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What's hard to get is the cardboard boxes. I scrounge all of those I find. It's again' my religion to buy cardboard boxes.

Neighbors and friends had been giving me hulls when they found out I wanted some to reload. I had accumulated a couple of bushels. Then I made a good buy on 500 Remington STS at LGS @ 3 cents each. Good pard gave me a bunch of AA hulls. So I sorted through and pitched at least a bushel of Estate, Reo, Universal, Hurters, Challenger, Federal, etc.

I made some snap caps and started to practice. The big problem I have is bending over to pick up the ones I shuck. I need a 3 year old.

I bought this pair of conservative serial numbered Pietta Confederate 44s at Cabelas on Black Friday sale year before last. On sale for $139. $308 out the door with taxes. I cleaned up a few sharp edges. The bolt spring leg that runs over the cam on hammer was way too strong. I stoned them thinner. When you order or buy the Pietta from Cabelas, get the stare parts kit. It is a real value. I've not needed any parts yet, maybe the kit works!

Has anyone ever seen a fired hull with a light primer hit? I don't think so. I can't remember seeing one. It's the mark in the one that didn't go off that says something is wrong. If you have a good dent in one and it didn't go off, then bad primer. But light strike on a primer that didn't go of says something is wrong. Weak spring, clogged up, short firming pin, gun worn and "off face", primer not seated correctly or two deep?

A shell that fires will, in my experience, show a nice dent. Probably because the shell recoils back against the firing pin.

Check the primer depth. I was reloading old hulls too many times and getting aggressive at seating the primers. I'm finding. 008 about normal. .012 I start getting miss fires. Anything much over and they won't fire in any gun I tried.

Mary made a batch of cookies and took some to two of the gunshops we have bought guns from recently. Our closest LGS seldom has anything I'm interested in and prices are always too high. Two gun shops some 90 minutes from us has lots of used guns at good prices and we have made good trades. We bought at least 4 guns out of one and 5 out of the other. They get the cookies.

Looks like two choices in shot shells, Winchester AA Featherlites or Remington STS. When Mary started shooting, I got her a case of Fiocchi Lite shells. They work fine and that's all she'll use. They are 7/8 Oz at 1200 fps. https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/3483 I shot Remington Gun Club 1 Oz loads and they worked OK. We bought a case of Federal Top Gun Extra Lite with 7/8 Oz at 1200. But Mary didn't like the smell of the powder when fired. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/953667975/federal-top-gun-extra-lite-ammunition-12-gauge-2-3-4-7-8-oz-8-shot I see MidwayUSA has a subsonic Federal load listed. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/953268336/federal-top-gun-low-recoil-subsonic-ammunition-12-gauge-2-3-4-1-1-8-oz-7-1-2-shot

More reply option give no edit options. I've been using a Samsung tablet (Android) to view and post on forum using the full website version. When I select the "More reply options", it didn't always give me any option. No font choices. No emoticons. No insert photos. No nothing more than the quick reply. Several times over past couple of years, I'd get the full edit options and then it would go back to being dumb again. Yesterday I bought a new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2s 9.7 to replace my now dead Samsung tablet. I thought now that I have the latest and clean machine, the full editor will work. Nope, still just the dumb version. I tried on Chrome, generic Web browser and downloaded Firefox and none of them give me the full edit menus. I have a Samsung Galaxy smart phone I use in mobile mode and it does not give me full editor options either. But that's not a big deal. The full edit menus work in ever other forum I use. Is there a patch or switch in the Wire software that is not always installed or set right?

Hal Rosch built an empire on comedy productions. Here is one with Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts. Notice the same background music as used in many Little Rascals productjons. Zasu Pitts was said to be the prototype for Olive Oyl.

I use to hunt a lot. Then slowed down to just deer season. Then not even deer hunt in past 4-5 years. But I always thought wild boar hunting would be fun. But I have a Marlin 1895 in 45-70 that would work well for that.

When I got home from school back in the late 50'S the local TV station had a kid's program that included cartoon and a Little Rascals or Our Gang short. Every now and then I have to watch a few. The old film versions have have been cleaned up and restored. I always get a kick out of Spanky in his early years. I'd like to know how they could get the kids to perform - especially the toddlers.

What would you need with a 45 Colt? You may just hurt yourself after getting use to shooting those flea phart loads in the 32s.

Later in this video I explain how I made some adapter parts so I could use a small Lee C press to load a cylinder. Keep in mind I was using the press setup for the first time in the video. And I was working around a camera. Also the press was C-clamped to a little crafts table and none to steady. I use the press setup at home where I can C-clamp it to a workbench mounted to the wall. It works well in this setting. I've not used it at a range as there wouldn't be a good place to clamp it. The C-press could be mounted to a portable loader stand - home made or factory made.

If you're not ready to reload, buy ammo with quality case, collect up your brass, keep it clean and in original box and other cowboy shooters will buy it. Once people know it's only once fired and not mixed lot of headstamp, you wouldn't have any trouble moving it.

Looks like they have the 44 Magnum in Cowboy configuration also. Interesting but if if there there are still JM Marlins available at as good a price?? I've yet to pick up a Remington made Marlin I'd buy.

If this interests you, there is a part 2.

They weight 158 gr. I'd think they were cores for making jacketed bullets but they are already formed into a shape and lubed.

I'm thinking, if I'm buying loaded ammo with the intention to save the brass for reloading, buy ammo made with quality brass even if it's not the least expensive.

Mom bought all kinds of things at rummage sales and flea markets. While cleaning up their estate, Mary came across a rusty paint can that was unusually heavy. In it was what looked to be 38/357 SWC swedged and coated bullets. This morning I thought of them and decided to load up some 38 Special practice ammo. First one just dropped into the case. They sure look like pistol bullets but they measure .347. The only cartridge I can come up with that would use this caliber would be the 348 Winchester. But the bullet would be a poor choice for the 348 Winchester, I'm thinking.

The same rumors and questionable comments are made about the Colt 1878 shotguns. Colt historian says they were made in USA. Others have commented they were made in England. Hard to know the truth. I've seen pictures of English made shotguns that look virtually identical. Seeing that Colt was already a large international company, it would be easy for them to just have the guns made for them. If not totally made in England, maybe the majority of the parts and then assembled in US.

One thing about the Gunblast videos I feel good about is the outrageous prices they are asking for the plastic guns. Makes me real happy about what I've paid for some really nice guns made of steel and wood.

It's like cowboy action shooting - suspension of disbelief.

I've powder coat my own. First I wanted to increase the diameter of my 45 bullets. And it did that. But I found it helped if I ran them through a sizing die to press out any little bumps or flanges. I used a Lee bullet sizing die and mounted the little press upside down so sized bullets fell into a box below. I too like how they are not goopy with lube.