Three Foot Johnson
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Call out the Ohio National Guard - they have a record of quelling unruly crowds in about fifteen seconds flat.
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Backup lighting.
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Early washing machine. Well, an agitator attachment you bolted to your washtub.
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How 'bout some breakfast?
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I still have an 8 track component deck.
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At the ranges we shoot, you could shoot .44 spl/mag in a .45 revolver and probably still hit everything.
Going the other way, using those .38 bullets in a 9mm shouldn't be a problem, as long as you size them to .356", as has been suggested above.
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The club president was soaked, miserable, and half frozen and wanted to call the match after the 5th stage... we overruled the auld guy and shot the 6th stage anyway, so he stuck it out.
I got in my little trailer afterward, shucked out of my wet clothes, and cranked the heat. The thermothingie said it got up to 82, but it was after midnight before I quit shivering under the blankets and turned it down a bit. 
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I was born and raised on a large ranch east of Helena, MT, and still live on part of it. Some 45+ years ago, developers started buying up small farms & ranches out here and subdividing them. A very common theme is someone buys a five acre lot, builds a house and "barn", and pens up a couple horses so they can be "horse people" to their friends in town. Then they let their dogs run free because "that's why we moved to the country". The dogs pack up and have no trouble traveling a couple miles or more where they chase and chew up new calves, lambs, chickens, etc. and kill them just like the coyotes do. I've warned lots of people not to do that and what the farmers & ranchers will do, which is normally met with a retort such as, "You kill my dogs, and I'll f**king kill you" or "You shoot my dogs and I'll sue you for everything you've got". Four or more decades now, I'm still alive, no lawsuits, and the shovel has plenty of wear left.
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This past Saturday and Sunday. Two things, is belt shrinkage over the winter a common thing? Number two - even with my long arms, an 1887 really needs to have the stock shortened a little and the fore end checkered when trying to get off six shots in a hurry.
I gotta send that fore stock off to someone for a laser engraving job.
Video courtesy of Double Drop Fred. 'twere right on the verge of snowing.
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I use uncoated 165 grainers from Badman Bullets, sized to .427" because of ONE Uberti 1873 rifle that gets a little snug with anything bigger than .4285". At the "point blank" distances we shoot, .427's haven't been a problem in any of my other .44-40's.
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2 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Some prefer Rugers, some prefer SAA, and others prefer open tops. Barrel length is also a personal preference. You'll see barrel lengths as short as 2" to as long as
12"18".
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2 hours ago, EL LOBO TEJANO said:
.357 and I’ll shoot .38 I like blued guns. 4.75” barrel
I’d like to stay around 400-500 for each pistol.
That's a pretty tight budget. Uberti Cattleman Hombre's can be had new in the mid-$400 range. I've seen them for as little as $430 on Gunbroker... plus $20 shipping... plus GB's 1% "compliance fee"... plus your dealer's transfer fee... so unless you find them locally, it's still likely to top $500 each. New Vaqueros will be 60% more than that even. Blackhawks will usually be less, and I've seen a few used ones in very good condition go for $415 - $450 lately, but that's the exception - plus shipping, compliance fee, and transfer fee.
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Unless it's changed, about 4 1/2 years back, these were ruled ineligible for either a main match revolver or a side match revolver, even with the 3 1/2" barrel.
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I think we found them at the same place.
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When I was quite young, we had an old German couple about a mile from us who still used a big icebox on the porch of their rickety old house. They had no refrigerator, no telephone, and no television. Of course, these things were still relatively uncommon in rural areas. Old Joe had extended one end of their modest cabin/house a few feet so it went over the well, then mounted a cast iron pump jack on the plank kitchen counter. Stella was thrilled - she didn't have to go outside for water anymore! They had an inside toilet, but no water piped to it, so after you flushed, you had to carry a bucket of water from the kitchen to the bathroom to fill the tank back up. I'm pretty sure the waste just dumped into the creek. Bath water was also carried to the tub in buckets. There was very little insulation in the walls, so in the winter, Joe drained the toilet so it wouldn't freeze & break, closed off the back of the house, and they used the outhouse instead. There was a big woodstove sitting on the plank floor in the middle of the single front room, which was a combination kitchen, dining room, and living room, and it kept it cozy in the winter. When the weather started turning, Joe would drag their bedstead out into the living room for the winter, and the bedroom & bathroom would be closed off and mostly not used for four or five months. This would have been in the late-50's. And they somehow managed to raise three kids in this house too. The "kids" would be in their 90's now, so I imagine they're all gone.
