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You can't make this stuff up.

I bought a dial indicator from Kurt Bellm and it was delivered to a town 90 miles away. Different postal code. Different address. I talked to the post office about this, but haven't heard back. Kurt has been very gracious. He was going to send another indicator out, but I want to wait until net week. Give the post office a chance to locate and reroute it (if possible).



P.S. The hinge pin is now on the way from the Cdn distributor.

No dial indicator. The Canadian post office must have given it to one of their friends. Order cancelled. Hinge pin has arrived. Now waiting on MGM barrel. Will probably be another month.

I am quite a fan of our northerly neighbors, but that is a wee bit insane game you are playing to get a Contender and 30-30 barrel.

Yes, it sure is.

This is a classic, "you know you're getting old when..." situation. One of the unintended consequencies of 9/11.

I just hope all the pieces fall into place before you go under or start drooling in your oatmeal.

The rest of us are pretty heavily emotionally invested in this business and need some closure.😛

Would it be possible to get a PO Box at a UPS store in Buffalo NY and just have barreled shipped there? There is no paperwork on this side of the border for the barrel. The receiver has the serial number.

Yes, it's possible, but barrels are controlled goods when crossing borders. We don't need any paperwork for shipping barrels from a store to a customer on this side of the border either. If I carried a barrel across the border without declaring it, they would be pumping sunshine to me for a few years, No worries. We have an importer here, so barrels aren't a problem. He does the paperwork.

Crazy what happened during/after 9/11. People got killed. The towers went down. And the resulting legislation put a cramp on what used to be regular commerce.

Dumbazz me sold a barrel to a guy in Canada, little did I know that even to sell parts I needed an export license.

Barrel got seized in Chicago and now they want the "estimated" value of $200 for me to get it back. I just told them they could keep it, I only sold it for $150 and paid $46 in shipping so a net of $100 and you want me to pay $200 to get it back?? No thanks you can keep it.

Cannot believe how ridiculous things are.

I had done a little bit of research before I agreed to ship it and must not have seen anything that says any parts are required to be shipped by a licensed exporter.

And the thing is, barrels are serialized n either side of the border. They're just metal tubes. The minute a border comes into the picture, the game changes.

I hope that things get back to normal, but I fear that they will only get worse.

We humans are a strange lot sometimes, eh? Make up rules and such out of fear........................ or the need to make up new rules. Perhaps the old rules weren't being broken enough?

And to think they attacked on 9/11 with planes..........................not Contender parts.

Makes sense to me... NOT!

I hope it all works out eventually and you get your nice 30/30 single shot Steve. Best of luck up there in Canukian land.

Geno

Thanks. It will work out. I have everything but the barrel, and that isn't due here until the end of next month or the beginning of August.

It was dem Canukian pilots that's causing the uproar.......

I think our pilots are safe, unless they are tasked to bomb some bad men in the ME. The media up here is as bad as CNN.

This is definitely off topic, but our baby PM is catching hell from the left leaners about our sniping. If you are not aware of what happened a few weeks ago, one of our snipers tagged an ISIS member from a little over 2 miles away.

I don't think my Contender can manage a shot like this.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-sniper-shot-iraq-1.4179825

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/25/15863472/canada-sniper-record-two-miles-isis-iraq

Yea , I was just joshing about the pilots.

Not being able to send parts across the border has really reduced the terror attacks.....note sarcasm.

Your Snipers do deserve respect. I hope your resident lefties get a bunch more to wring their hands over.

Back on topic, I have a Super 14 Contender in .30-30, put it up for sale but didn't advertise, just mentioned it to a few friends. A little time went by and I eventually decided I wanted to keep it. I tried some IMR30301 and Nosler 125 Ballistic tips and it turns out to be a very accurate combination.

I doubt I'll ever hunt with it, but it sure is fun to shoot.

I knew you were kidding about the pilots.

I'll try some 3031 when the barrel gets here. I have a few hundred 125 gr. Sierras on my bench.

The Sierras oughtta do simply mahvelous.

This just in from Kurt Bellm...

Returned Shipment

Hi Stephen,

Just a quick note to let you know that the shipment was returned to me undelivered. I'm very sorry for the order and more than willing to help you with a resend. I've already refuned the entire purchase but in the event you would still like the item please let me know.

Thanks,
Kurt Bellm
Bellmtcs.com
1GUNSHOP.com
1-970-433-9525
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I will order again. Nice of him to let me know. For a while, I thought that Kurt didn't believe that the order never got here. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of postal shipments that went astray. Going to, or coming from the US. I've been selling my books for about 15 yrs from my website, and only had two disappear.

Steve, turns out my camera still works. Good luck with your project, my own was blessed by Zeus.

I'll be happy with groups twice as big.

The barrel should be here within the next few weeks.

I had a 10" 218 mashburn bee barrel for my contender, it was a custom as I recall from Bullberry. It was an ok round, as I recall the only bullet it shined with was the 45 sierra.

Given the on again off again nature of obtaining less common brass, I would highly recommend the 221 fireball over the 218 mashburn. More accurate, more powerful, much easier to manipulate the cases on the press and if you have the barrel machined for a rim you can form cases from 360 DW and use rimmed or rimless cases.