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- Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 10 gauge combo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 303
10 gauge combo
The long gun is circa 1883 Parker Grade 2 top lever hammer gun 32” Damascus barrels and a second set of Belgian made fluid steel barrels with 3 1/2” chambers and Briley screw in chokes . The gun started life as a pistol grip gun but in the last twenty to thirty years it was restocked and made into a...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 8 gauge slugs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 545
8 gauge slugs
Made up six loads using the .775” 730 grain conical slug today for trial in my DH 8 in anticipation of the gun season in WVA . Bores on my DH 8 measure .805” at the muzzle in the right barrel and .800” in the left barrel . Started off by adding hot melt glue to the cavity in the bottom of each slug ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old No. 7's brother is a serious aficcionado
- Replies: 6
- Views: 302
Re: Old No. 7's brother is a serious aficcionado
Couple years back we slowly sold a collection of early early Japanese matchlocks none were anywhere close decorated as these are .
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anschutz 1418
- Replies: 5
- Views: 213
Re: Anschutz 1418
I know where ones at , I’ve known the gun for fifty years and still haven’t been able to get it away from the owners
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anschutz 1418
- Replies: 5
- Views: 213
Re: Anschutz 1418
Very nice group ! Do you have an original Steyr Zephyr , One of the ones made in the 50’s or 60’s ?
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Vintage Gunners Cup
- Replies: 6
- Views: 271
Re: 2023 Vintage Gunners Cup
I'd love to attend just to see the Parker Collector tables, sadly too much water in the way.. :( I’ve wanted to come your way for the Red Grouse opener in Scotland for darn near forty years . I can handle getting across the pond but paying the price to shoot the driven grouse opener is beyond my me...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Vintage Gunners Cup
- Replies: 6
- Views: 271
Re: 2023 Vintage Gunners Cup
Green with envy, here. I have been reading about the Vintagers for years. I’m actually a member but I’ve never been to the Cup event . Here’s a picture of the Parker table at the Northern SxS held at Rock Mountain Sporting Clays in Friendsville PA . There’s usually a theme of some sort with display...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cordoba Argentina bound
- Replies: 5
- Views: 205
Re: Cordoba Argentina bound
My plans for the first quarter of 2024 start with Argentina and tentatively after getting back wait about ten days and off to the Philippines for thirty days then back to the USA in early to mid April and a week or so after the Southern SxS inSanford NC .
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cordoba Argentina bound
- Replies: 5
- Views: 205
Re: Cordoba Argentina bound
My exwife is Peruvian and before we divorced I’d thought we’d go down and see some of her family for a couple weeks . And of course if I was in SouthAmerica why not shoot somewhere but that never came to fruition . Now good Lord willing I’ll get there
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cordoba Argentina bound
- Replies: 5
- Views: 205
Re: Cordoba Argentina bound
I am sure sorry you are gonna have to endure all that. :lol: Have a great time. Enjoy the country. I have only been in Argentina once .. it sure is a beautiful place and the people I met were really nice. True it is kinda beneath me to have to shoot anything other than a Parker lols ! All BS aside ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cordoba Argentina bound
- Replies: 5
- Views: 205
Cordoba Argentina bound
Some how or other I got myself in a group of folks heading to Cordoba Argentina the end of February 2024 for three days of dove/pigeon shooting . I’ve never been south of the equator so this is all foriegn to me (pun intended) . Airfare from BWI to Miami to Buenas Aires to Cordoba and back is taken ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Vintage Gunners Cup
- Replies: 6
- Views: 271
2023 Vintage Gunners Cup
The 2023 Vintage Cup is scheduled to take place in Wellsville PA at the Warrington Sporting Clays facility September 7th thru the 9th . Here’s a link https://vintagers.org/vintage-gunners-cup . I’ve never attended a Vintage Cup so this will be a first time for me although I’m pretty sure the faces w...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 3:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winston Churchill
- Replies: 4
- Views: 290
Re: Winston Churchill
They’ve got a Parker what was a VHE 28 at Jaquas he engraved for I think 75k that would be nice . And Galazan has or had a Remington R-32 he had engraved and was in the 72 or 73 Gun Digest that I’d really like to have but that ones around 85k if my memories correct .
