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Vall, bless your heart my friend. That cystoscopy was pretty uncomfortable all right -- certainly worse than a catheter upon removal. If I have to have the roto-rooter, thank gosh it's a general anesthetic and an overnight in the hospital. Wishing you well on the 12th. Mick, not to pry, but is a pr...

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Keith had a habit of pushing firearms to their limits, and on more than one occasion well beyond. Some of the stuff he did still makes me wonder? I can't imagine how he even seated a .458" bullet in a .45 Colt case and still got it to chamber?

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Bill, I'll let you know after Feb. 12th. That's when they are going to roto rooter mine and we'll see how it is afterwards. My urologist did the scope a month ago and said I need the passage opened up, but also said my prostrate is growing into my bladder, so she'll also remove some of that at the s...

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hightime wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:14 pm Not a Remington I know that. Unmarked yes I checked. Seems like a 44 cal. Webley or Russian?
I was told it’s probably Belgian.

That's a pretty neat old Rolling Block pistol! Any markings at all on it?

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My favorite carry caliber is .45 ACP, but honestly I carry a compact Kahr 9mm most the time. Used to be my S&W Model 60 in .38 Special, and even with just 5 shots I didn't worry. I've often carried my little Walther .22LR too if I was doing something where I wanted a small gun, and outdoors fish...

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Congratulations Bill!

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Just spoke with my brother in Oklahoma and he said they're at 5 degrees, and he's got maybe 3-4 days left of propane to run the furnace! And to make matters worse his propane supplier told him they can't get propane anywhere in any states around. Said the places they buy from are all frozen up and n...

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Vall, I hope you are back on the grid soon! Been some nasty weather in good old Oregon this winter. Power came back last night after 36 hours out. But our 9500 watt generator let us function almost as normal. Only thing we didn't do was laundry as the dryer is a big amp draw. But we can keep the li...

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Nothing worse than power outages! I think we still have some poles from the telegraph days around here, the grid isn't much better! Nice having duel fuel - good thinking on your part. We went 25 years without any outage longer than a couple minutes, and those were rare! Then after that it seems lik...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:40 pm We have one pouring south over Texas this afternoon. I was in Abilene at 2 and it was about 64. By the time I got home to Sweetwater at 3:30 it was 38. Now 26 and headed for 11.

12 degrees here Bill, with snow and 50 mph winds! Wishing we were 38 degrees!

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Sounds better than my morning yesterday! We woke up to 12 degrees here, snowing, and 50 mph winds! Worst weather in my 73 years here! We stayed inside and decided nothing needed to be done outside.....until power went off just after noon! I had to go out to the shed and drag our 9500 watt generator ...

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After waiting 10 days for this Rolling Block to arrive, I sent an email to the seller asking for a tracking number to see where it was. He replied it's still sitting at his shop and said he's waiting for a copy of my FFL dealer's license! Since I sent him all this info the day after I won the auctio...

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I try to carry as little as possible, not more than I need. So I go the opposite and don't really even care for any belt to hold extra stuff. If I'm out hunting or fishing, I often carry a small backpack for anything beyond my handgun, as it's easy to shed when I stop, and beyond my gun nothing I ne...

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All the good things WLP did in his early years have been so seriously tarnished by abuses he did in latter years that those abuses far out shadow the good. That doesn't mean we forget the good part, but it's impossible to draw some imaginary line and call it Wayne I and Wayne II, and act like it's t...

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Grizz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:48 am
marlinman93 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:26 am
barbarossa wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:41 pm If I had that gun I d probably sleep with it under my pillow lol
Might get crowded with my 1964 Colt Commercial .45 under there now.
If I had that gun I would get a bigger pillow !

I just had my wife move to the spare bedroom so it can sit under her pillow!

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barbarossa wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:41 pm If I had that gun I d probably sleep with it under my pillow lol

Might get crowded with my 1964 Colt Commercial .45 under there now.

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Yes, any of them could be mailed directly to any buyer in the US. Great, I will PM you my address! But seriously... That's a beauty for sure! In the Single Shot Exchange , there are those who specialize in and want "Hubaleks", and I'm surprised they didn't see it. But you could always tur...

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Just an update, as I've been doing research while waiting for the Roller to arrive. I was loaned a copy of Landskron's book on the Rolling Block pistols and something he wrote jumped off the page when I read it. He mentioned that all the Rolling Block actions were made between 1865 and 1876! This m...

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Just an update, as I've been doing research while waiting for the Roller to arrive. I was loaned a copy of Landskron's book on the Rolling Block pistols and something he wrote jumped off the page when I read it. He mentioned that all the Rolling Block actions were made between 1865 and 1876! This me...

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There's enough proof of WLP's antics to make me believe if only a fraction of it was true it's unacceptable. Being given a 1/4 million dollar yacht by a contractor doing work for the NRA, and not claiming the gift? Or taking expensive trips to exotic locations for him, his family, and friends, and c...

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Congrats! I've always wanted one. Don't know much about them other than the basics, but like Scott, just always admired the looks. I love the .44 Russian cartridge. May have to start looking harder. :D As tough as these are to buy, one in .44 Russian is the needle in the haystack to find! I've neve...

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I also have been a Life member for many decades having switched to Life member in the late 1970's. I was proud to tell people I was a Life member then, and for long after, but in recent years not so much. I'm pleased that LaPierre is gone, but not hopeful yet. There are those still a part of the boa...

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beautiful ! terrific find ! always wanted one in 22 an also one in 50 CF but never found either one at a reasonable price i did get a slender little uberti rolling block replica in 38/357 that finally satisfied the craving to a small degree. The .22RF Target version is what always got my blood boil...

