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Charles

Ten years ago, which I realized I would be retiring in five and there would not be much money to accumulate guns I made my bucket list, of guns I once owned but regret selling. I sold and traded some of my guns to fill out the bucket list. I also gave some to my kids. What is left, are pretty much h...

Charles

Do remove the crimp and use whatever small rifle primer that suits your fancy. The CCI for auto loading rifles is favored by many. I don't worry about that in my Garand, but maybe I should. I give close attention to the details of loading for the Garand. You don't mention what press you use. If you ...

Charles

Your dad was right.

Charles

Bump..waiting for Rangerider

Charles

Elmer Keith had nothing good to say about Zane Grey. Seems like Elmer guided him on a hunt and Grey stiffed him out of his guide fee.

Charles

After being lost for 15 years, I have found my old badges. 7 were purchased in one lot from an El Paso Pawn shop about 25 years ago. These are the 3 and 4 badge pics. The single badge was acquired by trade from a badge collector about a year later and I am fairly sure it is the real deal. What can y...

Charles

Who makes and sell replacement butt stocks for 73 Winchester carbines? I want it unfinished.

Charles

It was 1958 and for a 1894 Winchester rifle I owned. I used Remington cases, 3031 powder and Hornaday 170 FN bullets. I could check my records and come up with the exact date and charge weight, but that is too much work right now. I do remember I used to much case lube and had some oil dents in the ...

Charles

I have killed scores of coyotes with various blue steel and walnut stocked rifles and the coyotes never seem to notice.

Charles

I use H335 in my Winchester 94 in 32 WS and it work fine. 3031 or 4895 would also do well, but 4898 meters much easier.

Charles

You are talking a 357 Mag rifle right? Being a Texas, I think pistols first. Bear in mind that when fired in a rifle (vis-a-vi a pistol) you will pick up an extra 100 to 400 fps depending on the powder and charge. A pure lead cast bullet won't be an undoable thing, if you are willing to limit yourse...

Charles

There are several local automated "Tortillarias" around here, a couple quite large. The biggest one is the "Disco de Oro" (disc of gold). For the price, you can't make them by hand any cheaper. There is only one cafe I know of that makes their own.

Charles

Sorry Old Savage, but I decline to try and define morality. That would not be a discussion but a tit for tat proposition and I have no interest in that. Justice Potter Steward said he might not be able to define hard core pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. I am that way with immoral acts......

Charles

I once had a very attractive Latina girlfriend who was the designated tortilla maker in her home as she was growing up. She told me that if I wanted any pinche tortillas I would have to make them myself or buy them as she was done with that.

Charles

Over the years, I have tried a couple of reticule aligment gizmos, but none proved any better than going outside, mounting the rifle to the shoulder and aligning the reticule by hand and eye. Tighten the rings just enough to allow the scope to be turned, but not so loose it won't stay put until the ...

Charles

I am not suprised most of you don't see a connection between morality and capitalism. If more folks did see a connection, they goverment would not see fit to muck around in the free enterprise system. If folks don't self regulate, the goverment most surely will do it for you. I just wonder if any of...

Charles

I live in Hurricane Alley (Texas Gulf Coast) and when one of those darlings hit, the price gouging for building materials, generators and gasoline starts. We have laws against it in Texas, but the crooks brings in stuff and sell them out of trucks beside the road and are gone before they can be repo...

Charles

I live hard against the Texas/Mexico border and nobody makes tortillas down here, it just isn't worth the effort. Of course there are scads of tortilla makers here and you can buy fresh warm ones in any convenience store.

Charles

Pantex has been there for almost 50 years and not black hole yet. I suspect it is safe enough. Both of my children were born when I lived in Pampa and I also lived in Booker for a few years. I have been just to just about every town and cross roads in he Panhandle. Lots of good memories of lots of g...

Charles

I have never watched Sienfel so the joke is lost on me.

Charles

A few years back Paco Kelly pulled the bullets from some of the first year production 357 Magnum ammo and found a charge of 2400 powder.

I started loading the 357 Magnum round 50 years ago and 2400 was the standard powder. I continue to load the round with 2400 and see no reason to change.

Charles

I misplaced a loaded 1911 mag in 1964 and found it again in 1991. I put it in a pistol and all seven round loaded and fired without incident. I still have and use the mag.

Charles

Back in the early 70's Winchester made a run of 64s. They featured all of the roughness of the period. Your rifle is one of those. They sell for considerably less than the pre-64 models.

I had one of those later 64s and it shoot good enough, but I could never develop a fondness for it.

Charles

I have one of the Marlin 45-70s with the Ballard rifling. It measures .458 with a fine, properly adjusted and properly used (50 years experience) Starrett micrometer. Marlins require larger cast bullets not because the land groove diamter is larger than normal, but the throat is larger than normal. ...

Charles

Taking a walk in the woods with a rifle and a good dog, is very good for the soul of a man.

