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The field reports are many for the xtp due to the popularity of .44 & .45 in sabots for .50 & .54. With 80 to 150 gr. equivalent of b.p. substitute powder or pellets, the muzzle velocities in these instances are comparable to our leveractions. B U T ....Is there a discernible difference betw...

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This is most interesting & entertaining.....

Though a bit hidden, on the link you provided there are links to the archived back issues. I am starting at may-dec. 1972 and endeavour to follow to the present.

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Good job wilhelm..... great grandpa william henry was a spanish-american war era veteran but missed the outbound train for the first leg of the convulated trip to central florida on account of a recalcitrant mule. his son-in-law, oscar lee mustered into the army for the great war but wound-up peelin...

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XTP's are easily converted from hollow to soft nose by just holding (needle-noses) up to the lead pot spout very firmly for just long enough for the molten lead to melt the core and top-off the hollow cavitly. With practice......you'll ruin a few.....you can get proficient at it without spilling but...

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Wilhelm, have you ever watched these ?

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY ... zT6Q5vnmhU

Neither fry(e) or laurie there though.....

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I liked them in character as bertram & reginald as I am a lifelong wodehouse reader but we'll have to agree to disagree. Conway & Korman they ain't. As for bertram & reginald, this scene is priceless for the typical dry humour of the englishers..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUffPcD1...

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A gun was taken out in a snowstorm and developed rust and everybody but the one who is responsible for oiling it is to blame ?

Product warranties would insolve every firearms and associated aftermarket manufactory if they were responsible for ferrous parts that rust.

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Perhaps we'll "h e a r" you out. Any wildcats based of the .44 & .45 (rimless) mags. , .454 & .460 s&w are intriguing. As for the .35-30, even using new starline .375 brass as a starting point, those bullet weights you cite at even 400 fps. slower than your goals will only give...

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Not particularly sad but if you're going to listen to commie folk music, then at least listen to nice/kind commie folk singers. Fast forward to the 15 minute point to avoid Pete prattling & tweeting on a bamboo flute. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fpTK_q6HNs8&pp=ygUSUmFpbmJvdyBxdWVzdCB0aGVv ...

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I never doubted the results based on my few experiences with that same bullet (or the 1990's ver.), the sierra 63 gr. , the win. 64 gr. , and the 70 gr. speer at 2400 to 2900 fps. striking velocities. None went very far and the only non-exits were frontal and quartering/raking shots.

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I was just looking at the Speer data recently.......

https://www.speer.com/reloading/rifle-data.html

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three different designs of same weight compared..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KVa_I3YdCzc Given the legendary penchant for the homesteader/poacher/survivalist to harvest deer with the .22 wmr. , I've always wondered what these would do at bee or hornet velocities or perhaps at starting load cha...

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I’m working with the Hornady 60 gr Interlock bullet. I’m hoping for broadside pass through if placed just behind the shoulder. Let’s see what happens. The first video in this y.t. video playlist features factory ammo with the same or similar hornady bullet.....even the launching platform may be fam...

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A long time ago but my memories were of it having the narrow shoulders and long neck of a younger buck..... IMG_20230920_084400623~2.jpg IMG_20251202_091913.jpg Those win. 64gr. power points are still available but are pricey compared to common 55gr. bullets. I am curious as to those of solid copper...

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There is or was a member here byron or bryan......if I remember, he was referred to as doctor leclerc and is/was a dentist or chiropractor. He wrote occasionally of using the .223/5.56 on deer on his farm. I copied some his comments from circa 2012. "Standard round around the farm is the Hornad...

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I think this is the one I mentioned above. The broken but not shed side is consistent with its aggressive behaviour. It actually chased away much larger bodied and antlered bucks and they left the scene in a hurry else I would have likely harvested one of them. The pedicle junctions look normal enou...

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Once upon a time I watched a much smaller buck challenge to a scuffle and chase away two much larger bucks. I was able to shoot the smaller aggressive buck. It was a somewhat non-typical (knotty & velvety) cowhorn spike. Everyone at the hunting lease bunkhouse agreed that it was unique and thoug...

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I have been thinking about the same concept, but in my case, I have a Remington 700 in 300 win mag, that I would like to load down to .308 levels for deer hunting. I don't need all of that noise or recoil of the 300 mag, but I like that rifle and scope combo for some of deer hunting. I know I can d...

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Doc, being a few years your junior, some of those acts precede me but I do remember having quite a juvenile crush on ronstadt and later nicks. That demure "shirley temple" pout of stevie completely captured little ray's infatuations. That clip of harrison ostensibly negotiating garfunkel's...

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More Band.....Not a particularly sad song by design but the cracking pathos in richard manuel's cigarette and gran marnier damaged voice certainly darkens the wistful theme. https://vimeo.com/127180623 And..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qzVteLPhm4A&list=RDqzVteLPhm4A&start_radio=1&pp...

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Anybody remember the jersey city rooftop party that fox's shep. smith reported on live in real time on that awful day ? It was said to be Israelis cheering and celebrating as the second plane hit. They ran the video several times that night then no more and denied its existence the next day. The fol...

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Ironically, my cousin Allan who looks much like a younger tom petty (similar hair & prominent overbite) of rock-roll infamy, ciphered to 11% nubian and he is whiter than me and edgar & johnny winters (albino twins) and saltine crackers all combined !

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Any deadheads out there ? Talk about sombre ! The story of a young, romantic couple leaving their post-nuclear holocaust bomb shelter for their last walk in the deadly fallout laden morning dew..... Clapton & Harrison only thought their guitars gently weeped. Cousin Jerry's guitar notes are as s...

