Strange weather here in the great southwest.

We have a huge crop of pinions and scrub oak acrons falling all over the new deck.

We had some good rain for a few days a week to ten days ago. Then the drought started again.
Couple days ago we had what looked like it could be a great rain but it came like a sneeze.
Big drops, all at once and lasted about two minutes.

Time to buy that 3000 gallon tank for the well. Fill slowly and have a resevoir.

On the bright side, we are hearing owls at night, ravens telling us the days news, and deer prints up to the back door. Some bear prints, but, praise the lord, no cougar prints. Yet.

Last year the neighbor across the street saw a cougar on one of his late evening strolls.
He told everybody alllll about it, and evry person then gave him a detailed analyis on everything
that he had done wrong, lol . So, except for him, we are all packing when we wander about. He is carrying a rake 

Yhs
Prof rambles

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Back when these rifles first started to come into the country, I still had my Shingle out, and buyers were bringing me these rifles in DROVES!!  They are/were GARBAGE.  they were manufactured in the same factory that was Armi San Marco.  The barrels were pretty good, except most had way excessive Head Space.  Bad Extractors.  The Cartridge Guide Tab at the bottom of the Bolt was either broken or missing entirely.  The replacement parts provided by Chaparral were WORSE than the OEM parts, and unless your an accomplished machinist, there was NO FIX for the ABYSMAL head space.  The "wood" as shown on Gun Broker is NOT the real wood.  The real wood is either Poplar or some form of Beach that is "wrapped" with photo facsimile of wood.  Damage it and you're screwed.

In the past, one of our contributors "Geezer D" chronicled his road to making a Chaparral just functional.  He is a great machinist and by the time he got the thing just safe to shoot, he had invested well over a THOUSAND Bucks.  More than the original purchase price.  I personally got to the point I refused to work on them.  What you are looking at is a very expensive tomato Stake.  Do not walk away, RUN AWAY!!

They are balloon head cases. I had to look at a modern case to see the difference. The powder was a compressed solid mass, I had to dig it out with a dental scraper and a 3/32 punch. I was amazed the powder didn't come loose from the bullet puller. The bullet cavity was packed with powder too, dug that out with the dental tool. I'm going to reload them with BP and the pulled bullets.

Reported. If this is a real person then he doesn't know how to make much sense.

He was one of the first and one of the best modern historical re enactors. I read a whole box of guns and ammo articles of his when I was starting out in BP. His great pictures and writings had a positive influence throughout my adulthood and he'll truly be missed.

If this was a 26" I would be all over it for that price and fix the issues.  Yes, I still want a 40/60.  I would be happy having both the 45/60 and then a 40/60 to compare cartridge/caliber qualities.  This rifle -- 1st - is too short for me, 24", oh, maybe.  2nd - the magazine screw is sticking out like my 45/60 was, easy fix for a patient person, back in '14, I was.  3rd - what I don't see is a picture of the bolt shell tab, that little piece of metal on the bottom of the bolt - that is sooo important to the toggle link's ejection, I am concerned.  4th - mine also had the excessive gap between the bolt face and extractor claw, you know that patience comment above, well not another #$%#$!^& doing that replacement job again.  Really not that hard but 'darn' that patience factor can be short, now.

King,
That burn mark you see on the lifter, well it looks like a lot of grease to me.  Won't say it's not hiding a flaw in the brass but it may be nothing, either.

Darn did I mention it was too short for my likings.  Shucks!  It is a 40/60 Win, something you do not see a lot of these days.

A magazine article of Phil's is what introduced me to CAS. I watched the Tournament of Roses Parade just to see Phil in his cowboy outfit riding his horse.

Slim

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 60 and mostly sunny. High of 74 and partly cloudy.

Slim

Ahhh, I'm sorry to hear this. I was heavily influenced by his writing back in the 80s. My current interests are very much as a result of his articles. Somewhere I have one of his company's early catalogs with fabric swaths included. I was impressed by his efforts at authenticity. I always liked the old West, but in those days I was just learning that it was possible to achieve levels of authentic reenacting beyond copying John Wayne movies...

I got to know him a bit and found him to be a pleasant and knowledgeable person. We shared a tent in a hunting camp and his ability to keep the stove glowing red all night was remarkable! He was kind enough to send me some movie props that John Wayne's son gave him. He wrote some good articles.