Charles

I have used Acra-Glas and now Acra-Glas Gel since 1969 and have never had you problem. I much prefer the Gel for stock bedding and the Glas as an adhesive. I have always used Brownell's release agent. I apply it with a Q-tip and use two coats. You had better make certain their are no locks/depressio...

Charles

Jh45gun...you certainly can buy Norinco 45s in the US, there are plenty of them on the used market. They can no longer be imported thanks to Bill Clinton.

Charles

Pitchy..When the new GI Springfields came out I ran down and bought one. It fired lousy groups and didn't get better with break in. I installed a Colt barrel and the groups shrank in half. I swapped it off for a second Norinco and kept the Colt barrel which is now in Norinco No. 1. The Norinco is a ...

Charles

Stretch...I would suspect the barrel lugs on your Norinco were a tad soft. The slide is quite hard, but not brittle. I have two of these (one pictured above) and the specs are spot on for drop in parts. I have a Colt barrel in one (pic above) and a Bar-Sto barrel in the other. Both were drop in prop...

Charles

I have a real nice Colt GM, but my favorite is a Norinco 1911A1. I changed out the sights, added a Colt barrel I had in my parts box and changed out the springs. It is a fine shooting pistol and cash money I have about $350 in it. Here tis...

Charles

I will try and answer the question to the best of my knowledge based on my experience. 1. The amout of metal fouling in a barrel depends on the bullet jacket material, the size of the bore, the speed of the bullet and the internal finish of the barrel. 2. No barrel is immune from the cumulative effe...

Charles

Boiling hot water has been used for many generations to clean rifle and handgun barrels. It will remove all sorts of stuff and loosen lead which can be brushed out with ease. The British Army even issued angle funnels to do such a thing in their Lee Enfield bolt guns. When I get a new mil-surp firea...

Charles

That is a throw-back to an early 60's Jeep truck. I made a couple of treasure hunting trips to Mexico in the early 60's in one. It worked very well in some very remote places. I hope they bring back the updated version, should find a good market.

Charles

In my part of the world, fitting a pre-chambered, threaded and contoured barrel runs about $150.00. If the barrel needs to chambered, threaded, and contoured, the price will be at least double. There is quite a bit of machine work involved.

Charles

A couple of thoughts on the subject at hand; 1. I have never killed anybody and hope I never will. 2. I have had to counsel with a couple of dozen men who had and who were troubled by the experience. While the people and events were different, there was a common thread through them all. It was the c...

Charles

There are people who become legends. They become legends by doing exceptional things, in exceptional ways, often with exceptional tools. I ain't one of them!

Charles

Hi Ben...You name sounds very familiar, but I disremember from where. Anyway, back to your question...

If I were a Winchester collector and wanted to put it in a rack, I would take it back to original.

If I were a shooter or hunter, I would leave it like it is.

Just my two cents worth.

Charles

Good for you. I spent the holidays alone 19 years ago and it was miserable. The following year an old childhood friend invited me to spend the holidays with her family. We have been married for the past 17 years.

Charles

That is first rate accuracy! After 500 to 1000 rounds the barrel will smooth up and groups will be smaller yet. You have a keeper there!

Charles

Ji...I know you have had a rought sled over the past few year, but you are a blessed man in many ways.

Charles

It is not real. Just a bunch of people dreaming up ways to act stupid and goofy in order to make a profit.

Charles

I have not frequented this site of late, so I missed the whole needs and response thread or whatever it was. These things come up on these kinds of boards and folks respond as best they can in the way they can. This are hard times and sometimes folks jump in to quickly and when it comes time to writ...

Charles

Back in the day, I shot birds of prey at will because there did prey on domestic critters. I even shot eagles from an airplane for the bounty paid by sheep ranchers.

Would I do it today? No way in hell!

Charles

It will not always be your rifle. You will sell it, trade it, or die some day and somebody down the line will curse your memory for what you did to that rifle, that cannot be undone. But if you are bound and determined to refinish it, do it right and use an electric sander to remove the old finish. ...

Charles

Speaking of Win. 32s. Here is mine, it is a 1959 vintage and with cast bullets the accuracy is scary.

Charles

I find the thought of firing those dreadful little yellow thingies through a Winchester 32 W.S., to horrible to contemplate. Only cast bullet should go through one of those.

Charles

Learning to read and write by phonics is a fairly recent methodolgy. I started school in 1948 and we were all taught by what is now called "sight reading". We learned by memory how to spell and pronounce each word. We had long list of spelling words and spelling test. It didn't matter how ...

Charles

I started handloading in the late 50's and if anybody had a tumbler or shined brass, I never heard of it, nor saw it. Brass was wiped clean with some solvent on a rag and loaded. I used plain ol rubbing alcohol. It didn't take long until it was almost black. Didn't matter at all! This shining of bra...

Charles

So, you want to the stock on a vintage Winchester with a good factory finish so it will "pop"? May God have mercy on your soul, for there is no hope for you on this earth.

Charles

I have been through Beersheba several time and had lunch there once. Never saw any monument or memorial to this action. It may have been there, but it was not prominate if there was one. It is on the major highway leading to Egypt crossing point.

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