Guns & Gun Related Stuff

[Quick Steel]

Thanks for the beautiful photos. Inspirational.

[zp4ja]

Glad you love the pics fellas. Thanks for allowing share my area with you.
If you enlarge first photo, you can see two Pronghorn Antelope about 150 to 200 yards out. Pics are deceiving, at least for me as the base of that mountain is way out there.
We also have natural hot springs here that can kill you they are so hot, is in boiling. Need to be careful with dogs that love water around these parts.
Here one on my fishing trip a month ago. Bog Hot Valley, NV. Water there is a stream with pools at about 105 degrees, jacuzzi style with no jet or bubbles. Took a 30 minute dip there.

If anyone is ever passing thru Wimnemucca, NV, let me know.

Regards All, Jerry.

[FRJ]

If you enlarge first photo, you can see two Pronghorn Antelope about 150 to 200 yards out.

Nice picture, Jerry.
Could that be a third Antelope further to the left, facing?

[Waukonda]

REALLY great photos! I really love the western states and all that they have to offer. My wife and I enjoyed a couple of natural hot springs around Taos a few years ago when we visited there but they weren't nearly as nice as what you are describing.

[zp4ja]

If you enlarge first photo, you can see two Pronghorn Antelope about 150 to 200 yards out.

Nice picture, Jerry.
Could that be a third Antelope further to the left, facing?

Hey Joe. Yes, just noticed that. Funny thing about antelope here. Tag states horns (as antelope have horns, not antlers as some may be unaware of that fact as I was once) longer than ears or horns shorter than ears. Regardless of sex as Pronghorn males and females have horns. Gauge if horns longer or shorter than ears to possibly 600 yards out and shoot if it fits your tag. Fine line at times since their ears are not sticking straight up by horns. I never knew since as a young pup we hunted big game with antlers only but they shed the sheath not the bones of the horns.
Interesting useless factoid for future use but seemed interesting to me. Never heard of antelope horn knife so I guess that does does not apply here like other horned animals.

REALLY great photos! I really love the western states and all that they have to offer. My wife and I enjoyed a couple of natural hot springs around Taos a few years ago when we visited there but they weren't nearly as nice as what you are describing.

Thanks Ike. Glad to make your acquaintance. That was a fun little side trip on short dirt road outside Denio, NV, population of about a 100 spread out with no cell service for 50 miles (best feature of area besides all the beauty).

Regards, Jerry

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

Today I learned from Google (TILFG): Antlers are made of bone and are shed annually. Horns are made of keratin (like toenails) and continue to grow for the life of the animal.

I think antelope horn knives are fairly common in Asia - I've seen some that claim to be Antelope horn on the cheap Chinese websites like DHgate & AliExpress. Who knows if they really are...

[cudgee]

This is horn. Not antelope but Ankole horn.

[Quick Steel]

Am not familiar with Ankole but that horn is very handsome.

[zp4ja]

This is horn. Not antelope but Ankole horn.
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Wow cudgee. Like everything about that one...nice

[steve99f]

+1 cudgee, that horn is sweet!

[cudgee]

I must admit have never been a really big fan of horn, but after getting this one, slowly started to warm. Now really like horn, if i find it really good in the hand, and aesthetically pleasing to the eye if it a good piece of horn, as this one is. Glad i could share and you all like it.

[Colonel26]

I must admit have never been a really big fan of horn, but after getting this one, slowly started to warm. Now really like horn, if i find it really good in the hand, and aesthetically pleasing to the eye if it a good piece of horn, as this one is. Glad i could share and you all like it.

I’m with you. I’m not a big fan of horn in general, but that one is NICE! I like everything about it, that blade look like a real handy blade.

[stagman]

cudgee, that horn on the front side is as pretty as I ever saw !!!
Jerry, gorgeous pics of your stompin grounds !!!
Love the hot springs, been in them in South Dakota, Wyoming & Colorado
Nothing like the feeling on your skin when ya get a good one

Stag

[jerryd6818]

cudgee, that horn on the front side is as pretty as I ever saw !!!
Jerry, gorgeous pics of your stompin grounds !!!
Love the hot springs, been in them in South Dakota, Wyoming & Colorado
Nothing like the feeling on your skin when ya get a good one

Stag

Will, I've never had the pleasure but I sure would like to try it.

[zp4ja]

cudgee, that horn on the front side is as pretty as I ever saw !!!
Jerry, gorgeous pics of your stompin grounds !!!
Love the hot springs, been in them in South Dakota, Wyoming & Colorado
Nothing like the feeling on your skin when ya get a good one

Stag

Thanks Stagman. If you are ever in these parts, I can point you to the hot springs and other stuff.
Regards, Jerry

[stagman]

I never been up in northern Nevada, only down at tip by Vegas...gonna hold you to them
hot spring locations if I get up that way...always possible....

