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Larkbill

All good answers, but more important is how it fits you and how it feels in your hands. Youngest bro bought a 1200 at a real bargain price when Target was getting out of guns. Never really liked the fit and it had a skinny trigger that hurt his finger. Offered it to me but I liked it about as much a...

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My LGS is happy to do transfers for $25 and I have done a couple. But twice I found something I wanted at Bud's and asked them if they could come within $25 of Bud's price (was actually prepared to go higher) and both times they beat Bud's price. We both won. Hard to beat that.

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Very creative and beautifully done. You're obviously familiar with the look of the "toaster" Mercurys.

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I resisted them for a long time for the same reasons as you, Gunny, and gave in for exactly the same reason. That said they really are Legos for big kids. If you can imagine it you can build it. Trying to figure out what I want to do with my extra upper, a Colt pre-A1 with miss drilled gas block pin...

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Where in the world did you find a modern Yamaha with classic Mercury styling? I love my old outboards and wouldn't hesitate such a trip with my current daily ride, a '58 Lone Star Skipper with '58 Evinrude Lark 35 but I get why not everyone would or should.

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Didn't have a city dump nearby as a kid but we had pigeons at the local dairy farm. Great Grandpa brought them in and they became flying rats to the later generations. We hunted with Crosman pellet rifles and my pump pistol. My brother used to wing shoot them from inside the hog feeder as they came ...

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If I had any guns (mine were all lost in a boating accident) I would never consider putting the serial numbers in any public forum for all the reasons Pete cited.

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The drop in ghost ring sight is https://www.warrencustomoutdoor.com/one ... ights.html

I ordered one for one of my Blackhawks and it came with two sizes. one was perfect for my 4 5/8 .45 Colt, and as a bonus the other worked great on my 6 1/2 .357. I'm 68 and find they work well with my old eyes.

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As much as I like shooting and carrying my 4 5/8" 45 Colt Blackhawk I would hate to shoot my 30 Carbine Blackhawk with less than it's 7 1/2". Depends on caliber.

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At the ranges we see deer at the farm based on this I may leave the 30 WCF in the car and shoot the Colt 45.

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At the ranges we see deer at the farm based on this I may leave the 30 WCF in the car and shoot the Colt 45.

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Very cool, then you know who can help.

I don't belong to ACBS but my AOMCI (Antique Outboards) chapter gets invited to and participates in local ACBS events.

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ACBS

American Classic Boat Society, chapters everywhere and great about sharing resources.

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The hardest part may be finding it in 20 ga. My best friend since we were 13 had a 66 and still has his .22 single shot. His 66 was a 12, and all the ones owned by folks I knew were 12's. And you are correct, not the best made products Ithaca turned out. His M49 shows it's age but still shoots extre...

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My Dad's best friend through his working years was a WWII Marine. I say was because he's now guarding the streets of heaven. He was a repple on Guadalcanal and was equipped with that crappy new rifle that the Corps was conned into by the Army. The old school Marines in the squad he was sent to still...

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Love those Enfields. My middle son has one of the Savage built ones marked US Property, also nicely sporterized. Even better I won it in a drawing.

It's a No4 MkI*

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Or it can remagnetize.

Our old outboards built before WWII don't have the permanent style magnets developed for the war effort and often benefit from remagnetizing. A couple of club member have build copper wound devices to do that.

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Dad loved carpentry and did his best to get my middle brother and I involved. From our point of view there wasn't any woodworking in cars or motorcycles so it wasn't of interest. Later when we both owned houses we came to regret our choices. Of course Dad was a fair mechanic but when Mom's car neede...

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Popeyephobia almost made me hurt myself.

The first week we were married I came home to see my bride trying to make a meatloaf with two wooden spoons. She has gotten better but still cringes a little. Almost 45 years later.

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Just for the record St Louis doesn't have anything special in the way of gun laws. Missouri just passed Constitutional Carry and has had licensed concealed carry for 12-15 years before that. St Louis gets a bad reputation partly because it's scored separate from the larger metro area since it's surr...

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My best man's Dad moved down from Newfoundland to join the Marines because he was tired of being hungry. They ended up giving him the gunnery test in the back of the flatbed shooting clay birds and found out he could outshoot the instructors. He explained if his Dad gave him 2 shells he was expected...

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It's everywhere to some degree, but that's disgusting. I watched the whole thing and while the "solution" in R.I. seems to be helping I get the feeling that it's just putting perfume on a pig. Watch Live PD a couple times and see how often the officers are using Narcan to stop ODs on the s...

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Crosman made a CO2 shotgun, I think in the 70s. My brother has one but finding shooting supplies for it is almost impossible. Plus I think it uses two CO2 cartridges at a time. Probably was pricey to shoot.

