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Sorry, didn't include all the locals. I am pretty lucky as I am trying to make up for working two jobs my whole life. My wife wouldn't live in Alaska so we have a house in Arizona (I wouldn't live in Kalifornia) and I stay in Alaska for several months a year where I was living just after we met. So...

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Grizz wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 2:01 pm My outdoor guns are stainless, and my beautifully blued ones stay indoors and out of harm's way . . .

curiously, grizz

YEP

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:39 am I was blissfully ignorant that this was a thing!

+1

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WOW, didn't know they made them in that barrel length. Would have saved my gunsmith time in cutting the barrel from 6 inches to 5 1/2, the 4 3/4 would have been perfect when he put S&W sights in it.

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I thought I would share a couple of photos of some local wildlife that have been moving about a lot lately. This is the southern house before I go back to Alaska. The snake is a Mojave Green in the Dark phase that was on a neighbor's back porch and the lion cubs are last year's about 400 yards from...

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I think the closest thing we have to that is the current production Winchesters under the Browning umbrella. But those are made in Japan. Very good quality though if you don't find the tang safety too offensive. For US made, it's pretty much Henry and Marlin by Ruger for lever rifles. I don't see t...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:42 pm I’ve always thought that would be the ideal deer/black bear gun.

+1

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I have killed many white-tails with a .357 MAG with everything from .38 wadcutters, Win 145-grain Silver Tips (very shallow wound in the chest of a human wearing a jacket), and 158-grain Semi Wads out of a 4-inch revolver at work. They are soft-skinned targets and easy to kill with just about anyth...

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Great rifles have seen many and shot a few. Glad you have your dad's rifle.

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I have three Rossi 92s One old Saddle ring .45 LC perfected by Steve, one .44 Mag I had a friend adjust, and a .357 Mag Trapper I got last Dec in Ohio. All are great guns with a bit of adjustment (for my purposes). Two are new enough for the bolt safety which I replaced with a .25 ACP cartridge and...

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My wife (her first kill) and I have both killed white-tails with a .44 Mag Marlin Trapper with Hornady .200 Gr XTPs. They performed well on soft-skinned white tails with one-shot kills.

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Excellent choice for a starter. Glad she likes it.

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Beautiful looking piece, keep us posted on the outcome.

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Congratulations, I wish you as much luck as I have had with my rescue "WALDO" he ended up being 120 pounds of Rhodesian Ridgeback. He wakes me up for brown bears without barking and pushed me out of the way of a Mojave green rattlesnake on the porch of the southern house. Rescues are GREA...

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Glad I am not the only one.

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Excellent. I had a game warden friend in the early 80s show me an uncovered dump full of rats. When things quieted down we would go there and shoot until the flashlight went dead. I went through 10,00 rds that year and became a great revolver (S&W Model 17 to match the Model 19 I carried) shot.

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I have two Rossi's perfected by Steve and have his CD on how to do it. Cleaning up one (not as well as him), but that may be an option.

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Thank you SIR for the instructions and humerus post.

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I prefer the .44 Special most of the time and use them in my Magnums but don't own a gun in that caliber.

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An excellent answer to the destruction of building batteries.

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WOW, nice rifle. I always wanted a Marlin in .45 Colt to go with my .44 Mag Trapper, woods walking gun in the lower 48.

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Great photos, thanks for sharing. How far away is the volcano? You may want to check your lens filters.

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As stated all suppressors change POI some with the stiffer barrels not as much. The newer suppressors will improve the accuracy of most rifles as it changes the barrel harmonics. I use a Surefire on my .308s and .5.56s and a Rugged Obsidian 45 on my bush guns up to .458 SOCOM I don't have one rated...

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I guess there is an advantage to being old, my Armalite is a first-model 16-inch carbine with a second-upper in with an 18-inch Proof Carbon Fiber wrapped barrel. In 2002 I built and carried an M-14K (selector switch worked) in Iraq (with the help of a GREAT gunsmith in Colorado Springs) which was ...

