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Just looked at a 35Rem and a 32Win Marlin 336 yesterday. The 32 was about 50-60% metal, all honest no damage. $459. The 35Rem was a '50s gun, smooth stocks of course - better finish but had a couple chunks and cuts in the forearm and stock. $679. This is a decent shop with realistic, cash-only prici...

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Call it what you will but there's one thing I hate: those nylon pop-up blinds that come in camo patterns. I believe anyone hunting on the ground (in public lands) should required to have orange ribbons or patterns on those things! I'm as careful as can be, but I hate seeing them at the last moment h...

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Dare I say you won't soon find a second for that price!
Buy it now, shoot it whenever you like.

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And prices to match. People complain about ticket prices today, but air travel used to be a luxury that was hard for most to afford. even in the 1970s, a ticket to Alaska was usually $1,000. By the early '90s, it was usually around $900. Today it can often be done for $600 or less. What is $1000 in...

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Prayers and good will sent. - From an old pedal and lever guy.

I've seen worse, up close.

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Y'all just don't understand - being Arizona, the headline should've read: "Wrestled gun from a guard and shot himself in the head", and some headlines do... Leave out the part that it took three shots.

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I'm only asking about leverguns - the 336s. I'm asking about technical and quality differences.

heck, I had metal shavings and rough tool marks in many 336 guns of yore...

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Coming to the experts for this one... Can anyone please detail the differences between current Marlin 336 rifles and the previous Marlin guns? I know the manufacturing methods used over the past decades but cannot, aside from stock wood and wrist dimensions, find any quality or manufacturing deficie...

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Holy stuff, is this turning into a mess. Tycer is full of win and awesome for even offering, but apparently Engravers are considered the next best thing to Gunsmiths according to our friends at the ATF and require me to be an FFL to even think about doing this to the firearm of another whether as a...

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The Winchester catalog for 2014 shows no M71 - dropped again. I'd look for an '86-87 Browning for the best out there. Winchester production is great for nostalgia but double-triple on the used market, and usually have damage and wear. One can find the Browning guns, especially the High-Grade fancy-p...

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"License?"
"We don't have no licenses"
"We don gotta show you no stinkin' licenses!"

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I don't understand the OP. Casastable, did you buy one or have one you're not showing us - or just posting pictures?

Everyone should already have a Turnbull catalog and calendar anyway. AM I the only one?

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As most "what's it worth?" posts, I wanted to twist it a bit and ask owners "how much money would it take to let loose of yours?" type of query. I will add to the fury to say I'd not probably take less than $1100 for my blued guns, and probably take no less than $1500-1600 for my...

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Opinions needed... We know the Browning M71 guns were made for only two years - 1986-87. Maybe a few outside that range but I've never seen it proven. We know they are rare numerically - about 3000 +- per version, with the Blued steel/Walnut 20" and 24" guns and the "High-Grade"...

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We all need to stop living in the past (some more than others). :roll: But its a neat design, clean, compact, thin, and light. A pistol designed to actually BE THERE at hand, when you might need it the most! At the MSRP of $389 ($60 bucks under an LC9), it looks like Remington is after the little pl...

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Some of the best whitetail hunting anywhere in the southern tier! Don't overlook the mucklands & swamps of Orleans and the areas in and east of Sugar Hill SF! If it were legal to use a handgun & OOS license I'd be there with you!

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I can only add that the Taurus 62 Lever action was made before the Rossi merge, purely Taurus. Made in blued steel and all-stainless.

The Ithaca 72 Saddlegun was indeed made in WEST Germany by ERMA Werke, with the 22 WMRF barrels made by Lothar Walther.

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"...it's got a botched chamber..." Hmmm... Ever make a chamber casting from it? What is the problem - a ovalled or over-sized chamber? Too much freebore? oversizedmouth? No doubt you need a new chamber/barrel. Headspacing the new barrel will be the critical manuever. seek a pro locally if ...

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The Black Shadow guns are BTW, the exact same gun as the Timber Rifle, except for the synthetic stock vs the walnut on the TR. These are VERY under-rated 1894 guns IMO. Think: a model 64 with modern metallurgy. I do not lose sleep over the cross-bolt safety. I especially like the "swollen"...

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If a credit card can get into an opening, a hornet can too.

You have a major nest issue. Even if you kill every one, I'd bet you have ten pounds+ of dead bugs in your wall. Then the ants arrive...

Maybe time for a pro?

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Yup. Took my first black bear in the dark-pine wilds of the northern NYS Adirondacks with my then-new BB 356, using 250-gr Winchester ammo. Factory sights with a bit of orange nail polish. 400-420# estimated live weight per the resident hunter. Stalking, no hunting over garbage in our camp. Shot hi...

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That is spiritual for me. How priveledged one must be for God to show that survivor in the wild!

Live long Mrs Bear.

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I got it:
A flathead, a pinhead, and a goodhead.

I know, inappropriate for church. I can change...

