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Its slow for me, I open it up, thats the slow part they take forever, and copy and paste them one at a time onto my desktop..

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It is slow. But, the bigger problem is probably your connection speed.

Bottom line. Is, anybody that wants to get their stuff off of Photobucket can do so.

Mostly black and one indian on the bottom...:

The only black rifle I have, a Southern Mountain style rifle, appropriate for the Alamo period and location. .50 cal Rice (??) barrel, large Siler lock, double set triggers with a superlight hair trigger.

Built by an expert from a mismanaged, half finished kit. Iron furniture, silver blade front site, skillfully poured pewter nosecap.

Linseed.beeswax/soot finish, The only real complaint is there's no buttplate on the stock, "Poor Boy" style. The butt of the stock is so smooth and rounded it slips easily off of the shoulder, distracting when shooting, don't ever have a rifle made without a buttplate. And the Siler lock is more of an 1780's lock than an 1830's one, minor detail and old stuff got reused.

Possibly, all I got is an iphone hotspot, but other than Photobucket, the other image hosting sites just open right up.

I have these two Rock River varmints.

SCARY "TACTICAL" 17Rem T/C-Bullberry

Pungi sticks behind the beaver log.............to keep out intruders?

Alright, if I have time tomorrow I'll pull out my vintage 1994 Remington 700 ADL in........ .270 for pics.

It has a nice light surface rust from it's couple of years in South Carolina (I call it patina) and still wears the original tupperware stock, but it shoots straight and has killed a LOT of critters.

It is now my dedicated antelope rifle, so gets shot about every 3 years when I pull a rifle tag.

We have tactical beavers in these parts.

I know some fellas just love a tactical beaver or two.

They'll take about any kind of beaver though. Especially after a 12 pack or so.

Carpenter bee killin’ machine right here.

Interesting pic, but you cropped off the shoulder stock.

I'll bet the neighbors are impressed when ya go all rapid fire on carpenter bees with that thing

This here was the only black rifle I had, useful for so many applications, hey I could reload it fast enough to miss a clay a second time easy

And my son absolutely swelling with pride when I let him carry it beginning age six is one of my fondest memories Five lbs all-up weight and a stock kids could handle.

...and sitting around in the shade numerous times, empty beverage can on a rock 100+ yards out, passing it around for idle potshots between friends and conversation, one shot per turn, the one who wins hadda go reset the can...

...and having it around on all those camping trips Back East, in places where handguns are a felony. Sure was comforting having it close at hand when we ran into some meth heads in the woods up by the Connecticut Lakes of NH. Snapped it together in motel rooms up there more'n a few times too. Slept next to it on the floor of a tent many times.

Surprisingly decent trigger pull for what it was, and on that one, quite by chance, the two barrels were regulated in the same vertical plane, use the base of the front sight blade as the front sight with slugs and both .22lr and a 20ga slug were both about on at 50 yards. A 20 gauge slug is about like some .44 magnum rounds, except it makes a .60 cal hole going in. And with slugs, a paper plate was in actual peril at 100 yards once ya figured out the drop

Thirty years later my son has it now, so his little girl can shoot it.

Still feels odd not having one at hand, I'm guessing I'm gonna find another one, one of these years, currently clean ones go for $500 - $800 on Gunbroker.

The birdshot makes it a singleshot. No rapid fire. Need to buy a revolver and go all cowboy on them. I limit it to mostly daylight hours to keep from waking the only neighbor up.

Oh. I forgot about shotshells....