Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
04-30-2013, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 527
Re: Handgun for girlfriend
I carry a .44 spl Bulldog (first generation). The recoil is very manageable and the bullet is larger than a .38/357.
But then my husband didn't believe a woman should be limited to "only" .22...
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
04-21-2013, 07:05 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 628
Re: Just for grins - Swords
You can go here (http://www.kirbywise.com) to see his website to see his shop and some photos of the weaponry. The artwork and decoration is mine. This was set up in 1996 after a friend convinced...
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
04-20-2013, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 628
Re: Just for grins - Swords
My husband is a swordmaker. Been doing this for over 50 years now for reenactors and collectors. Also makes other historical edged weaponry. He uses Spring Steel (5160 alloy) for his blades and...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-01-2013, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 585
Re: Introduced my wife to shooting
Great! And Kudos to your wife :)
My husband always believed a woman was capable of firing as large a caliber as a man. Just a matter of encouragement and patient instruction and WOW!....Did I do...
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Forum: Large-Bore/Small-Bore Rifle/Shotgun
03-31-2013, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 364
Re: Ishapore Enfield 2A "carbine"
To TheGunClinger: So that's a "Gibbs" version. That's a Purty "crappy pic" ;)
To the others, Yes "lucky, lucky, lucky" after reading what these were going for now. Through the online Gun...
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Forum: Large-Bore/Small-Bore Rifle/Shotgun
03-30-2013, 09:07 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 364
Ishapore Enfield 2A "carbine"
A few days ago, I found and bought an Ishapore Enfield 7.62mm 2A Mk 7 "Jungle Carbine" while walking around a local Swap meet. It's a huge affair that sets up beginning in late October until March....
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
03-30-2013, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 777
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Forum: The Pre-Ban Forum
01-24-2013, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 847
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
01-24-2013, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 838
Re: New AWB to be submitted tomorrow
Having walked around a local show recently, not everyone is so cleared headed to be willing to "wait & see". Prices have gone up on nearly every thing related to the weapons in Feinstein's list. ...
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
01-22-2013, 11:23 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 187
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Forum: General Discussion
01-22-2013, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 791
Re: Will you stop to pick up a penny?
I remember being told it was good luck to find a penny. Most of the time, I will pick up any pennies or other loose change I find. Stick it away in a jar. One time, I found a $20 bill but most of...
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
01-19-2013, 11:09 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 463
Re: The New Charter-Arms Bulldog 44 spl
My Charter Arms .44 spl is one of the old ones too. Bought it back around 79 for self defense on the advice of a Deputy Sheriff friend at the time (since passed on). One of the best pieces of...
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-19-2013, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 773
Re: Bought my first Mosin Nagant M44 carbine
Hello WHSmithIV
Yes, buying in bulk like that would be better. For what I paid, buying online would have been cheaper overall although the shipping charges would been high. At least I have more ...
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-19-2013, 03:42 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 773
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-19-2013, 03:36 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 773
Re: Bought my first Mosin Nagant M44 carbine
Update....looked around online to find the surplus ammunition I bought is made by the Chinese (http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinAmmo026.htm)
Correction: The Finnish rifle I quoted as a M38 is...
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-19-2013, 03:14 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 773
Re: Bought my first Mosin Nagant M44 carbine
Hi and thanks for the tips!
After calling around, I found a gun store that carried the ammunition. 20 rounds (FMJ) surplus military wrapped in paper for $8. So bought several. Haven't a clue...
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-18-2013, 03:14 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 773
Bought my first Mosin Nagant M44 carbine
Haven't fired it yet........ But that will change soon.
I paid $150 for it from a private seller. He had bought it last year and fired it a few times times since. But right now, he needed the...
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-18-2013, 12:47 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 356
Re: I got a nice Enfield.
Nice. Love the Enfield action, myself. Fast, smooth and very reliable but 303 ammo is hard to find. Been looking around for an Ishapore Enfield in 7.62x51
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
01-07-2013, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,054
Re: Black powder? What to use?
I am going by what we used.
Gun stores that sold Black powder had to have a special place to store BP. Gorex, Pyrodex didn't need this.
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Forum: General Military Arms & History Forum
01-06-2013, 01:36 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,339
Re: Shooting a "Grease Gun"
My late father in law was issued a Grease gun while serving in in the Army in the Pacific in WW2. He loved it.
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
01-06-2013, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,054
Re: Black powder? What to use?
To ShawnDow...if all the "F" is confusing. Black powder is carefully "ground" to certain size grains. Why you see the designations on the cans. Generally goes from one "Fg" to triple "FFFg". ...
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
01-06-2013, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 634
Re: Biden tells mayor gun control guaranteed!
"Should I or shouldn't I......" This is the dilemma. Whether to follow the slings and arrows of outrageous panic or stand back aside with wary contemplation first. By nature, I am of the second.
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Forum: General Discussion
01-06-2013, 12:36 AM
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Replies: 85
Views: 2,448
Re: trouble getting ammo
Was in Wal mart Thursday. Nada on most all common ammo. Only 7 1/2 and 8 oz loads for shotguns...and not much of that. But dove season is going on right now.
