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Diabetes is a killer. Yessir it is. How are you doing? It's been awhile since I said "Hi". :) Hi Jim! Yes, it has been a long time. I've been doing good. I retired from teaching at the end of the 2023 school year and 3 of my adult children are back living in Fairbanks again, and now there...

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Diabetes is a killer.

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Some friends of mine were heading out on their Big Red 3 wheeler to retrieve some caribou their dad had shot earlier. Their rifle was a Winchester 30-30. The trail they were going to follow led past the town dump. As they approached the entrance, they saw a grizzly looking through the refuse. With t...

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If you have a Rossi Puma 480 Ruger lever action, you have 475 Linebaugh level performance in a handy carbine, and you have that performance without the steep recoil penalty you get from the handgun. Accurate aimed fire delivered with less wear and tear on the shooter. That's the biggest advantage I ...

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I've never seen a Rossi/Puma chambered in 480 Ruger at a gun show. I've seen several in 454 Casull. One of those might be fun and useful to own.

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If you have a smart phone you could do your dry fire practice with a Mantis X. It provides a lot of feedback on your shooting, maybe more than you're comfortable hearing.

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A friend of mine told me that he and his friend, while traveling along the river when he was a teenager, saw a young bull moose on the riverbank. They went close to it and he shot it in the side with his .22 rifle "to scare it." Instead of being scared, the moose fell over dead so he and h...

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It's about -20 F at my house here in Fairbanks AK this morning. Cottonwood MN, we've felt your pain before. The thing that works in your favor is you have enough sunshine during the day to warm things up a little.

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$2.99 if you have a Costco membership, otherwise $3.16 or so.

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Alcohol and Tylenol, also known as Acetaminophen, APAP, Paracetamol, and a few other names, do not mix in the liver. They both are partially broken down by a chemical produced in the liver called Alcohol Dehydrogenase. Alcohol also inhibits the function of the 2c19 enzyme. That one also breaks down...

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More of my Dad's knowledgeable advice that I chose not to follow and now it's biting me in the butt. I decided that since so many others get by with half ton pick up trucks that I should be able to also. The drawback is that they aren't rated to handle the weight of a camper so I haven't been able t...

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This past June a pair of female geologists were working near the Pogo mine in the Delta Junction area. There are conflicting news reports, but it seems that one of them was attacked, the other deployed the bear spray. The bear left, then came back and mauled one of the women to death. I wouldn't bet...

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I think that's an older style barrel wrench. Most of the ones I've seen have a clear plastic body with 3 allen wrenches sticking out of it. Was your revolver made in Monson, Mass.?

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The Winchester 9422M is the way to go. The only weakness I know of with that model is the magazine tube. It isn't anchored positively to the mag tube housing so it can be lost when you're carrying it. I don't know if Rossi made their pump guns in 22 Magnum, but Taurus made them in 22 Magnum and 17 H...

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It's interesting that we get offended when we hear the F Word and other cursing, but watching someone get shot by another human being is all right. I know, I go to watch the action too but this departure from our moral code is interesting. Bad words, no good. Graphic war violence, yay, good movie!

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Thank you for your post, geobru, it's very helpful. I might just take mine to my gunsmith when I get a chance to see what he thinks about it.

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Thanks Bill Ranks. The manual is usual to have. I might just take it to a gunsmith and ask him about it. I've never had shooting access to a BL 22 before so I don't know anything about them.

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The lever has a small amount of side to side play and there is no screw on the lever. It's a light weight and accurate 22 but I don't think my daughter will like shooting it with the lever the way it is.

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I have a nice condition BL-22 whose lever has an annoying habit of vibrating or moving when I fire a round. I've never fired a different make of rimfire lever action that's done this. Is this something that's common with these rifles? This one is about 40 years old.

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Yo Shrap......THATS how to do it......Elmer Keith style. :D What was your load? By the way, tell Mike another excellent article in the latest "Handloader",on the 405 and your octagon barreled 40-72. Very enjoyable. And by Lordy, I too, was not aware of the difference in rim thickness betw...

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Dave Ramsey has a good show. I also listen to Handel on the Law, and GunTalk. You can get old radio shows too, like Tales of the Texas Rangers.

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Dean Grennell was my favorite gunwriter.

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It was still moving at about $50 per brick at the gun show here 3 weeks ago. $32 or so per brick would have been gone before the doors opened to the public.

