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greetings all,

read with interest the 4 page topic on the ruger #3. it made me remember i had loaded up some 45-70's with a solid bullet almost like a 458mag..

years ago i used these to get ruger 1 and 3's and shilo sharps to behave and shoot straight. it worked.. after three hot and i do mean hot rounds thru the bbl. they were hummers..

now back to the story, i remembered, i still had some of those loads in the 45-70 100 rd plastic load boxes. got to thinking. when i kick the bucket. little johns gun auction will come out with a truck pick up and auction all my stuff. at my age and health it's a possibility..

upon further thinking, i thought, what if a young buckaroo or anyone else with a trapdoor or a lever win or marlin bought those loads. those guns would come apart.. so... went out to the garage, (in ca we can do that) and pulled and dumped all loads that wern't safe in a trapdoor..

then got to thinking about all those 'HOT' 30-40 krags and 32-40's that were built for a hi-wall and pulled those..

now i felt semi good about myself.. then started to think about those contender loads that mite take a revolver apart. so... loaded up on conteners, 357, 41 and 44mag hot stuff went to the range and had the young buckaroo's shoot it up.. we had a good time..

now i feel good. all the ammo i have left is lo-ball safe..

if you have any 'hot' stuff, please make sure it doesen't get into the hands of some unknowing person..

..ttfn..grampa..

Grampa, we seem to share more than Orange County. This "legacy" thing is why I don't like people who chamber weak actions for strongish ctgs. like a lo-wall for a .30-30. You and I know that it is really just for "lead bullets and light loads", but does the next guy? He may well think it's for .307-level .30-30 handloads.

And by the way, while I'm riding the crest of a downer, we all should have our guns listed, photographed, described in detail, and with some written sense of how they should be dealt with in case of our natural or unnatural demise. This should be in your will if you want to leave specific pieces to specific people and maybe designate someone knowledgeable and honest to facilitate sales of the rest if that's what you want to do with them (give him or her the best one for being your "agent").

As my son's middle school students apparently now say: "I'm not SAYIN', I'm just sayin'....."

hi ho mike,

read your post with interest... i agree..
documenting all guns and loads would be the wise thing to do.. unfortunatly, i didn't..

back in the days of the south coast gun club we shot 2 and 3 times a week for 25 or 30 yrs, rifle, pistol and shotgun.. and after they put up the lites to lite up the pistol and rifle range to 100 yrds. one of those days was 11am to 11 pm..

when you get there at 11am and hit that small bufflo silhouette at 440yds a couple dozen times in a row.. you say, now what will i do? i still have 11 and a half hours left.. so we experimented quite a bit.

after you got a gun shooting good with a certain load. the gun and ammo would be put away in the garage and we started another one or five guns all over again..

most of my shooting croonies that i did this with have 'left the range'. on more than a couple of occasions, went to thier houses and made 'safe' their ammo for the families..

as far as having someone knowledgeable handle this stuff. i don't know of any. most shooters i know of, shoot maybe, 2-3hrs once or twice a month. no one i know of shoots 20+ hrs a week. shooting that much you can learn alot.. especially about loading. you soon became a wizard with presses, scales, die's, casting, powders and etc..

know a few collectors that have more guns than i have, but, they don't shoot that much if at all.

BTW,
with south coast and san gabrial shut down.. where do you shoot. the only place left around here is where they had the '83' olympics. the longest range is 50m. the 'free pistol range'. ain't much, but, it is first class... there was a range in riverside starting up. but, i think the lawyers put a stop to that..

keep in touch and ..ttfn..grampa..

Grampa, I shoot at Firing Line and Evans Gunsmithing fairly often--but only with a handgun. Have shot at the old Olympic venue that you mention, but only with a shotgun. For rifles it seems one has two choices: a short drive to a too-short range like Evans (But what can you accomplish beyond the most basic zeroing at 25 yds or a long drive to the desert BLM land, or up to the Nat. Forest in Ventura County, or to Burro Canyon (not on weekends, thank you very much) or "A Place to Shoot" in San Francisquito Canyon. I prefer the latter, but unless you stay in a motel, it's a pretty tiring day getting up there before the commuters clog the freeways, shooting from 9am to 1pm, then back thru LA to Seal Beach. The motel is probably worth it--you can get in an afternoon/evening and a long morning, and still get home unbushed.

If you go to San Francisquito, watch out for rattlers. They got 'em. If you ever want to carpool up there or have a better place in mind, email me at g.armstrong@hvcc.edu

Mike Armstrong