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JWFilips

JWFilips

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Continued the Cleaning of guns I haven't used in awhile with the final application of "Fluid Film" before putting them back in the safe. also went over some of my bullet shelves and scraped a bunch of handfuls of bullets that were the last of several big lots that were shot! Too small amount to do serious target work with : rather smelt them all and make fresh new batches...you know like 6 of these, 11 of those, etc.....just taking up important space!
Hoping to see the sun again some time! it hasn't appeared since the 16th of January and It is really starting to depress me!
one bad thing about the weather in NE PA! no sun!!!! That really wears a man down!
One good thing is we still will be above normal weather conditions into February!

Had the last of my wife's great chili however I'm not going to tell her that Tonight I fortified it with With sauted green peppers and onions along with a few fresh /frozen Sinahuisa chillies to ad heat and Mexican seasonings for me to make a beef & bean /chili burrito!
 
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JWFilips

JWFilips

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When I did early Rev War Re-enacting the drink of "Period" choice was super dark "Black Seal" Rum 1 part to 2 parts water in a tin cup!
By the later period of the Rev war we graduated to fine French Wine! we we mostly officers by then and drank out of fine blown Crystal glasses! ......... Heck the French had come to America to help us! Just living the history! Those were good times :)!
 
fiver

fiver

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almost filled a mayo jar with cooked and sized 358091's.
i got a big FR box full of them to go.... maybe one of these lifetimes i'll finish them.
yeah,, my whole day.

i'm torturing myself for a reason.
i have another box just like it full of lube-sized bullets that'll take me a hundred years to shoot.
these are just gonna get passed down the line in 20 years.
 
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popper

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Primed 200 or so BO cases, ready to load. Daughter makes wine now so I get a sip once in a while. So nice to have a talented daughter.
 
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CWLONGSHOT

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Snakeoil said:
I have a suggestion for you, CW. A friend at the club just did this with an H&R shotgun. Bore out the chamber and thread it. then screw in a rifle barrel to make a single shot rifle. I think he made a .22 Hornet with his. I questioned his sanity with that caliber choice. I think I would have made a wildcat in a small caliber like .25. Emulate a .25-20SS, only use something like a .30-30 as the parent case and neck down to .25. Won't be a true tapered or straight wall case. But would be a pussycat to shoot. You could also make a taper wall chamber and just fire form the .30-30 to match. Put a Unertl or Targetspot on it and everyone will be wanting to know what you have. That's where the fun comes in. No limit on the yarn you could spin about the only time H&R tried to compete at Creedmoor against the big names like Winchester, Stevens and Ballard. There's a whole bunch of extra fun involved here, CW, after you have fun building the rifle. You could even stamp the caliber on the barrel. I'm thinking .25-30 CW (in this case CW means Creedmoor Wildcat). Think how much fun you could have at the range when the fish are not bitin'. It could be a whole new strain of "sucker" to bait and reel in.
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I have wanted a 30 badger since I discovered it existed.

I gave a buddy in gunsmith school. He likes H&R s too. I convinced him ta make a rifle from a shotgun as his project. He has a bunch of 30cal barrels for there use. I suggested it but apparently only one place in the entire country rents 30 Badger reamers and they want 250$!!! TO RENT!! Hahahaha

I like the idea man! I have two "stub" barrels on the H&R. I have a 25/35, 32/20 & I always wanted a 32/40.

CW
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

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CWLONGSHOT said:
I have wanted a 30 badger since I discovered it existed.

I gave a buddy in gunsmith school. He likes H&R s too. I convinced him ta make a rifle from a shotgun as his project. He has a bunch of 30cal barrels for there use. I suggested it but apparently only one place in the entire country rents 30 Badger reamers and they want 250$!!! TO RENT!! Hahahaha

I like the idea man! I have two "stub" barrels on the H&R. I have a 25/35, 32/20 & I always wanted a 32/40.

CW
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The guy with the Hornet just finished building a .30 Badger. He was having trouble finding loads. I told him we could work up something using GRT if he gave me all the necessary dimensions and weights. Then, I went into GRT to see if I could find a caliber that was close. I was thinking of using .32-20. I found a caliber called .30 PICRA. Look it up on the web. It is basically a .30 Badger, only made using a .357 mag case instead of a .38 spl. I think the .30 PICRA has more potential. He's a bit tight with a buck and he prefers the cheap .38 spl brass. :rolleyes: But is is also interested in the PICRA and can always the reamer a bit deeper.

Not sure if he bought the reamer or rented it. I'll ask. If he has the reamer, he or Charlie might be willing to chamber the barrel for you. You could drive to Charlie's and he could ream it while you wait and then drive back. I'll see both of them on Sunday at the match. I'll try to remember to ask about the reamer. Lenny said he made the cases by forming them with a Tokarev die.

