"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Lotsa discussion on the seemingly endless website issues in the Tech Support sub-forum. That's the place to vent/discuss them. I wish I had something to report but I'm as in the dark as you guys are.
 
Hummpa,

Model 336 in .30-30 from 1978 and a Model 39A from 1979. Both belong to my son now.

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THanks for sharing. These Marlin 336s are so great looking rifles! Great looking wood on both of them. I would be proud to own them! Congratz to your son.

The .30-30 is such a great caliber to shoot with. Even longer series are no problem as it is like a charm. The good ol german Mauser k98 in it 8x57 IS ís kickin like a mule and fires so hard. The .30-30 is a real pleasure to shoot.
 
A picture out my son Joe's front window this morning. Watertown, NY getting blasted by the lake effect snow coming off of Lake Ontario. Some places nearby expecting a total of up to 5 feet by later today.
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Keep warm folks!
Cold isn't really an issue where I am now, but I don't want to be mean and post pics of a sunny beach :rolleyes:
Today I stumbled into an unexpected find here, I'm not an expert on such things but I bet this thing is quite old (surely older than its owner, who is in her mid '60s...and still uses it to sell her homemade chorizo and morcilla):

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Fausto
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Wow, nice find Fausto :thumbup:

Some storm, Gary, stay warm!

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Scotland has had it bad here, thousands of homes have been without power for 3 days now. I suspect PMEW might have his hands full.
 
THanks for sharing. These Marlin 336s are so great looking rifles! Great looking wood on both of them. I would be proud to own them! Congratz to your son.

The .30-30 is such a great caliber to shoot with. Even longer series are no problem as it is like a charm. The good ol german Mauser k98 in it 8x57 IS ís kickin like a mule and fires so hard. The .30-30 is a real pleasure to shoot.

Here's my Gewehr M1898 from nearly 100 years ago. Check out the roller coaster rear sight.

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I don't find the 8X57mm Mauser cartridge bad at all provided the stock is well designed. Often perceived recoil has as much to do with stock design as with the cartridge.
 
It's fun to run across knife content in unexpected places. My wife bought a vintage Carrom board at an auction yesterday. When we got home I noticed the shipping label. The label has the Primble shield on it. It was shipped from Belknap hardware's warehouse in Louisville to a local and now defunct hardware store also in Louisville, note instead of showing Louisville on the label it just says "city", old school! I'm guessing, but I think it's from the early to mid 60's.

Nerdish, I know!
That's all for now, back to what you were doing.

 
Here's my Gewehr M1898 from nearly 100 years ago. Check out the roller coaster rear sight.

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I don't find the 8X57mm Mauser cartridge bad at all provided the stock is well designed. Often perceived recoil has as much to do with stock design as with the cartridge.

OH YEAH!!! That is a great look K98. Don´t get me wrong! The K98 is a great gun. And used very hard at us sportshooters in Germany. So it is a well earned an appreciated gun. Made for centuries. I don´t know if we mean both the same catridge. I´m talking of the 8x57 mm IS not the 8x57 mm. The IS stands for "Infanterie Spitz" that means more powder and a more powerful load. It was originally designed for K98K (K = Kurz = short), the carbine version of the K98 for tank troops. Yours one is showin the "regular" version, i. e. not the carbine but the rifle. And when it is about 100 years old it should not fire the 8x57mm IS, due to the danger of barrel exploding (no fun; do not load something that doesn´t harmonate with the gun ;) )

What I meant with "firing so hard" was, compared to the Swedish Mauser in 6,5x55 mm, which is much more precise. See, we hope to shoot a 5-round-series at 100 metres out of the size of a thumbnail. This needs good sights but also good catridges. The german catridge is powerful, but the swedish is more precise, as is the Schmidt-Rubin in 7,5x55mm from Switzerland.

Stock design is an interessting aspect I haven´t thought about too much in the past... but you are propably right. I have many problems when shooting the original vintage bolt action guns or shotguns. Being a lefty it is hard to repeat or whatever. The stock is usually designed for right handed persons.

However ... shooting is great fun and that is what it should be in every way.
 
OH YEAH!!! That is a great look K98. Don´t get me wrong! The K98 is a great gun. And used very hard at us sportshooters in Germany. So it is a well earned an appreciated gun. Made for centuries. I don´t know if we mean both the same catridge. I´m talking of the 8x57 mm IS not the 8x57 mm. The IS stands for "Infanterie Spitz" that means more powder and a more powerful load. It was originally designed for K98K (K = Kurz = short), the carbine version of the K98 for tank troops. Yours one is showin the "regular" version, i. e. not the carbine but the rifle. And when it is about 100 years old it should not fire the 8x57mm IS, due to the danger of barrel exploding (no fun; do not load something that doesn´t harmonate with the gun ;) )

What I meant with "firing so hard" was, compared to the Swedish Mauser in 6,5x55 mm, which is much more precise. See, we hope to shoot a 5-round-series at 100 metres out of the size of a thumbnail. This needs good sights but also good catridges. The german catridge is powerful, but the swedish is more precise, as is the Schmidt-Rubin in 7,5x55mm from Switzerland.

Stock design is an interessting aspect I haven´t thought about too much in the past... but you are propably right. I have many problems when shooting the original vintage bolt action guns or shotguns. Being a lefty it is hard to repeat or whatever. The stock is usually designed for right handed persons.

However ... shooting is great fun and that is what it should be in every way.

The 6.5mm is one of the better bullets ever developed. Excellent sectional density and ballistic coefficient. I hunt with the 180 grain.

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The 6.5X55mm Mauser is an excellent cartridge. Here's my 1896 Swede Mauser.

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My one centerfire hunting rifle is chambered in 6.5X54mm MS (another excellent cartridge). I had it built on a Steyr M1903 Mannlicher Schönauer action from 1909. I rescued the action for in the late 1990s $85 from a bonehead in Hawaii who wanted to screw it up so it would handle the 7.62X39mm AK cartridge.

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Finally power is restored after six days. I'm going to have to invest in a generator. Now time to get down to those insurance claims.. Sigh.
 
Finally power is restored after six days. I'm going to have to invest in a generator. Now time to get down to those insurance claims.. Sigh.

Gusts of 50 to 70mph will be widespread with 90mph winds in very north and islands of Scotland--
Daily Mail

Yowzers! That's a heck of a storm. Glad the power was all you lost.

Edited to add:
In Scotland, where winds reached up to 113mph yesterday, some homes in the very north of the country have been without electricity since Friday.

A gust of 113mph was recorded at Stornoway on Lewis yesterday, the strongest since records at that site began in 1970--The Star
 
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Finally power is restored after six days. I'm going to have to invest in a generator. Now time to get down to those insurance claims.. Sigh.

Good to see you back Paul :thumbup:
 
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