And Jerry, they are incredible how they make ya feel, whole body as well, kinda feel
like you are absorbing all them minerals right down to the marrow longer ya soak with the hot water..
and your skin & hair feels silky soft, even soften your whiskers up I swear

Will

[steve99f]

Weather was very nice today and needed to check the the hunting rifles. I took 2 Savage 99's with me, a pre-war R in 300 Sav and a 50's vintage F chambered in 308 Winc. First order of business was a first shot from each out of a cold barrel. The 300 Sav as @ 1 inch high at 100 yds, the 308W @ 3 inches high. I am shooting reloads I've made myself using either Winchester Power Point or Remington Cor-lokt bullets. The scope on the 300 Sav is an old Lyman Alaskan 2.5X and a 1.5 to 6 Luepold on the 308W. The 300 Sav is ready and so is the 308 Winchester. I will take both in December, just in case. Hunting in PA just south of Potter County on state forest land in the mountains with two brothers and a friend. We're near Sinnemahoning, PA. It would be fun to get together with anyone hunting out that way the week after Thanksgiving. We'll be out there Saturday and leaving Thursday. I've attached some photo's.

[treefarmer]

Blue steel and Walnut are still in my vocabulary, too! Great pictures, nice rifles and evidence they'll do the job.
Now I see the connection in your username.
I must confess that I've never owned a 99 but I've been aware of them as long as I've been interested in rifles. There was a old neighbor up the road from us when I was just a boy that had 250/3000. He loved lever actions and I ended up trading him my Glenfield (Marlin) 30-30 for a Model A Ford. As I look back on that almost 60 years ago, he didn't need that economy model Marlin, he was just being nice to a youngster. Wish I had kept the Model A.
Member garddogg56 is a Savage 99 owner if I remember correctly. Three of my brothers in law were all given Savage 99 .243's by an old retired Army officer that worked for their dad back when the meat packing business was going full tilt in the 70's. I've never heard a negative comment from them concerning those 99s.
Hope y'all have a successful hunt the 1st week of December, it'll be a bit too cold for me to join y'all.
Treefarmer

[tongueriver]

Nice posts. I have never owned a lever gun but have shot some. My cousin 'more or less' promised me some guns before he passed, including a 99 but some of the relatives stepped in and did a grab. That's ok; I have plenty of guns. I shot my first deer in 1959 with a Winchester 88 lever gun in .308W. Later on I was using a Winchester 94 pre-war in .32 Winchester special, a gun in the family, long gone. A friend and I were out in the badlands hunting for deer to feed his very poor family one summer (ahem) and I had that rifle. I shot a mulie doe and field dressed her. Looking more closely, there was no bullet hole in that deer! But there was a nick over one eyebrow about a half inch long. The poor dear (deer) had been field-dressed while merely unconscious. Nowadays I exclusively use bolt-action rifles to hunt with, but some of those lever guns have tremendous appeal (mostly curb appeal out West, but still very viable in more wooded country in the eastern half of the U.S.). As a side-note, the .32 Winchester Special caliber was basically a 30-30, but with a different twist barrel it was designed for black powder. It was not a particularly desirable set-up past say... 1890.

[steve99f]

That's a cool story TF and yeah, too bad about that Model A. I've had a couple of 250-3000's or 250 Savage, same cartridge, in 99's.. There is only one bullet that you could count on to stabilize in their slow twist barrels and that is the Speer 87 grain hot cor . I got tired of playing with them and got rid of them. Short round nose bullets would work but no one makes them anymore. I understand there is a cult following with the 250. Count me as an ex member.

Yep, GD hunts a 99. In my opinion part of the reason to choose a 99 is the preference to use a lever action rifle. The other two usual choices, Winchester 94 and variants and the Marlin 36 and variants, have tubular magazines, the Savage does not. This means that a hunter can use pointed bullets in a 99's rotary magazine since the bullet nose doesn't rest against the primer of the cartridge in front of it as it would in either a Marlin or the Winchester. And it just looks cool to me. And is as accurate as I can use. Been tempted by a Winchester 88 but stories of their mushy triggers keeps my wallet in my pocket.

Yeah, that's where my board name is derived. First used it on another web site as steve99 and figured it would simpler for me to keep it close. No one's ever accused me of being overly creative. As for the cold, you dress for it. When you get cold anyway, its time for breakfast.

[steve99f]

tongueriver that old Winchester 32 can still be seen in the woods here from time to time. Friend of mine used it a Winchester 94. That was a while ago though.

You're right about shot ranges here. Where we hunt 150 yards would be a long shot, most are under 100 yards. We hunt within the PA elk herd range and can usually count on seeing some big bulls while deer hunting. Tremendous animals, so majestic. A lot easier to see than whitetails, that's for sure.

[garddogg56]

Steve I too have been tempted by the 88 BUT the 99 is my natural,I can't shoot any other rifle as well as a 99

[tongueriver]

Here is one, just for fun. Walden Knife Company and 1890s Prussian Charles Daley Diamond Grade heavy ten. 3 5/8 inch chambers, brass shells. Full sidelock, full coverage engraving, damascus. I should sell this gun because I will never shoot it. Hmm... I guess I will never use that knife either!

[steve99f]

WOW! Those Prussian Daly's are magnificent guns and a Diamond grade to boot! Very nice. Haven't been tempted to let one go?

Is that a drilling?

[Doc B]

Love the gun and knife! Very cool, Cal!!!