The finished round looks like the Danny DaVito version of a .30 Blackout.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
richhodg66 said:
I love, love, love old single barrel shotguns. In my opinion, it is a fendemental truth that a man can never have too many single shot shotguns.
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I have a strange affinity for bolt action shotguns. I suppose it's just the "I gotta be different" thing, but from a utilitarian/price standpoint they have their appeal. Fugly, but useful, and not real high on the "Steal Me!" list.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
JWFilips said:
Continued the Cleaning of guns I haven't used in awhile with the final application of "Fluid Film" before putting them back in the safe. also went over some of my bullet shelves and scraped a bunch of handfuls of bullets that were the last of several big lots that were shot! Too small amount to do serious target work with : rather smelt them all and make fresh new batches...you know like 6 of these, 11 of those, etc.....just taking up important space!
Hoping to see the sun again some time! it hasn't appeared since the 16th of January and It is really starting to depress me!
one bad thing about the weather in NE PA! no sun!!!! That really wears a man down!
One good thing is we still will be above normal weather conditions into February!

Had the last of my wife's great chili however I'm not going to tell her that Tonight I fortified it with With sauted green peppers and onions along with a few fresh /frozen Sinahuisa chillies to ad heat and Mexican seasonings for me to make a beef & bean /chili burrito!
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Winter is the season of our discontent! I sort of counted bales the other. I should have plenty, but no one ever has TOO MUCH hay in January!
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I really feel like venting due to a NEW physical aliment that cropped up yesterday and because children, even adult children, just get me PO'd, but there's no sense in it.

Probably going to have to take it easy today. Will shop for plow parts and a good quality weatherproof ammeter. Auto parts store level ammeters never last more than a year or 2 for me and if the guts die, the battery no charge-ee! I'm hoping I won't have to drive anywhere today!
 
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richhodg66

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My two youngest brothers were out this way for Christmas and I was dicussing bolt action shotguns with one of them. He is a big scouter and primarily a shooting/hunter safety instructor for kids. As such, he keeps samples of various guns around for instructional and familiarity purposes. He seemed happy that he found a Stevens or Savage bolt action 20 gauge for this purpose, said they seem rare on used racks in Georgia. I never would have thought they were rare, especially on the south where people have a istory of being poor and subsistence hunting.

Got me thinking, though and I don't seem to see them on used racks like I used to, they were quite common. Only one I ever owned was a Marlin which was rifled for slugs. Didn't keep it long. Came close to buying one of the ten gauge Goose Guns they made, but didn't. Guess I need a bolt action shotgun to play with.
 
Rick H

Rick H

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I never understood bolt action shotguns. Maybe being a lefty was part of it but I always thought of shotguns as wingshooting tools. A bolt action was useless getting a second shot off at a bird, just a way of carrying a couple of extra shells. In function it was a single shot that cost more. Why? A side by side, pump, or autoloader gave you more than one shot but the bolt? Never saw anyone who could get two shots off at a flushing grouse or pheasant with a bolt gun.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Well grandson Cole and I finally had time to work on the fort.
Cole about 3 years ago decided to build himself a fort. He asked his Dad to bring home some big pieces of cardboard that was received shipping the products use in the cabinet shop he works in uses.
Anyway he built quite a fort for cardboard and duck tape for a seven year old. But just before we came to visit there was a big wind storm. But Cole saved all the cardboard.
So when I arrived he asked if I would help build a new fort. Of course Cole wanted to use his cardboard. Well we used his cardboard for sheeting the walls, but I had him clean all the tape off and flatten the pieces out so he could put a coat of paint on the cardboard. So I built a modular frame out of 1x2’s, had to be inexpensive and modular so it could be taken apart and stored if needed. So in this picture you can see the cardboard skin. A recent big wind had removed the tarp roof a month earlier.
It lasted almost three years but definitely needed help.
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So we finally got the skin on and a new tarp roof. Home Depot had a good deal on plywood.
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Today Cole’s going to paint the walls and I’m going to make some window and a door hinged covers out of scrap plywood to complete the project. Like to get it done today as the weather is going to get cold again.
 
JonB

JonB

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Bret4207 said:
I have a strange affinity for bolt action shotguns. I suppose it's just the "I gotta be different" thing, but from a utilitarian/price standpoint they have their appeal. Fugly, but useful, and not real high on the "Steal Me!" list.
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The only gun I ever bought at a garage sale, was a bolt action 410 (I think George W was president at the time). It was less than $100 and it looked serviceable, but I never fired it. My Friend seen it and wanted it more than I did. I'd bet real dollars that gun has still never been fired. He is a farmer and bought it for his young Daughter, while too young at the time, as she grew up, she became a girly girl and never cared for anything that wasn't girly.
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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I was almost killed by a 12g bolt shotgun. It blewup in my face and sent me to the emergency room for 3 hours of nurses and Dr pulling shrapnel and powder out of my face and hands...

Near as I can figure the FP was rusted "out" protruding I mean and when I bolted that shell in BABOOM before it was chambered... Good thing I had glasses and bolted with a open hand. My open palm/hand took much of the blast protecting my face and throat. LOOKED REAL bad but mostly was superficial. The case head being only metal and its thin but sharp. I pulled most if it out in route to hospital. Friend drove me in.

I do have one, its a 410 only cause I love them so much and it was like new and dirt cheap. Also matches a 22 LR I have from same company. Springfield. (Savage Stevens)

So ya can understand my obversion to them...

CW
 
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