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« Reply #60 on: February 10, 2005, 12:30:23 PM »
Yeah...Smiths get busy but some...at what...I don't know...B.S.'n I figure. See my previous post regarding threading a barrel for a flash hider on an AR... :roll:  :roll: over 6 weeks!!! Give me a break!!

P.S.I wasn't going to mention it but I got my 2.6 brass today.... :roll: It's in the polisher as I type.... :-D  :-D I guess I get to load it up and stare at it till I get my barrel done.... :?
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« Reply #61 on: February 10, 2005, 01:29:17 PM »
Ya know ...you'd think that when ya only order 20 of something and they are nearly a buck each that they would not try and sneak a boner like this in on ya!!! :evil:  Kinda ticks me off..I'm gonna use it as I've already polished all of them but I know I'm not going to get much milage out of it.... :(




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« Reply #62 on: February 10, 2005, 01:40:09 PM »
Well...here is what a 45-100 looks like beside a little ole 45-70 case.... :-D  :-D  :-D  Man..I can't wait to get my barrel reamed....


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« Reply #63 on: February 10, 2005, 02:38:03 PM »
That's whatcha get when ya buy that cheap $18 per 20 stuff!!! :-D  :-D  :-D My good stuff costs twice that, hope it's twice as good!! Boy, that extra .65" is really expensive!! But I always heard that bigger was better.........but then, how would I know!! :eek:
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« Reply #64 on: February 10, 2005, 03:08:33 PM »
:-D  :-D  :-D
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« Reply #65 on: February 11, 2005, 09:30:05 AM »
My gunsmith just called, he ordered the reamer today, he wants me to load him up some smokeless ammo so he can test fire it, guess I'm in business as soon as the brass gets here cuz the reamer will be at the smith's tomorrow or Monday!
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« Reply #66 on: February 11, 2005, 10:50:18 AM »
I can be your spotter for the load development quick, just aim it south west with a moderate angle of elevation. I'll go sit on the beach and call in the shots.

Man those suckers are BIG, if they fall short they may take out Fiji or New Zealand.  :-D
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« Reply #67 on: February 11, 2005, 10:53:11 AM »
Man you guys are gluttons for punishment.  Over at the Shiloh Sharps talk forum they say most of the guys that shoot 45-110's load them down cause of the recoil.  And you went to 45-120????

Wear a shoulder pad.
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« Reply #68 on: February 11, 2005, 11:10:00 AM »
Bang_Off, that's a deal, mate!

Handi, I plan on it, PAST magnum recoil shoulder pad, plus the 2¼lbs of lead from my handi stock AND a slip on Limbsaver....if that's not enough, I'll put the laminated stock on it for load developement from the bench... :wink:  I've shot 405gr bullets from my .50cal TC Black Diamond with 120 grs of 3F T7 with no problems and it's considerably lighter than the BC, the Hodgdon load for the 45-120 is 95grs of 2f T7, shouldn't be an issue. :grin: But the smith doesn't want to clean it so he asked for a white powder load to test fire it....so he gets 45gr of H4198 and a 405gr cast load.
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« Reply #69 on: February 11, 2005, 11:30:41 AM »
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I can be your spotter for the load development quick, just aim it south west with a moderate angle of elevation. I'll go sit on the beach and call in the shots.

Man those suckers are BIG, if they fall short they may take out Fiji or New Zealand.  :-D
  :-D  :-D  :-D  For some reason I keep seeing the Battleship Iowas guns firing in a mental picture.. :roll:
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« Reply #70 on: February 11, 2005, 11:37:23 AM »
OT - which had the bigger? Big Mo' or the Iowa?
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« Reply #71 on: February 11, 2005, 12:23:48 PM »
Iowa and the Mo both had Nine 16 inch guns and  would hurl a shell the weight of a small auto 23 miles or so and then explode and could do that every 30 seconds for each gun.. :eek:  :eek: ..I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of either of um for nuttin!! All done with Black Powder too!! :eek:

