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    A "Marlin" Mares Leg by Chiappa

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    2 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

    Oh, I agree that from a practical standpoint, the Mares Leg type pistol has none whatsoever.

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    But from a FUN standpoint, you can hardly beat them.

    I really need to add this one to the above picture...

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    That's am 86, made by Chiappa, with a 16.6" barrel., and yes, it's a .45-70, but it will work with the cartridge on the left, a .45-70 cut back to .45 Colt length.  I call it the .45-45.

    If the SHORT act passes, this barrel will shorten to just in front of the takedown lever, and the 73 (A Taylors with a 16.5" barrel, will likely shorten to 12"

     

    And if the SHORT act passes, maybe a "real" Marlin Mare's leg would be in the making.   I don't know.
     


    Oh, you gotta trim those cases to 1.850(47mm) and call it a .45-47…

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    Trigger finger

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    18 hours ago, Captain Bill Burt said:

    improve my ability to communicate while driving.

     

    1 hour ago, Captain Bill Burt said:

    Inflammation of the tendon sheath. In my case probably due to overwork. I think I took my grip strength training too far.


    I’m thinking you’ve been driving to a lot of matches lately and communicating too much…

     

     

    J/K pard; hope the docs get you fixed up.

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    Is always driving slowly bad?

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    2 hours ago, Alpo said:

    I recall, back when I was young, hearing about how every once in awhile you had to take your car out on the highway and "blow the carbon out of it". This was done by driving at high speed for a few miles. If you drove too slow all the time, stuff(?) would build up in somewhere(?), which was bad for the engine.

     

    I remember, many years back, a television show (or possibly a movie) where this young guy in his early twenties had, for a POV, a used hearse.

     

    Someone asked him why he had chosen a hearse and part of his reply was, "Well, I was fairly certain it had never been driven over 35 miles an hour".

     

    Whether hearses are never driven fast or not is not the point of the question.

     

    Would never driving your car more than about 30 mph be bad for it?


    I can say that scenario literally played out with my grandmother. Early 90s, after grandpa passed, she bought a Caprice Classic and puttered around town for a couple years. She lived about 2 miles outside the city limits and never got over 40. The car started running bad and she thought it was transmission the way it acted. The local guy she bought it through came and picked it up and took it to the dealership he worked for in Franklin, KY; an hour drive. By the time he got there it was running like a new one; guess he blew all the crap out. Soooo, after that either myself, my dad, or my brother, would go get her car every few weeks and drive it pretty fast. 
     

    Would this happen with a new car now; maybe. 
     


     

     

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    Stage starting lines

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    99.99999999999994% sure there has never been a penalty for that and thankful there isn’t; otherwise I’d have a ton of SDQs and MDQs.
     

    Unless the line is posted close to the starting position I can’t remember it and oftentimes change it when I do. Most of the time it’s either “Ready” or “Let’s Go.”
     

     

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    Gorgeous day today.

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    7 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    I don't recall that. In the first book, where little 9 or 10-year-old White Skin finds the knife, he has it in his hand as he is going back to where the tribe is. And he is attacked by the gorilla. And the gorilla almost killed him before he, accidentally, stabs the gorilla. Kala, his mother, finds him and takes him back to camp and nurses him back to health.

     

    When he is well he goes back looking for the knife. And he is very upset to find it is now all red and orange. From the blood and the tropical rainforest. And he cleaned it off. It doesn't say how but I assume that he used dirt - poor-man's sandpaper.

     

    But I don't recall any other mention of the knife being stained or rusty or anything like that. Just that first time, when it was left out in the weather for a week or so.

    Ok, I could be thinking of another book I read long ago; maybe it was Robinson Crusoe that mentioned a rusty knife. Or maybe I thought the red and orange meant blood and rust. It has been 30 years since I read the Tarzan books.

    Gorgeous day today.

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    5 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway.

     

    Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk?

     

    Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time.

     

    Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with.

     

    So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

    It is in the books. 
     

    Remember it’s Hollyweird making the movies so they probably had a new knife and cleaned it every day during filming.

    Dillon powder check

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    The only “powder check” I’ve used is an RCBS Lockout Die and I love it. If I’m loading smokeless, which is rare, that die will be on my machine. 
     

     

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    Cimarron SxS 12g vs Rossi Overland SxS 12g ?

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    I started out with a Rossi hammered double; it was a great budget friendly option at the time(borrowed it for my first 6 matches). BUT the hammers are way too far apart and best I remember the chambers are a bit further apart than a TTN/Cimarron. Were I choosing today I’d go with the Cimarron. 
     

    That said I think you should get the Rossi and let me know where the Cimarron is so I can buy it :ph34r:

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    New CAS Scoring APP subscription

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    7 minutes ago, Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563L said:

    Got burned by that today myself at our monthly match in Damascus, MD.  We had to resort to our old paper scorecards and our 25 year old DOS program "Scorecard".  If this had been discovered next month when we were hosting the MD State Match, I would have been beyond livid.

     

    While I personally don't fault anyone for attempting to capitalize on their work effort, this was a pretty lousy way to go about doing it.  It is a nice program, with some good features, but there are also a lot of holes and things it should do that it does not.

     

    Not sure what I am going to do going forward.  Definitely going to look at Practiscore before I drop $$$ on a subscription.  I may be forced to do a 1 Month subscription just to get through the State Match, but I will not be happy about it at all.  I need a lot more information about what the costs will be (per tablet vs per club vs per user and the method of determining that) before I will plop down ANY $$$ for this.

     

    I dislike Software subscriptions with a passion, and springing this on folks in this manner, folks who have invested time and effort to learn the program, not to mention $$$ on iPads when Andriod tablets are so cheap, is not a good way to build a good long term business relationship with their customer base.

     

    If they had done a better job of notifying folks, and if the costs were half of what they are charging, it would almost have been a no-brainer, almost.  Just as a point of reference, the SASS Scoring Software was running $100.00 per year to keep current, but you could skip years and the program would still run if you didn't need the software updates.  And it did a LOT more than this program does (not that we used most of it) but it didn't run on tablets either.

     

    I suspect this will turn a lot of potential (and many current) customers away.  Not sure this was a smart move on their part at all.

     

    Just my $0.02 and it's worth exactly what you paid for it!

     

    Dogmeat

     

     

    Practiscore2 is pretty darn nice. 

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    SBH Hammers Available - Found Some

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    21 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said:

    There may be shortage in our little world.  However, if Ruger cranked up and made 1,000 pair of SBH hammers and put them on their website, it would probably take years to sell them all.  I have four NMVs with the SBH hammers installed on them.  I'm not in the market for anymore.  They don't wear out and there's only so many Cowboys willing to buy them.  I know it's frustrating trying to find them but it's a very small niche market that probably isn't worth Ruger's trouble.

    This^^^^^^
     

    @Nostrum Damus SASS #110702

    I bet if you called Ruger and ordered 500 they’d make them; then you could resell to the rest of us at cost…

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