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peter richards

Sad to here of Richard’s passing today from the China Virus. I met him thru this forum & hunted with him in Hondo 3 times and he always showed us a good time. I know a lot of you hunted with him & will be sad to hear of his loss. He was a force of nature, RIP old mate.

peter richards

Ashley Hlebinsky is a very nice lady, I met her up at Cody after my Pronghorn hunt 2 years ago. Last year when I hosted the Australian Winchester Rendezvous Ashley & Jessi Bennet spoke to our group via skype & they were very informative.

peter richards

They sure work well on Buffalos’.

peter richards

Good luck old mate, are you heading down to Richards?

peter richards

Great article, good to see Joe again, he sure looked after us in Hondo a few years back. I recently got back from a Levergun hunt in South Africa, I was surprised that I was the first Lever gunner that my outfitters had guided for.

peter richards

Charles, I will be following in your footsteps in 2 weeks time with my .405, I'm heading to Limpopo for a Cape Buff & some plains game as well mate.

peter richards

Sorry for your loss, RIP.

peter richards

Have any of you had an problem with a Winchester 9422M misfiring 1 in 3 shots due to light strikes, I have tryed different ammo, pulled it down, cleaned it & compared it to another rifle, everything looked the same. Its got me stumped.

peter richards

I am hosting a Winchester Rendezvous on my farm in Australia on the 3rd & 4th of June 2017. I have had a great response so far & have attached a flyer for anyone interested. We got a mention in the Winchester Collector Magazine & Winchester Australia were kind enough to support us.

peter richards

How have you been Vance? I picked one up the same, complete with bolt peep, deluxe made in 1954 in 95% condition for $4000 here in australia, I'm not sure how that translates over there mate. Nice rifles.

peter richards

I am a big fan of the BLR, I have new & old models in 22-250, .358, 30-06 & 300 win mag. They get the job done, I stopped the Fallow pictured with the 30-06 & my son used the same rifle on his Buffalo.

peter richards

I was only thinking about you boys in Texas this morning on my drive to work. Joe is a good man & looked after us aussies on our hunt in Hondo a few years back. I was lucky enough to have dinner with Charles & Joe last december. I to wish that Joe would return to leverguns, he had some inter...

peter richards

I picked this one up of a fellow forum member when I was over your way a couple of years back. It has been refinished but is sill a nice part of my collection. Picked a 1891 side loader .22 that trip aswell, think they only made about 4000 of each.

peter richards

Both are good, but I like the Tom Selleck one, I too wish he would hang up his cop badge & put his hat back on.

peter richards

Peter Richards here on this forum may be the best qualified to give you a value for it in AU. Here in the states they don't often bring a premium except for the John Wayne or the few State commemoratives that had a limited issue like the Wyoming or OK ones. See http://www.commemorativecollectors.co...

peter richards

Sig Sauer in NH. And, didn't they make a museum out of the old Colt & Winchester plants in CT? I went out to the Winchester Plant a couple of years ago & they were turning it into a medical centre & in the words of a builder we met there, "apartments to house anti gun Yale Universi...

peter richards

Looks like you folks have a great day, as much as I like my levers, I sure like the look of that 405 double Charles, great to see you give it some work.

peter richards

I've been a member for quite a while now, I enjoy the collector magazine & the calendar. I got to be a guest speaker for them a few years back at the western show in Reno, & I won the raffle & picked up a Model 70 30-06 side levergun. A great bunch of folks.

peter richards

Big stuff - Brownchester 1895 in .405
Distant stuff- Browning - Blr in 30-06
Small stuff - Winchester 9422 in .22
Horseback stuff - Winchester 1894 in 30-30
Flying stuff - Winchester 1887 12g
Cowboy Action - Uberti 1873 in 44-40
Accurate stuff - Sako finwolf in .243

peter richards

I thought this post was about me, I am an Australian in Hondo, Texas. Going Whitetail hunting with a levergun today.
My dogs love chasing Roos, I had 2 a few years back that could catch them, it cut out the middleman as most pet food back home is roo meat.

peter richards

Thanks for posting-good show! I see that you stopped at Crocodile Dundee's; do the serve croc steak there? I had croc some years back at the Crocodilian Inn in RSA and it was good. Charles, We hit the Walkabout Creek Pub fairly early in the morning of Cody's 13th birthday, so the dinning room wasn'...

peter richards

Fantastic! Few questions: How did you deal with the meat? Transportation? Give it to locals? How do you access hunting land over there? Pay a fee? Open to the Public? Did you use any guides? Thanks We ate some up there & I filled my Engels fridge with Buff meat that we bought home & made sa...

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Canuck Bob wrote:Thanks, do you have to buy licences for those buffalo?

