daughter and I have the earlier SE model. I chose it because it was the smallest phone readily available. My wife and son have a Moto-G, chosen for the better bang for the buck. None of us are heavy cell phone users and have only basic TracFone pre-paid service for voice and data. As such I'm con...

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By using different barrels, he was using different chambers, too, and this can affect velocity. These guys go at it more directly, by sawing off an inch at a time from the same barrel, but they only went down from 18". Their test, though, consisted of only 3 rounds per inch, so isn't rigorous, ...

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Nonneman’s in Missouri does custom barrels so should have no trouble with factory barrels. Their web site is down right now. John Taylor Machine in Washington also makes custom barrels, and more. I don’t recall ever seeing any but favorable comments on his work. I haven’t worked with either as yet b...

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Interesting information, gentlemen. Thanks.

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Given the name, I thought the hurdy-gurdy evolved about 2 centuries ago. Nope, only the name did. The ideas behind the instrument go back more like 10 centuries. Thanks for the introduction.

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I, too, prefer the green. The orange looked nice but was lower in contrast.

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I don't own a Henry, but I admire that they are willing to try something different. Many users like their tube loading feature, and their actions are smooth variations of the Hepburn-Marlins. The Long Ranger is a nice development, too. I do wish they'd hire a good industrial designer. Their guns all...

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Sorry to hear that. When we upgraded that one laptop from 8.1, it was new enough there was no data worth keeping. It seems to me, however, there was an option in the upgrade process to wipe the disk clean while at it. It's amazing that might be the default, one taken without the user's input. Perhap...

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I've only once upgraded Windows across a major version number. One of the laptop's came with 8.1 but was upgraded to the initial version of 10 within a few weeks. That went smoothly. The other three came with 10. The inherited laptop with 7 got wonky when the final Win 7 updates were loaded, but I w...

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I've been using Win 10 for several years. Four PCs in the house have it. Never once a crash on any of them. I can't figure out why other people complain about it. My best guess is they buy el-cheapo PCs at Costco and find the Chinese hardware drivers are riddled with bugs, but that wouldn't be Micro...

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Odd. I just checked my Bookmark for Leverguns.com and the link is listed as: "www.levergunscommunity.org/viewforum.php?f=1" With that, and with my logging in and checking to stay logged in, I come directly to this forum. When you click on your bookmark, what shows up in your address bar a...

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It all looks fine to me. Thanks for the update.

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The forum software appears different today, and I can again see the General Discussion link at the top of these pages.

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Sorry to hear of his death.

That's a fine looking spiral staircase. Is it in Mozambique?

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I just cleared my cookie for the site and re-logged in. Same problem. I, too, have not seen for some time a link near the top of the forum posts to take you directly to the General Discussion page. The farthest link displayed there is the main Community index, from which you can click on the Genera...

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