Recent content by Ivan the Butcher

I am a very blessed grandpa! 9 grandkids, 4 of which are girls 18, 7, and two 5-year-olds! A friend has 20 grandkids and 12 great grandkids! He has family gatherings in shifts! Ivan

The original load is a 146 grain .361" bullet over 15 grains by volume of FFFg back Powder. Expect o get around 700 fps. Black Powder fouling is a much bigger concern than barrel leading so a BP bullet lube should be used. Fortunately, Crisco will do. Just smear some on the outside of the...

Where is almost heaven? For me, it's any rifle range of over 100 yards! In Ohio, there is Camp Perry. That is a shallow level of heaven! Thunder Vally and Reiner's Range of East and Southeastern Ohio, absolutely God's country! We would take a cooler with lunch and soft drinks and spend the day...

A friend of a friend was in a very early Peace Corps group and did his tour in Ivory Coast. The Peace Corps was all volunteer, but the early ones were from Ivy League schools, in this case Brown. You couldn't go to a hamburger joint even if you wanted to! There was almost nothing of value to...

MetalMan's #4 & 5 hit me right where I live some days! Ivan

In about 2004 I replaced our old NOISY G.E. dishwasher (With a plastic body) With a Maytag (Stainless Steel, inside and out!). The Maytag fit in a standard opening, but held almost twice the dishes. It ran so quiet the first time I turned it on, I thought I messed up the installation! The condo...

I EDC a 49 no dash. For the last 14 years I find this gun is everything I need for two and four legged pest control. If the new model matches the quality of the original, it will be worth the price. Ivan

I have one of the Pacific powder kits, still in the box. It came with an empty can, the same shape as the 1-pound DuPont cans from the 70's, in case your powder came in the cubical tins. (And now plastic jars. Ivan

I have several 310 tools, one is Ideal and nickel plated. The oldest of the Lyman tools I have shipped in 1947 and is Hot Blued! That 1947 310 shipped with 22 Hornet dies. All told I have 7 tools and around 20 sets of dies. 44 S&W Russian & Special, 45 Colt, 45 ACP, 38 Special, 38 S&W, 222 Rem...

32 RF Short cartridges sold for 35 cents each at OGCA in the 1980s. I had a F & W some guy gave me, because you couldn't buy ammo at K-Mart! I doubt they would go through a 2x4 any longer! Ivan

In the late 90s, I got in on a multi gun deal at a LGS. One of the guns was an Anshutz model 225 Pellet rifle for $200. I took it to Champion Shooter Supply, to find out why the charging handle wouldn't return when loading. A small "L" shaped metal piece was broken. One was ordered from Germany...

My brother-in-law was a Tow rocket "Rocketeer" in the 1980's, they had playing cards of tanks and APCs to learn friend from foe. I believe in WWII there were Airplane cards too. Ivan

I bought my 4" 15-2 from my pastor. He wanted a Deer rifle. He sold it cheap because it wouldn't hit the broad side of a barn. I paid $150 about 18 or 19 years ago. When I got it home, I gave it a good cleaning and threw the 130 grain FMJ by PMC non +P ammo in the junk box. The front sight had...

Murph: The only 320 revolving carbine I ever had in my hand had the "Floral" grips in the RED press rubber or Bakelite, the buttstock matched in color but no floral pattern. That was 40 years ago, in a shop I frequented, a customer was getting an appraisal for insurance purposes. Like we say...

I did apartment maintenance for 44 years. Everyone treated you like a thief and an idiot. It didn't matter how many degrees I have (2) or how much property I owned (the building they lived in for starters). I have a friend at church that repairs the machines at a firm that make nuclear medicine...