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Don't know the size of your gray squirrel, but the regular rat trap might be big enough. (They're a bit small for our Colorado fox squirrels.) If not, handirifle's conibear trap (110 size) is the way to go. Pound a few roofing nails most of the way into a board so when you set the trap, the two lowe...

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I've used Micro-Bed most of the time and it works good. I use Kiwi shoe wax for a release, works good too. Got lazy once and used gun oil - DID NOT WORK!!

Had to put the whole rifle in the freezer overnight to get it apart but it came apart OK.
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Bullard, I agree with the folks that have misgivings on the Rem 7xx autoloader series. Working the public sight-ins at our range I never saw one that shot well. The Remington pumps, on the other hand shot as good as the bolt guns, every time. A friend asked me to sight in his 742 since he didn't hav...

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Try www.duckduckgo.com. They advertise they don't go into all the snooping that the other search engines do. Been using it about a year - like it.
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I am going to make .44-40 chambering reamer this week to chamber the cylinder for a single action revolver I been building from scratch .Looking at the Saami specs sure makes me wonder why the cartridge is shaped that way.....Might be entirely understandable to persons who reload- I dont know anyth...

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Wear a pair of polypropylene (sp?) socks or socks that contain that against your foot, and wool socks for the outer layer. The poly(whatever) wicks the moisture away from your feet so they will stay warm after a hike into the tree stand. And yeah, I've hunted in below-zero here in Colo. more than on...

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I'll second yoouper2. I loaded some Hornady 110 gr. for my daughter to practice with and they were very accurate.
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AWP, a 1/4" group at 25m ain't nothing to sneeze at for a target 22. Those with much more experience than I say those long barreled 22s are difficult to shoot well because of the long barrel time. Best results are with a very steady bench set-up and bear-hugging the rifle. Some have better luck...

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6pt, A couple different ways to look at this. One is to practice with light bullets loaded down, if necesary, then put the real stuff in for the hunt. We all know we don't feel the recoil when hunting. The other is to use a lighter Barnes X-bullet (or whatever they call them now). Throw all the stan...

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Out prairie dog shooting one day I touched off a round with the Blackhawk 30 Carbine without muffs. OUCH! Didn't do that again. That thing was so loud I put a 21-1/2" barrel on it - and it was STILL loud!! Took it all apart and turned it into a 7-1/2" 357 Mag. Much better.
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As w30wcf said, adding a plastic wad can cut the leading considerably. I prefer GC bullets for loads like that, but if all you have is plain base, keep tinkering.
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Glenn

I'm with Malamute - 9 grs. of Unique and a 240 SWC is a fantastic load, very accurate and just sub-sonic. It was my chicken-pig-turkey load years ago when I shot silly-wets. It's mild enough you can shoot it all day and not wear yourself out. I came into a jug of Thunderbird 680, so use it for firew...

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Don't look now, but Ruger used to proof their Old Army with a chamber full of bullseye :shock: (inside info). The ROA takes .457 RBs, which also work perfectly in the replicas, despite the instrictions which state (variously) .451" or .454". You scrape a little ring of lead off the ball (t...

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Tycer wrote:That's cool. It's already got the holes for a Weaver 3A side mount scope base (or a 3b, but the 3a is sturdier IMO).

Yeah Tycer, I thought it had an awful lot of holes too! I might put a Williams peep sight on it, but no scope. It's an iron sight gun.
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Glen, It's definitely a Post-64. The lifter isn't forged, it's cast. Winchester went away from the stamped lifters to the cast ones in " about " 1977. Here is a photo essay I did that helps ID the pre / post 64s: http://onesticky.levergunscommunity.org/how_to/pre_post-64_winchesters.html ...

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I stumbled upon a Ted Williams Model 100 (Win '94) that was too interesting to pass up. The receiver was somewhat sorry looking, but the rest of the rifle appears basicially unused and unfired. It probably isn't unfired, but the bore and crown are sharp and the bolt face has no brass or firing marks...

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John, I have a Uniflow too, and had some problem with light and over charges early on. This happens because the powder bridges (jams up) in the drop tube. The cure is to mount the handle so it is pointing down when the powder is dumping. Then when you dump the powder, move the handle to the stop nor...

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86er,
You'll find a heavier bullet, in the 185-220 gr. range will shoot better. Start with 18 grs. of RL-7 and work up until the recoil is as much as you want, but not over 28 grs. Even with the light loads, accuracy "out there" will be quite good.
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Joe, Years ago I bought some file handles at Sears that clamp onto the tang. The grip is plastic and the threads that draw the clamping action are steel. Easy to put on and easy to get off if you need to. Also watch Sears for roll-around tool boxes on sale. Saw them in last Sunday's paper, 2 piece, ...

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Tom, Txpete's Lyman #375449 is THE mould to get for a 375 Win. With the gas check you'll be able to cast the bullets fairly soft (wheel weights) and push them near max for good performance (expansion) on deer. Even if you have to go a little harder, that big flat nose will do the trick without expan...

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You probably won't be able to reach those velocities with the canister powders we can get.

Years ago I loaded the 180 gr. Hornady bullet for my M70 and IMR4350 was very accurate stuff. Start at 55 grs. and work up.
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Blaine, I call bicycling the lazy man's exercise - you do it sitting down! :lol: My FIL bought my wife a 24-speed Comfort bike 3 years ago, and I tried to keep up on my old (OLD!!) 10-speed. That didn't last long. I bought one like hers and we ride as often as we can. I found I could exercise until ...

