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'92s in mexican version converted to use up FREE military spec .45 ACP ammo we gave them sucked. However, I know a Marlin or '73 type action CAN be conveted to run short rounds (I have em here, for Cowboy .45 Special, which is an ACP with a colt rim), and all that would remain is to recut the chambe...

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The 8MM round is quite popular in Europe and Africa, where Surplus and civilian German guns went by the droves. It's just never been very popular HERE because our guys were wedded to the "ought six" and hated anything "kraut" after the Big War.

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I've seen silver soldered chokes take flight. FWIW for a backpack gun, I wouldn't sweat the choke. Beads can be done easily, especially since the cut down barrel will be quite thick. I turned an NEF 20 ga into a pistol grip 18" barreled camp gun, and after filing the threads off a bead, leaving...

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The only "high powered" bolt gun I have ever owned is an 8MM, 1918 Prussian made critter. I bought it poorly restocked in an old Remmie stock. I paid $65 for it at an auction, in part because the auctioneer didn't know what it was. "no caliber marked on this rifle" he said, and t...

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For the third time this season, we had a mere dusting last night, just enough to make for a white Christmas. We NORMALLY have plowable snow in November, and have had as much as 3-4 FEET or more in December many times. I'm not looking forward to the pendulum swinging the other way (one of those 10 ft...

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In the end, I guess guns are just iron. Sure, I have a few I will never happily part with, but any of of em could go if the reason was important enough. Long as I still have ONE so I wouldn't feel naked, the rest aren't THAT important, push comes to shove.

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Wait! Somebody who is a grown person got upset by a joke about shooting mythical figure? GROW UP! Pitchy ole pard, I've always thought of you as a kind and generous sort, but man alive, ya can't run off every time somebody gets upset over next to nothing.

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Looking at the first batch of pics my thoughts ran to a 5 wt fly rod from a kayak. I've caught a few Northern Pike that way, but a 30 lb striper would be a hoot.

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At any launch angle up to the maximum muzzle elevation for furthest range (31 degrees) a bullet will come in at about the same angle it is launched at. The flight path "flattens out" at the "dish" of the upturned parabola, then finishes very near the same angle it started at, des...

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I use photobucket to host pics (no complaints). I d like my canon digicam (I forgot the name of it, but it's got the IS and all that, takes good pics) but I dunno for sure where it even is. Last time I went to use it the batteries were dead, and I used my Droid2 phone's 5 MP camera instead. The droi...

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Uh... BS. :wink: :lol: Is the BS for the shotspotter? Those are real, in fact our troops use them overseas in the sand box. I have no doubt they are in use in the US. A city near here has the microphone telemetry system. I remember when they set it up, they dialed it in by having cops test fire rou...

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Some guns acquire an emotional "place" readily, and will never be sold. Others are just "there" and eventually find heir way to the "used to own" file. They are just guns.....

I like the Quigley Sharps

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Maximum range is achieved at about 31 degrees elevation. The incoming rounds are still lethal if greatly slowed.....

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Not for nothing, but legally, once cut for a loading gate, it IS a firearm subject to all handgun laws where you live as well as federal regs. If not cut, the cylinder and the C&B gun are outside of any regs in most instances. Kirst makes the conversion for long colt as well, which can be used w...

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The shooting range where I shoot CAS had an incident maybe 8 or 9 years ago. NYS Park Police used our range for their training, and they were doing some sort of tactical drill requiring a shooter to advance a few yards, drop to prone, and fire. One of their guys did so with his finger inside the tri...

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BTW, the maple ya got looks like good ole fashioned "hard maple". I got about 40 of em surrounding my property, and cut a few small planks out of firewood from one tree we took down and let em age for a couple years for scale use. Did a Russell "Green River" with some a while bac...

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Around here ALL OF THEM say "ten percent ethanol added" as required by law. The only "straight" gas I know of is racing gas, available at OH MY GOD prices at a station around the corner from the local 1/2 mile dirt track.

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Could be as simple as nobody heard any other shots, and the hunter knew what he'd done (which likely was he discharged his rifle at about 30 degree angle of elevation).

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That's a great little knife. I love mine.

Scaled with cocobolo, and the blade treated with antique solution and baked.....

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An easy error when all you see around you is fields. My dad had a near miss with a .44 mag handgun many years ago. He took a shot at a woodchuck sunning itself on a bank. he hit the chuck, a pass through head shot. As he was driving out to the hard road, a pickup blocked his path. After a chat with ...

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I would shoot BP level loads in any of these oldtimers that were in good condition. I would not take a chance with "factory level" loads in any of them. There is no way of telling for sure which of the 140 year old parts are strong enough to stand the strain. It was well known in my youth...

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A #5 steel frame roller which was probably chambered in 7mm would be my go to. This would require retrofitting from the original rimless extractor to the rimmed type, but is a stronger action than anything else until ya get to a '98 Mauser.

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If she has an iPhone, get her the Tom Tom app. It comes with all the maps for North America. The iPhone already has a built in GPS antenna. Get her a mounting bracket and she's got a fully operational GPS. That is what I use and in my opinion, it has made the stand-alone GPS completely redundant. I...

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GPS apps for phones are not all dependent upon the cell system. MY Droid2 on Verizon has setting to choose "assisted" GPS using 3G or just the GPS when that's all ya want. For a CAR it works great, as I can plug the phone into the car radio's "aux in" input, play my music stored...

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GPS apps for phones are not all dependent upon the cell system. MY Droid2 on Verizon has setting to choose "assisted" GPS using 3G or just the GPS when that's all ya want. For a CAR it works great, as I can plug the phone into the car radio's "aux in" input, play my music stored ...

