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A couple owls woke me up around 5.a.m.,one hooting in a big fir tree by bedroom window. got up,made fresh coffee and toast.....just sat on my back deck and cleaned my .50 cal mountain pistol and Ruger old army.......what else does a 75 year old guy do at that time??
'course wife and dogs...
yes,the INVESTARMS and LYMAN are 15/16'' (Made in Italy ,while the THOMPSON barrel is American made and is 1''.
have a SAFARI Arms.50 calHAWKIN (canadian ) and a Lyman hawkin(Trade rifle).50cal.
they are about 1000 serial numbers apart. both. made by that ITALIAN company.....sold my...
Try being a Canadian Eh !!!!! and read AMERICAN Eh !!! heck, 1/2 our common words end in re instead of er
and we have the letter u in words for no particular reason!!! I have lived in VERMONT,IDAHO ,friends in eastern PENNSYLVANIA along with kin in North Carolina and central...
Interesting,in that ,so I thought,ALL black powder barrels from Spain are required to have government proof stamps.
all my Italian and spanish firearms are proofed stamped with date codes....LYMAN, CVA pistol and a Safari arms.
Nope, all my b.p.gear is .50cal.....and I only''trade'' face to face....going back almost 40 years,I used to shoot at the BARNETT Range, then up at PACIFIC SHOOTERS Range up by the gate at the SEYMOUR RIVER....been shooting for over 30 years at the PARKSVILLE Club
(RESTRICTED firearms)...
So here are the answers......
my friend ,Steve Rupp went to school with a fellow named AARON CLARK. his dad ran ''CLARK'S Store'' in HORSEFLY family owned for 60+years.
TED M.SAPP was an American metal worker and made butcher and carving knives for Mr.CLARK.
He and mr.CLARK have long since...
Greetings,
my friend's brother lives up in a little place near HORSEFLY, he's contacting him and asking for info if there is any.....another fellow on our outdoor site lives up in WILLIAMS LAKE .have asked him to let me know if he knows anything.... hey,we.re trying...
and YAP!!!!!! again. I think the O.P slipped across the line from MANITOBA!
Most kanadians ,except those in Ontario don't care about grammer or how its done rote,heck most in B.C speak da king's English as a second language anyhow!!! I'm from quebec...oops,English is MY second language...
price of spam at local wal-mart is on par with a aaa-alberta steak.....
the dollar store variety when cooked while out in the mountains is a fine feast,iffin the trout don't bite.
after a bit of a gafuffle with a lumber camp ''chef'', the bull came in to straighten things out.
when...
just when one thinks he's gotten real smart over the years, these fine
articles of trade appear and one realizes its still a long road ahead....
excellent work gentlemen.
On one of my trade/purchase ''deals'',i acquired a
1. t/c new Englander
2. lyman trade rifle
3. Safari hawken
all in .50 cal/ all cap locks
sold the t/c for more than I paid for the lot !!!
#2 and #3 were loaded,one was double charged.....
been loaded for many years as the person I...
[QUOTE="Mad Professor, post: 1527221, member: 3858"]Curious as Investarm/Lyman/Cabelas made a manure load of trade rifles/hawkens/plains rifles in .58 w/15/16" barrels. Even a few .62 shotguns. My .62 is a smoothie.
My .58 Lyman has done a bunch (100s) of hornady great plains 525gr at 90gr FFg...