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Will, my late friend Chick Donnelly, of Siskiyou Barrel Works in Applegate, OR, held Parker Ackley in great reverence after his time at Trinidad. Ackley told a funny story or two at Elmer Keith's expense, having been the supervisor at Ogden Arsenal with Keith worked there.

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Thanks for posting Jason. I was getting worried about you.

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Hope they treat you really well. We are under a tornado watch here in west central Texas, but I think and hope the threat has passed.

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Yeah. He is holding it with the bottom of the action toward the camera, oversize lever open. It has a tube magazine. Hope the receiver is something other than die-cast zinc!

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Looks like there's one in the works, to be built at a new plant in Canada.

https://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/sava ... two-rifles

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Glad to have you here sir. Owning two cans makes you a certified enthusiast.

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John, glad you finally made it through the turnstyle, and boy that's a dandy buck! I still have my old Lee Loader for 16 gauge, but haven't seen a canister of Alcan 7 in many a year.

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Harold: Very nice indeed!

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She's a very good mommy. I can tell.

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I don't know if I have ever seen more spectacular wood than Aaron Little used on this custom 28 build on a Parker 20-gauge frame.

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 6741006772

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Nice, Scott, and one of very few Rugers I have seen without drag marks on the cylinder!

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He moved his Thunder Ranch to Oregon about the time I left there. Always thought it would be swell to take a class or two.
This is a fun Youtube. Love those matching Colts at the end. I had not seen that stock treatment before. Makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW1-XzQFWDg

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Horsesoldier, I might shoot it tomorrow. Winds should step back down out of the 20s and 30s to the teens.
Nice grips Jay!

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I'm sure Jason will have a thought when he sees this thread.

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It's nice of Altamont to include three grip screws of varying lengths. The original Ruger screw was just short, but the Altamont medium length was perfect.

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Just received those Altamont stocks I ordered a month or two back, and I am quite pleased with the fit and feel compared to the black plastic OEM stock on the Super Wrangler. Now if the wind will just lie down I 'll go shoot the thing. 8) https://i.postimg.cc/8F4ky61H/image-67204097-2.jpg https://i....

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Thanks for your eagle's vigilance, John.

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Thank the Lord you are all okay. We had one pass within a few miles last June. It brought down limbs and trees in my part of town, damaged roofs and bent my fence -- on steel posts -- about 20 degrees. First time I have ever been awakened by the National Weather Service and the feeling of unbelief a...

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Jim Kibler, who has revolutionized the flintlock kit trade with his high-precision designs and inletting, sometimes uses 3D printing to test stock design and parts fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2vO-qf ... zQ&index=2

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That's a mighty handsome and practical shooter you have there Jim!

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That guy has a good channel. I'd love to have one of those Anschütz chassis rifles, but $4,000 is so far beyond my pov-line pay grade that I can't even dream about it. Will, that Federal ammo -- was it the stuff with the dimple in the center of the case head? If so, I came in second in a 200-yard ma...

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Mike, #5 and #10 please sir.

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Nice. Two bays for vehicles and a third for lofting boats, with a man cave with beer cooler upstairs.

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It just kinda got dim gray here at 95 percent. A lotta nada.
Sure admire your Boss of the Plains, Jim. You wear it so well.

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It's cool using heavy equipment all right, but the biggest I ever ran was just a middle-size Caterpillar backhoe. Loved to hear her diesel purr to life.
Gosh that looked like a nice structure, though.

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Rube, I sure love your slick-up of that .45 Colt. Who did the case hardening? Gorgeous grips!

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Jason, I never ever get tired of seeing that Bowen masterpiece. 8) Here is a sort of "sub question": Of the four main Blackhawk/SBH calibers, .357, .41, .44 Special/Magnum and .45 Colt, which if any, is the least likely to have cylinder throat/bore dimension issues? Seems I hear this waxes...

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Thanks Walt. I have been going through the calibers in my mind, and barrel lengths as well. I like the looks of the Bisley, but never shot any of the ones I had side-by side with the same load in a Blackhawk with conventional grip. My hands are medium size and the Bisley may be just beyond optimal f...

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I had a Burns B3 for a while. It was fun to goof off with, but boy it was hard to play well. I got discouraged and found it a new home.

https://www.soundslikeburns.com/New_Items/deluxe.html

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Awwwww.

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If y'all could have just one, what would you choose?
I think I know how some will answer.

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Ray, your post reminded me that 30 years ago I had a Lend-Lease Victory model with the King's Broad Arrow acceptance mark in .38 S&W -- or .38-200 in British nomenclature. When I finally found a source of proper .360 200-grain RN bullets for it (from the defunct Liberty Bullets in Oregon) it sho...

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Scott, you are within a hair of absolute sixgun perfection right there. Great project!

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Loved our buff Orpingtons. Friendly toots, too.

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Did you 'splain this to Sage, Parker and Claro when you got home and they all smelled puppy on you?

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Jim, that very configuration -- the 10 with four-inch HB, is about my favorite Smith. I agree, this revolver simply wants to shoot. Brian's recent post reminded me of RIA's very basic, fixed-sight 4-inch .38, although it runs like a Colt and not a Smith. Very affordable, as in $249 MSRP. It might ma...

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I don't like them. But living most of my life on the edge of the Pacific Subduction Zone, they were a fact of life. Once they get above 6.0 on the Richter, the creep factor increases exponentially.

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They are always a surprise. We have small ones here all thanks to our friends in the oil fracking business.

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Can't remember. Would love to see one in use -- in someone else's paw.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/conten ... -70-gov-t/

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Brian, those have tempted me as well. Did not know they were made on the old Colt machinery. RIA makes some firearms worth owning.

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I'm such a sucker for a rolling block.

Might ask over at the ASSRA site. Uberti is capable of making an accurate barrel.

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Got one on eBay for half a kidney.

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Useful discussion, and the little "Still humbling" sidebar reminds us that the Old Dead Guys knew a thing or two about accuracy with black powder and lead.

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Appreciate your vigilance, gentlemen!

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If y'all haven't seen this episode, here is Jack Prince accompanied by Andy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0b6EQyeXU

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I have had pretty good luck with Midway and Grafs, preferring to order from the latter, smaller outfit when possible, and I have already paid for enough of Potterfield's safaris.

I've noticed a number of big sellers quietly popping up on Amazon.
Hope it all works out, Will.

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I hadn't realized the Cinnabar Ranch was between Paisley and Summer Lake. Dad, brothers and I used to hunt ducks at Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge. Fished some of the high mountain creeks in the Paisley Ranger District. It's spectacular country.

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As a native Oregonian who cannot abide what the "progressives" have done to a state that my family has called home for 140 years, I watched this with a lump in my throat, as Mark and his wife prepare to leave Oregon and the Cinnabar Ranch for Cody, Wyoming. Godspeed to you! https://www.you...

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YES SIR!

His son Andrew had a gift as well. If you read the story behind "Christina's World," it will make you tear up -- or at least it does me.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78455

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