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Offline submarinesailor

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Re: Hard Hickory
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2005, 05:12:23 pm »
Were they:

A. 30-06
B. 30-30
C. 308
D. All the above

Didn't know you would be tested on this?  :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D
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Re: Hard Hickory
« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2005, 07:40:49 pm »
A little hard to tell just what cartridge they came from by the time I got a look at them, but they might have been 170 gr.  before I sawed them.  :D
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You aught to see how funny a 16d nail looks like after a rip chain...
« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2005, 10:00:48 pm »
takes 3/8" out of the middle of it....It just looks....wrong.   :-\  The chain looked worse.

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Re: Hard Hickory
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2005, 02:08:49 pm »
I did that to a bolt once.
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Re: Hard Hickory
« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2005, 08:29:10 pm »
I run a circle mill too, and like Ron said, it's not too bad. More like white oak than red oak. If it's fresh cut it saws real nice. If the logs been cut a few months it can get a little hard, but it's not too bad.
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