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Kind of like owning a boat. My favorite time of the year and my least favorite time of the year.

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I have a 511 I bought when I was 14 and have never owned anything else as accurate or easy to shoot.

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I guess if we would all buy more .410 the price would come down, but I don't know how we jump to that. Like so many I started with one. A Stevens magazine fed bolt action that my Dad got from someone at work. He wasn't all that interested in guns but he thought a rusty, beat up project might be just...

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I've found that on the .30 Carbine too. Though I use a lanolin lube on every 4th or 5th one but I'm just on a single stage press or at best a Lee Turret.

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On the advice of an old Auto 5 shooter I cleaned my 16 ga thoroughly after having some cold weather issues and lubed everything with graphite powder. Runs perfect since then though I still like a few drops of Remoil on the mag tube.

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Just buy the sizing die! And while you're at it buy the .357 Max version. It will work on .38 Spl, >357 Mag and Maximum if you ever decide to mess with that too.

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Fun topic. For years my favorite woods walking tool was a Reminton 552 with a pocket full of a mixed bag of ammo.The 552 was designed for easy SS loading so ammo could be as needed. My favorite squil load was a hs Short hp of any available brand. But that was back when you could pick up a box of 50 ...

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Love my 16 ga. guns. I have the Stoeger Uplander and an early 50s A5. Once your friends know you have a 16 they'll be calling you whenever they see shells for sale. Ballistic Products will be your best friend for reloading components.

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As I told my doctor at my free Medicare physical, no guns. Really.

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I'm right at a month in and I can already see the wisdom of your routine. I made the mistake of thinking I needed to "help" her with the grocery shopping. Not good. Luckily reading is a large part of both of our lives and syncronized reading is pretty low impact. Already she doesn't say a ...

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One of my favorites!

Told about it by a friend who saw me and one of my brothers (not sure which one) doing the shotguns in the pond scene. Couldn't reasonably argue against it.

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More years ago than I like to think about IMR 4064 was my go to powder for my first centerfire reloading experience. A Remington 600 in 6 mm Remington. Killed more than one groundhog from my bedroom window with 75 gr hollowpoints. It also like the 87 gr Sierra. But I probably didn't experiment all t...

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Well now we know why the chicken crossed the road. To get away from the anaconda!

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Remington Nylon 76

Still want an older 39 but for now this will do.

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Best seen in the St. Louis area has been 1.87.

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https://www.ballisticproducts.com/

If you want to experiment these folks have everything from old style to the latest. Couldn't load my 16's without them.

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During WW2 my Dad was on an Atlanta class light cruiser, The Flint. Designed as principally an anti-aircraft platform it was about the width of the DE, but almost as long as a CA it had a nasty corkscrew roll in rough weather. Even the older regular Navy folks complained about it and the ship smelle...

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Well said Blaine. I have a bunch of cousins who moved west. One family of them that was there since the 50's. About evenly split politically. One of the girls married a gentleman who came legally from south of the border. They're the most conservative of the bunch. Three of her five boys are already...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IOLc5emC4

Steeldrivers after Chris Stapleton. Still awesome.

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True about midwest if your talking about the lower part like here in Missouri. Up north they snow blow the driveway so they can get out for more gas for the snow machines. St. Louis is infamous for the stores being emptied of milk, eggs, and bread. Apparently French Toast is the comfort food of choi...

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Not that far off .35 Remington.

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We've belonged to AMAC for about 5-6 years, just renewed. They have discounts too, in fact it's gotten to the point that all you have to ask for is the senior discount. Funny story. A friend who was pretty gray pretty early and I (bald since my thirties) stopped in McD's for coffee while at a soccer...

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The Navy is well know for their penchant for putting square pegs in round holes. In the Big War my Dad was a Signalman but had been turned down by the Air Corp because of his extreme color blindness. In their defense he ended up there because once he got on the ship they found out he knew how to run...

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Venomous in the yard gots to go. Whatever is at hand for weapons, range doesn't particularly worry me.

In the woods we're all brothers.

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Man, hate to think how many light bullet loads I've fired through my various .30-30s. It started with whatever was on the bargain table to use for the chickens and pigs in IHMSA. Low budget was the rule and accordingly I shot 110 gr FMJ, soft point, and short jacket. Whatever the LGS had on sale. Th...

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My Dad grew up with 6 older sisters and one older brother. They ate, but not as much as they wanted. First Saturday in Navy boot camp everyone was complaining because breakfast was pork and beans. Then he found out he could have as much as he wanted. Happy day! They all thought he was goofy because ...

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I tried that a few years ago but got a trojan horse from their site the first time I logged in. I do Facebook mainly because my kids and their wives put grandkid pics there often.

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