Dittos, Beautiful. The Pacific is lovely when he is pacific.Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
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- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
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Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age. That's very interesting. There must be a lot of a...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guilty!
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Re: Guilty!
Not sayin' anything about her guilt, she was the official armorer. But they got their sacrificial lamb now, throat cut and bleeding. Baldwin, who violated every one of the unofficial rules of gun safety will walk free. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't. yeah I agree. . . Baldwin has enough money...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
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Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
shot first deer and a wolf up on the Mogollon Rim in Zane Gray country. wolf was stalking meBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:37 am You'll love this one. Not trying to sell it for the guy, but wow what a beauty!
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
Model 99 in .243
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Soothing.....
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Re: Soothing.....
thanks for the links Ray, much appreciated
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
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Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Thanks for sharing Darryl! My uncle was on the ground then, with the 29th ID, 116th IR, Company F. Served from D-Day (1st wave) all the way to the fall of Germany. I had an uncle in an engineer unit early in the landings. they had the pipe bombs that were supposed to cut the barb wire. They made it...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4410
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in the summer of 2002 I was making a maintenance inspection of Kaunakakai Harbor on the island of Molokaʻi, and I spotted a St. Pierre dory moored there, it was beautiful, in great condition, and best of all it was for sale! I took several photos and emailed them to my dad, and letting him kno...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New To Me Winchesters
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- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4410
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories. Thanks so much Ji ! I agree with you Bill, they are, to my eye, unbelievably beautiful. Proper dorys have no bad angles from which to paint them . . . Ji's photos bring to mind a gggdad sitting on a French Mediterranean beac...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 644
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
That's a fantastic legacy and great tribute to your Dad and his buddies and their incredible achievements. Thanks for posting!
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
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- Views: 556
Re: 70-150 winchester video
Good video. Thots ->
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
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Re: 70-150 winchester video
I know this was somewhat of a mythical round in the day but found this repro so to speak interesting. The fella claiming it gets better taylor knockout factor than 577 nitro is a bit miss-applied since that factor overly favors the fat 12ga. But still seems a lot of power. 4700ftlbs with a 900 grai...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
And a follow-up to the machinery sounds fork -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPf0lKx5UvA careful with the volume, enjoy !!
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
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Re: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
Beauty and the beast ! What a rifle !
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
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Re: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
I think the 44s have inherent accuracy. but i think the 7mms are also inherently accurate. the 10inch sbh I hunted with seemed inherently accurate shooting plain base cast bullets at unknown velocity. the bullets hit the dot every time, when it was centered....... LOL made lots of venison, and daugh...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4410
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) Speaking of machinery I stumbled on an aircraft site with some video of small plane grass field flights. The really great aircraft engines make r...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
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Re: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
I couldn't stay awake long enough to read it . . . is this an admission that SuddenAdultDeathSyndrome, [SADS], is IN FACT caused by the jabs and boost-jabs ?AJMD429 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:38 pm .
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... ehf2.14680
The myocarditis keeps coming up.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smokehouse Creek Fire
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Re: Smokehouse Creek Fire
A conflagration in real-time. Prayers UP for all involved, and for the fires to end now . . .
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4410
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) That's a fact. About those engine sounds -> when we were drifting at night in bouncy seas and the sound of 2000 gallons of fuel sloshing around b...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
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Re: crowd funding the gospel
The talking Bibles we gave out were searchable by Book, Chapter and Verse. They were complete Bibles .. Old and New Testaments. We got them from South Africa ... about $25 each. We gave out several hundred of them. A friend of mine brought in 500 by himself. Also had some friends who ran a radio st...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
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- Views: 966
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The Official State language is Portuguese. There are 26 or 27 tribal languages. The area where I was had 2 predominant ones. What we have written in the Bible was passed orally for a long time before it began being written down ... at least great parts of it were. The thing about oral cultures is t...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
good link, thanks BillBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:38 am Good stuff on old iron and marine engines in particular right here:
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/forums/a ... motors.38/
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
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Re: crowd funding the gospel
We used the audio Bibles a lot in Mozambique and my friends there still are giving them out. When I was there the government admitted at least 45% of the country was illiterate. I knew a lot of Mozambicans that could not read or write, including pastors and evangelists. They loved the audio Bibles....
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Córdoba Argentina 2024
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Re: Córdoba Argentina 2024
Dittos on all, it's epic for sure . . .Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:09 pm That looks like an amazing trip. Great pictures ... appreciate the post. Bummer that it's too risky to take your own guns.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
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- Views: 966
crowd funding the gospel
https://jashow.org/the-john-ankerberg-show/ I have mentioned this before, but right now there is a very heart-warming feel-good video with one of the most amazing men in the world doing the most amazing thing in the world. I want you to see this video, because the results of the Good News everywhere...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "Where Does It Say...?"
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- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: old shep
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Re: old shep
my old Shep is tottering along the edge of loneliness now .it's a long and short trail at the same timeole pizen slinger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:27 am https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... NsM10,st:0
ole pizen slinger
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
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Re: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
. I see all these articles where scientists are surprised at some new finding, clearly indicating how little solid knowledge they have about things that affect 'climate'. Yet they insist on being given power and money to somehow control climate on our behalf and save us from ourselves. https://www....
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt Walker question ...
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- Views: 2732
Re: Colt Walker question ...
