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If you're as bored as me with the proliferation of plastic throwaway trash, here's the remedy:
Load up in a canoe, travel a hundred miles or more to a moose pasture where no one can raft to, or land a bush plane to.
Call in a massive bull moose. Pull up with a brass german scope using vintage German or British 9.3 ammo. Then....you have lived.
It's an invitation Loggah. Don't fear a scratch or a rust spot....
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Dan, Now you have me lusting for something like that--and unfortunately, I know somebody who has a few and is starting to sell off some of his collection.... Here's one of mine acquired a few months ago, a "second Allin conversion" .50-70 trapdoor, a Model 1866 where the breechblock is stamped 1866, so was "first-year production." It has been beat up some outside (not unexpected for a 150+ year-old military rifle), but the bore is pretty shiny. It shoots more than OK for an open-sighted rifle driven by a semi-geezer. Have it on the buffalo background because some historians believe .50-70 trapdoors might have accounted for more 19th-century bison than any of the famous commercial rifles. In fact, I might just do another buffalo ranch-hunt with it. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/118923.jpg) This really needs a "Like" button. My uncle has a Springfield on the wall that has family history. Would love to mold up some lead and get that back into the game. Funny story. He took it down to the Armory to see uf he could get some info on it since its been in the family for a good number of generations. The Woman at the door in the National Park Service uniform just about had a hart attack and told him it had to go back to the car ASAP!!! My my how the times have changed in the good ol home of the Minute Man.
I used to only shoot shotguns and rimfires, then I made the mistake of getting a subscription to handloader.......
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The 7x57R is also known in some circles as the 7mm Ingwe Flanged. Here a more detailed view: ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/118299.jpg) Here's one for Ingwe. He needs to buy it. I'm weakening and am shaking with cold sweats. https://simpsonltd.com/mauser-98-z42918/
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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My po-boy 9.3 x 62. Original Husqvarna 146 in 9.3 x 57 I rechambered one slow day at the shop. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/tT8My1Hs/FA1-E2-CAA-81-DA-434-B-B0-E8-8-EF66941234-A.jpg) October 2010. Second rifle Colo. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/2ynvPGhB/IMG-2837.jpg) Loggah! That Mauser rocks!!!!! I sure like mine. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/nzTZf8J.jpg)
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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Great looking mauser rifles !!!i do have one other mauser, a custom one in 257 roberts its pretty special to me because it was one of the rifles that was in Schiff the gunmans shop when he was found dead. heres a picture of old Schiff in his shop which was about 15 miles from me. ![[Linked Image from pbase.com]](https://pbase.com/loggah/image/166972606/original.jpg)
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October 2010. Second rifle Colo. Classic image, one of the best I have seen on here!
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Makes me think of elk steak !!!!! mmmmmmm 
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Campfire 'Bwana
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October 2010. Second rifle Colo. Classic image, one of the best I have seen on here! Thank you very much, sir! Probably one if not, the best hunt ever! I will never forget that hunt!
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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Heres a Harry Lawson custom remington 700 in 458 winchester made in the early 90's i haven't shot anything except targets with it. ![[Linked Image from pbase.com]](https://pbase.com/loggah/image/154294736/original.jpg)
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What no shotgun? Any how, by your measure my collection is nearly complete. On another point, one evening my mother saw my collection and said your crazy. I thought to myself : what the hell is she talking about? It's just a nominal and basic firearm collection . An array of handguns and rifles(with ammo). Maybe folks like you and my mom just choose hyperbolic words. To me it's merely being a plain ole good practicing American.
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I believe my Remington #4 Rolling block 32 RF qualifies me as a "loonie".
Tack
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