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Very nice !

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Unlike Americans, the British consider restoration as good maintenance, and don't care about leaving a firearm looking old and used. They are always more inclined to restore a fine firearm than we are, and pay premiums for nicely restored firearms. We had a beautiful cased British 8 bore fully rifl...

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You ever get any friction from diehard collectors turning a nose at a parts build rifle ? Ive done a few myself over the years mostly Winchester .Most people find it saving old classic guns much like a vintage automobile. But you always have those few that really frown on such things . I get someon...

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Very nice and thank you !

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Out of curiosity do you have any Ballards that left the factory with checkered wood ?

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. Search the forum and there are some old threads that have references to pressure curve data and real-world performance with many smokeless substitutes - 5744 comes to mind, and I think several others like SR 4759. I've used 5744 in my muzzleloader mostly. Search on 'KirkD' (author of many of the ...

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I actually shoot H4198 in my ML . If I were forced to use something that smoked like the regs in FL say I’d use 777 . I used Purodex over forty years ago and have never liked that stuff I truely think it’s more corrosive than BP . And with that being said the only thing I ever used BP in was an orig...

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I’ve got a buddy up in Susquehanna PA that’s usually filled his tags with xbow and ML before gun season arrive and he did this year as well . His ten year old grandson got his first with the Xbow early in archery but the young man still had an antlerless tag in gun season so grandpa took him out and...

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There you go ! We’ve got until the end of March for antlerless in my county but once antlered is over I kinda loose intrest . But I do have two stands still out just in case a wild hair hits me .

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I had three a bit back . One for a 338 Frderal one for 30 cal and one for 22 LR . I’m down to the 30 cal can only and to be honest I rarely fire the rifle it’s on .

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Everybody seems to overlook the 25s. I've always been a fan of .257s. I have 3 25-20s, a custom 257 Roberts Ackley Improved. The AI will sling 60gr bullets at 3800+ and up to 120gr bullets which will handle every deer or antelope or goat just fine. The newest 25 bore is the 25 Creedmore and from wh...

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Guy was shaking a bit for sure . I’m bassackwards I shake after the shot of the deer runs off enough that I don’t see it drop . My friends used to say I was cold blooded when it came to deer .

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Yeah, I just can't imagine a better deer rifle than the 99 in 300 savage. At least for the kind of hunting I do. I would never need "more gun" than that. super accurate. has a lever (essential requirement). 2.5x post reticle scope. You’re in the valley correct ? I hunted Elkins WV area in...

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Great Job with some beautiful rifles! A 99 in 300 Savage jyst spells Deer! But 6pts MS 6.5x54ms just about drives me crazy with lust! I’ve got my eye on a Mannlicher Schoenauer MC Premier in 280 REM I’d like to have but it’s way over my pay grade . I’ve had quite a bit of experience with 280’s so t...

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Very nice ! I’ve not fired at a deer since the first day of gun season 11/15/25 but we have antlerless season in my county until 3/30/26 . Attached are a couple pictures of the buck I killed 11/15/25 using a Mannlicher Schoenauer MCA in 6.5x54 MS shooting Handloaded Hornady 123 SST at 65ish yards at...

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I’ve killed a pile of deer using the 45-70 , 450 Marlin and 444 Marlin and have no qualms with any of the three . In the 450 I only used jacketed bullets both factory and handloads . And as you would assume they did a very adequate job . In the 45-70 and 444 I used factory and handloads in both . My...

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First deer I ever witnessed being killed was done in with a Remington 722 chambered in 222 REM this was in 1970 . My grandfather poppers very wide and heavy 6 point in the temple and as you would expect DRT . I still have the rifle and the rack the deer was 23” wide . My grandfather was using handlo...

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95% of the time I’m upstairs and if someone knocks on the door instead of going down and opening the door I open the window and ask what they need . A 1911 is within arms reach .

