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There is nothing like the sound of a radial except for a Rolls Royce/ Merlin V12! If you need a 'fix ' for aviation engines ya gotta go to Reno air races ! A while back I was walking down the road here and behind me I heard it coming. No mistaking the sound! A beautiful P-51 Mustang came over and I...

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My grammar and punctuation failings are so egregious I am ashamed lest you learned folk censure me. That next to last sentence should have read.....

"schmeared the first dollop".

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The Negotiations..... It sat there languishing on the market for nigh-on three years. The owners were just asking too much by virtue of its supposed commercial potential. Yes there were 28 established r.v. pads with hook-ups and a his & hers bathhouse and a general store but kudzu vines had obsc...

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Fictional l.a.p.d. patrolman reed & malloy do it at least once every other episode(s). They roll up to a silent alarm with roscoes drawn and cautiously peer into bank, bar, gun, jewelry, pawn establishment, etc. Reed crawfishes back to car to broadcast mayday and fetches the slide-actioned fowli...

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B.T.T. And this stalwart levergunner greatly resembles the inimitable Roy Yeager of handgun hunting fame/infamy..... https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=331443#p331443 Yet another reason to join the renewed handgun hunters international..... https://www.handgunhuntersinternational.com

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In my lunchbox at work. The magnum has first two chambers loaded with cci shot for bats in the overhead and snakes under the chemical tanks.

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SSK H.H.I. africa hunting special from two decades ago including an article by the good doctor.....

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YPIQ9x ... yYrzN/view

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to remember Doctor Larry C. Rogers, m.d. aka the "west virginia hitman" ? I know rev. T remembers him. Well he is still alive and kicking with nearly 16,000 groundhogs slain and over 2,500 whitetails taken with handguns. larry-rogers-md-petersburg-wv.jpg They sure grow some big groundhogs ...

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I don't think my particular example is made anymore but this appears to be an improvement on the design.... https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/28623 The disadvantage is the difficulty of centering muzzle face on the flat magnet. Thanks for the advice(s). I quite understand the co...

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In the clutter of the raycave for something else when I find a red laser bore-sighter contraption that sticks to the barrel's muzzle with a powerful magnet. You center it best you can by eyeball then, according to the brief instructions, adjust the scope reticle to be above the laser dot (at 25 yds....

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Griff, read this..... https://influenceofhistory.blogspot.com/2018/06/modern-naval-battles-us-naval-gunfire.html The last paragraph mentions my ship some two and a half years before I came aboard. The new york times article said "the mighty fine ten fifty nine as her crew affectionately describ...

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You seem to be obsessed with subsonic speeds. One subsonic load will ring your ears and another supersonic will sound like a .22 rimfire. Each load combination has a different sound signature and even similar decibel readings can give you different personal hearing experiences. The whole current fad...

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Ray, I had to look up a Knox Class "can" and realized you were on a DE (destroyer escort), or that's how they were classified while I was in. Regards, Vic They made some upgrades(?) in 1975 and changed the designations to impress and awe ivan......he weren't too bothered by it. At least w...

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When I was mustered with uncle ronnie's yacht club doing a stretch of hard time (2 yrs. 2 mo. 11 days) on a floating prison referred to as a tin can (knox class) we knew of the momo-63 which had just come back to life in the pacific fleet and the iowa-61 which had been back for a few years. The clos...

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since I first read it. A long time forumite was piled upon/castigated/ostracized/shunned and impugned with gross dishonesty/fraud. That he was not scrupulously frank was obvious but at the same time, I simply cannot fathom a buyer being so incredibly and unreasonably effeminate about a few rust frec...

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Am I the only one who has never had any problems with pyrodex ? You have to clean them. Don't waste your time with water then oiling. Do both at the same time with one part ballistol cut with ten parts water. Let parts dry overnight (the water readily evaporates). If you see any powdery surface rust...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RwA0s_Q2w ... ZmV0dCA%3D

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I always wanted to add a refrain of sorts to "Amazing Grace".....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URwuoqJH9BU

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https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore ... on-shotgun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=stuL6O-duVg

https://www.powdervalley.com/product/cc ... tshell-20/

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I sliced off the crimps of a handfull of factory 3" #4s and replaced the shot with four .350" muzzleloading balls glued in with model cement. I doubt they would stand up to loading and unloading from a repeater but they work just fine in a break open and stay on a medium pizza box at 30 pa...

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Those are excerpts from samuel watkins' memoir. Long in the public domain, Gutenberg has the text and here is the audio.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LnnpfOq9Jbs

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We were supporting General Cleburne's division. Our division (Cheatham's) was commanded by General John C. Brown. Cleburne's division advanced to the attack. I was marching by the side of a soldier by the name of James Galbreath, and a conscript from the Mt. Pleasant country. I never heard a man pra...

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But I cannot describe it as I would wish. I would be pleased to mention the name of every soldier, not only of Company H alone, but every man in the First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Consolidated Regiments on this occasion, but I cannot now remember their names, and will not mention any one in part...

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For several nights they made attacks upon our lines, but in every attempt, they were driven back with great slaughter. They would ignite the tape of bomb shells, and throw them over in our lines, but, if the shell did not immediately explode, they were thrown back. They had a little shell called han...

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"DEAD ANGLE" The First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiments will ever remember the battle of "Dead Angle," which was fought June 27th, on the Kennesaw line, near Marietta, Georgia. It was one of the hottest and longest days of the year, and one of the most desperate and determi...