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 1:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winston Churchill
- Replies: 4
- Views: 290
Winston Churchill
I just received the word that master engraver Winston Churchill left this world to be with his maker about seven hours ago . RIP
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Reloading one round at a time at the range...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 262
Re: Reloading one round at a time at the range...
If I were doing the schuetzen stuff I’d be okay loading at the range during the match as was done in the heyday of schuetzen . But dealing with that artillery piece I don’t wanna be doing it with all the stuff that’s going on around this guy .
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Modern 250 Savage
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1112
Re: Modern 250 Savage
I, too, messed with Contenders in some of the TCU chamberings -- 6mm, 6.5 and 7mm -- but never the .25 for some reason. The Sharps must be a very useful tool indeed with that level of accuracy, especially with that Barnes bullet. 8) I have a 6.5 TCU with a 10” now . It does okay with the Nosler 120...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 6:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
hope you limit out on your hunt, looks like a great project to develop those loads. To be honest I already have twenty five round boxes filled with each size of buckshot from #3 up to and including 00000 for the short 10’s . This was more a matter of me wanting to try roll crimped buckshot in the 1...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
now that's gonna make a mark ! have you ever shot gel or clay or newsprint with those rounds? that's some massive firepower!! ;) grizz No I’ve killed deer with both sizes of buckshot in 10 gauges but with two less pellets both sizes . Also shot a deer with the same basic slug also 730 grains but on...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
Decided to load a few to try with 0000 Buck (.380”) and a few with 00000 Buck (.395”) . Which unto itself is nothing new but in the past of gold crimped and used a mylar wrap as well as buffer . This time no mylar and the base part of the Gualandi/BPI wad also one 16 gauge 1/8” card under the bucksh...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
Turkey season around here is dangerous. You darn near need to wear a bulletproof vest....people are crzy I’m planning on coming back over the Sunday before Thanksgiving hunt the first two days and the morning of the third day and get my butt back over the mountain hoping the whole time that there’s...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
WV Farrier , correct me if I'm wrong . As a non res I need the regular state hunting license for an initial buck tag as well as a conservation tag . I also purchased a second gun season buck tag and a antlerless tag . Is there anything else you're aware of I need to stay on the right side of the con...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
I’ve got period correct Winchester Rival brass 10 gauge hulls . They were meant for BP which I don’t care to use , so to get these bad boys to work I need to figure out a good way to make some plastic washers I made adhere to the bottom of the case around the protruding primer nodule . I bought a pl...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
The makeup of these 10 gauge slugs I’d not tried in a 10 until I started messing with this very open gun . A Gualandi/BPI wad with the petals removed , five 1/8” 16 gauge card wads and then the .775” 730 grain slug roll crimped . Today or tommorrow I wanna try two from the right barrel offhand then...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
I like to travel at 70-80ish MPH but this trip was about 165 miles and took3 1/2 hours .gamekeeper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:01 am Beautiful country but yes that highway looks more like what I'm used to here rather than USA.
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
I think if I cut the petals on the wad I’m using or an SP-10 it would be about the same .
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
The makeup of these 10 gauge slugs I’d not tried in a 10 until I started messing with this very open gun . A Gualandi/BPI wad with the petals removed , five 1/8” 16 gauge card wads and then the .775” 730 grain slug roll crimped . Today or tommorrow I wanna try two from the right barrel offhand then ...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
I tried some .775” 730 grain slugs pushed with SR7625 in my Grade 1 top lever 10 gauge hammer gun with the 26” barrels . This gun left the factory quite open in the 26” barrels a kinda tight in the 30” barrels . WVA says no buckshot for deer but inside 35 or so yards the right barrel should drill a ...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
Re: West by God Virginia
If what I saw yesterday is any indication I should have a positive hunt as I saw deer from 9 AM until I was heading home at 2 PM . Granted you usually see deer a lot more in the summer , but it still looks quite positive . Now I need to refine my 8 gauge slug load and have it along over there .