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Steve,
I don't have a Dillon, but that looks like the ticket for tightening up my HAMMR pistol rest. No wonder they quit making them....
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This will explain the hazard, as it actually happened in NJ.

http://volokh.com/2010/03/30/unexpected ... ossession/

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flounderjig, The Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook says the #311291 starting at 1600 from the muzzle and sighted in at 100 yards will be 6.32" low at 150 yards and 18.14" low at 200 yards. This is with iron sights. A scope will show slightly less drop because of the height of the scope above the ...

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That is a FINE group for a 22 at 100 yards!! Congrats.
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The up side outweighs the down side!! You can never have enough of those boxes!
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MrV, The only ammo you want to avoid in the Marlin 38/357 is flush seated or button nose wadcutter loads. They are too short and will jam you up good! :cry: If you have some you just have to shoot in it, put just one round thru the loading gate, cycle it in and fire it. Or you can stick one more thr...

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Glenn, Some do use lighter pistol bullets for practice loads. You can usually get away with about 100 gr. less bullet weight with the same powder charge and stay pretty close on target. The problem is when you start to slow the bullet down too much. Since the barrels are not on the centerline of th...

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TedH,
I've never played with a double, so don't know what effect bullet weight has on regulation. Would a lighter bullet help any, or make things worse? Just wondered if the 475 pistol bullets would work.
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El Chivo, I'm sure you're aware you can't "size up" those .358" bullets from the local store in a sizing die. They are made for squeezing them down. However :wink: you could use the Lee die to "bump" the bullets up to the die size if you can get a custom rod made that fits t...

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Here's my doe from the 2009 season, taken with my Lyman Great Plains, 50 cal. It's usually a nice moderately cool weekend during muzzleloader season, but this year we got 6-8" of snow the night before opening day, and into opening morning. http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo55/lex44_photos/09...

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I hate the stinky things too. I worked for the city for a while when I was young and had to trap them (cage) when folks complained. Just throw an old blanket over the trap and carry them to the truck, no spraying. But when we got out of town and put a 22 in their brain, they really sprayed! You didn...

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Bis, An 8 grain spread when the bullets mic the same diameter is caused by air bubbles in the bullets. These are caused by the way the lead is poured in the mould. A bottom pour pot is the most difficult with which to cast high quality bullets. If you have an RCBS or Lyman dipper, that's the easiest...

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Nath,
You might need to cast your balls from harder lead. They don't need to expand to do the job on the game.
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Glenn

A "shirt tail relative" has a M81 in 300 Savage and wanted me to look at it. It was pretty rusty, and I couldn't get the action to close - it was open when he brought it over. Took it apart as much as I dared, only having the NRA book on disassembly/assembly. Cleaned off some of the rust, ...

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Terry,
You do have an RCBS 35-200-FN mould, don't you? Keep yourself busy casting them up for the next week - you're gonna need 'em!
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Cementhead, I've been using the Lee REALs as well. The only thing I don't like is they are hard to start. These were shot in a 1-32 twist barrel on a Lyman Great Plains Hunter. I have used both the 3-band and 4-band bullets. My buddy has a Cabela's Hawken Hunter with a 1-48 twist barrel and it shoot...

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What Thunder said. :lol: I thought I knew a bit about base quality until about a month ago. I had some "seconds" of my 45 ACP 200 gr SWCs in a little tray and decided to lube them up, load them and go down to the local indoor range for some slow-fire practice. They were "seconds"...

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I've used Tru-Oil several times, and it does the job. However, I call it Tru-Varnish.

It's not really an oil finish, but you can sand it in to fill the pores, etc.
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Chuck,
Too bad this kind of info isn't in reloading manuals. I learned a lot of these tricks from George Nonte's and John Wooter's books.
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Just got back from deer hunting and I saw a few things that surprised me. I didn't see anything from the tree stand in the AM, but got back up in it mid-afternoon and about 45 minutes later two does a small fork-horn fed their way to where I was able to take one of the does. I field dressed her and ...

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awp101 wrote: Besides, I've been accused of stability issues for years...

You too?

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WWJWD

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No problem with pressure, just stability.
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Joe,
If the truck was a couple years newer the "check engine" light would have come on. That's what my '95 4-Runner did when a plug came loose. I couldn't figure it out until the plug came all the way out!

Was pretty obvious then.
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WWJWD?

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My daughter bought me one of those clip-on-the-hat-brim lights a few years ago and I can't believe how handy that thing is! Great for walking into the stand in the A.M. Really handy for getting stuff out of the cooler which is outside the camper in the dark. Have a Mini-Maglite in the fanny pack but...

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Excessive rim space in a 30-30 AI chamber is no problem. You need to set your FL die to just barely kiss a fire formed case shoulder and it will work just like a rimless bottlenecked case, headspacing on the shoulder. Which is what you want to do anyway. Even in a standard 30-30 the FL die should be...

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Doc, I don't see a #21 sight model number on their web site, does it go by a different number?
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O.S.O.K.
My Marlin with the Ballard rifling has a .432" groove diameter. I shoot .433" bullets mostly, but some gas checked LBT-285-LN's sized .431" for my SBH shot very well too. The GC helps a lot if the bullet isn't the perfect size.
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One other possibility worth trying. Seat the Keith bullet deep in the 44 Mag case and crimp over the front of the front band. OAL will be about the same as the 44 Special (use 44 special data) but the bullet won't have the front of the chamber to jump through. Bullet must be a tight fit in the case ...

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