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Do public libraries still have books like "Hatcher's Notebook"? My working copy is a 3rd (1962)edition. I bought it mail order from Ray Riling in late 1962. I rented a PO Box in Ewa, Hawaii because Riling would not or could not guarantee delivery to a military address. I read it cover-to-cover sitting in one of those cargo-strap seats in a GV-1 flying from Guam to Hickam to El Toro with a stop at every little island between Guam & Hickam. About 18 hours flying time and 4 or 5 more on the ground. Too slow to get jet lagged. I was just worn out.

Few public libraries have any gun books. I had NRA send my American Rifleman subscription to the University of Idaho library years ago,when they dropped it in one of their (apparently monthly) budget cuts. Wonder if they shelve them....didn't make it to the U when I last was in Moscow. (DID make it to all the local gunshops, tho!).

Mike,

I didn't know any students used the U of I library back in the 70's! That's right, you were employed by the U of I, I guess that it explains it.

Cameron, the Vandals' reputation for partyin' is greatly exaggerated. The REAL problem is the nightly invasion of Moscow by children of all ages from that other place across the border by King County's "permanent adolescents."

I worked at both places, often simultaneously, as well as having a huge home garden, a contract editing enterprise, weekend scrap metal gathering in the Palouse's many machinery graveyards, gold sniping and garnet digging in ID, selling coyote pelts and upland bird skins, you name it. Your part of the world is a hard place to make a livin' in, especially if you have no marketable skills (i.e. English major...)! But it is darn fun tryin'.

Mike, North Idaho is a tough place to make a "good go of it."

For a good share of the 70's, Idaho's drinking age was 19, while a few miles across the border in WA, the age was still 21. WSU students would flock to Moscow for a night of partying. I'm surprised there weren't more deaths on the Moscow-Pullman highway. Of course, I'm not telling you anything new.

I worked at the FS work center in Clarkia on an IR Fire crew and some of the boys, particularly those from ND, were fascinated with digging garnets at Emerald Creek-be interesting to know how it got the name Emerald Creek, as opposed to perhaps, Garnett Creek! Anyway, after a few summers, they had a nice collection of rough garnetts, which they took to Moscow to have cut into stones. Beautiful semi-precious gems! Not sure what they ever did with them, maybe had them made into jewelry for someone special.

Sorry, I've kind of diverted this thread a bit.

Have a great Thanksgiving day-we have much to be thankful for.

Cameron, I probably sold garnets and gold nuggets (very few) to that same rock shop in Moscow; can't remember the name. Owner had a winter house in Sri Lanka and got a lot of gems there before the civil war made it too dangerous. We also sold him various mineral specimens we "came across" in our wanderings (mostly in abandoned mines). There was also a local buyer who bought all our antlers, teeth, hides, and game bird feathers. The scrap metal had to go to Lewiston.

Funny thing is that we always felt cash-poor when we lived there, but when we left, we realized we'd saved up a nice little nest egg....go figure.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

back to the subject. IMO the US Krag notwithstandiing Mike's sttrength test is not really suitable for a diet of factory .405. It can be made into a double locking lug like a NOrwegian or Danish Krag by welding up the rear of the safetyrib.and I have had this done on Krags in .405 and .35wcf. However this gives asymetric backthrust and Norse military rifles had a different zero when bolt was wet in rain, hence covered military firing ranges in Norway.