Handsome Rob

I've carried mine in the woods a few times (I'm DYING to smack a pig with a cast 510gn bullet) but have yet to put the metal to the meat. I did have to fabricate a new, slightly taller front sight to get on the paper at 100yds with my load (1090fps) & you're right about the trigger. Pull weight HAS to be close to 15lb & it has a week's worth of creep, but it'll stay inside 3" at 100yds & that's plenty good enough for me!

Nobody sells a simple thread adapter? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm not familiar with suppressor mounting!

Ohhhhh, I get it. There's a recess inside the flash hider, before it engages the barrel threads. So you're actually only getting 3 or 4 turns before you run out of barrel thread. Gotcha. I'm not au-fait with the pressures created by a suppressor, so I cannot comment on whether or not that would be adequate. My thought would be to find a guy with a lathe (or a hacksaw & a steady hand) & cut the hex-nut off your muzzle device. Cheaper, quicker & simpler than turning down & rethreading the barrel. Is there an alternative QD attachment available for your suppressor?

Also, bear in mind that if you chop down any shotgun, you'll be losing any choke. You'll essentially be creating a cylinder bore. Lots of places will thread & install removable chokes, but that'll add considerably to the cost. Double the barrels, double the cost. If you stick to a short barreled cylinder bore, you'll be effectively cutting down the usable range by an incredible amount. For purely HD work, not an issue, but for a fun gun, 20yds is going to frustrate you.

Yup, I'm as confused as you. It looks like a perfect fit in the third pic.

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, medical circumstances have forced me to have to part ways with the rifle, for now. I did fully dismantle & reassemble the entire rifle, just to be 100% sure of all my torques, scope & mounting bits. With hindsight, I'm 99% certain that by loading to SAAMI length, rather than loading to the chamber/mag length was my main issue. Not the powder or bullet. I did load up some further test rounds with the exact same charge ladder, but loaded to .010 off the lands. That gave me a COAL (if my rememberer is right) of 2.89", rather than the SAAMI spec of 2.77. I was 100% confident that one of the higher end loads would get me exactly what I was after. I've saved them & all my loading gear in a safe place though.... as soon as I'm paid up with the doctors, I'll be buying another. I feel a Kimber 84M in my not-too-distant future.

Compared to a 5.56, yeah. Compared to a .50 Beowulf, no. But it's really cheap to shoot, barrels & mags are widely available, ammo's everywhere & inside of 150yds, I'd put it to work on anything huntable. Winchester hyped it as having far better ballistics than it realistically does, but a 180gn pill around 2200fps will pretty well knock anything ass over teakettle.

The other only answer is .350 Legend. Half the cost & a third the recoil.... Whatchoo shooting it at?

I've never hunted with it, as much as I'd like to. The standard Buckhorn sights were just awful for my eyes & the target sights it currently wears aren't really well suited for quick shooting or lower light. Not a doubt in my mind, had I the setup & time to count vernier marks, I could comfortably kill a deer anywhere from here to there, but honestly..... any of my scoped rifles are far more suitable! And they're a hell of a lot lighter to carry!

Not as often as I should & certainly not as much as I'd like, but I do shoot a little long range target (not competition, just funzies...) with an Uberti 1885 High Wall in .45-70. Fitted with a Seoul tang sight & a Lyman globe front & shooting 510gn cast at right at 1100fps, I can regularly bang a 36" gong at 800yds. I have tried at 1000, but the cast lead nearly leaves a mark on the steel & it's almost impossible to hear (especially after several seconds of anticipation after the bang!) I always, always wanted a Shiloh Sharps until I handled one & it honestly felt awful. I tried a buddy's Browning 1885 (with the tapered barrel, far nicer handling than the Uberti's untapered number) & immediately fell in love with the feel & action. The only downside is the heavier- than- I'd- like trigger, which to my understanding is almost impossible to rectify. It ain't terrible, but at 7lb with a bit of creep, it could certainly be better.

Anyone seen this new budget .22 revolver? I'd literally never heard of it until I got an email drop today. https://diamondbackfirearms.com/sidekick/ Looks like a bit of a step up from the Wrangler & light years ahead of the Heritage. SA/DA .22LR/WMR swing out, 9 shot cylinder for $320 MSRP I can see this being popular.

I Revlon some super, super thin CA glue dribbled in there, then bound tight for a few days will make that disappear entirely.

Man, I own a 1974 model that could be that things twin. Bluing freckles & all. Watching with interest.

Collection for possible testing. There are several different types of stones & knowing whether it's a calcium vs uric acid stone will point the way to future mitigation.

Although having to use a portable urine filter is a new personal low.....

