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Just curious if anybody knows if any last ditch Japs were made with the so-called butterknife bolt handle or as I suspect this might be somebody's handy work. This rifle does shoot with no indications of headspace problems. The bolt will not close in any of my other Jap 7.7's or will several different bolts I've tried work in this action. Just speculating, the bolt was probably hand fit in a bomb proof basement. The bolt operates smoothly but only in this receiver. I aquired it in a horse trade along with some original Jap ammo apx 20 years ago when Jap rifles sold for about 30-35 bux.

The situation at the campground with police at Country Thunder is pathetic. The Sheriff's office can't supply enough manpower and rely on wannabe possee members. They seem to take delight in handcuffing and throwing out people for trivial matters. I was undecided on going all weekend but after the flag issue hit the news, I wont spend a single minute or a dime there. Bet if I went with a Mexican or praise Allah flag I would be protected by the ACLU.

I could write a book about my adventure while working for the US Post Office after the Postmaster General decided to end all postal massacres by declaring all Post Offices as gun free zones. The union sh!t a brick when I filed a grievance demanding the USPS be responsible for my life, limb and property in my commute to and from the workplace. I documented my case with police reports showing I was in danger from a teenage gang associated with the so-called Crypts. After losing support of the union, I exercised my right to file it on my own. I dropped the grievance after the higher ups in USPS mgmt and Postal Inspectors told me if I ever had a gun outside of my car inside the building I would be prosecuted. When I asked about the parking lot, in my car or anywhere on USPS premises, they just kept repeating “outside of my car inside the building I would be prosecuted”. They never said ok but never really said no to the parking lot issue. Off the record I was thanked by many managers and supervisors that were chicken to pursue the issue.

Sorry I must have killed the cookies and didn't log in.

Country Thunder will now be prohibiting the flying of the Confederate Flag. They can kiss my donkey, they will never see a dime of my money again!! http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/040...teflag0402.html

I'm 55 got them all but was stymied on a couple. Get my kicks or got my kicks was also a candy bar line that I can't remember the name of. It was a chocalte covered taffy bar with peanuts. The Route 66 part though was easy. My best friend at the time, his older brother used to get paid 30 bucks a day to appear in crowd scenes when they shot parts here in Phoenix. That was a dam good day's pay at the time especially for a someone whose regular job was a door to door magazine subscription salesman. It took a little brain rattling to remember Freddy The Freeloader.

At the Apache Junction Arizona high school today several students raised a Mexican flag which was promptly lowered and burned by white students without any further incident. Bet the sh!t hits the fan tomorrow.

Really something to be proud of!! Your picture gave me a real swift kick as a reminder to get my ongoing projects done and get started on my Enfields. If mine turns out 50% as nice as yours I'll be more than satisfied.

I assume so but the media seemed to find a lot of bleeding heart whites for interviews. Guess they had trouble finding anyone in the crowd that could speak English. On the other hand, if I happened to be in the area and had a microphone in my face, I would certainly become a vocal supporter if I intended to leave in one piece. I had to take my aunt to a Dr about five miles from the parade route, about three hours after it concluded and I couldn't believe how many people were on the streets. From what I heard on the news the crowd in Phoenix was small change compared to the demonstration today in Los Angeles. According the news report the LA crowd exceeded 100,000. I hate to sound like a bigot, I'm not. I recall in history class many armed revolutions started as protest demonstrations. The French and Russian revolutions come to mind. Even our own home grown revolution got its roots from what our history books named The Boston Tea Party. Can't say with any first hand knowledge but I can strongly speculate history books in the UK have a better descriptive phrase for what really was a tax protest and demonstration. American Patriots dumped tea in the sea to protest a new tax. The history books never said anything about the actual victims, the owners of the cargo. If Mexican protesters destroyed somebody's property, say by burning it rather than dumping it in the sea to protest the new proposed immigration policy. Will history books be calling them patriots a hundred years from now?? I hate to admit it but I participated in a few demonstrations in late 60's. To be honest I wasn’t really in tune to the issues but the rewards for accompanying the radical white hippie type women made it more than worthwhile for my friends and I. After witnessing an incident I became angry but the majority of the crowd was ready to kill. After the crowd was ordered to leave a Catholic priest told a Deputy Sheriff in Spanish what I was told translated to "please these people just want to work for a living wage". The Deputy didn't say a word and for no reason slam dunked the priest with his billy club. The priest got up from the ground in alot of pain and controlled the crowd by speaking what I was told forgiveness and turning the cheek. If the priest had been knocked out cold or unable to speak. I really believe and it is no exaggeration the crowd would have killed the Deputy. What scares me about a crowd and a mass demonstration, is it will only take a single incident and it could easily turn bloody or what we call a race riot. Sorry for rambling I better get off the soap box.

