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Several years ago when I picked up one of my Shiloh Sharps rifles or visited C. Sharps Manufacturing down the block and across the street, I saw a cast stone reproduction 7th Cavalry tombstone (grave marker) in the show room. On and off I've tried to find one or two at a price I could afford - then ...

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Many thanks, guys. You saved me some money. I'll remain with my penetration testing.

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I choose to afford to try this two different occasions only. I have been trying to identify how effective will be three loads, two of which are muzzleloading, one a smokeless powder cast bullet cartridge. What I want to identify is how close to reality will the test medium be. I've done my dry duct ...

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I shall have Ric Carter do the wood. I'm thinking that having the tang sight made right comes first. I'm pretty sure this is routine for a local gunsmith - such as Accu Arms.

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Moderator: If you believe this is in the wrong sub-forum, please move it to where it belongs. My Custom Rossi 92 lever action sporting rifle is back in my possession. And, yes, it is in "needs a whole bunch of work" condition. My heart is no longer invested in my perfectly conceived rifle...

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Is a Mills-type high capacity canvas cartridge belt for 45 Colt available off-the-shelf or otherwise? If such a belt is available, please identify contact from where.

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Lyman's #452651 bullet is a 325-grain truncated or tangential point bullet that might be well suited for my Rossi 92 45 Colt rifle.

Those who have used this bullet in their reproduction Winchester 1892s, please report how it shoots in your rifle and precisely how you loaded the cartridge.

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Which currently manufactured reproduction Winchester Model 1886 rifles' parts can be used - with perhaps minor fitting - in original 1886s? Which reproduction Winchester Model 71 rifles' parts can be used - with perhaps minor fitting - in original 71s? Miroku, for example, manufactures or manufactur...

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Pete44ru: MANY THANKS I have one problem - linking to the image at https://books.google.com/books?id=Pa00KCEvIr0C&pg=PA335&lpg=PA335&dq=ashley+haines+knife&source=bl&ots=DVJl4XNH1j&sig=b748vHWU6YdGqWXrBLsAxsIhkD4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUktvMnKLVAhXoqFQKHdjnAPIQ6AE...

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Nowadays everyone has an opinion regarding that elusive best [fill in the blank]. Rather than "best" I am interested in some reality, two answers to one question - that is, the same question about Alaskan subsistence residents from different eras, Ashley Haines (first decades of twentieth ...

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Browning's M71, and Browning and [new model] Winchester 1886s are made by the same Japanese manufactory. Are the three loading gate assemblies interchangeable among all three rifles? I am aware that M71 and 1886 assemblies are different. I think I am really asking whether loading gates' ports are th...

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Among cartridges for which Winchester 1895s were chambered, 30 US Army, 303 British, and 7.62 mm Nagant account for nearly the entire production. In its military bolt action rifle 303 British and 7.62 Nagant used chargers (stripper clips). The 30 US Army may have been able to be loaded into 303 char...

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What is a reasonable range limitation for taking an elk with a .452-inch bullet weighing 300 grains leaving the barrel at 1300 feet per second?

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Hank: My gun maker believes he will complete metamorphosis of my straight grip Rossi 92 carbine to half-pistol grip rifle sometime in June. I should be receiving the parts no longer used when rifle is returned. If Rossi's stock set meets your needs, I can ship butt stock or complete wood set - my tr...

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Pedersoli manufactures two derringers, Philadelphia (near copy of the Lincoln assassination pistol) and Liège. Both pistols are percussion cap lock single shot. Both shoot .452-inch projectiles. The Philadelphia derringer is a muzzleloader. The Liège is a screw barrel "breechloader." Anyon...

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By way of another forum query I discovered these are restricted . . . unless that changed after January 20.

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FYI: I placed a WANT AD for one of these things, despite not really knowing much about them. So much of what I typed here is replicated. *** When I was a child, our family ate supper every month, or so, at The Club Varsity aka Club V owned by Sam Iconetti. Not only was it excellent food, Mr. Iconett...

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I think I remember seeing photographs of a Winchester Model 1895 wearing a tang sight. I have no idea where I might have seen the photographs. Can the rifle have any tang sight installed? That is, how does a tang sight get around the very long travel of the rifle's long breech bolt? If tang sights a...

