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Sorry Rightwinger, but this: looks more like the girls in Westmoreland than this:

Send the broad in the liquor store with your list and some money.

Academy has 223 ammo on sale, I believe, for $3.99 per box of 20. It would be hard to beat that reloading. Weekly Ad - page 21 As others have stated, I would never sell any reloads, and there are very few people who I trust enough to fire their reloads. If you are shooting my reloads and your gun blows up, guess who's fault it is? It doesn't matter what really happened.

Trade for revolvers. My 1917 Smith and Wesson never leaves a mark on brass.

FiddleDog, You have a PM. Actually, you have a series of PMs, but I'd like you to disregard all of them except the most recent one.

Yeah...I didn't mean to post it twice.

Savage-Stevens 200 rifle; 270 or 7mm08, $179.99!!!!!!!!! Weekly Ad - page 21

Savage-Stevens 200 rifle; 270 or 7mm08, $179.99!!!!!!!!! Weekly Ad - page 21

I'm kinda in the mood to try a 41 Magnum.

I'm kind of a weenie, but anything more than a 44 Magnum needs a shoulder stock in my opinion. I have a couple of 44s, and I can load everything from light plinking loads to some pretty stout full power loads in which a cylinder or two full is all you'd want to fire at any one trip to the range. It is actually a pretty versatile cartridge and ammo as well as reloading components are very common for it.

It ain't no problem to make one with more cant.

Browning Citori.

Thanks for the kind words, Chuck. These are comfortable and conceal a 1911 about as well as anything I've seen.

I assure you.....money IS an object!

Parker, Purdy, Holland and Holland, 21 Winchester, Lefever, LC Smith, Ithaca doubles. The fact is, however, that money is a factor for most of us. I am a firm believer that a shotgun should have two barrels, no matter how you stack em.

Yup.

One trigger takes up all the slack, or creep, then you are left with a "hair trigger". Today, you can get an artermarket trigger that feels as good as these, but back in the day, that was the only way to have a fine trigger. Double set triggers were more popular in Europe than here. There was also a "single set trigger". I believe you pushed the trigger forward to accomplish the same thing the double set trigger did. You can find double set triggers on a lot of period muzzleloaders. You would also having the option of firing the rifle with just the regular trigger while having a heavier, less crisp trigger pull. This came in handy if you were in a hurry, or if you didn't want the click of the set trigger to give away your position.

I make them.

Little touches such as the set triggers, nicely cut walnut stock, and the finely executed checkering suggest quality quality gunsmith work. Anythin is possible, but it looks like British work, and not American. I'd sure be interested in the story behind it, as I've seen scads of custom Mausers, Enfields, Krags, and Springfields, butt that is the first sporterized Lebel I can remember seeing. If you could mamage to find some ammo for it, I believe it would be a fine deer rifle, and you'd be the only guy in camp with one.

:DThese are quite comfortable and easy to conceal.

After much searching, it appears to be a customized French Lebel. If so, they were originally chambered for 8x60R. I don't have any idea whether these were commercially produced, but I imagine it is a customized military rifle. It appears that it was very well done.

We spend a lot of time in Gulf Shores. You'll find the friendliest people in the world down there. Pretty much everybody is laid back. I've never seen anything posted there, and I've always carried with no problems. There's not many places there where you'd really feel like you'd need to be carrying however. I'll be there for the shrimp festival in October. Check out Jimmy Buffett's sister's restuarant while you're there. It's called LuLu's and is on the intercoastal waterway.

Thanks for sharing, and I had a pretty good idea what you meant. The Marlin and the Stevens look to be in good shape. They are both inexpensive and fun plinking guns. Maybe $100 for the Stevens and a little more for the Marlin. I like that Marlin! The first one intrigues me. I don't really know what it is, but it sure looks European; likely British. I'd love to see it in person. Do you have any idea what it is chambered for? That is a fairly high quality gun. There will probably be some proof marks on the under side of the barrel. If someone here doesn't know what it is, I can post the photos on another forum where I'm sure I could find out if you'd like me to. I'm interested to find out as well.

I have a 640 for extended shooting sessions and a 642 for carry. I don't find either of them very hard to manage. My wife is a small lady, but she is deadly with one. She carries a model 37, which is a blued version of the 642 with a hammer.

Looking good!