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Thanks Vance! I have the 3-inch Bulldog to work with. Good to know.

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Doc, that really is simply excellent advice. I should take it!

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Thanks Vance. Does it say on the first page of the .44 Special section what maximum pressure they are using?

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4t5, I just happened to have a box of the XTPs to load and shoot up. I would not seek out this bullet, relying instead on one of the cast Keith-style slugs of 250 grains or so for business purposes.

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Will, I recently bought the 2024 Hodgdon Manual and was more than miffed when I noted they omitted the .44 Special entirely.

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Will: Probably 7.3 of Universal. I don't have any Unique, Power Pistol or AA #5 on hand.

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Well, a bit more searching with different word order turned up this, so I am good.

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Somehow I ended up with a box of these bullets and would like to feed some to the Bulldog, but the data is scarce and I don't own a Hornady manual any more. Hoping to find a load for this bullet with Universal. Thanks in advance if anyone has data to share.

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Thanks for sharing that.

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Hard to ignore the style points you earn when you pull a Bee out of the gun case.

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Thanks Bryan. Downloaded. Have to get out to the range with the 73!

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Regular occurrence here, Darryl. Another dust storm -- the 29th of 2025 -- expected Sunday. I need to wash my truck, too.

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BE STILL MY HEART! If this isn't the full equivalent of Mecca to rifle shooters, I don't know what is. Thanks for sharing the photos!

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That's a good-looking rest indeed. Good to hear the pads are replaceable. I have a habit of wrecking rest pads with revolver blast -- especially from the black powder Colts and Remingtons.

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Yout karma bank account clearly accrued interest, Will.

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Francis Sell considered it a very good choice for Oregon blacktails, but with help from Parker Ackley and Chick Donnelly he developed the .25 Tomcat wildcat.

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Looks like a very nice shooter Jason! I don't know why the .40 fell off the charts.

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Bryan, I like your results on this round. Now that I have a pound of gold -- er, Re7 -- I have to load for and shoot the dang 73.

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Joe, I honestly believe you are in very good hands.

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Joe, I am very heartily sorry you find yourself in this fix and pray a solution offers itself that allows you to preserve health and dignity. I understand your dilemma, trying to find a place I can afford here in the desert. A gunsmith friend up in Davenport and I were chatting a few days ago and th...

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Scott, the late gunwriter Bob Milek of Thermopolis, Wyoming, used Contenders in .22 Hornet and .218 Bee extensively. I believe he preferred the Bee.

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Wow, what a punchy little dude you have there Scott! Handy indeed.

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I have been fascinated by bison all my life. My daughter is a geneticist for the USDA and is working specifically on the problem of brucellosis. If anyone is interested in understanding the ecology of the prairies and the intimate role bison play, I simply cannot recommend strongly enough Dan O'Brie...

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Those are some seriously nice "guy spaces," guys!

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It's fun to shoot and handload for. I, too, read about its use in the Contender -- also the .218 Bee, which I have never fooled with but always wanted to. My only Hornet was a tired old Savage 340 with a 3/4-inch Lyman scope on it that was not the pinnacle of accuracy, but I enjoyed shooting it.

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So blessed to have been raised knowing of and believing in this miracle -- and so sad that it was his last day on this Earth for Francis.

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Walt, I hit a squall of wet snow mixed with gypsum dust Saturday afternoon crossing on Highway 70 back over San Augustine Pass on my way home from our Patriot's Day muzzleloader shoot in La Luz. None of it stuck but you know a trace of moisture is all that the cactus, mesquite, creosote, agaves, yuc...

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Got my Charleville to go off, but it needs tweaking. Still, fun to discharge the flintlock musket at a representation of the king on this hallowed day.

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Liking your holster -- and the Smith that's in it, Jason.

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Ha ha! Sorry John and Nath, but THAT's what we think of hereditary monarchs here in the Colonies!

Turns out the outfit I ordered from -- Torres Targets in California -- is a scam outfit and all they did is take my money.

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Ooooh. I think I see an Iver Johnson or H&R top break in the third photo down ...

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Yessir, ditto!

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Sounds like you have a good, tight family, and the Shriners folks are among the best. Glad you are back home and out of that urban mess!

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Yay, Jay!

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Earl, I have used Gunbroker without a hitch for years, the last time about three months ago. I don’t understand why you are being blocked. Hope you can get the issue resolved.

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Switching bird guns and need to find a home for this new, unfired CZ Bobwhite G2, 20 gauge, three-inch chambers, 28-inch barrels, double triggers, extractors. This is the color-cased receiver model made for Sportsman's Warehouse. Comes with two A-Zoom snap caps in the fitted CZ case, along with a to...

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Señor Mojave is a malign actor to be given a wide berth and a dose of No. 12.

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Scott, your 270SAA load is more like it for what I would need. No Alaska trips on the calendar for the foreseeable future.

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King George III will get what's coming to him Saturday -- the 250th anniversary to the day of the exchange of fire between American patriots and British occupational forces in Lexington and Concord -- courtesy of a copy of a Charleville Model 1766 flintlock musket, the originals supplied to the Colo...

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That ought to go nose to tail through a really big bear. Not sure I'd want to shoot up a box at one sitting.

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Whaaaaat? Have a fabulous day my friend!

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That was a righteous idea, Jim -- modifying your 1858 that way. I wish the Remmies weren't so cruel to the knuckle on my middle finger.

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Just had our second day above 90, so I am sure they are out here in south-central New Mexico.

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Geez. Sure makes those "Right on time" commercials the USPS is airing right now seem pretty hilarious.

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Hope the weather is especially kind, Scott.

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The version I heard, the guy played the bagpipes ...

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You guys are blessed to have such memories. When Bill Bagwell had anything to say about Sharps rifles on the Shiloh and other BPCR forums, I sure listened.

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"Function: emotionally damaging."

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