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- Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: gun free zone
- Replies: 7
- Views: 579
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: gun free zone
- Replies: 7
- Views: 579
Re: gun free zone
"Reminds me of Steven Crane's story, "The Ransom of Red Chief". Cool story....kidnapping ain't always as easy as it may sound."
O. Henry......William Sydney Porter.
O. Henry......William Sydney Porter.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Go ahead and laugh
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2174
Re: Go ahead and laugh
Wilhelm, two different sks bullets.....one flat-nosed..... loaded in .32 acp cases to .30 s.c. o.a.l.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Go ahead and laugh
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2174
Re: Go ahead and laugh
No one laughing here....I have a 7.65x21mm s&w ez. The ez will feed and fire .32 acp and frenchy longues but will not self-cycle them. I briefly owned a 7.65x21mm s&w shield + 17 shooter. It would not feed or fire the shorter cartridges like the ez did/does. I was showing the shield + to my ...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1050
Re: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound
The casting for those bbc/granada/itn television series was excellent. As good as brett's holmes, porter's moriarty is/was the evil professor come alive from doyale's pages..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsiE8ABiztU&pp=ygURSG9sbWVzICYgbW9yaWFydHk%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNwlBEXg5s ...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1050
Re: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69?sort_order=downloads https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLon7SYjpj3O9m9B9CfmzngynafOUDgy9B And sir s.w. baker on the moorman and his musket..... "How these common guns stand the heavy charges of powder is a puzzle. A native thinks nothing of putting f...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: REAL Info About Tinnitus Research
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1255
Re: REAL Info About Tinnitus Research
I don't suffer so much with the ringing varieties of tinnitus so much as the "diesel exhaust rumbling" rarities. As I type this I can hear what sounds to me like an idling piece of heavy equipment in the not too far distance. No one else but me can hear it. Open a door or go outside and th...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: An expert on global warming.....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 365
An expert on global warming.....
woo all you want charlie brown with your icy hands.....
but no loving till june !
but no loving till june !
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What is the round-nosed lead pistol bullet good for?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2257
Re: What is the round-nosed lead pistol bullet good for?
You all are all obsessed with meplats.....
What you need are some pointy bullets.....
https://www.mattsbullets.com/125-grain- ... k-359.html
https://www.mattsbullets.com/215-Grain- ... p_172.html
What you need are some pointy bullets.....
https://www.mattsbullets.com/125-grain- ... k-359.html
https://www.mattsbullets.com/215-Grain- ... p_172.html
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What is the round-nosed lead pistol bullet good for?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2257
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 3:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2142
Re: I had just enough shekels.....
Smithsonian file photo. Could it be the real bulldog used by Guiteau ? The govt. says the artifact is "lost". Can you imagine the number of pawn shop proprietors or their minions who have intimated that their example was/is indeed the guilty revolver. " we pulled the grip panels and l...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blue Norther
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1926
Re: Blue Norther
In the winter of '85-'86 it was often twenty below at boot in waukegan at uncle ronnie's yacht club. Evening duty invariably was either stripping and waxing floor tiles indoors or shoveling snow outside. I was to the navy what beetle bailey was to the army and was equally adept at disappearing eithe...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I wonder how many of these were 'liberals'...???
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1243
Re: I wonder how many of these were 'liberals'...???
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- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Blue Norther
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1926
Re: Blue Norther
That confounded global warming is acting out yet again ! Supposed to be +3 with a wind chill of -11 tuesday.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2142
Re: I had just enough shekels.....
To save the trouble of taking fotos or producing a video just use your imaginations. Visualize a wonky-eyed short round man who is so hopelessly caucasian that only vampires & albinoes are paler firing the above antique revolver with an obvious and pronounced flinch.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2142
Re: I had just enough shekels.....
B.T.T. The one tight chamber just needed that case to be sized. The other four were tried with new, unsized starline .44 colt brass. Just got around to firing 5 primer only wax bullets out of it and hit all five on/near mark at five paces. Now if I can only garner the courage to load and fire 5 with...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Murdered on the Ferry
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2102
Re: Murdered on the Ferry
If DNA results seem wonky and unlikely due to differences in immediate families, then also consider the so-called "non-paternal" events that crop-up from time to time in old fashioned analog record search genealogy. There was a lot more hanky-panky in times past than is acknowledged. When ...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Charter .44s with longer barrels
- Replies: 5
- Views: 607
Re: Charter .44s with longer barrels
I suspect but am not 100% sure that the following author/leverguns member is the inimitable roy yeager of handgun hunting fame who is said to have slain thousands of whitetail..... https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=932924#p932924 https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=33...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: JAVELINA
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1710
Re: JAVELINA
I was looking at a map of the peccary's range/distribution and there is a large gap in west texas & north-central mexico. I guess it has something to do with habitat & elevation. Does anyone know why they are absent there ?
