Warden Callaway

My collection of old double barrel shotguns keep growing. I picked up two more in past couple of days. The top on is a Hunter Arms 12 guage. It's a higher grade gun with some engraving. The gun is tight and good condition except for the barrels. There is one significant dent about midway and a dozen small dents at regular spacing. Also there is an upsweep in the barrels. The coach gun is Hopkins and Allen hammer gun - model 100 I think. What a tortured life it must have had. The forend is not really a forend. It's a chunk of wood pinned onto the forend lug, there is a chunk of wood missing from the wrist area. The buttplate is homemade out of plexiglass. The action latch spring is broken or missing. And obviously the barrels have been cut. I plan to make, buy or borrow a dent raising tool to take the dents out of the barrels on the Hunter. I've got some ideas of how to take the bow out of the barrels. If I can repair the barrels, I'll clean the old gun up. I suspect I'll find some nice wood under the awful varnish. Finding forend iron will be critical in getting the old Hopkins and Allen shotgun back into shooting condition. The rest will be just labor. There is no way these guns are worth paying someone to repair. But I enjoy working on old guns and am willing to take on a challenge. But it's just because of their neglected condition, I was able to buy them at flea market prices. The individual parts are worth many times what I paid for them.

Larry Potterfield loading 10 gauge brass hulls with antique tools.

This guy talks a bit funny but gives a pretty good tutorial on loading brass shotgun hulls.

I found a nest of antique loading tools last winter. I've used the primer seating tool to load 209 primers in plastic hulls I cut and roll crimp. I've loaded a few 10 gauge brass hulls using improvised tools. I recently bought a box of Magtech 12 gauge hulls. I've not loaded them yet.

You can adjust your "stack height" by using more or less wad material. I load some 12 gauge with one 1/2" fiber wad and split a second one to add another 1/4". I've also use cornmeal filler.

When Mary's folks moved to centeral Missouri from upper Illi-NOISE, they didn't known what that soda was. PS, I switched to drinking copious amounts of green tea. It's helped control my blood pressure. I don't especially like green tea but I like it better than medication.

You don't need the [url code in front or back of the string. Just start out with http.

Look at the https. Try editing out the "s" to make it just http.

Look a your link text string and see if it starts with http or https. For me the http gives the preview picture and the https gives just the link text string. I've encountered this on other forums. It's how the software recognizes a character string and decides some action to take. It's like the emotions inserts. They are a strang of specific characters and when the software sees that string, it substitutes a graphic image.