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« Reply #72 on: February 11, 2005, 12:57:59 PM »
The Mighty MO along with the New Jearsey and a few others where sister ships all packing 9 sixteen inchers, I was on a destroyer less than a mile behind the Jersey when she lit off a full broadside shot :shock:  thats all the bigguns and allthe little guns firing at the same time! BOOM like that! Its siad that it'll move the ship three feet sideways when they do that... I know it almost knocked me off my feet and I was almost a mile away, wanna talk about muzzle blast :grin:  :grin:
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« Reply #73 on: February 11, 2005, 01:01:06 PM »
I was wonderin when Bob would chime in here... :)  Yeah...that is definately what I call muzzle blast!!! :wink: That has to be a sight of a lifetime...
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« Reply #74 on: February 11, 2005, 03:09:42 PM »
I rather enjoyed it. espesally knowing they weren't shooting at me, we had been driving around shooting all day when they called everyone on deck to watch that broadside, funny thing it was a couple of weeks after the picture you posted was taken that were in the same place doing the same thing as the MO went to the gulf right after that and played games with some Iranians. 8)

By the way you guys are killing me I am gonna send my Target special off for a BC barrell and punch it out to .45-100... WHY I don't know guess I'm just sick. :-D
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« Reply #75 on: February 11, 2005, 03:18:57 PM »
well at least ya didn't add TOO to the end of  Quote: "WHY I don't know guess I'm sick"   :-D  :-D  :-D   I got brass and all and I can't find a Smith to ream it....may do it myself...still waiting on a call back from Shaver... :roll:
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« Reply #76 on: February 11, 2005, 05:49:22 PM »
Yep I guess he'll get mine soon. :D
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« Reply #77 on: February 12, 2005, 11:08:32 AM »
Well, called Buffalo Arms yesterday, the 405gr 457193 bullets are also backordered so I won't have them for test firing, but I do have a 457122 350gr HP lyman mold which there is white powder load data for, so I cast some up to load when I get the brass next week from Mast. Whilst I was lookin for the 350gr mold, I found a mold I forgot I had, it's an obsolete 457406 lyman that casts a 475gn RNGC bullet!! I might just give it a try!! I did a google search for that mold and it is quite popular, found a few posts of shooters looking for them used and prices for them of $70-$125!! One thread described it as a "gas checked beauty"!!  :grin:

Deadeye, if you can't find a smith and you don't want to do the ream yourself, send me the barrel and I'll get Dan to do it for ya, I'm sure I have a frame that it can be test fired on.... :wink:
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« Reply #78 on: February 12, 2005, 11:42:38 AM »
Thanks Tim..I just may have to do that....Still no answer to my e-mails to Lee Shaver.... :(  Maybe I should just get it wrapped up.... :roll:
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« Reply #79 on: February 12, 2005, 12:20:51 PM »
I'd be glad to git r done for ya!! :wink:
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« Reply #80 on: February 12, 2005, 12:31:37 PM »
Thanks Tim! I got one more place I heard about that I gotta check on but can't till Monday so I'll let ya know...thanks! :D
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« Reply #81 on: February 12, 2005, 12:57:22 PM »
YaaaaaHooooo!!! Found someone locally to do the ream job!! Thanks for the offer to help Tim...The guy said he'd order the reamer Monday and call me when it came in and do it for cost of the reamer rental and 50 bucks!!  :shock:
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« Reply #82 on: February 12, 2005, 01:19:56 PM »
Good deal!  :D
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« Reply #83 on: February 17, 2005, 02:35:44 PM »
:D GOT BRASS!!! :D  Finally received some brass and loaded up some 45-120 Sharps Straight rounds....

Left to right...the diminutive 45-70 w/300gr Nosler,  500gr Montana Precision Swaging, 405gr Cast Performance LBT WLNGC and 405gr Remington FN for the smith to test fire....all loaded with XMP 5744 to start with.... :wink:

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« Reply #84 on: February 17, 2005, 03:16:35 PM »
W0W!!!! :eek:  Well ...now the wait for the rifle begins...... :roll: They sure do make the 45-70 look puny huh??? :wink:
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« Reply #85 on: February 17, 2005, 03:27:04 PM »
Yup, makes it look like a 357 maxi!!
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« Reply #86 on: February 18, 2005, 02:48:17 AM »
D I M I N U T I V E !!! The man said a 45/70 looks DIMINUTIVE!!!
 I'm crushed!!!  .............He's right!
 Once upon a time I showed a fella my new 45/70 Handi, his eyes bugged out when he saw the ammo. "What the heck are you gonna shoot with that thing"? ........."A n y thing I want to"!
 Now I know how he felt!  SHEESH!!!                   Woodbutcher