How has your week been - part 2

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John in AR

Discussion Starter · Nov 15, 2020

The existing 'How has your week been' thread has been running along for over three years so I thought it might be time to start a fresh one.

This week I disassembled my H&R .45 Colt 'Buffalo Classic Carbine' further than normally done, to confirm which receiver frame they'd used in making it. I've been halfway debating on having it reamed out to .454 Casull, as there are several gunsmiths that used to advertise the conversion, but I wanted to personally check on the strength of the receiver before looking too seriously into it.

There were two frames that H&R used when making that size gun, the SB1 and SB2. The SB1 isn't hardened and is only good for low-pressure stuff like shotguns, some handgun calibers, etc. The SB2 receiver is hardened and was used in calibers up to .270, so it would be fine for a .454 Casull conversion. Haven't decided whether I'll do it or not; a small gun like that with its steel buttplate in 454 Casull would be punishing on both ends, but it's good to know that it can take it if I ever decide to.

Non-gun stuff, I worked some more on a new storage room inside a storage room. I closed it in last weekend and hung the door a few days ago, and yesterday finished the door hardware and reinforcing. Reassembled a 4" two-sided gondola shelving section that had to be moved for enclosing the new room, regaining the temporarily lost shelf space. Then inventoried the remaining gondola shelving to try and mentally lay out the room's storage setup. We bought a bunch of retail shelving when a store nearby closed up a few years ago, and it's been phenomenally handy.

Have everything done in the new room (including lights) except shelves and electrical outlets; may finish the electrical work this afternoon. Or if the weather's nice, may be a bum and just smoke a cigar on the porch & listen to the city people trying to shoot deer instead. I don't even deer hunt anymore; too many people who haven't touched a gun all year showing up with their new uber-magnum rifles, blasting away with their yuppie howitzers at deer smaller than they are. I don't go into the woods or even our fields & pasture during deer season if I can avoid it. If I can't avoid it, I make sure to be extra noisy and wear an orange vest over III+ body armor...

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Dorobuta

· #401 · 2 mo ago

Garand said:
I'm having a addiction problem also, every morning with my first coffee of the day, I go to my favorite Canadian gun site and checking out what is for sale! Can't break the habit, I want to down size, so I'm not planning on buying. I'm well stocked on bullets, powder, primers (except Small pistol).

On a down side, a local (2 hour drive) commercial bullet caster, competitive shooter & friend, whom I've been buying from for 30 years passed away yesterday of cancer. While their are others in the province, the cost of reloading just took a huge financial jump.

Retirement is a ball, it's getting old that s*cks.

Sorry about your friend.

I'm in the retirement camp myself, but I did budget for a few bucket list items up front, like my bear hunt. But, like you, I still look at all the classifieds and sales. Lot's of "toys" that would be nice to own, but that's where it ends.

I do need more primers and powder, but I'm good on everything else.

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BigEd

· #402 · 2 mo ago (Edited)

Garand said:
I'm having a addiction problem also, every morning with my first coffee of the day, I go to my favorite Canadian gun site and checking out what is for sale! Can't break the habit, I want to down size, so I'm not planning on buying. I'm well stocked on bullets, powder, primers (except Small pistol).

On a down side, a local (2 hour drive) commercial bullet caster, competitive shooter & friend, whom I've been buying from for 30 years passed away yesterday of cancer. While their are others in the province, the cost of reloading just took a huge financial jump.

Retirement is a ball, it's getting old that s*cks.

I'm sorry your friend passed away. Getting to the point over the last 10 or so years that older and younger, sometimes significantly younger friends and acquaintances are no longer here.
I can list just the gunshop or gun&pawn owners or operators I grew up knowing for years that are gone:. Then what I call the community LGS regulars.
Must be 20 or so.
But on the upbeat, kind of, I did succumb to temptation but not over the Security Six.
But it was a Ruger.....10/22... Carbine....Walnut stock with metal barrel band. Only thing not like the one of my youth was the plastic butt plate but this one did have the original Ruger tip off scope mounting rail.
And at a price that was more in keeping with a used 10/22 instead of a higher than new price some get on GunBroker.
So it's on layaway for a few months.
I need to eat less anyway.

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Garand

· #403 · 15 d ago

My wife and I just got back from a 3 day Cowboy Match in which to say the least we both "crashed and burned" score wise. The additional downside is that my wife tried my Kimber Stainless II in .38 Super in the "Outlaw class" Wild Bunch match and she decides she loved it! I guess this means I get my Colt Combat Commander in 9mm back. As well she decided that she likes my Uberti .357 Carbine better than her Uberti Short Rifle so I guess I'm back to using my Uberti M73 Carbine in .45 Colt. Talk about high maintenance!

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BigEd

· #404 · 8 d ago (Edited)

Sorry for the rant in advance...,

Sigh, sometimes you gotta cut someone loose.... Sometimes it's distance from disorder and other times it's distance from too much order. And in other cases it's a mix of both under one hood.
Guy I knew a long time ago in school and I always wondered what happened with him.
Despite what he says, and I don't find anything wrong with it if he likes it, he's immersed as much as he is allowed in his denomination's religion and dogma. Me I don't say much about mine except being non-denominational and personally more towards old Celtic Church and Hebrew Roots. (But definitely NOT replacement theology.)
To continue this dude has about gone full bore biblical law vs. spirit and apparently anything anyone enjoys is a sin nearly.
The last straw was him trying to tell me how to spend my time and money. Which hacked me off because he's gone and spent money paying tuition to ORU(Oral Roberts University) in this quest of his to be some sort of missions preacher and pilot and dropped out after a week or so. But if I spend money on look into buying something in relation to me taking up gunsmithing i get criticized for it?! huh !?! I mean before as an part time deal it was a good money maker and still is.
Problem I'm seeing is his attitude is it's him dreaming of being a preacher and him wanting to preach to me whether I want to hear it or not. And generally try to run my life.
I had all I can stands and I can stands no more.
Okay rant off.....

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BigEd

· #405 · 7 d ago

Sorry guys for the above rant I'm going to edit out most of it. It's just well when someone gives me an unwarranted attitude out of the blue it's lighting a very short fuse.

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John in AR

Discussion Starter · #406 · 6 d ago

It happens sometimes. One of my brothers who did a lot of LSD and other drugs in the 60's and 70's has now chosen some televangelist as his drug of choice. Don't recall the guy's name, but iirc he's out of Colorado and is so "in sync with God" that he claims to have raised his own son from the dead a few years ago. When my wife got her stage-4 cancer diagnosis, my brother was very put out with me because we wouldn't drive to Colorado where - for only $59 - this guy would cure her cancer.

I love my brother, but a burned-up brain is still a burned-up brain.

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John in AR

Discussion Starter · #407 · 3 d ago

Took a break after installing the trusses upstairs, simply because I really needed a break after that, and cast some bullets; around ~1100 300-grain 45lc bullets and ~300 158-grain 9mm/38 bullets. Lubed them with a spray-on version of "Ben's liquid lube" (60% xlox and 40% Johnson's liquid floor wax) today. Hopefully will get a chance to load up a bunch of 'playing around' .45lc loads in the near future.

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Garand

· #408 · 19 h ago

Mt wife and I just got back from another match, I wasn't happy with with my personal performance in the slightest. I'm having to accept that because of some health issues recently and with the fact I'm getting older, that I'm not in the same class as I was 20 years ago. But on the bright side, there is another match next weekend, so life is good.

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