Tom Bullweed

Signed up Tuesday! I got a stage in the pickin list.

H&R stand for (H)imported & Rossi?

Depends on how I am shooting that day, but I might have to wear more than one shotshell belt.....

Has any Ruskie technology been pretty? The Mosin-Nagant, Nagant revolver, Tokarev pistol, AK, SKS, and all of their autos are clunky, hard-lined and rough, but they work in horrible conditions and seem easy enough to manufacture.

Still want to stay FTF near central NC but willing to consider a Ruger Mark X, a Browning Buckmark or Ruger 10/23 with a threaded barrel in partial trade.

I was reading a book on US Grant today and learned that Santa Domingo (now called the Dominican Republic) wanted to be come a US territory and then a state in 1870. Grant wanted it. The Senate said no.

BTT for the weekend...

.32 WCF, a.k.a. .32/20

If'n it were me, buy the Ruger/Marlin. If you shoot cowboy, it will last ya and can be shot fairly fast. If you decide to not shoot cowboy, it will sell easier/quicker than the Heritage or be a great go-to gun.

I have loaded it only in shotgun loads. 12-Ga 7/8 loads were as good as Reddot or American Select. 20-Ga loads were not consistent. I could not find data for handgun loads.

I buy their hot tea, that is about half the cost of their coffee. Good tea and I figure they lose on the deal....

All original, unmodified Winchester Model 1897 Takedown 12-Ga, 29" Full choke, Serial # 417###, made in 1908. 30% metal finsh on receiver, more on the barrel. Some original finish on the wood. $700 with 29" barrel or $800 with 29" barrel and the Duracoated 21" barrel shown in image. FTF only within 2 hrs drive of Greensboro, NC Will not ship. This is a good gun, but I do not need multiple backups.

10000% That tab between the barrels is tough too load guickly. SKB, Browning, Baikal and Stoegers do not have that tab and are popular double-tubed scatterguns.

In my experience and observation, going too light can result in variances (especially with temperatures), can result in squids, and can be difficult for spotters to hear. Top shooters are not top shooyers due to light loads; their loads are lower-powered than factory, bur not to an extreme.

Copper and steel have increased in cost, first about 125% 2020-2021, and not decreasing to about 70% above 2019 prices. I buy Federal, Winchester, CCI, Remington or Fiocchi when < $75/k.

Universal is still available. I can make softer loads with Reddot or Ameeican Select (not available).

Very very cool. The user would still have get a charge of priming powder in the frizzen pan, but this looks quick to use.

Looks like a boomerrang with a trigger. Wouldn't be neat to know what John M Browning thought of such a thing.

Null, I would expect 2 misses and a P if I was the shooter. That tenth pistol round was a miss (failure to engage the pistol target) and a P. That tenth rifle round was a miss since the shooter did not engage where the KO would have been. I have seen poor stages where shotgun splatter or rifle/pistol richochettes caused a KO to fall. The shooter is expected to shoot where the tatget should be.

.223 rounds likely leave all of the original metal attached but bent out like a flower. If the petals were heated and bent back into place, it could either be welded or filled with bondo or liquid weld. I would tend to go with the JB liquid weld.

You do not need a double barrel shotgun to start. Any single shot 12, 16 or 20 gage with at least an 18" barrel and conventional buttstock is SASS legal, even if it has an ejector. A used H&R 12 gage can likely be found in a closet, safe or for about $100-$125. With practice, a good shooter can be middle of the pack on any given Saturday. Going 'budget' on a rifle is always bad news. Ask your family and friends if they have a Marlin in a pistol caliber. These gune were made for decades and can be good guns. Other less expensive but viable rifles are Rossi 92s. It aint a '73 Uberti, but a lot of shooters do well with them. A shooter can likely shoot a single pistol at local matches. The shooter would gave to unload five empties and load five more live rounds on the clock, but I have seen it done. This allows the shooter to get into and learn the game earlier. I bet that you get multiple offers to use their pistol as a second shortgun.

I believe 7.62x54R also. Fun until you had to change drum out while flying in 1917 at 10k feet in you Sopwith Camel with Jerry around in his Albatross or Fokker.

In the end, they get boiled and the silk is pulled off the cocoon. It takes about 30,000 cocoons to make one silk jacket.

The moral(e) of this post is that you can never please management. If you actually did please them once, the bar is now raised to a completely unachievable level.

If there is a conspiracy theory that may be real and at the same time cataxlismic, it is that all of this internet thingy is tied together by a limited number of people/ organizations. Alpo, I experienced the same and quit FB about a year after I joined. Contents of my hotmail messages might mention a company that would then show up in scrolling ads on news sites and be sources of invitations on FB. This happened with two classic auot finance groups and a music instrument company. Freaky indeed! I am no longer a FB user. I use duckduckgo instead of google.