Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I blame the media. Fully. Entirely. The media are in the business of creating news drama to sell advertising and a good virus scare has legs. It has backfired on some elements of the media. Local newspapers in the US are hurting badly. All the local businesses on which they depended for advertising...

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We've been isolating like a boss over here for weeks now, and it seems to be working. We haven't killed the bug, but at least we've stopped it killing us. Absent both a vaccine and a sure-fire treatment, that seems only to be delaying the inevitable, at fantastic economic cost. The big question, th...

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What a bizarre lever action ! I knew of the Bullard single shot but didn't realize it was basically a chopped down lever action repeater, the latter having come first. The action locks a bit like a rolling block, with the locking mechanism to the very rear. A long breech bolt goes forward to pick up...

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3leggedturtle wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:42 am Yes he is, watched his video on shooting the Coonan 357 mag 1911 a lil bit ago.....

And I thought he was fast with a revolver!

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I didn't know it had no ejector, a curious omission. I liked the view down into the action as it cycled.

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... Close everything and restart your browser, type in the address again. This time you can save it as a favorite or tab. If your browser predicts http:// for this site when you're typing it in, the site won't recognize you. Once you're logged in, you'll be accessing the site via https://, and this...

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Okay, I figured it out, at least for my case. My bookmarks were set to http: but the site is using https: (encrypted transfer) after you log in. When I changed the bookmark I'm using in Opera to https: it works as expected. The site will run as http: but it won't remember you. The bookmark on my pho...

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In Opera there is a persistent login. I use Opera on my PC almost exclusively. If I navigate away from the site, and then enter the address for the forum again, it's forgotten me. If instead I use the previous screen function (back arrow) to return to this site, I'm still logged in, even if I do a ...

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rock-steady wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:49 amHe likes the old piston and rotary engine sounds.

Who doesn't?! That Soviet Rat is a neat sounding work.

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Nice Whitney-Kennedy! I handled one at a gun show once: Smooooooth. Burgess is an under-appreciated designer.

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Camel73 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:47 am I liked the old hunters opinion of the .30 on page 373.

The .30-30-170 is probably too much for deer, but the .25-36-117 is just right, and a .30-30 FMJ has 4 times the killing power of a .50 cal black powder gun!

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Clearly, by "extra deaths" I meant in the coming year, the year being the time span you used in your opening post. Dismissing such deaths as irrelevant suggests the Nazis killing all those Jews and other Untermenshen wasn't a big deal because they were all going to die some day regardless....

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are you sick of hearing fascists panting breathlessly that the chinavirus might tally 240,000 KIA ? A quarter million dead oldsters isn't good, but it wouldn't ruin the economy. However, that result is predicted to come with a huge recession. Skip the preventive measures to avoid the recession, and...

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Any time I've left the site today, I have to log in again.

edit: I've flushed the cache and deleted the cookies: No difference.

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2ndovc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:07 pm... the FDA was dragging their feet on approving the equipment and process.

Both left and right wing press reporters are coming to the conclusion the CDC and FDA have since January been slowing the response to the virus. Bureaucracy moves in mysterious ways...

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:05 am... the pandemic could cause between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in the United States... The 1918-19 flu pandemic killed 675,000 in the United States, according to the CDC.

The population was 104 million then and so scales to 2.1 million being killed out of today's 327 million.

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My (Chinese) wife's friends back in China all at first believed the virus had leaked from that lab, but they now all believe the US military planted the virus. This is what happens when people live in a news vacuum such as communist China. So, if you have a have a dangerous virus spreading fast and ...

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That made me chuckle.

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I have a .30-40. It's no trick to reload, but I keep it at the original sporting levels, 220 jacketed at 2000 fps (with 4895). If that's enough for you, then just throat your .30-30 long, seat the 220 out there, and get the same fps. Yes, the pressure is higher, but the Handi is strong enough and .3...

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No offense, but I disagree with much of what you've said. No offense taken, but I don't see where there is much to argue over. Regions of Italy a week ago reached the point where there wasn't enough equipment on hand to save every one badly infected. Everyone there is covered equally by insurance s...

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I heard that, too. It makes sense to tend the young over the old when resources are scarce. We older folks have had our chance at life. Time to make way for our descendants. That there is scarcity is annoying, of course. It appears to have been caused by the federal bureaucracy first, Trump's failur...

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The royals may fancy them subjects, but Parliament wields all the power, so they are citizens, albeit with very limited rights to self defense.

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If it's true that the UK's NHS has told 80 year olds to stay home, that is a form of triage. The NHS is not especially well funded compared to similar systems in Europe. They routinely calculate whether a given procedure is deemed worth the cost compared to remaining life span. For instance, at a ce...

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There are some meds made in China, but it is not nearly what the news spews out. Maybe 1 in 20 are made in China. While the finished product is usually not made in China, I read that the active ingredient of more than half is made in China. On the other hand, there was this in Wall Street Journal t...

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kaschi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:57 pm... in a Forgotten Weapons video by Ian McCollum aka "Gun Jesus"

Most amusing.

I’ve never heard that nickname for him, but I do enjoy his presentations.

