Eddie Southgate

Plan to approach the wife for a little loving tonight, most likely there will be trouble but I'm prepared. She's not all that tough.

I'll never tell.

Today its a Taurus G3c with my last 124 grain Triton +P's . Knife is a Case pen knife my youngest son gave for fathers day last year.

Have owned and hunted with five .243's over the years and still have three including my first one. I own a bunch of deer rifles in other calibers but only because I want them, not because I need anything other than the .243 for deer. I have been shooting one load since 1970 and have no plans of ever shooting anything else as it does everything I need it to do and has always been as accurate as I can shoot. I use the now discontinued Nosler flat base 100 grain Spire point with CCI LRBR primers and 34.5 grains of IMR 4320 . That's the minimum load and was the accuracy load in the Lyman 1970 load book for a 100 grain jacketed bullet. Both of my sons have .243's they started hunting with and neither one would part with them.

Last years deer, hoping for another but better one come Saturday. Killed December 26 2022 with my 1920's Remington m14 in .35 Remington shooting 200g Core Lokt's .

Sub guns made between 1940 and 1970.

Is there a list of states that recognize Constitutional Carry ?

My personal opinion is that you should be able to use a gun to protect yourself from any physical assault. The law however does not agree with me and just from the little there was to read , legally it would not be a good shoot, not even close. Even if he does somehow manage to avoid being criminally charged , his Biggest Mistake of My Life comment will ruin him in a civil case. I would guess he'll be charged with murder , if for no other reason than firing ten times and shooting him after he was helpless on the ground.

That's why you got two , use the other one.

Sold for $700.00 . That is $300.00 cheaper than I figured it would bring.

For a while.

Good to go on all of that. The Remington is the oldest and it's way past the corrosive era.

As As far as commercial ammo goes by the mid '30's probably 90% was non corrosive . Some Match ammo was still using corrosive for some reason , can't remember right off who made it but it was a long time in changing. Some of the boxes in that auction are from the 1920's and earlier. The first two boxes of Winchester in that auction would be safe , the rest would absolutely be corrosive and the brass brittle. Look up Ray Giles collectable ammo dealer for an idea how old the older boxes are and how much they are worth. Post pictures of the .32WS and .35 Remington ammo in question.

At one time he was in business with a guy named Warren in the Nashville area , the Business was Creighton & Warren Outfitters if I remember correctly. I do remember it was a very swanky joint . He also at one time had a shop at Charlie Haffner's Battle Ground Armory at Goose Creek exit of I-65 in Franklin . I think he also did quite a few guns that were used on safari in Africa and other places with very large game.

Not too much of an expounder but you can find any amount of info on mercuric priming and the reasons to avoid it on the net. Corrosive is easy enough to clean in the gun barrel and can be done with anything with a bit of ammonia in it but you also need to take the action apart to clean as residue gets in there also . Truth is , the cases may already be too brittle . Age , priming and the powder can all damage brass . If you bought that lot of cartridges for the cost of brand new production 25-20 you could sell them to collectors for enough to buy at least two boxes of new for each one of the old even at todays inflated prices for the new. Those will not likely go cheap if they are well advertised. Good luck either way.

There's also a Heber in Arizona ,azboater may = Heber- Overgaard Arizona . Maybe not.

Too valuable as a collectors item to shoot up for brass not to mention most of it is probably corrosive primed and might be a bit brittle due to mercury leeching. I'd buy it to display with the rifle in my loading room. Just buy factory loads until somebody makes a run of new brass. Larry's in Huntsville and Madison Alabama usually have a few boxes , not cheap but available. I buy two from the Huntsville store and two from the Madison store every so often and have accumulated a reasonable supply of brass that way. Converting the '92 to .357 will lower the value and may require more work than just a barrel swap. I'd stick with the 25-20 and keep the gun original and buy a new Taurus/ Rossi '92 in .357 for less than the cost to ruin the value of the Winchester.

Beretta 81 BB in .32 ACP. Easy to carry, has a decent trigger, light weight,12 in the mag one in the pipe, accurate. Not powerful compared to bigger cartridges but I can hit you in the head with it at any reasonable distance all day long. Love how it feels in your hand, like a full size gun. Mine was surplus from the Italian Forrest Service and was like new for $349.00 and shipping a few years back and can still be found for about $100.00 more as can the .380 version. You can convert the 81BB to .380 with a barrel and magazine swap and shoot both. Not what I carry every day but I have carried it quite a lot, much more than I ever imagined I would.

I got picked on when I was in the 7th grade,,,Once. Bigger kid in the seat behind me on the school bus thumped my ear twice , I told him it would be best if he didn't do it again. He did. I made sure I got off the bus before he did and met him as he got off the steps. I had to walk the 2.5 miles to school the next two weeks but I never got picked on again. I never advocate starting a fight but sometimes you got to take up for yourself and finish one.

The Smith & Wesson Registered Magnum in double action and the Ruger Blackhawk in single action are the ultimate in .357 Magnum for me. I have a 1956 Ruger but have never been able to afford the Registered Magnum. Actually I can but I wont pay what they bring.

My second in line is this Winchester '92 in 38-40 with it's original Lyman 21 sight.

My favorite is a 1936 Winchester 71 .

Drop it in a deep hole in the nearest lake or the river.

In my opinion they are legal The ATF letter is their opinion , not necessarily a law. They get to give recommendations and opinions but they are law enforcement not law makers. Making this illegal should require a bill to pass thru both houses and be signed by the sitting president. That's my opinion but it is not how it will play out. On the government level (current) everybody will eventually agree that the ATF opinion is correct and therefore is already law so needs no further consideration. There again, that is just my opinion. They are a bump stock in trigger form and neither one makes a gun an actual machine gun.

My Winchester model 71, built November 1936 with he bolt peep sight.