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- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1164
Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
I just bought this JM 336W from a private owner in New Hampshire. He switched the pistol grip plain stock, to a Texan straight stock configuration along with a straight lower trigger tang and a straight finger lever. He also had installed a Beartooth safety delete. I install these in all my cross b...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: With all these illegal border-crossers...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 322
Re: With all these illegal border-crossers...
. ...and all these plane failures (un-riveted doors, wheels (several cases) falling off, and now landing gear failures.... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-suffers/ It makes me wonder... Then all the factory fires and explosions... And it isn't exacly l...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1392
Re: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
I know its probably not in the category of rounds easy or sensible to fit in a lever action, but I bet someone out there has done or can do it. Or maybe it cant be with that rebated rim? case rim is the same as 44 mag if that helps. I know bighorn does the 500SW and 500 linebaugh but quite a bit bi...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aluminum receivers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 910
Re: Aluminum receivers
I have been seeing 1892 Browning pattern guns with aluminum receivers out of Turkey on YouTube. Given how the 92 locks via two steel lugs on either side the bolt rear and against the rear of the receiver, do you guys think the aluminum will hold up or give headspace issues eventually? Good question...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I lost my willie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1513
Re: I lost my willie
He was an abused horse. I took him to keep the owner from shooting him and we bonded. It took 2 years before he would let me ride him or catch him loose in the field. I am, literally, the only person who could handle him. My wife was terrified of him but we were buds and I darn sure am gonna miss h...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: went to a shooting range yesterday
- Replies: 0
- Views: 222
went to a shooting range yesterday
I mentioned this project somewhere, found a real gunsmith and took the American Classic to him with a box of parts. I got the barrel from Sarco, the sear spring somewhere else, he sourced the 24# recoil spring and the barrel bushing which he hand fitted, he machined out the clearance for the recoil ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Dittos, Beautiful. The Pacific is lovely when he is pacific.Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 665
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age. That's very interesting. There must be a lot of a...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guilty!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1487
Re: Guilty!
Not sayin' anything about her guilt, she was the official armorer. But they got their sacrificial lamb now, throat cut and bleeding. Baldwin, who violated every one of the unofficial rules of gun safety will walk free. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't. yeah I agree. . . Baldwin has enough money...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 665
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
shot first deer and a wolf up on the Mogollon Rim in Zane Gray country. wolf was stalking meBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:37 am You'll love this one. Not trying to sell it for the guy, but wow what a beauty!
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
Model 99 in .243
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Soothing.....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 409
Re: Soothing.....
thanks for the links Ray, much appreciated
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Nice to see JPFO still active
- Replies: 1
- Views: 209
Re: Nice to see JPFO still active
how about some smart congressional law-breaker drawing up a law to include ALL RESIDENTS in universal background checks Hmmm?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 216
Re: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
. ...but even the hate-stream 'news' media admits that there is at least one assassin out to eliminate Trump and/or his supporters. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/assassin-targeting-trump-allies-is-on-the-loose-fbi-warns/ar-BB1jk9mP Odd that they don't cheer him on, since the 'news' media hat...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 598
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Thanks for sharing Darryl! My uncle was on the ground then, with the 29th ID, 116th IR, Company F. Served from D-Day (1st wave) all the way to the fall of Germany. I had an uncle in an engineer unit early in the landings. they had the pipe bombs that were supposed to cut the barb wire. They made it...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in the summer of 2002 I was making a maintenance inspection of Kaunakakai Harbor on the island of Molokaʻi, and I spotted a St. Pierre dory moored there, it was beautiful, in great condition, and best of all it was for sale! I took several photos and emailed them to my dad, and letting him kno...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New To Me Winchesters
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1249
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: White Rural Christians are the real threat to Democracy...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 338
Re: White Rural Christians are the real threat to Democracy...
yes, Christ's followers are a threat to demonracy, a hybrid term combining demonism with racism . . . Christ-believers have authority to rebuke and bind demons, if we will learn to .. .. ..
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories. Thanks so much Ji ! I agree with you Bill, they are, to my eye, unbelievably beautiful. Proper dorys have no bad angles from which to paint them . . . Ji's photos bring to mind a gggdad sitting on a French Mediterranean beac...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 598
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
That's a fantastic legacy and great tribute to your Dad and his buddies and their incredible achievements. Thanks for posting!
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 521
Re: 70-150 winchester video
Good video. Thots ->
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 521
Re: 70-150 winchester video
I know this was somewhat of a mythical round in the day but found this repro so to speak interesting. The fella claiming it gets better taylor knockout factor than 577 nitro is a bit miss-applied since that factor overly favors the fat 12ga. But still seems a lot of power. 4700ftlbs with a 900 grai...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
And a follow-up to the machinery sounds fork -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPf0lKx5UvA careful with the volume, enjoy !!
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
- Replies: 16
- Views: 958
Re: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
Beauty and the beast ! What a rifle !
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1966
Re: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
I think the 44s have inherent accuracy. but i think the 7mms are also inherently accurate. the 10inch sbh I hunted with seemed inherently accurate shooting plain base cast bullets at unknown velocity. the bullets hit the dot every time, when it was centered....... LOL made lots of venison, and daugh...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) Speaking of machinery I stumbled on an aircraft site with some video of small plane grass field flights. The really great aircraft engines make r...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1137
Re: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
I couldn't stay awake long enough to read it . . . is this an admission that SuddenAdultDeathSyndrome, [SADS], is IN FACT caused by the jabs and boost-jabs ?AJMD429 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:38 pm .
