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I had five Swedish Mausers and they all did well with handloads , I’m sure if they’d had scopes it woulda been better but it is what it is . I have the Arisaka my grandfather brought back , I have a Mannlicher restocked 98 my father got back in the 50’s and I have a pair of M1 Carbines my pop and gr...

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A gentleman on the Parker/Fox/Smith/Remington web sites is kind of a historian with many many catalogs etc downloaded on his PC . If I’m not mistaken he had all this stuff on micro film before PC’s became the norm. Anyway he says these are late 8 gauge shells post 1931 and that particular shell is l...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:32 pm I bet you are the only guy hunting deer with a 'not 10 '

You’d think that but it isn’t the case ! I’ve loaded some buckshot loads for three friends .

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:27 pm Can't help ya , I've never heard of a
5¹/² powder so I'd venture to guess it's 5¹/² drams. Is that a 10 or your 8 bore?

Not 10

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Or might that mean 5 1/2 drams ?

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Was DuPont 5 1/2 smokeless ? I’ve been googling and haven’t found a definitive answer !

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We had combination of pheasants and partridges no pigeons today , but 400 birds no d the less . I shot the 8 gauge 23 and knocked down 13 . Didn’t shoot the 10 as well today . Brought home 16 cockroosters and 10 hens as well as a dozen partridge . ED76D865-271A-4138-9A9D-319D2A30F7C0.jpeg 2703F6CC-6...

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Heading to the shooting club in WVA I visit each year for the pheasant/partridge/pigeon tower shoots . This will be the last of the season , I’m taking two guns both Parker DH guns . Ones my regular 10 gauge 3 frame 32” that I shoot in the sporting clays events it’s eligible for , plus I’ve used not...

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hfcable wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:48 pm i agree ! [ if i live that long, which is unlikely }

Think positive !

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HF when they hit about twelve you need to get them heavy rifles for bullwinkle and Smokey ! I’d say 375 H&H for the little man and a 300 H&H for the little lady

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I wanna get my grandson one as he just turned 8 on December 23 . But it’s a bit difficult for me to give him one in the Philippines :? never thought of that, thats a pity ! I haven’t heard the fat lady sing just yet :wink: And Ampah is thinking he needs a nice little Parker VH or VHE 20 gauge with ...

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I recieved a new set of longies (long Johns) , couple bottles of vino , big can of VA peanuts , some quite nice thermal socks and a couple shirts .

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I wanna get my grandson one as he just turned 8 on December 23 . But it’s a bit difficult for me to give him one in the Philippines

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Remembering P.O. Ackley's tests of WWII bolt action rifles. The early Arisaka's were the strongest and safest of all of them. He overloaded and blew up a bunch of rifles in his tests. Blew the barrel out of the receiver of an early Arisaka and did not hurt the action! I don't remember the model but...

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I never went out of my way for rifles or handguns . But some of the shotguns I have or have had I did kinda do the same .

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I’ve not had it out the safe in several years but I’m pretty sure mine still has the mum although I could be mistaken . I have the bayonet as well . Also there are five rounds of WWII Japanese ammo left from what he brought back . My handloads if memory serves are in Norma brass with Hornady 129 and...

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I’ve got an original 6.5mm Arisaka my grandfather brought back from the Pacific in 1945 . Any of you guys ever killed anything with the cartridge ? I’ve already worked up a couple loads for it and am contemplating taking a whitetail with it

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FWIW thermal optics work for me at night . Night vision scopes however do me no good

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We’ve been selling Athlon products for several years at the shop and to be honest they’ve surprised me quite a bit in a very positive way . Anyway they brought out thermal optics this year and we got one to look at before ordering any . The thing was very comparable to the much more expensive ones w...

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I used several pounds of VV N-110 I’m the Savage 10ML-II I had . 42 grains of N-110 pushing a 250 grain 45 cal projectile in a plastic sabot typically shot very very well , just make sure you use a tight sabot and not those TC ez glide things .

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I have a copy of the Southern Sportsman book it was rather Intresting for me .

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Had a Remington 541-S that would drive tacks and like a fool I sold it . After that I bought a 541-T HB , gun shot well but not as well as the light barrel 541-S . Had a Winchester Model 61 that was a grooved reciever and put an old Weaver K-10 on top and that thing shot some of the smallest 5 shot ...

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AND the front sight was left very tall so I can file it down to match a favored load. Windage seems to be perfect. I picked it up used for a steal and I’ll bet it’s because it shoots about 10 inches low and the former owner didn’t know how to fix that. You’d like to thing the previous owner was atl...

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Your thread reminded me I’ve yet to blood my air rifle ! Antlerless only season starts on 1/7/24 think I’ll try then .

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Griff, I wear a size 14 or 15 depending on the booot. They don’t make those fancy shoes in my size. Moreover, I think I might ruin such a shoe stepping in cow pies. I attended a wedding in Manila four years ago . It was a Catholic ceremony and I was asked to be one of the sponser/ God parents or wh...

