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What's SCI, Scott?
Antonio

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Thanks, Rob.
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Interesting link, Hobie. Are those sights available anywhere, or are they proprietary?
Thank you,
Antonio

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Yes, I treasure this photo. Hunting is no longer allowed in my country. My kid - now 31 - veered towards shotgunning, but he still has that gun and shoots it with the samest load.

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Thank you, friends. Tycer, pork rind is what we call sow's belly with meat in it, sliced thin, then salted and deep fried in bacon fat until crisp. Pururuca is produced by bathing the freshly cooked pig - skin and all - in very, very hot oil. I pour the hot oil over the roast and it crisps immediate...

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Gentlemen: Found this picture yesterday. My son at age 8 and a half with his first pig, killed with a Taurus M-TA in .38 SPL, bullet was Lyman's old 35895 with the gas check indent milled off, on top of 6 grains of old Unique, for approximately 1,100 fps. First shot went harmlessly through the year,...

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Chas, it's winter down here, and we're freezing with the mercury hovering @ 55 F. No problem with oven heat.
Blaine, thank you. I'm off to the kitchen right now.
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Way to go, Rangerider! As a severe cardiopath and insulin-dependent diabetic, I eat a local version of that breakfast every time I feel suicidal. May I trouble you for a biscuit recipe? Mine have been a total failure as the local baking powder is short on oomph and our flour is kinda thick. Thank yo...

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I cherish this memento from Jeff Cooper. He left a void still unfilled.
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I feel that rifles are too big to manoeuver in the confines of a home. I heard that two or three torso shots with the lowly .22 LR HP hi-speed can perform wonders... but my trigger-happy wife keeps a .45 ACP M-1950 S&W at hand, stoked with very soft swaged lead bullets at ~750 fps.
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I cast Lyman's 150-grain #358477 and 170-grain #358429 to feed the .357 mag . Once I shot a pig with #358477 at ~1800 fps from my Puma; the bullet zipped through and I couldn't find it. The pig was killed quite dead, though, after running a ways. This bullet is too light for the 200-meter ram, and I...

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15 years ago when I moved to my then-new house nearby land was infested with fer-de-lance (bothrops jararaca) and every week or so in summer I'd find one or two coiled in the shade. Fer-de-lance bite is exceedingly bad news, and my wife hates them and all other snakes. We killed them all. Doc Hudson...

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J. Miller, you're a fortunate man and don't know it. Herewith the prices I pay in Brazil for shooting supplies:
Small pistol primers: $118/1,000
Gunpowder: $64/#
.30 150 gr bullets: $638/1,000
.22 LR ammo: $114/1,000
Can't wait till I get the new price list for 2010.
Best,
Antonio

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Gentlemen, not all Brazilians are like the Taurus people.
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I'm betting that a Canadian quarter was used to replace the Puma medallion that was in the early El Tigre carbines... :wink: I have one of the older Rossi with the Puma medallion. It's high-relief, and that prevented installation of the Williams peep sight that Hobie suggested. Gunsmith removed the...

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A friend who's a retired army officer brought me a 1911A1 that belonged to his father and had never been fired. The old man bought the pistol in 1942, a Colt Brazilian contract. I looked at the pistol, it has a few spots and pits, but is remarkably well preserved. Two magazines (besides the one in t...

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Doc, it is true. Having had four heart attacks and a quadruple by-pass installed, cardiologists tell me (1) take aspirin every day and (2) cough hard if you feel anything strange in chest, neck or left arm. I am an insulin-dependent diabetic, therefore do not have the early-warning benefit of the an...

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I've had a Lyman #358429 for more than 20 years. It's a 4-hole job and productivity is excellent. It drops 170-grains bullets using my alloy, and I feed them sized .357" to my Rossi .38 spl loaded to .357 pressures. Rossi .357 mag barrels usually mike .355", but I do get excellent accuracy...

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Buck, the universe conspires in favor of good people. All the best.
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11x50R M-73 Comblain lever rifle.

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Paul, happy to hear you were brought up in Goiás. Maranhão is beautiful, and I was in a plane crash in the Tocantins river near Imperatriz in 1971. Do come back, in more pleasant seasons, the heat is unbearable now. My son is in the Mato Grosso fleeing from Carnival now, and said temperatures in Roc...

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Levernut, I know where Padre Bernardo is. In 1992 I was there with Emsa people bidding for Antonio Chevrolet's farm, a 35,500 acre stretch of land. We rarely see pumas in the Paranã. They used to come and steal pigs from the pigsty, kill calves and goats but they're not nearly as dangerous as a full...

