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32WS model '94 16" Wrangler; a bit of a handful with full-deck Hornady Lever ammo, but I load it down for small game with a small dose of Trailboss powder under a Nambu bullet so it's a twofer gun. Depending on what' I'll most likely encounter, I carry one size in the chamber and the other next...

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Would be around here. What kinda mounts it got? Or are you an "au naturale" guy?
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Lemat revolver. Win it or duck away in the smoke.
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I took a C.A. Bulldog up to Alaska for the pipeline; figgered if a moose or a griz put me up a tree, I could take my time and drop 'em with a full load of 44 Specials. Then when I got there, I found the trees on the north slope to be a bit lacking in safe-climbing diameter and decided the issue 12ga...

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I still haven't seen any reason at all to buy a new one when the old ones are still available, much better, and cheaper. My 336A Ballard-rifled 30-30 will be one of the last rifles I part with, and with the lever-E ammo it's like shooting the 300 savage I sold. Shoots everything from 100gr half-jack...

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Large surly black bear. I was younger and dumber then--I think dumber, I know younger--and my new bride and I had a crazy young black & tan bitch that was very protective of us (another story) and she decided to take him on. darned bear just decided to stay and eat her, so I started shooting, at...

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I never thought the M14 was much of a fun gun, but I went to the .308 when I got out for a deer rifle since uncle sugar had given me so much familiarization with it. BLR, naturally. I'd never want an M14 for self defense, as I hate to think how many neighbors' walls it'd go through, and the E2 was n...

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They makin' one in 25-20 yet? That'd be my choice--that or 218 Bee.
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So how do they feel about limb bacon?
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I had a 336A "H" prefix that I loved, but parted with it for something I needed more--probably vehicular. Still have 2 boxes of Remington 200gr, 2 or 3 boxes of reloads (Win Silvertip and Rem Core-loct 200's) and a bunch of Rem bullets, if you want to contact me. I'd swap for anything in 3...

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Lovely; my favorite caliber too--I have an 1894 Deluxe, a Savage 1899 takedown, and a Martini Cadet in 25-35. The 99 and the Martini are 1;10" twist, the Winnie is in the original 1:8". Hard to say which shoots 117gr best; I think the 1:10's are better with the 100's. They all shoot the 11...

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Love 'em!!!! And lookie what our farm system done brought us--a switch-hitting catcher that can hit the cheap seats from either side of the plate! Not to mention young J-rod, who I hope is gonna spend all that contract money right here in the Great Northwet! GO, M's!
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We lived on the edge of a subdivision with a sheep pasture out back, across the chain link fence around the development. Then the pasture got sold, and 4-plexes went in, and soon dope deals started going down in the backyards of the 4-plexes. I got a friend to deliver me a couple of big fir rounds a...

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Prescription Finasteride (5mg) works for me; took me from 3 times a night to one or, sometimes, two. My urologist says there's one more step he can take, short of cataclysmic, but this has worked for the last 5 years or better. I'm 77 now; born a week after VE day. My 94's and my 99 still get to go ...

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I shoot reloads for trap but finding components is crazy hard these days. Wish I'd bought more brass hulls; I'd be shooting BP and making my own wads; never mind the smoke! Found an off/on source for reclaimed shot--hope there ain't a lot of steel in there. Got enough 6's to get me through grouse se...

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Children, I had to take the polio vaccine --even though I'd had polio--or I wouldn't have been allowed to go to school--any school. I also had to get a smallpox vaccination, or same restriction. When I wanted to go to college, I had to get a chest x-ray for TB to go to a state college. These draconi...

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Mine has the V6; the only time I got stranded from a malfunction (other than between the driver's ears) was when my computer's ground wire got loose--made for intermittent starting. It fooled a couple of pretty good mechanics before one of them accidently touched the wire itself and it abruptly roar...

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4runner's got good bones, good heart. Rocinante, my '95, has still a bit under 300K, so just about broke in. The roads (!) I rattle around in keep it flexible; I added a winch last year to satisfy Mama that I'll keep makin' it home, or at least to some place where there's cellphone coverage--yes, th...

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I've got an old Stevens model 59 bolt-action 410 with a cherry-stained hand-whittled fir stock in my rig--ugliest gun in the great northwet! It'll put three slugs into a 2" group at 60 yards all day, fits me so well I can break 15 out of 25 clays with it at standard trap (I only hit 20 or 21 wi...

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I gotta say, hoss, that you'll wanta take it everywhere, if you get one. One of the cheapest ones out there is the 32 special conversion, which was one of the most common; they don't shoot well as 32 specials, but loading 'em to 32-20 specs by using trail boss powder and cast bullets--or Mrs Hunting...

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If it was an Eskimo doing the shooting, then he'd have to count that shot as a "miss", wouldn't he?
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About the whale--it's my understanding that native Alaskans don't shoot whales to kill them; if they did, the whales would sink and be lost. They shoot to wound them, weakening them so they can't stay down as long, then chase them down, get alongside, and put a harpoon in them with a barrel or two a...

