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    Mauser to .30-30 conversions

    A collector friend has a Mauser that's been converted to .30-30. It is single shot only, feed from the magazine wasn't accomplished. I looked at one Mauser forum on the Web, and gathered that nobody there had seen a .30-30 conversion repeater. (.300 Savage was touted as an easier conversion...
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    Revival of a Taylors/Chiappa

    When I got my new-to-me Taylors/Chiappa Model 1892 (.357, 24" octagon barrel, quite beautiful) home, I discovered it had problems. Cartridges fed at best stubbornly, half the time not at all. Some of the cartridges that managed to get chambered then managed to eject, though feebly. Other made...
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    re feral hogs

    In my part of the country feral hogs are approximately non-existent, so I know zilch about them. I've read about pioneers in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas releasing young hogs into the woods for later harvest as razorbacks, but that wasn't a candle to what the deal is now, right? What happened?
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    Big bore .44

    My Browning 92 has a .433 groove dia. bore. What are the consequences of running .429/.430 jacketed bullets through it? (The bore also has a 1 in 38" twist rate, if that is relevant.)
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    A long .357

    Just today traded a Smith M&P40 (and considerable cash) for a Taylors (Chiappa) model 1892 in .357 - with a 24" octagon barrel. Talk about muzzle-heavy, hoo-hah. It's a beautiful gun though, and I don't plan to hunt with it - or do CAS either. I hope to lob 158 & 180gr bullets out of it at...
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    Williams peep loose

    Picked up my Browning 92 from my gunsmith a couple weeks back, after he installed a Williams FP receiver sight and a fiber-optic front. Gave it a cursory look, then put it in the gunsafe for spring. Took it out today to install a Limbsaver (mostly to lengthen the stock) and noticed that the...
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