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JimT wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:25 am I suppose this would be too offensive for some also ...

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I'm offended you're not drinking single malt scotch.

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1894 Marlin + Taurus model 44 - 44 magnum

1894 Winchester Trapper + Ruger Blackhawk - 357 magnum

Taurus model 62 LAR = Taurus model 94 - 22LR

I own many more firearms, but no more pairs.

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Hard to beat a 12 gauge slug gun for large caliber fun. My upland game gun was a Winchester 1300 Featherweight Upland Special with 22" barrel with choke tubes. It weighs in at 6-3/8 lbs. I purchased this around 1986 when I had free reign at a local dairy with an extermination permit to shoot fe...

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I was just thinking, and the newest design cartridges chambered in a current firearm I own is a 44 Magnum (1955) followed by a 308 Winchester (1952). Iʻll be 65 in a couple months, and I donʻt own a cartridge design younger than me.

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Yes, you are weird, but that is a prerequisite to belong to this forum. I am no fan of black guns, but a levergun always gets me excited. That being said, the only new cartridge that even got me vaguely excited is the 360 Buckhammer mainly due to the rim, and straight wall. A new Henry with loading ...

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Hey Jim, hereʻs a photo of me in my white cowboy outfit during an Idaho Blizzard.

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I've had the one I need a 4-5/8" barreled SS 357 mag since my Maui Days, but I would love a SS Target Bisley 44 mag with a 5.5" barrel.

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Mahalo nui Jim, for these timely articles. I have been saving these for future reference. Back when I worked in Lahaina, Maui, a friends indoor shooting range went bankrupt, and he gave "countless" rounds of 38 Special, 44 Special, 357 Magnum, and 44 Magnum. He kept all the 45 ACP since he...

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Hawaiian mythology has their very own little people too called the "Menehune" (meh-neh-hoo-neh), reputed to have constructed the numerous huge stone fishponds found around the islands in one night. Supposedly the original inhabitants of these islands before the arrival of the Polynesian an...

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I like older movies. One thing I like to do is spot bloopers. So, I just finished watching Clambake with Elvis. It supposedly takes place in Florida. The final scene is Elvis and Shelly Fabre sitting in his car as he explains that he's rich. And in the upper right corner of the screen is a street s...

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300 grain Cast Performance, 21 grains H-110

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I'm glad I'm retired, and I have full health insurance paid for as part of my retirement benefits from the state. My disability retirement check is so small that I qualify for Medicaid, and start Medicare at end of year. I don't pay a penny for me and wife's doctor's visits, prescription medications...

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Mid Pacific ocean, nowhere else I'd rather be. Hopefully the last place I'll be, a hospice in the sea. My parents ashes are out here.

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DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...

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Here are a couple short videos of me in my dory. The first one out in the blue Pacific Ocean is from several years ago before I replaced the gunwales, and the second one of after I installed the new ABS gunwales, and returning to He'eia Kea Harbor after trying her out in Kane'ohe Bay, same day as ph...

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For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and ...

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DORY_dory with kids.gif . Hey Ji, this is my first dory, the Aeolus from california, we rowed across SF Bay a number of times, and motored with a seagull engine pulling oil-soaked birds out of the bay and running them to a rescue station in SF. First big oil spill in the bay. The night time rowing ...

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I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories. Thanks so much Ji ! I agree with you Bill, they are, to my eye, unbelievably beautiful. Proper dorys have no bad angles from which to paint them . . . Ji's photos bring to mind a gggdad sitting on a French Mediterranean beac...

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Back in the summer of 2002 I was making a maintenance inspection of Kaunakakai Harbor on the island of Molokaʻi, and I spotted a St. Pierre dory moored there, it was beautiful, in great condition, and best of all it was for sale! I took several photos and emailed them to my dad, and letting him know...

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Without a doubt or exception the very most accurate Blackhawk I have ever fired was a 4-5/8" barreled example chambered in 357 Magnum. Thatʻs because itʻs the ONLY Blackhawk I have ever fired. :lol: That being said, I LOVE this gun. I purchased it back around 2005 when I still lived on Maui. It...

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Iʻve had an easy dozen MRIs in the past 20 years, but I have not had any difficulty tolerating being in a drum can thatʻs being beat on with a hammer. I grew up scurrying through the sanitary sewer pipes running beneath my street, with my brother, when we were kids. Used to dive for lobsters at nigh...

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Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) That's a fact. About those engine sounds -> when we were drifting at night in bouncy seas and the sound of 2000 gallons of fuel sloshing around b...

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Grizz, regarding engine sounds, the only planes I can sleep on are turbo props like the dear old Dash 8. Head against the bulkhead and those vibes sing me to sleep. I always preferred flying in turbo props than jets when traveling inter-island, and they arrived at about the same time due to not nee...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:38 am Good stuff on old iron and marine engines in particular right here:
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I can get lost in there for hours. Thank you Bill.

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Thanks for this photo, I will keep them all together. . . . Yes, the 18 footers, [OAL] are from Aeolus. The 20 footer is a one off, but the lines are perfect, topside is very close to Centennial, but the bottom is a bit wider, which I don't mind. I added an inch of marine ply to the bottom of the A...

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The old 1940 photo of my dad, and his dory was looking faded, and worn. I decided to try and edit the photo by adding more contrast, tint, etc. Here are both before, and after shots. Hard to imagine this photo was taken when dad was just 19 years old, and before he entered the US Army in the summer ...

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Beauties, are they both Aeolus dories? Would love to try and row from Puget Sound to Juneau. I was thinking of rowing my Pearson dory from Kailua Beach, Oʻahu to Haleʻolono Harbor, Molokaʻi, but my wife talked me out of it. About a 40 mile run across the Kaʻiwi channel in usually rough seas. Maybe i...

