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Discipline Expire Date Certified Muzzleloading Rifle 11/30/2010 Certified Shotgun 11/30/2010 Certified Rifle 11/30/2010 Certified Pistol 11/30/2010 Range Safety Officer 11/30/2010 Finally done with all the training...

Re: Google earth upgrades Depends on what you are doing. I actually use the many features and bought the successively more expensive versions. But hey... you have to figure our what the next level does and decide... It is a great tool and most people just do the free stuff. Developing real...

http://vimeo.com/7809605 not a single piece of film or any cameras involved. hard to believe. go full screen and download it all the way before playing for best effect

Re: Help me with this "Egyptian" gun (Pics now) Mauser Many thanks Mr. Dmann. Excellent, precisely what I wanted to learn. I took my cleaning gear out and it is now clean with very bright rifling. No rust or internal wear visible but some pitting on the exterior of the barrel. Any idea what...

Re: Help me with this "Egyptian" gun (Pics now) Mauser The 50$ was sort of a no brainer. I needed a relatively old rifle to illustrate some things for my Scouts. I am finally an NRA certified instructor in rifle, shotgun and muzzle loader rifles... so I need one like this for a lot of reasons...

Re: Help me with this "Egyptian" gun (Pics now) Mauser Probably just easier to go to my flickr and see them in a row thanks again http://www.flickr.com/photos/62151356@N00/4093632705/ and just go through photostream... of course I should remember how to post pics!

Help me with this "Egyptian" gun (Pics now) Mauser Pics

Re: Help me with this "Egyptian" gun -actually Mauser? Sorry...forgot to post pics...now loading up a hughe batch to flickr,,,and i have a few of the gun. will post later tonight someone emialed me that IOB meant it was a Dutch made gun for the East Indies service, probably police and likely...

A guy that works for me (Egyptian) offered me this gun for sale. It is a bolt gun and links to pics follow. The condition is fair. There is a fair amount of pitting but the action is smooth and the internals look (at a glance) to be ok. He wants 50$ for it. On the side of the chamber it says...

Re: Man Test <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fx77</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> (snip) 7. If you drive with both hands on the wheel, forget it, you're dying to tune a meat whistle. A man only puts both hands on the wheel to honk at a...

Re: From the Shallow End OF the Gene Pool-Darwin Award Basically none of these stories hold up to any scrutiny .... but that doesn't make them any less humorous.

Re: 50 bmg and 408 pouch ditto on 408 and pics

Re: Primers for .408 --- will any large magnums do? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lrplinker</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thought I had found a bunch of F215M for an admittedly high price. Bought 2000 and they showed "in stock" ---turns out in...

I bought an APC power conditioner (noise filter /surge protector/voltage regulator)for the RCBS Chargemaster.... decided to weigh out some powder and see the variability. Frankly it was amazing in that with the power conditioner and tweaking the settings of the Chargemaster (see the many other...

Re: Primers for .408 --- will any large magnums do? Thought I had found a bunch of F215M for an admittedly high price. Bought 2000 and they showed "in stock" ---turns out in Canada and the next day they reveresed out the order... maybe I should just hgo get them