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Forum: General Discussion
01-06-2013, 12:32 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,052
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
01-01-2013, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 324
Re: Purchase of "Assault Weapon" Question
Yeah, there is a local private seller who had a Scoped Mini 14 w/folding tripod for $400 a few months ago. Now, calling it a "tactical" weapon, he is trying to sell it for $800.
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Forum: Self Defense Tactics & Weapons
01-01-2013, 03:03 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 2,418
Re: Perfect Carry gun
As a woman, I have carried various revolvers and semi auto pistols (depending on what I had at the time). Being acquainted with, and liking, large calibers, this has been my preferred choice. Size...
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Forum: Self Defense Tactics & Weapons
01-01-2013, 02:40 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 650
Re: Introducing Wife to Concealed Cary
For the past 30 years, I have carried a Charter Arms .44 Spl "Bulldog". But I am used to firing large caliber pistols. My husband believed a woman can fire as large a caliber as a man...and taught...
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
07-24-2012, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 667
Re: Is The Writing On The Wall?
Has anyone read the "True Believer"?
I'd rather not get caught up in rhetoric that would blind me into painting everything and everyone with broad strokes. Nor am I so open minded to allow my...
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
07-24-2012, 02:42 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 667
Re: Is The Writing On The Wall?
This email (http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp) has been making the rounds since, at least, 2000. I remember getting it during the 2004 campaign and now.
I don't agree with...
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
02-25-2012, 12:16 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 508
Re: Dummies & semi-autos
My husband is a large bore revolver man who believed a woman is capable of shooting as large a caliber as a man. He taught me how to shoot with an 1860 Army Colt reproduction. Also his .455...
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Forum: General Discussion
02-24-2012, 11:49 PM
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Replies: 169
Views: 2,851
Re: What's your gas price?
Yesterday, in Parker AZ, it was anywhere from $3.53 at Circle K to $3.81 at a locally owned franchise. $3.65 at Am/PM/Terrible Herbst's, Chevron and $3.69 at Texaco.
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Forum: Self Defense Tactics & Weapons
02-17-2012, 02:34 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 816
Re: Doomsday Preppers, Week 2
I was wondering about that. Skills learned are skills learned and it always pays in the long run to be prepared for any eventuality. However, saying this....some of the scenarios presented are this...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
02-17-2012, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 1,513
Re: STOP CALLING ME MR. HAUFF
As a little girl (many decades ago) I was taught to address someone as "Mr.", "Mrs." or "Miss." was a term of "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
;)
Unless otherwise allowed.
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-02-2012, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 304
Re: Brolin L-45C
Ok...let me expand on this.
Traded for this a while ago and fired a few rounds through it. Seems fine but want any information about long term reliability. Although it came with two extra...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-02-2012, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 304
Brolin L-45C
As a 1911 "Colt Commander Clone", I wondered what you thought of it?
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Forum: General Discussion
02-02-2012, 02:28 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 874
Re: Geneology and tracking your roots.
Oh gosh....My investigations began a few decades ago on both sides of my family and my husband's as well.
Most of it was done through actual letter writing and phone calls after interviewing...
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Forum: General Discussion
02-02-2012, 01:59 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 1,546
Re: computer virus
I use AVAST Free, Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware. For the past four years, used FireFox as my chief browser after previous years of becoming sick and tired of cleaning out Explorer hijacks of...
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Forum: Black Powder Shooting / Muzzleloaders / Handguns
01-20-2012, 02:23 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,243
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
01-20-2012, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 7,933
Re: What do you guys collect?
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If you mean the armourer's mark on the photos I posted....the "K over the Anvil" has been my husband's mark since he began in the 1950s. Then in the late 90's he added a "B" underneath the...
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
01-17-2012, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,337
Re: building a forge
My husband built his first forgebox from an empty 55 gal. steel drum back in the mid 1950s when he started forging his sword blades as a teen. Used a #400 Champion forgeblower to attach it. Now he...
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
01-17-2012, 04:55 PM
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Replies: 96
Views: 7,933
Re: What do you guys collect?
The first one is a style of Jambiya. The second one, I have seen written as a "sleeve knife" used by the Tuareg. Nice examples.
Love the story behind the Borneo Kriss.
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
01-17-2012, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,441
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
01-16-2012, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,441
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
01-16-2012, 07:55 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,441
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
01-16-2012, 07:29 PM
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Replies: 96
Views: 7,933
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
01-16-2012, 02:28 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,441
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
01-16-2012, 02:15 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 7,933
Re: What do you guys collect?
To 308 at my gate
Thank you for the "welcome" but Please forgive the confusion. My husband did not make any of those Jim Hauf had posted. Those were made in the countries they came from and the...
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Forum: Knives & Edged Items
01-15-2012, 09:06 PM
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Replies: 96
Views: 7,933
Re: What do you guys collect?
The first one is a tanto. the third one is a style of parang, I think. The last one is a more modern "medieval" type.
My husband is a historical swordsmith who began making edged weaponry in...
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