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I looked more like John Wayne before the car wreck.

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Oh Jim! Your so full of "it"......A MASTER soon gets bored with conventional guns with known accuracy and needing a challenge, he resorts to different modes to dispatch things that need to be dispatched. THATS why you chose the $1.98 Bersa..... As you are far ahead of me in the knowledge ...

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Hey sixgun ... the guy in the red shirt is an old long-time friend. I have known him since .. oh ... 1972. We hunted together in various places including Africa. We have walked with each other through tragedies. He's about 80 in the photo and that was 3 years ago or so. He still drives long-haul tru...

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Yes you do Sixgun! No argument.

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Rusty wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 12:18 am I was wondering what the taper is like on the .38/357 mould?

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My first levergun was in .44-40 and right from the start I knew it was a rifle. I was 14 or 15 and Dad loaded Keith 250 gr. SWC with pretty stout loads of 2400 for me. We shot those at 400 yards and while I could keep them on the deer silhouette target, the bullets were keyholing because of the slow...

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I am surprised no one has pointed out that
25-20
32-20
38-40
44-40
are not pistol calibers.
I mean .. I am shocked!

They are rifle calibers that other companies decided to adapt pistols to shoot.
SHOCKED!!

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Very nice.
My Dad bought his first .44 Magnum about 1960 ... looked just like that.
Personally I like those better than any other model Ruger has made.
You did well.

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As far as I am concerned, that's about the perfect caliber for that action.

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there is a tremendous amount of tension between the commands "judge not lest ye be judged" and "judge righteous judgement". two things that can be fully energized by dumping Paul's epistles . . . Or, instead of taking apart an ancient writing, one could learn how to judge righte...

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AmBraCol wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:05 am Folks get so wrought up about rooting out weeds that they forget to produce wheat.

EXCELLENT!!

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There ain't nothing as mean as a religious person who thinks they know God's will and are willing to use force and/or violence to enforce it. As Blaise Pascal said, "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

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I was thinking of that one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

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The Amen Corner is:
1. a play
2. a rock band
3. people in a church who say "Amen" whenever the preacher makes a point they like.

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Thoughts ... you scored! Great. Advice ... none I have .22 magnum cases prepared and bullets cast but I have not mixed up the priming compound. I am not sure how much compound is made with the measures provided and am waiting until I can re-prime some primers also. The compound is extremely explosiv...

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I received a nice phone call last night from Paul Persinger. It's been a few years since I heard from him. Back in the 1980's when he had just moved to the US from the Yukon, he stayed with my wife and I for a short while, then roomed with my Dad and Mom. He was just a kid then, starting out. Those ...

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There is such a thing as "Diminishing Returns." You run into it quickly using heavy for caliber bullets.

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Old Redneck Joke

What R M?

M R ducks.

M R not.

OSMR. CM wangs?

L I B. MR ducks!

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There are other companies producing the "brass replacement" cartridges. All have something that is stronger - lighter - more efficient - or some other thing. None offer what brass does. All are expensive. All are not reloadable unless you use special equipment. Reloaders are (or used to be...

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Really neat! Jim how did your Dad come by his machinist skills? He was pretty much self-taught. Grandpa was a blacksmith and he learned that when young. Then read books and practiced. When I was young he had a gunsmithing business. He repaired guns. He built guns. He converted guns. He converted ca...

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Yeah ... I have not lost any either.

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We were cleaning out a gun safe not too long ago, in preparation of moving it to a new location. Among the stuff we discovered ... things we forgot was in there which includes a pistol we had been missing for several years .. was two pocket reloading kits that my Dad made years ago. One is in .38/.3...

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I've got a thousand of those Shootist headstamped .44 Specials. Over half of them are stored away yet. I ought to shoot more!

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The "street" flathead Ford's we built were mostly with the 4" stroke Mercury crankshaft. Not a lot of rpm's but they did have a lot of torque. We usually ran high gears ... around 3 to 1 rear ends and they would pull 'em just fine. Add an overdrive transmission and your top end was fa...

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Don Garlits has a couple of the ones used in Midgets in his engine collection and I was struck by how tiny they are even next to a SBC or Ford 289. The other surprising thing was that they were routinely spun close to 9000 rpm. I guess since valve float isn't destructive the other issues can be con...

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Jim, sorry to change the subject but I cannot find a current web address for Paco's Free check tool. It keeps coming back can't find server. Please steer me in the right direction, thanks Don I doubt the FreeChec Tool has been made in a long time. You could email him and ask. I will PM his email ad...

