Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I have the Marbles on my rolling block. As 6 says, they are not well made, but it seems to get the job done. If your existing barrel rear sight is the basic step elevator, you might install it "backwards," putting the notch closer to the front sight. Taylor, the elephant hunter, recommende...

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Sometimes companies are short sighted and cut quality to maximize short term profits (and CEO "incentive" bonuses). Other times the consumer selects the lowest cost product every time and so pushes down the quality.

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Congratulations. I had to look that one up. Several years ago I acquired an unfired 12-3. It's a delightful piece, but S&W of that particular era weren't the best made. Last year I finally found a 'smith who could arrange the fix for the hammer nose bushing on mine. I just got it back and am loo...

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Wow, an impala took a 4 bore full length and still ran 100 yd, and even then needed to be finished off.

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On S&W and other revolvers with hammer mounted firing pins you can cock the hammer and look through the firing pin hole... I use a light as well. On stainless revolvers you can look down the muzzle while shining a flashlight from the side along the breech face. On blued guns it has to a very br...

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Ha! I love "entertaining" those folks for as long as I can. Depends on my mood. I kept some Pakistani's from "Microsoft" on the line once for 15 minutes as they tried to convince me to load their special diagnostic software. I put on my best doddering old man voice to try to jus...

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One must extrapolate here. One can look at 44 Mag data and 45 Colt data and work backwards from there. There's also QuickLoad, but it's generally inaccurate at low pressures, especially in regards to velocity. However, I looked at some heavy bullet loads in the 44 Mag and 45 Colt and got reasonably ...

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... with public opinion, on election day November 3rd, overwhelmingly in favor of President Trump...

Say what?

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I mounted one of the heads and that mount decorates my Austin office....and gives the Prius people fits.

Nice story, but some of us who drive 60 mpg cars enjoy shooting and take their kids to the plumbing supply shop in town that has the heads of African game on the walls--just to see the heads.

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Several browsers display PDF and are what I usually use to view such. If I want to save a fill in form, though, I’ve always had to resort to a dedicated viewer. I’ll see if the latest Firefox can. If not, there are alternatives yet to Acrobat. edit: Well looky there. The PDF viewer in the current re...

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Grizz, my Chinese wife says the first line is gibberish in Chinese and the next five are not Chinese, or at least not modern Chinese. Thanks for the heads up on Foxit. I didn't realize it had become a Chinese operation and will remove it from my PC. If nothing else, it's gotten to be bloatware so I ...

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I wish the old Ballards I inspected last week were half as nice as that! Beautiful old gun.

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the wonder of it all is that there are no flu or pneumonia deaths this winter, I suppose the wuhaan flu virus even exterminates those nasty competing diseases. Yeah, none of my friends or relatives have had a respiratory illness this year. Of course, we're all following all the recommendations for ...

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We haven't had the best luck with Uberti. I ordered a short barrel Henry a number of years ago. All the machining on it was rough, and I sent it back. My son bought a smaller frame single action in .38 Spl, I think they called it the Stallion. What garbage it was. We sent it back to Taylor's to fix ...

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No one in my family owned firearms. A technician where I worked introduced me to shooting, and he was a fan of Marlin lever actions. He also had a few bolt actions and an AR. I found that for me, the lever was by far the most enjoyable to use.

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FWiedner wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:34 pm I think it's a natural evolution that goes with packing on years.
A fellow just gets to placing a higher premium on things like life.
Seems like there are a lot more things that hit me in the heart these days.

Well spoken.

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While some, understandably, enjoy the "patina," I'm shallow and like a shiny new rifle. One can send some history off to a Turnbull to doll it up, or one can support the manufacturers who are keeping the old designs going. I'm in the latter camp, partly because I'm cheap, partly because I ...

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Why, PP even remembered how much I sent 2 years ago and offered to repeat it. Done. Thanks for your efforts here.

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I took a quick look tonight through Houze's book, Winchester Repeating Arms Company: Its History & Development from 1865 to 1981 . I didn't see a prototype off that front locking action patent. There were other patents and experimental Winchesters. There was a patent for a Peabody style action m...

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McPherson once told me that J.B. did invent a front locking levergun... Yes, I've come across that one. It's US patent 324,296 from 1885. Its lock up is somewhat like the modern Browning T-bolt .22 rimfire. The locking lug pops up out of the top of the bolt. I have a copy of Houze's book on enginee...

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A fellow over at CAScity recently posted that all center fire versions (several thousand) were exported, mostly to South America and Europe. A few have made it back to the US. But I wonder if we could make do with the old .44 Henry Flat? The Henry Flat long gone, I've been feeling of late that I cou...

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... she couldn't handle the 45-70 recoil, a 300WM was agreed upon... It's not as if the .300 is pleasant to shoot! (We found 4895 can turn it into a .308 Win, and Trail Boss made for pleasant plinking.) Regardless, real men slay bison with an original '66 Winchester these days, so that gal should b...

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I don't know if Browning would have had occasion to see one of these. It wouldn't surprise me if he came up with the mechanism independently. It sounds as if that single shot from the immediate post war years was submitted for a possible government contract, but the Trapdoor won out as the last cart...

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In a book I'm reading on Ballard rifles is mentioned an older book, The Crack Shot by Edward Barber, published in 1868. He describes many of the new fangled metallic cartridge rifles of his day, both repeaters and single shots, and one of the single shots is the National. While Browning is given cre...

