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• Scott Sanford commented on I ain't dead
  I'd be very curious to know what kind of rifle your uncle wanted to give you that couldn't fire modern copper ammo ... I don't know about his uncle's rifle but that was the situation for my grandmother's shotguns. They'd been tucked away in the attic for many years when I finally discovered them, both out of lack of need and lack of ammo; they were too old to handle the more energetic modern shells. That was the late 1980s and they'd been unused since my grandparents moved into town from their farm, so probably around WWII. What was going...
• Jason commented on I ain't dead
  Thanks for adding your experiences, Scott. I was by no means a shotgun guy back in the then, so I'm just presuming that it was much harder to find down-rated ammo to fit your grandparents weapons, not that it didn't exist. Nowadays it ought to be pretty easy to find ammo suitable for those shotguns....
• Keith Halperin commented on I ain't dead
  Andy Anda in MN says "hi" and apologizes for not answering your question....
• Birger Johansson commented on I ain't dead
  OT: Some good news: "Proteins in the blood of COVID-19 patients could help predict how ill they will become" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-proteins-blood-covid-patients-ill.html...
• Birger Johansson commented on I ain't dead
  Surely, they cannot be this cynical ? (Just kidding. Of course they are.) "What is the Plan to Get Away With a Hard Brexit?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qKumDInb8&t=50s...