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yooper2

That sounds like a great time! I'm quite partial to the old military singleshots, particularly Trapdoors, rolling blocks, and the little Martini cadet. If I wasnt on the opposite coast I'd be there. The CBA does a big bore military bench rest postal match but it's just not the same as being on the f...

yooper2

The same situation has been playing out in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. While the college towns of Houghton and Marquette have always been a bit more pricey everything else has been dirt cheap in my neck of the woods since the copper mines shut for the last time after WWII. In 2007 my folks sold...

yooper2

Thanks guys, we feel very lucky both to have gotten a place we like as well as not having to wait any longer. It was very frustrating bidding against people with city money looking for a second home outside whatever miserable overpopulated place they live.

Eric

yooper2

My wife and I closed on a place in Surry today after a few months of looking and being outbid on 3 other places. It's a small house with modern systems and a new metal roof. It also has a heated workshop and attached lumber/boat storage area (some folks may call it 2 car garage with carport) and a 3...

yooper2

Got an email last night, been waiting a few months.

Eric

yooper2

If you read a lot of first person accounts from the western front you will often find men mention how hard it is seeing the horses get slaughtered en masse. There is also a character in "All Quiet On The Western Front" who is driven to the edge listening to wounded horses die. Read it in m...

yooper2

We were shooting handgun silhouette up until 4 years ago at my old club in the UP but I was doing most of the work and since we moved it has fallen apart. We weren't IHMSA just did it on our own. We also did a short form of BPCR silhouette and military silhouette..

Eric

yooper2

Somebody had a custom Single Six built in 38 Super, don't recall who built it, Alan Harton or maybe Andy Horvath? May have had a 5 shot cylinder too. My cousin showed me some photos of it on another site. Regardless, I found it super interesting as it's very potent for such a small package.

Eric

yooper2

Wow, super classy rifle! Do you have any special hunts planned for it?

Eric

yooper2

I've seen the 444 in a 45-70 before and Dad had a collection of wonky brass he collected at the range where people had fired the wrong cartridge in a rifle. Bummer about your firelapping kit but it is easy to make your own lapping bullets. Just get a couple of grits of lapping compound, smear a dab ...

yooper2

I keep a box of #4 buck handy for night time pest duties. Inside 30 yards from a 3" 12ga i have found it very effective on coyotes and various garden or chicken coop raiders.

Eric

yooper2

It's been real scarce for a couple years and never common. I've always bought what I've stumbled upon.

Eric

yooper2

I've had a 10 1/2" Ruger Maximum for years and Dad had a Seville. He was pretty serious about Silhouette shooting for a few years and did well with the Seville. Mine is mostly a range toy for smacking steel way out yonder but I've killed a few coyotes and a fat old doe with it. The only bullet ...

yooper2

Nice rifle and as others have said, beautiful country. I had a hunting pal just after college who would occasionally poke fun at the old 32 Special 94 carbine I was toting at the time as he was fond of bolt guns and sizzling cartridges. One day he forgot his ammo and I lent him the 94 to carry as we...

yooper2

I have all of the old Lyman cast bullet manuals in print but this is a great resource for folks getting into the game. I've photocopied a lot of pages for folks out of mine over the years.

Eric

yooper2

I haven't messed around with CB since middle school. My friends and I scoured junkyards to cobble together a few working sets that we kept in our rooms for unmonitored communication. My mom was a really good sport about the 2x4 screwed to the window sill that held my antenna.

Eric

yooper2

Neat to see more published data with heavyweights in 38 Special. When we ran pin matches at the club I used the Lyman 358627 which is a 215-220gr semiwadcutter designed for the 357 Maximum. It was pretty authoritative for a small borebut the 41 Mag or 44 Special were a much surer bet.

Eric

yooper2

Very nice! I particularly like the half stock 50. I have its little brother in .32 (pewter nose cap and all) built by my dad.

Eric

yooper2

I once shot my apple tree after doing a bunch of dry firing while doing trigger work on a New Model Ruger. Got the trigger where I wanted , walked outside the shop and shot the knot on the tree I had been aiming/dry firing at all morning.

Eric

yooper2

Agree, it must be thunderous. I had a 30 carbine Blackhawk, great shooting revolver especially with cast bullets but it just about made your ears bleed if you ever shot it in the field without plugs or muffs. This seems like more of the same.

Eric

yooper2

Always a crummy job but a necessary one. Can't count how many sheep, pigs, and chickens I've done in but the dogs and mules are the ones that stick with me. Put down my childhood dog at 16 and was a mess after it. Never gotten any better with it. Agree fully with the others above, I'll never end up ...

yooper2

I think there is a difference between accidental and negligent discharges. One is a mechanical error and the other is human. Had accidental discharges, like on a cheap Chinese copy of an Ithaca 37 that slam fired because there was metal chips in the firing pin channel. My only negligent discharge wa...

yooper2

Glad to see Ruger is getting some rifles out the door! Have to admit that I don't care for the fluted bolt but if they work well and shoot like Mr. Taffin's example I really shouldn't complain.

Eric

yooper2

Rob is a wonderful guy and I love his gear. Been wearing one of his belts for almost 15 years now and have 9 of his holsters. I've tried others but always come back to Simply Rugged.

Eric

yooper2

Nice coyote! He must be in my neck of the woods with all that snow.