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... ehf2.14680
The myocarditis keeps coming up.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smokehouse Creek Fire
- Replies: 9
- Views: 979
Re: Smokehouse Creek Fire
A conflagration in real-time. Prayers UP for all involved, and for the fires to end now . . .
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) That's a fact. About those engine sounds -> when we were drifting at night in bouncy seas and the sound of 2000 gallons of fuel sloshing around b...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I thought they were almost all DEMOCRATS...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 684
Re: I thought they were almost all DEMOCRATS...
the word [ DEMOCRAT ] . is derived from two words: [demon] AND [rat] . the unappreciated dictionary says that the words were combined by replacing the letter [n] with the letter [c] to make a compound ai issue of [mis] AND [dis] information, from which they developed the Verb [dissed]. . been foolin...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 948
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The talking Bibles we gave out were searchable by Book, Chapter and Verse. They were complete Bibles .. Old and New Testaments. We got them from South Africa ... about $25 each. We gave out several hundred of them. A friend of mine brought in 500 by himself. Also had some friends who ran a radio st...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 948
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The Official State language is Portuguese. There are 26 or 27 tribal languages. The area where I was had 2 predominant ones. What we have written in the Bible was passed orally for a long time before it began being written down ... at least great parts of it were. The thing about oral cultures is t...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: We are NOT 'headed towards a Police-State'
- Replies: 1
- Views: 577
Re: We are NOT 'headed towards a Police-State'
. That time has passed, clearly... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/bereaved-j6-parent-ed-lang-protests-outside-dc/ SO jail without trial, and 'disappearing' dissenters is ok if they belong to the wrong party, but even those committing violence are ignored, if they belong to the right party...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
good link, thanks BillBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:38 am Good stuff on old iron and marine engines in particular right here:
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/forums/a ... motors.38/
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 948
Re: crowd funding the gospel
We used the audio Bibles a lot in Mozambique and my friends there still are giving them out. When I was there the government admitted at least 45% of the country was illiterate. I knew a lot of Mozambicans that could not read or write, including pastors and evangelists. They loved the audio Bibles....
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Córdoba Argentina 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1475
Re: Córdoba Argentina 2024
Dittos on all, it's epic for sure . . .Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:09 pm That looks like an amazing trip. Great pictures ... appreciate the post. Bummer that it's too risky to take your own guns.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Math is Hard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 674
Re: Math is Hard
Bogus or worse. I know someone who knows someone who proposes that the entire episode was completely different from the published narrative . . . I don't have a link yet, but will post something when I find it. Meanwhile I bet someone from around here knows something . . .
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 948
crowd funding the gospel
https://jashow.org/the-john-ankerberg-show/ I have mentioned this before, but right now there is a very heart-warming feel-good video with one of the most amazing men in the world doing the most amazing thing in the world. I want you to see this video, because the results of the Good News everywhere...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "Where Does It Say...?"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 805
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: old shep
- Replies: 2
- Views: 610
Re: old shep
my old Shep is tottering along the edge of loneliness now .it's a long and short trail at the same timeole pizen slinger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:27 am https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... NsM10,st:0
ole pizen slinger
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
- Replies: 8
- Views: 777
Re: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
. I see all these articles where scientists are surprised at some new finding, clearly indicating how little solid knowledge they have about things that affect 'climate'. Yet they insist on being given power and money to somehow control climate on our behalf and save us from ourselves. https://www....
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt Walker question ...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2611
Re: Colt Walker question ...
The .45 colt was designed to shoot horses. War isn't pretty. The best way to unseat a cavalry troop is to shoot his horse. It's a very big target. In westerns you'll see bandits chasing a stage coach. In reality if one wanted to stop a coach you'd simply kill one of the horses. The remaining horses...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Young lady dead because of democrat policy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 861
Re: Young lady dead because of democrat policy
This young lady is dead because all demoncrats are in lock step with biden and mayorkas, her blood is on the hands of every demoncrat. https://news.yahoo.com/laken-riley-murder-suspect-jose-143424772.html Well, yeah but, to put a finer point on it, the demoncraps HAVE MURDERED MULTIPLE MILLIONS and...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Beauties, are they both Aeolus dories? Would love to try and row from Puget Sound to Juneau. I was thinking of rowing my Pearson dory from Kailua Beach, Oʻahu to Haleʻolono Harbor, Molokaʻi, but my wife talked me out of it. About a 40 mile run across the Kaʻiwi channel in usually rough seas. Maybe ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Thanks mucho Ji. great memories. great photos. great family. great boats. great times. . FNL_dory-boat.JPG this is the dory i rowed across San Francisco some number of times. night time was my favorite time to be in the island of darkness surrounded by millions of tons of lights. i towed it to Alask...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Grizz, it had not occurred to me that the pulsing of the boat speed would make for killer trolling! 8) That plus the rolling motion of the boat, the ones who tuned that out-produced the ones who didn't know. The underwater sounds make a difference in a boat that fish will follow, or won't. My last ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Grizz, here you go, bro. Not many places you can see SEVERAL Case steam tractors chugging along in a line. 8) https://www.antiquepowerland.com/steam-up Ji, you are calling up all sorts of memories! I bought a copy of John Gardner's classic "Dory Book" while in college -- and Acadia was st...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3768
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in my young teen years my dad a New England native, and a lover of fishing, and dories decided he wanted to get back into commercial fishing. This was around 1974 after his recent retirement from the Federal Government. Of course his dream commercial Fishing boat was a 26' Saint Pierre Dory. H...