We are becoming more isolated every day.
What was all that garbage they taught us in school, anyway? Something about the longest undefended border in the world? Ten thousand Mexicans a night can cross their Southern border and not get nabbed, but I don't think a GOPHER can get across 49 without being picked up by the drones and the INS. It's almost as if our countries were in a state of apprehended war.
Somebody has to tell Washington that those airplanes were not being flown by Canadians. They were being flown by Islamic militants, most of them Saudi citizens, nearly all of whom were in the USA legally and who received their flight training in the USA. If we can get THAT point across, perhaps some day we can go back to being normal human beings again.
In the meantime, we can deal exclusively in our own country and use this as a method to build up a bigger, more vigorous CANADIAN industry. We can then follow the examples of OTHER Canadian companies and open factories in the USA in order to cater to their much larger market. And if we are SMART about it, these companies will be OWNED (on paper, anyway) OFFSHORE and have bank accounts in Belgium and Switzerland for hiding all that filthy money in.
The problem now, right here, seems to be locating a Siamese Mauser action. They are getting rare these days, far too many having been built into .45-70s already.
At least the OP is getting his back, most thankfully, but what about all the other guys who are looking for these things for the same purpose?
What about other Mausers? There were certainly enough converted to 16-bore and even 12-bore by Geco, following World War One. If it was possible 90 years ago, it should be possible today, one would think.
If the man plans to stick with original Black-powder-period pressures, what is wrong with a Lee-Enfield action? The .45-70 was, after all, one of the original calibres of the 1879 Lee rifle, along with the .43 Spanish. Five-round magazines, too.
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