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  1. I recently picked up a bullet mold made by Hardline Industries. Iron mold that looks very similar to Lyman, but with a heavier differently designed sprue plate. A quick Google search reveals a small handful of hits from 2014. Anybody ever heard of them?

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  2. Thanks - I've got a set of three New Vaqueros and two of them came with those grips on them from the seller. I rotate the three of them match to match - 1&2, 1&3, 2&3, so they all get used, and I've kept my eye out for a third set so I don't have to swap grips out to keep looking cool. :lol:

  3. I recently loaded up a few rounds with a 255 grain cast SWC and 26.0 grains of 5744 for an H&R rifle - Ruger/TC loads, not max, but pretty warm, but I didn't chrono them. :( Also used it to dispose of some hot Ruger/TC W296 loads before I'm gone and somebody sticks 'em in a Uberti Cattleman or something. 

     

    Most folks are familiar with the 32" H&R Buffalo Classic .45-70, and the 28" Target Classic .38-55, but they also made a third rifle in the Classic line called the Classic Carbine in .45 Colt with a 20" barrel. Introduced in 2007 and only available for a few months in 2008, I believe. :)

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  4. I've found hollow base molds to be notoriously difficult to cast good bullets. When casting 500 grain Minie's from a single cavity Lyman for my 1861 Springfield repro, it's normal to reject one out of three, and often two out of three. Shooting one at a time, a handful will last you all day though, so... 

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  5. One person should be able to make 36 gallons last all week, if used "judiciously". 

     

    A trailer doesn't have to be big - outside of making coffee, something to eat, and sleeping at night, you're outside shooting, then sitting around afterward with a cold one lying to each other about why you got those two misses and a P, comparing meds, and what CPAP machine you're using. :lol: I have a 29' "Paradise Pointe" bumper pull and a 14' Jayco - if someone offered me a decent price for the big one, it would be gone in a heartbeat. I didn't even have it out this year. I think the little Jayco has only 14 gallons, but that's PLENTY for me for a couple days & nights. It's nice to take the big one if I'll be gone for more than a weekend, but certainly not necessary. The Jayco has a sink, toilet, tiny shower, small closet, two burner stove, microwave, refrigerator, furnace, A/C, and a roomy bed. I made the bed sort of a semi-permanent setup by buying a 10" thick foam mattress and just leaving the table folded down. If I need a table, I have a "personal folding table" from Walmart that suffices, and a remote start 4500 watt Cummins generator under the truck topper. Jayco.thumb.jpg.ced52a58d92be3522b4e7d603e82dd4a.jpgParadisePointe.jpg.e0d7d1ee62092beffc26c16b6631dad1.jpg

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  6. Copper?? :blink:

     

    Never heard of that before.

     

    I picked up a GWA .357 Atomic very reasonably about four years ago. It was missing the firing pin bushing, nut, firing pin, and spring, and the trigger/bolt spring was broken, but there wasn't anything in there resembling copper.

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  7. Tough stuff to find. If you absolutely have to have the proper headstamp, instead of reformed .32-20 or .218 Bee, there is a Gunbroker listing for a hundred new RP .25-20 cases for $200 + $21 shipping, 1079801497 - more or less the going rate when it turns up. About a five to one exchange rate. :blink:

     

    It doesn't do you any good right now, but make a request to Starline - if enough of us ask for it, maybe they'll eventually make an occasional run. 

  8. It's a crap shoot, but still a lot quicker than I can drive it there myself. :lol:

     

    I bought a bullet mold off eBay in August. It shipped via USPS Ground Advantage and took five days to go from Marietta GA to Atlanta, about twelve miles. Then another seven days to get to Palmetto GA, about another twenty miles... thirty five miles in twelve days. It made it to SLC in another two days, then finally to my house (Helena, MT) in another six days - twenty days total.

     

    This past Friday, I dropped a 1911 magazine off at the post office to be shipped USPS Ground Advantage to Ohio, and it arrived yesterday - three days, over a weekend, during the "holiday season". :mellow:

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  9. 6 hours ago, Grass Range said:

    Very poor installation and build. Cattle guards should be 16 feet wide and set on concrete

    It is. It's 16' wide and spans 7+ feet. There are three pre-cast concrete blocks on each side - one on each end and one in the middle, six total. The fill gave way between the blocks, which is where traffic is going to be on a one-lane dirt road - right in the middle, so your wheels are tracking between the blocks. 

     

    A lawyer is a bit extreme at this point, and I agreed to use the gate in the meantime... except neither of us realized it was blocked... 

    As long as you know where to drive, you can straddle the cave-ins, but if FedEx, UPS, fire truck, Sheriff, whatever, comes up the road, they won't see it til too late and they're leaving on a trailer or behind a tow truck. The land owner or fab company should really have put up a temporary stop sign, barricade, caution tape, SOMETHING, but they haven't. In an emergency, I can cut the fence to get out, and I contacted the assistant chief of the local VFD and told him about it, so if they need in, they'll also just cut the fence and go around everything.

  10. There's a 5 1/2"er Jager .45 on Gunbroker currently at $255 with three days to go. 1072836431 Looks like $350ish is about the going rate.

     

    I have six Jagers - five .38-40's and one .357, and every one of them has an odd problem with over-rotating when trying to run them fast. The easy fix is to use a heavy grease on the base pin to add a little resistance to the cylinder turning. Just an inherent problem with the design I guess.

     

    Used .45 Hombres regularly go for under $400 - here's a 4 5/8"er for $425, BIN. 1073712166

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  11. About four years ago, I sold 130 acres and one of the stipulations was there were to be no gates across the access road. A few days ago, he contracted with a local company to fabricate and install a cattleguard. Immediately, within crossing it only a couple times, fill dirt started sloughing off each end/side and into the pit underneath. Dirt, not gravel or road mix, dirt. The stuff that immediately turns to mud when it rains. It's also installed about a foot and a half above grade with a short, steep approach on each side... of dirt. I stopped and took a closer look at it a couple days after the install, and there are no battens installed between the concrete piers along the top to prevent this sloughing problem. Then I saw the UF/UDB phone cable completely exposed in the bottom of the pit - I'm not crawling under there to see if it's damaged, maybe call the phone company and report it anyway, whoever the phone company is anymore - I haven't had a landline in twenty years. So I called the neighbor to discuss it (he was working out of town), and he had a ten yard load of road mix delivered the next day to have the company effect repairs when they get around to it sometime NEXT WEEK. No problem... I guess... I can use the gate right next to the cattleguard in the meantime, right? Um... no... WTH? What driver would have ever thought, "Where's the best place to dump this load? I know, right in front of the gate, so it'll block the only other ingress/egress to that house up there". (That would be my house.) Oh, and using the gate would actually put me off the road right-of-way and onto another neighbor's property to get around the cattleguard. I called the new neighbor and asked him what the load limit on it is, and he had no idea. The stringers are five 4" pipes spanning seven feet. I emailed the place that fabbed it, asking what the engineering specs are on it and they won't reply. This road regularly has 25+ ton loads on it, occasionally topping 30 tons, and I'd really like to know what the cattleguard load rating is. Near as I can figure, the truck that delivered the road mix probably grossed 25-26 tons, and he went across it, probably before he realized the fill was caving in, exacerbating the problem.

    Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug. :mellow:

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