The Filipinos love the stuff, along with Vienna Sausages. SPAM, Some Parts Are Meat I love it fried, bar-b-qued, and tempora battered. Mmmmmgood eats.

I'm a vet, and I lost friends in the line of duty. I'm also 52 so I'm no child. So, I wasn't crazy about the title ... I was wondering how one could make a joke of service men dieing usless it was about our enemies in which case it may or may not have been funny depending on which enemies and in whi...

The Discovery Channel runs a series called "How It's Made" A recent episode showed them recycling batteries for the lead. IT was an entirely automated and sealed process with everyone around it wearing breathing apparatus. I took that to mean that it was not a "do-it-yer-self" ty...

I thought NW at first, but the more I looked at it, it looked Aztec

That my friends, is a real Mexican Marlin

I actually have no bone to pick with Gun Tests. Over the last three years I've been reading it, they were right on target with my personal experience so I tend to trust them with regard to firearm quality and function.

The thing that got me wondering about all of this was a reply to an article that appeared in Gun Tests Dec 07 edition. In an article about double guns verse single shots, the author refered to Capstick as an "ignorant amature" When Bruce Williams of Alexandria VA took him to task for it, t...

The story I heard is that he was never a PH but rather, was a bartender. Another version says he was a PH for a very short while. All agree that he made a lot of stuff up, knew next to nothing about real hunting but was an honest to goodness writer of the first order.

OK, I admit to beig a romantic at heart. I read Death in the Long Grass and wanted a double gun so bad I almost had to be restrained. Now I hear, old Peter H Capstick was a faker, a bar tender with a talent for spinning yarns about Africa into gold. Does anybody have anything definative about this?

Saugus Hardware is going out of business. I was in there yesterday and snagged 2 boxes of 375 Win 200 gr. loads for $23 a box. They have two maybe 3 boxes of 307 Win for about the same price. Saugus Hardware is in Saugus, CA just north of the San Fernando Valley.

This is the second time I've seen this video, & I might be just a little dense, but I don't get it. Is this just a feeble attempt at humor? I'm not laughing. And I don't think I lack a sense of humor. Is this a subtle, (or not so subtle) slam at people who reload their own ammo, or firearms ent...

I've used Pyrodex with uneven results. The accuracy was not as good as with pure BP but the fouling does not build up and it does clean best with warm water just like BP. If were all I had, I'd use it but otherwise, no, I prefer BP. Triple 7 was an interesting test. The velocity and pressure were mu...

Blow-back is not a problem ... really. Shoot, (no pun intended) I use BP shells in my side by side and never get fouling back into the action and a shotgun operates at much lower pressure than a rifle.. In my original response I did not realize that we are talking about a Handi Rifle. Of all of the ...

OK, now my $.02. I shoot a 45-90 Sharps. The bullet I use for hunting is cast 1-20 tin/lead and has a huge flat nose (meplat) I bought the mould from Veral Smith at LBT. These 520 grain slugs are on the heavy side for the 45-70 and BP. You just can't get much BP in the case with a slug longer than y...

[quote="Swampman"]I wouldn't use blackpowder. You'll never get all that nasty stuff out of the receiver. I respectfully disagree. In a cartridge weapon, the case will block any gas from getting into the action. When you clean it you have two options. One is to turn the gun upside down so t...

I agree, $5,000 shows a commitment to the sale. In CA, a deposit of 5K is pretty much standard. Putting money up front does indeed help to get the terms you want. It works the same way with a car too. In the afore mentioned deal, 15K got the banks to turn away the other couples that were looking at ...

Asking for $1,500 to 3,000 up front contingent upon financing is fair for all of the reasons mentioned above. But, it must go into an Escrow account, it absolutely must. Anything else is an invitation to a rip off. You must also specify terms for return of said if the sale falls through. Cash is not...

Well guys, on my first house in MT, I paid $500 earnest money that was refundable if financing fell through. Total cost of the house was $65,000 and that was in 1990. On the second house, I paid $500 down with the same terms. Cost of the house was $178,000. That was in CA in 1992. Now I'm on my thir...

THE HORTH WHITHPERER If you don't laugh out loud at this, you're just not trying!! A guy calls his buddy, the horse rancher, and says he's sending a Friend over to look at a horse. His buddy asks, 'How will I recognize him?' 'That's easy; he's a midget with a speech impediment.' So, the midget shows...

I must have the Uber-throat model of BB94. I can shoot all three lengths of 38-55 cases without a hitch. I once posted photos of my chamber slug along with dimentions. I swear, the guys at the factory must have been smoking swomthing funny when they made my gun. The bore slugs at .379 and any bullet...

There where several WWI acft that had the cyl rotating with the prop. This caused tremendous problems with torq steer and reversed control input. IIRC, the Sopwith Camel was one of these but I may be wrong about that. Another interesting tid bit centers around using Castor oil for lube. Several acft...

Rifle or Handloader, I'm not sure which, did an article on this very rifle last month IIRC. I believe the rifle is actually German in linage not English. How much did you have in mind?

Lifespan depended upon where you lived and what class you were. New Englanders usually lived into their late 70s and often into their 80s. Southern plantation owners were not so lucky. 50-60 was about the norm. Some lived longer but most did not. All other white southerners lived to about 40 or 45 w...

Awh shucks Mike, Northern PRK is Orygun

I never take it to mean me either. i figure they mean hanoi Jane, or one of the two morons in the Senate or ... some West hollywoood weirdo, but never me. Shoot, I don't even own a pair of Berkenstocks let alone hug trees.

Modoc Ed, I don't take offense at such anti-California comments because, after living her over 40 years, I figure we deserve all of the ribbing. Our legislature is as corrupt as anything Louisiana ever produced and without the Southern charm. We have any army of poorly educated, left-leaning idiots ...

My $.02. Lots of guys use bullets designed for the 45-70 in lever action guns and when hunting thin skinned game such as elk or deer, they work just fine. Now that same bullet, when launched at a cape buf that has an inch of dried waddy on his already thick hide,, is going to fail miserably. Since a...

Yep, that's the company. FWIW, I never crimp, and i don't use water glass. I use a from of super glue called Satelite City or Hot Stuff. Iuse the medium grade or the thick it isn't important and I just put a dab on the over the shot wad. Works like a charm.

There's a company that makes a die to slightly crimp the mouth of the case to eliminate that, of course, I can't recall the CO.

One really can't reload brass hulls on the same machine one loads plastic. You can hit a few of the wtations, but not all. Brass hulls take 11 GA wads. You need three of them with BP: an over powder wad, a cushion wad and a cap card or shot card. Pressure is unimportant so compression is not an issu...

Val Forget was his name and he actually used a model called the Hawken Hunter (I had one...thing) that fired a 610 grain Shiloh Stake Buster slug in front of 180 grains of 3F I tried the same load with the same gun and it darn near burned my face off after it recocked the hammer and blew back throug...

Dang, the jig is up..... I've been found out. :oops: OK, I don't hate all new things it's just that I really don't like the format of this new forum. I have the same issue with Shiloh and BPCR and Graybeard and Handloads. They use the same softwear and I'm not too crazy out it. But hey, I'm not comp...

I hate new things

OK, no big deal but I registered and I'm here. Don't all applaud at once