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Post by missionary on Jan 19, 2024 16:29:25 GMT -7
There was some paper work with one of the churches that would have been completed before we left back in June. But the "powers" here changed some rules so instead of just the regular 2 weeks... it was going to take 4-5 months. So rather than sit here and do nothing while out tickets to fly home went to waste we went north for our regular time north and returned here in December. Looking to finish of all the packing and selling in a more leisurely fashion and head north the end of March or into April. Far better to move in the spring than winter anyways. Look at all the nasty freezy we have missed also ! God sure knew it would be batter down here. Was only 74 and sunny till about 2 pm when some black clouds made it past the 18,000 - 20,000 mountains and showered very little but enough to settle some dust.
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Post by Bullshop on Jan 19, 2024 19:19:53 GMT -7
"" I trust you had more than 10 feet between you and those teeth and claws."" A little more but not much more.
BTW I was wrong about the Keith load of 22gn 2400 with his 255gn bullet. I just checked his book and his load for the 44 special used 18.5gn 2400 for 1200 fps with his 255gn bullet. His 44 mag load was with 22gn 2400 with the same bullet for 1400 fps. I assume that was with his favorite 4" N frame so longer barrels will get a little more velocity. On that bear kill I had the 5.5" Ruger Redhawk. I fired the first shot single action then three more shots double action all in about three seconds. I just read the supplement portion of Elmers book and for the first time I see where he mentions my old boss Erve Malnoritch. He said Erve killed a bunch of elk with the 44 mag which Erve himself told me. Something that puzzles me is that in the book Elmer mentions the first two tool room 44 mag made by S&W that had no markings what so ever. He said he kept one and sent one to General Hatcher. The puzzling thing is that Erve showed me one of those two revolvers that he said Elmer gave him to shoot some elk with. Elmer describes that gun exactly the same way I have described it for the past 40 years as being without any markings. Erve told me a story about that gun when at the end of a guiding season he had but one cartridge left and had to put up meat for the winter. Now this was back in what is now the Bitterroot Selway wilderness so there would be no going to town after the snow came. He got an elk with that last cartridge then he and his wife canned the entire elk for their winters meat. They also had fish because salmon and steelhead make it that far inland by early winter. It probably about a 600+ mile journey so they get there pretty late. After the wilderness act of congress they paid Erve 50 cents per acre for his spread then burned it all down. Talk about legends of the fall !
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Post by shootist---Gary on Jan 19, 2024 21:35:23 GMT -7
WOW ! I am sure glad that you have that book, instead of it going to a rummage sale. In 2018, after leaving your home, I went to Ogden, UT, to see the John Browning Museum, & the Union Pacific R.R. Museum. They both are in the old U. P. Terminal in Ogden. On my way back east, I drove over to old Fort Bridger, WY, & spent most of 2 days there. Before leaving home, I had paid .50 cents for a good hardback book about Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux tribe. I had been reading some of it almost every evening of my trip. At Ft. Bridger, I mentioned it to one of the volunteer ladies (docents), & told her that it was the best book about Red Cloud & his wars that I had read. She asked me who the author was, & I told her. She was, at that time in college, & writing a paper about the Indian Wars of that period. That evening, I finished reading my book, then the next morning when I went back, I gave her that book. It made her a very happy person. If Rob is reading this post, today, I have just finished re-reading "Tom Horn, Blood on the Moon" by Chip Carlson. I found it about 2 weeks ago, & decided to read the last half of it again before sending it to you. I will get it in the mail next week. P.S., on pg. 314 it mentions Tom's shoes. The head curater of the Wyoming State Archives Museum in Cheyenne took me to the display case where the shoes are on display. I wanted to find the gallows, but was told that it was dismantled after the execution. I saw a miniature working model of it in either the old prison museum in Laramie or Rawlins. It works flawlessly.
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Post by Junior on Jan 20, 2024 11:15:18 GMT -7
I not only have to worry about bears and moose, but I travel far enough north for work to also deal with Polar bears, and they will hunt you just for the fun of it. Regular sized black and grizzly might not be too hard to take on with a mildly loaded 44 magnum, but a big old fat polar bear, I would want everything I could throw at it.
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Post by missionary on Jan 20, 2024 16:24:13 GMT -7
Your scenario is getting more complex. I can far better understand your needs. Polar Bears are certainly a whole new monster to have to deal with.
I would carry our 475 Linebaugh BFR in a chest rig. In a week I would be well adjusted to the weight and sure would appreciate having 6 rounds 400 FN hard cast ready to roll at 1200 fps. I like to think of it as our 6 shot Trapdoor. Once we got the 475 our 454 BFR somewhat gets 2nd string duty.
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Post by Junior on Jan 20, 2024 16:59:47 GMT -7
Ahhh, and there lands the final piece of the puzzle. We are not technically supposed to have guns out in the oil field, so it has to be well concealed.
Thus the 3” 44 magnum.
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Post by missionary on Jan 20, 2024 19:00:51 GMT -7
Now that is wrong thinking on the part of those who should have your personal safety 1st in their minds. I understand what the challenges are to have to choose to do what is right and be willing to "pay the price".
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Post by Junior on Feb 6, 2024 21:27:16 GMT -7
Decided to do some shooting this evening with the 3” model 629. This target is the result of around 30 rounds fired starting at 10 yards, and taking a few steps back eveey shot until I had a shot off of the black. That final shot was fired and I hit the range finder at 154 yards, which puts the final hit on the black at around 150 yards. Not too shabby for a 3” barrel and shooting off hand.
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Post by missionary on Feb 7, 2024 3:33:10 GMT -7
I like that idea. Sure will put confidence in the mind that you can hit what you can see.
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