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West by God Virginia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 580
West by God Virginia
Went over to the Elkins WVA area sunday to check out my cousins vacation cabin to see if I wanna hunt it for deer this year . Let me begin by saying Route 33 from Stanardsville VA to Harrisonburg VA I always thought quite crooked over the Blue Ridge . But I’m here to say the road over in that stretc...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 5:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .41 mag cast bullets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 255
Re: .41 mag cast bullets
Initially that RCBS 41-210 could be had as a GC version and I wanted one but never found one . I did however have pretty decent luck with the Lyman version . Not saying you need gas checks I just prefer them . I however used them more in the couple Marlin 1894’s I had in 41 MAG . To the best of my k...
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old tools
- Replies: 10
- Views: 629
Re: Old tools
My father and I used to collect tools . I suppose there are a couple hundred wooden planes in the wooden cabinet we kept them . Have three wooden brace’s as well not to mention the broad axe’s , slick’s , adze’s , froe’s , draw knives and God only knows what else .I even have two or three sets of ro...
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report: Taylor's Low Wall DST 22 with 10X Unertl Scope
- Replies: 14
- Views: 571
Re: Range Report: Taylor's Low Wall DST 22 with 10X Unertl Scope
That things rather sporty !
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Flying Rabbit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 298
Re: The Flying Rabbit
Good gracious, I about got wrung out with sweat just thinking about hauling four 10-gauge doubles, ammo and a cooler on a humid afternoon. In my book, going three for four with a shotgun qualifies for good shooting! If I’ve got a golf cart or UTV I can go a bit longer . But pushing that cart with a...
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Flying Rabbit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 298
Re: The Flying Rabbit
Some pics from yesterday ! Wish I’d taken a picture of the cart I borrowed loaded down with shotguns ammo and cooler !
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Flying Rabbit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 298
The Flying Rabbit
I shot in a Virginia Vintagers get together shoot at The Flying Rabbit Sporting Clays in Mount Crawford Virginia yesterday . I like the course I just don’t like that they don’t have golf carts and I have to walk luckily I was able to borrow a friends push cart that holds four guns shells and a small...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The 5.7 x 28 thread got me wondering
- Replies: 13
- Views: 477
Re: The 5.7 x 28 thread got me wondering
I've been wondering which would be better, the Rock Island 9mm/22 TCM conversion or the new Springfield Prodigy. Not trying to be rude or negative , but if it isn’t a 1911 platform in usually not intrested . Rock Island from all I’ve seen makes a good product for the amount of scheckels you have to...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 12:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The 5.7 x 28 thread got me wondering
- Replies: 13
- Views: 477
Re: The 5.7 x 28 thread got me wondering
I've been wondering which would be better, the Rock Island 9mm/22 TCM conversion or the new Springfield Prodigy. Not trying to be rude or negative , but if it isn’t a 1911 platform in usually not intrested . Rock Island from all I’ve seen makes a good product for the amount of scheckels you have to...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The 5.7 x 28 thread got me wondering
- Replies: 13
- Views: 477
Re: The 5.7 x 28 thread got me wondering
I’ve shot a nice like new if not brand new Rock Island 1911 22 TCM at the Armsco/Rock Island indoor shooting range in Davao Philippines . The little cartridge is pretty much a 9mm necked down . They had one of the bolt action rifles at the range but for some reason they wouldn’t let me shoot it as i...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do you clean your guns after each time you shoot?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1029
Re: Do you clean your guns after each time you shoot?
