Three Foot Johnson
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I ordered a bottle of purple Loctite 222 from Amazon two years ago, and it came direct from Henkel in China, signature required...
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3 hours ago, Texas Maverick said:
Just stay safe. Your weather sounds more like it down here in Texas, not Montana, its just we have a LOT more humidity than you do.
Guess that global warming crap is real, NOT. LOL
TM
Folks think of Montana as being rugged snow capped mountains and endless lush green pine forests, when in fact about 3/4 of it is dry barren prairie.
The big "Horse Gulch" fire near me is holding at ~13,000 acres, 10% contained, no structures lost that I've heard, but an Air Tractor 802 "Fire Boss" was lost and its pilot killed last Wednesday on the second day of the fire when the plane crashed in the Missouri while refilling.
The "Deadman" and "Anderson" fires in southeast Montana have merged into one large ~25,000 acre blaze as of this morning. There are four other smaller fires in the immediate vicinity (a few hundred yards to about 2 1/2 miles) totaling another ~7000 acres that could grow and merge with it in the coming hours or days.
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They lost their "CE" certification, and Trail Boss, along with over 20 others, was discontinued effective June 1st, 2018.
CE = Conformité Européenne, which I understand is sort of like UL certified in the US.
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Daytime highs in the upper 90's and low 100's for the past week, and the long range forecast says that's going to continue for at least another two weeks. Zero percent chance of rain and 10-12 mph winds every day for the foreseeable future.
I'm at the top end of a CRP field with prevailing winds coming right up the mountain to my house. If somebody a mile or two down below me lights off a fire, there really isn't much to do but throw whatever I can in a car/truck in five minutes, drive through the flame front, and call the insurance company with a live stream of my house going up. It will take the VFD probably, what, at least 15 minutes to respond even from just 3 1/2 miles away, and that's cutting it too close. It takes some extra time to get a 3000 gallon tender up that last mile and a half 6% grade.
It snowed here three weeks ago, and now there are 63 active wild fires across the state, the largest being over 13,000 acres now, and only 4 3/4 miles away, but it's got to cross the Missouri river to get to me, so I think I'm good... for the moment.
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The highest I've seen it sell for - $855 + $30 shipping + hazmat for two 9 oz cans.
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18"ers.
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What he said - whoever heard of a thread that stayed on topic for more than three replies?
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9 hours ago, SHOOTIN FOX said:
45cs will not fit in a 45 acp cylinder if that is your intention. It is a rimmed cartridge.
I have four .45 acp Birdshead Vaqueros that shoot C45S just fine. They are .45 acp ONLY, not convertibles.
5 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:A .45 ACP cylinder will also not allow you to use .45 Autorim. The only known revolver where this is not possible!
... ? I'm not reading something right, I guess. The thicker rim of the AR cartridge won't allow it to work in a single action .45 acp revolver, of course, unless the cylinder has been shaved to use moon clips, and you would have to remove the base pin & cylinder to reload the acp's.
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I recently cut back to 10.4 grains Unique from the 12.0 grains I was using, simply as a powder conservation measure. 10.4, simply because that's what the RCBS Little Dandy rotor throws with a couple taps on the rotor to settle the powder and make a more uniform drop. I use a Claybusters Tournament wad, #WJI-20078 in either Remington STS or Winchester AA hulls, 7/8 oz shot, and any ol' 209 primer. This isn't rocket science, this is up close, point blank shotgunning. I'm sure dropping to 3/4 oz shot will be just fine, but I haven't tried it - now that I've seen the price of shot, I might give it a try. To adjust the height of the shot column and prevent the crimp from folding inward, I've always used a pinch of a foam packing peanut on top. Other folks use cards or vegetable wads, Cheerios, and other things. Whatever works.
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A few years ago, I was in the local Harbor Freight and they had a little 3 1/2 cu ft cement mixer/mortar mixer on sale for about half price. I bought one to try out as a hull washer - it works great! I can't imagine one of these cheapo light duty mixers ever working for mixing cement.
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I read a post years ago somewhere about a factory worker installing a barrel backwards to see if the shallow rifling had any effect when it was spiraling the opposite direction the rocket jets were spinning the projectile... I thought about that a few seconds, and posted back if you had a piece of threaded rod, then you'd need a left hand threaded nut if you turned it around the other way. He was still adamant that turning the barrel around reversed the rifling.
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I cast my .303 and 7.65 Argentine bullets with a Lyman #314299 mold. It's a gas check design weighing around 200 grains, depending on the alloy.
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I've seen them sell for $300 each, but $150 or thereabouts is more realistic.
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I bought one at a local shop several years ago, along with six original rounds. The pistol appears to be unfired.
The barrel actually is rifled, to get around that short barreled shotgun thing, but it's so shallow you might miss it with a casual glance down the bore.
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On this day in 1876, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer led ~255 troopers of the 7th Cavalry in an attack against the largest known gathering of the northern plains Indians ever assembled. It did not end well.
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On 6/24/2024 at 9:08 AM, Moe T Vator said:
In Plainsman, how many more participants would there be if the Ruger old army with adjustable sights were allowed?
None. I don't know anywhere Plainsman is shot on a regular basis. I know of one club in Montana that puts on a combination Cowboy/Plainsman match once a year at a regular monthly shoot. The pistol targets are the same for Cowboy/Plainsman, but the Plainsman rifle targets are set at about 75 yards or so.
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Why not the super cool stripper clips? I have a #1 Mk 3 for BAMM matches and use stripper clips to reload. I remember reading somewhere that troops were instructed not to remove the magazine unless it was damaged, and to reload with stripper clips. Mine all needed a little polishing so the rounds stripped smoothly into the action.
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First, polish the chambers.
After sizing/depriming, I run all my hulls through a MEC Supersizer set as tight as it will go, then I wash 'em all in hot water with Dawn dish soap. Even after three rinses, the Dawn seems to slick the hulls up somehow, and with the Supersizer treatment, they fall right out.
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Originals or modern production?
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It wouldn't do me any good, as I've got maybe three phone numbers committed to memory, and one of them is 911. I don't even know my two daughter's numbers - I tell my phone to call them, and it does.
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Good Lord, that 250 count lot of NOS Starline I messaged you about went for $515.00 + $20 shipping.
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Simple, easy to learn game - I could play it for the rest of my life.
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There's a bunch on Gunbroker right now - 750 NOS RP in lots of 50, $100 "Buy it Now" per lot. Another seller has 95 once-fired RP with no reserve.
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Heather Locklear, hands down.
45 Cowboy Spl Brass vs 45 ACP Cylinder
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Three pages? OK, here goes... a .45 acp cylinder is great to put your small primer brass to good use instead of tossing them.