Sunfish

Put a new 21 pound recoil spring in it and re try the ammo that failed to feed.

A lot has changed since April. I bought two boxes of Winchester 22 magnum Saturday for 23.95 out the door. They had 555 bricks and bricks of Thunderbolt Remington lined up and some 100 packs of CCI. It going to take a while of availability before the price backs up and probably wont back up much over 10%.

There are thousands of good pictures of Lone gunmen in the world. Surveillance has gotten really sophisticated and between traffic cams and cell phone pings they are putting people at the seen of many crimes. Avidgilon license's are still pretty pricey but as the price comes down more and more people will have top notch cameras and illuminators.

Some of the people walking around could pass for aliens. Control for the most part is an illusion and the walls and fences are still fairly easy to get around. Surveillance is world wide and even though people get away to begin with it's not over.

If Knight sells a conversion for 209 primers instead of those musket caps it would be money well spent. Also if you don't have a little tube of anti-seize already you need a little to put on the threads of the breech plug.

Not sure where the thumb rest grips came from but my EG had a set and I carefully rubbed it off with a file. (It's not hollow) Sold it to a member a while back. good reliable carry gun

Your doing the rite thing staying with the Colts that are in decent shape. Smiths of that era are bad to shave lead with bad timing and don't lock up as well. Some of the last Smiths that were J frame made in 32-20 were of better quality and are scarce in very good shape. Like all the two number cartridges is was black powder to begin with. They really woke up with smokeless and were a pretty flat shooting round in a carbine or pistol.

I have shot plenty of 8mm Mauser and 9.3x62 S&B and it is far superior to Privi and PPU.

I like the S&G lock for the long run. Buy the biggest heaviest one you can afford and if your not putting it on a slab you may want to support it from underneath because over time your floor will sag. Mine cost $2100 in the 90's and weighs 1100 empty. Also go with the 72 inch high over the 60. Stop by Harbor Freight and buy two mover dollies. I have moved mine 3 times on a trailer. Sunfish

A spike walked up rite at 8:00 and I shot him. He ran down into a hole and it took over 20 minutes to find him because there was no blood trail that I could see. The bullet lodged a piece of the heart in the exit hole which was large. I was surprised that I saw anything as windy and warm as it was. There was a few at the locker but slow for opening day of gun. I just stepped out with my dog and it's windy again today but much cooler than yesterday. I think I'll hang out and watch the race today

They were moving Saturday Morning but it warmed up and the wind put them down again. A spike ran under my stand with about 2 inch horns and a Doe saw me and quartered away into a thicket. Heard several shots early but none after 9:30. Buddy shot his second spike Buck that was chasing the Doe that I saw. 92 pounds Field dressed. The natural selection thing is out of whack in Smith Co. I suspect a lot of bucks are being checked in as does on line and being home butchered. Some of the shots I was hearing in the distance were centerfire and two close together for a muzzleloader. The old way of checking them in was not broken and in my opinion they should go back to it. The TWRA is anything to make a buck now days.

I resemble a long line of Hillbilly's. Better find you a car that's easy on gas and start looking because your going to see a bunch of no's before you find the right one.

Nothing moving my way today. Hoping for a better day tomorrow. Heard 2 shots way off before 8:30. Turkeys were out in force. The wind was blowing in circles bad.

Going to be even warmer today. I'm going to hunt a little early and clean up around my stand with a chainsaw and loppers. The temp is headed down after the rain comes in. Be safe

Save all the brass and I'll either put them back together for you or buy them. 200 rounds will last a long time deer hunting

My record keeping has never been very good. I do keep a notebook with my reloading manuals that has a few recipes scribbled down but its no spreadsheet by any means. BW tell us some good choices for powder in 45 Colt? So far I have tried 2 and have another that I intend to try. AA#5, 2400 and an old jug of unique. My Redhawk has a 4.2 barrel and the cylinder has been honed to .4525. Tried two different projectiles so far. The Hornaday 240 XTP Magnum and some HY-TEC coated RNFP 250's I picked up from Acme. The Ruger is New to me just picked it up a couple months ago.

What ya got to trade for some lead? I hoarded it for years and have come to the realization that I probably will never use it all. I got some big rolls of solder too.

Be careful with those 700's. Many can be tricked to fire when the safety is pushed off. I have seen this first hand on two different rifles that were bought used and bone stock. Remington had a huge recall and corrected the issue but there are many still out there. The 700 has the fastest lock time around and is a fine action

My CVA is on and hoping for a good opening day. I went to .458 sabots and a 405 gr. swaged lead bullet in front of 2 777 pellets and have not lost one yet. Last year was the first time I got skunked in Muzzle loader. The weather and the rut were not in sync. The year before I shot a nice 8 point the second weekend. Good Luck to all and be safe.

No ATM's in the pickle parks either

PSA has a lot more ways to go and the deals they throw are pretty good. Most of the Bear creek stuff that I have seen was 1 in 9 and I like the 1 in 7.

There are 5 boxes of 44 magnum on shelves for every box of 45 colt. Mostly I see either Cowboy action lead stuff or 25 round boxes of defense stuff for Judges and Governor's. Another thing that I recently learned is if you have an older set of steel dies for a 45 Colt you better take care of them. The newer carbide stuff does not size correctly like the older ones do.

When you give away pieces of something pretty soon you don't have anything left. I will also say the NRA is quick to bargain with things that really don't belong to them in the first place. People will just go full outlaw and jig drill them full auto. When a determined individual decides to end his life after a shooting spree or running a truck into a crowd there is not much that can be done about it.

The Hornady die will size the neck on a Creedmoor case. The reason they make one for BR is it's so short and fat with a long neck. Very different than even WSM or other short fat cases.

I recently bought my first 45 Colt/45 ACP Ruger Redhawk 4.2 inch barrel thinking I would shoot mostly ACP with the moon clips and quickly learned to love the more powerful Colt round. So Far I have sent the cylinder off and had it reamed to .4525 and changed the main spring and wow what a fine shooter it is.