so waht ya doin today?
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uncle jimbo
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Spent the morning calling the LGS in the area looking for the Uberti 1873 I ask about in the other thread last week. Talk about a hassle. First most of them are not stocking dealers but will order one. There is a six month waiting period and they wanted anywhere from 25 to 50% down. And alot couldn't tell me about ordering one because the store firearms manager is off to the Shot 2019 show in Vagas. So call back next week.
I did find two stores that had one in stock, one with all the options I was after except it was in 45 long Colt. Which I don' want, and the other store had one with a 20" round barrel and a large loop lever, (I think they call them a John Wayne lever) which I really don't want.
So I will postpone my search until next week when the Shot show is over.
I did find two stores that had one in stock, one with all the options I was after except it was in 45 long Colt. Which I don' want, and the other store had one with a 20" round barrel and a large loop lever, (I think they call them a John Wayne lever) which I really don't want.
So I will postpone my search until next week when the Shot show is over.
Pistolero
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What kind of prices are they offering? What caliber are you looking for?
If I could find a round barrel, short rifle (not carbine) in .44-40 at a reasonable price, I'd
probabably buy it, although some have the color case that looks good, others are, at least
to my eye, pretty ugly. I need to see the case colors on the actual one I buy.
Bill
If I could find a round barrel, short rifle (not carbine) in .44-40 at a reasonable price, I'd
probabably buy it, although some have the color case that looks good, others are, at least
to my eye, pretty ugly. I need to see the case colors on the actual one I buy.
Bill
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freebullet
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Just about caught up on office work...have enjoyed the inside time. Cabin fever is already creeping in though. It's snowing....
Loaded some neeners, finished some 223 prep.
Loaded some neeners, finished some 223 prep.
Pistolero
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Put a shotgun together for a friend of my wife. Old, cheap 20s or 30s "Knickerbocker" 12 ga double.
pretty much all apart. Missing 5 screws, one is stripped, both firing pins broke, almost certainly from
snapping the hammers on empty chambers. Back together well enough to be a wall hanger, but with
missing screws, not safe. And if anyone opens the action, the rear half of the firing pins will fall
off into the mechanism, again.... no doubt that is why it was taken apart in the first place. May be missing
other parts that I missed in a quick look. Bbls in fine shape, no rust, shiny, no dents. Action is
pretty tight, but it was never any kind of a really nice gun, and it's best days are far in the rearview.
I told her I could fix it but it would go from being a $10 cheap old broken shotgun to a $50
cheap old working shotgun with about $500 or more worth of machine work, if I were to charge
real cheap for my time.
If they want to dump it for near nothing, I may try to make new screws and firing pins, just for
the learning experience.
Bill
pretty much all apart. Missing 5 screws, one is stripped, both firing pins broke, almost certainly from
snapping the hammers on empty chambers. Back together well enough to be a wall hanger, but with
missing screws, not safe. And if anyone opens the action, the rear half of the firing pins will fall
off into the mechanism, again.... no doubt that is why it was taken apart in the first place. May be missing
other parts that I missed in a quick look. Bbls in fine shape, no rust, shiny, no dents. Action is
pretty tight, but it was never any kind of a really nice gun, and it's best days are far in the rearview.
I told her I could fix it but it would go from being a $10 cheap old broken shotgun to a $50
cheap old working shotgun with about $500 or more worth of machine work, if I were to charge
real cheap for my time.
If they want to dump it for near nothing, I may try to make new screws and firing pins, just for
the learning experience.
Bill
uncle jimbo
Well-Known Member
The lowest price was $1016.00. I am looking for a 357 mag. I have all the equipment to cast bullets and reload for 357 mag and 38 spl.
Kevin Stenberg
Well-Known Member
Another fishing day. 1 10lb, 1 5lb northern, 1 sunfish, 2 perch
fiver
Well-Known Member
tore the lube bench apart today.
found a few things, but mostly cleaned out some cobwebs...LOL
I added a shelf behind the lubers in place of the milk crates that were back there then built a little pin board for the size dies and punches.
tomorrow I will put all the lube back so I can see it, re-mount the 2 stars and maybe mount one of the shot shell presses in the empty spot.
found a few things, but mostly cleaned out some cobwebs...LOL
I added a shelf behind the lubers in place of the milk crates that were back there then built a little pin board for the size dies and punches.
tomorrow I will put all the lube back so I can see it, re-mount the 2 stars and maybe mount one of the shot shell presses in the empty spot.
Ian
Notorious member
prepping more military .308 cases......
Fun fun. I got lucky on the last big batch, all WCC '08, primers were crimped but not very much, did not require any kind if swaging. All I did was deprime, wet tumble, resize, trim mouths/clean up necks, and uniform the primer pocket depth. Still sucks to do all that manually a thousand times.
358156 hp
At large, whereabouts unknown.
I remember the last batch of 308 military cases I did. There were 500 of them, all WCC headstamps with matching dates. Size, trim, primer pockets, and a lot of tumbling to make them pretty. The first five I fired had full head separations. I pulled another handful out and did the paper clip trick to check for headspace issues. All five were bad. Checked another handful, all bad. Reached into the bottom of the brass bucket and pulled out another handful. All bad. I figure it must have been some really nasty M60 brass. I pulled the bullets, and salvaged my components from what I had already loaded and tossed the rest into the scrap bucket. That was the day that I switched from a two gallon scrap bucket to a five gallon scrap bucket. A couple of years later brass was higher than hell, and I sold my two buckets of scrap and made a small fortune. IIRC there was a bunch of prepped FC 223 brass in that mess as well.
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freebullet
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Have some mil 308 a small base die won't even out. Figure I'll try annealing the necks, before for second trip through a small base die. I dunno.
Moved snow, worked, & loaded some neeners. Had some chili.
Moved snow, worked, & loaded some neeners. Had some chili.
