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I have been reloading for nearly 40 years now. There are reasons to like nickel cases, but I have not found extended case life to be one of them. A typical batch of, say, 100 cases will suffer one or two mouth splits after one reloading, three or four after the second, and so on. Meanwhile, plain br...

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I hate to even think about the jam I'd have to be in to ever want to fire that thing!

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My .45 is a Rossi Model 92, 24" octagon barrel. The terrain I hunt is very similar to yours, and I could make a pretty good argument that this rifle and cartridge are ideal for deer in this environment.

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Replacement stocks for all models of the Marlin 336, which is essentially what you have, are made by numerous companies -- in fact, almost any company that makes replacement stocks. The major variations would be straight buttstock versus pistol-grip, and barrel band versus capped fore end.

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A GP-100 in .44 Special. I can't think of one thing wrong with that phrase.

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You're doing the right thing to ask for suggestions, and there are a bunch more of them out there. The .45 Colt is a great cartridge to load for, and many of those loads use very versatile powders. I have a Blackhawk that I shoot with a Ruger-only load, but the Colt clones are absolutely my favorite...

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Love the looks of that machine, Pitchy, but really can't stand the sound. Sorta like my ex-wife, to think of it...

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Read up on the contraindications and side effects of this drug and you will see that free doses for everyone is probably not a good idea, even if it's the bee's knees for COVID-19.

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For a factory-level load it's hard to beat 9 gr. of Unique under a 255 gr. lead SWC bullet. Now, it won't come anywhere near filling up the cavernous .45 Colt case -- few powders will --, but if you hand charge your cases and visually inspect each one before seating the bullet it'll never be a probl...

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The last couple I bought had an asterisk instead of an X. Don't ask me why, but it works...

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Just as disturbing -- and just as likely false -- are the decades-long allegations that the US developed Lyme disease, AIDS and various forms of cancer at Plum Island, MA, and has been lying about it ever since. It wouldn't be the first, or last, time our government has lied to us. Is the Chinese go...

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You are conveniently overlooking the information in this article that states the weight of the evidence so far indicates a natural genesis of the virus, but that every possibility is being investigated. Hardly a damning conclusion, and a prime example of bending the facts to suit a conclusion the wr...

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The theory falls right in line with all of the extremist conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, several scientific studies have shown that the virus has none of the characteristics of a lab-made virus. Numerous strains of the corona virus have been in circulation for decades, and the mutation which tur...

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Good grief, folks. Never forget -- anything you read online is AT LEAST 50% likely to be a completely fabricated piece of garbage. On another forum I frequent, a number of people got their panties in a wad just a couple of days ago over a "news" article posted on a "news" outlet ...

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Marbles has screw sets to go with their sights. Their website lists a set for the Uberti 92 which I would assume would work as well with the Chiappa -- but it wouldn't hurt to check with them to be sure.

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I have a 1300 (Ranger) and love it -- but it has a reputation for being comparatively fragile. If I were choosing a serious, fight-a-war shotgun I'd get something else, but for hunting and shoot-once-in-a-while recreation or home defense, I wouldn't turn my nose up at one. The one I have, a 12 ga., ...

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UFO'a exist, and of that I have no doubt -- I have seen many of them. UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, and although many of the ones I have seen were likely aircraft or natural phenomena, I could not positively identify them -- and I have seen absolutely nothing to make me think they were alien...

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Sweet ride!

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A 3-month supply for me would be about a sixpack; for my neighbor, they'd have to bring a truckload...

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Let's eat Grandma! I mean -- let's eat, Grandma!

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What a sucker! I held out for the 50/50 deal!

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Very interesting stuff. In my neck of the woods, Cowpens is one of the most interesting battlefields to visit. In the past few years the area has been returned to the state it was in at the time of the battle, and it's one of the few battlefields of that era where you can walk the field, clearly see...

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Five weeks spent sitting in an ICU room as my son fought for his life with severe complications from intestinal surgery. Praise God, he won the fight, but I would not care to go through it again.

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Recently it was announced that the NSA had discovered a serious security weakness in Windows. They designed a fix and gave it to Microsoft for free. Microsoft immediately added it to their regular software updates. If you're running Windows, as I am, you've got it now. Now, of course, it is just pos...

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A couple of Rossi's I have owned had the typical featureless dark-brown wood -- until the heavy brown finish was stripped away, whereupon they proved to have some rather attractive grain.

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FN developed the 5.7x28 in conjunction with their P90 Personal Defense Weapon, a very compact bullpup-type carbine. It has met with some success with a number of military and security services such as the Secret Service. This is in a 16" barrel, of course, but even in a shorter pistol barrel it...

