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Ahhh...the fine old days of "WHAM-O" and like products...

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1894cfan wrote:My first guns ever were a Marlin 39a and a Ruger Single-Six, in that order.

Even though I notoriously love my Ruger 96/22, it would be hard to beat a 39a and Single Six as a pair...!

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The idea I have, but have never acted on, is to use the Weaver mount, on the side, and make a bracket that will allow a standard weaver base to mount to it, and holes drilled and tapped into the front of the receiver, and the front sight dovetail. This would all be removable, except the holes in th...

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Very cool and fascinating info. I wonder if the kind of destruction a cleaning rod would do (intruding fairly far into the barrel, but shallow and wide) vs. the ones he did with a file and punch (appearing by description to be limited to the very end of the muzzle, and relatively deep and narrow), w...

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If I had lots of thousands to invest (I wish) I'd consider the 'precious' metals, but there's less regulation, taxes, and likelihood of seizure if you simply invest in 'ordinary' metals - copper, lead, aluminum, etc. come to mind (seriously, not just for ammo). I saved a bunch of torn-out copper pip...

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Done. Back surgery is tough...

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El Chivo wrote:cool but what are you going to do when your friends want one just like it?

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If needed, I'd sleep in the car, or even the trailer...

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jumbeaux wrote:My dad was a hunter his entire life . . . He loved to peasant hunt and would drive all night to hunt for one or two days....he also loved to fish.
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I wouldn't speak much of that unless you're sure the Statute of Limitations has passed. . .

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Interesting story. Sad in a way for the community, but on the other hand, if it HAD become a touristy place and trendy place for famous people to move, it wouldn't have much character now. I guess that's the perpetual tradeoff - growth and loss of character, or character retention and deterioration....

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Stuff you make yourself is usually

a) better suited for the task, because it's the way YOU wanted it made, and

b) better made, because you likely didn't skimp on materials or use mass-production techniques.

The tradeoff is "it looks like someone made it himself" - well, Duhhh...!

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I've never heard of any restrictions on threaded muzzles on anything other than certain so called semi auto "assault rifles", and only during the ban period. Didn't apply to any other guns that I've heard of. I'm not a fan of muzzle widgets, looks or otherwise, but if you like them, I don...

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Amazingly, 35 years later, I still have BOTH...

Marlin 1894 (parkerized and forend slimmed), and Ruger SuperBlackhawk '200th Year' model - both .44 Mags.

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I'd rather have that kind of stuff in a vehicle and put anything but the guns in the trailer, myself...

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Awesome...!

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At least with breech cleaning, there is usually not as much angle you can get to with the rod to scrape the crown. I think all guns should have threaded muzzles, so you would have three options: a) a thread protector you could slip on if you wanted it to look like an un-threaded gun for some reason ...

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marlin shooter wrote:I was 7 years old and vaguely rember watching it at my grandparents house. 40 years ago Ted Kennedy also tried to float the oldsmobile. I wonder why this hasn't got much airtime?
Karl

That's it - I knew it - they DID fake the whole moon thing, just to take the media eyes off Teddy's boat ride...!

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Our culture went from horses and T model Fords to moon shots in his lifetime... seems like we stalled and even regressed, our most sucessful technology since he passed a few years ago has been the "XBox" and that seems to be a shame to me. A friend of mine says his grandfather watched the...

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Mom was the one who encouraged me and kept me in the scouts. . . . With her shoulder acting up she was still able to shoot the 32 S&W in it. I hope she will improve to 32 S&W Long but we will see, it's the least I can do for her. Sounds like you had one heck of a good mom; good you're helpi...

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My son's Henry tends to have the first-inserted round stick in the magazine (it is actually in the receiver at that point), so if you take the empty gun, load 12 in the tube, and never shoot or work the lever, you will dump out only 11 rounds, and one will be in the gun. Jiggling no help. Working th...

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Dad died when I was about to turn five years old and was more of a photographer and target shooter, but here's some pics of his mother and her father... Grandma and great grandpa camping on our place http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa132/AJMD429/Leverguns%20etc/CampingElizabethandDadJPG.jpg Grand...

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BlaineG wrote:"If the wimmin don't find ya handsome, they'll find ya Handy" Red Green

He's just as handsome as his dad is...

...he's doomed...

...to be chased by hordes of women all his life...

...thowing sticks and rocks at him...

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Here's another: wouldn't it be nice if someone would make a low budget, unadorned double rifle in common chamberings for those of us who can't afford 5 figures and up for one of the fancy European jobs, let alone the 17 bucks a pop ammo prices like TedH was telling us his 470 Nitro ammo cost. Maybe...

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I have RCBSLoad software for the ballistics stuff, but the online conversions was nice to hear about... Thanks.

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The three-wheel ones look too 'tippy' for some terrain. We use one like this - the wheels are 26" I think if that helps show size. http://www.greenhouses-etc.net/garden_carts/images/fw_kac.jpg We simply lay guns (we've had 20 long guns in it along with a dozen or so handguns) down on an old woo...

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BlaineG wrote:A stainless 39 Mountie would be cool, with a thin composit stock....

...now THAT would be a Marlin 39 I'd take a serious look at...!

speaking of stainless - another run of the stainless 1894C's in .357 would be sorely appreciated...!

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Charles wrote:This is what you get when you elect a POTUS who doesn't have deep cultural and historical roots to this country.

Sadly, our youger generation's blind desire for 'hope' and 'change' have removed the 'TU' from the POTUS.