(Answering to another forum) "Hey Rob, did it pass yet? " I literally just got back from the urologist about an hour ago. Nope, the little bastard is still Shawshanking its way from my kidney to my bladder. I've had a cluster of other complications though. 6 days of constipation as a result of the painkillers basically left me non- functional for 23 hours a day until this morning. That resolved itself quite emphatically at 10:15 this morning (my butt actually made a noise like "puh POW!") & the rush of immediate relief literally brought me to tears. I haven't eaten anything more substantial than a Jello cup since 8pm last Tuesday & at this mornings weigh in, I've dropped 18lb since then. All of this stems from drinking far too much, for far too long, getting a scare & just stopping dead. My urologist gave me a particular stem, yet caring talking to, showed me his chip & explained that I'm basically a freaking idiot. My body went into 'dependency' mode & decided to hang on to all the toxins I've been faithfully supplying it for the last 4 or 5 years, creating the perfect environment for a stone to form, grow & release in super record time. Throw in an opioid pain killer (which I've always fought against & persistently refused) & I had a kind of gastrointestinal cascade effect. Nothing could go anywhere & all the toxins I'd accumulated just sat in place working their nasty magic. Soooo......yeah. Life's been kind of a painful, vomit fueled ####show for the past week. Bright side though, I should pass it any time now & once it's gone, I'm told, my system is clean & clear.

Right now, the wee barstard is somewhere between my kidney & bladder & is giving me fits. The pain is 1% of what it was, but I still can't move around well. I have THE worst trapped gas & I've thrown up everything I've eaten since the 80s. I can't bear to be upright (sitting or standing) for more than 20 minutes at a time & I haven't had solid food since Tuesday night. I'm told that once it clears the Ureta & gets into my bladder properly, I should be golden. But that could take several days.

The nurse told me the same thing yesterday!

1:10 Do not Recommend. I noticed a little back ache yesterday around 5:30am I figured it was trapped wind. By 7:15 I was in the ER & getting IV painkillers (they say that laughter is the best medicine. It's not. Dialaudid is the best medicine!) CT scan confirmed a 4mm stone above my left kidney. Came home with enough Hydrocodone to fell a zoo full of elephants. I usually refuse any kind of opioid, but this time out....gimme. First time in my life (including the gunshot wounds) I've ever vomited purely from pain. Guys. Eat healthy, cut down on the bourbon & salt & drink yer water. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

Thanks for the reminder! I installed a PA 1-4X24 sfp in a 1-piece mount, grabbed up a selection of ammo & hit the range. After a rough bore sighting & getting on paper at 100yds I shot for groups: (all groups were 5 rounds) 145gn FMJ..... terrible. Honestly couldn't shoot better than a 4" group. Damn. Didn't want to feed 50% of the time. I had to just pop the bolt back a quarter inch & release it to chamber half the rounds. 150gn PSP..... still garbage. Had the same feeding issue, groups hovering around 4" with the occasional 3" Recoil felt surprisingly mild & ejection was perfect. Started to get really dejected at this point. Started fantasizing about breaking out the angle grinder & gas-axe....... 180gn SP..... Well. Now we're cooking with charcoal! Only 1 failure to feed out of 40 rounds. Buttery smooth. First group shot went dead center, 1.5" high & about 1.5" in diameter. Hmmm..... second 5 went into the exact same group. Okay then! I continued with the same target, same group & put the next 30 shots into the exact POI of the first 2! 40 round group into under 2" with a 4 power scope?! Oh HELL yes!! All is redeemed, life is good & I'm starting to fall for this thing. I'm headed up to Indiana for my hunt next Wednesday, for 5 days so hopefully, fingies crossed, I'll be able to give a decent report on how it does on game.

I took my second biggest buck, 2 years ago with my Chinamart special CVA Wolf, 85gn of BH209 & a 240gn XTP in a green sabot at a measured 136 long paces (roughly 140yds) bang-flopped on the spot.

Yesterday morning..... flinched twice, shanked 2 chip shots & left a small forky & doe completely unfazed. Yesterday afternoon..... Yep, didn't see a thing.

I do, but I generally don't use it when I'm working up a load that's within normal parameters. I use it once I've found a load, but it's a magnetospeed & I don't want it throwing off my groups during testing.

Long story short: I'm trying to work up a load for an old, 1947 Mauser that has been rebarreled to .257 Bob. I've only been to the range with it 3 times now (2hr round trip) First time shooting old factory ammo to dial in the scope. 120gn ammo into neat 1" groups, 100s into 1.5 Second to try some reloads. I didn't have a "recommended" powder but found a load for what I had (imr4064). 100gn Core Lokt bullets into 1.5" + groups. Not great, but showed potential. I loaded these instead of Partitions, simply due to cost difference. Yesterday. I got hold of a jug of THE recommended powder (imr4350) & loaded up the 100gn partitions I actually want to shoot. Terrible. Best 'group' was maybe 4" with zero consistency. Load range was 43.5gn to 45.5gn (no pressure signs anywhere, bullets seated to book length 2.770" LOTS of bullet in the case) Could a powder & bullet change really affect things THAT badly? I'm probably going to pull the stock & scope anyway, then try another scope just in case, but just want confirmation that a load couldn't be THAT bad all by itself. Could it?

.62 French Fusil. 90gn Ffg Goex & a 342gn soft cast ball.