Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967
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Any favorites for Winchester 94 sights? Nineteen Seventy-Seven model, pre- AE.
My long-time favorite on a Marlin 336 is a steel Lyman 66LA I installed over fifty years ago. New ones (66A for the Winchester) are aluminum... and surprisingly pricey.
Both my Marlin and my son's Winchester are .30-30 ~ want to get both up for this deer season.
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1 hour ago, ORNERY OAF said:
Forgot to ask, before I go over to remigton society, does anyone know what type receiver this is???? Type 1 or 2,3 #5????? I've no idea, already looking at build parts
Aren't you going to have the original barrel re-bored?
It IS a right handsome barrel!
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Not me, but my son, Sassparilla Kid ~ between Christmas and New Year's, 2022, he had a week of "dead time" and wanted to do something constructive - so he decided to build a mobile smoker/grill/cooker rig.
Started with a scrapped 300 gallon butane tank from JL Hank's ranch...
Hatches cut, hinges and handles installed....
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Firebox fabricated and welded to smoker
Scratch-built trailer frame ~ Toyota Tacoma rims and tires
Constructing the Santa Maria grill box
Smoker and grill box mounted to trailer frame
Almost ready to cook!
Ready to go! Just missing propane tank.
The first "outing," a pig cook-out for the young lady's birthday ~ JL Hank's daughter; KRR Hank's grand-daughter.
Sassparilla and a buddy cooking for a wedding ~ bunch of tri-tips on the Santa Maria; smoker was cooking chickens.
Another picture from the li'l gal's birthday cook-out.
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8 hours ago, ORNERY OAF said:
Well, since I got some 43 spanish brass on the way, I'm gonna take her out and fire a few, got a few 454 bullets that can ,maybe, be loaded into the spanish (after fireform). But with the barrel slugging at 454 I think I need at least that.if she shoots with this load,I will just keep it like it is! She already has a beautiful long range tang sight and a globe front
Paper patch 'em, if ya need to~!
But, depending on the alloy, they just may "upset" enough to fill the bore nicely.
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5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
I remember watching that. Also the "Holy Roller."
Ahh... "The Snake!"
Decades later, Kenny indicated that it may not have actually been a fumble. But hey... who knows? I'd like to believe it was and that he eventually just decided to muddle the story for the fun of it.
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Immediately reminded me of this play from almost forty-two years ago. Lotsa beer got spilt, at home and in the stands! People still talk about "The Play!"
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1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Based on your chamber cast and the cartridge dimensions I posted earlier the rifle is chambered in 43 Spanish and not Reformado.
I'm inclined to agree - the oversized (.451 - .452) bore notwithstanding. Anecdotal accounts of varying .43 Spanish chamber and bore dimension variances are legion.
The .43 Spanish is a bottleneck cartridge; the Reformado was essentially a .43 Spanish with the shoulder "blown out" to the larger caliber, largely eliminating the bottleneck - sorta like the .30-30 / .38-55.: Ornery's cast clearly illustrates the shoulder.
.43 Spanish over .43 Spanish Reformado
.30-30 compared to .38-55
I wish Ornery a world of luck and fun with this project; that said, if'n it wuz me, I'd start out "making it work." Actually, that's what I did with mine, initially by re-forming .348 Winchester brass into .43 Spanish. Later, I found factory brass and used that.
Danged thing was surprisingly accurate and a hoot to shoot - but it printed well over a foot high at a hundred yards with the li'l pointy front sight.. So, I soldered a ramp and tall globe sight just behind the original - easily removed if I (or anyone else) ever want to "restore" it.
Well hell! It's been prob'ly twenty years... reckon I'll just have to dig it out, dust if off, and fire it up. 'Specially since a bag o' .43 Spanish brass just showed up recently in the mail ~ thankee, Palouse!
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Well, I was about to say "Ooo... Re-chamber? Re-line? Re-barrel? Live with it...? So many choices!"
Good direction you've chosen. Not cheap, but gonna be worth it.
A bit of a tale from the past: The late Bean Pot of the Kings River Regulators had a reeeally ugly RB (Reformado) - it had actually survived a fire, and between the scorching and rust wouldn't even have made a decent wallhanger.
But it could shoot!
Hank, also late of the KRR, undertook it as a project with Bean Pot. After slugging the barrel, they procured a suitable mold and cast a bunch of bullets. A batch of .43 Spanish brass was easily blown out with a session of "back-yard fire-forming."
