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I've never considered minimum fill with smokeless powders. It's different for every powder, and not something to contemplate. More important is minimum charge, not based on fill, but based on sealing the chamber from blowback. I used to be concerned about this until I realized that 70%+ of factory ...

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Way back in the days before there were grandsons climbing the curtains, I was never more than 20 ft. away from a heavy sixgun hanging on a dowel or coathook hidden behind an outergarment in our home. All of those .41, .44, and .45s were loaded with the then new "cowboy action" factory load...

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Four of my eight g.g. grandfathers served the Confederacy. However, there was also a g.g. grandfather and a g.g.g. grandfather listed in the 1850 and 1830 censuses respectively as "free persons of colour". The tendency for most folk when they find surprising (embarassing?) anomalies in the...

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Count 'em.....

uno, dos, tres, quatro y cinco !

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Azorean whaling documentary.circa 1968..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K5yF13lPhUU&pp=ygUNQXpvcmUgd2hhbGluZw%3D%3D Mind, other than orson welles narration, the dialogue is in portuguese. Perhaps ambracol can translate. Scroll forward to 39:34 to see processing. Blubber is boiled to render tra...

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1:7 to 1:10 ballistol/water in a trigger pump spray bottle is all you need to care for blackpowder arms. The water both washes away and renders the fouling noncorrosive then readily evaporates leaving just the right amount of metal protection. If you start out with as weak a solution as 1:10 (or eve...

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I ordered a sample pack from the above linked quick draw folk. They worked flawlessly from a bond derringer, a ruger sixgun and a pietta fivegun and all hit the cardboard box at about 15 feet. There is no problem with the shotshell primer being loose in the case. The problem is the inherent design o...

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A little difficult to read due to being an actual scanned library book but quite interesting nonetheless. Much more followable to me than melville's "moby"..... https://archive.org/details/whaleandhiscapt00cheegoog/page/n2/mode/2up Why is it applicable here other than in relation to the o....

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Half inch diameter hot glue sticks are seldom as much as that..... 7/16" is more like it.....nigh-on .44 cal. If you can ever dope-out the arkansan elevation, they make for excellent gato dissuaders. Cut in 3/8" length (wadcutters) shoehorned into a case over a pinch or bullseye or reddot.

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There is the often repeated saying that undocs. are good, humble, hardworking folk who make great neighbors due to their penchant for "cruising under the radar" so to speak. I beg to differ. I ardently believe that there is great potential for violence from each and every illegal/undoc.Thi...

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Some environmental activism fanatics know no logic/reason. The young special ed. wench in sweden comes to mind. A p.e.t.a. member bodes you ill if you eat meat or have pets or draft animals then they discover that the worldwide totality (trillions) of ungulates adds more methane to the atmosphere th...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iANA_qrAGt8

https://www.cowboyfastdraw.com/generals ... es/page/2/

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carbon this, carbon that ! they're always harping on carbon. When you ask a youngster (-40) just what they mean, the majority think carbon = smutt.....that is to say, smog.....noxious, toxic particulate matter. When you explain that the climate change religious folk are simply referring to carbon d...

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The twenty or so I once made from .45-70 were crude but usable in a shoot five and immediately reload five fashion. Gently turn case between thumb and forefinger whilst applying edge of rim to belt sander until cylinder clearance is achieved. Mark case and rough trim with bandsaw using a shim betwee...

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Federal's American Eagle line is now considered "premium" and not "range" and is listed as such on websites so don't expect any future price decreases. I have emailed hornady and federal and cci and the re-started remington scores of times regarding e.t.a. availability of percuss...

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https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l ... tail&p=399

$5 + a pop after shipping !

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Every time I see the title of this thread I think of the nearly 2 years I spent in one of Uncle Sugar's Tin Cans off the coast of Viet Nam firing our 5" gun as artillery support for our land based troops... Guided Missile Destroyer. :D :D :D On the subject of tin cans there was the charles f. ...

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I know I have an old fashioned corn cob shaker somewhere but it hasn't been used in a quarter century. For my low-volume reloading rate, a few twists with a dollar store stainless steel pot scourer shines the outside and a brief scrapping with a small screwdriver cleans the primer pocket. Black powd...

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I have noticed that, for the first time in over two years there are factory .327 magnum loads available online. I have been searching for them two or three times a week for quite awhile. Be ready for sticker shock ! The purveyors who have them sure are proud of them and also seem to have the highest...

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Certainly the politics & personal philosophies of folk greatly differ by region and race as the language in the obituary of the kid's mother plainly shows.....

https://www.lhodgesfs.com/obituary/Princess-Ingram

Big world out there with room for us all.

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Clarkesdale Mississippi and cousin of Charley Pride......

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQ0IDLw6 ... ggaW5ncmFt

Amazing talent !

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Re. manhattan conversion.....I found this foto.

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The o.p. wrote that it is just sheet metal and jb weld.

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b.t.t. A slight variation on this theme is the following..... I have a 3" .45 colt/.410 2.5" bond derringer barrel that is primarily used with win. factory #9s for slaying summertime vipers. I wanted to have some real bullets to shoot if needed but I wanted to get them much closer to the 1...

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I think it was the apostle James who said to confess our sins to each other....

