Handsome Rob

I'm actually taking my .308 savage Hog Hunter. The unit is fairly well wooded & I wouldn't expect a shot beyond 300yds. I considered my .280 Ackley, but it's too long & heavy to be anything but a pain inna bum climbing up the mountains. 10½lb with a 28" barrel is great for plains & canyon shooting, but in the hills I'll happily sacrifice velocity for ease of carriage! Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

NO! I have to call the county 4 or 5 times a year because people keep stealing the damn things! :D

From my own experiences with Rossi's customer service, they WILL come through for you. I've had 2 rifles & a pistol back to them in the past few years (not for any manufacturing fault, other than a bent barrel) & their service has been nothing short of excellent. They've always done exactly what they said they would.

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Must watch! :) https://youtu.be/46ry-X2CoJk

Ooof. I can either afford to attend, or renew my membership to Strategic Edge....

Experience lesson: No matter what your cell provider tells you & how much you pay....it won't work in Europe. Jules & I keep hold of a couple of dirt cheap UK phones for the odd times we have to fly back to England. If you smoke, be careful in Europe. In a lot of places it's outright banned, in most others it's frowned upon. A lot of cities have no smoking in public laws & they DO enforce them. If you dip, make sure you have a spitter bottle. Spitting is hugely rude in Europe. Get a bus timetable for every city you'll visit. European taxis are crippling expensive ($8-$10 per mile is not uncommon) and are very good at 'detours.' Public transport is cheap, quick, very regular & clean. Everything is expensive compared to the US. VERY expensive. Last time I was in England a pack of Marlboro was $15! Tipping in restaurants is not expected our required. Wait staff actually get a decent wage & are not tip-reliant. Don't forget the time difference. Not actually the clock change, so much as the daytime cycle. Here, most folk start work earlier & stores are open earlier & later. The European norm is that most places don't start until 8-9 & many close between 5-6. Eating out is a much later affair though. Going out for an evening meal at 9pm is usual & many people don't think of going out for a drink until 10pm

Just got done annealing 200 pieces of 6.5x55 brass. By hand. With a blowtorch. Is there anything more tedious? Thank the gods I don't have to do this again for a few more loadings!

How pissed would you be if Wal-Mart banned private gun sales & transfers in their parking lot? Same deal. ;)

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/technology/facebook-gun-sales-ban.html?_r=0&referer=https://m.facebook.com/ Well, this sucks. I know that it's their site, their rules but it still sucks.

30/30 I took a WAG on the Crockett though!

https://youtu.be/-pRnQYS0S5c

Here's how I measured my 'jam' length (no gadgets required) Remove your bolt. Take a bare bullet (no case, bullet only) & gently push it into the breech with a pen/pencil/stick until it won't go any further. Just slight pressure, don't hammer it in! Insert your cleaning rod down the muzzle (it helps if you can block the thread hole here. I use the threaded portion of a cleaning jag, with the jag cut off) until it contacts the bullet tip. You may end up pushing the bullet out of the rifling, so be prepared to hold it in place. Mark your rod at the muzzle. Knock the bullet out & replace the bolt. Close the bolt & dry fire so your firing pin is out of the way, then reinsert your cleaning rod from the muzzle. When the rod contacts the bolt face, Mark it again at the muzzle. If you measure between these marks, it'll give you your jam length (max COAL) with that particular bullet. I'll admit, it's not perfect due to meplat differences bullet to bullet, but I've found it to be 'within a thou' consistent. Once you have this, you can figure your jump to lands & experiment up & down.

Want so, so much! http://www.gundigest.com/gun-videos/video-watch-this-clever-belt-fed-plinker-in-action

I'd offer the government $900,000,000 for a citizenship for Jules & I, then retire. 30 mill would keep me pretty warm for the rest of my life!

shutupshutupshutupshutup..... Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Counter proposal.... Disallow internal ignition, scopes & saboted projectiles ;)

Apparently he was in violation of YouTube & Google's terms of use agreement by 'advertising' firearms for sale. That's the best I've found out so far anyway.

Summit Goliath if I don't have to carry it too far. Lone Wolf hand climber if I'm going in a mile or four. The Summit I modified with a Hazmore Silent Seat (sheds a pound & much quieter) & I can sit in that big bastard all day long! I've probably spent as much time in it asleep as I have awake. The Lone Wolf packs up to about the thickness & weight of a postage stamp, but it's a 4 hour stand, maximum (& preferably less) I LOVE carrying the lone wolf, I LOVE sitting in the summit.

Hmmm. Honestly, for a non-interchangeable barrel, break action, single shot, I'd look really hard at Rossi over CVA. On most of the Facebook gun pages, Gunbroker & Armslist, you could easily save a hundy. Personally, at that price point, I'd be looking at the Savage Axis. Far better quality, outstanding accuracy, superb reliability & customer service & with savage's rebate program.....$250

I just save the confusion by buying the Annul Sportsman's licence. Covers me for all of deer season, fishing, trout, turkeys & doves. The only thing missing is a federal duck stamp & I don't hunt those anyway.

I can't believe Obi Wan gets killed!!

This morning is way too pretty to not be seeing any deer :( I think I'm probably the only person hunting in Moore co. that hasn't shot yet!

Welp... I don't know where this thread has meandered off to, but I keep my shorty .44 lever gun behind the seat of my truck for the occasional coyote, fox or coyote I come across. While I'm away in Florida, Georgia, Alabama or Texas it serves as an impromptu "Oooh....a hog!" gun. I'd never really considered it as a self/truck defense weapon. The .45 between the seats, the .44 under the seat & the .22 mag in the ashtray have me covered for that. If it goes beyond that, they can have the damn truck!