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Leverluver

Cool combo especially US made. Never did figure out why the squeeze lever instead of a normal trigger.

Leverluver

Some semi-custom models may have a large bead for the CAS game but most come with a blade. Short rifle has the same stock as the rifle and the rear sight is pretty much the same. The only difference is the barrel is 20" instead of 24" on the full length rifle.

Leverluver

Working in a refinery in Denver making gasoline so we could soon (Nov 73) all be screeming down the interstates at a whopping 55mph

Leverluver

Hope they make it to maturity. These days most wind up as wolf kabobs.

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For years, I used to commute from Golden, through the Denver "mousetrap' (pre-bypass days) and north to commerce city on a BSA 441 Victor. I hope the RE doesn't vibrate as much as the Vic did. After I arrived at either end of the trip, my hands were numb for an hour after words from the vibrati...

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Yup, second year deluxe. Definitely not welded or silver soldered. Don't have access to a camera right no but will try later.

Leverluver

Sixgun is your forend base welded? Mine sure isn't. It's attached with the thinnest, shallowest dovetail I've ever seen.

Leverluver

So what happened? You hold your tongue different this time?

Leverluver

Well you sure got nice company. Beautiful smiling face on the left, not so beautiful face on the right. One thing about gophers, their good at making more gophers! And its gopher making time :lol: Even prairie dogs, I prefer to wait until the younguns are half grown and then its open season. You po...

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Leaves one to presume that it was mixed a tad prematurly. The original idea of small "bangs" wan't that bad of an idea and can be fun at the proper locations (NOT gun clubs). Its the numb skulls that mix huge amounts of it that will get it banned. It's not that hard to figure out the chemi...

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Most of the problem I see is that the springs are very rough. It takes only very small roughness or irregularities to cause stress risers which are bad ju-ju for springs. It is possible that if one takes the factory spring and polished out those irregularities, the life of the spring would improve b...

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That's sad that a tube with rifling in it is that restricted. Doubly sad that UK used to be the masters of the world for gun work and there is no one left in the UK to do it. Nice 76 anyway. What cartridge? Be sure to help out the guy using the 73 for display to get it right. I was in a pub outside ...

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Win (Miroku) 73 in 357 and Uberti 73 in 45 Colt, for retirement toys. Same as mine. Dang, you must be a brother by another mother. Enjoy yours; I sure do enjoy mine. These are merely one week's purchase :oops: In the past 12 months..... Model 1873 Winchester (Miroku) 357 1866 Winchester (Cimarron-U...

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I am also a 348aholic

My obsession was factory rounds with 250 silvertips. I did expend some for pressure testing (when I had the equipment) but still have ~70 rds left. Probably will go up for sale from my estate after the dirt nap.

Leverluver

Win (Miroku) 73 in 357 and Uberti 73 in 45 Colt, for retirement toys. Same as mine. Dang, you must be a brother by another mother. Enjoy yours; I sure do enjoy mine.

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ollogger
Thanks for the explaination. Been a long time since I hunted. Like you, I get more fun out of making big rocks into little rocks than anything else. I was wondering what happened if the test came back positive. Now I know..thanks.

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I didn't mean that it was mandatory or that it happened at check stations only. In WY, if you want to know, you voluntarily send in the sample they require and they will test and let you know, one way or another. If you really are concerned and want to be totally safe, you have to wait for the test ...

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Nope, no way to tell. Most states with it have programs where you send in a sample after the kill and it is tested before consumption. Still no evidence that people can be affected but it does bring back memories of the problems in the UK with mad cow disease.

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sorry about the Irish part, :mrgreen: but seriously, My daughter had mine done along with her students for a school project. She did the National Geographic test which seemed to me pretty comprehensive. Was very interestng seeing how the different groups out of Africa moved around. Found out I've a...

Leverluver

Leadheads has a choice of 235,250, and 270. All look like they should work. Ain't cheap but they are gas checked for any velocity you want. The 235 should solve your problem.

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ditto, what did they say? I'm looking for a good 357 load for my new Miroku 357. I'm not going to shoot mouse fanny burbs but also don't want to go full house mags. Hoping that a slower than normal powder can deliver some extra velocity in a rifle without the higher pressures. Plus I have 10 pounds ...

Leverluver

Looks nice but I already have too many of the Ruger 1911s. Not as cheap but pretty darn good also.

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The Air Force always hated that plane. They wanted fly high and go fast. Even before the F-35 (poor replacement for that duty), they thought the F-16 could do it's job. Not a chance since the AF didn't want their go fast placnes below mid level altitudes in areas that had enemies with defensive syst...

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My all time favorite also. There has to be a great sense of accomplishment in dealing destruction to those on the ground to save your own ground troops. That is as close to a knife fight you'll ever get in a fixed wing; and still efficient too. I was working in Korea in 97-98 just south of Incheon. ...

Leverluver

Yup, as tough as a ball front is for old eyes, belly button lint makes it even fuzzier.

And thanks for the spelling correction

Leverluver

Since my original intent was a hunting load with smokeless, I have a short range Seoul with stock Shiloh front sight with inserts. I can reach out as far as I can see which isn't very far anymore

Leverluver

Keep the updates coming. I'm enjoying seeing your process very much. As to sights, I never could use a post or bead on the front. I know I am in a minority but I've always done better with the cross hair front sight, whether on paper or little p-dogs at 300-400 yds. Some eyes need one thing and some...

