AzRednek

Never heard of the strip, could it have possibly been "the rim".

If it is the copy of the US GI 45 you can back the tension off of the leaf spring slightly. Outside of that you will likely need to have somebody experienced with 45 autos stoneing the sear and hammer. If you try it yourself make sure you have (or access to) spare parts. 45 trigger jobs are notorious for not being able to hold the hammer back in the cocked position during recoil. I've tried it twice, on a Colt and on one GI, both failures. Works good on the bench but fails to hold at the range. If it is not the US GI clone check the magazine disconnector/trigger block. I heard LLama folded so you may want to be sure you can get parts before altering anything.

Thx for the help on this one. I wound up finding and buying an entire 1/2 drive set on ebay that included the odd-ball eight-point size I need. The entire cost is apx 25-25 bucks with shipping included. I also broke down and bought an electric snake via Harbor Freight. Now I have to keep my fingers crossed and hope everything arrives before that drain plugs up again. I was already back clearing another drain, I suspect the old lady as many renters often do has been using the toilet as a garbage disposal.

There has been some on the local news about Google. Apparently they are going to open an office and a facility of some sort here in Phoenix. The news report said Google has been offering it's employees $5,000 cash if they buy a hybrid vehicle. Also heard something about Google providing it's employees with health food store type lunches. I don't recall all the details of the report about freebe lunch but I believe it was also vegatarian. Makes me think Google is owned by two Al Gore wannabes.

After being a step-parent to 6 kids and a licensed foster parent for apx 5 years, I'm glad I'm no longer raising kids, especially teenage girls. I could write about plenty of bizzare behavior I had to deal with, but when reading this liberal crap it is scary to say the least. I would like to see the jack-ass judge try ro raise a 11 or 12 year old that has to be on the pill any kind of moral behavior. I just wonder where the hell where these people when god passed out brains. Sorry for the rant but I'm po'd to say the least.

I’ve always been fascinated by dug-ups. In the 1950's my mother while planting rose bushes dug up from what I can best recall a revolver. My mother being a transplanted Chicagoan it was the first time she handled a gun. She was scared shootless of it and immediately called the sheriff. About a year or so ago in California I met a guy that had a dug-up Luger hanging on his wall. It was the WW1 Artillery model and was found by his relative a WW2 US Army engineer. By far the coolest dug-up was bought to a meeting of the Arizona Gun Collectors (now Az Arms) It was an old cap & ball revolver. Two chambers were empty and the hammer was frozen in the cocked position above a live chamber. Jason, did your dad get the Remington 8MM??

I can't say anything with first hand experience. A freind of mine worked in a shop that rebuilt and re-arched automotive leaf springs. He claimed to have seen many home made cross bows. More often than not he claimed, they would build a leaf spring to customer's specs and they would return asking him to back off on the tension. According to my friend many were built with so much tension a human couldn't bend it but rather argue with a customer he would build the spring as they requested. A former co-worker claimed to have been shot at by snipers armed with crossbows in Vietnam. He said they were held down for hours, couldn't find the snipers because the crossbows were silent. He also said the rumor mill said the bolts were dipped in the same mix the VC used on punghi sticks.

THX Guys!! I'll likely order it through McMaster. I'm waiting to hear back from them. I don't like the idea of feeding credit card info untill I know the freight, handling fees or exact cost. I found one on Snap-On and Matco websites but the prices are little steep, McMaster is apx 20 bucks cheaper. I was surprised that Craftsman doesn't go any larger than 3/4 on their 8 point. I'm trying to remove a clean-out fitting under the kitchen sink of a 55 year old house. It sets deep behind the cabinet and I can't get a wrench on it. The 85 year old renter has been dumping canned cat food down the drain. I got a snake back apx 8 feet and it is solidly plugged, worse than a lint build up in a laundry drain. Morgan appreciate for the offer but I better add to the toolbox and hope I never need it again.

Does anybody know an online source I might order one 7/8 inch 4 or 8 point socket?? It can't be ordered via Sears, Harbor Freight or Home Depot. Apx 30 years ago I used to sell tools. I checked with two wholesalers here in Phx, best I can find is to get it in a complete set at close to a thousand bucks.

I’ll volunteer and stick my neck out. If any regular member of this group can’t print the target or has issues with ink jets. I’ll mail you a few targets. If you need more, you can burn some copies on a Xerox. I just don’t want to stick my neck out to far and have every Tom, Dick and Harry email for free targets. I will likely edit and delete this message in a few days. Send me a private message via the board.

I agree with Swamp Thing, I apologize for adding my 2 cents. It is best to follow Morgan's lead.

I don't think that would be fare at all. It wasn't to many years ago I was sole support for a wife and four kids. I could barely afford to go hunting. Wouldn't be right to deny somebody the chance to go hunting that is struggling to pay his bills. By charging astronomical fees is one way they regulate hunting in the UK and it has turned into a rich man's sport. The problem in Arizona is more hunters than available game. My cheif complaint with the current lottery is the advantage given to bow hunters. Nothing wrong with a bow season only, but I don't think it is fare giving the bow hunters an earlier season than rifle hunters year after year.