The .45 colt was designed to shoot horses. War isn't pretty. The best way to unseat a cavalry troop is to shoot his horse. It's a very big target. In westerns you'll see bandits chasing a stage coach. In reality if one wanted to stop a coach you'd simply kill one of the horses. The remaining horses...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Beauties, are they both Aeolus dories? Would love to try and row from Puget Sound to Juneau. I was thinking of rowing my Pearson dory from Kailua Beach, Oʻahu to Haleʻolono Harbor, Molokaʻi, but my wife talked me out of it. About a 40 mile run across the Kaʻiwi channel in usually rough seas. Maybe ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Thanks mucho Ji. great memories. great photos. great family. great boats. great times. . FNL_dory-boat.JPG this is the dory i rowed across San Francisco some number of times. night time was my favorite time to be in the island of darkness surrounded by millions of tons of lights. i towed it to Alask...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Grizz, it had not occurred to me that the pulsing of the boat speed would make for killer trolling! 8) That plus the rolling motion of the boat, the ones who tuned that out-produced the ones who didn't know. The underwater sounds make a difference in a boat that fish will follow, or won't. My last ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Grizz, here you go, bro. Not many places you can see SEVERAL Case steam tractors chugging along in a line. 8) https://www.antiquepowerland.com/steam-up Ji, you are calling up all sorts of memories! I bought a copy of John Gardner's classic "Dory Book" while in college -- and Acadia was st...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in my young teen years my dad a New England native, and a lover of fishing, and dories decided he wanted to get back into commercial fishing. This was around 1974 after his recent retirement from the Federal Government. Of course his dream commercial Fishing boat was a 26' Saint Pierre Dory. H...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 94P. What to do with it?
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- Views: 1665
Re: 94P. What to do with it?
I have a B-92 project gun that had a badly bulged barrel and shot 240s just fine before I sawed the barrel off . . . Assuming you rebuild your B-92 in 44 mag I’d be tempted to use a pistol spec barrel with a tighter bore and faster twist. Rifle chamber reamers in 44 mag also include a long throat, ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 94P. What to do with it?
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- Views: 1665
Re: 94P. What to do with it?
If you review the SAAMI spec for the 44 mag in a rifle and compare them to the SAAMI spec for the 44 mag in pistol you will find they are virtually two different cartridges. Different barrel and chamber dimensions. The pistols have a tighter barrel diameter and twist whereas the rifles have signifi...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back home in dear old Oregon they have an entire "village" called Powerland in Brooks, a small town just off Interstate 5 north of Salem. On two back-to-back weekends in summer, they hold the annual "Steam Up" featuring steam power, one-lung power, and all sorts of wonderful old...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 94P. What to do with it?
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Re: 94P. What to do with it?
If it groups factory white box 240Gr JSP, Because if it does, then it's OK. If it groups 296Gr it's a gem. Ours would not group 300Gr jacketed. It's the twist rate issue. It was designed to shoot one load at one velocity. My pistol's 405Gr would not cycle, but single loaded it went sideways by the t...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Drones as a carcass-finding aid ...
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Re: Drones as a carcass-finding aid ...
a cadaver drone? seems to me they are primarily proficient at creating cadavers . . .
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
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Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I have had a couple of original hit-and-miss engines -- and miss them. This nicely machined little model goes together astonishingly well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hodz4Q3jefU&t=1s Way back Jerome, AZ had a living museum with a make-and-break engine running a sawmill. full torque was som...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
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- Views: 1619
Re: Bolt Cannon.
I would like to encourage a high level of caution in regards to attempting this type of thing. I own and fire several Black Powder Cannons. My cannons were designed and built following the very stringent safety rules and guidelines of the North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) and the American Ar...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Accidentally won another rolling Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3161
Re: Accidentally won another rolling Block
Grizz: you mentioned a 7mm carbine that you once had. Was that a 7mm Spanish Mauser? I have a 7mm Spanish Mauser infantry rifle that I never shot. Bought it to convert the action into a Black Powder cartridge rifle -- a .50-70 Govt. with a wiping rod. Never got around as the death of the Lone Star ...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
- Replies: 25
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Re: Bolt Cannon.
What I was getting at is class 3 destructive device due to the size of that big bolt cannon might get the attention of atf. Hand made firearms are one thing , this is a whole nuther realm in which the feds might get their skivvies in a wad over. I'm sure you are right. but people make mortars and s...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
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- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1619
Re: Bolt Cannon.
there seems to be an arms race among the match locks . . .- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Accidentally won another rolling Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3161
Re: Accidentally won another rolling Block
Speaking 'bout the Remington System, AKA Rolling Block -- https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1035773102 From the rifle's description: "Remington No.5 Rolling Block Single-Shot Rifle; Serial No.: 5-31; Caliber: .30 U.S. (30-40 kRAG); 28" original round barrel with a good bore. The barrel has c...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt Walker question ...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2732
Re: Colt Walker question ...
Both work with the original hammer on the percussion revolvers, so no modification there (and thus the flexibility to switch back and forth). You can remove the loading lever and add the traditional spring-loaded shell extractor, but I didn't do that. Grizz, BTW, this is why I left the loading leve...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody know Iver Johnson owl head 38's
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Re: Anybody know Iver Johnson owl head 38's
could use a wheel cylinder hone to make your bullet thumb thru the chamber and let it group.
that's a great looking gun, a great find, hope it shoots to POI
that's a great looking gun, a great find, hope it shoots to POI