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Lance Boyle posted this 16 August 2025

Hello folks! Thanks for letting me in!

Another retiree that has more time to experiment!

Today I loaded up a couple batches of 358477 in .357 cases and some NOE 360-160 WFN.

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Aaron posted this 16 August 2025

Welcome to the arena!

With rifle in hand, I confidently go forth into the darkness.

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RicinYakima posted this 16 August 2025

Welcome, enjoy your time with us!

Ric in Yakima

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Shuz posted this 17 August 2025

Welcome from Spokane Washington

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Ed Harris posted this 17 August 2025

What part of NY? The city or upstate? I have relatives in Allegheny County near Cuba Lake.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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Brodie posted this 17 August 2025

Welcome, there is a great bunch of people here, I think you will enjoy it.

B.E.Brickey

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Lance Boyle posted this 18 August 2025

Mr. Harris I am in Washington county near the Vermont state line. Allegheny is a beautiful area! We are decidedly rural and not the upscale kind of rural. A fair amount of working farms. Our county fair is starting and it’s still the 4H show your calf, sheep and goats kind of fair. They have the carney side that comes in with the flashy rides and money traps too.

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muley posted this 18 August 2025

welcome aboard, I live in NE Pa. just an old farm boy. If u shoot any competition come down to Tamaqua , Pa and shoot with us. good bunch of "laid back" boys. good luck in ur endeavors.

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Lance Boyle posted this 19 August 2025

Thank you!

That sounds like fun, I like laid back. The last shoots I did were a pair of fund raisers for children of fallen first responders. All the shooters were first responders of one type or another, some of the folks were way too serious at a fund raiser. I was more used to rural county guys having fun getting milsurps out of the back of the closet for a rifle league roughly based on high power that was fairly light on formality.

I don’t travel much anymore. I do have to pick my days it seems.

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Ed Harris posted this 19 August 2025

Lance, we sound like kindred spirits. I don't travel much anymore but enjoy informal competition amongst a small group of retired cops and military. We shoot fixed sight revolvers and lever action cowboy guns on steel targets at 50 and 100 yards. The vintage military boltguns ring the same targets at 100 and 200 yards. Targets from MGM are life-sized steel Bunny Wabbit and Groundhog, plate rack, 12-inch and 8 inch gongs, and a full-sized steel IPSC silhouette.

Single shot bunny guns of revolver caliber with iron sights are in the mix too.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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Lance Boyle posted this 19 August 2025

Oh that sounds like fun!

we do share a lot of the same interests, on one of the other boards. I mentioned I too dabbled with the ham radio. (KD2VSE).

I’d rather entertain myself than go to a high pressure match. I’m not that competitive in spirit nor in ability lol. Now a local gang of guys’ fooling around match with bets for a soda or lunch of hot dogs, maybe.

I have my own 50 yard range I can do all my pistol work ups on and begin the leg work on my lever gun stuff. I can set up a chrono and shoot off a picnic table and get decent results at home. This gives me a good ability to narrow down the work Inwant to do at the gun club where we have 100 and 200 yard targets. We only have one gong, a 12” circle hanging at 200 yards. I got pretty good hitting that with the Marlin .357 and Lee 358-125RFs and iirc 2.7 gr of Clays in a .38 case. Powder puffs but surprisingly accurate. I finally got the bugs worked out on my NOE 358-160 FN loading. On the other board I was posting about wild fliers. Besides less than perfect bullets I think I was trying to run that bullet too slow. After about six grains of AA5 in a .357 case it started comping together. I gave up using the .38 cases with that bullet. Magnum cases just did better on paper.

73 de KD2VSE

Edit on the bunny gun thing. Absolutely! I keep looking at Browning 53s in .32-20 or Marlin .32 H&Rs. Dream guns. Looked in to getting an H&R encore barrel but they’re just so much money for a barrel. I thought about finding a whupped Winchester or Stevens falling block and rebarrelling it. Haven’t found one that was priced right to do such a build.

A low wall in .32-20 or .32 H&R would be very nice, ideal in fact!