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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:04 amLet’s see what Ruger does. It’s a shame because this is such a fine rifle and it’s a shooter.
But I’m planning on taking the action out of the stock when it comes back and fix whatever needs fixing.

I would hope that Ruger would fix whatever needed fixing before sending it back. Good luck.

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The cartridge stop at the front of the link can be welded up and reshaped pretty easily. I've MIG & stick welded them in the past. After reshaping, heat to a cherry red and quench in oil. 30+ years after doing my 1st, it's still holding up. I only have one with the stamped steel carrier, in a '6...

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It's called the "link". The other is the "trigger block safety", first introduced on the 1873 Winchester. The other part you might check is the "friction stud", it's the part that sticks out from the rear of the link and engages the lower tang, it can stick in it's chan...

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1970, insert loaded magazine, pull slide all the way to the rear, release the slide holding down the mechanical slide release, with the slide fully forward, engage the thumb safety, drop the magazine and load one more, reinsert magazine. Oh, wait... wrong single action! About a year later, I bought ...

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SCORE!!!

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Mon Feb 09, 2026 8:24 pmI've never been disappointed by Accurate.

I've only got two of his molds, but the result has been the same, excellent quality at an excellent price and great service.

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A range report should be in the making! Congrats on a desired acquisition.

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I was once asked if I'd teach at the local Jr. College Police Academy, namely the course on Police Ethics. But, I'd have to provide my own syllabus. I searched online trying to find an example and failed miserably. Trying to write my own was also fraught with failure... all I could come up with were...

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I like it! The Super Bowl has pretty much disinterested me for years, to the point that not even the commercials were worth watching it for. Yesterday would have been wasted as I was still deaf from this danged ear infection. Sat & binge watch "Criminal Minds" with the closed captionin...

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I've only owned two Rugers, a Single Six and an OM .357. A buddy owned a new model Super. I never liked it. In my travels when visiting other cowboy clubs, I've shot quite a few borrowed BH & Vaqueros, but I usually refrain. As I just don't like the trigger and action of the NM. The width of the...

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I own several Winchester commemoratives. Except for the John Wayne, they're all pretty good bargains for the shooter, which is possibly the only one that's outpaced inflation. While I have a couple of the carbines, a trapper, the only "rifle" I have is the short rifle version of the '66 Ce...

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Is that the 20" bbl.? I know several cowboy action shooters that use 'em. The most popular chamberings are .38/357, .45 Colt, .44WCF and probably the least seen is the 38.WCF. I have the Taylor's Comanchero, an 18-½" half round/octagon bbl in 45 Colt. It's near as light as the carbine, but...

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mass x velocity wins over mass alone.

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Looking grand Vall!

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Our house is about 30 years old. We are getting new windows installed all around on Friday. I’m looking forward to seeing what good insulated windows can do for our utilities and the noise pollution. If they're anything like the one's I had installed several years ago, you'll love 'em. I had the at...

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Ask our own brother sixgunner Denis Griffin about the paterson design. I can only say, I trust my 1851s far more than any Paterson. Of the 3 I have, only 2 work with any regularity. the are cumbersome to load with powder & ball, and one must either cap them with the cylinder off the gun. One of...

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JimT wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:58 amGreat story but I hate when the AI is too stupid to pronounce someone's name correctly .........

Since I couldn't hear it... I had closed captioning on... or spell either. "Persing"???

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I've been fighting an ear infection for about the past 10 days. This morning I woke up to find blood stains on my pillow. Took about two hours in the 20º weather to get into my truck. Electric door locks worked, but the doors wouldn't open. Once I got in, luckily, the diesel fuel wasn't gelled, it n...

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I'm hunkered down here at home... and trying to parcel out my snacks... snuck out to the VA doc on Thursday to deal with an ear infection and then the grocery store... what a crowd... you'd of thought everyone was trying to lay in supplies! Stay warm Jim. I forgot to get anti-gel in my various diese...

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By looks alone, I'm undecided. In either .223 or 300BO, I'm not sure I'd spend that much. I'd have to have my hands on one to decide. While I'm not a big fan of the AR platform, I do enjoy the ones I have.

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That looks like the same sight that came on my 2004 EMF "Hartford" mdl.

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While it is a much better sight than the ones I have from the '80s, I didn't mind their simple functionality.

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Has anyone fulfilled any "bucket list" items, even if at the time, you didn't consider them as such? My son & I were talking last nite about accomplishments and/or regrets. I have a few. But, probably the best one is that I got to ride in the Goodyear blimp out of San Pedro, CA on one ...

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One word. Vortex. Their glass is top notch, maybe not top tier, but I have no complaints. I have two of their scopes, a 6.5-25x 50 Viper HD on my varmint rifle, and a Strike Eagle 1-6x24 on my "combat" carbine.

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Tue Jan 20, 2026 12:14 pmWe are renovating 2 bathrooms for a long time customer, she did a cattle drive in Wyoming over the summer. This book she found in a little hole in the wall tourist trap.

It's also available thru Amazon.

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Pyrodex is simply a rusting agent that happens to burn. Look up it's MSDS and look at its ingredients and warnings about its environmental hazards. I used it until 1988 when sitting around the campfire with Mike Venturino at End of Trail that year. And he described what it produces in its fouling. M...

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I got to simply wondering what publishing house put that book out? Looked it up; never heard of "Ten Speed Press." Never published anything I've ever read... And I consider myself a pretty eclectic reader. But, maybe not quite that "out there"!

