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Looks like a FAJEN stock too?! We literally had 55 gallon drums full of Mauser K98s, P14s at school the students could buy as donors actions. Those Oldies are still goodies! Seems there were more Pattern 14's made than 17's? At least I used to see far more in .303 than .30-06. I'm pretty sure both ...

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Looks like a very basic reworked Enfield using a lot of the original stock. I think you're right about it being tailored towards the average guy, vs. the usual Westley Richards high end builds. There was a time when these rifles were extremely cheap, and plentiful as surplus, so a lot of them got se...

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I've seen these forging lines on a lot of old lever action repeating rifles, and always on blued receivers with a little or a lot of wear. Can't say as I've ever seen them on color cased receivers, and I think it's because the bluing salts can get into microscopic pores and highlight the forging lin...

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Big old Lego set there! Or maybe Lincoln logs?

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I've had far more issues with FedEx and firearms than UPS! Everything from lost/stolen firearms, to damaged packages and firearms; to long delays and shipping times. I refuse to use FedEx ever, and if buying a firearm I always tell the seller I wont pay for shipping if they send it to me via FedEx. ...

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We ran into the big increase last year, and on top of the increase they reduced our home's total coverage from $450,000 to $267,000! When I asked why they'd reduce our coverage they answered it was to try to keep cost down. But the cost of the reduced coverage was about 50% higher than the previous ...

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The OP mentioned the 94 clones as being made by Chiappa. I know that Uberti makes them, never knew Chiappa also does. Does Chiappa actually make any guns from scratch? I always thought they bought castings or machined parts from other Italian makers and finished them? I believe they list Armi Sport...

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I've got several Uberti SAA clones, and they all seem to be fine guns and accurate. My only change to all of them was to lighten the mainsprings to reduce heavier than needed hammers, and help trigger pulls too. I had an Uberti Bisley in .45 Colt I bought from Ballard Rifle Co. back when they existe...

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The .250-3000 brass was a great find, but that .35 Winchester is even tougher to find these days! You definitely hit the jackpot on those two, and at a steal too!

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.38-55 ammo used to be very commonly found, and brass even more so. But these days ammo is very tough to find, and brass almost as tough to find. I've been a .38-55 fan for decades, and owned a number of 1893 and a couple 1881 Marlins in .38-55. All gone now, but I still own 6 or 8 Marlin Ballard ri...

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We saw some big herds with at least 9-10 6x6 bull elk at my nephew's place near Goldendale, Wa. during deer season. But two weeks later when 1st season elk began there not an elk in sight anywhere.

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I used a red dot for bullseye matches for a long time back 30 years ago. An Aimpoint, not a heads up display as shown above. But I bought an AR15 on a lark maybe 5 years ago, and I put a heads up display red dot on it. Much different than my old Aimpoint as it has 4 different crossharis with a norma...

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One of the first admonishments I received when shooting my Sharps was to make sure I pulled the hammer back to at least half cock before opening the breech. Not doing so was the most common cause of breaking the firing pin. A simple step, but one easily overlooked. One of the features the Freund Im...

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I've had my Shiloh Sharps since 1987 and have only taken it apart once to clean out the breech block after firing many thousands of BP rounds... that has to be at least 10 or so years ago. It wasn't really to fix a problem... just thought it might be nice to do. Glad to hear you've got yours sorted...

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I'm not worried. That's why I collect single shot rifles. Tough to conceal, and too slow for gang bangers.

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When I look back on how many nice used 336's I bought for $100-$150, and how many Model 39's I bought for the same money! If I'd have just kept them all and sold them today it would make a nice bonus to retirement! I don't even see them at our monthly gun shows anymore, and I used to see multiples o...

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Thanks Bill, building is also the reason we need doctors- us guys are broken down, beat & wore out joints ! :lol: I'm right there with you on broken down, and beat up! I've been driving 60 miles round trip each day to help my nephew wire his new home since October! It's been 13 yrs. since I ret...

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I've never had the opportunity to see a Sharps with my fingers' so I'm no help but it sounds like you got it figured out! I'm curious how your range trip turns out! I hope it goes well now. I think having 5 primed cases all ignite gives me some satisfaction or confidence it will go bang. Now just h...

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Got my Sharps back and the new transfer bar fitted yesterday at the gun show. So I decided to reassemble it this afternoon. I know a lot of guys love these guns, but I've never been crazy about them and now I remember why! After the last 3-4 hours I realized why I haven't collected or had a Sharps i...

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Thanks!
Along with my single shot rifles, I have an addiction to old scopes also. Nice old scopes or very rare old scopes just are amazing to me. Normally a Lyman is a great scope but not all that rare. But this one does it for me just because it's so old, and so nice with it's box.

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We had our monthly OAC collector show yesterday, and I heard a friend who has a table behind me ask another friend if he was interested in an old target scope. Of course my ears perked up, and I turned around to maybe see what I was missing out on! I couldn't see what they were looking at, but I saw...

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First thing you need to do is slug the bore on your Marlin 375! Without knowing the groove diameter it's impossible to know if the factory bullets fit well. After slugging the bore, pull a bullet and mic it to see how close it is. Then reassemble the cartridge without powder and seat the bullet out ...

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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These two bucks were on his property a week before the 4 day either sex season began. Unfortunately they were no shows over the 4 day hunt.

