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I'm decidedly strange, I guess. From childhood I've been able to switch master eyes at will.

Can she try a "pirates' patch" on the left eye? I personally believe you can train yourself out of that extreme dominance with practice.

Megadittos.!!!!! At my age I DREAD subjecting myself to another round of figuring out how to make a new O/S & browser do the simplest tasks, hours of porting my masses of data to new browsers and...

For nostalgia, Krags. Have yet to afford an "as-issued", but I do have a sporterized Norwegian based on one of the few built under Nazi control. One of my "carbine replicas" did very well with...

Maya Ik. Not easy to find. I first discovered it in a grocery in South Houston that catered to Hondurans (they said). Smoky, not all that hot. Found it again in Ann Arbor, but I don't live there...

A brass 6-holer will be a trial to use. Price some NOE or Accurate moulds in the 65-80 grain range first. Big problem there is that they are out of stock - no backorder.

To get you going, I...

The old master.....Harry Pope:

https://www.issa-schuetzen.org/off-hand-rifle-shooting.html

Ditto, and cancelled the credit card they had on file.

I use 6mm acorn blanks for two different rimfire-adapter loads. Walther's old copper blanks were great, but Umarex stopped making them. The Umarex replacements are brass, and a bigger body...

Wouldn't simple masking tape make a good-enough form?

There are sights on evilBay and Gunbroker that could be modified easily enough. How did you get that figure of .345" ? Did you take the sight out to measure? An awful lot of Stevens sights were...

Is that bronze malleable enough to draw into jackets? Without getting out my handbook I'd think not.

I do (well, did) this using a lathe. Far, far easier than trying to use a mill. Collet chuck quicker, but 3-jaw works. Use 1/8" stub drill to take top off the Berdan primer and remove most of the...

I made that mistake, too. Set up a Contender in .22 K-Hornet for garden defense, and quickly found that offhand snap shots at fleeing woodchucks were impossible. Replaced it with a carbine-size...

It is a cute little thing. I'll admit. If it's accurate when loaded subsonic it might he very good for control of yard pests in populated areas.

The idea of a centerfire .25 Stevens is older than dirt. Here's a pic of an ammo box that Reuben Harwood offered for sale circa 1895. Harwood was closely associated with Stevens, and no doubt he...

Just show them the number of boys' rifles in .25 RF for sale on Gunbroker.

Here's another converter of Hornet to CF .25 Stevens. Works very well. Remember your twist is only 17" per turn, so 65 grain bullets are your best bet.

Buying NOS ammo has become ridiculous. ...

FWIW I've been a 2R Lovell fan for over 20 years, to the extent of forming brass from .223 when you couldn't find any.

In all that time I've known of only one rifle chambered for the Max. Used...

Is that easier to use than those plastic strips?

A very useful tool for shrinking and a lot more is Irfan View, which I've been using for years, especially for changing file formats and cropping, (which reduces file size all by itself).

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Nominal twist per Stevens spec was 17 inches. Factory ammo had 65 grain bullets and were quite accurate. Muzzle velocities were subsonic. Air rifle slugs are .250 diameter....your 44's groove...

Playing with it in Quickload, 40 grains at 1050 fps falls quite a bit short. Only 100 ft-lbs.

50 grains at 1039 yields 120 ft-lbs. (126 joules), at about 11,000 psi (814 bar), which is perfectly...

Clever.

I've made a bullet-seating / crimping tool for .32 Long Colt, which also uses a heeled bullet. Uses a spring-loaded top punch to hold the bullet firmly in place as case is fed into the die. It...