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One of the matches we shoot in these parts during shootin' season is a trapdoor match. Officially we call it "military single-shot" but we hardly ever see anything but a trapdoor Springfield 45/70 used for this. We shoot steel buffalo that are generally sized for the range; the 200 yarder ...

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My medicare supplement picks up the first $2500 on hearing stuff, which is enough to get Costco's top of the line ones. I use them when I am going to be around a group of people; still reasonably OK in a one-on-one situation (if the other guy will speak up a little!).

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My worry is that 1600 fps is not a modest velocity with a non-gas checked bullet. How would the ballistics look at 1400 to 1500 fps? That's about max I expect of my plain-based bullets with accuracy. And you might get that 1600 fps in good shape with powder-coating instead of conventional lube. Just...

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I don't think I ever bought a brick of 22's until I was back in the "world" from overseas and bought myself a Browning Challenger as a mustering-out present. Growing up I would buy a box of shorts from Central Commercial for (I believe) 45 cents. But that was a fair chunk of coin in the 50...

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Another long-time boolit caster here watching with great interest. At the moment I am in there with 6 thinking you need a gas check bullet to get those velocities with any accuracy success, as that has been my experience to date. But I have never shot anything shaped like this projectile so am certa...

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Not too shabby! I hope you already own it and are preparing to try some loads.

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So we ordered a new Green Mountain .40 cal. tapered octagon #4 weight blank, with 1:16" twist, and 35" length. He's going to fit it to the Hepburn, and get dovetails cut for front sight, and forearm lug. Just this afternoon I took delivery of a Green Mountain #3 weight barrel, 1:17 twist,...

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I had a 375 in the Marlin for a while; I could see no difference between it and my other 336's in 35 Rem or 30/30. I don't think Marlin did anything to beef 'em up.

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Yeah, from what I see on the news it looks like the younger generations have really declined in "world awareness". But the younger ones I know (gkids, ggkids, neighbors) are a whole lot different from the ones who get on the news. Except for some (hopefully temporary) fondness for black an...

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Dangitanyway. We lost another of our STRAIGHT SHOOTERS.

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Well my Dad sent me a chemistry set in 1975. I coupled that with encylopeia G, which is a large set of books for those less fortunate souls who grew up with the internet, and started making my own black powder shortly there after. So, time break out the chemistry set. HOW ABOUT some reliable links ...

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I'm mystified: when I have hold of my Redhawk it makes me look like a better shot than I am. And a great-grandkid and his buddy just used it in very impressive fashion this afternoon against a bevy of hard-sided tin cans. Ya' just grab hold of it and aim keerful and it just hits things is all I know...

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Thanks Earl! Is that at Millican Earl? Dingers or paper targets? Not sure I could make this month as OAC has our gun show the same weekend, and Sat. I'll be getting things together for the Sunday morning show. Yes, this is at the COSSA range that is a suburb of Millican. Our targets are steel buffa...

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I haven't been able to shoot anything at our 1000 yd. range yet, as we can only shoot Tue. afternoons, and all day Thu. at the 1000 yd. range, and haven't gotten a darned dry day yet to shoot that range! That is one mighty fine looking rifle Val. And it sounds like you folks are fairly getting sous...

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I'm quite fond of my MTM cartridge boxes since they figured out how to make a decent hinge. But those surely do have a vastly greater "cool factor" than my green plastic ones. Good job Swagman! Good morning. How did you make the hinges? I didn't make any hinges, Tycer; MTM improved their ...

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I'm quite fond of my MTM cartridge boxes since they figured out how to make a decent hinge. But those surely do have a vastly greater "cool factor" than my green plastic ones. Good job Swagman!

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I always enjoy your picture Gary. Gotta' be some good old boys with some good old guns.

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I never could understand why people use ...for instance.....4.3 grains....or 7.2 grains.....I round em up to an even grain or half grain as you will get more variation in other variables such as powder displacement in the case or how you hold the gun...or the temperature....or the elevation. ....or...

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Congrats and commiserations on your new adventure Val. I got sucked into the dirty black stuff about three years ago for the same reasons as you: ya' get to shoot those 1000 yard buffs alongside the big dogs. After running near the back of the pack for the past several years I finally won the long r...

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3leggedturtle wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:17 pm Earl, I always used my Saeco 180gr FPGC bullet over 13.5grs A2400 for an average of 1670fps out 20" barrel

Now that has to be a significantly warm load! No, I never got up to that velocity with my 180 grain bullet.

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In a previous thread started by Levergunner Bill in Oregon I mentioned I had trouble getting consistency out to 200 yards with my cast bullet loads in the Rossi lever gun which I attributed to the slow twist they put in these otherwise fine rifles. Here's a pic of the rifle. Rossi357loaded.jpg Satur...

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That was quite the project, and very well done. Thanks for sharing with us!

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Many years ago I had the opportunity to go drinking in Olongapo City with a bunch of British sailors. Their ship came into Subic Bay and they tied up outboard of my destroyer. Anyway.......once the vaccine is in the ale/beer, it won't have enough time to spoil.......trust me :D I'm guessing those B...

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https://rivercitymalone.com/health/pathologists-investigate-deaths-after-covid-vaccination/ What is that? EEEEYikes! The stuff you and Grizz and DocAJ come up with... highly educational but freekin' frightening. I'd never heard of graphene until a few weeks ago I saw blurb about somebody finding it...

