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    NRA Gun Insurance - Good or Bad???

    It's been a while but I talked at length with my USAA agent about their replacement cost policy. It's not like he was calling his customers thieves, but the cheats have definitely affected how they do business. Look at it this way - a replacement cost policy essentially lets you get new cost...
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    Lever-Action 357 mag carbines???

    The new Marlins (made since Remington bought them out 4-5 years ago - after Remington itself was bought out by a big conglomerate) have had some serious quality control issues. The older guns are fetching a premium price but I wouldn't buy a new one unless I held it in my hands and inspected it...
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    How's your ammo supply?

    I saw a documentary on the CCI plant just the other day - iirc it is in two parts and it's on YouTube. Those 4 million rounds go onto 12 pallets. A stake-bed truck could haul that off in one load. Right now everyone is still in a panic mode or whatever you want to call it. Midway and...
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    How's your ammo supply?

    I learned my lesson in the Clinton years. I reload almost all my ammo and I started stocking up on components when Bush's poll numbers started tanking - around 2006. I have plenty. I was feeling a little silly about the growing piles until the CT shooting. Then I got a lot smarter...
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    Lever-Action 357 mag carbines???

    I've got a pre-Remlin Marlin 1894 in .357 and just got one of those Miroku Winchester 1892s. The Winchester is a beautiful gun with a really nice action. I was at the range today and another member had a Browning version of the 1892. We were comparing them and the guts look identical. Makes...
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    Sell Out Republicans

    The part that irks me is that they voted to ban filibuster on a bill THEY HADN'T EVEN SEEN YET. I'm sick and tired of these guys voting on bills they haven't read and carefully studied.
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    Toomey-Manchin Text Released Embrace the Suck

    The Slippery Slope The ultimate goal of the gun-grabbers is to do away with the 2nd Amendment. The honest ones openly admit that. They know they don't have the political muscle to do it all at once, so they've been chipping away at our rights since the 1930's. Every time they take one bite...
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    Even Ruger #1's are in short supply.

    No's 1s are often hard to find, at least in my experience. Don't ask me why.
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    how much ammo per caliber do you keep on hand

    There have been times when I felt a little foolish for acting like a survivalist when it came to building a healthy stock of components. Now I'm feeling less foolish. I don't really have that much loaded ammo, but I have a fair supply of components. Wish I had more bullets because that's my...
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    Will you buy a gun in an available caliber?

    I've always tended to buy guns in a limited number of calibers in order to limit the amount of reloading tools and component stockpiles I have to build up. Every time I think of getting into a new caliber I think of what it would cost to get all the reloading dies, etc, plus all the various...
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    Remington Model 11 Refurbishing

    Sorry I can't help you any of the details, but the Remington 11 is basically a Browning Auto-5. If you look on your barrel, you'll see the Browning patent numbers. A smith that works on Brownings can probably tell you what kind of project you're looking at. I put a black parkerized finish on...
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    Well, no ammo and limited firearms, what you been buying lately?

    Put two Savage 10 FPs in new stocks to replace those ridiculous black plastic things they come in. Took the dinged up original stock off my old Browning BBR 7 Mag and put a McMillan in its place. Put a new walnut stock on an old M1 30 carbine - still need to finish the walnut. Marbles tang...
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    Resize new brass?

    I assume we're talking rifle brass here. The traditional wisdom is yes, resize new brass just to make sure it is in spec and hasn't been bent up, etc in packaging and shipping. But if you're like me, most times I tried to size new brass (mainly Lapua and Win but other brands too) I found that...
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    Component Shipping Times

    Probably more factors involved than we can imagine. I've got some orders (primers) from Natchez in 2-3 days, while others (bullets) have been 5 weeks now. Wideners had ammo to me in 3-4 days and took 3 weeks for ammo boxes. Some vendors allowed backorders at first when things started going...
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    So what do you do with your gun at night?

    I have a GunVault next to the bed - the kind with a hand shape imprinted into the metal top with buttons you push. I can open it in about 2 seconds. I'm about to get married and the new Ball & Chain may not like the vault as a furniture-topper. I just today ordered one of those holsters...
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    marlin lever action rifle sights 44mag

    Another option would be to put a Williams or Marbles sight back on the receiver or the tang. In most cases, the factory rear sight is replaced by a blank when going to those other sights.
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    Browning Maral

    I looked in that new catalog. All it had was the T-Bolt which appears to be available in .22lr only.
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    Why is 22 LR sold out everywhere?

    I saw a documentary a few days ago (two part) that had been placed on YouTube about CCI's production from one plant. Don't know if that is their only plant or not. IIRC, their capacity was 4 million rounds per day. Sounds like a lot until you saw one truck getting 8 pallets of 250K each. Not...
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    What companies are still in your favor/will you continue to use after all this hoopla

    All the ones I've been pleased with are already mentioned above. I've bought primers from Midway and Natchez in the last 2-3 weeks at the same prices as 2-3 months ago. They were only in stock for 4-5 minutes, but they didn't gouge me.
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