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Hands-down the most preposterous statement I've heard to date.

Wow. Great pics.

The SAFE Act is going to make gun-owning New Yorker's miserable. Not to mention anyone passing through or trying to buy ammunition. http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02388&term=&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Votes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y Simpler read: http://www.governor.ny.gov/nysafeact/gun-reform

Unless I'm mistaken, and the courts are successful, SAFE in NY will be there to stay. And it's April 15, 2014 to register your "assault weapon" or render it inoperable or sell it.

You can find a used Winchester in .243, but not .223. I liked one suggestion: the Browning BLR in .223. A take-down version would be different. Lever's or pump's (Rem. 7615) can be worked pretty fast in capable hands. http://www.rockwellarms.com/store/products/Browning?223-Rem=True&BLR=True

Benelli MR1 if you can find one. (They weren't a big seller.) If you get it you'll probably be the only one on your block to own one.

TruBall's are unique in their design, different than Foster's, because they obturate differently in the bore upon firing due to different wad construction and Federal's little plastic ball behind the slug. If you have CYL or ImpCyl choke tubes, you're fine. I would test fire for groups with both. One independent range test proved IC worked the best, followed by CYL chokes. Your results may vary because no two guns are alike.

I had to look this one up. Unfamiliar with it but it does sound intriguing in an AR platform. The 6mm bullets can be had from "light" at 55 grs. to custom heavy weights up to 117 grs., which make the 6mm's very versatile providing you are using a twist that can work with most of them. Any 6mm bullet over 105 grs. will have a B.C. of .500 and better. Sounds like a fun project.

Just remember that no pistol/rifle round is a "brush buster." Any bullet will be deflected to some degree when striking an object enroute to the target. The handiness of carbines while mooching in thick cover like swamps or laurel's and rhododendron's can't be disputed. The category of "deer rifle" runs a wide gamut of possibilities. Everyone has a personal favorite or two. Match the rifle and cartridge to the terrain you'll be hunting and you'll be fine.

Just to be controversial, in the same vein the 6mm Rem. is a good cartridge as well. Not as popular as the .243 Win., but as good, if not a smidge better than the .243 if you reload. We could discuss the various .25's as well and their role as good "dual-purpose" cartridges, but that would make things more confusing. There's a lot of variety out there. If you were to buy a rifle to use legally in NY, NJ & PA for varmints (chucks, fox, coyote) and deer; you have lots of choices for rifle cartridges that can accommodate those groups with proper and legal bullet weights, so you're not tied to just the .243.

I agree with Bob. No need for rapidity of fire. If you want a dual-purpose rifle for varmints or deer; the .243 is a good choice. Semi-auto action rules out its use in PA if you should ever decide to hunt with it there. if you have something against bolt rifles, there are also rifles chambered in this cartridge in pump and lever-action models in addition to bolt action's.

From the obvious selections to the not-so-obvious as far as choices. Some of these are not "small and light." Browning BAR Rem. 4 & 7400 Any of the long-action AR's (I.E. AR10, R25, etc.) SA M1A (if you can find one) PTR-91 (if you can find one) H&K 770 (if you can find one)

I had a pair of Glock's that were twenty years old before Sandy swept them away. An early G19 with a single-pin crossbolt, and a Gen II G21. The plastic sights on the G19 were worn down some, but the pistol functioned fine. Never had one hiccup. The G21 cracked the extractor hook during a falling plate match in its early days. (It still worked through the remainder of the match, only gave a less-than-lazy ejection.) A replacement came at my expense. I never had a problem with either gun other than the extractor issue. Don't think I reached the 50,000 round mark.

Google a fellow named Harry Pope, his rifles, his developments, and the incredible groups he shot offhand with peep sights, all the way out to 1,000 yards, all more than a hundred years ago. It's still the Indian, not the arrow.

The Ithaca M37 Deerslayer's in 12, 16 & 20 ga. came with 20" or 26" bbls. back in their smoothbore days. The police versions were 18.5" and 20". The short 20" bbl. coupled with Ithaca's shorter receiver makes for a handy package that's only 39.5" long.

G&A Perspective: Why the Mossberg 500 is the Best Home Defense Shotgun of All Time http://www.gunsandammo.com/2013/10/21/ga-perspectives-mossberg-500-best-home-defense-shotgun-time/

If you have never shot before, they have a practice trap station up on the far right of the course. It's a single station that throws a clay out at a slight angle. Easy to track, easy to hit. A couple of bucks for the puller should be enough. If you're one who must have the puller help load, empty, show how to hold and shoot the gun, then I'd tip them accordingly. Bring both guns and have fun!

Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages. When telescopic sights came on the scene, the solid-top Marlin was easier to affix mounts and rings. The Winchester's open top necessitated something like a Weaver, Pachmayr or Griffin & Howe sidemount to add a scope. BTW - The Marlin 1881 was a top-eject and it was the first chambered in .45-70. http://www.leverguns.com/leverguns/marlin_model_1881.htm

Agreed. 38 to 43 ft./lbs. of recoil energy with a 350 gr. bullet launched at 2100fps depending on the weight of the rifle. The 7 lb. Guide Gun can be brutal with hot loads. I can tolerate the 25 ft./lbs. of recoil energy in my .444 Marlin, which generates a bit more recoil than a standard weight .30-06 if you want to compare it against something. It's still a good shove, but lighter than the .45-70 when it's loaded to its full potential in a lever gun. Marlin's Guide Gun, with its short and ported barrel, is intolerably loud as heck. The older Marlin's slim buttstock and hard rubber pad make its "bite" worse than it should be.

There was a time you could at Thunder Mountain if you were buying the gun from them. I would call and ask them.

With a .45-70, "you'll run out of shoulder before you run out of gun."

Micro-Groove rifling was incorporated in their centerfire rifles in the mid-fifties. Prior to that, Marlin's had Ballard-type rifling. This is 6-groove rifling, cut one groove at a time.

An 1100 is one of the easiest guns to breakdown and clean thoroughly. One such tutorial: http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=91897

A bargain at $250 if the bore is in good shape.

I would do a complete breakdown of the gun to find the problem. If it's not the ejector and it's positioned properly in its groove in the receiver and left-side of the bolt, then there must be something else wrong. "Disassembly" would be defined as removing the buttstock, the triggerplate, bolt, locking bolt, hammer and then search for the offending problem. It should be easy to find once you remove these and snoop around.