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Nope. But I can tell you that many Indian trading posts across the southwest used Arbuckle crates in their construction. https://gunsmagazine.com/guns/premium-guns/

This might be connected to the once famous Arbuckle Brothers coffee and spice company. They offered these as a premium if a person sent in the correct amount of signatures that were printed on each one pound bag. In the late 1800s nine out of ten pounds of coffee shipping to the territory of Arizona were Arbuckle brands.

All your photos are of the right side. How about the left side?

This is hard to process. He was an inspiration and it just won’t be the same at Bordertown without him.

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I don’t know how far Central Indiana is, but six years ago I used to shoot at Pine Ridge Regulators near Brazil. @Cannon and @Dough Slinger shot there and were always tops. If they are still shooting, learn from them.

Maybe that’s why I can’t find one!

I read Uberti briefly made a copy of the Colt Root revolver. I did a search and they appear to be harder to find than the originals. Do any of you have one?

I would say it should be fine as I would not consider it to be sporterized. Sporterized generally means adapted to hunting use. It has the profile of an authentic carbine so in my eyes, it fits the bill. The CMP has Krags that they have received from Legion halls in exchange for Garands but they are often of dubious quality and originality. And they are significantly higher in cost.

From what I can find, this was for volunteers. I reserve the right to be wrong. https://milkcreek.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1688

Yellowstone National Park has huge signs warning not to approach wildlife and don’t stray off the boardwalk around thermal features. The rangers constantly warn visitors to follow the rules. The brochures they give visitors has the rules in multiple languages. Yet, every year people want to pet the fluffy cows, get selfies with elk and grizzly bears, and accidentally fall into boiling water. No amount of stickies is going to prevent people from doing unwise acts. Be honest. Who actually reads the stickies? It’s obvious from comments here and other forums, the answer is no one.

My guess is that it’s someone’s cobbled together flintlock to take advantage of a primitive weapon deer season. The recoil pad kinda clinches it. Any rendezvous I ever went to outlawed modern items like the butt pad. Quite often there would be an inspection of the accoutrements inside the possibles bag and anything modern was counted against your score.

I saw a cased Paterson like Injun Ryder’s in Tombstone that was marked over $3k. They are not cheap anymore.

It doesn’t look like any style of Brown Bess I have ever seen. It looks like an owner made gun from parts.

According to an article on the NRA site, it’s a pistol caliber carbine. If the barrel is cut or changed to less than original, it becomes an SBR. They warn in the article this is not a firearm you want to modify.

If you’re looking for something to stop them from moving instantly, it’s not going to happen. I have killed hundreds of rattlesnakes, most of them headshots with .22 shot shells. I cut the head off and grab the body. In most cases the headless body will continue to move and coil for hours. One particular snake body kept moving for 12 hours. The only way to stop the body from moving is destroying all muscle and nerve function. And that will take lots of shovel hits or shotgun blasts.

Don Furr on the coltforum can repair most grips.

Just so I’m clear, each shooter would need four rifles for the Lucas McCain version? From what I’ve seen on TV, the rifle should be used the entire match without reloading.

You can use USPS media rate on pirate ship. You will have to look for it because they don’t make it easy to find. Reloading manuals can be shipped media rate as they are training manuals. The only items that can’t be shipped media rate are magazines with advertising in them. And they don’t dispose of anything. If they feel your shipment doesn’t qualify for the rate you chose, you or the receiver will get a notification that more postage is required. Seven years ago I bought 300 copies or so of Gun Reports on eBay. The guy shipped them media rate. My post office decided the 40-year old magazine should have not gone media rate and wanted $200 or so extra in postage. I argued the advertising was no longer valid and most of the people listed were dead. They wouldn’t budge. Keep in mind the boxes of magazines filled an entire cloth cart. They said I had 24 hours to pay or the boxes were going back. I told them I was not paying extra postage but I would contact the seller. The seller said he specifically asked his PO how they could be sent and she said media rate. That USPO contacted my PO and within minutes they called and said to come get the magazines. My local PO was so small, the cloth cart was totally blocking their dock area so it was a huge pain to hold them for me.

I have sold tens of thousands of items on eBay. I have been using Pirate Ship for years. They give a significant discount. Get boxes at the PO for flat rate stuff. Use padded envelopes from Walmart. Use recycled boxes if needed. Good recycled packing can be stored in totes. Walmart bags are not good packing. I use a laser printer and labels bought on Amazon.

I am sorry to hear this.

I doubt I’ll be a buyer. They are also discussing making a 1903 and a M1 Carbine. I can see that if I wanted to compete without wearing out an original. But my old rifles are far more interesting.

I tried but between the pain and the North Koreans, I wasn’t getting it done.

Heritage Arms is partnering with the CMP to offer an all new M1 Garand with a forged receiver. https://thecmp.org/introducing-the-m1-garand-by-cmp-a-new-chapter-begins/