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yooper2

Very interesting rifles! Do you have any pictures with the action open? How do they lock up? Seeing no loading gate, do you load the magazine with the action open like a 71/84 Mauser or is there a gate on bottom like a Reminton 14?

Eric

yooper2

Great report on an awesome carbine! I saw a NWMP carbine at a gunshop in Traverse City as a kid, between the firearm design and sheer size I thought it was about the neatest thing going. Same shop had an original Walker Colt from the same collection.

Eric

yooper2

Thanks gents! We are excited to try and make this happen. To get to Cape Cod from here is at least 20 hours drive time cutting through Canada (25 ish if you can't) so 4 doesn't seem too bad. We are most interested in the area around Brooklin, as that is the area with places I would like to work. Ini...

yooper2

Nice old photos! The first sixgun I was allowed to tote around my grandad's farm was an Italian 1858 pattern in .36. Shot a ton of porcupines, skunks, squirrels, coons and a few coyotes with it. It came with a right handed flap holster, we cut the flap off and added a hammer thong. I carried it on m...

yooper2

Hey fellas, been gone for a few months. It was an extremely turbulent summer as my wife started a new job, we moved back to Michigan after the house we were renting was sold out from under us, and I ended up doing a string of sailboat deliveries all up and down the East Coast and Caribbean. Finally ...

yooper2

I ran the grey shirts that Six shows. It was a lot of work and inevitablely some folks will not be happy with the outcome but it was nice to correspond with everyone and do something for the group.

Eric

yooper2

Great find! I missed out on a high wall in 22 2R Lovell, friend got it along with dies. The old varmint rigs are so very cool.

Eric

yooper2

Nice sixgun. Some of the early 44-40 Vaqueros had pretty unfortunate dimensions on the chamber and throat. Ed Harris came up with a reamer for fixing these guns which tend to have tight necks and way undersize throats. I believe the reamer resides with John Taylor out in Washington. He does great wo...

yooper2

I've used them for a couple of oddball bullet sizes, particularly for the 351 and 401 Winchester. They shot as well as cast bullets and the only deer I shot with the 401 was with the hawk bullet. Went clear through and left a large wound. I dislike buying bullets but was interested in making factory...

yooper2

Good luck with your recovery. My grandfather had a stroke at age 73 that messed up his dominant side and he had a rough time regaining full use but through constant work and sheer will power he was able regain his shooting ability and dexterity. Right after the stroke he could barely make a legible ...

yooper2

Very cool tools and a great idea!

Eric

yooper2

I've really enjoyed all of the molds I've gotten from NOE, very nice products. What are you loading with your new mold? I've considered it for a hunting bullet in 357 max.

Eric

yooper2

I got some old, tight grained cedar that I'm saving to build a Rushton pack canoe with. I saw one in the watercraft collection at Mystic Seaport that was maybe 12' long and weighed about 16lbs. I was shocked when the curator told me to pick it up, felt a whole lot lighter. Made me think of Nessmuk's...

yooper2

Nice shooting and a good looking USFA! The brother in law picked up the Uberti "Callahan" 44 mag when it first came out. Very nice sixgun and shoots as well as yours. He also treats it as a stout 44 special although he loads everything mag brass.

Eric

yooper2

I bought one of the rebuilt ones with a Criterion barrel and new stock a few years ago. Shot about 100 rounds of surplus when I first got it and have only shot cast since. Have a couple of spam cans in reserve. My load is the NOE 160gr. Ed Harris bullet cast of straight lino over 40gr of IMR4064, fu...

yooper2

Only 88 I ever shot fed very easily, an extremely slick rifle.

Eric

yooper2

Haven't gone hunting from a canoe in several years but used to frequently. My best friend had an old Chestnut Prospectorthat we recanvased and one year after our seasonal gigs on Isle Royale came to end we went hunting in the Minnesota Boundary Waters for 3 weeks with that old boat. I brought an old...

yooper2

Terry Murbach once equated asking the number of guns one owns with asking your wife's bra size, I still crack up over that. Man had a wonderful way of getting to the point. I do know how many I own as I keep a master list with serial numbers and approximate value for my wife's use should something h...

yooper2

Dont know a thing about Nitro pills but when I was a kid my grandad and I set off a bunch of old dynamite that had sweated out the nitroglycerin. Maybe 18 sticks all told.

Eric

yooper2

Hey Tutt.....another tidbit of useful information which I learned from the dean of cast bullet shooters, Frank Marshall.... I really enjoy Frank Marshall's stuff, but as he mostly wrote for the Fouling Shot a lot of people dont know about him. The Cast Bullet Association sells a cd with a ton of hi...

yooper2

Nice shotgun! If I was in the same place as a 16ga Dickinson with double triggers it would come home with me.

Eric

yooper2

I have a shoe with blood in it, stepped on a nail 2 years ago and I've never been able to wash it all out. Much more than one drop of blood and far cheaper.

I look around and am confounded by the things people do these days.

Eric

yooper2

Great "blast from the past," Ray. The day I turned 21, I bought a Smith Model 28 Highway Patrolman. I also bought a Model 28 on my 21st birthday. Mine was a pretty well used 4". I carried it around the farm and out on survey work. I loaded it to the hilt with the Kieth bullet and 240...

yooper2

I cast the vast majority of what I shoot, all handgun bullets and 95% of rifle bullets. Only my 22 Imp, Swedish Mauser, and 270 get jacketed. I have a bunch of surplus '06 for the Garand but have only shot cast in it for several years. We have an attached single car garage where I do my casting. Tha...

yooper2

When my grandfather went he had promised the same guns to multiple people so the four of us drew lots and went round robin. After we did a bit of swapping but everyone ended up happy.