My shotguns I run Tico rods in and out each barrel a dozen or so times and wipe all the metal with a silicone cloth . Rifles I shoot a lot are a bit more time consuming . When at the bench shooting groups I’ll generally take a clean bore foul it then shoot two five shot groups or four three shot gro...
- Thu Jun 29, 2023 8:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Northern SxS
- Replies: 2
- Views: 180
Re: Northern SxS
Hey 6pt has anyone told you that you need a hobby... :D Good luck at the Northern SxS... Hopefully I’m going to do something this coming February I’ve wanted to do for forty years . A friend is putting together a group to go to Cordoba Argentina to shoot dove for three days and it’s my intention to...
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Any 5.7x28 fans here?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 623
Re: Any 5.7x28 fans here?
A friend got an FN 5.7x28 pistol for Xmas one year . I went out with him and shot it a bit . Later he traded it to me for a Para P-14 . I immediately put the FN on Gunbroker with several boxes of ammo which at that time was hard to get your hands on . Anyway I sold the package for about $500 more th...
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Northern SxS
- Replies: 2
- Views: 180
Northern SxS
Heading to Meshoppen PA for the Northern SxS on July 26th and will return on the 30th . If my shoulder holds up I’ll shoot 550-600 targets . Mostly 10 gauge a handful of 8 gauge , four 12 gauge events and a 20 gauge event . But one or two evenings after the shotgun blasting is done the owner has a s...
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Handloaders: Are You the Organized or Random Type
- Replies: 30
- Views: 978
Re: Handloaders: Are You the Organized or Random Type
Organized sheeezzzz ! My loading room and it’s quite large is quite unorganized . And that’s because I time to time get good deals on this that or the other and it gets stacked piled in there . I have an oak conference table with four or five things bolted on top that I’ve not used in a couple years...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 1:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Northeastern SxS Championships
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Re: Northeastern SxS Championships
Yeah even the 'gentleman's 16 bore ' will beat ya up! Those guns were not meant to be shot that much all at once! Even a hard butt 28 will make you feel it . Sounds like you had fun none the less. Boy those 8ga sure look BIG! what is the pellet count in that 0 buck? That gun beat me up because I he...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Northeastern SxS Championships
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Re: Northeastern SxS Championships
If I could get away I'd come up to meet you but I've got a club engagement and with the puppies here I'm not going very far ! Two weekends ago at Prospect Hall in WVA I shot a 145 target 16 gauge shoot , I was using a Parker VHE straight grip checked but 16 and it over the course of the day did a n...
- Wed May 31, 2023 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Northeastern SxS Championships
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
- Wed May 31, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Northeastern SxS Championships
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Northeastern SxS Championships
I’m headed out Thursday morning at 4 AM to Hausemann’s Hidden Hollow Sporting Clays in Friendsville PA for the Northeastern event . Hadn’t planned on attending this year since the Parker annual meeting isn’t being held there this year . Anyway one of my friends in the AH Fox collectors group puts on...
- Fri May 19, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Smokeless
- Replies: 7
- Views: 531
Re: Old Smokeless
I got a 12 pound keg of Red Dot from a friend about a year ago that was from the same time period . The deal was I could try it before I paid him for it . And sure enough after trying it turned out fine !
- Thu May 18, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Speaking of Handloading . . .
- Replies: 7
- Views: 383
Re: Speaking of Handloading . . .
I bought in well above bulk quantities over the last two years as I was getting stuff at cut rate prices . I most likely had in excess of way over the top . Anyway I’ve sold off some . Mostly at SxS shoots , think I sold about 109 pounds last month at the Southern . I had stocked up in anticipation ...
- Tue May 16, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why Handload?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1537
Re: Why Handload?
To me handloading and casting is to shooting what tying your own flies is to fly fishing . Just seems right ! I had an epiphany a few years back it dawned on me , I cast the projectile - loaded the cartridge - killed the deer - cleaned processed the animal and cooked the edible portion then of cours...