If only a small percentage of the crowd was armed it could have easily turned into mayhem. Crowd was estimated by Phoenix Police to be 20,000. http://www.azfamily.com/perl/common/slides...934&nextimage=0

Spec 4 really sorry to hear the bad news. I lost my younger brother whose birthday is incidently today. I know exactly how you felt, the disbelief when you got the phone call and the time it takes for it to really sink in. Why God calls some home while they are in their prime will always be another mystery on why life isn’t fair. While I know you have to deal with it in any way you can I really have, to have pity for your mother. The most stressful thing that can ever happen to anybody is to lose a child. Now is a good time to spend as much time as possible with her and don’t let your employer get in the way is the best advice I can give. I know there is not much internet buddies can do to help but if there is anything I or anybody in this group can do to help, please ask, there is a whole room full willing to help.

If the freezer is self defrosting save it for dog food. If it stayed hard frozen and didn't warm up in the defrost period it might be edible but dry. After my mother died I found meat in her freezer that was nine years old. My dog had a bad time going back to dog food after eating beef for about 2 months. I tossed the pork and poultry. As varmit bait it might be great. Former neighbor of mine had his freezer go bad destryiong all the contents. He wasn't a hunter but him and his son got some great video footage of coyotes gone wild. Kind of cool watching the dogs in a territorial battle fight over a piece of rotton beef when there was plenty more in the pile. The coyotes would try to take a piece out of another's mouth rather than help themselves to the pile. I don't know if it was the smell. My neighbor claimed the coyotes starting showing up in about 30 minutes after they dumped it.

Anybody know a trick to removing a stuck breech plug from a CVA cheapie inline muzzle loader. I ground a large screw driver blade to fit the slot but all I've done so-far is deforn the slot?? All my other in-line muzzle loaders had right hand thread, does anybody know if possibly the CVA is left hand?? It has a patched ball and no powder charge stuck in it. Even if I get the ball out by another means the plug now has to be replaced. It is soaking right now with PB blaster. I will gone for a few days, I'll respond when I return. THX

I can't wait to see how the antis run with this one. The antis will some how use it as an argument for trigger locks and the petas will claim the veep in his act of barbarism almost killed an inocent old man. I do feel sorry for Chaney, the last person you want to shoot by accident is a lawyer.

Dr Hess you are fortunate!! I gave up after a few attempts at dealing with DCM after Clinton was elected. Same for two of the guys I shot with, a retired Air Force bird Colonal and his Marine grandson. The Colonal called me about a year after we shot in the qualification and said it was worse than dealing with the Pentagon. I threw in the towel after getting a letter saying they needed my id, copies were not acceptable. They recomended I mail or appear in person in another state with my driver's license and SS card, my CCW permit was not acceptable for some strange reason. Fritz, know the feeling on the M-1. With all the horse trading I've done over the years I went years without a real M-1 rifle. I did have a so-called Tanker's Garand in the 70's, it was a real piece of manure and I got the dealer to take it back. I finally got a real M-1 about a year and a half ago. I traded straight across with an all matching 09 Argy with the turret scope mounts. Dollar wise I traded down, with the scope mounts being the same as early WW2 German fetching about $500 for the mounts only. I hated to give up the Argy and came close so many times to salvageing it for the action and selling the turret mounts but when I was offered an M-1 I couldn't resist. Sure wish I would have got an M-1 bayonet when I was a teenager and they sold in Army-Navy surplus stores for about 1-3 bucks.

I googled it and find several that have posted the King of Finland using a Nagant in the Olympics but nothing beyond somebody's claims. My friend said he remembered it in magazine advertising from the pre-68 mail order dealers.

