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I hit 3 major sites a few days ago looking for a couple of round ball molds and they are out of stock too.

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Airedaleman, it looks like Wisner's might have one, I'll have him call them. Finding .32 Colt ought to be easier than finding affordable .32 rimfire, $4.75/round for Navy Arms.

Luv our Airedale, smartest dogs I've ever seen.

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Thanks for the suggestion but I have way too many projects running to chase down the correct grade steel and file one out for him and he can't do it. I might install it if he can buy one.

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My neighbor is looking for a center fire firing pin for an 1892 Marlin in .32. He has the rimfire pin but
have you priced the ammo? Gun parts hasn't had any for years and I haven't been able to locate one anywhere.

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I believe this is the third incident of a Uberti with a mismatched cylinder that I have heard of.

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Chickadees??? The Maine state bird is the mosquito! I didn't want to bring up the economy as it's too depressing but it's the reason (well there was a blond involved too) that I've been here since '74. Shortly after I arrived here I had two part time jobs in addition to my full time work and it's pr...

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I'm sitting here on top of a ridge in the north end of Virginia drinking coffee and watching it snow. It's been falling lightly for about 15 hours now but we only have about 3". The trees are covered and my grove of White Pines (rare down here) remind me of home. The nice thing about this snow ...

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Thanks guys.

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"gun that used loose powder and ball" Gatling's first gun used chambers that had a nipple for a musket cap on the rear. These were loaded with black powder and a mini ball and fed through the gun like a cartridge. I have seen a reproduction Civil War Gatling fired against a Gardner gun in ...

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I bought a new Ruger Bearcat for my wife a number of years back after talking with the people at Ruger. I have a long barrel Colt with adjustable sights and interchangeable cylinders which I bought new. A friend had an FIE with fixed sights and a 4 1/2" barrel. I could consistently out shot the...

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"It's not like they get a load in and some un-named mystery batch of customers cleans it all out before you get there--every time, without exception?" Actually that is exactly what happens at our local Wally World. There is a small group (3-5) individuals with a lot of disposable income wh...

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Here is a link to "The Pop Pop Boat Pages" which contain a lot of interesting information:

http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/pop-pop/index.html

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"compared to the earlier,heavy model with the swell in the lower thimble area." Specifically this is referring to the entry thimble where the ramrod goes completely into the stock. It sounds like a Brown Bess.

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I like my Shooting Chrony and it will measure the MV of a Daisy, 325 FPS. My first shot over the Chrony hit the unit dead in the middle of the box as I forgot to allow for the difference between the line of sight and the bore elevation. Luckily I was shooting the Daisey at the time and also had the ...

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He took one for the class

Those students (even the 3 girls that were late) will never forget that days lesson.

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The Canberra was built by English Electric beginning in '49 and later built under license by Martin ('53) in the US. Other than having 2 engines mounted in the wings there is no connection.

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"i'm here to look at your fossils...don't anybody move or get any stupid ideas...got it... :O"

Granpaw's in the rocker overn th corner but he ain't armed, honest sir!

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"It was a strange frosty morning and I had the rw electric defrost on," If a couple of the cross pieces on the defroster grid are broken (not electrically continuous) the grid will create uneven heating and what you had will be the result. The grid can be damaged by improper cleaning techn...

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I can't seem to find the original mention for Stop Leak in this thread. Are you using it to hold the overshot card in place?

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You shouldn't have much trouble finding loading info for black powder in brass on the web but a lot of it will be for 12 gauge. The first thing you will need to do is to see if the brass is not too long for your chambers and cut it back if it is. If you can't do that a gunsmith can measure it for yo...

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"What was the deal on upgrading to Benefactor? I missed the last promotion." Griff, I don't recall the details now and I gave the papers away. Since I got pushed into an early retirement almost four years ago with a base income of less than half of my former take home and 50% of that going...

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Straight wall cases rarely need trimming as it's the expander plug used in bottle neck cases that stretches them, not a bad idea to check after a few loadings though. Cases should be trimmed before resizing. I keep a Lee universal decaping die permenantly set up in an inexpensive Lee C frame press t...

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The $300 life membership offer is legit THROUGH the NRA. I don't know about anybody else and I wouldn't go there. I heard somewhere online the membership offer was good only till the end of the month but I don't remember seeing that anywhere. I don't have the details at hand now, they were part of a...

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Are you using the Lee Loader system that requires a rubber mallet? They are pretty simple and shouldn't give you any trouble providing you have seated the bullet to the crimping grove. You might want to consider one of their case trimmers too, very easy to use and inexpensive. You can call their cus...

