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Post by simnettpratt on Aug 1, 2019 0:49:58 GMT -5
Yeah, but the news would call a Nylon 66 and a Rock Island .38 an arsenal. With fully semi-automatic cop killer clips.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 9:20:43 GMT -5
Speaking of The Nylon66, I had wanted one in the worst way when I was about 13 or 14. I took my hunter safety class in the Boy Scouts and was given a Remington catalog. I studied the guns, cartridges and ballistics in that little tome for a couple of years. I was drawn to the Nylon66, specifically the Apache Black model. Well, I never bought one and other things came along. I eventually forgot about them and more "modern" and exotic firearms engaged my attention for the next 40 years or so. Somewhere about three years back, I started thinking about that little 22 again. I would see them in shops, generally in the $300-400 range. Yikes! I did not want to pay that kind of money. It seems a lot of guys my age are collecting them. I stopped paying attention, until one day when I was in a local pawn shop looking at long guns. I see a brown Nylon 66 on the rack and ask the salesperson to check the price. $129, and as close to 100% condition as you can get! It came home with me and is one of my favorite guns now. Not because I shoot it a bunch, but because it is the fulfillment of a boy's dream. That boy is mostly gone, but holding or shooting this little Remington re-connects me to who I was and how I was looking at the world back then. It is a relic of an age that is long gone. It conjures up images of the styling of the Sixties and Seventies with it's modern lines and swoopy design. One day, it will go to a grandson. Or granddaughter for that matter.
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Post by simnettpratt on Aug 1, 2019 9:29:59 GMT -5
I wanted one too, when I was eleven in 1976. I've never owned a .22. That's just wrong. Now I want the base Henry lever action. One time I emailed Henry about something and within five minutes, Anthony Imperato himself emailed me back. That impressed me.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 1, 2019 9:30:09 GMT -5
That is on my short list. I do have a really nice Woodsman, though. A Woodman was the first pistol I ever shot. I wanted one for years. I looked at a nice one while I still owned the Model 41 and I was just no longer interested. They are fantastic little pistols, though. I still think I would like a High Standard Military Victory. I don't know why no one makes an elegant little 22 like those anymore. The new ones are much bulkier and heavier. The Woodsman is a beautiful piece. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 1, 2019 9:37:32 GMT -5
My Uncle bought the Nylon 66 when it first came out and let me shoot it when ever I wanted. I inherited it when he died. I will be putting a new barrel on it when I get my shop finished because of some damage from bad ammo. He gave me my first gun, a Shinbisha Air Rifle Company single shot bolt action 22, and my first motorcycle. I really loved my uncle. Even without the gifts.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Aug 1, 2019 12:11:58 GMT -5
  Sons 66, free tune up by Remington when they found out he was in Desert Storm.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 1, 2019 12:45:41 GMT -5
That's so cool! And you must have been sexually active at a very early age! 😈😁😎🤠
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Post by bigwoolie on Aug 2, 2019 7:21:06 GMT -5
So, I got to take my new 44 Special out yesterday. I load my own cartridges. I had 200 gr lead bullets loaded to about a 900 fps level. Was so excited to see how the GP would shoot. Click. No bang. Click again. Could my primers be too hard? I use Winchester primers which are kind of hard. I opened the cylinder and checked the primers for light strikes. Not a mark on them. Emptied out the cartridges and looked at the breach face and under the hammer. It is hard to see unless you are really looking, but there is no firing pin in my gun! So, back to Cabelas today. They told me they don't actually have a gunsmith look them over. I was surprised that they missed it when it was traded in or when they bought it. I am guessing the original owner dumped it after it broke, or maybe it never had one? Anyway, they are sending it off to Ruger. No 44 for a couple of months, probably. On a positive note, my S&W Model 52 that I picked up in May, shot like no pistol I have ever owned. What a soft shooting, super accurate handgun! Man, I hate to hear that. On the good side, I can't seeing it taking a couple of months. All warranty work I've ever had done has been very quick turn around. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 7:59:57 GMT -5
I hope you are right Dewayne. I want to start shooting the rugged bugger.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 2, 2019 10:15:37 GMT -5
That must be a real disappointment. Here is hoping for a fast turn around.
Your experience reminded my of a similar incident I had with a Browning Model 1886, .45-70, Centennial purchased by me in 2004. It had a defective ejector. I called up the gunshop/gunsmith I bought it from and they told me to ship it back to Browning and gave me their address. Off it went at some considerable expense to me. Browning sent it back to me weeks later stating they do not service guns that old. I had to research who would work on it and found "Midwest Gun Service" or some such. Months later it came back all set. Shot great, ejected fine. Surprisingly accurate out to 400 yards with a Lyman ladder peep sight. Unfortunately, the next year it was stolen in a massive burglary. I know who, fingerprints and shoe prints taken by the State Police matched the suspect. However, being the nephew of a state senator, the most powerful one in NM, meant that all the evidence affecting the case disappeared from the NM State Police Crime Laboratory. Case dropped for lack of evidence.