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As to these employers 'mandating' covid vaccines, if ANY employee has a side effect the employer should be liable, and if a vaccine recipient dies, the employer should be charged with homicide. You can bet if you as an employer forced your employees to go skydiving against their will and one died, ...

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What a great old rifle, and a fine report on it. Thanks Kirk!

That would be a great candidate to join in with our "big levergun" shoot we do here in Central Oregon. We stretch 'em on out to 500 yards, but we have nice large targets.

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My "war wound" that I returned with from SE Asia is a slowly advancing toenail fungus. My lady doc, who is fairly worthless for most things health-related, gave me a "toenailectomy" and removed the three largest toenails on my left foot last Spring. It turned out that it was 6 we...

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I have my three tubes of the stuff, and I was thinking ( :o ) Since Covid is a virus, and it seems to work on it pretty good... Would it work on the cold virus? One of the actions of Ivermectin is to boost the ability of zinc to do its job of virus-killing. And zinc lozenges have long been my main ...

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Hah! Pretty dang slick Carlsen.

I'm a "stuff-it full" fellow normally to avoid that setback but I'm surely going to stick that one in my bag of tricks.

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QuickLoad thinks your 27 grain load should get you around 1750 fps out of that 16" bbl. That should do the job!

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Which countries and which states in India are those? I had read this a few days ago and thought "wow! let's follow their lead" https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/huge-uttar-pradesh-india-announces-state-covid-19-free-proving-effectiveness-deworming-drug-ivermectin/ I'm guessing &quo...

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I don't know why we would need more medical studies. A year and a half into this Covid thing we have whole countries around the world and whole states in India with huge populations that have tried various different strategies and it sounds like some of the strategies have worked well. The countries...

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:idea: Earl I believe you have that Quick Load and those are clearly not the bullets for those long jobs so what is the scoop here? In this particular game I don't need to knock the target over, just get a hit on it, so maintaining stability enough to be accurate at 200 yards is the only requiremen...

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My Rossi 357 (I have the 24" octagon bbl version) is one of my favorites so will be with me until some grandkid gets it later on. Gets used on tin-can shooting expeditions and would be my "go-to" baby for jack rabbits if we could ever resurrect that critter in these parts. But all tha...

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When I bought a used Ruger Redhawk 44 mag at a gunshow 30 years ago I was so sure I'd found perfection that I have only purchased 2 handguns since. A second Redhawk in case I ever wore out the first one. And a GP100 'cause it is much like the Redhawk in a smaller, lighter package. Yep, they are just...

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I'm confused. What's the target and how many shots are we shootin' at it?

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Nice report Kirk! Good to see you started on another shooting adventure.

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All my rifles are fed cast bullets and I do have Lee's Universal expanding die for the times am loading for a cartridge for which I don't have my favorite expander. My favorite is the Lyman "M" die, which does a nice little 2-diameter expander plus flare, probably just like your revolver e...

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I'm not real savvy on values of firearms so when I "thin the herd" I put it on "Gunbroker" and use lots of pictures and the best description I can give. I like to time the closing to Sunday evening, state clearly that I accept a C&R license for guns clearly over 50 yrs old, a...

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Sure was disappointed when we no longer got the Herter's catalog, although it had deteriorated a bunch in those final years. A modest amount of my loading gear is still Herter's -- several dies, powder scale, a great small-charge powder measure, powder funnel, and "Universal Neck size die"...

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One of the amusing things we get with voting season in Oregon is goofy initiatives that fortunately go down in flames.

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I once loaded up 50 full-power loads for my 454 Rossi for a test I was running. I just looked at my notes; Magtech 454 cases, Hornady 300 gr XTP magnum bullet, Winchester small rifle primers, 30.0 Lil' Gun at 1.745" COAL was heavily compressed. Produced 2045 fps from the 20" bbl and was ou...

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The wife has been helping a friend of hers organize an estate sale after the death of the friend's dad. Friend's brother took everything worthwhile (guns, ammo, reloading supplies, newer tools) leaving not much of value behind. But from the looks of the remains he must have been one of "us"...

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Wow! Glad you are OK Scrum. That's just plumb scary to us reloaders. I've been loading shells for 50+ (hmmm...maybe 50+++) years and have never had a primer detonate in the process, and surely did not realize they'd go off just being adjacent to another primer detonation. That event would add a seri...

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Danged fine job Griff. And... Happy Birthday!

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Jim, you may be amused to hear that QuickLoad includes the 22 long rifle. QL thinks your 1.5 grains of Bullseye should get you 1075 fps and 90% powder burned, while your 1.6 grains Lil' Gun would get 400 fps if it could get out of the barrel, only 15% of powder burned. QL would be thinking close to ...

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Thanks fellers! I celebrated by helping a daughter inventory the remains of her dad's gun stuff as she gets ready for an estate sale. "Remains" is the word, as her brother had brought a U-Haul truck and removed everything of value and left behind a few stocks taken off military guns that t...

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Looks about like my 1950 vintage '94.

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Well poo -- COSteve has been my hero on the Rossi 357 levergun. Everytime I would think "this dang thing is just a 100 yard gun" I'd see one of his posts and decide to try again. And now he is "done" :shock: !? 100 yards with decent accuracy is all I'd normally need from a jack r...

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Yesterday I was going to load up some 357's to take out to play with the pistol silhouette folks (friendly fellers who like pistols and leverguns). But we got notified that the BLM has demanded we close the range to all uses because of fire danger, so there went the shoot. And also our buffalo shoot...

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