I talked to henry repeating arms in late ‘16 or early ‘17 and was told that the long ranger would be available sometime in 2018 chambered in 358win
Type: Posts; User: flhroy
Forum: Leverguns
I talked to henry repeating arms in late ‘16 or early ‘17 and was told that the long ranger would be available sometime in 2018 chambered in 358win
Forum: Factory Rifles
I was thinking of looking for a lefty savage to convert to 358win but I now have another brain storm. I'm now thinking of converting a savage 99 in 308 to 338 federal. that should be a simple barrel...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Here is a report on shooting the 45/70 at two miles. The target was actually hit!
http://home.earthlink.net/~sharpsshtr/CritterPhotos/SandyHook/SandyHook.html
Forum: Our Town
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,32015456001_1915688,00.html
Forum: Our Town
firefly any bottle will work if you can get a good seal with the cap. I will buy a couple of flats of bottled water and reuse the bottles and caps for camping trips. I think soda bottles would be...
I picked up a used 4 cavity 358429 lyman mould today. It looks to be in great shape BUT I do have a question. How much of a gap should there be when lifting up on the sprue plate? When I first got it...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'm sure you're right Mike about it being Model 1922 but where it gets interesting or confusing is that the GI who brought it back was in Army Intelligence during WW II as an interogater. There's a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I wish I knew more about this pistol but unfortunatly the GI who brought it homeis no longer availabe to ask.
Forum: Military Rifles
As kids one time a bunch of us gathered behind a friends fence with several ready made snowballs. We had a spotter to signal us when to launch and we would then each proceed to throw 3 or 4 snowballs...
Forum: Our Town
Ric, even though we can drive to camp it's surprising that we seldom see anyone else in the field hunting. There are a few road hunters that we can hear driving up on the forest service road but...
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We're at aroud 5000 feet in Union County Oregon on BLM land. This is public land, you gotta love America.
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All hooked up an ready to head home.
I was trying to find the manufacture date on a FN 10/22 in 380acp or 9X17. Does anyone know a site where one could check?
Thanks
Forum: Cast Boolits
'I like to use a large soup ladle with a hole drill in the side to pour out of and the handel bent to where its comfortable to me. Full loaded it can hold almost 2 pounds of lead '
I'm going to...
Forum: Our Town
My daughter lives in Narita which is about an hours train ride from Tokyo. After watching that news footage of the that tsunami surge, I had few tense minutes. I thank God that my daughter was able...
Forum: Casting Equipment
a piece of plywood and a couple of saw horses
A Coleman stove burning regular unleaded gas using a stainless steel soup ladle for a ladle. Some years ago I wanted to try casting and didn't want to...
I don't have here with me but I'm sure the LEE Reloading manual lists a load for it. I don't remember what powder was used but I kind of remember it spit the boolit out at around 750 fps or so.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Try and find an old Coleman white gas burning camp stove. In place of the white gas I just burn unleaded regular gas. I make a skirt out of aluminum foil to go around my melt pot with a little flare...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just renewed mine here in Oregon. $50 and good for four years. Its not good for WA,CA or NV but if I go East I can get all the way to SD without breaking the law.
Forum: Cast Boolits
some more long range shooting with the 45/70
http://www.researchpress.co.uk/longrange/sandyhook.htm
Forum: Our Town
Hey Danski, A bit south of you but here are a few of the perch we caught off of Racine Reef a few years age. I like to time my visits to see my family to be around perch season.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |