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Marc · Re: Range 9-26-12 Looks like a good day!

Looks like a good day!

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CRS, it is good to hear the elk are in good shape in the NW area. Maybe Fordwannabe and I will get one too. Thanks for the good wishes.

It looks like that bull did OK in spite of the drought.

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Yes it is good to hear you are still here! With A zone ending on Sunday I was expecting the deer report with pictures of the big buck you got. You can write one for us next year. Get the jeep fixed so you don't have to walk and the permit to hunt from the vehicle and you can still hunt.

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Nice Bull! Hope I find one like that next month. I am going to northwestern Colorado.

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The gospel is that short and fat is more accurate because more of the powder is closer to the primer and thus ignition is more uniform. Also short actions are stiffer than long actions. Does it matter to you and me? It certainly doesn't matter to me. I can get all the accuracy I need from long and t...

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That will work!

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Well, that explains it! Who needs to smoke when you are getting good pills?

Hope you recover soon.

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Kirk, we always want more! I thought about the filler too. I don't have any but I might try tipping the rifle to position the powder against the primer or bullet to see if that helps. I am going to shoot it tomorrow in our levergun silhouette match. Maybe I will be able to get a few more rams. The L...

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The crimp might be a good idea. In fact Barnes recommends using a FCD with the 130 TSX/TTSX. I also rethroated the rifle while I had it apart. The SAAMI 30-30 throat is abrupt. It is cut at a 15 degree angle from the end of the neck portion of the chamber to the top of the rifling. SAAMI 30-30 cartr...

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I went to the range this morning mostly to fire a couple rounds in my hunting rifle. It rained last week while we were out and I had to take it apart, clean it and re-oil it. It is a Model 70 and I forgot the bolt so I couldn't shoot it! Not to worry! I had the Model 64 Winchester that I have been w...

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All of the several lever action barrels I have removed came off easily. None were as tight as the typical bolt action barrel. I keep the receiver wrench as close to the front of the action as possible. That way the wrench is over the solid webs inside the receiver. Sporting goods stores have rosin. ...

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I use maple blocks with a little rosin sprinkled on them to hold the barrel. I made the vise from two 1" steel plates with four 1/2" bolts to clamp the blocks. My action wrench is a length of 3/4" square bar with a 1/2" x 3/4" strap. I used two 5/16" bolts to clamp the ...

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The 375 uses the large threads too. Numrich has the barrel: http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Detail.aspx?pid=705070&catid=7512 . The barrels are Angle Eject and your 375 is probably top eject so a new extractor slot would have to be cut. That can be done with a hacksaw and file. All you need ...

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Maybe you don't get it, with El Chivo there are always many points and no roads areand no roads are closed. But to clarfy, I think he should try his idea; thatis his nature. Yes, I get it. Didn't mean to upset you. I am a firm believer that everyone should do what he wants as long as it doesn't har...

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My 1895 Winchesters do too. That really isn't the point.

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To get more range with the 30-30 I went to the 130 TSX. I was able to get 2650 fps with 38.5 grains of LVR. That extends range to beyond 250 yards. I did use the rifle as a two shooter. I should see what the 150 FN TSX will do with LVR. It ought to stretch it some. Barnes is also making a .308 110 T...

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El Chivo, tell me more about the Barnes 30-30 bullet not expanding. Barnes claims they expand down to 1400 fps. Not true? I have some loaded for short range work. I might have to push them a little faster if they don't expand at 1400. PS. I killed a little buck yesterday morning. Not in 30-30 countr...

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DixieBoy, The number I have is for Sharon who was filling in for Donnie the day I called. Her number is 618-258-2738. I am sure she can help you get connected to the right person. They were ready to help.

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Now I know what to do with that old mini-mag that has the broken contact in it!

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I bought 2000 Winchester WLR primers about 5 years ago. I just started using them this summer for rifle silhouette loads. I load mild loads for silhouette. Most are starting charges in the loading manuals. If it shoots good I don't push it! Even with these mild loads some of the primers leaked throu...

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My wife uses one for deer. See her photo below with the rifle. It is a Remington 700 bought about 1966 supposedly with my and my brothers share of the beaver trapping money(see my avatar). My Dad told me when he was near his end and he passed it on to me that it never shot good and nobody had ever k...

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Oly, bet you didn't think anybody would recognize that! I didn't go to 'Nam. They had formed a 4th Brigade to replace the 3rd Brigade at Bragg in early 1968 when the 3rd went to 'Nam and that is where I was assigned. We had a different Battalion designation which I can't remember. The 3rd Brigade re...

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I lost a black Mini-Mag one year while hunting. I found a camouflage Mini-Mag the next year at a camping place nearby. They do say, "what goes around comes around." Olyinaz, your avatar looks like the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment crest. I was a proud member myself. HHC, 1/505 from sum...

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It's a long season and bound to cool off. How are the deer looking up your way?

We skipped the opener and are going out in one week from today for a week or until we get a deer. I hope its cooler.

Take care.

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That hole is a little off. There are a couple tears in the paper that may have caused it to look different. I can't say for sure the bullet went there. Maybe. The target was in the middle of a 2' x 3' clean piece of paper and it was nowhere else in the paper. When I went to the range I had enough am...

