Recent content by Ranger J

The brains of our ancestral species did not really begin to grow until we climbed down out of the trees and began to eat meat. As someone already noted it takes a lot of intestine to digest plant matter. When we began to eat meat regularly it allowed us to put less energy into feeding a large...

I pretty well gave up using fine powders such as H110 and such because of the leaks. It works fine with 2400 and most other larger grain powders. This is OK as I am usually not trying to squeeze the last FPS from my loads. RJ

All I can say is that they are getting so thick around here you are libel to find them just about anywhere.;) RJ

It's Illinois politics. That should tell you enough right there. I'm an ex Illinois resident. RJ

At the place where I once lived we had a problem with copperheads mainly at night. The four dogs in the back yard had all been bitten and they hated the snakes. They had an entirely different bark when they were tangling with one than they were barking at deer or other critters. After being...

Gosh, fellows. I was going to comment but pretty well have it covered. I have lost very few 357 or 44 cases when loaded to reasonable level. RJ

They are not made anymore but if you can find one at reasonable price you might look at a Ruger Deerfield. It shoots a .44 mag, sort of a 10 22 on steroids. I use mine for deer hunting but pop the scope off it and it has nice sights for close in work. The down side is the price of them seems...

I have one in 45/70 and one in .44 mag and both shoot well. On the other hand I had one in .223 (wouldn't eject empty) One in .308 (poor fit to receiver) .357 (too long chamber) and one in .44 that had an oversize bore. I got rid of these last four but the 45/70 is the one that I often take...

I hope you checked on the Graybeard Handi site as I believe the above mentioned problems are very common with this round. RJ

I reload for 44 rifles only and have probably loaded thousands of mid to heavy loads and have had only a half dozen pieces of brass go bad on me. If you load 44s at these levels it seems that the brass is almost immortal. I see no reason that your brass should not get many more than 4 re...

Love it in my 45/70 and my wife likes it in her 1894 Marlin. Loaded in 38 she can shoot it all day and says it is like shooting a 22. RJ

The ones that meet most of my needs are 2400, red dot, Trail Boss and Varget. RJ

I may be wrong but I think the shotgun and rifle frames are two different frames and NEF will not put a rifle barrel on a shotgun frame. Check their website on the accessory barrels part. RJ

Deer gun for the wife I can't believe you all left a line like this on without saying. Good trade!All kidding aside my wife likes a 357 Marlin and my daughter shoots a 30/06. One extreme to the other and neither would trade. Let her shoot some of each and see what she likes. RJ

I live in Dent co. and I was about to say that the soil structure didn't look like anything around here. RJ