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Blaine wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 4:04 pm A favorite Redneck pickup is: Hey, Baby, get in the truck.

You forgot to add "I got beer!"

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Interesting Jim. Might I ask where you found the 55 hp rating? Info I found put it much lower, and I questioned the lower rating in my mind considering the engine size. This was my source: https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a1855076/38-years-chevrolet-small-block-v8-there-was-chevrolet-...

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Interesting Jim. Might I ask where you found the 55 hp rating? Info I found put it much lower, and I questioned the lower rating in my mind considering the engine size. This was my source: https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a1855076/38-years-chevrolet-small-block-v8-there-was-chevrolet-...

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And another first for American car builders was Chevrolet's V8 engine in 1917. A full 15 years before Ford's flathead V8 was considered a wonderful new innovation. Chevrolet dropped theirs a year later saying they didn't think it was needed for the average buyer. And not just a V8, but an overhead ...

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Hey Sixgun! I am using a 4 pound sledge hammer that my Dad made an Osage Orange handle for about 18 years ago! Yessir. Tough handles indeed.

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My second car was a '64 Nova and I'm still drivin it today....has 2 million miles on it and same tires and brakes.....those Winchesters and Colts were more important. :D ----006 Your car reminds me of the ax we have in the family. Our family has had this same ax for over 120 years. It's had at leas...

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JIM....I'll give ya credit. You sure know the details of building engines....for someone to do and know that was very uppity back in the day. The guys I hung around with were into hotrods. We were working on engines and transmissions etc. by the time we were13 or 14. This is my "desert buggy&q...

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We used epoxy to fix cracked radiators. They held... for a time. An old innertube cut into strips held back leaks in radiator hoses. We took a load of Mozambicans from their village to the nearest town .. about 30 miles. The ladies who had never ridden in a vehicle puked the entire trip. We probably...

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Good times, my friend. Good times. Driving the trails in the bush always produces "good times" .... :lol: I have fond memories of roadside repairs in Africa. Stressful at the time, these days they are fond memories indeed. I once took a Toyota 5-speed transmission apart with a Leatherman T...

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REMEMBERING YOU IN PRAYER BILL!

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I loved the posts about the pickups .. I like those old vehicles. They are what I grew up with. Here are a couple pictures of my first hotrod, built when I was 15 years old. It took me a year to earn the money and put the old jalopy together. ENGINE 1953 Ford V8 Bore 3 5/16" Stroke 4" 276 ...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 8:47 am
JimT wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:31 am 16 .. I grew up in Arizona... lived in Southern Missouri ... lived in the Southern Hemisphere ... lived in Southern Africa .. but I identify as a First Generation Colt Single Action Army.
But you live here in Texas now, and we are happy to have you.

AND HAPPY TO BE HERE!

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16 .. I grew up in Arizona... lived in Southern Missouri ... lived in the Southern Hemisphere ... lived in Southern Africa .. but I identify as a First Generation Colt Single Action Army.

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Say the cartridge generated 150,000 psi, and the gun yielded at 85,000 psi..... is he better off than if the gun would have been stronger and yielded at 100,000 psi ...? I know of a BMG bolt action rifle that fired a round that was way over pressure. The cartridge head was vaporized. Pressures had ...

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Let me know if there is anything you need me to do.

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That would certainly take a deer or wild pig. Even with the flyer, it is a decent group. Could that flyer be from the same chamber each time? I edited because I originally typed cylinder. Dumb mistake. No. I knew when I pulled the one to the left. The other? I blame it on old eyes and the sun comin...

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Been busy and the weather has not co-operated for doing much shooting... but today I was caught up and grabbed the time to head out and shoot the 480 Achilles. Sky is overcast ... winds are gusty at 19 mph ... but it's better to be on the range than wishing you were! The gusty winds make you work ha...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:36 am You can make a little extension out of PVC pipe. Solves the problem. (not that I know anything about that).

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Jim, I saw 20 Toyota trucks for every Land Rover when in Namibia a dozen or more years ago. Our PH's Jeep Cherokee had a wonderful diesel in it. The do-anything vehicle there was the goofy Mercedes-built Unimog. The Unimog is one of the best bush vehicles ever. Most people have never seen one in pe...

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gcs wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:17 am And those bullet proof Hi Luxs can't be bought in the states....darn it....

That's right. There are some good vehicles that can't be imported.

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:19 pm Looks good Jim.....all that wood must have given you a woodie. ---006

I am too tired for that! I can't even raise a fuss!

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