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Mescalero, Capstick's narrative in Death in the Silent Places is far juicier than Siemel's. The Latvian's composition was dry as a good martini and gives you the bullet hole only, no target paper.
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Yo, Levernut, I'm in Belo Horizonte, 1,200 km from you. Siemel reported using a top-break S&W .44, with which he shot himself in the foot allegedly because he was dazzled by a lady journalist he eventually married. I think he was very brave to go poke a jaguar with a 7mm Mauser and military FMJ ...

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Hobie, I have an old paperback copy of Sasha Siemel's book Tigrero!, published by the Explorers Club in 1953. It is mandatory reading for all of us shooters and hunters. He learned his tricks from a Guató indian named Joaquim Guató, who was killed by a jaguar a few years later. By the way, in this d...

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If you're culling buckshot will do, but will tear too many holes in a valuable pelt. The weapon of choice has been - for over a century - the Winchester 92 in .44-40. Jaguars can be dropped with almost anything that goes bang, PROVIDED you score a solid hit where it counts. The weaponry cited in the...

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Just finished reading "Jaguar Hunting in the Mato Grosso and Bolivia" by Tony Almeida. Interesting reading and plenty of photos. Beautiful but inhospitable country. Out of print but available used from
http://www.amazon.com/Jaguar-Hunting-Ma ... 0940143216
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I own and every other blue moon shoot an old Win M70 in .458 Win Mag. It's the most useless gun I own. As far as handguns are concerned, the nod goes to a very stiff 310 gr. .44 mag load in a 10" Contender, indeed so stiff I sometimes think it will straighten up the rifling. In my environment t...

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jnyork wrote:I shoot a LOT of silhouette with my .30-30. 25 grains of 3031 and a 170 grain cast gaschecked bullet. Works for me.

Ditto. My load exactly for Big-Bore Silhouette. I shoot a 10" Contender.
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Machado - Are ya going to come back to yer thread or are ya broke down on the side of the road? I'm back, Modoc Ed. Thank you, and thank you all, gentlemen, for your prompt responses. My Jeep never broke down, mainly because I don't drive it too often. I now have sufficient information to confront ...

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txpete wrote:in my red hawk.
lyman 358429 sq lube groove and 2400 doesn't get any better than that.

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Gentlemen: I drive a Jeep Cherokee Sport that I bought brand new in 1998. I've driven it for 65,000 miles only, and there's not a scratch on it. Now the dashboard stops working every now and then, comes back up again, then dies out for hours and so forth. When this happens the "AIRBAG" lig...

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I just picked up a 39A that had a scope base mounted on it. The previous owner decided to epoxy the base to the receiver. :evil: What is the best way to remove the remaining epoxy and residue, from the receiver? Thanks I've used ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol on Araldite and they both destroy ...

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Sometimes you just have to do with what you can get. If 308 is common you may have to be happy with 308. Do you neck size your cases or full length resize? Seems like they would last a long time neck sizing. Why can't 30-30 cases he had in your area? Dave, I hand de-prime fired cases then full-leng...

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because of the length of the 30-30 brass, a rechamber in either will not work if you can get a new barrel and 223 brass, the whisper would be good First we drill out the .30-30 chamber. I'll have a .223/30 chamber insert made in exactly the same dimensions of the drilled out chamber. Freeze the ins...

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I had a Contender Super 14 in .30-30 years ago that I shot at steel rams and such till they shut down our range. I used 150 grain bullets and 3031 powder with great effect. I also used a plain old Lee loader for all my reloading. I think case life was extended greatly by neck sizing only. The only ...

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If brass 'importation' is that much of a hassle, I'd make the decision based entirely on component availability. Either of the rounds you mention can be loaded in the pistol. Also consider bullet availiability (including casting them yourself or buying lead vs. jacketed ones) and powder consumption...

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Gentlemen: I am an admirer of the .30-30 and have had very good results with this round fired from a 10" Contender at the 200-meter ram with 170-grain bullets. I reduce factory loads by 3 full grains to increase case life with no appreciable performance loss. Even so, case mortality is greater ...

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In times of frivolous lawsuits, one must be extra careful with the .45. I've heard that the second shot from a .45 is, usually, profanation of the corpse. Antonio :D Good to see you here again Antonio!!! Great opening comment, too! :lol: Thank you, Hobie. I'm up and running again. Best, Antonio

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In times of frivolous lawsuits, one must be extra careful with the .45. I've heard that the second shot from a .45 is, usually, profanation of the corpse.
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The late Peter Hathaway Capstick recounts this tale in the book "Death In The Long Grass": One day, a white farmer living in a southeastern African country woke up to see a large bull elephant gingerly devouring his precious crop. After trying to shoo off the beast in vain, he decided to ...

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