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    anyone ever play with the old wildcat 257 Magnum ???

    anyone ever play with the old wildcat 257 Magnum ??? new pics added my custom revolver is functional this week... ( project was converting a Ruger single 10 into an 8 shot 257 ) barrel is mounted, custom cylinder is fabricated, firing pin has been changed over from rim fire to center fire...
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    bayonets... got pics ???

    so I finally got the milsurps hung on the wall of my walk in gun safe, & started pulling accessories out ( mags etc. ) I found that I only have bayonets for one rifle ( I actually have 2 for one rifle ) would like to find bayonets for my other rifles that can take them... pics may help for gun...
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    Need an interesting suggestion for chambering new / old Enfield Martini...

    went to the local gun show last weekend ( the only one I buy a couple tables at ) working by myself, doesn't leave me the chance to do much shopping, but while packing up at the end of the show, I came accross an old Enfield carbine, that had been rechambered in 303 British... wood was really...
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    source for replacement stock on old Swiss K-31 ???

    I got my milsurps on the wall a couple weeks ago... ( I see I really need to get an "03 springfield yet :o ) but I also ( now that they are all together ) see I really want to replace the stock on my K-31... when I bought it, I knew it had been moderately sporterized ( drilled & tapped for a...
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    Midway donates 1 million $ to NRA/ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the 2n

    just got an e-mail from Midway... WOW... in celebration of 1,000,000 active customers this year, they donated $1.00 for each customer... they already send over 1 million in NRA round up dollars each year... I order alot myself... & we as shooters & reloaders ( posting this here, as 99.9% of...
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    what is up with plastic ammo boxes...

    sorry, this is a rant... I'm really frustrated right now... I get the primer / powder / bullet thing right now... however I was just able to pick up 8000 primers in the size & brand I like, from Cabelas, at pre-hype prices this week... & yet Midway keeps pushing back the date ( I know, it's the...
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    curious on 45 acp headstamp...

    when processing my ammo can of 45 acp cases, ( these are all pre small primer pocket ) I ran across several ( at least 50, maybe 100, will know more when I finish )... S&W headstamp 45 acp cases... I was kinda suprised, as I don't remember seeing S&W ammo around... could these have been for S&W...
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    a new & different world...

    local gun shop... as per ATF "highest volume independant dealer in MN" forced to quit selling guns... I know this family personally & I'm not happy...:mad: http://www.albertleatribune.com/2013/02/27/hart-bros-weaponry-to-stop-selling-guns/
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    I'm so... happy... today I found PRIMERS in stock

    I've started making my weekly trip to the local Cabela's 1st thing, one morning a week, in search of needed primers... just got an extra $400.00 check in my pocket last night... that's a good thing, since... ... the local Cabela's just got a large shipment of CCI primers ( at the same price I...
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    no pics yet... but I will soon... lets see your cartridge conversion C&B guns...

    just bought my 2nd open top cartridge conversion gun to add to my single action collection... 1st one was a lil 36 pocket revolver my buddy strengthen up & chambered for 32 S&W (no extractor on that one ) 2nd one I just got, is ( sorry, not really into C&B revolvers ) a 44 open top that's been...
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    Going through my 45 acp can now... "vintage" cases LP or SP... your choice ???

    Going through my 45 acp ammo can now... "vintage" cases LP or SP... your choice ??? I have not bought a 45 acp round, since they started switching to small pistol primers... lucky for me, as I'm much shorter on small pistol primers than I am on large pistol primers... I like the large primers...
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    Just don't like... can't take seriously... don't respect... the lowly 22 LR

    So...I'd never put down someone elses gun, but I have several 22's both handguns, & rifles, & I just can't get into shooting them... yep, did an Appleseed, & used my 10-22, I have a couple vintage target rifles, have an old Gov. Target model Ruger semi auto, & a couple revolvers both single...
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    any "Wild catters" out there ??? what are you doing ???

    don't see much of this stuff... seems the reloading forum is overwhelmed with newbie reloaders... I've been reloading for around 20 years, & like reloading almost as much as shooting... I like coloring out side of the box... I assume there are a few more like me... some of my odd ball stuff...
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    thoughts on 1943 30 carbine ammo... & reloading...

    I'm kinda at a quandry with some old cases & loaded ammo I dug up off the back of the ammo shelf when moving everything I have about 100 rounds of WCC-43 loaded ammo, & about 100 fired cases also have about 100 rounds of PC-43, & a handfull of fired cases have about 100 rounds of LC-52, & a...
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    dealing with crimped primer pockets... anything I should know ???

    part of the collection inherited from my FIL includes 2 ammo cans of spent, but still primed mil spec 223 cases ( I also discovered I have several 100 - 30 carbine cases with crimped primers... 43 & 52 vintage ) with the delay on components, & the moving of all my reloading & ammo stuff, I...
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    45 Autorim... a new gun & +P fun... anyone play ???

    1st off, I have an old 1917 Colt ( certainly not a +P gun ) but fun to shoot... along came the chance to buy over 1000 new old stock RP autorim cases for a great price... then came the prediciment... hmm... sell off the extras, or build a new gun ??? so... my Blackhawk 30 carbine jumped at...
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    when & on what did the Military start crimping primers ???

    was going through some old ammo off my shelves the other day, reboxing some 30 carbine ammo, & noted I had some LC-52 & I started wondering if this had crimped primers, then found a box of WCC-43 hmm same question... I have a several ammo cans of older military brass to process, so curious if...
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    strange & crazy times... 22 lr, 22 mag, 25 auto, even 32 auto... really ???

    does anyone else find it strange that so many mouse gun calibers are suffering from the same shortages as common stuff??? I mean, I get the 9's, & 223's.... but really don't get the 22's, & mouse gun calibers... I'm finishing up my walk in gun safe, & displaying alot of guns that have been put...
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    RCBS Lil Dandy powder measure... rotor chart ???

    I do alot of tiny cartridge reloading, & my buddy wanted to get rid of a lil dandy he had laying around... as a retired machinist, he had one rotor, & made up several blanks... I thought maybe one of my old RCBS manuals would have a chart for the rotors, but I haven't found one yet... anyone...
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    lack of components... turning me into a brass snob...

    I refuse to load up the last of my primers in any given size ( since I have so many different cases I could put them in ) so I guess I've got a new hobby... polishing & prepping all my cases for reloading... I've been going through all my brass, decapping, & wet tumbling everything to look like...
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