Leverluver

Anybody else remember 20 years back when all the "news magazines" (20/20 60 minutes, etc.) expounded on how all the black bears were going to go extinct due to poaching for gall bladders? Evidently with an over population problem, China didn't need as much aphrodesiac as first thought :wink:

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ergo, as I have said (I think) in other posts, the rifle came with too tight of a head space. One would think that it would handle a rim of 45-70 thickness but it won't. Mine isn't as old as yours but it's around 20 years old. I remember when I ordered it I was told it would be 14 months but it turn...

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Curious, how do the pistol primers mess up the breech block?

Leverluver

Brings back old memories wandering the woods of Indiana as my grand father taught me how to shoot. Looks like a pear that has been genetically altered by atomic radiation but tastes like a banana. Without trappers and hunters to keep the varmints down (coons, possums, etc.) it would be hard to find ...

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Griff Thanks for the numbers on the cases. Only one in 20 of my brass will chamber unaltered and even those that do are scraped by the breech block. I don't have any here at the house but don't recall any of them exceeding .069. If I really get serious, I'll send it back to have the head space incre...

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Consider yourself lucky. I thinned 100 cases and use pistol primers but it's still a pain. Should have bought a reamer to open them (have a 45-70 hat does the same thing) up some but I'm good for now.

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348, 45-70 AND 40-90BN, now we're talking. More than anything it depends on who makes the shell holders. The Lee holders are a little more sloppy and the 45-70 will work for the others but the 348 has no slack to spare. I use 45-2.6 for forming the 40-90SBN so there is no difference from the 45-70. ...

Leverluver

I've got a mid 80s 73 also (Navy Arms marked). It never was really stiff or over sprung but eventually the main spring failed due to the spring being ground at the factory on a bench grinder, causing a stress riser. As you, I went the whole new spring route and it is smoother than all get out. After...

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The video is cool in many ways. I have a high regard for that fine lady and when I saw the video, I even know where they hunted. It's right in my back yard. I know the guy that receives shipment of the Weatherby rifles when they come here. I don't think he even knew that Mrs Kyle was going to be here.

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That breaks my heart. Dubois was one of my absolute favorite small towns on that long main street of Wyoming.

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It would sure help if the 45 chamber wasn't a copy of what it was back during Custer's day. I have one that stinks (92) and one that is great (1873 replica). Bullet size is not a problem with me as anything works in the 73 and nothing works in the 92 but case sizing is a challenge. The 73 prefers ne...

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That's about the nicest and most complete one I've ever seen. I don't think it is a long tang though. I don't think long tangs made it on this side of WWII. They certainly didn't make it on this side of Korea. My 1936 tang is about a half inch longer than the pic.

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ollogger wrote:Very fine bunch of guns Griff!
I was shooting a 45 today trying to sight in a new rec. sight had to call it off @#%%^!!# WIND

ollogger

And around here, that's til June

Leverluver

It definitely is short but I've never seen any marks on the end of the case. Mostly it shows when trying to chamber cast bullets with a full diameter portiaon ahead of the mouth. Sure you are not seeing a vestige of the factory crimp? Take a bullet and insert it in the mouth of the fired case. The b...

Leverluver

Similar but more dangerous. I was walking a narrow mesa close to the head waters of the middle fork of the powder river that was a favorite of mine during elk season. The mesa is 3/4 mile long and only has three ways on or off it and I was watching closely as I approached each to see if anything was...

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In the later years of Nam, I think they were teaching with small wooden blocks and bb guns. Seveal of my friends of that era said it was fun and really helped in the jungle.

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unbelievably large amount of coverage on all the TV station news broadcasts also. Even the reporters here to earn their "reporting" learners permits must have been told to report with enthusiasm

because they all behaved themselves.

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With some brass manufacturers, the operations of making the primer hole and seating the primer are done on the same piece of equipment so it is actually sort of a waste of time to do only one operation one a two operation machine. Now as to why they don't charge the appropriate extra amount reflecti...

Leverluver

The only moderate frame (meaning not already built on a 44 Mag frame) gun I would try that in is my Freedom Arms M97 but it would sting like all getout. For me anyway, 300s past 1000 or 240s past 1150 are pretty brutal. It sure is a fine packing gun though.

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Every importer says they "get the best of the lot" and it is all pretty much a bunch of hooey. They might get different "stuff" stamped on the barrel but you can get a 1 of 1000 or a total dud from any of them. I have a 45 Colt Navy Arms 73 from the the early 80s. The top flat on...

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Don down in Ft Laramie is the only one I am familiar with that shoots cast AND has one of the sights you speak of. I'm surprised that he hasn't got in on this one. If there is a black powder shoot somewhere he puts his cattle on autopilot and takes off for the shoot. I'll email him and let him know ...

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There are slighly different barrel groove diameters on the different shipments/models of the Miroku replicas. Mine measured .4131" but others said theirs were as low as near .412. My bullets come out sized at .4135 (polished sizer die) so they work well as far as accuracy but with the larger bo...

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