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No gunleather in this vid, just my son and I having some fun with some of our old rifles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URv7USxqFIc

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Perry, That is very close to or at the old factory level. That "IS NOT" a light load by any stretch of the imagination. :mrgreen: Joe Joe, I agree, it's from the old Hercules reloading guide and is listed as a pistol and revolver load.It chronos at 1640 fps, just below the muzzle velocity...

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I bought a used Euroarms .357 1873 carbine in 1989. Never fired a factory .357 in it so I can't comment but my standard handload is 15 grains of 2400 under a 158gr LRNFP and I have fired over 20,000 through it without any problems at all.
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Why do some think we have to denigrate the Royal Family or the British to start with? Like it or not, if it weren't for the British WE wouldn't be here. In the grand scheme of things we (the US) England, Canada, and Australia are inextricably connected and just about the only real friends each othe...

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Didn't have time to load any black powder loads so had to make do with some smokeless rounds that a friend gave me. My first 4-shot string gave me this:- http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0643-1.jpg So I quit while I was ahead, ramped up the rearsight a bit and went off to the mat...

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Arrived this morning..... http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0638.jpg Uberti Burgess in 45Colt. Would have preferred 44-40 but the UK importer can't get them. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0639-2-1.jpg The only safety on it is a trigger block that comes on if...

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That is a beautiful photo, Perry! Is that your home? I've always wanted to visit the English country side in the spring. Maybe some day! Victor Unfortunately no, that's the 16th Century Coulsdon Farm and barn. Last time it was sold it fetched £720000. My more modest house is about 100yds behind it.

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http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0583-1.jpg After the coldest winter in 100 years finally the daffodils are out, the village pond is coming to life and, best of all, the track up to our range has dried out enough to be just passable in 4WD Earlier this week I loaded 1500 rounds ...

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All I know is what was told to me by a "Limey" that I worked with for a while after he moved over here. He had more appreciation of this country than most people that live here. He was a teller of tall tales so I'm not sure how much is actually true, but this is a summary of what he told ...

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I shipped a number of firearms back home after my 5-year stint in the USA. You would have to leave the firearms in Canada while you established residency in the UK and applied for firearm and shotgun certificates and to do that you would have to join a shooting club that did the type of shooting tha...

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I have a yearning for a Uberti Burgess but here in the UK they are only available in .45 Colt and I have never thought much of that as a black powder rifle cartridge and I don't have anything chambered in it. Yesterday a friend called and said that he was giving up shooting for health reasons and wa...

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I load eight different calibres in black powder and I thought it about time that I upgraded my case cleaning equipment to a rotary tumbler and ceramic media. Thumler tumblers aren't available in the UK but in searching the web for one I came across this stuff: http://www.stainlesstumblingmedia.com/ ...

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These things can be tricky to set up. I use RCBS sizer dies as they have only one row of holes compared to the two rows that Lymans have. I use a caliper to measure the distance from the nose of the bullet to the grease groove and from the top of the die to the inlet holes before mounting the die, t...

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I have four of the Big Lube 6 cavity moulds that are made by Lee. They cast good bullets but I find that it's hard to get enough leverage with the wooden sprue plate cam handle so I usually replace it with a length of steel tube. The latest mould I got had an adjustment screw for the cam and seems t...

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Over here 2400 is £37.15 for a 500g tub, that's the equivalent of US$54 a pound. Gasoline just topped US$9 a gallon!
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Nice clear guide. My first venture into dovetails was on my Baker rifle kit, which had five dovetails, two for the sights and three for the tenons to hold the barrel on. The big round barrel doesn't have a lot of wall thickness so you had to be careful not to file through into the bore. The foresigh...

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Here's a Queensland Police Service list: http://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/weaponsLicensing/antique/nonComAvailAmmo.htm Hey Bruce, I thought our UK laws were bad but this piece of legislation is just ridiculous. I see from the rest of the site that they do not approve ammo if it is available fo...

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Appendix 5 of the document Firearms - Guidance to the Police, from the UK Home Office, lists what the UK authorities regard as obsolete calibres. Antique firearms chambered in the listed calibres may be possessed without a licence although "antique" is not defined in law. Possession of amm...

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BTW, an attractive price over here is $5K for a shooter...a nice one will fetch $20K or more. Ed Asking price is UK£2000 (US$3110) and he claims the bore is mint. Over here antique guns chambered in the .40-XX and .50-XX calibres can be acquired without a licence so long as you don't shoot them, so...

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At the range this morning one of the new members mentioned that he had a Winchester 1886 in .50 Express for sale.I haven't seen it yet but he says it is factory lettered and the price is attractive. Naturally I am tempted but I think loading for it here in the UK might pose problems. I think I can u...

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Another contribution from the UK, with thanks for your efforts.
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When I shipped all my firearms back to the UK I used European Target Shooters Supplies (ETSS) in Hotchkiss, Colorado. Mike Nehs at ETSS handled all the paperwork and shipped by Fedex to their depot at Stansted Airport in the UK. I just went to the depot with my firearms licence and collected them. I...

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Here's something to waste a lot of time on.
http://www.hlberg.dk/eurosimulator/shooting_usa.html

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How was the accuracy of those Snakebites over Goex? I am thinking of getting a mould for them to use with BP in a .357 carbine for CAS.
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Our government doesn't trust us with cartridge handguns so I have to make do with this pair of ROAs

The 1873 is in 38-40
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One in 40-65 dating from 1887
One Browning in 45-70

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As a last resort I have used screw extractors. They look like a tapered screw with a left-hand thread and usually come in a kit of several sizes. They are hard and brittle and should be turned with a T-type tap wrench to avoid breakage. When I used to shoot 1858 Remingtons I turned my own wrenches f...