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Yes, I think the bullet is a Saeco 311. I would have to dig the mold out to verify. It is a TC design with a small meplat. It shoots good in my 30-30's and in my 30-06.

I don't load it in the tube but I think it would be OK. Do you load them in the tube?

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Jeremy, You must be at Camp Lejeune. We jumped into the swamp there one time when I was in the 82nd Airborne. We spent a couple weeks there on maneuvers with the Marines. I was on the runway at Cherry Point but I never saw the Marine base. I remember watching A-4's taking off there. Take care of tha...

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I bought a badly buggered Winchester Model 64 a while back. It turned into a real project because bubba tried to fix it and it needed a lot of work to set right. I posted about it at the time. This is the rifle. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Pic_1_resized.jpg It shot fairly well after I repaired i...

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Shameful!

Ventura County here in Southern California is a conservative area. We reliably elect Republicans. Unfortunately we are surrounded by LA and Santa Barbara.

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El Chivo, I am not a lot better but I have made some progress. I am going anyway. I feel better about it this year. We will see how it goes. Are you hunting at all this year? I hate it when work interferes with hunting! Jeremy, Are you back in San Diego area? We got about half our normal rain here. ...

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Those are good velocities with the 180's. You are right there with 308's and 30-06's.

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Cool pictures OJ! That buck needs to spread a little more. Tall is good, wide is better. Maybe you could hang some weights on his antlers so they spread a little more. I have an 8' tall fence around my garden and some of the fruit trees. The deer will eat everything eventually. Even tomato plants an...

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I think its because he isn't producing enough testosterone because of his age. We sometimes find bucks who have under developed testicles that grow weird antlers with squiggly little points. They usually don't lose the velvet either. This old guy is starting to grow those little squiggly points arou...

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I haven't posted in a while but I still play with my leverguns regularly. Thought you might enjoy these. I have several fruit trees in the back yard that the deer enjoy. I put a couple of game cameras out last year. These are some pics from this year. There are a total of 10 deer that I know of that...

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I used a dummy pin to assemble the magazine the couple times I did it. There may be a better way but I don't know what it is.

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Here ya go:http://www.ebay.com/itm/220962608990?ss ... 1439.l2649

Just be aware the camera is 7mm.

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In my 1873 article I reference a bore scope with 6mm diameter head. $37 http://www.rvbprecision.com I bought one of those. Their description is wrong. The head is actually a little over 7mm. The cable is 6mm. It will fit in a 30 caliber barrel but nothing smaller which was disappointing. On the plu...

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My wife watched it last night and she liked it. She said, "They have 'it'!"

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I wonder if the picture was taken during the war. He was brought back to the States to sell war bonds during the war. I can imagine a war hero being able to easily get a 99 + scope. I thought it looked like it had a straight grip but missed that it looks like a take down. I haven't read the book yet...

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Richard Bong, WWII ace with 40 kills, was a lever gunner! I picked up a used book yesterday and thought you all would enjoy this pic. His rifle has one of those - gasp! - carry handles! He was a Wisconsin farm boy. He died in a P-80 on August 6, 1945 so this picture is earlier than that date. http:/...

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This may have been posted before. Here's a cool video about women who hunt. I love it!
http://screen.yahoo.com/sundance-2012-d ... 74990.html

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Another interesting author from the early 1800's is George Frederick Ruxton. He was an Englishman who spent time in a Spanish army and fought in Spain. He traveled with two mountain men in the west. He spent some time in Colorado and New Mexico. He wrote about his adventures for periodicals so they ...

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I am glad to hear you were reimbursed. The shipping companies are notorious for breaking stocks! I bought a 95 Winchester on Gunbroker and had the seller remove the butt stock before he shipped it. It arrived in good shape.

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The little tab was worn down on my 356 when I bought it. I welded it and filed to shape. It has held up fine.

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I have used a Buck 118 for about 30 years. I have cut up a ton of deer with it and it works fine for me. I usually bone everything I kill in the field and it holds an edge just fine. My old hunting partner was a meat cutter and he reground and reshaped the edge which improved it a lot.

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Heard through a friend that spoke to the hardware store owner that the rifle was rebored in Oregon. It belongs to one of our gun club members. I don't know who. It is over priced anyway. Somebody else can have it. The barrel could have come from a different rifle. Whatever it was the caliber stamp e...

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Ron was a good friend and it gives me a lot of satisfaction to finally get him where he wanted to be. There's a story about the point where we spread the ashes and "the Weatherby". Ron was up there in a snow storm and the biggest bull he ever got on emerged from the timber. He said when he...

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Ron called the place we spread his ashes Hunters Home. Its a little point just below the top of the mountain with a big sage meadow spread out below. The elk graze in the meadow and there are also views above. Good place to hunt if the elk are in the area. This is Joe, myself with Ron's 300 Weatherb...

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On to the hunt. This is Klondike, my horse for the week. I am no horseman and he was a bit of a project but I got him figured out by the end of the week. He was always ready to go and he was fearless in daylight. He did get a little spooky in the dark. As you can see he has poor manners too. http://...

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Went on a guided elk hunt outside Gardiner, MT. Didn't get an elk but got some pics. I don't usually go on guided hunts but I did this time in order to fulfill a friend's last wishes. My friend Ron passed away 3 years ago and I promised to spread his ashes on a particular point in Montana where he u...

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