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My Dad taught me to shoot a .22 rifle and a .410 shotgun when I was 6, so my interest started early. But it really caught fire the year I turned 14 and got my first job -- a helper in a local veterinary hospital. Doc was not only a first-class historian but also a rabid gun collector, with a collect...

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Here's a deep-clean de-gunking method that won't cost you any money, won't harm your guns, and won't burn down your house or fill it with toxic fumes. Take a large pot. Put your handgun -- wooden grips removed, of course -- in the pot and cover with water. Add a drop or two of Dawn dishwashing deter...

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Greta Thunberg -- and autistic child who has been brainwashed. Save your hate for those who are exploiting her.

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I have seen this before, I'd take it as pretty much truthful! I believe it was confirmed by snopes. It was given essentially a "partially true" rating by Snopes. For instance, they were not all reported in the Times. The assertion that "over 2/3 of births are to illegal aliens" ...

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You might find a used one somewhere-- although good red dot sights are the sort of thing most folks won't sell used because even if they sell the gun it's on they can so easily swap it to another. Besides, buying one used is sort of a "pig in a poke" proposition. Palmetto State usually has...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:07 pm I've had an lbs jug of WC846 for over 25 years, it has started to go bad. I need to find somewhere that I can burn the remaining powder.

Dump it on your flower beds. It's fertilizer.

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What’s really funny is WHO says it isn’t a global threat. This thing is in the wild already. I'll agree that at this point it doesn't represent a great threat. But every viral and bacterial disease that affects humans was in the wild at some point before it mutated and jumped the barrier to acquire...

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claybob86 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 7:02 pm
Pisgah wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:39 pm .458? Don't see that listed in the chambering options...
Scroll down to page 11.

Thanks! I may have found my next squirrel rifle...

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Back in my smoothbore muzzle-loading days there were several methods popular for "dimpling" balls. I never saw any accuracy improvement in my experiments. I did, however, have some success with gluing a hard cardboard wad on each ball, then loading without a patch. It seemed to give more c...

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.458? Don't see that listed in the chambering options...

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Blaine wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:48 pm
The fact is, all of the powder that's going to burn burns before the bullet is fully out of the case
Respectfully: Then why can one see remnants of unburnt power at times?

Note that I said "all of the powder that is going to burn". You will not always get 100% ignition.

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I agree with the advantages of a 3" barrel over a shorter one. Common sense. But I really get tired of the repeated myth that "not all the powder is burned in a shorter barrel". The fact is, all of the powder that's going to burn burns before the bullet is fully out of the case. The f...

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I just watched "Caddy Shack" the other night for the umpteenth time. I never realized Bill Murray narrated reloading videos...

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A friend of mine had a conversation on his cell phone about some item or other he was thinking about getting, and suddenly pop-ups on social media were bombing him. I"ve never personally noticed a cell phone connection, but if you look at something on ling, Amazon will try to sell it to you in...

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Simply shortening the barrel to 18.5" -- assuming the stock is standard -- will not make it illegal. It will remove whatever choke it has, but it should still pattern reliably out to 20-25 yards.

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No, but I have used a fine file or hard stone to very slightly break the edge on the plunger, rounding it off just a tad to mimic the natural wear that eventually leads to "falling lever syndrome", the opposite of what you have now. Just go one stroke at a time and try it until the lever l...

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Frangible buckshot, not slugs.

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I know the Mark V was made for export in .45 Colt and .44-40. .41 Colt, I don't know.

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That one's been on my wish list for a long, long time. Congratulations, and be sure to keep us posted on how she shoots.

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I remember when the Texas Longhorn guns were first getting some press. Seems Bill Grover figured Sam Colt must have been a lefty, thus designed his gun to be loaded without shifting it from his shooting hand. Grover decided it was time to make one for right-handers!

I've always wanted a No. 5.

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2- its worth legal action just to teach him a lesson I seriously doubt it. It's essentially a small claim. If he lived in the same state, it MIGHT be worth the hassle, but only then if he lives no farther away than the next county. Once you've prepared the required paperwork, paid for filing the cl...

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Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:43 pm I'm amazed that the patent hasn't expired on the 10/22.

I don't think it's the patent, or functional design, they are suing over. It's the trademark, which includes such things as the overall look of the gun. Pretty thin to me...

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This post has certainly sparked the comments, but virtually none relevant as to the premise of the quoted article: that the .223 is safer when it comes to overpenetration of walls. Period. As overpenetration is probably the #1 reason usually given for not using a rifle for home defense, the article ...

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