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slim, my 25-35 has a 1926 serial number, but it had a damaged 38-55 barrel on it that I changed out for a 26" 25-35 I got off ebay. don't know how old the barrel was; it was dark in the grooves (still is) but had lotsa crisp rifling. shoots as well as I can, or better; the rifle has the double ...

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OK, it's here; shot some and it feeds, shoots and extracts flawlessly. Groups as good as or better than anything I've found or reloaded. I know some reload data matches the speed the factory advertises, even with the old 117gr roundnoses, but I've always had extraction problems with those. Not with ...

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thanks largely to the 'net, I've got lotsa brass and bullets fer my old (1926) 26" oct-barreled 25/35--75gr fn', the old rem 87gr rn's, a few 100gr nosler ptn rn's, and, of course, the old 117gr wins, rems and hornadys. I've dug up factory-loaded winchester in three different box-types, remingt...

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I tend to disagree with the "all or nothing" policy--in my 71 years of experience, it too often comes out "nothing". but you fellas go on thinking that way; I enlisted back in '65 to give you that right....
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I have one of the chiappa "double badgers" in 22 rimfire and 410, and it's a small-game wonder--if you don't use the 410 too close (it's super-full choked). surprisingly, the popular 410 sabot slug hits within 2" of the 22lr at 40 yards--and at that range, the slug will take out the n...

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Not to be stirrin' up old troubles, but I gotta mention the great results I been gettin' with that new CFE 223 powder in my 26" 1894. 26 grains under that Hornady 117gr RN gets me a no-pressure-signs load that shoots as tight as the factory Winchester gray or white box and prints 'em just about...

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I bought some Norma brass for mine, and resized some 6.5x57R brass (full length, not just expanding, as the shoulder is different) and the resized RWS 6.5 works better in my 7x57R/12ga combo than the Norma 7. I don't think I'm getting quite the full case resized using my regular 7x57 dies with a 303...

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i picked up a 92 win in 32-20 last year; got it cheap 'cuz it was beat--stock broke but with a home repair that wuz tight, receiver looked ball-peened--but the bore looked great; no pits or frosting, lands & grooves looked fine. couldn't make it shoot any better'n 3"@ 50 yards, even after i...

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I love my '92 Winnie, but she don't like cast boolits, nor very long jacketed ones. the other extreme ain't much better; those 71gr copper-coated rn's don't shoot fer sour owl spit. so far, only reasonable results are 85gr hollowpoints over 11.5gr of 2400 or 10.7 of 4759, but I've gotta keep those w...

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i have a 336a in 32ws, too; a 1950 model--no mention of "dl" on mine. you might wanta give the leverevolution 165gr ammo a try; hornady boys reported they got 2400 ft/sec out of their 24" test barrel. that's just about 300 savage performance, where i come from. mine got some pretty ni...

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i'd like to say you can get the same out of a 22 savage hipower, but i haven't done enough messing around with the lighter loads to back it up. still, for a levergun, the savage has lots of promise, provided you have one that hasn't been taken down too often and gotten sloppy. my friend mike nesbitt...

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now if that ain't pornographic, i ain't male! now im tryin' ta figger how to blow that pin-up up to wall size. i can almost smell them boxes.
mind yer topknot!
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hey, thanks, smokewagon; a friend gave me 1000 pcs. of cleaned & resized 30-30 brass for my 32 specials. don't really need more'n 3-400 of 'em fer 32's. that'll give me some to experiment with. i expect it'll be a bit more involved than just using an expander ball for these, though; would 3-5 gr...

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thankee, shasta; now all i gotta do is find me a neck reamer. like i said, i'm serious about this old gal; i'll go as far as she takes me.
mind yer topknot!
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howdy, y'all. i'm just getting started with a new/old toy, an 1894 deluxe 38-55 that was made in 1926, damaged, and (almost?) never fired. i'm finding indications that the chamber is quite tight--when i reload my once-fired brass, i don't have to resize it to load a .377 bullet tight enough to not n...

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thanks, don reminds me of a yarn a trucker told me up north of the brooks one night. seems he met a grizz--brown, whatever--starting across a one-lane bridge. he dropped it into low & low and just inched across. the bear backed up, one step at a time, getting madder and madder. at the end of the...

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of them two, i'd say th' mortimer'd be better fer ducks; it'd handle the heavier waterfowl loads better. that other'n looks nice & light; probly too light fer a lot o' duck huntin', but it'd sure be my choice fer them dang chukars--them hills are gittin' too steep to pack a heavy shootin' iron a...

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still got a one-lug bolt, i'm thinkin'. don't think i'd wanta shoot it with full-deck loads, even if it is a norwegian, and much tougher than th' local variety. nice smooth actions, though, and i love that thar loadin' tray! mind yer topknots! windy "sonny, whar i growed up, "magnum" ...

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i like a double fer hunting--takes a long time to come up with a "foller-up" shot with a single barrel. that said, i carry my flintlock trade gun fer grouse 'n rabbits more often than i carry one of th' three doubles; it's just cooler, and way lighter than my double flinter. i pack a light...

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