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First I am going to take all the firearms I brought back from the USA up to the Birmingham Proof House to get them proved so I can legally pass them on to my son when the time comes. Next I am going to sell my Sniders, original 1886 and 1849 pocket Colt, plus all the dies, moulds and original reload...

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Top down -
Austrian Werndl
Martini Henry MK4
Baker Rifle
Snider rifle (whoops, non-military)
Snider artillery carbine
Snider cavalry carbine

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Sized and primed a batch of Starline 38-40s and loaded them with 4 different powder types and 2 different bullet alloys ready for a serious range session with my 1873 today. Happened to put a loaded round down on a flat surface and it rocked about. Doh!!! - I had used large rifle primers instead of ...

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Lead Styphnate is the active ingredient in the priming mixture but it is tricky stuf to make as has already been said. If you survive making it you need to add it to the case wet then spin the case to distribute the mixture. Rimfire cases such as Henry and Spencer dug from Indian Wars battle sites o...

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deerwhacker444 wrote:Can you take a screenshot using printscreen and paintbrush and save it as an image.?

That would work. Or can you print it and scan the print? Most scanning software allows you to save as a .jpeg.
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Hard to think of any human behaviour lower than this;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-11734814
Shouldn't be hard to catch this scumbag but when they do he will probably be "sentenced" to a few hours community service.
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I have a pic that Boge Quinn took of 10 TLA revolvers in a circle. Perry Owens,How did you make a copy of your desk top like that? To grab a copy of the desktop just press Shift and PrtScn keys together. That will store the image on the clipboard and you can then paste it into photo editing softwar...

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Kirk D's photo of his 1873.......

I have one just like it but I don't have his photographic skills.
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Jay, Did you get those Big Lubes from Mark Whyte? Reason I ask is that I found the green lube he uses a bit too hard. When firing 38-40's from my 1873 I found bits of lube stuck to the target at 50 yds. If you get disappointing accuracy this might be an area to look at. When I bought my own Big Lube...

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Perry. Can you post a photo of the area above the weight marking? Gobbler http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0430.jpg Gobbler, The position of the markings is outlined in black.The top face is 12 x 3in and the horn is 7in. There is a square hole in the other side of the base as we...

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http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0427-1.jpg I rescued this little guy when we cleared one of our factories last year. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0428.jpg A scrub with a wire brush revealed the numbers 0 2 14. On the bathroom scales it came in at 68lbs. ...

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I have a similar 1873 in 38-40. I put a Beech combination front sight on it, a Marbles tang sight and a Marbles folding leaf rear sight. That way I can use bead and aperture or blade and notch depending on range and light conditions. I wear varifocals so I got my optician to prescribe single-vision ...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -dead.html
Nath, Gamekeeper, it wasn't you was it?
Surprising that it was able to survive so long on Exmoor, a small area of moorland in South-West England.

Perry Owens

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Thanks for that Perry. Cannot understand all the misfires though. Main problem seemed to be bits of cap falling between the hammer and frame and stopping the hammer striking the next cap hard enough. Sometimes fragments went right inside the frame, jamming the mechanism completely. Many competitors...

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Spent an interesting but chilly day helping out at the annual vintage rifle meeting at Bisley Camp, the UK NRA headquarters. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0410.jpg UK NRA Headquarters ( the tents are part of the trade show) My station was on the advancing target range for leve...

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Joe, Hate to say this but it looks like the other folders may not have transferred. When you click on "Open" on the CD the the computer will tell you how many files it sees on the disc. If you click on "Properties" instead of "Open" it will tell you how much of the CD s...

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With the CD in the drive click on "Start", then on "Computer" (or "My Computer" depending on the Windows version). The media drive should appear to have a disc in it - right click on it and click on "Open" and it should list all the files and folders on the CD...

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When drilling cases to make practice rounds I first fill them with Cerrosafe chamber casting alloy. Melts out easily after drilling.
Perry Owens

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KWK wrote:How is "Bisley" pronounced? My first guess is Biss-lee. I can also see Bizz-lee, or Bigh-slay, or ...

Thanks.

Bizz-lee, with the emphasis on Bizz.
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On the weekend of October 23/24 I shall be officiating at the Trafalgar Meeting at the historic Bisley Ranges. Organised by the UK NRA, this is one of the premier European events for vintage, veteran and classic firearms. This year there are ten competitions specifically for lever actions, plus many...

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When I lived in the US I seldom visited drive-throughs as their audio systems and my English accent appeared to be incompatible. On one occasion, when my granddaughter and her friends were visiting I relented and we went to a McDonalds drive-through on Long Island. I asked "the box" whethe...

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I bought this 0.357 Euroarms 1873 carbine,used,in 1988. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0370.jpg Since then it has digested thousands of rounds, both smokeless and black powder, without a hiccup. Headspace is still good, action is butter-smooth and the blueing is good as new. I ...

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http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/IMG_0645-1.jpg 1890 vintage Winchester '73 in 38-40. The cases usually land in the crown of my hat. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/Snapshot113-09-20101-00PM-1.png Here is my 1886 touching off a 40-65 black powder round. Perry Owens

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