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Preatorian holster
- Replies: 5
- Views: 584
Re: Preatorian holster
Them is some sure enough quick draw artists in those demonstration examples. I don't think sammy davis jr. could even out draw them.....
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: gold dots residue after water
- Replies: 8
- Views: 648
Re: gold dots residue after water
Just a spritz of ballistol water mix 1/7 to as weak as 1/10 will clean those. Generic mil-spec. c.l.p. will do almost as well. Even wd-40...... You've got lead oxides and calcium carbonate (lime/marble) in the whites and a little copper verdigris so wash hands well. I bought several hundred hornady ...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Shepherd's View.....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 459
The Shepherd's View.....
linus van pelt soliloquy.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVp5AGte_ ... V5IA%3D%3D
I borrowed the middle grandson's toy guitar.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lguZLHvgJ ... BlIHR1bmVk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVp5AGte_ ... V5IA%3D%3D
I borrowed the middle grandson's toy guitar.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lguZLHvgJ ... BlIHR1bmVk
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 4:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Tablecloth
- Replies: 4
- Views: 305
Re: The Tablecloth
Now that'd wet a glass eye !
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Fedex misdelivery woes......
- Replies: 6
- Views: 498
Fedex misdelivery woes......
It used to be that scoundrels would drop their unwanted dogs and cats on the vacant farmstead across the way. That hasn't happened lately. Now it is fedex ground and home delivery dropping packages that are not mine. The ones to the neighbours that I know I always hand deliver to their door/porch bu...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Drove by the spot where Stonewall Jackson was wounded
- Replies: 11
- Views: 700
Re: Drove by the spot where Stonewall Jackson was wounded
Little to do with Jackson but a window into the past nonetheless.....
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13202
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13202
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: a little shottie for a change up
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1037
Re: a little shottie for a change up
There used to be clamp-on front and rear sights advertised in the gun glossies classifieds but I don't see them anymore. There is supposed to be a way to launch a modified arrow from a 12 ga. with repeatable 25 yd. accuracy. You can even convert to a muzzleloader of sorts..... https://www.gunadapter...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A new toy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 511
Re: A new toy
This is most interesting !
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another Oldie from the Sixgunner.Com Archives
- Replies: 9
- Views: 651
Re: Another Oldie from the Sixgunner.Com Archives
If that is/was undersheriff capt. smith of slidell, louisiana, I was privileged to meet him in clarksville, arkansas. I was chatting with the elder mister smith about getting to meet gunwriting celebrities such as cumpston, murbach and taylor and capt. smith interrupted and said, "don't let the...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The new .327, first outing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 896
Re: The new .327, first outing
Paul, I think one of these little Texas whitetails or a hog would be at grave risk from that pill under 50 yards -- but not from a 2-inch snubby in my old hands! :lol: After the excellent h&r magnum failed to live up to "magnum" expectations, a(n) (in)famous booster & lobbyist for...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The new .327, first outing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 896
Re: The new .327, first outing
If this link works scroll down to page 5 to see an interesting .32 h&r article.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gbeoiV ... XDPBo/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gbeoiV ... XDPBo/view
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another razor hooey story.....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 427
Re: Yet another razor hooey story.....
The Trance..... Nearly four decades later I was on a road trip with the "colonel", a brother-in-law. The colonel actually never was a "colonel". When he was a captain he got passed-over for promotion to major enough times to be mustered out of billy bob's (numero 42) scouts. He r...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 4:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The new .327, first outing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 896
Re: The new .327, first outing
I've been using these in my .327s.
https://choiceammunition.com/product/32 ... nd-loaded/
Shot into stovewood chunks they penetrated quite deep.
Something like this might help.
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/pr ... tId/102592
https://choiceammunition.com/product/32 ... nd-loaded/
Shot into stovewood chunks they penetrated quite deep.
Something like this might help.
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/pr ... tId/102592
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Liking the new air rifle
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2325
Re: Liking the new air rifle
https://keystoneairguns.com/collections/airguns
Thanks wilhelm. I have an entry level "100" on the way for gatos y ardillas dissuasion.....
