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Greg, at the beginning of this winter, I told myself that this will be the last year with the shovel, and then in the fall of '14, I'll get my first machine.

And every storm this winter, I thought this will be the last one.

So next winter, I will have a bright, shiny, virtually unused snowblower in my garage because there will be no snow at all, and because that's how my luck usually runs in these things.

my dogs are recyclers they eat the schit

Gregg good to see u on here.

allen pass on my message?

Yes Mr. Chucker, its all good Thanks.

cool.

not only do you have to feed that kid, u have to supply him ammo as well

Yea no kidding. He is looking now for a new rifle. Guess I'll have to get into reloading after all OR get my brother some dies and supplys!!

"Mr. Chucker"��..

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thanks sir to you old timer

That's exactly what Ben advised me. (He lives across the street.)

Greg, you have a highly motivated 15-year-old shooter/hunter in the house. Just buy the reloading equipment. You won't ever have to pull a lever for the next three years or so.

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

I have a minimally motivated 12 year old, and I haven't pulled a lever on straightwall in quite a while.

Sounds like I'm getting into reloading then!! LoL!! Have to put him to work right away before collage then.

Ben and I can show you a few local stores that carry reloading components, for when you don't want to pay the hazmat fee on a single pound of powder from Midway.

Cool Tom thanks I'll get with you guys when I'm ready to set it up.

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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

Well, on the bright side, my Jake and Greg birthday and Christmas gifts are taken care of for a while. On the downside my .38 and .45 ACP brass supply just dried up.

Bob, that's really neat. I don't recall seeing that rifle at the hunt, or I would have definitely taken a closer look.

Yes you do, and now it's gonna be on it's way to Okleehoma soon.

Gunner