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thats my rifle dammit.....next year ill bring some extra meds and "help" Dan with the cooking so i can make a break with the rifle.....might have to be carefull though....whats needed to knock gunner and CT on their arses will prolly kill [bleep]

thats gotta be the most coveted rifle on this whole site gunner

Nice Jerry! I looking for one to come to NY

Glad to see you staying in the 1911 family

Me too, although I believe he knew precisely what he was doing when he handed it to me.

Gunner

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I killed this pig late Friday morning. It was moving at a brisk trot with a group of a couple dozen other animals when I shot it from about 40 yards. Only one shot was needed. The bullet went through both shoulders and lungs, resulting in a bang-flop-flip-flop. The rifle is a M67/89 Swedish Rolling Block, built by the Swedes under license from Remington. It's chambered for the 8x58mm Rimmed Danish cartridge. Bullet was a 170-grain cast flat-nose at about 1850 fps, about equivalent to a moderate 32 Special or 32-40.

The rifle may have been the oldest used for a pig this year. It was made in 1873 and the Swedes rebarreled it to 8x5 sometime after 1889. Did anyone use a Sharps or another oldie made before 1873?

The medal in the stock is interesting, and indicates the rifle was awarded as a prize in a 1942 Swedish shooting contest. Somehow it seemed appropriate for a 24hourcampfire adventure.
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Load details for those who like to know such: Cases were fire-formed from Prvi Partisan 8x56 Rimmed Austro-Hungarian brass. These are a couple millimeters short of 8x58RD cases, but work fine. The bullet was the RCBS #32-170-FN gas-checked, cast from #2 Lyman alloy, heat-treated, sized to 0.324", and SBG lubed. The load was a healthy dose of Accurate 5744. (Evil Twin agreed with me that this powder is wonderful in such applications.) The shot at the pig produced a slight fracture at the neck of the case, so the case will be discarded. It had been reloaded 20 times.

--Bob

lol I know that. I'm still smiling like a kid at Christmas when I think about the past weekend.

JFC! You Uncle Tommin' MFer. They make you cook for them and do their laundry too? I may just have to attend one of these hog slaughters just to shame you into clocking CT. Stop talkin' 'bout it and start bein' 'bout it!