So here we go.....I confess an unreasonable and unhealthy phobia of mimes, clowns and 'roos.

This one is ok though.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klYPNSM3edI

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LUKE 24 13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near,...

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You missed one of your best fotos....

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vPz0v6Z3A

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Wilhem, the cartera just left the upper on the porch. Thanks.

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piller wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:34 pm I don't yet have one, but it is on the wish list. A few things must be done first.

Re. .22 wmr self-loader, what is the consensus on kel-tec versus walther ? Similar online prices though the kel-tec can be found for a few shekels less now that the "new" has worn off it.

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Did I hear someone say .22 t.c.m. (9r) ? IMG_20230401_225535176~2.jpg Whenever we go across the tracks....that is to say, beyond the figurative tugela river from the natal into bantuland......where the aging business district is located, we tend to carry something that has great capacity and will de...

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Lehigh .355" 65 gr. solid copper "phillips screwdriver" bit over an unsanctioned load of nitro100 extrapolated from kosher a.a.#2 and bullseye loads in .38 special cases seated below case mouth in fired unsized cases then run all the way into carbide sizer sans expander. Fired straigh...

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Apropos of mister steve's signature line.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVHQMW4n ... To&index=8

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You all have worn me down. I am perusing the used book sites in search of capstick titles. It looks like I'll have to actually pay for a book(s) and they are sure proud of them ! Jack Benny will be ashamed of me.....

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Griff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:50 am Thank you Steve, I'd have liked to use the same powder, but... I didn't find any data for 5744 with a lead bullet. I just ordered the QuickLoad program, so when it arrives and I've played with it a bit, I might get a little more "experimental"!

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More baldwin..... "July 1st. I started early for the Pongola, with three or four Amatongas. In going through the bush I saw a great number of pitfalls, about nine feet deep, and very narrow at the bottom. They are made by the natives to entrap all sorts of game. After walking several miles, the...

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I think sometimes in the past I have had the surnames capstick and ruark confused and or conflated. William Baldwin who referred to hippopotami as "sea cows" and the nile crocodile as "alligators" wrote in 1863 of 1852: " I tried a lot of iron bullets I brought out with me; ...

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I believe my bearcat has the older traditional grip frame and looks something like this.....

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But it's been so long since we've met, I'm not sure anymore.

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. "... The Kenworth was known as the KW before being rebuilt after the son ran over a buffalo , and is now known as 'The Rose' ..." :shock: If it were the little Datsun truck my friend called "The Japster", after that it would have been called "The Flatster"... HT-1 Ge...

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I have got to find that elusive bearcat. The last ruger revolver I lost, I found in a coffee can. I just hope that the lost bearcat has not been purged by the old lady.....er, pardon, beloved bride of 11,894 days straightening the raycave !

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We called that old '84 olds the gender neutral "zulumoblile" on account of its custom chrome and whitewall tires. We imagined fred sanford and grady wilson cruising watts each with a brown paper sheathed half-litre of ripple or mogan-david between their legs to keep out of view of patrolma...

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and selous.... "We were most kindly treated by Mr, William Williams, a trader, who had only the preceding year returned from a hunting and trading trip in the Matabele country. He gave me much information about Matabele Land, and showed me the large-bore elephant guns which are universally used...

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As much as I like reading of the dark continent I confess to never reading capstick. There are quite a number of public domain works by the great hunters that are free. Search for baker and baldwin and finaughty and oswell and selous, et. al...... for fiction there is henry haggard and edgar wallace...

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That sounds like a lot of 5744 but when you are using 20+ grains at a time the 350 or so loads you are supposed to be able to get from a pound don't quite number that many. You einsteinian physicists and theoretical mathematicians out there 'splain that por favor !

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mister griff, have you noticed the $ of 5744 has more thanl doubled of late ? I ordered and paid haz. mat. on 4 lbs. of similar shooters world "buffalo" and only paid a few $ more than one lb. of 5744 on a local shelf. not sure of the wisdom of buying discontinued powders or those of a dub...

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When all of those celebrity personal and intimate and lewd fotos and vids. were leaked about seven years ago a particular actress spent just over a million $ to get them zapped at the search engine level and currently pays (so she says) a geek $75,000 a year to keep zapping. The fotos are still out ...

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My belated condolences for your personal loss. If you have mentioned it before I must have missed it. God bless and comfort.

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I have been following this project with great interest. The .38 s&w cartridge like its era peers like the various .32s and .41 colt was/were meant, I suppose, to point-shoot a brigand at very close range. I like working with the .38 s&w. I run the cases up into a parabellum/luger trim die an...

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On my devices the key to this site is to scroll down the page and wait a few seconds and then back up. The search results based on the parameters prompted from the drop-down options appear out of nowhere just when you might think it isn't working. Yes, sometimes I have to clear search caches and res...

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I got one of the take-down models a few years back. In the carry case it's very compact. I stick it on the floor of the pickup with a couple of 25-round mags. I put a nice Burris red dot on it and its pop can accurate at 100 yards. Sadly, my Idiot State Gov, JayFknInslee and his AG Sideshow Bob mad...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFEzhaNrT4

It is said that ann & sam & jake and their other two dozen + half siblings are still envious at jess for their dad writing a hit song for him.....

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