I am pumped! My heat rate must be above 200 and I've been back from the range for over an hour!
The Snider with my homemade rounds fired like a dream! I took it to the 25 yard line first and loaded up a round. I tied a string on the trigger and sand bagged it down. Pulled the string and it went "bang"! I had a big smile on my face you could see from the other end of the range! It didn't hit the target because I wasn't aiming it.
So I picked it up, shouldered it and fired 4 more rounds Standing. Look at the target below. Not bad for me. The range worker said, "it shooting high, take it to the 50 yard line", so I did.
I Fired the next 5 rounds standing and hit the black. The one next to the X was my last round. I had to aim just a touch right and a little down from the X to get there. I wanted more! Dang.....Out of ammo! Only had 10 rounds. For a carbine, I was startled...and my cast bullets really worked!.....I am so pumped up, I've got to make 20 more rounds or so! All the cases (10 of them) are now fire formed!
Dolk
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Looks like a good shooting Rifle. 
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You sure cant't complain about that, first time or not.
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You finally got it out! Looks like it performed admirably...
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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man can you imagine being on the receiving end of one of those? "OUCH
Damn, I'll bet that's going to leave a mark! Probably hurt too!
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"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
identify their corporate sponsors."
"When I die, I want to be facing my enemies surrounded by their dead bodies and piles of spent brass"
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
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