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Everyone says it would be "too expensive" to engineer and create a stronger levergun able to handle .500 S&W or .460 S&W, and I find that strange. Several basically great designs ARE out there, and each has a reason of some sort (action length, front-of-receiver width, proximity of...

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We 'use' them as DECOYS to have the gun dealers keep on the shelf for other people to buy, so we can have the good stuff...

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My guess is that since the slower twist can be marginal for long bullet stabilizing, and the Barnes mostly/all copper bullets are longer for a given weight (less dense material, although the sectional density would be the same), they could be harder to stabilize. A really hot load could drive them f...

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For anyone that uses bad weather as an excuse to dismiss scopes look at it this way. I'd guess that less than 10% of my hunting is in foul weather. But low/bad light is an every trip occurrence. And peeps and ghost ring sights downright suck in low/bad light. Scopes don't. LK Makes good sense. I us...

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Mine 1970's vintage .44 Mag only did it once, due to tipping the gun upwards and short-stroking it at the same time. I've owned and shot six others and NEVER had a jam like that. Total rounds fired between all the guns over the past 40 years, probably six to eight thousand. Do you suspect 'short st...

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It's all about aerodynamics. The slanted serrations allow the wind generated by the slide movement to flow easier around the slide. This in effect allows for faster cycle times, also with the serrations slanted as such (///////) toward the front of the pistol as the side moves to the rear the airfl...

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.32-20 only because you can more easily get a handgun in the same cartridge. Raccoons reach through our chicken cages and while holding the bird with one hand/paw, pull pieces of the living, but sleeping, birds off and eat them until eventually the bird dies, then they keep eating all but the heat a...

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I happily join DarryH in admitting that the Marlin lever is not my choice... Yes, I know that the Marlin is an heirloom quality firearm and the Henry is, well ..... serviceable, but I want a lever 22 that I like to shoot rather than a pretty one just sitting in the rack. The 39A ain't it, much as I...

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Go with the hand press. If you get Lee die sets, they come with a dipper and a shellholder. Other brands usually need for you to buy the shellholder separately. The dies will usually be interchangeable from brand to brand, so if you prefer something other than Lee Dies, use them and enjoy it. For p...

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Bushnell Holo-sight, or something similar That, or for a less bulky setup, a FireSight front with a ghost of some sort in back. The Williams FP's with aperture removed work pretty well for me, but I want to try one of these sometime - only $14.99 at MidwayUSA! http://www.midwayusa.com/mediasvr.dll/...

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Mine 1970's vintage .44 Mag only did it once, due to tipping the gun upwards and short-stroking it at the same time. I've owned and shot six others and NEVER had a jam like that. Total rounds fired between all the guns over the past 40 years, probably six to eight thousand.

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No 'guru' here (my favorite 1911's are my beat-up old AMT, and an early Para-14 with a slide looks like it was painted by a kid), but a) I do like the serrations - if your hands are slippery or you're in a hurry, they help grip and rack the slide. b) I like the vertical ones better - they just LOOK ...

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My first single action was a ruger super blackhawk with 7 1/2 inch barrel in .44, back in 79. your son has done well and that revolver will serve him a lifetime. Exactly the gun I got as my first centerfire handgun, except it was the 1976-1776 "200th year" model - I promptly ruined it's &...

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BlaineG wrote:Correction: SaberToothed groundhogs.......

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40, your still a kid. Wait till you hit 60. My sister says wait till you hit 70. My mother-in-law says wait till you hit 85. My uncle says wait till you hit 92. Keep active and live, laugh, and love each day, that's my new motto. :) Had a patient last year who said something about that "lazy n...

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I have hunted alone since I was 14 and my (AJMD429) will tell you that he trusts me in the woods alone with a gun. :o GUNS! - When did THIS start...? I always thought you were just back there collecting bugs or something! Anyway, you should be doing chores or something now, not on the INTERNET; it'...

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Sure would be nice to have a long-action levergun rifle in that round, a companion short-action levergun carbine in .454 Casull, and a Pistol in .45 Colt... 8) ...but I think that the pressure it just too darned high for any of the traditional Winchester or Marlin leverguns. Maybe a BLR or Savage 99...

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Ones actually made: Marlin 1894C .357 Mag in Stainless Steel, spare Ruger 96/22 or 96/44 (to modify to .45 Colt?) Ones not made (yet): Short-action Levergun in .500 S&W or Long-action Levergun in .460 S&W Ones probably never to be made: Ruger 96 in .32-20 Win, .357 Mag, or .223 Rem, even .45...

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I'll help you upload this one of you and one of your guns later, if you'd like..........

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I hunt dark timber an use a williams peep with a brass ring in it I think they call it a twilight peep works pretty good. danny I've been comparing that setup vs. removing the aperture for a 'ghost ring' effect, and both work better than a plain aperture, that's for sure. (Still not like a 3-9x50mm...

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kimwcook wrote:Thanks for the report, Kirk. Interested in the end result and what you find out.

+1

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Most modern leftist types, college kids, and news reporters (i.e. the idiots who elected Obama) regard the DAR as something as 'evil' as the John Birch Society, so no wonder it wasn't treated as newsworthy these days.

Pretty sad state of affairs.

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First 10 or 12 with .430 JSP's from 12 gauge saboted 265 gr, muzzleloader saboted 265 gr, Ruger handgun 240 gr, at probably 1800, 2000, and 1200 fps, respectively. Nearly always using a scope on the long guns, peep (replacement rear blade) on the handguns. Longest was 125 yards, closest was 3 feet (...

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