Thanks wilhelm. I have an entry level "100" on the way for gatos y ardillas dissuasion.....
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another razor hooey story.....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 427
Yet another razor hooey story.....
The Movement..... There once was a man of the bantu race who suddenly grabbed his head in both his hands and swooned and fell into the communal cooking fire of his neighborhood in the greater tribal village. If he were alive today and a victim of western medicine then he would most certainly would b...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
- Replies: 19
- Views: 851
Re: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
Wilhelm, what bullet are you using in the little .32 ?
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
- Replies: 19
- Views: 851
Re: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
Ray, I had a '76 Ford pickup with a 460 for years. The previous owner had put a 2 bbl intake and carb on it hoping to improve the fuel mileage but I found an original 4 bbl and manifold and bolted them on. Emissions requirements from a few years prior to mine had retarded the timing by 11° but I fo...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
- Replies: 19
- Views: 851
Re: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
Ray, I had a '76 Ford pickup with a 460 for years. The previous owner had put a 2 bbl intake and carb on it hoping to improve the fuel mileage but I found an original 4 bbl and manifold and bolted them on. Emissions requirements from a few years prior to mine had retarded the timing by 11° but I fo...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
- Replies: 19
- Views: 851
Re: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
I always longed for a Marlin 94 in .32H&R but could never afford one likewise, the Henry .327. I wondered if they would feed the .32S&W and how many rounds the magazine would hold. My henry .327 feeds h&r correctly but does not with longs so it will obviously not with "shorts".
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
- Replies: 19
- Views: 851
Re: Loading the .32 Smith & Wesson
Way back when I was just a wee pup an elderly gentleman gave me a cigar box full of old gun stuff including an unmarked self-loading pistol and a throat lozenge tin with cartridges for it. The pistol resembled a walther ppk/s but was single-action. The slide mounted safety/decocker lever was complet...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1187
Re: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
Hawk Bullets have been promising these for several years.....
https://www.banditbullets.com/
Who knows when or if they'll ever be available.....?
https://www.banditbullets.com/
Who knows when or if they'll ever be available.....?
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 11:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1187
Re: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
Once upon a time I contacted these folks by email..... https://www.ballmoulds.com/ And asked if they could cut me a .480" ball and drill the sprue hole with either a 29/64" or 11.5mm bit for use in my .45/.475 pseudo "achilles". Leaving the fatter sprue uncut would serve as a hee...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1187
Re: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
Bill, I think you need to buy some of those lemat bullets just in case you ever go back home and angle for sturgeon. You'll need some sinkers......Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:33 pm Ray. Wow! I have to wonder, was this before the Richmond Labs bullet, or after?
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1187
Re: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
Everybody obsesses on meplats. Hows about a bullety looking bullet ? Good luck getting it started straight in the chamber though.
https://www.gimcrackandbunkum.com/produ ... als-sized/
https://www.gimcrackandbunkum.com/produ ... als-sized/
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1187
Re: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
Wilhelm, take one pointy conical and set on the anvil of your bench vise and smack smartly and squarely with a hammer. Instant flatnose !
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 11:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1187
Re: Heeled bullets for the percussion revolvers
I think I have the johnson dow and richmond from eras gone..... The richmond is a booger to load on the gun as it is nearly .39 around but the effort flattens the point nicely. https://www.erasgonebullets.com/store and the three factory lee .36, .45, & .46 (for r.o.a.) plus the 200 gr. r.e.a.l. ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The SSK .44 Magnum Heavy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 865
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The SSK .44 Magnum Heavy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 865
Re: The SSK .44 Magnum Heavy
Lots of folk in the sport of handgun hunting find the common 2x long-eye relief inadequate but mister kelly did great work with them.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "Not Too Old to ROCK!" (1st Time on Stage in 41 Years...)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 500
Re: "Not Too Old to ROCK!" (1st Time on Stage in 41 Years...)
bravo zulu !
Cool.....
Cool.....
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The SSK .44 Magnum Heavy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 865
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I Don't Get This Logic at All
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1246
Re: I Don't Get This Logic at All
I wholeheartedly concur with the therapeutic value of cartridge handloading and bullet casting and the like. There are some steps like case preparation that can be onerous but such things that try your patience also flexes that forebearance/longsuffering mental muscle that we all need more of..... A...