Chuck's Picture Page
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Welcome to Chuck's Picture Page. Here will be posted pictures of interest . . . (to me anyway) . . . from my assortment of hobbies and/or links of interest for hunting, fishing, scuba diving, muzzleloading, and whatever other fun pastime I can come up with. If you have a suggestion, give me a buzz.
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This is my Savage ML10-II muzzleloader with its A1 Optic 3-12x50
scope.
Soon I will receive a Pac-Nor.40 cal barrel for it so I can use it
sabotless! You'd think that scope was kinda strong for a muzzy, but using 5 - 6 power for hunting and 12x on the bench sure is nice. Bright sight picture makes it easy to identify bucks in early morning and late evening light. So far it has held up well to the "generous" recoil of the Savage. All that and the price was really easy on my pocket book as well! |
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It was really hard to line up the camera to take picture through the
scope, but wanted to show what the picture looks like with and without
a deer in the crosshairs.
This was about 100 yards out. I think about at 6x power.
The second picture was a bit out of focus for the camera as it was taken just at dark and the camera could not get the focus very well. It was dark enough that this deer was getting hard to see with the naked eye against that background. Showed up pretty well in the scope though. That little deer was really lucky he was too small to hear the Savage's roar. I will be back to check him out next year. |
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 This is a picture of the mount. I used two Weaver Grand Slam extended mounts with the rings supplied with the scope. The very short mounting area on the scope was too short to match up with standard mounts. |
| The following pictures show the fit of the LimbSaver (part no.10111 I think) recoil pad to the Savage plastic stock. It is
not perfect, but a pretty good fit for a utility rifle.
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 Pileated Woodpecker |
 Wild Turkeys |
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Here are my powder vials I've mentioned on a couple boards.
These are plastic 5ml sample vials as used in the medical industry.
They are great for taking loads to the range or stand. Their lids are
both water and air tight and loads stay fresh even for long periods of
storage or hauling around in your pants or jacket pocket. I often put a saboted bullet in them pointing down and put the
powder on top to use them like speed loaders. They will hold 44 grains
of 4759 with a 250g XTP and the 50/45 sabot which works great for my
Savage 10ML. Very handy to have a load of powder with sabot and bullet
in a single container that you can drop in your pocket, or your bag to
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| You can also put a couple of saboted 250g XTPs in one vial.
However you choose to use them, you can readily see the contents which
lessens the chance of making mistakes. They measure 2 3/8" high and
9/16" dia.
These vials come in a random mix of five colors of caps as shown here. |
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Since I had several folks interested in them I ordered some of
the "10 ml" vials as well. They are the same diameter and 3 5/8" high
and have room for a full 150 plus gr load of pyrodex (white lid vial).
They will also hold an XTP 250 with sabot and 120 grains of Pyrodex
(red lid vial) or a saboted bullet with up to about 90 grains of
smokeless powder as shown in the yellow lid vial. If you are interested in some of these, send me an e-mail to chuck@royalcs.com. I will mail 50 of the 5 ml vials to you for $19 bucks (US) (or $23.50 for the 10ml vials) by first class mail in a padded envelope. If you choose, you can also pay by PayPal using my e-mail address: chuck@royalcs.com . I will mail them by US Postal Service with a return receipt to show delivery. I cannot be responsible for items lost in the mail. If you desire insurance to protect in that event, it will be $1.65 extra.
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If you only want 25 of them I will mail those for $10.00 (US) (or $12.00 (US) for 25 of the 10ml versions). (For any of these add $3.00 for mailing to Canada. I can only ship to US or Canada.) Quickest and easiest way is to pay by PayPal. My account is my e-mail address: chuck@royalcs.com You can also mail payment to me at P.O. Box 62, Royal, AR 71968 I try to mail your order the first business day after receipt of payment whenever possible. |
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This is my Savage ML10-II muzzleloader with its new Pac-Nor .40 cal barrel. You will notice the rod holder is absent. I have not decided on what to do about that yet. |
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This is my first 100yd target with the new "40". More to come!! This was with light loads of only 38gr of H322 with a .060/.416 vegie fiber wad and a 180gr .400 XTP and CCI 209 primer. Recoil was very light. Some other similar loads of 45gr of H322 printed several inches lower. Recoil was greater, but still would be quite "light" by Savage ML1-II standards. |
 This shows the finish of the end of the barrel. It has a slight dished contour that helps a bit in pouring the powder down it. The beaded satin overall finish is very pleasing and certainly cuts down on that stainless shine. |
 This shows the new bedding. I used JB Weld with Johnson paste floor wax for the release agent. Play dough dammed off areas to be protected from the bedding material. I cut a piece of oak to fit the clip hole so the amount of actual bedding material required was low. I bedded the recoil lug, but put one layer of electrical tape around the outside and the front of it so it would release easily. |
 The new "40" required some modified rod attachments to complete the deal. I used my belt sander to "turn down" first the famous Savage "noodle rod" and then the jags. One end of the rod was just a bit too big to fit in the 40, the other end worked fine as it was. |
 Then I did the same with a .45 jag (bottom of the picture) and a couple .50 jags above. The third from the bottom is an original .50 bullet seating end with the modified one to fit the "40" right below it. These worked just great, and since I already had them lying around, the price was right! |