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    What other hobbies occupy your loading bench?

    My reloading bench is mainly reloading stuff. A shelf under the bench holds a dozen or more sharpening stones for knives, chisels and other sharp tools. Also my drafting instruments and slide rule from my school days. Next to the bench is my cartridge collection in a six drawer Craftsman rolling...
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    XDS 45 acp

    I've carried my XDs .45 for over 10 years. First using the paddle holster that came with it. Then a Desantis and finally a Crossbreed Supertuck IWB at 4 oclock with Crossbreed double mag carrier at 8 oclock for balance. Had the Supertuck modified when I added a Veridian laser. Last month bought...
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    Respect (or lack there of) for older Gun Writers

    I met Elmer Keith twice at NRA Annual Meetings. I had "Hell I Was There" , another of his books and he autographed an article in a magazine he had written. Lost all of them in a house fire. My favorite writer now is Craig Boddington. They both write in plain language with a sense of honesty...
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    Concealed Carry Vests?

    A friend who passed a couple of years ago, almost always wore bib overalls. He had a pocket sewn inside the bid to hold his gun. We discussed it, but I never saw it and it was not obvious from the outside. Full disclosure, he was not a slim fellow. NRA Benefactor
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    Ruger Redhawk VS Super Redhawk...what say you?

    The SRH grip fits my hand better than any other DA revolver i have tried. NRA Benefactor
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    Do you carry a handgun in and around the house?

    Pants on = armed. Not because of any immanent danger, it's just much more convenient and I don't need to worry where the gun is if someone visits. My carry method is IWB with shirt tucked in. If I need to leave the house, it a matter of just walking out the door without re-arming. NRA Benefactor
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    Firing with gun on wood. ???

    My FIL and I hunted in Pennsylvania near Titusville for over 20 years staying in a home built camper on a boat trailer base parked in a campground that was mainly a hunting camp during deer season. Several groups of hunters returned to the camp each year. One group of 3 or 4 young gentlemen...
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    No more gun shows for me

    I just back from a local gun show. I have been member of the Maumee Valley Gun Collectors Association since the mid 1960s. Annual dues just went from $25 to $30 dollars this year. There are 5 shows a year less than 2 miles from here at the local fairgrounds. Not a bad deal. NRA Benefactor
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    How often do you practice with your CCW gun that you carry the most?

    I haven't fired my carry gun for over a year. In fact, I haven't fired anything except a ..22 LR at woodchucks in the back yard either. I do have a range in the back yard that will handle anything shoulder fired. If it has wheels we will need to discuss it. I do dry fire my Super Redhawk and a...
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    If You Could Have Only One Carry Piece For SD What Would It Be?

    I hesitate to write this, for fear of starting an argument among self proclaimed experts. I have been around guns for almost 70 years. I do not consider myself an expert in any way. I have hunted with rifles and handguns since the middle 1950s. I am probably not as good a marksman as I was 30 or...
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    Who doesn’t own/like AR’s?

    I never had an AR and probably never will. I fired 5 rounds several years ago with a friend's 5.56 AR and was not particularly impressed. I will proudly admit that I am a blue steel - walnut kind of guy. I only own 1 semi-auto rifle. A .22 Sears Roebuck bought at a flea market over 40 years...
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    Building up a shooting berm/backstop ideas?

    I used 2 dump truck loads of yellow sand with a wall of railroad ties covered with corrugated plastic behind the sand. Sand has no rocks in it and bullets are easily recovered. Woodchucks have re-arranged some of the sand but they also provide targets of opportunity and a little shovel work puts...
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    What is the rarest single empty brass case, loaded round (just one) or shotgun shell you've ever found at a shooting range?

    Somewhere I have 19 rounds of 7.5 MAS and the rifle they fit is in the safe. It was my first center fire rifle purchase from a Sears store in Evanston, IL. $19.95 in about 1962 with several boxes of ammo. Only 19 rounds left.
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    Unholstering For A Gun Selfie In The Wild.

    There was an article in the local paper today about a woman in town who shot her index finger while photographing her firearm. The process got her arrested.
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    Status of Loaded Guns in your home....

    Three. EDC on my hip, never unloaded except for cleaning or use. One rifle and one revolver at back door for woodchuck and other pest control.
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    Lesson Learned- - *&^%*&*$# Auctioneers

    I just today received a flyer from a local auction house with 200 firearms coming up the weekend after next. Haven't had a chance to look it over yet, but can't go anyway. There are 5 places I should go that day and competition a gun auctions is crazy. NRA Benefactor
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    Have you ever walked in to a gun store and bought a gun immediately - Love at First Sight?

    Probably 11 years ago when I decided to get a CCW permit. I had read a lot and the Springfield XDS was new, had many good reviews and was unobtainable. I stopped at a gun store about 30 miles away on the way back home from somewhere else. The gentleman behind the counter asked what I wanted. I...
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    Guess The Rifle Cartridge

    I wish that I could identify many of these cartridges. Many have no headstamp. It is my father-in-law's cartridge collection that I inherited after his passing. Sadly many of the unopened boxes in the first photo received smoke damage from our house fire in 1995. I know that some of these are...
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    If You Could Have Only One Carry Piece For SD What Would It Be?

    I really only have one and that probably will not change. Springfield XDs .45ACP. NRA Benefactor
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    Panic at the gun locker in the night

    Like Trackskippy my carry gun is in it's holster on my pants at 4 o'clock and 2 mags at 8 o'clock. If my pants are on, all is still there. No need to secure things at any time day or night. When pants go in the laundry, everything is moved to the clean pair before I put them on and life...
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