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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Haenel bargain double rifle.
      Got that, no double in view.
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Naval Rifles.
      Didn't Jellicoe say "Something is dreadfully wrong with our ships". Or was it Beatty? Or anybody, really?
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      I remember it showing up in one issue of the Gil Hebard catalog. Note that the big black knob front and center is the case advance, the...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Heavy 1911 hammer spring?.
      It is just one of those words you can like the "taste" of. I learnt it from Jeff Cooper.
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Starling Shooting.
      I was on a project with an air separation plant, big compressors for air and the produced oxygen and nitrogen. They had vent valves and...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Naval Rifles.
      Where would you shoot yourself with a .41 Rimfire Short to insure sudden demise?
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Heavy 1911 hammer spring?.
      If your gunmaker starts talking about "break-in" you should add the price of that much ammo to the cost of the gun. Somebody wrote that...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Powder preservation.
      Black HDPE. I figure the black color is carbon black for opacity and anti-static. My Dillon and MEC powder hoppers are stained after...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Wadcutters tumbling?.
      OK, that is one out of three possibilities. Try more powder. Speer's maximum for a hollow base wadcutter is 3.1 grains of Bullseye...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Wadcutters?.
      I think everybody with a .38 and a loading press has tried the inverted wadcutter. Trivia Alert The original, pre-Speer Hydrashok was...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Wadcutters tumbling?.
      Inadequate obturation. Too low velocity even with common target load in short barrel. Flimsy paper hole looking like keyhole. All my...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Thompson Center Arms SOLD.
      I had a Super 14 for IHMSA. I started out with a .357 Herrett but it kicked like a SOB, probably about like your .35 Rem, so I swapped...
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      "...of greater importance is simplicity of mechanism which ought to make no demand on the shooter's attention." W.W. Greener My house...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Haenel bargain double rifle.
      An Anglophile friend splurged on a Webley .450 BPE as an occasional woods hunting rifle and heavy centerfire plinker. Nowhere near as...
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      Jim Watson replied to the thread Powder preservation.
      I am a long way from P-chem but I figure the reaction rate of cold elemental nitrogen is bound to be lower than humid air. Which is...
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