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wierd situation Many years ago - before 9/11 but after metal detectors, I flew home for the holidays with a friends gun. It was a 18th cent flintlock pistol for which I was going to make a new mainspring. At the SF airport I handed my bag to the check-in agent and explained about the valuable...

How can you get 70 gr of powder into a modern case and seat a 405 gr bullet. Mine will only load up tp 65 gr and thats with some compression.

A mechanic? Did he demand you fly him to Home Depot? Determine if he is alone Take him out Put him in 16B (the ejection seat)

Is that top break a S&W or a Spanish / Belgian copy? I have a Spanish P01 that uses 455 Webley ammo. Or rather it did until it blew up in my hand.

You might be able to get more leverage on the sear by moving the trigger back a little. Find out where on the trigger the sear hits and if repositioning the trigger will do it.

Zamak is an alloy of aluminum, zinc, magnezium and copper and is used in quite a few firearms applications. Davis derringers were zamak with steel lined barrels. My Dillon loading machine is mostly zamak.

If revolution were the prerequisite to liberal gun ownership Then you would expect Mexico to be a paragon of gun culture. Switzerland has been staving off foreign takeovers since they drove the Austrians out hundreds of years ago. Since then No country has really tried although Napoleon and...

I was at Pony Express in the SF valley many years ago with my 2 year old daughter. I noticed a very tall customer there but did not pay attention to him untill one of the salesmen said 'That's Chuck Conners' Wow. I set my daughter on my shoulders and went over to say hi.

What??? No Sky King! I didnt take that show seriously but I suppose it goes hand in hand with Roy Rogers.

I have heard credible stories of travelers with checked firearms being arrested at NYC airports.

Bonanza Me and my brothers watched this every week. Lorne Greene was my grandfathers cousin. My father loved Have Gun Will Travel. I loved Laredo and Branded too.

If its bulged you should be able to tell on the outside by using a caliper or micrometer on the barrel flats. If its different at the bottom and top then you have a bulged barrel.

I have been lusting after the Kodiak 45/70 double. It is between 2-3k and more than I have right now. But that beats the 100k that a new Purdey would cost.

At a pawnshop in Monrovia Ca there was a Winchester 94. Octagon barrel, crescent but plate, barrel read 30 WCF. Price $120. The operator said it was so cheap cause they dont make 30 WCF ammo anymore!

I sometimes carry my Remmington O/U derringer. It is .41 rimfire and not very powerful but it is the only thing I will risk carrying in my coat pocket. I actually had to pull it once when some begger kept trying to separate me from my kids 2 and 6.

You couldnt get a gun withing 200 yds of Palin. My money is on Phil Specter

I remember when Fed Ord had a barrel full of them for around 100 per. They were the dregs deemed unworthy of restoration but they were complete. Most of the C96's in this country were imported from China where they were used for decades. China purchased them from Mauser and they have Chinese...

Eisenhauer appointed Earl Warren who he thought would be conservative but see how that worked out.

I used to watch him on the old show My Three Sons. I did not know he was still alive!

I got a 98/22 BRNO Mauser there for $85 good bore.