Hello from Oklahoma

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awelton85 posted this 21 May 2018

I'm a new forum member, and also a new CBA member. I have been casting for my rifles for a couple years, and I look forward to working on getting something worked up that is accurate enough for a postal match or two.

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jchiggins posted this 21 May 2018

Welcome to the CBA and the Forum.

I'm a new member myself.  Like me, I'm sure you will find the breadth of knowledge and experience available here is amazing.  I'm learning a lot which is helping me in the quest for 6.5x55mm accuracy.

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beagle6 posted this 22 May 2018

Welcome! I spent some time in Ok.  at Ft. Sill. I've only been in the Cast Bullet Assn. a few years but I'm amazed by the amount of knowledge found among its members. I look forward to each copy of The Fouling Shot like I used to look forward to The American Rifleman in the late 50's and early 60's.

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JeffinNZ posted this 22 May 2018

Welcome aboard.

Cheers from New Zealand

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RicinYakima posted this 23 May 2018

Glad to see you here!

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nosee posted this 23 May 2018

Weicome to the CBA: I live north of OK. ten miles,like cast lead bullets.Find a range and have fun!---Nosee.

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mashburn posted this 23 February 2019

New Member From Oklahoma

I'm a young 74 year old young man from lOklahoma. I started refinishing, modifying and building firearms when I was a teenager. I've been a CBA member for about six months now. I've spent years building target and varmit rifles for jacketed bullets. I have accomplished the objectives I had set and am now ready for a different challenge(cast bullet rifles).I have fired lots of cast bullets in handguns but haven't spent much time and effort with rifles.

My past includes, 7 years in the military and 29 years as a high school coach-shop teacher and science teacher. I look forward to draw information from you people on some of the projects I have planned. I have a complete machine shop and might be of help to someone in this area.If there is someone else who lives in Southeast Oklahoma and plays with cast bullets, I would like to meet them.

David a. Cogburn

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Brodie posted this 23 February 2019

New member from Oklahoma,

Glad you got here "Sooner" rather than later I hope that you enjoy this forum and the folks in it.

B.E.Brickey

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David Reiss posted this 23 February 2019

Mashburn (David),

Glad to see that first post. What many of you do not know, without Mashburn's wife, he may have never got on the forum, ha, ha. 

Seriously though, he is a celebrity of sorts, actual descendant of the real Rooster Cogburn. So you better watch what you say to him. I got to get know him a little over a couple days and he is one of the good ones. Hell, anyone who taught High School has to be.

David, one thing you didn't tell me was what an accomplished author your son is. I will become fan. 

Check out this book, my copy is own the way. 

https://www.amazon.com/Rooster-Life-Time-Cogburn-Inspired/dp/0758274947/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=rooster+cogburn&qid=1550939201&s=books&sr=1-1

 

 

David Reiss - NRA Life Member & PSC Range Member Retired Police Firearms Instructor/Armorer
-Services: Wars Fought, Uprisings Quelled, Bars Emptied, Revolutions Started, Tigers Tamed, Assassinations Plotted, Women Seduced, Governments Run, Gun Appraisals, Lost Treasure Found.
- Also deal in: Land, Banjos, Nails, Firearms, Manure, Fly Swatters, Used Cars, Whisky, Racing Forms, Rare Antiquities, Lead, Used Keyboard Keys, Good Dogs, Pith Helmets & Zulu Headdresses. .

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awelton85 posted this 23 February 2019

I am in Ada, and I also have a machine shop. What I don't have is decades of experience in a machine shop. I look forward to picking your brain from time to time. Whereabouts in the southeast are you?

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mashburn posted this 24 February 2019

Hello in Ada,

I'm located in Talihina  I'm sure you have heard of this area if you're a deer hunter or a fisherman. I was born and raised here then migrated to Texas and then back to home in Oklahoma in 1973.I was tooled up shopwise, so that I had additional income when I retired, this soon became a 7days a week 12-14 hours a day. I did this for about 15 years and decided I didn't retire to work this much. My objective is to finish all of my own rifle projects while I'm still on God's Green Earth. These projects consist of about 25 rifles. When I was doing work for the public I would take a few minutes & work on my projects.All of them are close to being completed.