Eric

yooper2

The other 200 pieces from Roughcreek are ending up as 25-20s too!

Eric

yooper2

Dad's hunting loads were loaded with a 110gr hollowpoint, I think from Sierra. Pretty sure the bullet was one of those originally suggested by Milek in his early articles. He messed around with 170gr paper patch bullets from a LBT mold for a while but said it was too much work to keep up with his pr...

yooper2

Nice rifle! My 38-40 '92 isn't going anywhere. I have had great luck with the RCBS cowboy bullet and Jack Kort's design from Accurate Molds.

Eric

yooper2

I have a 10" Contender barrel in 30 Herrett, the old guy shot silhouette with it in the early days of that game. He also hunted with it a fair amount. For hunting with a handgun I prefer large heavy bullets out of a good sixgun. It has also been replaced in silhouette by other cartridges. That ...

yooper2

I use 38-55 brass in my 375s as well. Used to use a lot of 30-30 brass blown out but with the longer Starline brass available that is all my guns see now. I dont go as high as Paco with my loading.

Eric

yooper2

[/quote] Lightweight and extra lightweights ALL have nickel steel barrels and these rifles only came in 33 and 45-70....any other caliber they were "in house specialities", not special orders.....somehow 2 45-90 extra lightweights wound up here..... [/quote] Interesting! Do they have a slo...

yooper2

I've always thought the 33wcf seemed like a very practical cartridge although I've never owned a rifle so chambered. I'd leave it alone and enjoy as is. Hawk Bullets makes appropriate bullets if your heart is set on jacketed.

Eric

yooper2

My only adventures with smokeless in the 50-70 involved 4759 and the Lyman government bullet. As I recall it shot fine but I have only shot blackpowder in mine for the last decade or so.

Eric

yooper2

I've long had a desire for a good 219 Zipper or Donaldson Wasp. Only one of the 30-30 family I haven't loaded for. While I'd prefer a levergun, an old timey varmint/benchrest rig would come home too. In a general way I'm into any pre-WW1 firearms and some select later stuff up to the 60s or 70s but ...

yooper2

I'm endlessly frustrated by the low quality of things I buy, particularly clothing. Socks fall apart in no time, t shirts fail at the armpit, and I blow out pockets so often that I have saved an old pair of Carhartts to cut up and sew in heavy pocket liners. Also, most flannel shirts are little bett...

yooper2

I read about the Theodore Roosevelt story as a kid and it took me a long time to find a picture of one of these. Very neat to see a video.

Eric

yooper2

You have my deepest condolences, a very tough road. As others have said, keep the good memories in the forefront of your mind. The pain doesn't go away but you learn to live with it.

Eric

yooper2

I'd go for it. I had a Browning 71 that I let go as it had no throat to speak of, the finish on the stock was that plastic-y gloss, and it was really picky as to what it would it would shoot. Did really like the cartridge and the handling of the rifle, one of the few instances where a pistol grip st...

yooper2

I prefer casting and smelting in cold weather, especially since I got some some thinsulate gloves that fit under my old foundrymans gloves. Come summer the last thing I want to do is suit up and sweat by a hot lead pot.

Eric

yooper2

Cool beans. Good for you! We really do have some great people on here. "When all this cr*p is over", I might have to plan a "meet & greet -- and spend money" event at the Kittery Trading Post (Maine), with dinner at Bob's Clam Shack next door for those from CT, VT, MA, NH or...

yooper2

If I ever saw a 218 Bee in person that was in decent shape I wouldn't mind parting with a grand or so. While I am comfortable buying guns online from folks on here based on photos, in general it gives me the willies.

Eric

yooper2

Good clean fun! We put an old AMC eagle out in the corner of a friends field to use a subject for "ballistic studies". When it got to being too shredded we put it on a flatbed and took it to the junkyard. We figured we would give the scrapper a start but old Julio just looked over his news...

yooper2

My wife mailed out 2 USPS flat rate boxes on the 22nd, neither has arrived as of today. Following the tracking, both sat within 50 miles of my house for 4 days. Pretty frustrating.

Eric

yooper2

I've been on the same general schedule for years, bed at 2230, up at 0430. My wife thinks I have a problem. "People need more than 6 hours of sleep", not this one! Not sure why, but I figure I am on the left hand side of the bell curve. Been this way since I was 15. I only change up my sch...

yooper2

That would be great, thank you!

Eric

yooper2

Does anyone have a copy of this article they could email me? I had a binder full of Paco's articles printed out but it got water damaged and while most of the articles are available on here I was unable to find the one about loading the 375 Win.

Eric

yooper2

I'd break all sorts of rules for a rifle like that! What a nice combination of special order features and killer wood! Very nice find.

Eric

yooper2

At that depth I would get a real pouring resin from woodcraft. Very easy to use and crystal clear. Normal epoxies like West or System 3 will tend to be bubbly at that depth and if the hardener is oxidized it wont be clear. West does make a coating hardener that is clear with some UV blockers in it b...

yooper2

My grandfather was very much a singleshot and muzzleloader man. That's how I was started out as well, first shots were with a .32 caplock and my first rifle was a Martini Cadet in 32-20. I started working in a boatyard at 13 and after a few months I had a bit of money and decided I ought to have one...

yooper2

Six, the Cobra looks to me like a an alloy frame Detective Special. The grips on the one I are smaller than the DS grips apparently for a smaller Colt revolver. Looking for DS grips I see the originals on EBay for $175. The smaller grips on this are for a smaller Colt. Ideas? Cobras are neat little...

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