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now that'll wet a glass eye !

Old short-eyed swaggart does it as well as any......

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUj3nJaTGn0

Please excuse the time trip back to the 1980s.....

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I recently brought an old cigar box guitar themed post back to the top with these links only to realize that they had nothing to do with cigar box guitars so I deleted the reply. What they are are karaoke versions of popular tunes recorded onto my cellphone then played and sang/narrative recited alo...

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These are what I use in revolvers and break-open arms, long and short. They throw skirted pellets and round balls and combinations thereof. They are scarce and hard to find but I buy a box or two whenever in stock. https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/77734 Nigh-on impossible to lo...

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https://shootersreference.com/reloadingdata/38-special/

https://shootersreference.com/reloading ... n-special/

HP-38/W-231 is where I'd start if I was starting over. The maximum special loads work just fine in magnum cases if you need the longer cases for proper cycling.

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Since many revolver toters had had experiences with military arms and ammunition and were used to biting and pouring musket cartridges.....do you think they did this with colt's cartridges or at least somehow pricked/pierced the tails ? Never heard of anyone doing it. It does not help in any way in...

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https://www.marlinfirearms.com/s/model_1894Classic/

On page eight of the manual/instructions link and illustration 1b you can vaguely see four plug screws on top receiver.

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Since many revolver toters had had experiences with military arms and ammunition and were used to biting and pouring musket cartridges.....do you think they did this with colt's cartridges or at least somehow pricked/pierced the tails ?

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KelTec sent me the spring and guide rod when my son lost them. Taurus made a good one about the same size. Yep, tcp 738. The improved current offering is their "spectrum". In between those two models was the "curve" that shot around corners. https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsupersto...

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I really wish I could get into cartridge making. I've got the complete red plastic kit from pocket to horse but finding it is the challenge. The contessa, my beloved bride of 12,054 days (yesterday was our 33rd.) likes to straighten up and store my just arrived parcels where they are never seen agai...

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The turkish guns mentioned in the o.p. meant nothing to me until I received this unsolicited email pitch........ https://www.classicfirearms.com/gforce-arms-gflvr410-lvr410-25-91-24/?trk_msg=9B69J913UQ1KB7LKG2NF5C7I0G&trk_contact=7KE7BSE4KOQSP4O7CAK55EI8SC&trk_sid=L11P8L6ASM898OR6BBRDS2FLCS&...

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After rereading the o.p. I decided to research the ruger security .380. Now guess what gat I am saving-up pennies to buy ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUvX-d8Bf ... JpdHkgMzgw

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I hope this will be my next .410..... https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/411544790/stoeger+coach+gun+.410+20+blue The reviews complain of action being hard to open/close...... I did not see choke(s) in description but a reviewer mentions full & full so one or both will need...

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Here's one not previously mentioned..... https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/723012904/altor+single+round+.380acp A brace of them should get you safely from the porch to the mailbox and back..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvioSRqXW8w&pp=ygUQYWx0b3IgMzgwIHBpc3RvbA%3D%3D C...

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Birdshot (12ga.) vs. flesh of swine.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gq3RVvL9Z ... ZHNob3Q%3D

Fast forward to about 8:20 mark.....

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Video updated with actual article.....

https://www.gunblast.com/Henry-BigBoy357.htm

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When they were new to me antways, a four prop job about the size of a deli tray sauntered by betwixt my house and mom's and was hovering/lurking under the neighbour's open-sided tractor shed. It never left the shed alive. It ran into a cloud of #4s.

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Yep .. I get that. I was just answering the question about what .380 to carry. If I carried a .380 it would be something like that. You could handload full wadcutters to decent velocity for instance. Run heavier bullets. And it is a cute little gun, especially if you cut the barrel to 3 1/2" o...

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I wonder if something as plain as a circa 1994 super blackhawk and as pedestrian as a 2011 cva break-open qualifies as a presentable "combo" ? That cva is a proven deerslayer and the blackhawk has educated a few with near misses. Why wouldn't it? :) Well there once was a fellow we all kne...

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I wonder if something as plain as a circa 1994 super blackhawk and as pedestrian as a 2011 cva break-open qualifies as a presentable "combo" ? That cva is a proven deerslayer and the blackhawk has educated a few with near misses.

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One generation copies the previous. Edwards & Wesley had Cotton Mathers' compilation of sermons. Spurgeon & Moody had Edwards and on and on until the present. In the bible belts of the deep south and lower midwest you have uneducated "rabbit chasers" who start out speaking slowly a...

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This made me remember the first centerfire bought with my own coin. It was a 1893 mauser that I bought for $30 in 1982 and cost me another $35 for the cut and recrown and sight drilling/tapping. Can't remember what the williams sights cost me but I recall ordering from numrich. I foolishly traded it...

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Just saying, if by using gov. maddox's "one drop rule" to be considered "coloured" then I'm an albino freak whose hue would serve a vampire well. Three decades of working nights and seldom seeing sunshine don't help much in the melanin density and vitamin d absorption either.

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"is that you Ray?" No. I'm "mixed" as they say but not no where near that "mixed". One of my great grandmothers was thought to be scot-irish corrupted with a caloosian & plantation child admixture.....but one of her grandmother's maiden name was rowe, thought to be ...

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His site.....https://www.kirkdurston.com/

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I have several n.m. and vaquero 4-5/8" and even a few shorter with shortened ejectors or no ejector at all. A pen-clipped tiny screwdriver proves useful for those but a knife blade point prying under the rim will suffice.

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