Three Foot Johnson
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I had an uncle who passed at age 94 back in 2007 who used to tell of his days as a young man trying to find work during the Great Depression. He would say wages usually weren't even part of the equation, and if he found a ranch who fed him breakfast, maybe coffee & a biscuit at lunchtime, then a small supper, and let him sleep in the barn, he had a pretty damn good job. "Sometimes, after Sunday morning chores, I'd even get the rest of the morning off for church".
He later joined the Civilian Conservation Corps where he was paid $30 a month. On December 7th, 1941, he was on a ship leaving San Francisco for Honolulu to build underground fuel storage tanks when word arrived that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Supposedly, many of the CCC onboard were taken off the ship and "drafted on the spot". He, and some others, sailed on to Hawaii where he spent the next couple years rebuilding, then he was sent to Alaska to work on the Alcan highway.
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Diomede, AK gets mail delivered once a week, weather depending.
It's an expensive delivery route to maintain - the mailman drives a helicopter - but it's still only four cents to send a letter, or whatever it's up to now.
AFAIK, I get mail Monday - Saturday, but in the winter it can be several days until I can get the mile and a half down the mountain to get it.
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The Manhattan Wildlife Association range (Gallatin Valley Regulators) and the venue for the state match at the Great Falls Shooting Sports Complex (Black Horse Shootists) are both members only ranges, meaning they are behind locked gates, but a member can host you as a guest of course. It used to be a ten dollar fee to bring a guest in at MWA - if you're shooting a match, of course, there's no extra fee, just the registration fee for the match. The Gallatin Valley Regulators have their own dedicated gate at MWA, separate from the main gate, that is unlocked and opened an hour or two before the match, and remains open until Gooch has everything put away, scores entered, and locks up on his way out.
I can't think of a formal shooting range where just anybody can walk in and use the facilities. Just a sign of the times - allow open unmonitored access to anybody, anytime, and you're going to see damage, theft, and vandalism. At one somewhat remote range here, someone climbed over the locked gate a few years ago, broke into the locked registration building and stole a few things.
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14 hours ago, Sagebrush Burns, SASS # 14226 said:
I have a carbine in 45 Colt. Could be had for $1250.00 plus shipping.
That's a pretty good price.
I've had my Armi Sport/DGW .56-.50 since '09 - plenty of reloading info out there, but I've almost always used BP.
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Looks like a minimum of $850 in extras leaving $850 for the guns - that's a pretty dang good package. A person would be looking for a long time for better deal.
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It's such a brilliant scheme, I'm surprised nobody's done it before. Make yourself the Godfather of a crime syndicate, make everybody millionaires over the next four years, then pardon all the associate Underbosses for their as yet undiscovered crimes and offenses against the United States on your last day. So long, suckers - HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!
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6 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:
2 classics! Estie or Shaeffer?
Next shelf down - Penman
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I picked up this near pristine pre Model 36 Chief's Special flat latch about three weeks ago to add to the S&W stack. Made in early 1956, $255.
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The mostly unknown third member of the Classic family. I've only seen two of these in person, definitely a rare duck.
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I bought one in 2013, 44-40 also. Sage Creek Gus has an original he and his dad rebuilt, and these two are the only ones I've ever seen in person. I've read there was only one run made by Uberti, and they were poor sellers so they never made any more. But I've heard otherwise too, so...
Larsen Pettifogger wrote an article for the Chronicle on the Burgess repros about fifteen years ago.
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The 4000 watt Champion generator mentioned above has a claimed weight of only 48 pounds.
How?
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5 hours ago, Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 said:
Love this generator!
I have that same unit, but it's branded Cummins/Onan and is gray. Who knows who actually manufactures it.
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19 minutes ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
Interesting pistols! I've got one myself with adjustable sights. Do yours have adjustables or are the the fixed site version?
Adjustable.
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I personally know only one CAS shooter who uses .44 mag exclusively, meaning that's all he shoots and he shoots .44 mag ammo, not .44 specials or .44 Russians. It looks like there are a few more from the replies above.
I have a Rossi '92 .44 mag and a pair of 8 3/8" Interarms Virginian Dragoons that have been to a couple CAS matches, but it's certainly not a regular thing.
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Well, crap.
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As above, Ruger will sell these direct to an FFL holder, two per month, for $47.50 ea, delivered, for the complete assembly - hammer, plunger, spring, and cross pin. It's something just under $40 for the hammer alone. I didn't ask if a C&R license would suffice, but the worst they can say is no. Serial numbers are easy enough to find, I don't know why they even ask.
Answer to an inquiry I sent them last year:
"These are available to FFL's with a limit of 2 per 30 days. It requires serial number information to order. Please call in to place an order at 336-949-5200 option 4 and then option 2."
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230 grain 45 acp rebated RN bevel base
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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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Fixed or adjustable sights?
There are a couple stainless w/fixed sights on GB in separate auctions - 1080848140 (No reserve), 1082330771 (BIN $925)
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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.
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Well, I haven't bought a new gun all year...
I got one on New Year's Eve, but that was last year, so...
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1 hour ago, kit said:
I have a couple pair.
$30 each shipped
I'll take those checkered white plastic ones, deferring to Irish Pat of course.
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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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Spring is coming!
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Yeah... the HIGH Monday and Tuesday is supposed to be -0-.
When I see the pink blooms on the flowering crab tree outside my garage door, THEN it's spring. That'll be around the end of April.