Eric

yooper2

Happy to hear he made it through safe and is back home.

Eric

yooper2

About ten years ago on opening day of muzzleloader season I had just walked back to the house after dark and the phone was ringing. Picked it up and it was my wife. "Did you get a deer today?" She asks. "Nope" says me. "Don't worry, I got one. With the Blazer." She hit ...

yooper2

I have one of the old short chambered 16 ga A-5s with the fore and aft moving safety in the trigger guard. I have two barrels both started as full chokes but I reamed one to improved cylinder and the other to about improved modified. It's my main shotgun for everything except waterfowl on crummy day...

yooper2

Very sorry to hear it. A man who had been there and done that. He had a wealth of knowledge and is real loss to our little community.

Eric

yooper2

While I agree with the others that there are better trapdoors to be found due to the pitting near the muzzle and damage to the stock near the lock I don't think sticking a random cast bullet in the muzzle means a dam thing. The rifle isn't a garand and the bullet isn't a 150gr fmj of known ogive sha...

yooper2

Cutting meat with power tools gives me the willies despite having done a lot of it. A blob of meat mush built up near the top guide on a bandsaw I was using while we were butchering a cow. It finally got big enough it could not hang there and plopped on the table. For a moment 14 year old me was con...

yooper2

Nicely done! This is my favorite sort of reloading project. Adding the cartridge box really classes it up.

Eric

yooper2

As far as a 200lbs Partridge goes. I think that Lori Partridge from the Partridge family would be worth a look! Don't think I'd want to taste that Partridge! The '73 must have come in in the past few days as I was there Saturday and there wasn't a 38-40 ' 73 there then. $675 sounds more than reason...

yooper2

Funny that the other two Merwins you've handled were rough too. Seems that folks who had them used them! Tha one of yours is incredible, especially with those ivories. Maybe 10-12 years ago I put down money on a pre-order for a company that was going to reproduce them. I had dreams of having an 1880...

yooper2

Your funnel is finely tuned to all the cool stuff! Should have been more clear on my question for other folks who haven't handled one. I was referring to when you break the gun to shake clear empties and the vaccum on the cylinder pin draws the barrel assembly back towards the frame. The two I've la...

yooper2

OldWin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:27 pm If partridge weighed 200 pounds, I wouldn't waste my time deer hunting.

Ain't that the truth!

Eric

yooper2

Fully understand the sentiment. I generally use goex more in muzzleloaders and cap and ball sixguns, saving the Swiss for BPCR due to the lot to lot consistency. I have some Kik that seems ok and may take over the role of goex for my purposes (always assuming it remains available).

Eric

yooper2

It is said by many of the greats that the Smith & Wesson Triple Lock is the finest American made production revolver ever to be made. In the batch of 15,000 Triple Locks a couple of hundred target variations were made with even more fine fitting. This is the revolver formally owned by the famou...

yooper2

I have a good reserve but it's nice to know some is making its way here.

Eric

yooper2

Back from my reconnaissance trip to Maine. Looks like employment will be no problem, had several offers at places I would be glad to work. Looked at a couple houses and more importantly found a realtor that we like. We will be able to afford a house on some acreage as long as we stay a few miles inl...

yooper2

Nice to read one of Terry's articles again. Had breakfast with him once in Houghton, MI as he had either a sister or sister in law in the area. Incredibly knowledgeable man and none too shy about his opinions!

Eric

yooper2

The last deer dad shot was with a little Marlin 27s in 25-20. He was "squirrel hunting", which was code for napping with a rifle under the oak tree, and a nice buck walked in munching away. He waited until it put its head down and drilled it in the brain with an 86gr cast bullet. Bullet di...

yooper2

I noticed the same a few years ago. Picked up an older one at a swap meet.

Eric

yooper2

Feet! Like anything else, you are born into it or get used to it. Typically get a couple big dumps a year but it's the couple/few inches most every day that really add up. Outside of town most folks have a tired old vehicle with a plow or just give up on the driveway and hike into their place. Drivi...

yooper2

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Above is the old sign up thread, many more people just PM'd me with their shirt orders. Couldn't find the original discussion where we decided on the style/color.

Eric

yooper2

I ran the last series of shirts. Somebody showed one of the first run (white T with black collar) in a post and I thought it would be fun to make another run. I think I just copied the logo from the main leverguns site banner as a screen shot and trimmed it in Microsoft Paint. We had a local guy tha...

yooper2

Up here in the Kewwenaw we average about 23' of snow a year, had one year that almost 30'. Being on a peninsula we get lake effect snow from almost every direction. We usually get a couple weeks below every year. Doesn't get Minnesota cold but I've seen it snow every month of the year, including onc...

yooper2

Neat! Thanks for the video link. Really cool that it locks the same as the Bullard single shots.

Eric

yooper2

Very interesting rifles! Do you have any pictures with the action open? How do they lock up? Seeing no loading gate, do you load the magazine with the action open like a 71/84 Mauser or is there a gate on bottom like a Reminton 14?

Eric

yooper2

Great report on an awesome carbine! I saw a NWMP carbine at a gunshop in Traverse City as a kid, between the firearm design and sheer size I thought it was about the neatest thing going. Same shop had an original Walker Colt from the same collection.

Eric

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