All in all, a pretty simple process ~ and Bean Pot actually used it to win his next long-range match!
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How 'bout a chuck wagon dinner bell?
I've made a bunch of these ~ a few months ago I was asked to put together a "raffle prize basket" for a local Kiwanis event - so, I made a bell, a barbecue steak flipper and charcoal "rake," put 'em in a galvanized tub with some straw, a bunch of bottles of sauces, and a sauce pot.
If the weather ever cools down a mite I'll make some more. But when it's 105° outside I hates workin' over a hot forge!
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I found an old thread on Cast Boolits about loading for the Reformado ~ if that's what it is....
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?272962-Sanity-Check-43-Spanish-Reformado
Ornery, if you'd like a factory .43 Spanish (not Reformado) case to "check for fit," shoot me an address on PM and I'll send ya one.
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Do it! And ignore the ignoramuses who bugle about "ruining its collector value." It's yours; do with it what will make you happy!
It'll be downright sweet when restored!
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And don't forget ~ originally written as a poem. Set to music in 1814 by Thomas Carr, and arranged by Theodore Carr:
QuoteIn the fall of 1814, at the request of Francis Scott Key, he adapted the words of The Star-Spangled Banner and harmonized it to the tune "To Anacreon in Heav'n" by John Stafford Smith, creating the first edition of the work.
So, this is the way it was originally supposed to sound:
(Yes... this has been previously posted)
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Shux... back in the 90's on a couple of drives to BC the Canadian border folks just asked 5-year old Sassparilla Kid if his ma and I were his parents. He grinned, said "Yup!" and we were on our way.
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3 minutes ago, ORNERY OAF said:
Just a "wild" guess, but that .50-70 sure looks like a New York State Militia rifle... and it's really a quite handsome piece at that!
Curious... does the hammer automatically move to half-cock when you close the breech?
If you're not already there, you might want to go to https://www.remingtonsociety.org/ and sign up ~ fast and simple, and much good info there.
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41 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:
One of the worst things NASCAR ever did was move the Clash from Daytona to the Coliseum. It is, by far, the worst race of the year and they're going to do it again next year. I won't be watching a lap of it...it's that bad.
I know... it is.
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54 minutes ago, ORNERY OAF said:
Someone told me possibly 44-77, now that is a good cartridge, I would be ok with that...cerasafe gets here Friday
And down the hoooole we goooo....
Ornery, check out this thread that I started a few years ago... on this very subject! I think you might find it entertaining, and perhaps even a mite useful....
Hardpan's Rolling Block Quandry
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5 minutes ago, paradiddle said:
Baseball is too cerebral for about 70% of Americans now.
There isn't a single athlete that is overpaid in any sport. They are paid exactly what the market pays them. Within the obviously union involvements it's a pretty pure system. Teams learn, or not, and overpay, or don't, but trust me - owners makes money and us fans have no real clue as to total value players bring.
F the A's and Oakland, and frankly the rest of Nor Cal and LA. They had plenty of time to fix the situation and spend some money on a winner and get a stadium. That stadium is old, shitty, unsafe, and that city has become a cesspool of third world magnitude. That stadium has always been terrible for baseball. Which is why no one goes...Jeff
The stadium used to be pretty decent - even when shared with the Raiders, prior to the Raiders bailing out of Oakland back in 1982. A bunch of buddies and family and I would go to a LOT off games; but even back in the early 70's we'd voice opinions about Oakland not deserving the team. Even when they where a championship team there were times when attendance might be around 3,000 fans. Or fewer. On a weekend! And it got even worse in modern times.
Now, about the Raiders - when Al Davis brought 'em back to Oakland in '95, to accomodate him the city of Oakland altered the stadium to a point where it was undoubtedly the worst baseball park in the country. It is absolutely horrid! My late Uncle Frankie was one of the construction superintendants on the re-model job; perhaps the most cheerful man I've ever known, but at times he'd almost have tears in his eyes when talking about it.
After the work was completed, I remember listening to a game on the radio one day and the announcers were discussing it ~ one of 'em flat-out said "tear it down, Oakland. Just tear it down!"
Now, maybe they will. Or the new owners: On May 23, 2024, the city of Oakland announced its plan to sell its one-half share in the existing 155-acre Oakland Coliseum complex (63 ha) for a minimum of $105 million to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group, whose plans for the site include residential and commercial uses.
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I definitely remember foil-wrapped Ding Dongs. I also remember freezing 'em! 😋
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Winchester 94 Sights
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Yup~!