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Empty shelves in central IL as well. Dumb luck had us running low last week before the hoarders went berserk, and I went home with the usual 20 roll pack (cheapest per roll) which lasts us many weeks.

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Throw out half and you have about 20 dead in over 1700 confirmed cases. That's still 1%, or 10 times that of the typical flu, and do keep in mind that the flu tends to kill the elderly as well, so tossing out those nursing home cases isn't entirely fair. It won't be known for over a year how many pe...

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My son and I were planning to attend the NRA Annual and visit all the levergun makers' booths. I bet that won't be on.

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It would be mostly the elderly, those over 70, doing the dying. As one fellow mentioned to me this weekend, this would help the budget for Social Security. THIS is the mantra of the left..... :| Actually, he's just being factual. He's right wing, a retired marine. I thought his comment was kind of ...

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If it were mine I d chamber it in 303 brit and build it along the lines of this Nice looking Westley-Richards, there. Both .30-40 and .303 brass are getting scarce. Hornady is the only reliable source, and they entered the market after the only option was seasonal brass from Remington. I had laid i...

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I've seen Ferrell's work before. He did the Wesson Mid Range shown on Steve Earle's site. Very nice work, indeed.

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I've read of feeding problems in the 1894 Marlin with SWC bullets. One cure was to bevel the base of the chamber slightly, but I don't know if this would help with wide bullets as used in your Linebaugh.

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A fellow writing in today's Wall Street Journal looked at the infection rate for the swine flu, which was a number of years back and for which no special actions were taken. To this he applied the lowest death rate observed among the countries currently suffering from this virus, which is in S. Kore...

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Oh, you don't want this to be too common, now do you, so use the .369 Nitro Express.

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M. M. Wright wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:32 pmI have this Bisley which also digests the same load.

Nice looking Bisley. Do you shoot yours with the old style, bent elbow hold? Whenever I hold one at a store, I must if the gun is to point correctly for me.

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Luckily, the three of them made it away from the fire as first responders began arriving on scene.

No, the second responders began arriving.

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As a kid I used a BB gun on my grandparent's farm when we visited, but we had not even that at home. When I started work as an engineer, one of the lab technicians invited me to join him shooting, including his 336 in .30-30. (We remained friends until he died a few years ago.) Not long after first ...

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That would be sweet, but I can't see it happening. CAS guys would be the biggest market, and they mostly reload, I think. Still, the Henry is basically a quintuple .22 LR; call it 40 cents a round. Or you could consider it a low volume .45 ACP, which is also about 40 cents. So, $20/box. Then get Ube...

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Their Hunter Lite caught my eye, but it's been out a while. Not quite as light as the Miroku but interesting.

The carbine's specs are 7.9 lb, 39.5", and 6 rounds. Still, that 1895 CB by Marlin is mighty fine...

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The depth of our nation's manufacturing ability at that time was pretty incredible. Indeed, and its decline in the last three decades is remarkable. It’s the nature of capitalism to move capital where it’s needed most. Unfortunately that place has been one with nuclear missiles pointed at us. I bel...

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German militarism is blamed for WW-II, but it was Hitler's reading of the politics, not his high command, that lead to the war. The military didn't want to do the invasions of Poland, France, or Russia. They knew Germany's resources were limited and didn't buy into Hitler's superman theories. Hitler...

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I've never understood the claim the Germans nearly won the war. As I read the history books, it wasn't even close. At Moscow, they had reached the end of their tether. They had neither the manpower nor the resources to go further. The Russians alone turned them, not the whole world. In late '41 when...

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... a rather intelligent and beautiful woman. Polish women can be quite fetching. There's a small number of Polish families living in this town. One winter Friday evening, friends and I were gathered at a favorite bar, and we couldn't help but notice the table of lovely, slender, 40-something gals ...

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... came out of WWII with a positive "we-can-do-anything-together" attitude, which I'd say is LOST today. "Can do" is perhaps the better description. Thank you. As for loosing the "we can do anything together" attitude, the Dems have it in spades: "We can equalize...

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Russians are pretty much like the Polish...25 watt light bulbs. I don't think that a fair assessment. The German general staff knew Germany couldn't win against the Russians. Logistics alone showed that. Hitler believed Russia was ripe to collapse politically, and he lost that gamble. One thing whi...

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You have my pity.

Now I'll grab my snow shovel and clean up after a proper snowfall.

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"I'd like to think he was a friend here too." Certainly, in my mind he was a friend to those here, and I remember those posts on torture testing the Henry 22. His absence here came to mind just yesterday. I was searching around for some information on Uberti groove diameters, and google p...

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This back from Winchester: "Unfortunately, the model 1866 has been discontinued for this season. Hopefully it is something we are able to bring back in the future."

Too bad, I did like their particular Short Rifle configuration.

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Miroku put a similar sight on both the Short and Deluxe Octagon rifles. I wasn't wild about that style but could live with it. Uberti on their Short Rifle uses a simple step elevator sight, and those one can sometimes reverse for more eye relief--depends on the barrel contour.

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I looked over and admired a Miroku '66 Short Rifle at a local store last month but didn't find .38 an interesting choice in it. I looked on Winchester's site to see what else might be available and was surprised to see all '66 models are listed as discontinued. I thought they might introduce a diffe...

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