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Here is a y.t. playlist I found on the theme..... In no particular order of sadness..... Juice : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bm33WnpQGWc&pp=ygUeaXQncyBhIGhlYXJ0YWNoZSBqdWljZSBuZXd0b24g Hank : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDRzixp1Fvw&pp=ygUmbG9uZyBnb25lIGxvbmVzb21lIGJsdWVzIGhhbmsgd2lsbGlhb...

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Is current dna testing.....I mean the readily accessible, much advertised on the telly $100 or less tests....as trustworthily accurate as promised ? I remember almost thirty years ago several of us had to be screened for possible marrow contributors to an ill loved one. I was excluded due to having ...

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Recently Brother Wilhelm B. Powell posted a link to some most entertaining music of the sombre, mournful variety. I like a sad song. As odd as it sounds, such music actually cheers me up. How about some links to your favorite teary songs ? I don't have an absolute favourite as there are so many to c...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-iLlBtsiRA&list=RDo-iLlBtsiRA&start_radio=1&pp=ygUQVHZ6IGZseWluZyBzaG9lc6AHAQ%3D%3D In a televised interview, Townes Van Zandt claimed that this song came to him in a fit of heroin withdrawal and lack of vodka d.t.-s from a hallucination of the haint of a C...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6mE_uKEwCTw&list=RD6mE_uKEwCTw&start_radio=1&pp=ygUZYm9iYnkgaG9ydG9uIGtlbm5zYXcgbGluZaAHAQ%3D%3D Below is the narrative that inspired the song..... "DEAD ANGLE" The First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiments will ever remember the battle of "...

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Nice tone from your cigar box guitar, Ray. I made one once using steel strings, but can't play so gave it away. Whoa.....I apologize if I gave impression that I use period correct natural strings. All my instruments save for ukes (nylon) have steel strings. A set of six gut strings costs well over ...

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This is most entertaining ! Sad & mournfull ? To be sure but oddly, sad tunes cheer me up. To my ear & brain I hear the melody of "learning to lean on Jesus" but that is in Ray's alternate universe where the grass is blue & the sky is green. One thing the original version and a...

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As has been advised try to find local. Around here we usually have to go across the tracks as they say to get the real deal however black folk usually specialize in seasoned boiled instead of roasted. Being heavy by virtue of being sodden, a pound bag of boiled only nets about a quarter cup of peas ...

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If you can make it through all 4,963 seconds you might not want to listen to mister lightfoot for awhile.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1vHfhZN ... BsaXZloAcB

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When the hornady .338" 200 gr. and .375" 220 gr. flatnoses disappeared the vollmer folk you cite stood in the gap but were more often than not often out of stock.

This company has a 220 gr. .375" as well.....https://www.furycustombullets.com/

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They must be serious as hornady has already designed a levergun specific load albeit short enough o.a.l. to work in others. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EKz2Nhg20Cc&t=69s&pp=2AFFkAIB supposedly the 9mm works correctly..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDMW9-cUU8&pp=ygUPdGF5bG9yIDE4NzM...

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When Dad even mentioned Wodeohuse's "Golf Without Tears," he would start laughing. Known here in the U.S. under a different title..... https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7028/pg7028-images.html Here is a telly adaptation of one of the "oldest member" narratives..... https://m....

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P.G. Wodehouse 1915.....

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74 ... k2H_4_0004

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As is my custom, I endeavoured to post an astute and pithy reply replete with most excellent y.t. links apropos to the o.p. subject and of course I hit the wrong button on this east german army surplus electronics and lost everything that I had typed and copied and pasted. Long story short, search f...

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Most entertaining tale centered around babyans.....

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2727

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This is most interesting. The possibility of using longer, heavier pointed bullets is intriguing. I have made dummy conversation pieces with 270 gr. spitzers and they are unique looking. We are thinking the same thing. I put together a dummy round with a 270 gr Hornady RN to see if it chambers ok, ...

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I confess to never reading much Kipling though I've read almost everything his contemporary Henry Haggard wrote. Likewise, almost all Oppenheim and Wallace (edgar ) and Wodehouse. As the books come into the public domain I read them free online. Pops always thought/spoke jokingly that Jack Benny in ...

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This is most interesting. The possibility of using longer, heavier pointed bullets is intriguing. I have made dummy conversation pieces with 270 gr. spitzers and they are unique looking.

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This is most interesting ! There is a very small urban creek nearby that flows through the town's old industrial park that is now mostly a municipal recreation area. I fish a brief 1/4 mile stretch that had several distinct "runs" to it as they say. No trout but sunfishes and small redeye ...

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This is cool !

Those are "bullety" looking bullets as Dean Grennell used to say.

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Your lower load for squirrel with two patched balls complete and thoroughly seated on the powder and on one another will simply snatch the soul out of deer. Round balls penetrate better at 900 fps than at 1400. That 1800 fps. you cite slows down to only 100 to 150 fps higher at 100 yds. than the ver...

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I make audio only (black screen) videos on either a kindle fire or a cellfone and upload them to my y.t. channel. My editing options are simply delete and try again but it's not too much trouble. I've started a pseudo/quasi blog/podcast series of sorts on the subject of favourite hymns. Would be coo...

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That is nice ! Please record some of your playing on a phone and share here. My spanglish is rusty but I listen to it quite often on y.t. This is one of my favourite channels.... https://m.youtube.com/@mandolinayalabanzas5085/videos I queue the videos oldest to recent. The younger sisters were tiny ...

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