Morgan or whomever is going to do the leg work should call the shots on the targets. Just a suggestion, I used this website awhile back and printed out some targets. The website doesn't try and stuff your computer with a bunch of cookies. After I used it the prior time, I did a virus and spyware scan after printing about a dozen targets and it was clean. Another suggestion and my personal preferance, I print the targets out on green paper. http://www.munitions.com/targets/

In Arizona deer tags are drawn by a lottery. Every year it becomes more difficult. Arizona's population growth is second to Nevada and the gap between the number of available tags and entrants keeps growing. I wasn't drawn this year for deer or elk. I do like to brag about getting my limit 3 out of 4 trips during dove season but outside of that hunting this year for me has been dismal. To increase my chance in the upcoming Spring Javalina lottery I applied for a HAM (handgun, archery, muzzle loader) permit. I may try for a HAM permit next deer season but I'm not good enough to try and bag an elk with anything other than a high powered rifle.

The big change in CCW issues the past 20-30 years, is the possibility of faceing a germ stoned on narcotics. Narcotics when used legitimatly, kill or numb pain. Shooting a drugged up perp with a 22 unless it is a face shot, is like pissing on a housefire. Shock value is meaningless unless a stoned attacker is stopped with a terminal wound channel or hit with sufficent knock-down power to bring him/her to the ground. Any of you that has ever been involved in a fistfight with or as a drunk know the pain level and normal fear greatly decreases.

I can’t argue with shot placement. My first wife’s great-grandmother settled, homesteaded and built a farm-ranch in northern Arizona. Elk were considered a nuisance. Cattle didn’t have a problem as long as the ranchers had a mean bull. Corralled horses were a different story. The elk would stomp crops, knock down barbed wire fences, eat the horse’s food and occasionally a horny elk bull would injure a horse trying to get lucky or fighting for control of the hareem. The ranchers had to stand guard while feeding their horses during the season the elk were migrating. If the elk couldn’t be scared away most were killed with a headshot using 22 rf or buckshot. There was such an abundance of elk meat in the area most carcases were dragged away and burned.

Another good discussion!! I remember reading something in a gun rag about the ideal caliber and rifle for deer hunting. The author said something to the effect. Conversations and opinions of the ideal caliber has probably led to more campfire arguments, tall tales and likely a few fist fights. I’m sure the same applies to the ideal elk rifle and caliber as well. I haven’t seen a bad choice in this thread but your brother’s stature, ability to hit the target and sensitivity to recoil should also be considered. If he hasn’t been hunting for awhile and doesn’t shoot often you may want to consider keeping it mild. If he doesn’t reload and is a one gun hunter the 06 or 308 might be ideal. If he will have another rifle for deer or smaller than elk game it would be hard to beat the Whelen or the 338/06. If he can handle the recoil and you’re willing to go the extra mile in the project any of the belted mags 7mm and up will do. On one of my elk hunts the only successful hunter out of six, got his with a 45/70 built on a Siamese Mauser.

Consider the 300 Savage. A little more oomph than the 30/30 and considerably less pressure than the 06.

Sorry I know very little about the Brit Enfields. Just throwing in my two cents, if you opt for the No4 Mark 1 the additional five bucks for the adjustable sight is a bargain. My experience with the two Brits I've had, shooting surplus ammo is similiar to Mausers. The impact point changes from one lot of ammo to another. Different countries like those that used Mausers have chosen various bullet weights and with the micro-sights you can compensate for it.

I horse traded for one several years ago and inheritied the same problem of not picking up the first round and a few times the mag fell out from recoil. Turned out it had an after market mag. I put on a surplus mag and ended the problem.

The new large frame (X frame I think) chambered in the new 460 will also chamber the 454 and 45 Long colt. I haven't handled the new frame yet, it almost causes wrist pain just looking at the massive cartridge. I've only shot the 454 once, it was a massive single action revolver, don't recall the maker. Recoil wasn't to awfull for hunting but I just can't imagine firing it more than a few times without serious flinching and pain.

That is pretty much the attitude I've adopted for the search for the M58. The few I've come across were priced on the high side of ridiculas. I do however recall coming across 6" S&W's in 38 spec. The 38/44's are pricey but the others like the M&P's I've seen, best I recall were not out of line price wise. Chances are good if you find a 6 inch it wont be police surplus. There was the Guns of Police segemnt on the Tales of the Gun History Channel show last night. I was surprised to see one 6 inch S&W in the hands of a cop, my guess is it isn't common as most opted for the 4 inch barrel. My X-wife was a cop in the late 80's, still in the revolver era. She had a rare round butt pre-27 357 with a 4 5/8 barrel. She was stopped from carrying it because the barrel exceeded the Phoenix PD's 4 inch specs.

My pet peeve is Social Security Disability. A triple amputee may not qualify because he/she could possibly work as a telephone solicitor. An alcoholic or one with an illegal drug addiction qualifies almost automatically for a monthly benefit and Medicare. A retarded person qualifies for either 100% disability or SSI (supplemental income) but a middle aged man having a stroke and having his mind slip back to a 5 year old will have an uphill battle getting either.

Since you have offered the forget option let me add that if this is your first project try a simpler task first. After you can say been there and done that you may want to take a look at the complicated and expensive 30/378 project. Unless you're capable of doing the majority of the work yourself you will easily wind up spending more than a new rifle. The only legitimate use I can imagine for the 30/378 Howitzer is the one per lifetime Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep hunt, in terrain where one is lucky to find less than a 500 yard shot. If you simply want to have bragging rights on possessing the the most powerfull, consider buying a 50 BMG Barret.

I must have missed them, they certainly are beautiful and really make a statement of your skills. I'm just determined to finish what I've got before taking on another project. After seeing your's though I will be looking a little more carefully for Martinis at gunshows.