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Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in Houston, Texas, while awaiting their respective flights. One is an American Indian from Lame Deer, Montana. Another is a Cowboy on his way to Dallas for a livestock show. The third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student,...

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Nope ! The most expensive gun is the one ya come across when you're flat broke !

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The Classics & the Buffalo Bill both had black chomed receivers that looked like a highly polished blue-black, roll scroll engraving and the Bill, like most commemoratives (not all), had a medallion imbedded in the side of the buttstock.

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It shoots like a house afire, eh ?

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[First thing I would do is take off those ridiculous see-through mounts and install a set of regular low weaver mounts.] Tsk, tsk. Now,now, Ted - Remember your New Years resolution. ;) Besides,you know how much easier those high mount/rings make carrying the gun like a suitcase ! :roll: :lol: :lol: ...

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I could never wait till Monday !

Why, they might sell it to someone else, by mistake !

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Mike - I know how you feel. Keep a PMA, and things will look up !

You're in my thoughts - Please check your email.

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Marlin .30-06 semi-auto's and Remington .30-30 leverguns.

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I've found, over the years, on field-dressed deer:

1/3 weight = hide
1/3 weight = bone
1/3 weight = meat

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[I'm not certain what did the trick]

You transmorgified it.

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[I have tried this rifle from the bench with the butt end of the forearm resting on the front bag and the butt stock resting on the rear bag in the same place every shot. I have also tried shooting the rifle from the bench sitting with both elbows on the bench.] IMHO, your first method is contribut...

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"Only accurate rifles are interesting" (Col. Townsend Whelan)

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My rural gun club usually has deer feeding on one of the ranges (we have a 7, 25, 50, 100, & 200 yd set up - all side-by-side), if you happen to be the first one to arrive, most days - but club bylaws prohibit shooting them.

"Like shooting ducks in a barrel" syndrome.

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[I am glad that you won something. Most people seem to go out of that place much poorer.] Thanks, and - Yep - We've paid for more than a few of the mirrors they have down there! Payback was long overdue - heck, I prolly still didn't come out ahead, over the years, considering. They don't build those...

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Brownings, and I suspect Miroku's, use an epoxy spray finish. Sand and spot refinish at your own peril.

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I'm glad to see you lande on your feet, Quinn !

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I've found that when a Winchester M94 suddenly tightens, it's usually a bent pivot pin somewhere. The last one I had was on a BB94 that suddenly developed a hard trigger pull as I was shooting it at the range -yup, a bent trigger pivot pin I fixed by replacing it with a ground down section of approp...

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For traveling, mount the window rack to the rear cab wall, behind the seat. For handiness whilst cruising back roads, etc, use the single hook rack that hold the gun horizontally, across the truck, just in front of the seat bottom and mounts to the seat bottom's lower frame - one hook on each side o...

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[How many of you are going to shoot into the air at midnight?]

Wal............... I did..........But.........It twarn't no firearm.

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Good on you & Tycer !

That looks like 2007 ended on a high note, and 2008's sure lookin' good from here !

[Look What the Levergun Fairy Brought ME!]

Oh, yeah ? I woulda never thought that, about Tycer.

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Thanks - It already is ! My green-eyed monster & I spent the New Year's Eve celebration at the nearby Foxwoods Indian casino, where we had a nice dinner with some friends & relatives, then came away winners ! No new gun though - I already promised her we could get a new car with the windfall...

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[a Lyman 66 model and I drilled & tapped it. The base is such that the contour of the top of the base matches the top corner of the receiver.] Uh, oh - It sounds like you've installed the peep too high on the receiver. :( I would respectfully sugest to eyeball the peep's cross-staff, with it adj...

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[I have one with a 20" barrel.] One what ? :roll: "One" sometimes confuses folks, as the 20" barreled, straight gripped carbines were the BigBore 94's, and the 17 1/2" ported, pistol-gripped carbines were the Timber Carbines. To further confuse the BB94 issue, Winchester ter...

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I like a bead front, 3/32" Ivory best - with the exception of the Sourdough Patridge (post) sight w/brass insert, which is (in effect) a square bead. But then - The only target shooting I do is when zeroing new sights/ammo. The remainder of my shooting is during hunting or while practicing with...

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The rear folder is a Marble's, and (unlike XS) they don't send you squat. http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=23085&title=#95%20FOLDING%20SPORTING%20REAR%20SIGHT Winchester Trapper's front sight height is correct for receiver peeps, too - unless a bead type change is desi...

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Welcome to the fire, bigpappa! I can't tell you much about the 44-40, since that's one caiber I've never owned or used - but I'm sure someone will be along shortly, that does. The Navy Arms M92 is, IMO, one of the more attractive versions of the Winchester M92 clones - and n octagon barrel is drool ...