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Hereʻs a page from "The Dory Book" showing the design of the Haul Out Propeller box the prop & shaft would fold up into for a flush bottom for easy beaching, and hauling out of water. We were at first going to keep the boat hauled up on the bank in our backyard, but later decided to ke...

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Ji, thanks for the update. I still have notes somewhere about your Dad's boats. A man of good taste. Perhaps you could post some photos to anchor the topic. As requested... Dadʻs first dory the "Lousy Gander" 1940 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53556761161_4183975b5b_b.jpg Ōnuki Beac...

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Ji, you are calling up all sorts of memories! I bought a copy of John Gardner's classic "Dory Book" while in college -- and Acadia was still making their one-lungers. Dreamed of building a St. Pierre and re-read that chapter many times. Having lost most of my mind, I really enjoy listenin...

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. Obviously it needs checked out but don't place too much on the exact amount of a jump because all sorts of other things affect it, including inflammation or infection or intimacy or even just the act of having had a prostate exam recently. Plus as others have said it's one of the more slow growin...

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Back in my young teen years my dad a New England native, and a lover of fishing, and dories decided he wanted to get back into commercial fishing. This was around 1974 after his recent retirement from the Federal Government. Of course his dream commercial Fishing boat was a 26' Saint Pierre Dory. He...

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I have heard horror stories on both Hatsan, and Umarex as far as customer service is concerned. I guess they don't want to keep first time customers. I hope mine never needs warranty work.

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Ji, you might want to wander over to Airgun Nation to check the vibe on the big Hatsan. Also, the reviews on it at Pyramyd Air are worth reading. Gcs, I had the Hatsan 95 in .25 and found it extremely hold sensitive, but it sure carried the freight. The 95 in .177 and .22 is supposed to be less sen...

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Ji, I recently got a Hatsan 95 22 from Pyramid air on sale , I've yet to try it out but it's a BIG gun and very heavy, not something you want to walk around with very far...Just so you know... My Umarex Syrix .22 is heavy too at 8.6 pounds. I got mine on Amazon, where the weight is listed at 4 poun...

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Ji, please keep us in the loop if you are so inclined. You can count on lots of sincere prayers and good thoughts from the fine bunch here at Leverguns. Thanks Bill, Will do. Soonest the imaging department at hospital could schedule me was for the 14th of next month. Good to know it's a slow growin...

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I've owned my 12 ga. Winchester 1300 Featherweight Upland Special for close to 40 years, and I'm 100% happy with it's reliability and smoothness. Back around 1987 my dad gifted me a 22" Parkerized rifle sighted, rifled barrel barrel for it to complement it's factory 22" polished blue choke...

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I'm a tad late to the party, but since you'll are talkin' one of my favorite subject matters (air rifles), I thought I'd chime in. Back in the summer of '22, for a while we were having trouble with our Hawaiian bald tailed squirrel population going where they weren't supposed to go. The old Daisy mo...

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. The important thing is where the PSA is rising, and how fast, and then what’s called PSA density, which is, how much PSA is put out versus the prostate volume. Prostate volume is difficult to assess accurately but at least the concept is that the PSA should be somewhat proportional to the amount ...

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The Doc should give you a script for an antibiotic that you start taking the morning of the procedure and continue for a number of days afterwards. I wasn't thrilled with the idea either, but had no serious issues afterwards. Thanks for the reply. He did mention that about taking anti-biotics, whic...

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Ji, you ARE going to a big hospital in Honolulu, right? Yup, Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center. Been there many times, and have great confidence in the facility, and staff. My urologist has great credentials. Radiation therapy will be referred out to another facility (Saint Francis Medical ...

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Neither my doctor or me were concerned about my enlarged prostate which I had for 3 years, that is until my PSA jumped from 1.34 to 14.78 between annual checkups. I think the ol' digital (as in finger up the exit) is a great initial exam to locate lumps, and if anything found, then followed by MRI t...

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Aloha Bill, When you said TURP first thing that popped into my mind was a procedure involving the use of turpentine. :shock: I have been taking Tamsulosin for about 3 years now to help deal with an enlarged prostate, and frequent urination, though rarely more then once a night, though during the day...

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A study conducted by the Consumer Affairs Agency estimates that around 19,000 people lose their lives every year in accidents while bathing.

Should we ban bathing, or bathtubs? Should we require bathing classes, and bathing licenses?

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If I know I'm not going to shoot it for a while I will clean it, but on a week end hunt shooting several days consecutively I won't clean the bore, but I will wipe down the exterior. Hawaii has salty air, so any dust tends to absorb that moisture which encourages rust.

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Deepest sympathies and condolences on your loss. Growing up in the 1960s I was always a fan of "The Littlest Hobo", and "Rin Tin Tin", and not so much "Lassie", so always a fan of German Shepherds, one of the handsomest breeds there is.

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I think of lacquer thinner as a chemical as strong and harsh as acetone, so I would personally be weary of lacquers. I have found clear aerosol acrylics to be more forgiving. If you know what pen was used to write with use to to create a sample that you can try various clear coats on to test the rea...

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I can get a stainless steel Charter Arms 357 for about half the price. No thank you.

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From what I gather the first automatic transmissions used whale oil as transmission fluid. The chemist who developed ATF probably help save the whales.

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Pretty sure they didn't come out till mid to late 80's Yeah, 1886 1st year of production was 1986. I stand corrected, but plead creeping senility! :? I got the B-1886 confused with the B-92 which came out in 1978, the year I graduated high school. My dad gifted me a 1894 Marlin 44 mag 2 years earli...

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