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On the one hand, yeah, it's NUTS, but nuts with a lot of skill, a lot of understanding of the science involved, and a level of courage beyond words. I guess my impression is "why would you?" followed by, "But once you decided to, oh man he does it so well." Imagine the adrenaline...

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Ya may have to use a washer type shim on the mag tube stud Jam a piece of cardboard or something between the mag tube and barrel to figure out how thick a washer ya need on the stud to get the tube further from the BBL.

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checks all used to go out the third of each month. Then in order to spread out the load on banks, etc, they broke em into weekly runs based on either alphabet or SSAN blocks,

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They are or were in the Fl. panhandle. I worked the last 20 yrs. That St. Joe Paper Co. ran their woodlands, West Bay Unit. This was from 77-97, And we did find their tracks in so.walton co. Between US98 @ 30A which ran along the beach's. We would tell the FGFC, they in turn would tell us that the ...

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In the e-mail I received, it's not stated if it was his gun or his vehicle. He was certainly patient with me. I visited his shop over 11 years ago, but it wasn't until this year I had him build me a .30-40 sporter. Many e-mails and phone calls came between. He will be missed. Karl Dave was one of a...

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Dingdangit, another fine man meets his Maker due to negligence. This drives me crazy. This was not an accident...handle a firearm like you would a rattlesnake. Not to come across as harsh, but this is pure negligence by familiarity. I liked him too, however, why was the chamber loaded with a cartri...

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Dave Higginbotham, the man behind Lone Star Rifles of Conroe TX, and the world's preeminent Rolling Block expert, was killed Wednesday morning when a rifle he was taking out of a vehicle discharged. This is a tragic loss of a talented man who I spoke to several times on the phone, and who built &quo...

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Most consumers wouldn't know a sharp knife unless they had their hand cut off with one. People like shiny, they like "dishwasher safe"..... When you take a simple Russell pattern carbon steel knife and make it sharp enough in two minutes to julienne newspaper on a bias, cutting .030 wide s...

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better steel--less additives..? I think it has more to do with the rest of the process in manufacturing. They choose steels that do the end job, but also those easy on tooling, FASTER to machine, etc. I love stainless for some things (like boat props) but the world is gone crazy with SS knives and ...

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I would suspect that Remington offered to keep any Marlin guys willing to relocate to SC. I'd bet there VERY few takers; especially in this economy. If you were a skilled machinist, your wife held a good job, you were near SS age w/a mortgage, who's income could more easily be replaced. Ny wife &am...

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I won't go to the politics, but the Big Boy receiver is NOT brass. it's some kind of mystery metl (likely MIM) that is plated with an electroplate then laquered. If you go after it with normal brass cleaning methods, yer gonna have a mess that looks like a dull carburator when yer done.

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NICE patch knife! yes, the old chicken bone hardened steel did take a better edge easier, but it didn't hold as well as modern stuff.

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That is a great pattern knife. I have the Green River version and while that pattern looks kind of plain it is good on everything from squirrels to catfish to deer to bream. Your son will no doubt enjoy it particularly since his Dad made it. Nice work. I've done five or six different Russell patter...

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How long did it take? Well, unfortunately texas Knifemaker Supply sent a blank that had been wet while wrapped in paper and lacking any oil, so it was badly stained. Since time was of the essence, rather than send it back, I sanded and polished the blank for what seemed forever (a couple hours of de...

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Though not "presentation grade", this simple Russell pattern "Camp Knife" with linen micarta scales and good ole fashioned carbon steel blade seems like it will give good, long service. I made it for my son, who shares my affliction for edged tools. http://img.photobucket.com/alb...

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When Remington took on making Marlins in NY, NOT ONE of the key people from CT took the offer to move to NY. The CNC machinery is, for the most part, not even part of hte move. Remington had plenty of new machinery. They lack levergun-skilled people.

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Nice Horse pistol (any pistol capable of dispatching either horse or rider with single shot) ya got there.

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Steve, I personally wanna thank you for your service. I was younger than you, growing up with the belief I would go to 'Nam, but the war got over just in time to spare me that duty. But I believed then, and believed now, we as individuals don't get to choose when to "pay the rent" for our ...

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The problem with THREATENING somebody with a gun (or anything), is some people don't scare that easy, and others are just plain insane. Thirty or so years ago I had a gun pulled on me when I drove a taxi cab. The miscreant was well known to the cab company, and they knew he'd called a cab, so he was...

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You could (and I would) darken em some with a water-soluble dye like tea or something like walnut dye (somebody got a walnut or butternut tree can send ya a couple nuts still in the hulls) to add some color yet allow the grain and highlights to come through.

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I have one here somewhere. Seals are shot.

But in it's day, I shot a mouse inside a wall of an older mobile home. Used a BB and knowledge of how the wall is made to know where the mouse had to be when it went inside the wall. One shot followed by frantic scurrying, then silence.

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Though I wouldn't have guessed it, yeah, it's lake pleasant alright. I can almost take you to the spot. Lake Pleasant was then, and is now a tourist town, the population ballooning 10X in the high season. There were several decent sized hotels back then, and deer season was in August and September. ...

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The main concern I would have is sufficient neck tension and consistent tension. Too little isn't good. FWIW brass is springy, so a ball will not expand it to the ball diameter, and a sizer MUST squeeze it smaller than the desired diameter to get the brass where we want it to be.....

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The legality in some places has to due with mag capacity. In NY 10 rounds is max. In other places, guns must be submitted for a drop test, etc and some makers simply refuse to submit samples for testing.

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Oh, FWIW the stock matters. Mine is a 24" rifle with the straight stock, and I like how it fits me better than those with the curved grip. The extra nose weight does make the 24" rifle "hang" more steady, and does not appreciably effect speed of handling. Mine is fully done up as...

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