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I’ve owned a boat load of 16 gauge guns . Two A-5’s , a couple Model 12’s , a trio of Citori’s in different configurations , an old H&R single with a top lever not the Topper type and five Parker 16 doubles of which one was a quite rare DH 2 frame 32” gun that was heck on high high tower pheasan...

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Let’s see in all the Marlin levers I had there were a good many straight and I never really noticed any difference . In shotguns both SxS and O/U I e had both straight and pg and I gotta say I can do equally well or equally bad depending on your perspective with either . Bolt action rifles the only ...

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Let’s see in all the Marlin levers I had there were a good many straight and I never really noticed any difference . In shotguns both SxS and O/U I e had both straight and pg and I gotta say I can do equally well or equally bad depending on your perspective with either . Bolt action rifles the only ...

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Great to see you posting again Nath! Cheers to you! I just thought of this.... With the wide variety of game you have to harvest over there, I would think that either a Drilling (3 bores: 16 ga, .22 Magnum insert (an Einstecklauf) in one 16 bore, and an 8mm Mauser barrel below), or a Bockbuschflint...

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Back when I had a few Marlin 1894’s in 41 MAG I was eager to find gas check molds . At the time Lyman had one and at the times RCBS was making their 41 mold n a GC version , later they made it plain base . Anyway the gas checks were a bit difficult to get as well . Finally Gator checks became availa...

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About this time last year I was in Panama City Panama in the airport connecting between Dullus and Cordoba . Wish I was there now ! Heck of a lot warmer for sure

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Be careful how many max 454 loads you shoot in a revolver. My Super Red Hawk has had around 600 near max loads through it and the bottom of the top strap has significant gas cutting where the cylinder and forcing cone gap is. Had 2 gunsmiths look at it and both said the cutting is deep enough to be...

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I’ve owned a pile of lever actions but none now , I’ve owned another pile of single shots , owned a few semi auto’s , no centerfire pumps and a mountain of bolt guns . Bear in mind I tend to go with collectible or a bit more pricey bolt guns 95% of the time . Started with a Remington 700 , then went...

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I’d liked to have had one of the supposed to be Marlin 1895RL’s they advertised as being in 480 . Think they had them in the yearly catalog two years in a row but to the best of my knowledge NONE ever saw the light of day . This was in pre Remington days the same time they made the 1894CB in 32 H&am...

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I bought a Rossi/Puma 1892 in 480 Ruger NIB from a now deceased friend that had a gunshop . Had him order it for me , so when it arrived I paid him and took it home . It sat in my safe unfired for two years . I never liked anything about it , nothing against those that like them . I eventually trade...

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Grizz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:27 am
6pt-sika wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:21 am I used that load data as a basis for a good deal of what I did with cast in the 444 . Now I no longer own a 444 . But oh my my I have a pile of cast bullets in jars for the 44/444 .
have a 44 mag?

Yeah but I’m not shooting cast in a Ruger 44R carbine .

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I’ve had whitetail , mulie , fallow and sika but as of yet no axis . But I vividly remmember John Wooters writing that he thought Blackbuck , Axis and Nilgai were the three most palatable exotics . Now I’m rather partial to sika but I’d like to try some axis .

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I used that load data as a basis for a good deal of what I did with cast in the 444 . Now I no longer own a 444 . But oh my my I have a pile of cast bullets in jars for the 44/444 .

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I was partial to the Lyman 358156 . Had SWC molds and a SWC HP mold as well . I also had a mold that I’ve forgotten the actual number but it was a 215 grain SWC GC Lyman that was if memory serves initially made for the IHMSA guys to use in the 357 MAX , anyway that one shot very well for me in a cou...

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I wrote a couple articles for “The Fouling Shot” close to twenty years ago . The first was about a Marlin 1892 32 cal and shooting squirrels with a 90 grain home cast heel bullet . Which worked its way into some tree rat guns talked about cast bullet loads in the 32 Long Colt , 218 Bee , 25-20 , 32-...