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The various AR-10 platforms have poor parts interchangeability ... especially in the magazine catch area. I would stick with the platforms that conform to the SR-25 mag style. I don't know why Armalite did the thing with the M1A mags. It seems like there were plenty of original AR-10 waffle mags fl...

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I also have a few 7.62x51 options. My latest is a Dessert Tech convertible between 7.62x51 and 5.56 (and a few others). It shoots great, but I have not yet put the 7.62 x51 barrel in it. Very handy for a truck gun, just a little heavier for the larger caliber. barrels come in different lengths, and...

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We were in Phoenix, and my wife saw this and wanted it. On the drive home, she talked about her guns she could sell to get it. About two weeks later, I surprised her with it and two holsters Simply Rugged made for it and her 3-inch Python after I gave them a python skin.

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Great find

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Great looking pistols

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They took a few designs from Simply Rugged also. They don't care, the money they make while the lawyers delay is profit.

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Great looking rig.

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Short Barreled Leverguns are very handy, even though the government now limits how short they can be. Most are in calibers that handle meat targets well (even the brown bears). They do not upset the sheeple as much as my MP-5, short-barreled rifles, or shotguns. Even Canada allows you to travel thr...

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Sorry to hear about the error. I understand the hunt.

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JimT wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:43 am A horrible time on the earth ...
The evil people who did this thought they were doing what was best for the world.
Just like some people today.

Toured a camp in 75, started me down the path I ended up on for 28 more years.
De Oppresso Liber

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Sorry, I have had 4 Runners from 1985 on and don't know the answers, never had problems.

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Well done, Sir

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If I hunt the same thing I was hunting last time I was there, A HK MP-5 and an M-14. If I am after animals, my WildWest Co-Pilot in .457 WW and the Styer Pro hunter in 300 Win Mag.

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Grew up a farm kid and have had dog problems as many here stated my whole life. In the 60s, there was an article in one of the gun magazines I read with recommendations of what firearms to use in dog hunts, with the minimum being a 12ga with buckshot and a .45 as backup. I started with a .22 on the...

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Very impressive, much nicer than the model Gurkhas carry

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$7.50 for a cardboard carton (Brick) of CCI MiniMags from Highschool days (late 60s).

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I have been lucky and have three JM Marlins, an older Marlin 1895 with Ballard rifling, a guide gun my nephew picked out for me on a trade, and a Wild West Co-Pilot I bought used from a member here. I hunt with the guide gun and Co-Pilot both shoot better than I having killed everything I have shot...

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Congratulations, He looks pretty happy and that is a WIN.

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Thanks for the update and photos, Good luck in the new year.

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Great system, got one mounted on a .44.

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Nice rifle involved in one of my favorite sports, rock shooting.

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Went solar this year (and paid for it) and have my own well with generators for backup and a 2500 gal above ground water tank. The house is heated with propane off a 500 gal tank that lasted all winter last year. Freezer is full of moose, salmon, and whitetail with enough other things for a large p...

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JimT wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:58 am
765x53 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 3:20 am A problem I will never have.
Me too. I looked for the "gas tube" on my .44 Special SAA ... I guess it's the same tube that is rifled and where the bullet comes out. No way am I gonna get an empty in there!

Too Funny

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Tried a friends Red Dot mounted pistol then had my Glock 23 milled and mounted a Trijicon 1 MOA SRO. I was told Gunsite was starting a 250 Red Dot Class and after having the pistol set up for a month, I took the class. I like the fact it is much faster shooting the Red Dot than hunting the front si...

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Sad to say this has been coming for a long time. I was a cub scout in the 60s and enjoyed it learning lots. With the National Headquarters in WV where I retired from the State Police, I have heard what was going on in the organization for a long time. The lack of spine of the organization (WHO KEPT...

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This is my CZ with a Gemtech suppressor in .17 HM2. I have my nephews convened that if the gun goes off the squirrels' heads automatically disappear. I have a 10-22 rebuild with Volkerson parts I use for NRL22 matches sometimes with a suppressor.

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