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I'm with Terry, too. I've had a Lightweight Commander .45 for over twenty years, and love the light frame, straight mainspring housing and rowel hammer spur. The only additions I've made are a Wilson recoil buffer, Wilson thin grips, and Chip McCormick "melted" sights. As for "control...

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I just take my gun of choice, and go. I've always looked at it this way - The Founding Fathers, and The Continental Congress gave me a CCW, good everywhere. Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitutionâ€™s Bill of Rights declares a well-regulated militia as "being neces...

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You won't need a taller front sight blade for a tang sight - if the tang sight is all you're gonna use. However, the barrel rear sight will interfere with sighting, and should be repaced with a slot filler blank ($6). Some shooters, however, use the barrel sights for close-range snapshots - and rais...

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[ Pre Rem Marlin]

Yep..............Soon to be right up there, with the Pre-2006 Winchester 94.

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[That's the last open spot I have in the safe.]

Time for another safe.

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No one, yet - AFAIK. It's prolly a pre-SHOT Show news release, that Hunting Magazine got a line on, since I can't find even word one about it anywhere else yet - even Mossberg's own website.

www.mossberg.com

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[The name "Phoenix" is interesting, signifying maybe something rising from the ashes] The "Phoenix" moniker was my own doing, referring to exactly that - The fact that Mossberg had made a levergun once before, and discontinued it. The "top eject", etc, sounds good - but...

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[What is Henry doing that would make the 30-30 worth 2-3 times a new 336?]

Chroming them. (Well, brassing them, anyway)

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Me too, since previous Mossberg centerfire Leverguns were solid-top, side ejecting Marlin look-alikes with triggers that traveled with the lever. The Hunting Mag blurb said: "The extractor is a forward extension of a collar-type spring that that fits in an angular groove aound the bolt body. Lo...

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My son shoots a T/C Encore ProHunter .50, and I use a T/C Omega .50 - I really like the Omega, but can't stand the Encore's weight & ergonomics. After some prior experiences, both personal and of close friends, with them, I won't own another CVA or Traditions. A close comparison of one, with a T...

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It's not on the Mossberg website yet, but the new (Feb-Mar 2008) issue of Petersen's Hunting Magazine has an article on the new 2008 items, amongst which is (ta-raa): The Mossberg Model 464 lever action rifle, a top-eject, .30-30.

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[The recent negativity...]

I've found that misery loves company and I tend to mostly ignore them, but sometimes I give 'em a little poke.

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There was also a Model 94 Lightweight, but the .45-70, & it's rim in particular, are too big for the action to handle. That is why the BBM94 Timber was made in .444 & .450 Marlin, instead - as those cartridges are slim enough for it. Ken Waters featured an M94 Lightweight Deluxe, a .30-30, i...

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You gotcha a good'un !

There's nuthin' like a .32 gun, for fun !

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[No visual signs of any damage. The rings hadn't even marred the scope tube. But the scope power ring is still jammed on #3. It will move a tiny bit towards power 4 but that's all. ] I've found that you get what you pay for, in optics (as well as some other things). Yes, Leupolds are expensive, but ...

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[A neighbor wants $200 for a Japanese grade 1 (chekering on the stocks).] AFAIK, all Browning BL-22's were made in Japan (by Miroku), and the Grade 1 had no checkering. (I've owned both Grade I & Grade II's) The Grade II, in addition to checkered stocks, has a lightly engraved receiver that the ...

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And a forward controller/spotter, too ?

That's waaaaay outta my class, pardner !

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Pre-cant the scope, as posted above, for the correct final alignment - but beware ! Don't glance through the scope with the rifle held in firing position on your shoulder to align/plumb the crosshairs. If you do, your eye will naturally plumb the reticle (or you can sight against some straight line,...

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Probably $850, until the pipeline's filled.

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Good on you, Quinn ! Now he can sing for his supper !

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You don't have to sand, except to smooth out any rough or gouged areas. Go to WallyWorld, and but a small can (liquid) of Formby's Furniture Refinisher, a pack of OOOO steel wool, and a jar or Tru-Oil. Follow the can directions, to wipe off the old finish down to bare wood with a steel wool pad soak...

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Yep, 1971 Models are good to go.

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I just got my 999 Sportsman 6" back, after 15 years ! It was with mixed emotions, though - since I had given it to a close friend 15 years ago, when he was "jones'in" for one, and it got returned by his widow, after he passed recently. It was an unexpected surprise, when she handed it...

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[ how are tang sights when it comes to low light conditions compared to regular iron sights?] In order of utility, going from light to darkness, the open barrel iron sights are the first to fade, then receiver peep, then tang peep. Only a (horrors) scope will allow sighting to almost full darkness -...

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