Recent content by Garrobo

Back yard.

Probably a good price for a used one, considering their retail price. The great thing is that you can probably sell it in a couple years, when a conservative is in the WH, for around $500.

I bought them in the 80's (FFL) for $49 each. It's a classic case of supply and demand plus the fact that they could be used to drive fence posts if you ran out of ammo.

We m ade one out of a small beer keg some years ago.

I've killed a lot of white tails and hogs in the 60 years that I have been meat hunting. I usually use a Rem 700 BDL in .30-06 which came with a 4 power Weaver scope, bought in 1971 ( $169 out the door with a box of Browning ammo and a sheepskin carrying sleeve.) I don't remember shooting...

To Elkins45 We make up a jig, held in a vice, to heat and bend the straight M98bolt handles. We'd load the bolt with a heat dissipating plug and compound, wrap everything up in wet rags and go to it, starting at the knob and going in to the bolt body. They were a little short but they worked OK.

None. I shoot off the back porch.

Both Remington and Marlin are very good gun manufacturers and I hate to see silly names given their products.

Derringers are suicide guns.

Why not just buy some .270 brass and your troubles are over? It's available and cheap.

Personally, I would not fire a bullet over 170 grains in a lever action built for a .30-30 cartridge. The actions flex even with this weight bullet. Since they are inherently inaccurate compared to a bolt action beyond about 75 yards anyway you would be adding to the inaccuracy of later firings.

I find an accurate combination and then, using a felt-tipped marker, write it down on the cabinet doors where I store my reloading components. After 50+ years, I'm running out of doors.

I open up a reloading manual, follow the instructions and shoot a dozen rounds. If they are adequately accurate, I stop there. If not, I try another recommended load.

I've made this mistake dozens and dozens of times. Having owned a machine shop and had a couple tool and die men working for me, both gun nuts and hunters, we built a lot of Mausers up in many and varied calibers back in the 80's when you could buy old, surplus M98's for 5 for $100 delivered...

If you are talking about the M-1917 (Enfield) battle rifle in .30-06 and carried by our WWI soldiers over in France, I would make sure that it is all original and matching parts, good rifling and a low price. If the barrel has been changed I'd look for any hairline cracks in the receiver.