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"It depends" - my guns vary widely from weekend to weekend.
My original large frame Vaqueros are three blue .44-40's, two stainless .44-40's, and three stainless .38-40/.40 S&W convertibles. For some reason, Ruger cut the throats on the .38-40 cylinders @ .396", so I rented a throat reamer and opened all three to either .400" or .401"... probably .401", but I'd have to find my notes. The blued .44-40's might have lighter hammer springs, I don't remember - it would be 25 years ago, or more, when I bought them.
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I have a Sightron SI 1X scope brand new in the box. Discontinued now, but they used to sell for $120 - $160ish.
$125, shipped.
https://chuckhawks.com/sightron_SI_1x20mm.htm
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I acquired a free X-ray table from a remodeling job at the local hospital several years ago and welded a wing on each side. As a bonus, there were several pounds of sheet lead counterweights bolted underneath.
The target is a ~40" steel plate hanging on chains on an eight foot square backboard 500 yards away. I've got additional plates hanging at 400 and 300. My house is at upper left in the middle picture.
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A DC3? I've always read it was a Douglas dive bomber.
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I bought a single trigger Tedna coach gun six years ago that was a real bear to get open after firing. Another shooter suggested switching to European 209 primers, like Fiocchi, Nobel Sport, Cheddite, et al, which are flat and not domed like US 209's. I bought 5000 Fiocchi 616's online and 3000 Cheddite CX2000's from Sportsman's Warehouse, and *problem solved*. I suspect the firing pins are not retracting quite quick enough as the action opens. Easy fix, but the primers solved the problem so I'm not going to mess with it.
Don't put oil in/on your firing pins, unless you disassemble and clean them regularly. Oil attracts dust, dirt, & crud and will gum up the channel & springs.
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Starting at the smelting process, about 17:20, I did all those jobs from '78 - '01 at the East Helena ASARCO lead smelter. By '78, it was on a larger scale - the blast furnaces were a little larger, with 21 tuyeres down each side, the dross skimming was done by an overhead crane with the "Bullion Man" positioning the dross into a line in front of a scoop with a wooden paddle as the "Crane Man" pulled it across the kettle. The hundred pound pigs were long gone by '78, and we pumped the finish lead into ten 10 ton molds instead. There were compound angled steel wedges placed on each end of the mold by the Bullion Man, then a mixture of wet talc was troweled around them to prevent the lead from flowing behind them. After drying, the lead was pumped in. When the lead solidified, a different overhead crane lifted the pigs out and into a rail car.
Early on in my career, blood lead levels of 60 or more weren't uncommon, and even toward the end when the plant shut down, "in plant" medical removal was something like 27...? I am very susceptible to lead poisoning, and as OSHA mandated lower and lower levels, I was spending more and more time on medical removal, working mainly in our laundry facility, bath house custodian, mowing lawns, or whatever "busy work" they came up with. One time, the manager's wife complained about all the deer crap in the management housing across the creek from the plant, about ten houses for senior management, so a couple of us were sent to report to her one morning, and she had us hand pick deer pellets off the lawns all week.
Today, the big slag pile is all that's left. All the housing was torn down, the 4 stacks were demolished, the entire plant was torn down, leveled, covered in several feet of dirt, and is being sold off as industrial park lots.
The three concrete/masonry stacks coming down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIJb9t9BVY
The steel zinc plant stack coming down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjyrhnNkq4
The end of an era, 1888-2001.
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My dad and his best childhood friend, Jim Duffy, enlisted in the Army together in 1954. Neither were college-educated, just a couple of farm-fresh country bumkins. Dad got out in '56, and came back to the ranch, while Jim made a career out of the Army. He retired in '89, as a Major General. I've always been curious how that came to be, but have never asked him about it. How does a farm kid with a high school education go from Private to a two star Major General? It can't be a very common thing.
My New (To Me) Ruger Old Armies
in SASS Wire
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I really can't remember the last time I shot any of my cap guns. I've got six fixed sight Old Army's, and with selling prices very seldom under a thousand dollars anymore, that's a lot of money to have tied up in something I never use. They should probably be going on the auction block.