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So if this stuff is about the same as 572 it should work in the 10 , 12 , 16 , 20 and possibly 28 gauge guns . There is quite a thread on "Castboolits" under the "Factory & Surplus Powder" topic. One fellow sent some 28 Gauge loads out for testing -- said in that application...

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We’re on our second Lyman sonic cleaner both were the larger size . Anyway to begin we used the Lyman solutions for brass or steel whichever we were trying to clean . In the last two years we’ve gone to a high octane cleaning solution the stuffs called I think Evergreen and it works well on both . A...

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So if this stuff is about the same as 572 it should work in the 10 , 12 , 16 , 20 and possibly 28 gauge guns .

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Ah Yeah, I make Venison Chili often, and I change up often on how I eat it and Sour Cream is great with it. But my favorite use of Venison is in my stew! Haven't had chili with sour cream for a while, believe I'll thaw some burger to fix it next few days! I’ve got a stew I make also in the crockpot...

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Decided to try making chili with venison a couple days ago . Googled it and found what sounded easy enough recipe . And tonight I gave it a go . I never cared for chili much until I learned to put sour cream in it . And tonight’s try tastes pretty decent to me ! IMG_7747.jpeg IMG_7744.jpeg IMG_7745....

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Last night I got prepared to head out this morning around 06:15 . Got up etc and looked at the thermometer it was 10 or 11 degrees so I rethought my plan and didn’t go ! Maybe this afternoon

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Good luck in some tough weather! Very lenient season, we ain't even allowed a doe by rifle regretfully! I'm thinking one them 6.5 MS's is there & ready? Yes it was ! Although a bit weather challenged :wink: IMG_7726.jpeg I knew it, Lol! I'm envious of those MS's! Very admirable hunting rifle! G...

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Paladin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:13 pm Good Luck. It snowed the second day of the season in WV, which made it a lot easier (except for the waiting).

I had wanted to do the first three days of the WV gun season again this past season on my cousins place close to Elkins but I wasn’t able to go

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Drawdown wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:03 pm Good luck in some tough weather! Very lenient season, we ain't even allowed a doe by rifle regretfully! I'm thinking one them 6.5 MS's is there & ready?

Yes it was ! Although a bit weather challenged

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Buck season ended Saturday , now we have late antlerless u to March 30th which is kind of an oxymoron since a god many of the bucks will drop antlers during this season and are then perfectly legal So todays the second day of antlerless and since we have white stuff I’m out . IMG_7719.jpeg IMG_7720....

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When I saw the title I was thinking someone had come up with a song entitled “Where did all the drones go ?”

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USPS is hilarious! Got an email this morning asking me to take a survey to tell them how they did on this issue! About once every two weeks I order a pizza from Pizza Hut delivered to my home . Last couple times they were nowhere near meeting their projected time and each time I’d did the email sur...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:33 pm Glad it got there!
Let's blame the fiasco on the Christmas rush and by January you'll get your package lickety split!

No it wasn’t Christmas it’s still the crud (Covid)

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I sold my 357 this past summer it was an S&W 19-3 4” pinned barrel recessed cylinder . I have two handguns now a Kimber 1911 5” something or other and a Colt Scout Buntline Special 9 1/2” .

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I tried to make a subsonic load in a circa 1966 Marlin 444 that the barrel had been bobbed to 19” and was the slower twist micro groove , I wanted to use a 300 grain cast bullet . But I wasn’t able to stabilize the bullet and stay subsonic . If I’d gotten it to work I was going to thread the barrel ...

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I was one of those kids!! Yuck. I would still be at the table refusing to eat the small piece of liver until my Mom was done washing all the dishes but mine and then she would let me go. Sixty years plus later I still don’t want any. Don’t like duck or dove either. JBowen Jesus Mary and Joseph ! Do...

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My father loved beef liver with onions I on the other hand can’t stand the stuff . When we’d occasionally get KFC many years ago my mother would get chicken livers (if I’m not mistaken they no longer offer them) for my pop and again I can’t stand them . Now I’m sure if I got hungry enough I could ea...

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