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I’m glad I have no intentions of trying anything different or new and have everything I load noted in my so to speak ledger .

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Thanks a lot this d…a…m…n thread has me perusing Bosis and Fabbri guns and has kinda carried over into the limey Boss and Purdey guns as well . Somebody got a spare million they can lend me :lol: :lol: :lol: I was thinking about this. The danger sign is if someone with Italian six shooters starts b...

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I always wanted an engraved 1893 or 1895 but never acquired one

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Very nice

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Are you positive it doesn’t have a damaged crown or a ringed barrel? I find it hard to believe conventional bullets will not work. I had a 284 that would not shoot even after a recrown. It was ringed. I sent it to Ruger to be rebarreled. The lands and grooves sure didn’t tighten up over time . And ...

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I’d shoot the Marlin on paper myself before I took the guys word for it .

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Thanks a lot this d…a…m…n thread has me perusing Bosis and Fabbri guns and has kinda carried over into the limey Boss and Purdey guns as well . Somebody got a spare million they can lend me

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I gotta say to be honest all three suck USPS UPS and FredEx . But I have to choose UPS . We’ve had stuff get destroyed on UPS and so far knock on wood always come out atleast breaking even . USPS and FredEx not so much .

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wvfarrier wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:21 pm The only good yote is a dead one

Same could be said about liberals and tree huggers

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I’ve owned several Savage 99’s over the years but I’m no great fan , but in 260 or 7-08 it makes it quite Intresting

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Yeah I like Perazzi , Luciano Bosis and Fabbri shotguns problem is I can’t afford the Ones I like .

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My Sharps has a patchbox on the buttstock and I have a spare firing pin assembly with certain spare springs. They are all fitted and because I have them, I’ll likely never need them! Glad you found a part that can be easily modified to work. Ah yes far better to have and never need vs need and can’...

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I had a pair of Marlin 375’s one was jacketed only and the other was cast only . Two inches at 100 yards for three shots from the bench was not difficult with handloads in either , atleast in those two rifles . Don’t think I ever fired any factory in either rifle . I will say all my cast bullets wer...

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My great grandfather on my mothers side was the earliest born . He was born in 1890 and he died in 1981 . My fathers mother made it to 98 when she passed , she was born in 1912 . My great grandmother on my mothers side while not the earliest or the oldest like my great grandfather was born up in the...

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My gunsmith buddy and I were thinking about getting a walk in cooler thing to put outside of his butchering room . This was back when we’d damage control hunt in the hot months . But then we decided perhaps it was better not to do that or we’d end with ten or twelve in there we’d need to get done :l...

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Point in fact ! One week maybe fifteen years ago I was having a good week . I’d killed two or three during the week and had then hanging unskinned . Saturday rolls around and a friends coming to hunt with me . Long story short when I got dark that night I had seven hanging , not all mine but still ....

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Anytime I shoot /shot a buck he would go into the grinder sans backstraps. Most of the does would go for actual cuts. Provided it's cool enough I'll hang my deer at least until rigormortise leaves the body but a few have hung months when they freeze solid! They just get more tender!! :D I don’t let...

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Found a piece box of Nosler 6.5mm 140 gr Partitions . Gonna see if I can get a passable load quick then possibly have six or seven rounds to try and bowl one over with that bullet . Kinda hate buying a box as the darn things are $60 a box of 50 now plus shipping and tax of course . I enjoy that litt...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:30 pm I can taste the jerky already!

No usually my making it into edible portions includes me removing the back straps and bagging them , then the fish and bagging them . Then anything else is cut from the bone and bagged to either be ground or used in stew .

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Well this is a first ! I’ve never waited six days before going out the first time during the VA gun season . But it turned Black Friday is the first day for me this year . Carried a Mannlicher Schoenauer MC 7x57 carbine loaded with Hornady 139 SST handloads . Saw this little 8 point at 07:45ish at 7...

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I didn’t think I’d used a Gold Dot HP ! Ifound the box of bullets is loaded from Speer Gold Dot 44 cal 270 gr GDSP .

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Unfortunately they’re all gone and I’ve got some really heavy 44 cast bullets inside something I’m the 400 grain plus range .

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Seems to me I loaded some 44 cal Gold Dots for the 444 . And if memory serves I killed a deer or two with them .

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congrats man! couple good looking deer there. I don't think it would have been too much of a problem if you carried the deer home on your trailer. Especially not through western va. Rockingham where I live is the reddest county in the state, and augusta isn't too far behind. Of course charlottesvil...

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Locked up the cabin at 06:30 this morning got out to 250 topped off and got a bag of ice . It was foggy going over the mountains but I took my time (not something I’m known for lols) . Stopped once for a nature call . 250 to Staunton was calm , 64 from Staunton to Charlottesville was a bit congested...

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Your season runs longer than ours! We end first or second week in February. We can shoot 2 at a time everyday of the season, been like that for about 10 years. I'm convinced the herd is low due to that, blue tongue hasn't helped either! Regular gun season in Virginia east of the Blue Ridge has been...

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