Conclusion: bad luck or good luck can attach to some inanimate objects.
Let us hope your gunpiece is not among them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 13:57:45 GMT -5
Two months will go by fast enough. Cabelas should do something for the inconvenience though. Gift card or discount will be asked about at some point.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 3, 2019 21:15:08 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on Aug 3, 2019 21:25:18 GMT -5
I had a Taurus Millenium pro >45 ACP, that never filed to deliver at the range....after a shooting session, I gave it a field strip and carried it concealed for a few months.
Wen to the range...click, click, click...what the hell?
After a full strip, broken firing pin...it happened on my last shot, at the range two months earlier..I carried a broken gun for two months!
It was then that I decided I would carry a backup gun.
Taurus did a quick turn around and gave great customer service, but I sold the gun as I no longer had confidence in it.
The two loudest sounds a shooter ever hears....A bang when it is suppose to go click, and a click when it is suppose to go bang.
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Post by kb7get on Aug 4, 2019 13:00:41 GMT -5
I enjoy my 30cal. carbine weapons.
The fireballs you get out of the pistols at dusk/night are super impressive.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 4, 2019 13:43:53 GMT -5
I enjoy my 30cal. carbine weapons.
The fireballs you get out of the pistols at dusk/night are super impressive.
Oh, how I miss that 30 cal. carbine...long gone now....many, many moons ago. Yeah, I bet that pistol has impressed the hell out of many people. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 14:15:39 GMT -5
Yeah, we used to shoot at school when I was a kid at Ft. Carson, the DCM (Department of Civilian Marksmanship) supplied the rifles and ammo. It was the Mossberg M44 that was used as trainers back in the forties. Lead lapped barreled bolt action, and the magazines had a vertical screw when installed, it shortened the magazine cavity so you could shoot .22 shorts...bunny fart loads. Very accurate and fun to shoot, at the very top of my favorite guns to shoot....When the Former DCM, now the CMP brought them forward for sale, I jumped on it....this one was released from the navy, they must have been too busy swabbing decks to ever get to shoot, primo condition from 1944.    I have shot a friend's, Charlie. Great, accurate and very substantial rimfire rifles. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 14:17:21 GMT -5
I enjoy my 30cal. carbine weapons.
The fireballs you get out of the pistols at dusk/night are super impressive.
I will buy my buddy's when he decides to sell it. Great little plinker that can do great double duty defensively. |
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Post by toshtego on Aug 4, 2019 15:55:49 GMT -5
I have long admired the ballistics of the .30 Carbine. Clearly, longed to own one. I also like the Ruger Blackhawk.
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Post by simnettpratt on Aug 4, 2019 16:37:38 GMT -5
It was today o-clock when I learned they make a .30 Carbine pistol. Like I said before, you will never know all the guns or all the planes  |
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Post by trailboss on Aug 4, 2019 17:24:19 GMT -5
I have an Inland (GM) .30 cal carbine that has the M2 (full auto milled) potbelly stock...it is a great weapon, and a very good home self defense weapon....the ballistics of a 44 mag, and with a .30 round clip, it is a bad day for someone facing a guy that knows how to use it. It is a sweet gun...Speer touted that they had perfected a defense round for the rifle, but right as the ammo crisis hit, they had no desire to produce it as the factories cranked 24/7. Some day mine will get a red dot...no drilling, no modification needed works with original equipment.  www.ultimak.com/M6instructions.htmI didn't realize that someone bought the Inland name and is manufacturing them under said name. www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2016/11/14/an-m1-carbine-for-home-defense/Glad I got my WWII 1944 for $500.00  www.inland-mfg.com/Inland-Carbines/M1-1945.html |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 17:44:07 GMT -5
I will end up paying about $600 for my buddy's Israeli carbine. He also has a couple thousand rounds I will pick up.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 4, 2019 18:02:18 GMT -5
It was today o-clock when I learned they make a .30 Carbine pistol. Like I said before, you will never know all the guns or all the planes Patty Hearst's gun of choice: www.guns.com/news/2012/11/17/th-iver-johnson-enforcer-an-m1-carbine-pistolA buddy told me that he had seen an M1A1 folding stock Paratrooper carbine at the local store in excellent condition with extras and provenance...$650.00....I beat a path to the store, and missed it by 5 minutes.  Man, I was bummed...timing is everything. |
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Post by simnettpratt on Aug 4, 2019 18:37:16 GMT -5
There used to be an antiques store across the street from my office, and I'd go in there and buy stuff I didn't want solely because they had a Concealed Carriers Welcome sign on the door. One time I was in there, the broke dude from the Army Navy store down the street came flying in: Loan me some money! Quick!! Ther was a lady in his store selling her deceased husband's matching, stainless pearl-handled Colt 1911s for $100 each. The poor guy didn't have $200, but fortunately the antiques guy did. Army Navy guy took off like the Hounds of Hades were after him. I checked later and he'd managed to snag the 1911s. Good for him |
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Post by trailboss on Aug 4, 2019 18:44:44 GMT -5
Wow, talking about the steal of the century!
