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    Anyone have experience with Hammer bullets?

    I bought a trial package of thirteen 307 gr 404J. They didn't group well but the barrel on my Mauser build was not broke in and turns out the load data was way too hot. Hoping to give them a go again this spring at the range ... if it ever stops snowing. Not a dangerous game bullet but I'd...
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    Gold Lettering / serial numbers - gaudy or nice?

    Oops. Wrong thread. Apologies.
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    Gold Lettering / serial numbers - gaudy or nice?

    I don't care for a lot of gold decoration on guns. But I have to say I find the cold blue coverup attempt on the OP's rifle much less attractive.
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    Tinnitus driving me crazy

    Thanks for that. Pulsatile is a recent development with my longstanding tinnitus. You described the symptoms perfectly. I was worried it was symptom of something more serious. The US VA provided me with Oticon hearing aids. They are excellent. They blue tooth to my TV which is wonderful...
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    Tinnitus driving me crazy

    Hearing aids can help. I called the tinnitus help line. No one answered. Just kept ringing. :D
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    Have YOU Become a Curmudgeon?

    360 was a piece of crap motor. Why Ford would take a perfectly good 390 block and stick a goofy crankshaft in it to make a gas guzzling gutless dud engine is beyond all understanding.
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    London Layover

    My first safari I did a similar layover at Heathrow. I was so tired after the red-eye out of Toronto I just didn't care to be touring anything. Crapped out in the lobby. The flight from there to the other end of the earth is LONG! With any luck you will be in at your lodge in time for dinner...
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    Safari Shooting Prep and Training

    Keep your weight down, don't smoke, and you should do okay on safari. It's mostly spot from a vehicle and then stalk on foot a short distance.
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    Safari Shooting Prep and Training

    Don't overthink the sling issue. You will have plenty of time to get the gun off your shoulder while PH is setting up the sticks. It is a special PH who will let you shoot a snap shot offhand at game unless your life depends on it. Mine will but they know I can shoot. I had never seen...
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    Prayer Request

    Lost my lovely 14 year-old son to a seizure in the night (which is when most die) Christmas 2009. Terrible to hear this. My heart goes out to you and your family.
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    My Avatar vs Gator

    The gator was just trying to feed itself. That damn pitbull ... no excuse! It's owner needs to slip and fall on a baseball bat ... several times. Shithead.
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    Have YOU Become a Curmudgeon?

    A really cool dude uses bra? Crazy enough when those millennials started shaving chest hair. Now they're covering their bare boobs with women's underwear? What next? To quote Major Hoople: "Harumph!"
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    .404 Jeffery / 400grs A-Frame Reload data

    Hammer makes quite a variety of 404 bullets (.423 cal). And they offer them in trial packages of thirteen. Great people to deal with. I tried their 307 gr and didn't get great groups with the few I fired. But the barrel on my Mauser build was brand new and the load data I was given was from...
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    Have YOU Become a Curmudgeon?

    If you don't use "bro" and "dude" as pronouns for everyone and don't use "like" as an adjective/conjunctive for everything, then you may be a curmudgeon ... or should I say "u r a curmudgeon?" :D
 
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