Stop in for a cup of coffee

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dukeboy_318 said:
That’s a cool action right there. I’ve never fired this. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen it fired. The question is... do i want to try to fire it when I get it back together? It’s a pretty old gun, nearly 119 years old
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Well only you can answer whether you want to try to fire it! :poke:
Now whether it would be risking damage or worse is a different question.
I'd ask an expert familiar with that action. Find out what checks can be made.
Finally find out what is the appropriate cartridge loading.
 
Never have seen this before. It's in the cardboard can too.

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Mattax said:
Well only you can answer whether you want to try to fire it! :poke:
Now whether it would be risking damage or worse is a different question.
I'd ask an expert familiar with that action. Find out what checks can be made.
Finally find out what is the appropriate cartridge loading.
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So switching gears slightly. Doing a military history of the family and finding more and stuff coming from the National Archives and the VA. The count so far

paternal grandfather- WW2(drafted at 14 German Luffwaffe) & Korea (US 75th Rangers) and then US Army Reserves.
Maternal Grandfather- US army Guard- Armor in the 1969s
Paternal Great Grand father- WW1(German Wehrmacht)
Paternal Great Uncle- WW2 ( Germany. Wehrmacht drafted at 17)
Maternal great Grandfather- WW2 US navy, served thru the war in the turret on the USS Colorado, missed Pearl Harbor by 12 hours, they’d left port the night before.


Wife’s side
Father in Law- US Army, ( Persian Gulf, Honduras )
Grandfather- US Navy, (WW2, Guadalcanal )

then there’s

me and my three brothers(2 National Guard and 2 AD US Marines)


Still digging deeper too. Great Great Great Grandfather supposedly was in the Union Army towards the end of the Civil War. And mom thinks that the grandfather that this shotgun came from was in WW1 as well.

just kind of fascinating really. These two are of my two grandfather’s.

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Mattax said:
Well only you can answer whether you want to try to fire it! :poke:
Now whether it would be risking damage or worse is a different question.
I'd ask an expert familiar with that action. Find out what checks can be made.
Finally find out what is the appropriate cartridge loading.
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The local gun store used to have a smith that Sonic checked weapons for a small fee, I may have that done.
 
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Wow! 10:30 pm and im still concious. what’s up with that?
those that know me, this is unusual for me. Perhaps taking a nap earlier has something to do with it.
 
Good Morning...well guess I'm first. I'll start some coffee and BK for those of you who come stumbling in from dreamland.
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MOPARMITCH said:
Im still here...............
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Morning Ray, Mitch.
Finished my mission for God yesterday.
Church, and Pastor residence still standing.
His wife insisted we take boxes of food. I guess the have to much.
Gave them to the neighborhood family when we got back.
 
Morning!
34 and a high of 55 today. My son was scheduled to leave the great white north yesterday, flight cancelled due to weather.
So today hes coming home. Starts his new job on the 19th. Will be nice to have him home.
 
Anyone watched the new Heftey Trashbag commercial.
Totally sexist. How in this day and age, can 3 people of one sex be commenting about a person of the opposit sex. With the final comment line being .
" so are we talking about the trashbag"?
 
Old man ray said:
Anyone watched the new Heftey Trashbag commercial.
Totally sexist. How in this day and age, can 3 people of one sex be commenting about a person of the opposit sex. With the final comment line being .
" so are we talking about the trashbag"?
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Good Morning

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