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Out on the beach in the evening.

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Sometimes the trucks crash, most of the time nobody gets hurt. They drove this one home a few hours later, it was hauling logs the next day.

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Load of big cedar, my Toyota underneath.

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One of the big off highway logging trucks. Canadian built Mack CL-350, they only made 29 of them.

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A bird in the hand..... Baby kildeer that I caught on the beach. You have to drive VERY carefully in late May-early June, to avoid squishing them.

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Not on QCI, but we saw this Kermode bear on our trip to the mainland last year.

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Lots of debris washes up here from the Japanese tsunami. This is a fridge from Japanese camper van.

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We have big trees too. No, this was not photo shopped.

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Looking for sea creatures until sunset.

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Our ferry arriving.

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Couple of pictures taken Summer of 2011. We were getting some logs organized in the water.

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Notice the dudes in hats on the stern of the ship? We have a constantly growing Mennonite colony, who moved here from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Pretty long way to travel!

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Taken on the ferry, leaving QCI last April.

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Here is an abandoned gold mine, we visited it near the end of October, 2012. Poor Stephi stepped in some awful goop hole and lost her shoes. We decided to go exploring after Church, so she was not dressed very practical! Only a few days later we had a 7.8 earthquake, I wonder if the mine is even sti...

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Makes me want to shoot a deer with my old .32WCF. The .25-20 and .32 are really nice rifles, but so many have sewer pipe bores from the early smokeless powder and corrosive primers. Makes finding one with a good bore pretty hard. A 92 in .25-20 or .32WCF with a nice bore is a special treasure!

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Got up to 11 degrees Celsius here today, and we have been steady between 6 and 9 since before Christmas. The odd night it was frosty. Wife was wearing flip flops out and about today. I tease her all the time, since she bought snow pants almost two years ago we have not had more than an inch of snow...

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Took this the first week of November, 2011

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Got up to 11 degrees Celsius here today, and we have been steady between 6 and 9 since before Christmas. The odd night it was frosty. Wife was wearing flip flops out and about today. I tease her all the time, since she bought snow pants almost two years ago we have not had more than an inch of snow ...

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I had a '92 in .44WCF brought to me for repairs once, three digit serial number. It had the octagonal barrel and button mag. Too bad the bore was a total sewer pipe....

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I too quit hunting with fancy scoped rifles almost a decade ago. Only time my .270 gets used is if someone REALLY needs a deer, and a long shot might be a possibility. Lever guns are just FAR more practical for REAL hunting than these modern clubs with their 20X scopes. So many of my hunting friends...

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I had the Mk.IV too, but it shot a few feet to the left so I traded it off years ago. I have owned 7 Sniders, but I am down to just one. Nice DC marked one. (Dominion of Canada)

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Here are a few pics of my M-H Mk. II, and one of my Snider. Neither of which are crumby relics from Nepal, I might add. Sorry for the poor pics, I was going to get my wife to pose with them but she is in bed, still getting over that nasty H1N1 virus and needs lots of rest.

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I had heard of the Graf bullets, but can't find a source in Canada. Can't find much of anything up here these days...

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I was thinking about adding a Rossi ranch hand to mine, just in case we get separated from my 94.

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I have brass, dies, rifle, spare mag, etc. but can't find bullets, mould or sizer! Help! I am getting very frustrated.

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Hadn't seen Zulu Dawn in some years, I meant their personal equipment. Since in Zulu, Michael Caine was running around with a Webley Mk VI....... The movie Four Feathers (Heath Ledger movie) while it didn't do awesome in the theaters, probably had the last live-fire volleys you'll see of Martini-He...

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From what I understand Zulu Dawn was a bit more historically correct for the gear, but both movies are good. The descendants of the Zulu impis attacking in real life were the Zulu warriors shown in the movie Zulu, and they took it seriously, as they were portraying the actions of their grandfathers...

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They do have leopard seals, which are very big, and very dangerous.

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The 1894 is pretty much perfect for a woods rifle. It may not be as accurate as some bolt actions, but I have had a few that would give any crank action a run for its money. It might not come apart as easily as a Marlin, but you don't have to take it apart as often as a Marlin, either. The dropping ...

