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Bill in Oregon

Loved our buff Orpingtons. Friendly toots, too.

Bill in Oregon

Did you 'splain this to Sage, Parker and Claro when you got home and they all smelled puppy on you?

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Jim, that very configuration -- the 10 with four-inch HB, is about my favorite Smith. I agree, this revolver simply wants to shoot. Brian's recent post reminded me of RIA's very basic, fixed-sight 4-inch .38, although it runs like a Colt and not a Smith. Very affordable, as in $249 MSRP. It might ma...

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I don't like them. But living most of my life on the edge of the Pacific Subduction Zone, they were a fact of life. Once they get above 6.0 on the Richter, the creep factor increases exponentially.

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They are always a surprise. We have small ones here all thanks to our friends in the oil fracking business.

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Can't remember. Would love to see one in use -- in someone else's paw.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/conten ... -70-gov-t/

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Brian, those have tempted me as well. Did not know they were made on the old Colt machinery. RIA makes some firearms worth owning.

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I'm such a sucker for a rolling block.

Might ask over at the ASSRA site. Uberti is capable of making an accurate barrel.

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Useful discussion, and the little "Still humbling" sidebar reminds us that the Old Dead Guys knew a thing or two about accuracy with black powder and lead.

Bill in Oregon

Appreciate your vigilance, gentlemen!

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If y'all haven't seen this episode, here is Jack Prince accompanied by Andy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0b6EQyeXU

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I have had pretty good luck with Midway and Grafs, preferring to order from the latter, smaller outfit when possible, and I have already paid for enough of Potterfield's safaris.

I've noticed a number of big sellers quietly popping up on Amazon.
Hope it all works out, Will.

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I hadn't realized the Cinnabar Ranch was between Paisley and Summer Lake. Dad, brothers and I used to hunt ducks at Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge. Fished some of the high mountain creeks in the Paisley Ranger District. It's spectacular country.

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As a native Oregonian who cannot abide what the "progressives" have done to a state that my family has called home for 140 years, I watched this with a lump in my throat, as Mark and his wife prepare to leave Oregon and the Cinnabar Ranch for Cody, Wyoming. Godspeed to you! https://www.you...

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YES SIR!

His son Andrew had a gift as well. If you read the story behind "Christina's World," it will make you tear up -- or at least it does me.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78455

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Jim, he illustrated my childhood imagination with his work on "Robinson Crusoe" and "Treasure Island." No one did pirates better than he. He was the father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather of Jamie Wyeth. And he and a grandson were killed when their car was struck by a freight tra...

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Looks like a million bucks to me. I sure love a Dutch door.

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Amen.

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The very same to all the fine folks here!

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Whaddya mean you don't care that you're in my parking space ...

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Excellent! The face of an angel! Makes my day!

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Haven't used this one, but I have had nothing but good luck with PPU ammo and brass.

Bill in Oregon

Saw several Unimogs when hunting in Namibia back in 2007. Awesome machines!

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I'm in the club. Gave up on the collets. Use my Midway kinetic most of the time with the shellholder method, but have used the nippers in the press technique as well -- especially with the bigger stuff. With the kinetic, I find a snap of the wrist and impacting on the concrete floor gets it done wit...

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Jay, I sold my mountain bike for the same reason. With four fusions, if I tipped over I would probably shatter like Humpty Dumpty.

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The speed of the collapse was shocking all right. I wonder how many have drowned, poor souls. Now we await the investigation of the ship's captain and crew.

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I have two single stages on my bench -- a Forster Co-Ax that I use most often and a plain vanilla Lyman O-ring press for cases with large rims -- and sometimes for cases with rims too small for the Co-Ax to keep hold of. I also use the Lyman with my Lee push-through sizing dies. I've had progressive...

Bill in Oregon

I’m sorry to hear this. I bought issues from time to time. I wonder if it is related to the decline of cowboy action shooting.

Bill in Oregon

I don't know if I have seen a roman-nosed bronc in the flesh. Sure were a lot of them in the Army back in Pancho days.
There's a park in El Paso not far from my back surgeon's favorite hospital named for Marty Robbins.

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Well, I'll be dipped in sheep dip!

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This would make such a killer barndominium!

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Thanks John. Thanks Paul.

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Not only are Skinner sights streamlined, but they are bombproof strong.

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What on earth?!

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"Drugged" to church twice a week here.

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I've seen those mentioned. Glad you got a nice one.

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1895, I look forward to exploring your site. Wasn't aware Rossi had a .45-70.
I have heard good things about the accuracy of their .30-30.
Mick, have you ever tried to run .44 Russian through any of the Rossi .44s? Wonder if they would feed.

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Horsesoldier, a 115-grain bullet at 1200-1250 out of the Super Carry is clearly 9mm territory.

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Well fellas, the Accurate .31-115H mold arrived and I believe it casts a very handsome and seemingly practical boolit. That's the Speer 115-grain FMJ load on the right for comparison. All my brass is loaded so I will have to shoot some up to be able to load more than just a sample with the 115H -- a...

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What a great honor and experience for you Scott! I hope your side prevails.

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Here was another woman you wouldn't have wanted to cross in pioneer Montana:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fields

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Good read, considering March is Women's History Month.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/03/16 ... ain-lions/

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It was a good day in the early 1960s when I managed to put five pennies together and I would walk to the mom-and-pop store and buy a pack of Topps baseball cards. As I walked home I would stuff that flat, stale slab of bubble gum in my mouth and slowly go through the pack. A Mickey Mantle baseball c...

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I am not sure there is a handsomer lever gun than the Spencer. Starline brass and the bullets from a Lodgewood mold.

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Oh, you'll fit in here just dandy, John. Wow, that's a handsome 92, and is there a finer choice in a Blackhawk than .44 Special? Not in my world.

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And Ray, the "Rafe Hollister Sings" episode of Andy Griffith is one of my favorites. Jack Prince had a wonderful voice. I still hear "The Lonesome Road" in my memory.

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I have had two, both in .56-50. Just not interested in any other chambering. They ran just dandy.

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Agree. If they could reduce that $7,000 price tag 90 percent, I would be interested.

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