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Per a phone conversation with Ruger several years ago: The new Bearcat has a .22LR bore and not the larger .22 mag bore. At one time they were considering offering the Bearcat with a .22 mag cylinder which is why the new Bearcat is longer than the old but there were issues and the idea was abandoned...

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Had you intended to post a link to the video?

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"Send it in to Marbles, they will fix if for you at no charge"
Mine came back worse than when I sent it.

" and get it back to you pretty quickly."
Not!

" Good outfit to deal with."
???

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Minnesooooota Snow Snake! You are very fortunate, they are the deadliest and rarest poisonous snakes on the globe and are the reason there are no Yeti in Minnesota.

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Sixgun, Tim Allen would have been proud of you.

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Yeah, but there is a reason homemade soap exists.

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The listing was modified yesterday: "Information added 7/3/2012 1:58:15 PM We have determined that this firearm is not safe to shoot in its current configuration/calibre, and must be rebarreled. As a consequence, we will remove tha barrel before shipping and the buyer will be required to execut...

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I got full power back at 10:10 last night, northern Frederick County. We had limited power, well below 110 though even that was off a couple of times. No air or hot water, refrigerator and freezer wouldn't run. Incandescent bulbs were brown, interestingly the CFL bulbs were at (or nearly so) full br...

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"The ramrod is permanently attached to a lug under the barrel, in use it is withdrawn and swivels out toward the bore and then replaced in a like fashion.They were designed so that while loading on horseback you didn t have to worry about losing the ramrod " This is one gun where you don't...

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"I do a nice bent bolt that looks factory to the untrained eye"

Do you have a photo? It would be interesting to see your work.

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No experience here and even though I have a couple of hammer shotguns I'm not a big fan of them (see Elmer Keith's feelings regarding them). That one sure is a fine looking shotgun though.

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Elvis is collecting Rugers now, avaliability may be spotty in areas of high UFO activity.

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There are a lot of quality old single shots out there if you don't mind a ding or two. I let a good Winchester slip by ($60) a few months back because I had just gotten a Premier Single Shot (Mosberg Model B) exactly like the one my brothers and I learned to shoot on. Most people today don't seem to...

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That was entertaining!

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The 38 changes to the NFA may have made it legal but it would have to have been registered at that time and the chain of Federal paperwork kept current with each change of ownership. Congress took a look at the TC offerings, had a laugh over them and moved on. This is probably the only time in the 2...

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It isn't a difficult job and any respectable gunsmith (not a scope installer) should be able to do it. Have you checked locally? EDIT: I guess I should clarify my statement regarding scope installers. I do appreciate the work involved in mounting a scope or any sights for that matter properly and th...

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"Inoperable" in the sense that it is beat up, worn out, rusted, has missing parts, will not function, etc. does NOT exempt it from the law. Anyone posesses this gun in this condition is a potential fellon and the BATF does not plea bargin. If the chamber was permenantly plugged and 3 bore ...

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First there was coyote ugly then there was Pontiac ugly, now there is Mosberg ugly! That 95 shows character, like my 30 year old F150 with 308,000 miles, matter of fact it would look right at home in the rear window.

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Re "Colt .45", that is Alan Hale Sr., Alan Hale Jr. was the Skipper. They not only looked alike but had an almost identical acting style. I agree those are rolling block pistols, very unusual in a western. My parents took us to see the movie at the drive-in when I was very young and I've o...

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The minute you cut the barrel below the legal length even if it is not attached to the gun (so long as the rest of the gun is in your possesion) when you do it you ARE a criminal. Now it isn't likely tha bATF will knock on your door with a tank at that time but I wouldn't tell anyone of my intention...

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"If Ruger ever offered it from the factory in .32 or .22 mag". The .22 mag will never happen. A few years back and not too long after Ruger had reintroduced the Bearcat I decided to replace the Heratige that I had bought my wife with a real gun but I was concerned about the bore diameter. ...

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That P-80 has T-33 tip tanks and the canopy looks much bigger than the usual P(F)-80 canopy. In the early 80s I was working on my roof when I saw what I am sure was 2 F-80s fly over. As a child it was my favorite jet and I'm sure I couldn't have mistaken them specially with the underslung tip tanks.

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Well I missed 3 and one of those I don't feel so bad about as I don't know a lot about Greek philosophers. I can't concieve anyone not knowing who our 2 principal enemies in WW2 were given that that is 90% of the Military Channel's content.

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Old No7, I sure could put that book to good use if I was to win it.

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Thanks guys. I think I should feel a little wiser but somehow I don't.

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