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JimT wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 11:40 amTil the weather changed I was drivingOIP-978609747.wVnYsaAxK7RU3iAbOtFjlQHaFj.jpg

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2026 1:06 pmGriff, you've heard from Lenn? This is great news.
Jason, come back. We miss you.

Sorry... no. That was when Jason last posted.

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This points right at the reason I've never wanted a .38-55. Old guns were all over the map dimension-wise... newly minted rifles were then made in the .375 Win mold, .375-.377 seemed the norm. Older firearms used the 2.125" length brass, but new brass seems to run 2.208". But... if I were ...

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He last posted in Nov, 2025... Do a member search and send him a message. Heck... a couple of times I actually got a response.

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Congrats!

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My newest vehicle is a 2019 New Holland WM75; but sees very little highway miles... if you call the 3 miles between the farm & gas station on a state highway, "highway" miles! Averages 2 acres per hour. 75HP.jpg The daily driver is a 1997 Kenworth T600, just turn over 2.923 million mil...

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It might be that I'm recoil sensitive, but I prefer lighter weight bullets in most cartridges. Excepting the .30-30, I rarely run them at full velocity. In it, It feels like it would make up for any errors in distance estimations.

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I"m with AT&T, and never lost contact yesterday or today. From Texas to Georgia. Right now I can't upload pictures, probably because of just where exactly I am, but otherwise... all good.

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I'm in the JimT & Scott camp. However, for anything over 100 yards with a rifle, it better wear a tang peep. But the top of the post, or bead on the front sight still sits below the target bull. So far, on deer it works that sighting on the corner of a near vertical or slightly rearward foreleg ...

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Ain't any easier for older gentlemen also.

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Well... it definitely looks a little like a Marlin, but... I'm unfamiliar with early 336s, or 36s... Also it doesn't have the fat forend of the Marlin's I'm familiar with. But, there were store brands supplied by Marlin, Sears, Montgomery Wards, Western Auto, among others. Also, Mossberg's copy...

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Scott, Your post made me go look at mine. I found much the same on the left side of the receiver. A line of very dark discoloration following along the line of engraving at the bottom of the receiver. After about twenty minutes with a clean rag and a product called "Tarn-X" it's mostly cle...

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I entered data from reloading manuals and actual measurements on projectiles and cases, and in every case it tells me not to load that combo as it's overpressure. In actual load development, I loaded a 170 grain Speer FN bullet in my .32-40 1885 with 15 grains of 5744... based on a QuickLOAD predict...

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Thank you Jim. I've had & have adjustable sighted handguns... Ruger Blackhawk, Mdl 19 S&W, and a Colt Gold Cup. But, for working guns... I'll stick with fixed sights also. Modify 'em to shoot to POA, add an insert to enhance visibility, sure... 3-dot combos, great... but maintaining that dur...

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Mine is a "sorta" answer... Blackhawk, but not the new model... 3-screw only.

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I only ever owned one 9mm, a Walther P38 and stupidly traded it off before I realized what a gem they are! I'm not sure I ever had dies for it, but if I did, they're still out in the reloading shop! But, in reality, I recognize that I'm a 45Auto guy. I could load for days with what brass and bullets...

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I only load for 6 hyphenated cartridges: .30-30, .30-06, 32-40, .40-90SBN, .44-40 & .45-70. For 4 of 'em I only have one rifle each. In both .30 caliber cartridges I have multiple rifles so chambered. If I were to ever add another it would probably be the .38-40. But... I'd have to have both rif...

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I have both the 3rd and 4th (latest) Cast Bullet Handbooks from Lyman. Biggest difference is that the 4th lists cartridges the 3rd doesn't. Including, much to my delight, 45 Colt rifle loads. But, disappointingly, I have to keep my 45th Lyman Reloading Handbook around for loads for the .32-40. IMO, ...

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Their Gold Dots have been consistently good performers, but I'll bet this G2 is even better. Glad to see a spark of life in Vernon Speer's old outfit. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xHuWc6tU4eo As if! I doubt they've ever improved on the old "Flying Ashtray"! I don't want my expansion on ...

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The only Miroku I have in 45 Colt is a LoWall. My favorite load for is a 6 grains of RedDot. Behind a 200 gr RFN it runs to 1,077fps, dropping to a 5.5 grain load behind a 225 gr truncated cone it drops to high 700s & low 800s, but ES goes up. My other 45 Colt rifles are a Marlin, a Rossi & ...

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Although I've never killed a deer with anything less than a 7mm, mostly with my .30-30s, I think that with proper shot placement, distance, bullet construction, very doable. The 5.56's certainly killed its share of our nation's enemies for well over 50 years. And not all those shots were optimal.

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Memories is what it's about! My favorite uncle was a Nam vet, Corp of Engineers, he is still here but health problems galore from all the herbicides getting on them opening firebases. As a kid he made me a little bulldozer out of a block of wood, I still have it and when I see it all I can do is th...

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45-70 brass are the only cases I have ever had peening issues with. My fears were unfounded, and next time I will run them for the full time as this batch wasn't as clean as I am used to. 20260105_113552.jpg I will powder coat these, sized them and lube them so I can load a mess of 32-20, coyote br...

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Some years back Chuck Schumer criticized Trump for not doing anything about the president of Venezuela, now he's criticizing him for doing something about him. These hypocrites can't make up their mind, or even keep it straight about what they've previously said. Anymore, I simply believe that anyt...

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