If he had pearl handled grips, he probably had the originals too...win, win.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 4, 2019 18:49:05 GMT -5
I have an Inland (GM) .30 cal carbine that has the M2 (full auto milled) potbelly stock...it is a great weapon, and a very good home self defense weapon....the ballistics of a 44 mag, and with a .30 round clip, it is a bad day for someone facing a guy that knows how to use it.It is a sweet gun...Speer touted that they had perfected a defense round for the rifle, but right as the ammo crisis hit, they had no desire to produce it as the factories cranked 24/7. So true your comment. This reminds me of a story (" shite! He is at it again with the stories!"). Back in 1980 or so, out San Francisco way, two elderly brothers in their 80s, The Koenig boys, were burgled and robed at gun point by masked intruders. They were also pistol whipped for resisting. The City was outraged. The Chief of Police, I think that was Connie Murphy, a fine man from the Sunset District and a Deacon of St. Cecelia's Church, vowed to apprehend the evil souls who did this dirty deed. Meanwhile, Congressman Pete McCloskey, Republican from northern San Mateo County just over the border and a USMC combat veteran of Korea who was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star and two Purple Hearts, and as fine a man as I have ever known, went on record saying that senior citizens should arm themselves with an M1 Carbine as it hits hard enough and is easy to wield. I take that as fine advice from one who knows. |
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Post by toshtego on Aug 4, 2019 18:54:52 GMT -5
There used to be an antiques store across the street from my office, and I'd go in there and buy stuff I didn't want solely because they had a Concealed Carriers Welcome sign on the door. One time I was in there, the broke dude from the Army Navy store down the street came flying in: Loan me some money! Quick!! Ther was a lady in his store selling her deceased husband's matching, stainless pearl-handled Colt 1911s for $100 each. The poor guy didn't have $200, but fortunately the antiques guy did. Army Navy guy took off like the Hounds of Hades were after him. I checked later and he'd managed to snag the 1911s. Good for him It is a sad day when someone who considers himself an American takes advantage of a widow woman in her grief. He could have given her $110 for each of them. |
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Post by trailboss on Aug 4, 2019 19:17:05 GMT -5
There used to be an antiques store across the street from my office, and I'd go in there and buy stuff I didn't want solely because they had a Concealed Carriers Welcome sign on the door. One time I was in there, the broke dude from the Army Navy store down the street came flying in: Loan me some money! Quick!! Ther was a lady in his store selling her deceased husband's matching, stainless pearl-handled Colt 1911s for $100 each. The poor guy didn't have $200, but fortunately the antiques guy did. Army Navy guy took off like the Hounds of Hades were after him. I checked later and he'd managed to snag the 1911s. Good for him It is a sad day when someone who considers himself an American takes advantage of a widow woman in her grief. He could have given her $110 for each of them.  There is sometimes a fine line...no one wants to pay more than they have to, no one wants to rob a widow in need, but not all widow's are in need, she might be cashing a million dollar death benefit, she might have hated guns and want them ridded from her life, and she might have nagged the guy to the grave, and if you don't buy them the crack addled stepson she dragged into the marriage will sell them to a guy named "Buzz". Now, when you know the situation, and it is a penniless widow whole different set of circumstances. |
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Post by toshtego on Aug 4, 2019 19:46:31 GMT -5
It is a sad day when someone who considers himself an American takes advantage of a widow woman in her grief. He could have given her $110 for each of them. There is sometimes a fine line...no one wants to pay more than they have to, no one wants to rob a widow in need, but not all widow's are in need, she might be cashing a million dollar death benefit, she might have hated guns and want them ridded from her life, and she might have nagged the guy to the grave, and if you don't buy them the crack addled stepson she dragged into the marriage will sell them to a guy named "Buzz". Now, when you know the situation, and it is a penniless widow whole different set of circumstances. Most people can evaluate a widows situation soon enough. Who knows, maybe she got the last laugh as the two pistols are hot and straight from Chicago. |
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Post by simnettpratt on Aug 4, 2019 19:55:38 GMT -5
He said he told her they were worth way more than $200, but she said she didn't care and just wanted them gone.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 4, 2019 22:26:22 GMT -5
I enjoy my 30cal. carbine weapons.
The fireballs you get out of the pistols at dusk/night are super impressive.
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