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JBowen wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:59 pm Great job! I like the old saying " Take your kids hunting and you won't be out hunting your kids".

JBowen

Spot on for sure!

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I have to ask the reloaders here if any of you seriously doesn't enjoy the process and considers it work to reload? I enjoy reloading too. It was a necessity in Alaska for me to have the loads I wanted to use for meat supplies. I considered reloading as part of the harvest and provisioning the hous...

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I was an electrician, so our first aid kit on the job was a roll of Scotch 33+ and a paper towel from the bathroom. Then back to work.

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I've never taken time away from work, or anything that made money to reload ammo. So the theory that reloading costs us money we could be making only works if you turned down overtime, or paying jobs to stay home and reload. I've been reloading for well over 50 years, and casting bullets almost that...

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I've always started with pre made kits, and over time made changes or removed things I never used, and replaced them with things I wanted. Working construction I was amazed at how often during demolition I saw wall mounted first aid kits being tossed in businesses, or commercial rebuilds. I guess th...

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That's fantastic-always warms my heart to see good parents raising good kids! Congratulations young man! He has indeed been raised well! He and his sister have chores around the farm to do, and if not done they lose privileges. They know it, and don't often press their luck. Emett has his chickens ...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:10 am That's just excellent Vall. Hope he has many more hunts while that fire burns brightly. Was this in Oregon? Washington?

They live in SW Washington and have a small 10 acre farm there. Just a few horses, some chickens, and an apple orchard, so not a farm that raises much beyond great kids!

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Figured I'd follow up to my previous post about coyotes taking a young buck recently. Last week my nephew asked me to help him figure out his new inline CVA muzzleloader and get the scope and gun sighted in. We got it quickly on paper with 250 gr. sabots and 100 gr. Pyrodex pellets. So he was ready ...

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I told my nephew he should have taken some video of what he saw when they came upon the coyotes tearing that young deer apart, just so we could show those who think hunters are inhumane. They have no idea how inhumane predators are by comparison.

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We live in the city, and houses are close together on 50' x 100' lots. Yet we have coyotes here that are only seen on my security cameras, or if I have some reason to be out in the middle of the night. I've seen small groups of 3 at the most, but usually 1 or 2. The cats aren't disappearing here, as...

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In recent years we see more and more coyotes hunting in packs around here. They used to be singles and occasional mating couples, but now they run in packs of 4-6 often like wolves have done forever. My nephew just told me a story of such a pack they witnessed up close during their elk hunt on his 2...

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Maybe the real question should be what's right with this picture?

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Normally I go for the flattest big nose for knockdown. But when it comes to accuracy, it always wins out over knockdown power for me.

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It's all fun until somebody gets hurt!

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Nice find, Vall, and thanks for sharing. Hard to believe there was once enthusiasm for firearms in "Baghdad by the Bay." When in high school in the late '60s early '70s, I loved that on field trips to SF, we could wander around downtown and into Abercrombie and Fitch and drool over their ...

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Very cool old bullet mold! I have more molds than I could ever use and many for calibers I don't shoot but anytime I see an old mold I don't have I need to add it to the collection. Eric I also buy Ideal, Lyman, or other molds if they're in great shape and I can cast with them. I cast for almost al...

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Interesting. I just wish they'd start producing their # 10 percussion caps again! I believe that part of the company was sold to others during the bankruptcy and breakup of all of Remington's divisions. I know the ammo portion is back up and running, but I think percussion caps are way down on thei...

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I use a squirt of almost any dishwashing liquid soap. I'm not interested in making my brass look like jewelry, just making it really clean. I've found that around 1.5-2 hrs. is plenty of time to get them very clean. My old tumbler had no timer, so I used a plug in wall timer, but the new one has a t...

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I just keep the proper shell holders with their set of dies. No mixup. No hassle. No worries. I only load for 15 or 16 different calibers so it's not a big deal. That doesn't work for me Jim as many shell holders I share usage with various cartridges. Like the one for .30-30, .32-40, .38-55 cases. ...

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Glad the post didn't bore everyone to death!

I love anything gun related that's old, and shows what men were able to do with no electricity, and basic tools long ago!

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Howdy Folks, That's something that has always irritated me... The different brands of shellholders have all different numbers ...... Tnx, Paul There are shell holder cross reference charts all over the internet, plus in the back of some reloading manuals. I printed out one of the charts and went th...

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I switched to wet tumbler a decade ago when I bought my friend's tumbler and ceramic media from his wife's estate sale. I was shocked how quickly it came clean, and how much cleaner brass was inside and out. I liked it so much that this summer I bought a 2nd larger tumbler when Midway USA had a clea...

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Got this video a few minutes ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyhiQy9 ... ington1816

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I have a small pair of 10x compact binoculars and they only get used for hunting trips. It wont stop the idiots from looking at me through a scoped rifle though.

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Something the "non gun" people will never understand is just how wide and diverse our interests are....nice piece of history you have there... 8) Indeed! I have friends who don't own any guns at all, but collect all sorts of firearm accessories. We as "gun people" have very dive...

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I've run into this before, and fortunately my FFL dealer wont play the stupid game! As he told me, "Just because some others are ignorant doesn't mean I have to be too." He's always just handed the guns to me when they came in, and shook my hand. No paperwork, and no further ignorance. Th...

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