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Just for total giggles, the Starline .56-50 Spencer brass holds 48.3 grains of water. Happened to measure this for another fella yesterday.

Bill in Oregon

Lenn, glad you are in a place where you can memorialize your great friend Snoopy. I know how much you loved him.

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More sound advice, Griz. My take is that I do like to work up the most accurate bullet and powder combination I can for a particular sixgun, including chronographing, and once I know I have the mechanical accuracy covered, then practice from field positions. Your pop-can trail walks sound like excel...

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Cool post, Grizz. Thanks.

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Earl, maybe it was just me. I cast some boolits for the .56-50 Spencer, pan lubed with SPG and when it came time to push them out, only about half the lube adhered to the grooves. I was of course a bit flummoxed.

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Earl, this kid "has shrunk a couple of inches" as well.

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Awful sweet, Lenn. Hope Norma's Mom is tickled.

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Some good advice here that has the wheels turning for a shooting rest that I can set on top of a shooting bench at the range that will allow me to shoot handguns from a near-standing position as well as harder-kicking rifles. Here is the "offhand bench" used by Holland and Holland smiths t...

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Nothing at all wrong with a Randall anything!
First one I ever saw in the flesh was an ROTC buddy's Model 14 Attack -- this when the U.S. was still in Vietnam.

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Earl, is that Brownie from the COSSA range BPCR gang?
I have not had good luck with pan lubing, but realized in the after-action analysis that I should have warmed the bullets first so the melted lube would properly adhere in the lube grooves.

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Lenn, I had forgotten about those lovely toboggans you made!

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Nice job, Lenn. I have always wanted to try some serious steam bending. All I ever did was pour boiling water on a towel-wrapped chine log when building a boat.

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I have built a couple over the years, and improvised quite a lot, but never came up with what I would consider an optimal arrangement for testing revolver accuracy. I'm not talking about a Ransom rest -- just something very consistently sixgun-friendly. I have finally learned that besides a good sta...

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Hmm. I tried the Omega aperture sight blade on a Ruger sixgun many years ago and felt it covered way too much real estate to be fast or practical. Maybe I should take another look at handgun peeps now that I am so ... "mature."

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I've had the privilege of handling and loading Earl's bullets, and I can tell you they are perfection -- something for a so-so caster like meinzelf to aspire to.

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Liking that Wagner, Lenn. Very nice pan.

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Thanks, Jim. You are all right with those in timber?

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What works best for you on a deer-and-larger hunting sixgun? Saw where one guy replaced the front post on a Blackhawk with a fiber optic sight. I have also long been intrigued by the shallow-vee rear and gold dot or ivory front bead "express sight" often used on dangerous game double rifle...

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I treasure my grandmother's Griswold, but need to build an electrolysis unit to give it a deep clean. Pretty simple to do.

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Lenn, I think you would really enjoy this BBC series on Youtube -- I think one of the episodes deals with scythes, but the technology is right up your alley, bro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=4apIM4l0laY

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Guys, got to sleep in my own bed last night and have a cup of real coffee this morning. Pain mostly under control. Life is good, and thanks for the positive thoughts and the prayers. Makes me think the Good Lord isn't as mad at me as He has a right to be ...

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Pitchy could make any of those, and more, I will bet

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I see busy work ahead. They sure know how to kill a brand, don't they?

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Ford, you need to be teaching, bro!

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Just realized what a great joy it is to talk about handgun hunting while lying in a hospital bed. Gives me hope.

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.45, mine is a stainless model with 5 1/2-inch barrel. Should have it by the time I am steady enough to use it. Have the Lee 452-255 RF for practice, and will order the 300 from Accurate. Tag is in NM unit 34 -- essentially my back yard.

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Lovely-looking knife with a very useful blade length and contour, Darryl.

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Thanks friend. I hope it works out well, too, as I drew a cow elk tag for early December and plan to hunt with heavy handloads in a Bisley in .45 Colt.

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They are lovely rifles of heirloom quality, with a whole lot of close-range punch. Out of my pay grade, but I have a .50-70 single shot and a .56-50 Spencer, so I am pretty well covered in this area. Played with the X-frame Smith in this chambering and it was surprisingly pleasant to shoot but so bu...

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Heh, well wouldn't you know it but my lovely nurse Sara is checking my IVs when the tech comes in to pull the catheter. Deep breath on three he says, and out it comes. "I always wondered -- does that hurt?" Sara asks. I try to sputter a reply ... :shock: All part of life's rich pageant, eh...

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Well, I have so far survived and the food is actually good, but where in the heck is that IPA I ordered? Guess the hydrocodone will have to do.
P.S. It's a good thing they waited until I was out cold before they put in that Foley catheter or there would have been a fight.

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That's a sad day all right. They don't come sadder in my book of life. Very sorry, friend. Prayers for your broken heart.

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Gracias all. Piller, pain med management strategy carefully noted.

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Thanks so much, gang. Means a lot to go into this with friends rooting for a fella.
Doc, will note your advice. Would those alleles show up one way or another in a 23andMe DNA test?

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That grapple is awesome. You live in the right place, Lenn!

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HAW! My intel tells me that Cinco de Mayo is way more important to Walmart and Albertson's than it is to a real Mexican.

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Gang, I go in for a disk replacement/fusion at L 4-5 in the morning. The laminectomy two years ago hasn't worked and I risk crippling damage to the nerves that run my legs without a serious intervention. My neurosurgeon in El Paso is highly regarded, and uses this really swell Israeli robot to help ...

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With you on this Vall. It just seems terribly wrong to me.

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It is heartbreaking to look into the eyes of this boy and know what he would become. I have to trust God's justice is as perfect as His mercy in a case like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/serialkillers/ ... g_ed_gein/

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Jim, thanks for your thoughts on this. I can see how the LFNS and WFNS would certainly suffer from poor B.C. at distance. I got to thinking about all of this stuff after reading your post about sizing down the .457191 for LR work in the Colt.

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Thanks Earl! Glad to hear from you. I was looking at that very reasonably priced Lee 452-300 RF, but after reading reviews and comments over at Cast Boolits, I was not sure it was consistently accurate out to 100 unless you really kept close track of your alloy. It seemed to do fine for some shooter...

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Doing a little more research, the Accurate catalog listing notes that this mold was inspired by the out-of-production Lyman 454629 that was designed by Dick Casull for his .454. John Taffin reported fine accuracy out to 700 yards with the Lyman in a Freedom Arms .454 using the .45 Colt load. https:/...

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I am kind of favoring this mold for an all-around hunting and long-range plinker in a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt. Whatcha think, friends?

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_det ... 300G-D.png

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Had not heard of Ed Gein. Gad.

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I honestly don't see much difference between this and the shrunken heads at Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe in Seattle, circa 1965. The very worst sort of Nazi might appreciate it. Calls to mind the horrors of "The Silence of the Lambs."

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There simply must be BP vendors in Montana. Call or e-mail either Shiloh Sharps or C. Sharps in Big Timber and ask. Buffalo Arms in Sand Point, ID, has it, but that's an 8-hour drive from your house, one way.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48047002

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You sure do stay busy, Lenn. That hay trolley really is something with that fresh paint.

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That rope may also be manila or sisal.
Here's the original silent film that Pitchy linked to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUUsLeWYS8&t=99s

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Well I am sure impressed with WC820!

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