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Swell job, Lenn!

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Nice voice, Ray.

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Wow, so many choices!
The .38-55 Ballard is a performer, as is the .40-70 Sharps Straight. For thump, .50-70 Government or .577 Snider. For a little less thump, .56-50 Spencer. Why not invoke the memories of our forebears? The "Old Dead Guys" had some great hunting juju.

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Plus one for the peep replacement from stevesgunz.

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Licking windows? Is this another "Britishism," like "narfs"?

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By the way, solved the bolt release mystery with advice from gunsmith friend Tom Jackson. I pulled the stock per Tom's advice and there was the flat spring holding a bolt stop button into the bolt raceway. Turns out, you retract the bolt, which leaves a hole in the bottom of the raceway just visible...

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GK: 24 inches and probably full choke, from the information I can find on line. Muzzle measures about .394. It weighs a little over five pounds and balances nicely.

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Thanks to our dear, enabling friend in the United Kingdom, I got the .410 single-shot bug and came up with this one. It is a Revelation/Western Auto Model 335, and may be unfired. I initially thought it might be a Mossberg product, but after looking at schematics, it is definitely a version of Marli...

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More dry and hot here. Have an 8,000-acre wildfire burning the northeast corner of the Capitan Wilderness, zero containment, with heavy air tanker traffic out of the Alamogordo airport. Should start seeing some Gulf of Mexico moisture in the next 48 hours.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6397

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Jason: Fish in the pond? What a dream that would be!

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Todd, Earl is the one who introduced me to the handling beauties of the 336-A. It really was Marlin's answer to the Winchester Model 64. Lovely.

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Harry, it's the one with the scope. Serial is E 34X and the original .30-30 barrel was still marked Model 36. Unfortunately the waffle top receiver had already been drilled and tapped so I used it for the donor. John Taylor fitted the barrel and used a Manson reamer to chamber it. The other rifle is...

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Blaine, that's a good question. I have been on atorvastatin for years with some improvement in HDL/LDL and room for more. But as Doc mentioned, most labs don't test for oxidized cholesterol. Also, looking at bergamot supplements on Amazon, some are indeed the extract of Citrus bergamia -- the bergam...

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Somebody sure knows how to use a plasma cutter.

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Wow! There's an outfit in Wallace, Idaho -- the North Idaho Trading Company -- that has stuff like that.

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Doc, you left out moving air -- wind. I was surprised to learn that Texas is the nation's largest wind power producer. Have quite a few farms here in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico, too.

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So sweet, Jason. Take care of yourself, mister.
Is that a lake or a river outside your home?

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Good gracious, Ray, you are trolling the depths of Leverguns this morning. I did complete that "CBG" -- just couldn't play it.
I made this brief Youtube six years, five houses and one divorce ago, as a much younger man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H-5VCw7N2I

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Doc, how do you take it? I assume a cup of Earl Grey with bergamot won't quite do it.

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Chuck, Contenders can be funny about setting the hammer if the headspace is not perfect. As far as I know, the club has a perfect safety record.
LOTS to read in this 11-page thread:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthr ... l-shooting

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Wow. Found this thread while looking for .25-35 Tomcat data. I apologize for not responding sooner. Life got in the way -- you know, divorces, moves, surgery, getting old.
I just measured the water capacity of a once-fired/fireformed WW .25-35 case and it was 45 grains on the nose, if anyone cares.

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I just ran into this outfit over on castboolits. Had not heard of this game -- basically shooting steel targets with mild handgun loads from a lawn chair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... -vJ9G29aW8

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I wish these folks the best. Somebody needed to be the first one in the pool with a 4WD electric truck. I believe they are asking $69,000.

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That's just awesome. My life has been pretty empty that past two years without a dog or dogs in it. They bring so much to a home. Please keep the photo feed running as your pup grows!

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Thanks Grizz. Marshall's bullets do have a fine reputation.

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All this and 0-60 in 3 seconds!

https://products.rivian.com/

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I'm lovin' it! Best ad I have seen in years.

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Our stretch of dry 90s looks to be coming to a close in a week or so, with conditions in the Gulf beginning to favor our summer monsoon.

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Rusty, thanks for sharing your hard-earned experience. I'll look for that app. Hope you are continuing to heal.

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Friend, I am sizing .360. Don't cast too many on my account, as I am not sure that boolit will chamber.

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JFE, the notes on the Accurate Web site say that bullet is "inspired by Saeco # 352."
I'll look up Glen's article.

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Fellas, I am thinking 200-240 grain boolit at 2100 or so out of a .35 Remington for cow elk to 100 or a little farther.

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Lots of theories on this. Many want a hard cast boolit that scarcely deforms but pencils right on through a game animal -- "letting air in and air out." Others want some deformation to help open the wound channel and increase internal damage for a quick kill. Paul Matthews, in his book &qu...

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Ford, thanks for the kind offer. The Lee mold is essentially a copy of the RCBS. Is this the 230-grain NOE mold you are referring to? Looks like it might not fit into the early Marlin throat. http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?cPath=35_313&products_id=1056&osCsid=fk428hsi263l8s83c...

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Good luck Ford. The one I had now lives in Texas, but I hope to run a 1951 336-A in .35 Remington in the woods this fall. I have the Lee 200-grain boolit to test, but would prefer more weight. However, you have to choose a mold wisely to fit the earlier Marlins with very little throat. I like this o...

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Gunny, I believe RST offers some paper hull loads in 12 bore.

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Gunny, I am going to light off one of my paper shells just to have the empty to smell ... ambrosia!

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Rats. Here I thought we were getting the inside dope on obscure U.K. hunting slang. Well I, for one, am going to refer to lead shot as narfs from here on out regardless of size. Wait -- what's this? A line from Markland's "Pteryplegia," published in 1717. "Our Narfs of sev'ral sorts, ...

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Just a little extra innoculation with the .410 virus. I bought a small sack of paper shells a while back. Wish I had several hundred instead of just a dozen or two. The purple three-inchers are Dominions; the two-inch yellow shells are Winchester. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48092983336_9d7f...

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Just saw your post there.

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Rusty, are you Oldskool on Shotgun World?

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Rusty, thanks for that link. Lots to learn there!

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Nath, it won't be anywhere near as elegant as your Webley ...

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Curious to hear how they shoot and hold up myself, Lenn. Not crazy about the finish either.

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Mike, I believe their herds were purchased in return for the destruction agreement. Don't know the details.

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Well, I am blaming Nath for the Mossberg-built Western Auto Revelation single shot bolt gun headed my way. Now to cobble up a little reloading kit and order a roll crimper and some wads. I'm well stocked with narfs.

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Might have mentioned this before, but when my youngest brother went to work as an attorney for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Denver, much of his job involved negotiating the terms of the destruction of infected herds on private elk ranches. This involved culling the entire herd, dumping the ...

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Always more blessed to give than to receive. Hope Paco gets a chance to get out and shoot that beautiful sixgun.

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