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No, not me.

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Was that the war between the Napoleon French and the English?

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Were you ever? At war with Canada I mean.

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Howdy. I'm still hanging in there, thankfully, no doubt to the many who have been praying for me. Wow, you certainly have been doing a lot of testing! Hmmmm,. If the humidity is low....say less than 30%, that could be the reason of the less accuracy of the straight b.p. load. Another reason might b...

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After 20 years in the shipping business, I can tell you that crew on container ships do not, ever, set the auto-pilot, and then go to bed. Jobs are highly sought after, competitive, there is a lot of seatime and study in a navigation officers position, and they can be fired for anything at all. (Apa...

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Here is a question, a riddle if you will :

If the rifle will shoot a duplex load of 6 grains of H4227 under 32 grains of BP, and a 217 grain bullet very well, then what variables would cause a decrease in accuracy when shooting the same bullet with a full black powder load of 36 - 40 grains?

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Joe, I may not have made it clear in my posts that I have a .430 bore and I am casting and shooting .431 (depending on the alloy up to .433) bullets. I started with a mold based on the original .44-40 bullet design, using pure lead bullets, and moved to other tin/lead alloys from there, when I saw t...

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Probably nothing to do with radar or physics, There should have been a watch on the bridge of both vessels, watching for exactly this thing, both will have more than enough radar for detecting each other and avoiding any sort of collision. There may be more to the story, if the Navy ship was doing s...

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The bore slugs .430 of an inch which married with Uberti's published literature. The bullets drop from the mold at .431 when made of pure lead, and .433 when at 1:16 tin alloy, and I shoot them as they are. (The .433's chamber with slight resistance)I have not sized any of the bullets so far. I have...

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I came back from hunting back in April quite happy with my Winchester 73 short rifle. I had shot two deer with it on its first trip. I had done it with black powder loads of my own with bullets I had cast myself. http://i.imgur.com/5kND6y8.jpg Everything was fine except I knew the rifle was shooting...

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Good shooting. Thats a heavy duty looking .44 WCF bullet...

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Of course from the Comanche point of view, its totally different. Goodnight, the Texas Rangers, the cattlemen, buffalo runners and the like are their version of the Nazis. To whoever is left anyway. Without the momentously pompous and dated quasi educational filler about whales, Moby Dick is a good ...

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Strength brother. My thoughts have been with you since I heard.

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That is a beautiful rifle. I would like to see more photos of it. I sorely wish I could find something like it, and then wish I could somehow afford it. Your loads and your shooting are admireable. (Your post hits me where it hurts because I have spent the last three weeks trying to get a brand new ...

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I used to be in the middle, I used to have Rossi carbine in .44-40, and also a Rossi Octagonal barrelled rifle in .44-40 too, with a tang sight. The rifle shot very well indeed, not just because of the tang sight either. I found the carbine more difficult to shoot well off the bench than the rifle, ...

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For me he was The Saint. Which I always liked better than the Bond movies anyway. (By far.)
((The Bond books were always better than the movies, more serious, no stupid gadgets, and Bond of the books was more ruthless, cruel even. Because of those books I always wanted a Walther PPK.))

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Well, considering I can shoot straight through a red deer with pure lead bullets with black powder in a .44-40 at 75 yards, I am pretty sure that a .45 colt bullet out of a rifle will go right through the lungs at any range you can hit him with it, as far out as the trajectory will let you. I would ...

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Just to follow up on this - I got the .44 cap and ball revolver carbine (I think of it as the pistol carbine) and it is a great amount of fun to shoot. It is also quite accurate, I can put three rounds balls through one hole at 25 metres. I have standardised on 35 grains of 3F as a good load and chr...

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Let us remember that Jesus was not born in the year 1 AD - he was born around 4 - 6 BC. This is why history professors and archaeologists, for whom dates are important, don't use BC/ AD anymore. Its how archaeologists tell time. Before Common Era has been in use for long time, but is coming into com...

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(From my old man)

Nothing a woman does with her breasts is accidental.

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Ok I just got a new range and a new .44/40 so I am in.

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Do it next year and even I might come...

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They are not the same company though, Uberti is owned by Benelli and Beretta. Pedersoli is owned by the Pedersoli family, and they both have their own factories. But they do have a relationship in the past, Uberti does buy barrels off Pedersoli for some products. I find it curious that they are both...

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Some of those aren't even westerns! (And what are Australian period films doing in there?)
The order seems totally random. ITs like it was compiled by someone who hadn;t actually watched most of them. (Which wouldnt surprise me looking at the young woman who made it)

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I just got 22 pounds of free lead and I have some casting to do for my .44-40's, I have to cast up some bullets for black powder loads in my '73 short rifle. Got to cook up some more lube too!
I like making black powder .44 wcf cartridges...and then I like shooting them.