In a telephone conversation with a friend that frequents this group but doesn’t post due to health problems claims there was a pre-WW2 Olympic medal winner that used a Nagant rifle to compete in one of the shooting events. He believes the participant was of Finnish or Scandinavian royalty. My friend said we could probably find the answer here. Anybody ever hear of this?

There is one that has been showing up off and on at an Arizona gunshow table along with a few other Mauser oddities. The seller claims and it appears the shotgun is a factory job. His asking price is over a grand. I believe this is the same seller that has what he claims is a protype 98 chambered in the 7.35 Italian.

According to what I recall reading in the book Military Arms of the 20th Century, the Brits armed the Indian and other colonial guards and police with the 410 conversion often with a bayonet with an un-removable sheath in case of a revolt by the native populace. If the armed native guards joined in the revolt they were limited with a short range single shot weapon. Some colonial guards in more hostile areas of the empire were armed with a short harmless stub inside a full length sword sheath or a deliberately imbalanced spear that couldn’t be thrown with any accuracy.

That's it, THX!!

In the old group somebody posted a link with pictures and step by step instructions on installing stock ferrules. Any chance somebody might remember it and could you please post it again??

I’m Dave and like many Americans, Im a hodge-podge of nationalities. All Scottish from my father’s side. French-Spanish and Austrian-German-British from my mothers side. Can’t really trace the family tree on my mother’s side due to many of the birth/death records that were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. I like to hide behind the anonymity of the net with my redneck alter ego. I live in Phoenix Arizona. I’m currently self-employed and consider myself semi-retired. I enjoy tinkering with guns, shooting and hunting. I lost interest in the shooting sports for many years after being in business selling guns. There was a time when I went for several years without pulling a trigger, my guns suffered from neglect, several went for a walk with my former step-children, a few were destroyed in a fire, several were stolen by the fire restoration contractor and the x-wife and former business partner managed to relieve me of several more. I’ve been rebuilding my collection the past several years but will never accumulate as much. As far as collecting I don’t have a speciality. I started collecting military in the early 70's when they were affordable. What ever goes bang and tickles my fancy these days. My latest acquisition was a Rossi lever action rifle. Not that I’m really into collecting or tinkering with lever actions, simply because the price was right and it will make good horse-trading goods. I have a few sportorizing projects under way but have been delayed due to my need of hand surgery. The projects are slowly coming together. If I can’t enjoy myself and have to deal with hand and joint pain tinkering with them, the projects will continue to go slow. I’m an avid reloader and often use it as my escape from stress and the need to relax. I’ve exaggerated with the x-wife and woman I currently live with off and on. I’ve told them I need total concentration or I could make a mistake with hazardous results. When I’m at the reloading bench I’m left to myself, phone calls screened and I’m not bothered.

I'm the same way and feel kind of clumsy in the prone position. I've seen a few shooters though that can do it without any difficulty. If you ever watch the History Channel, there is a close-up scene with a WW2 Marine shooting an 03 that appears often as war footage in alot of different programs. He rips off two shots and his right arm works as smooth as the operating rod on an M-1. The rifle stays put and it appears as though he is taking aim as his hand works the bolt. I've seen some shooters that can't seem to operate the bolt unless they drop it to waist level and look at it.

Yikes!! I'm certainly envious of your skills Morgan and Kenny saying it looks simple, sure wish I had the patience you guys have. Your description seems pretty thorough but actually sitting down and doing it is out of my league. Patience with small parts is just not in my personality. My poor eyesight doesn't help either. If you should ever decide to build any for a fair price I would certainly like to consider it for one of my future projects. Z you ain't seen nothing yet, wait till they turn into teenagers!!

I've only carried a Nagant once on a hunt, I found it easier to leave the chamber empty than screw with the onery safety. Although after seeing Spris post it might be a better way. All I did to sportorize my Nagaant carbine was remove the folding bayonet to lighten it up. I struck out on that hunt, never got a shot. Clark how did you do, did the Nagant put any meat on the table?? Spris is the u-bolt welded or brazed on?? Don't know if I'll do it, just curious.