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Not to mention countries in south and central america... Look at Australia, even older population than the US, 70% of their population lives in just 12 cities, most dont wear masks, and it has the lowest infection and fatality rates.. My mother-in-law lives in Australia. They were pretty fast with ...

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First group did masks, extreme cleaning, distancing, blah, blah. Since they were USMC basic, chances of cheating are none. Second group didn't. I just looked over that report. As I read it, the second batch did everything the first batch did except to get tested frequently. ... roommates were assig...

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mickbr wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:48 pmBased of 70% transmission and 3-5% kill rate...

The fatality rate is thought to be about 0.6%, not 3-5%.

Poor countries tend to have high birth rates and thus have young populations, the sort of people who typically don't die from this infection.

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I don’t think these would work in a ‘66, and if they did it would be as a single shot.

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Use them because you will lose them. Sometimes the having is enough. Sometimes going about acquiring it is enough. They are just different memories. Those possessions you've distributed should reinforce memories in your friends and family, even the simplest things. Years later I still get a pang wh...

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:17 pm Kevin Costner easily kills Buffalo with his..... :shock:

A guy over on CAScity has an original centerfire ‘66. He recently posted that his son has used it to take a bison. The bullet went through a rib, both lungs, and the heart before lodging in the ribs on the other side.

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He acknowledged that some pressure and velocity predictions for straight walled cartridges are totally unreasonable. He stated that Quickload is best used with bottleneck cartridges in the 60,000psi range and that it gets less effective as the pressure drops. The early version of QL had a nice writ...

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I see in the preview Amazon provides that he found that Remington Marlins since 2012 were decent and in some ways better than the JM builds. Hopefully Ruger will continue down that path.

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I’ve never owned one. I’m too lazy to reload for a gun that lets you burn up your work so fast. Plus the .223 in the common 16” barrel is flippin’ loud. Still, I’ve been curious about the KelTec. Nah. I like my single shots just fine. I’m currently without a levergun and must correct that deficiency.

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... one being I find it the most aesthetically-pleasing. It just looks right. It's hard to argue against the all-around merits of the .30 WCF, but I think the .33 WCF has it beat in the looks department. I'm also quite fond of the .30-40, in which my rolling block is chambered. However, I think if ...

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OldWin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:42 pm... the 38wcf and 44wcf.

Yes, his current battery is sorely missing the pistol length cartridges.

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David LaPell wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:54 pm Hornady 170 grain JSP with 19.0 grains of IMR 4198.

What does that load make, 1600, maybe 1700 fps?

Handsome rifle. I don't own a '94, but that would be the style.

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I use a cheapie Lee single. 10k rounds? No time soon!

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... and I thought he was fast with a revolver.

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I saw where some think the primer creates 5k to 10k psi just inside the primer pocket (not chamber pressure) and can create 700lbs of forward case thrust. I hadn't come across that one. I always imagined the primer as more of a blow torch than a pressure chamber. Now, if it's 700 lb forward, it wou...

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Thank you Bryan, but it would not require any modification to a phone. The strain gauge amplifier board would just plug into the mic jack with a short cable. With a EE friend of mine, I'll be playing with this over the winter. If we get it working, I can mail you a duplicate of the amplifier board, ...

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Do you know anyone there with access to an oscilloscope? Bryan, I'll work on this problem further before spring and get back to you with whatever I come up with. I see the microphone jack of a smartphone can be used as an oscilloscope. It might be capable of recording a strain gauge for a pressure ...

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Finding a suitable strain gauge should be straightforward. While the PressureTrace can record the information, it would take some work to calibrate it for this use, because it's set up for inputs assuming a round steel chamber, etc. The simplest set up would use an oscilloscope. Excite the strain ga...

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I'm sorry, oh brave Bryan, but the doctor is correct. Time is involved, and we don't have enough information here. We could figure out how much energy was used to move the hammer back (force times distance), but the energy to do that could come from a brief pulse of high force or a longer pulse of l...

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Bryan, I looked at your photos from this morning of the plate with 4, 5, and 6 gr of charge. It looks as if the primer was on the plate in all 3 tries. If so, I can't conclude bolt thrust is zero, unless there is something about the plate or it's motion that I'm missing. There are two gas pistons ac...

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It's coming here in the US as well. Even my sister, a life long Democrat, says she's becoming worried by the attitude of the American left toward free speech. Their intolerance of opposing viewpoints is, as she puts it, almost religious in its zeal. My Chinese wife, who grew up under the communists,...

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... new 73's are offered in 44 Magnum using the same parts for other calibers.. Factory 240gr 44 Magnum loads would certainty be safe in the 44 Magnum 73's. I've exchanged messages with guys who own .44 Mag '73's and they seem happy with them. I asked one of the importers what they'd seen over they...

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I have to disagree with the 2,000 psi case mouth seal... I'll explain my 2000 psi estimate of case sealing in this post, then this evening I'll go review all your posts of the last few days and see what I misunderstood in those. If one sections a .44 WCF case longitudinally, then the case neck make...

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In all your tests, the primer has reached the blast plate. Clearly, then, there is thrust on the bolt at these pressures. I think that at the minimum, the force off the primer will be peak pressure times the area over the ID of the primer cup. I suspect the area at the OD of the primer cup is closer...

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With the greater head space currently in your set up, the pressurized primer will not apply as much drag to help resist the case coming backward. Just to see if there is any effect, you might move the blast plate forward and try to replicate John Kort's test. Excellent work, Bryan, thank you. I look...

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Nice work. I'm surprised by what appears to be blowby at the primer. I'd have thought it would seal pretty much instantly.

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