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That's a great price at $1000, and even better at anything less. Glad it was still there when you went back!

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I’m in love with the way that pistol looks. I’ve never owned one or seen one in person. But I can go to a specific page in Sixguns by Keith where it is pictured. Thanks Scott! This Remington Target pistol is what I really wanted to find long before the .50 Navy 1867 showed up. But as is often the c...

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I injured my right wrist back in 1971 on the job, and have a 95% disability in that wrist, so since I was 21 years old I've always been more recoil sensitive than most. Everything I shoot is medium level loads, and occasionally when I practice with defense loads in my carry guns I can get through a ...

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No matter how many times I read things about the Alamo I'm still amazed at the bravery those men showed under certain death. A soldier here or there who faces death but stands his ground is always amazing, but for that many to face certain death and do so together is even more so.

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a Beauty. what auction did those rollers appear at? grizz The first one I found locally, not at an auction. I don't ever look at online auctions as I've always been leery of buying guns online where I can't hold them and look them over. But this 2nd one was on Gunbroker, and I broke my own rule jus...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:14 am Wonderful find, Vall. I'd sure be tempted to shoot it.

I'm in the process of making brass for the 1867 .50 Navy, and it will be shooting soon. Since this one is .22lR it will see lots of shooting with no load workup required.

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a Beauty. what auction did those rollers appear at? grizz The first one I found locally, not at an auction. I don't ever look at online auctions as I've always been leery of buying guns online where I can't hold them and look them over. But this 2nd one was on Gunbroker, and I broke my own rule jus...

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Last week a friend called to tell me about yet another Rolling Block pistol he saw at auction. He wanted it, but said it wasn't going to happen since he lives in Ca. and it would be too much trouble to buy since it wasn't an antique. He sent me the link for the auction, and I watched it all week wit...

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I've had several Model 95 and 98 Mausers in 8x75 and all were great shooters with very nice bores. I got a couple from Big 5 Sports near my house when they had Yugos for $99 some years ago. Shot the heck out of them with milsurp ammo, and sold them for a little profit later.

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Great report Jim!
I've never seen a live one as haven't spent much time down southwest where they seem to be mostly.

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Artificial shortages go back a very long time, and happen often with all sorts of manufacturers. I remember my parents talking about of all things peanut butter being tough to find back in the 1930's and the prices went nuts. Once it ended, the price of peanut butter never went back to where it was ...

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Very cool. I saw some home-made single-shot pistols from Rolling Blocks when I was a kid. Rough workmanship but they did work. I once owned one made into a pistol and fitted with a .32-20 barrel. It was well done and looked good, but I was uneasy about rifle actions made into pistols, and how to pr...

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Last Sunday at our monthly collector gun show at OAC a friend stopped to tell me about two Rolling Block .50 caliber pistols he saw at a local gun shop for sale. He said the seller wouldn't break the pair up, and wanted someone to buy both. He wanted one, but not two, so I told him I'd be happy to h...

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They'll either fire or not, but if they wont there's not any chance those that don't would cause a problem. I would listen for squib loads as you fire, just in case that happened, but doubt it will.

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Being a lot lighter than lead balls my guess is they weren't very accurate at anything very far. Likely used in close combat where accuracy wasn't a big issue. They'd destabilize pretty quickly.

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gcs wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:43 am Let it drop, but keep copies of all documentation and correspondence, and maybe add another camera to cover any blind spots....

We have no blind spots with cameras on each side of the house, plus motion and sound activated lights and cameras.

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There's enough open uncheckered wood to still let the beauty of the walnut show. I like that he did a slightly darker finish over the checkering as it enhances the checkering a bit, and makes it look like it's been there awhile.

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Thanks!
I liked the way it came out before, but always looked not quite finished. This finally put an exclamation point at the end of the build. This was the same gun before I gave him the stock set to work on:

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Got a nice surprise at our monthly OAC collector gun show this morning! Last month I gave the stocks from my very first Hepburn to my gunsmith friend so his checkerer could checker them. I built this rifle up from a project I bought from a friend over 20 years ago, but never got around to checkering...

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What a nice gun, and gesture Jim!

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As kids around 12 years old my buddy and I made up BP from a formula we got in a science book at the library. Had to buy some from the local pharmacy and he asked what we needed it for? We thought he might not sell it if we told him the truth, so we told him a science project for school. If a couple...

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I have a friend who retired from the force and we are members of a antique arms collector group that met last night. I ran the video for him, and told him what had transpired so far to get his input. He said I should keep copies of the video, and all correspondence by email, plus write down what dis...

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He is assigned to East Precinct where I live, and that's how I found out what wasn't going on in my neighborhood. Since I had his name off his vest they could check his end of shift report and see he didn't mention he'd responded to any incidents at my house or anywhere near it. Also how they could ...

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We have security cameras all around our home, and Wed. morning I checked them as I do every morning. I saw 3 videos at 1:15 AM of a city police officer at our front door! In the first video he's opening our screen door, and the next video shows him looking around inside and outside the screen door. ...

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That's a pretty nifty takedown conversion. First I've heard of this company.

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Unless you just enjoy spending money, I'd give the Micro-Groove barrel a good chance. They are great barrels, IF you find out what it likes for bullet size. A pin gauge wont tell you much, and you need a lead ball to slug the bore and a quality micrometer to measure groove diameter before you go gue...

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All beautiful, but that 1893 with #5-4 engraving, and G checkering is really the icing on top of them all!
A good friend of mine recently sold a very similar 1893 in just slightly higher condition, and I'll be watching to see where this one goes when the dust settles.

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