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We used a propane buddy heater to heat our sleeping tent at moose camp. It's nice to wake up at 5:30 in the am warm and dry. It looks like someone cut the grass in your pictures. Here in Alaska if it isn't covered in swampy muskeg or rock or swamp it's 5' high and hard to get through.

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Streetstar can I get the shop's number? I know a group of guys who would be interested in this Nylon 76.

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I think you got some good stuff at a price that won't break the bank. I'd be happy with it.

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If the owner was carrying his Colt style single action with all 6 chambers loaded he was luckier to have lost it in the mud before he accidentally shot himself with it.

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Bob Milek recommended starting kids out with a scope on the 22.

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The engraving doesn't appear to be of as high quality as the guns themselves, especially considering that they were Bob Munden's guns. Bob had at least a couple tables worth of Colts and probably Colt Replicas that he toured with. I got to handle some of them after his show at the local Ford dealers...

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Is there anyone out there who can rebore one of these
to 358 Winchester?

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A guy has an old one of these for sale at the show. It has an octagon barrel without the front sight. The rear sight is there with its tiny opening. The barrel was sawn off to just in front of the mag tube. The stock has a piece broken off along the tang. The finish is mostly brown rust and the bore...

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"We're sorry. This content is not available from your location" is what I got.

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Here in Fairbanks at this time of year we expect just about every day to have ice fog, darkness and 40 below temperatures. Right now it's right around zero degrees out, which is still really nice, but last week we had a stretch of weather in the mid to upper 30s, and even had a bout of freezing rain...

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Marlin 1889 .44-40 (Fairbanks)

octagon barrel, good bore, made in 1890

This is a local ad and the rifle is for sale. I guess it'd be a black powder gun only. What else is worth knowing about this particular model of lever actions?

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I've been seeing this picture for a while now, but this is the first time I've heard that it was taken in a store in Alaska. I saw a couple of young women with pistols on their hips in the Fred Meyer store a few weeks ago and it seemed a little out of the ordinary. You don't see open carry much on t...

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I liked the rifle and I usually like a project. I just didn't like the idea of spending so much and needing a new stock and magazine. I was actually wondering before I saw it where I might find a 358 barrel to go on it, but I didn't have a clue where one of those might be. I might have a second chan...

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I went to look at a lever action rifle yesterday, but before I did I checked out some old posts here and they gave me some useful information, particularly about using a magazine for a Model 100 in this gun. "Winchester M-88 in 308 caliber. Wood stock in decent condition with normal handling ma...

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Look up some information on Euell Gibbons. He was the back to nature guy during the 60s and 70s and he did his thing right there in the lower 48 states. What worked for him should work for you.

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Nice work, Ji! My mom would have been happy to show you how to use an ulu. Being Inupiaq(the Alaskan version of Canada's Inuit) she used ulus all her life. I've never attempted to make one myself.

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The good news is that even if it does go belly up a new dishwasher only needs to cost about $9 for a couple of plastic wash bins to fit in the sink. Add some dishwashing liquid, scrubbing pads and latex gloves and you're all set. If you have a teenager laying around the house with not enough to do, ...

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I woke up to one degree above zero F this morning. That's 30 or 40 degrees colder than it should have been.

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I seem to recall Lee Jurras posting that there was no certain, foolproof way of killing primers to dispose of them. You could get them wet but once they dried out again they would work as intended. He should know, he used to own the Super Vel ammo corporation.

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I couldn't help but notice the big scar across the top of the knuckle on his slingshot holding hand and I wonder how it got there? I also noticed that he was real careful to keep his head and ear out of the way of the pouch, rubber bands and projectile. I think I'd give up some velocity in order to ...

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Jim T's dad reamed out a chamber on a Single Six to 22 Magnum. I don't know why it would be a problem to ream a chamber or the whole cylinder of a Bearcat to 22 Magnum. There's no safety issue to speak of, because the guns can handle the pressure. This is an example of what can be done with a New Mo...

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Remember too, that these pictures were taken recently when there's plenty of spring sunshine. This guy has spent most of his trapping season working in the dark, or near dark. Spring is one of the best seasons of the year in Alaska.

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http://www.logbookwasilla.com/logbookwa ... ost-l.html

This is an interesting look at a trapper/hunter's day.

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Mitch Seavey won the Iditarod. He just came into Nome. GCI channel 1 is carrying the finish.

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Aliy Zirkle is in second place, while the 2 Seaveys are in first and fifth respectively. A lot can happen between Elim and Nome. 2 more checkpoints to go for these guys, then it's on to Nome. The weather is clear and a little cold so that should be good for the mushers and the dogs.

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