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Probably will be a lot better than the klondike reality show where the guy was squirrel hunting with a 577 Snider. LOL I watched part of that show when I was sick in bed, what a couple of goofs. I figured a Winchester 1876 would have been more correct for that time period, since in 1887 the Snider ...

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I am lucky enough to own an original British Martini-Henry Mk. II, made in 1877. My wife thinks I am strange when I fix bayonets while watching "Zulu".

"MUST you have that pointy thing on the end of your gun? You are going to stab the ceiling some day!"

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That sight looks like it is from a Springfield .45-70.

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I usually buy an old steel K-3 or K-4 Weaver if I need a cheap scope, never been disappointed.

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Canuck Bob, I heard about these guys, but they weren't greenhorns, they were Newfies...

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Man, that's pretty harsh... prayers sent for fast recovery.

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Thanks, prayers would be appreciated. Sure hope this one does not last too long, I have tons of projects I would love to be doing, I hate laying in bed.

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106 is in the brain damage/death zone. Get to an ER. Temp. is down to 95 now, but I swear the Grim Reaper was standing over my bed. Never been so ill in my life. Think you might be dead? 95 degrees body temp is heading towards being about dead, 98.6 normal while lower than 97 ?????? :shock: Wife ju...

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Pisgah wrote:106 is in the brain damage/death zone. Get to an ER.

Temp. is down to 95 now, but I swear the Grim Reaper was standing over my bed. Never been so ill in my life.

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Man, got put down by some sort of flu, worst I ever had. Fever of 106, yet I was laying in bed fully clothed, under 5 blankets, with two cats thrown in for good measure, and could not get warm. Been in bed nearly 24 hours now. Sure hope this clears up soon.

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I agree. I like my 32-20 bullets to come out the barrel at around 1,200 fps. Drops Woodchucks in their tracks. The report is relatively gentle. Indeed, the factory loads drop coons like they were pole axed, and I know of a few guys that killed deer cleanly with them. If you need more power, use the...

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I had a Remington primer do that a couple of times, once with my .577 Snider and another in .45 Colt. Also had more than a few duds with remingtons. I did have a .303 Lee Enfield once, that must have had a similar primer failure. It had a little torch cut across the bolt face. Would have put most bo...

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I have had great results with a Rapine mould, it casts a bullet that weighs between 114-116gr. It didn't hold QUITE enough lube for black powder, though, so I put a thin lube disc under the bullet, between a couple of paper wads.

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Greetings An issue of higher pressures with jacketed bullets is the hardness of that jacket. Friction is at least 3x that of a cast boolit. More resistence in actually moving into the rifling raises pressure faster. Higher pressure raises burn rate of any powder. Thus you have a compounded increase...

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Indigo22 wrote:Nice looking Little Kraig you have there. The other bolt gun looks like a Stevens?

Top to bottom;

Winchester 1902

Winchester 06 (very late production)

Winchester 67 (first year production)

Winchester 94-22 (1973)

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That load won't hurt it none. The rifle is one of the last made with better steels, tighter tolerances, and the bullet weight your using is lighter than standard. As long as the gun is good and tight, I would shoot them. I just would not make a habit of it. 100 or 2 would be ok. I would be more con...

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Oh, and they don't make any of that now, neither the rifles or the ammo.

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ollogger wrote:Very nice!!!!
seeing that box of Canucks brought back a lot of old times
they still make them? was the other box Imperial?

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C.I.L. Canuck, Super Clean, and WHIZ-BANG, and Winchester-Western XPERT.

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QCI, it is my understanding that the bulged chamber 1892 32wcf that Kirk referred to came from a load of Unique and a 115 grain cast bullet, not really an over load just a tad to heavy. That is pretty sad. Lots of old guns get wrecked using Unique, there seems to be a school of thought that Unique ...

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I still need a 61 and a 63, to complete the set, sort of...

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Many pre 64's had the carriers ruined by kitchen table gunsmiths. The old ones are held in by a screw on each side, and often the screw does not go into its hole in the carrier, but instead bends the carrier. Attempts to straighten it often leave it crooked. I had a 1920 vintage 1894, and it had the...

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