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Ok, so the biggest thing I am taking away from all of this is that practice is paramount. I don't lose any sleep over bullets anymore, after seeing a big guy's arm nearly removed when hit with a 38+P SWC. He lost it above the elbow in surgery. That said, no one is lining up to get shot with either ...

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"The only actual vegetables are lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, onions, broccoli, corn, and potatoes."

Actually, corn is a grain, not a vegetable.....

Is this a thread about ... ?

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Much ado about nothing IMO. buy what you want, buy what you know. If you don't want beef ground up three states away, you pay your butcher to grind the stuff you want. Every manufacturer or anything these days makes a base model and a premium model. Is that such an epiphany to anyone? Stop trying t...

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We had one in an oak tree by our house years ago, white faced hornets. We went out one night and put a garbage bag around it and cut the branch to free it. Then we took a can of wasp spray and put the entire contents of the can into the bag which fumigated all inside. Then the kids were able to tak...

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Dunno what they're doing in your neck o the woods, but last fall we had a near-head-on. I say near because the total damage to the Lincoln was - $550 fixed it up completely at the best body shop around. So the progressive guy totals the car and writes a $9000 check ! Four days later! Now, KBB put th...

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Thanks 30WCF, I've only been in one civilian shooting & subsequent courtroom circus, so I have to defer to others with more experience. But for anyone whose courtroom advice is limited to magazine articles and TV productions, I assure you that all evidence can & will be used against you. And...

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Seriously... Charter Arms advertises a stainless-built DA/SA in .40S&W. I recall a favorable magazine review of it but have not fired one myself. About 20 oz as I remember. Serious recommendations (from BTDT folks) cannot overlook the fact of a revolver leaving no cases at the scene. And being a...

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Swipe cards and electric gates... and who is going to maintain them?

How about a trail cam pointed at the gate? - the type that transmits to a website, which can be recorded and such. $250 tops plus a sturdy tamper-proof housing.

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Looks pretty simple. I'd certainly add a "safety cable" of the coated type, which can be quickly threaded through the trigger guards, etc.and padlocked, when you must leave the room for a break or such. To that end, a stout 4x4 base or heavy plywood back would be an advantage for the cable...

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Figure about $8500-10K of rimfires there, son.
Does your wife read this forum???

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Ahhh... SPETSNAZ!

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thanks. Again.

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Get the book. :wink: I know a guy with over 400 1894s (that I know of) and doubt he has more than a few (very few) of the same one. There are always, it seems, variations on a model. Many such "variations were manufacturing changes and some/most may have started out from necessity (lack of part...

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I won't degrade you for your project. But I won't recommend it either (for a shooting handgun). Barrel sleeve-ing is a freeze-n-fit proposition. That's after you rifle ordnance-grade steel with a ceramic button. Timing a cylinder and action is a very tedious process and holds a crippling potential i...

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"Replicator: a Yeoman of appropriate proportions, personal program #26. 99.5 degrees Farenheit. And... mute."

Rodenberry was genius!

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Nice. I can't help but notice the news crew didn't lift a finger to help the dog out of there in front of that elderly woman...

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Please let us know what the factory says.

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Contender with a 14" Hunter barrel reamed to 357 Max & throated for spitzers. Great for a treestand or swampbucks.

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One LGS has some new boxes of 348 PP. I believe he stickered them at about $75 per.

I can run 348 off on the Dillon 550 anytime I like. But I'm don to maybe 600 Hornady 220s and 150-ish Barnes 250s. I gotta replenish one of these days...

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It's embarrassing to a guy who spent $500 building a Ruger 10/22 and then some dude pulls out a 20-yr old Marlin/Glenfield M60 and shoots tighter groups every shot!

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The Jaycees sponsored a couple dozen kids each season in the school gym. Every Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, five positions at ten targets, pick one of those exact Daisy guns from the rack, shoot and clear it , then return to the rack. IIR it was 1964-68. :D My Lord, this used to be such a ...

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"Regular plain AR mags down to $20 or so. Saw one guy with bundled AR mags, green and old black followers, 6 for $90 and $100 respectively."

That's down to $15 per. New Magpuls were selling for that six months ago. They don't come much cheaper than that.

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I have a Llewellin albeit she's getting on in her years. She could be resting right alongside your girl with a brace of pheasants or hoppers cooling in the shade...

Love a setter after a fun morning and a nose to the grass. Congrats on a dog, and a day well played.

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Im feeling pretty rich with the way the market is right now but sure hope they dont make the future transfer of these items illegal and potentially worthless outside of the black market. And THAT is the big question! "One of the problems with the 1994 ban was the grandfathering loophole. If so...

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Bad news.
Your wife called and said you're gonna have to move them to the other side of the garage.

There goes the weekend.

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BTDT. Just have a lawyer first. The cost of being in a shooting is astounding and even facing a civil trial 2 years later is a money pit one doesn't read about in magazines. What I know now that I will share: 1. If you're gonna carry a gun, have a GOOD attorney on retainer. 2. Never carry a gun that...

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but this one make me feel like a real blond! UGH

it's umm... spelled blonde.

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