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I have about 40 one pound bottles of APP . It's about as good as it gets for a Sub BP. I just landed my 45 Russian #3 . Now I have two #3's

Nope, not a peep from them.

They will need a warrant first. Fingerprint recognition is turned off on my phone and I’m old and forgetful specially when armed folks are pressuring me to do something against my will.

Not a "speed loader", but the Mrs has pushed many-a-round into her 73's using this. Get the round started into the gate with one hand push it in with the pusher. She can load ten faster than I can w/o it. It's a wood finial drilled to accept the dowel. 45C round for size reference. Might have $1 invested.

I got a used 66 in .44-40. It had clearly been worked on by someone. The hammer spring had been so lightened that you could see the hammer falling noticeably slower than on a stock Henry I have in the same caliber. Also, it had had it's lever safety removed. (The very early 66's imported by Navy Arms had a 73 style lever safety on them for some reason. Anyway, I took the gun to Happy Trails of The Smith Shop and asked him if he could return it to more or less factory specs. He was able to reinstall the lever safety, and the hammer now falls much faster and never fails to make the gun go bang. Based on how HEAVY a stock 66 hammer spring was when I got an unmodified one a few years later, I'll say that some changes are likely in order. If/when you want to get an action job done, just don't go "too far" with it. Buy the same token, you mentioned that yours is a .45. I will say that you get some blowback in that caliber, and once I went too long without cleaning, and it caused failure to fire like you described in my Lightning. After a good cleaning, and flushing out the firing pin with Gunscrubber solved that problem. So all I say in that regard is, with a .45, keep your rifle clean.

The triggers are shown above. I did the put calipers on it but they look completely identical other than the old one has the blueing worn off. The metal doesn't appear to have any wear at all. As an update, one of my friends clamped the hammer in a vice and took a diamond file to it to make the notch a little deeper. I reinstalled the old hammer, old trigger and old trigger spring and took it shooting. It shot just fine other than I think the pull might be a hair heavier than before. It's way better than whole new setup though. I meant to put my trigger gage on it but I wouldn't be surprised it if was a 30lb pull. It was so heavy it was almost hard to believe.

I don't even want to tell you what I paid for my Uberti S&W American 8" 44 Special . More the double this one !

RIP Mike Pinder, your contributions to the Moody Blues will live on in their music.

Shotgun boogies "66-style " loading gate for the '73 makes it easier to load also.

Idiot convention.

According to most frozen food portions, I seem to be a family of four!

While I have never really been a SxS guy, per se, I have to admit that over the years, a lot of people made a lot of interesting ones, from very simple to very fancy. On the "collector" side of things, and I use the term in the sense of just acquiring things that you find interesting, not for investment, there are a lot of fascinating things out there. I have come to learn that there are just as many variations on the basic theme of double barreled shotgun as there are on lever action rifle. If not more. And what is even more enjoyable is that even things that were "high grade" guns back in the day can be obtained for a reasonable price if they are not all that pretty anymore, but still in shootable condition.

Less powder more shot

I remember him well as an icon at Norco. Great pard to shoot with. RIP

I soon traded it in on something I wanted more. Not considering my time, I made a good return.

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For sale: Dillon RF100 primer tube filler in excellent condition. Has been upgraded for variable speed. Set up for small pistol, but am including tube for large pistol primers also -work great but I have two. Have original box. $350 shipped to conus accept PayPal F&F, Venmo, Zelle also for immediate shipping. first to post “I’ll take it here on the wire gets it.

Another issue is the firing pin cavity in the bolt. If you have a lot of gunk in the firing pin hole, could be slowing every thing down in cold weather. Even worse is if the gunk builds up and binds the firing in the forward position. During the season, I use non-chlorinated brake cleaner to blast it out, then re-lubricate. At the end of the year, I completely disassemble the bolt and replace the extractor.

Where can I find a 11MM dovetail front globe sight

Thank you Rooster, I kept watching this and my resolve to resist was getting weaker and weaker......LOL. I already have one so did not.."need" it. You got a great deal, I gave quite a bit more for mine about 3-4 months ago. Macon