No licences required, but you need permission from the traditional owners to even enter Arnhem Land. Guides have a lot of it sown up & charge around $10,500 for good Buff, we paid the tradional owners $1,000 each bull.

peter richards

Hey Pete, that sounds like a great adventure, made even more special by having your son along. A few years ago I hunted in a similar location to you by the sounds of it. It was about 250 Km's from Gove and I used my 45/90 levergun with cast pills to take a buffalo. Did you manage to recover any Woo...

peter richards

Sure did like seeing the pics. and reading the story. Do those Buffs eat good? Looks like plenty of meat.,,,DT The meat was quite nice, but very chewy. We had a chef along with us who cooked up the eye fillets into fillet minions, (wrapped in bacon). There were now facilities up there to dry age th...

peter richards

I have recently returned from a 3 week, 10,000km journey hunting Australia's only two big game species, the Asiatic Water Buffalo & the Banteng. We also hunted wild pigs & scrub cattle, go Barra fishing, catch red claw and have numerous encounters with Crocodiles. Eight of us headed across A...

peter richards

It may be a good thing that this is a one of a kind. This Lever Action .410 was built in the hills not far from where I grew up, it is the definition of Steampunk before Steampunk was invented with features like a carpet snake skin non slip forend. Until last week there were only 4 Lever Actions I d...

peter richards

I'd love to do that but those BB guns are far too dangerous here in Australia & must be registered & stored in a safe.

peter richards

Ji
They are available but over $1600, the IAC is about $800 & the new Adler about $750.

peter richards

Charles
I will post I report when mine comes in. I have ordered 20 of them for my shop & I am getting one with interchangeable barrels.

peter richards

The reason they have been so popular is that pump actions are out of reach to most Aussies & they certainly fill that gap. I use my IAC 1887 clone pig hunting but they are unreliable. I have 4 original 1887's but they are too nice to nice to bounce around in the back of the truck thru the bush.

peter richards

The new Alder Lever Action from Turkey has caused a stir, with our left wing looney media describing it as a 'high powered rapid fire shotgun'. Most Australians have been starved of a repeating shotgun since the carnage of the 1996 gun buyback, so these are proving incredibly popular with over 3000 ...

peter richards

Griff
Here is my 45acp lever gun. It is marked policia prov. Santa Fe. It was apparently converted in the 1920's for the Santa Fe, Mexico City Police as a combo for their 1911 side arms.

peter richards

Here are some picks of my scout scope mount boys, sorry it took me a while. There are no markings on it.

peter richards

Vance,
He is all antlers mate.

peter richards

Les,
He would have been about 100kg or 220 pounds, a bit smaller than a Whitetail I guess.

peter richards

Joe,
I bought my 1895 already set up with that scout scope from a Florida Pawn Shop off Gun Broker. When I get home I will take some up close photos & post them for you mate.

peter richards

I have a 300 win mag FC die that I use for my BLR, they must have made them as some stage.

peter richards

Took this nice Fallow recently with a BLR in 30-06

peter richards

Just got my Rusa back from the Taxidermist & up on the wall, he is fitting in well with his new friends.

peter richards

Jay, a client gave me a box of western books & look at what was on top, I will be able to read about your namesakes exploits now.

peter richards

That's an incredible show, I can't believe it is nearly 12 months since I caught up with you Vance & Charles over there. Shows back here in oz are are big let down after Tulsa. Still in awe of the Marlin 1891 & Savage 1899 I picked up there.

peter richards

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/image3444.jpg Anyone that rests a NF on a nice, custom 1st gen needs to be drawn & quartered! Griff, I only recently found out what drawn & quartered means, possibly a little harsh for this crime. Terry, GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK MATE, YOUR POSTS ARE ALWAY...

peter richards

G'day folks,
I have been flat out for a while now & haven't had a chance to post. What do you all think of my fallow? He was taken with a Browning BLR in 30-06 in thick scrub at about 55 metres.

peter richards

Peter, you have an enviable passion for leverguns, and it appears as if you have the resources to "make things happen" from time to time --- Life is good and you appear to be living it large ! I hope to join you folks if you ever make it down to Texas again for a bit of shooting --- im ju...

peter richards

Merry Christmas to you & all the best to you for 2015, I thought I would get in early as I have four young kids & will be too busy on Christmas morning. Thanks again to Charles for putting on the big game meat dinner for myself & my mates earlier this year that gave me the chance to meet...

peter richards

Sorry for your loss Ted.

peter richards

My deluxe 71 made in 1954 cost me $4,500 a few years back here in Australia. They are very nice, mine is too nice & I haven't been game to take it hunting yet.

peter richards

Thanks Pop, I'll check it out.

peter richards

Griff, Not that I know of mate. We see a lot of british proofed stuff that has come thru from England. I just got in a Model 63 Winchester that had British Proof Marks as well as being marked on the barrel & receiver NOT BRITISH MADE . Older models will often have the importers mark like JR for ...

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