When I discovered the Cast bullet association I was tickled to find something that reminded me of the 50's & the 60's.I do not like black plastic firearms and I'm tired of people hunting with rifles with bi-pods & tripods. I killed two deer in riifle season, the last one was a 150 yard offhand shot. I'm 74 years old and proud that I can still resemble shooting offhand. I get started talking and I can't shut up. I want to bragg of David Reiss. I have never found anyone as friendly and helpful as he has been.

Feel free to contact me anytime.send me a email and I'll give you my phone number if you desire.

I'll be glad to share any machine procedures with you that I am  knowledgeable of.

Mashburn 

David a. Cogburn

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 24 February 2019

howdy Mashburn ... welcome !

hey, i like your handle ... is that anything to do with a certain gun guy:  Mr. Mashburn of Mashburn Bee fame ... ...  probably just us old guys will know about his doings ...

glad to see another chip maker come aboard the CBA ship ...  we need experience from a variety of fields if we are ever to get this cast bullet thing completely mastered ....  ( g ) ...  we have quite a lot of talent here, .... heck, probably even have a candlestick maker .... ( gg ) ...

ken

 

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mashburn posted this 25 February 2019

Hello Ken,

Glad to see there is another person with enough age to remember Mashburn Arms in Oklahoma, City. The first .17 caliber rifle that I ever saw was a .17 Mashburn Bee. That was in the summer of 1962 and I was 17 years old. I think a spring broke in my head and I was hooked on a .17 caliber rifle. Years later when I was in my mid-fifties I built a .17 Mashburn Bee rifle. Guess what, the chambering  reamer I used was the old man Mashburns own personal shop made reamer.

To the best of my knowledge he grew up around here in Southeastern Oklahoma and moved to the Ok. City area.There was another man here (iBlakenship) who had worked with Roy Weatherby in Weatherbys early beginning.These two were friends and Mashburn used to come down and the two would drink whisky and hunt. I saw him , but never talked to him, I was very young.

I acquired 3 of his shop made reamers-.17 Mashburn Bee-.218 Mashburn Bee-.219 Donaldson Wasp.I have built rifles with all of them. I'm a long time admirer of his work and hence my user name. Claremore Gun Museum has a large display of Mashburn's custom rifle work. Mashburn arms is still in Oklahoma City as far as I know but it's more like of a bunch of used car salesman than a gun shop. Over the phone they said they would sell all of his tools and after a 3 hour drive there they had backed out. They had decided to re-introduce Mashburn rifles but as I suspected it never got off the ground. That's why the decided not to sell the tooling. 

A friend of mine, who is the son of the fellow that I mentioned who had worked for Weatherby has a large quantity of Mashburn made rifles. I've got to get back over and see him and his rifles again.

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 25 February 2019

mashburn >>  great story ....   my first centerfire was a 218 bee on a win. 43 ...  no matter what we bot from herters it still shot 1.5 moa ...   ( g ) .... even at 12 years i wanted better :: heck those guys in Sports Afield all had better ... 

i have always wondered how a good barrel and ( mashburn? ) chambering job would have made that cute little rifle sing ....  probably the reason i bot a ruger 77 hornet a few years back ....

Claremore !! ... ha, as a passenger in a heavy downpour we hydroplaned backward through an interstate bridge just east of Claremore about 1973 ... stopped in Claremore to celebrate being alive .... and saw a thousand guns glued to the walls of our dining room ...  always wondered if god had spun our truck just to get me into that interesting place ... 

... i know there is a god because he let me be a machinist and make good things for good people ... of course he showed me there is a hell because he also got me interested in cast bullets ....

fair trade, i figger ...

ken

oh, anybody get a mashburn bee to feed from a ruger77h rotary hornet magazine ???  i collect barrels to fiddle with and got some good 224, 14 twists on hand.

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Urny posted this 25 February 2019

 Another welcome, from a wandered off Durant born Sooner.  You really kicked off an interesting thread.  Following this.

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R. Dupraz posted this 25 February 2019

"oh, anybody get a mashburn bee to feed from a ruger77h rotary hornet magazine ??? "

Nope, But the K- Hornet will. 

R. 

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4570sharps posted this 02 March 2019

Welcome from Shiner, TX!

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