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Yes, you are using the rifle correctly. The half cock position is the safety. You load the rifle, cock it with the lever, chambering a round, and then hold the trigger and hold the hammer with your thumb and go forward and into the half cock position. The rifle cannot fire from this position. So you...

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The damage in those photos looks like flak/ AA There is a Corsair fighter plane in our local museum. Back in the nineties I worked in an office next to a spry looking older man who told me it was his actual aircraft. I swear he looked 50 but must have been in his seventies. We went to look at it, an...

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I thought about replacing the follower on mine just because it was plastic, but the ones selling over here are made from aluminium, and I dont think that would be better than plastic, I think it would be more likely to jam. I think Nate Kiowa Joneses ones are steel. Unfortunately he says he doesnt s...

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Go and get back in your car, show us the pictures when youve brought it home

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I have shot black powder in a .303 with a 180 grain jacketed bullet. I simply filled it up with 3F, I dont believe there was much compression, just a bit. Accuracy after three shots went totally out the window, as I had no lube (although I couldnt find where the original load had lube either, but th...

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Really? I mean...really?

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Thanks!

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Apparently 40 grains is a max charge with the round ball in these. I dont know how much would be lost with the cylinder gap. It is not critical though, I am just thinking about performance because its main duty will be rabbit and hare hunting.

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Richard, Ive been to Memphis and I may go back one day, so your on...

Thanks all for your advice, and after considering particularly the idea that I shouldnt mess with something that isnt broke, I think I will do it anyway...I will try and copy the original Winchester checkering as best I can.

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I just feel that a colour case hardened octagonal rifle sort of needs to be checkered, but to look at it another way, if it was a blued recever, I wouldnt think so. I am not entirely sold on the color case hardening as a feature. Overall there is something nagging me about the rifle as it is. As an ...

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Gentlemen, a query for those who might like to hazard a guess: I am thinking of getting one of those Remington revolving carbines made by Uberti. It will be my first cap and ball revolver. My question is if anyone could hazard a ballpark guess who fast a 140 grain .45 cal round ball would go with 40...

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My Rossi 92 carbine is in .44-40 and has been one of favourite rifles. I use it for exploring trips, backpack hunting in new areas. Its never failed and has been beat up in rough country. I just finished reassembling it today after taking it out for a few days where it basically spent the whole time...

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Nate, yes that is something I have considered, and I will see how light the natural wood is. I have found some judicious use of diluted black ink into checkering will darken it to resemble a ''matured'' look like the examples I posted above

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I think so too.

Here is another example;

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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/two_zpsakittpon.jpg http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/six_zpstty9odf7.jpg This is the short rifle in .44 WCF. It has colour case hardened receiver and octagonal barrel. These are fancy options and I am feeling that if the rifle has these f...

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Wow. That's an impressive gift. I couldn't wait to shoot that

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I would like to see pictures of this rifle and of the targets you shoot with it.
Yeah, I know what it looks like. I still like to look at them.

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Thanks! I will add to this thread another quote, from Theodore Van Dyke, the great American hunting writer of the 19th century, (and note that his Winchester was chambered for .44 WCF): "The combined ingenuity of Earth, even assisted by light from on high, could not improve upon the quintessenc...

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I have been doing a lot of .44-40 work this year. I have been corresponding with John Kort from this forum who has helped and advised me along the way and to whom any modest successes I have had is entirely due. I started out loading for my .44-40 Rossi '92 which is a carbine. For years I used a jac...

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It's not an Enfield. It's a Lee-Enfield. I beg to differ with the chap in the video. The Lee-Enfield .303 (An "Enfeild' is a muzzeloading rifle) was never used firing with the middle finger during the mad minute. (Or at any other time) That whole thing I never heard of until I got the internet....

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I would like to hear as well....

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Thats wonderful. I had no idea people were still making tintypes. I had never thought of it.

I have done a lot of photography and darkroom work in my time (all of it 35mm though) would you mind running though the equipment chemicals and process?

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Pete, an absolutely fantastic post and exactly what I needed to know. Thank you very much.

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I have been toying with the notion of getting a 24 inch octagonal barrelled Rossi 92, and then cutting the magazine down to the end of the foreend, a button mag / half magazine rifle. Many people dont care for the look of the short magazine, my father hates them for example, and I do not care for th...

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All that Mardi Gras stuff turned me off. And I always hated jazz. And I hate wierd food.

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