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I have been casting and using Saeco's #454 (058, .452-inch 300-grain SWC-GC) bullet. I want to try out a (wide flat nose) 300-325 grain tangential ogive or truncated cone point gas check bullet whose crimp groove has the same relationship to nose length as Saeco's. What I refer to is that Saeco's bu...

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My holster belt is a Bianchi B-3. It has but one minor shortcoming. Its smooth interior surface requires me to wear belt keepers. Without keepers, holster and belt would follow the revolver perhaps eight inches upward during a draw. I am informed that some holster belts have severely textured or &qu...

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Is there manufactured currently a reproduction of Winchester 1886, Model 71, or 1895 lever rifle in stainless steel?

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Many thanks, guys. It might just be that the non-straight grips are higher level custom jobs, but to my eyes they are more attractive and almost certainly more efficient tools that the straight grippers.

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Some cannot use long guns having straight grips - think of shooters with arthritic hands and wrists. Winchester and other American gun makers used to customize special orders for barrels, sights, woods, et al. almost without limit. One thing I have not seen or heard of is the 1895 being made with fu...

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. . . How have these held up over the years with moderate use - say 500 to 2,000 rounds of full power loads a year? Anyone know? Please advise. Thanks. Up to 2,000 per year? I understand Paco Kelly put 10,000 through a 454 Model 92 to verify it would hold up. Ten thousand rounds is but five years' ...

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Are you remotely mechanically inclined? If so, buy Steve's DVD, mag follower and ejector spring and a set of hollow ground screwdrivers and do it yourself. Tycer: Steve's DVD doesn't begin to address what I want done - rebarrel, modify lever, restock, . . . et al. This is far beyond my skill, proba...

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The only gunsmith who specializes in Rossi/Puma 92 lever rifles I'm aware of is Steve Young. He is booked far into the future. I have a Rossi/Puma 92 on which I need substantial work done. Please identify gunsmiths whom you trust to do good action AND stock work on the rifle.

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While the Williams sight is functional, I have an antipathy for aluminum structural parts. And since you intend your aperture sight plus front sight to be primary - the only? - sight for your 99, perhaps you should consider Marble's windage-elevation adjustable tang sight. It is well made, all steel...

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Hello, I am considering a Freedom Arms Model 97 in 45 Colt and I am curious how strong the gun is. I have NO desire to shoot max loads through it but I wonder if it is considered to be a strong as a Ruger Blackhawk as far as what loads it can safely handle. . . . I own 97 45 Colts with 4.25- and 5....

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I'll do my best to respond to the previous replies. My 1895s are hunting rifles. Stocks are slight adaptations of Marlin's XLR laminated wood, pistol grip stocks. I am not a stock crawler, about 5' 8-1/2" and 145 pounds. It is possible, perhaps probable, the problem has arisen because of the ta...

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My Marlin 1895s wear Brockman receiver-mounted aperture sights. One of them also wears a Marble's tang sight, my other rifle's tang sight is still boxed. The purposes for this include the following: 1. Determine which sight is quicker to acquire target. 2. Determine which sight allows me to shoot mo...

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Well, since a script is just a typed listing of the dialog and actions for a movie, and it sounds like you want the text of the movie, not a momento from the movie; why not buy the movie and sit down and make your own script from the movie? The mechanics of describing action, dialogue, parenthetica...

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I'm familiar with the Caputo article. Yes, I refer to the 1954 version starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. *** Regardless how on-the-fly screenplay writing had been, changes would have been typed, paginated and color-coded, and distributed to everyone who needed the pages. At the end of filming...

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What with copyright issues, I'm not sure a downloadable would be legal. Steve: While you may be correct in this specific case - apparently, neither of us knows either way - there are several web sites devoted to acquiring and making available such scripts/screenplays for download. There are more th...

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I have what may be an unsolvable problem. I am trying to locate an affordable/downloadable shooting script or final script for the 1954 motion picture, "Vera Cruz," starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. I remember a script, of some sort, for "Vera Cruz" was sold on eBay about ...

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Those of you who shoot, or have shot, Hornady's 325-grain 45-70 Marlin LeverEvolution ammunition or higher end reloads with this bullet, please describe its mid-range trajectory or its no-holdover range - that is, ± 4 inches vertically from point of aim - at [fill in the blank] yards. I ask, having ...

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The 325-grain FTX .458-inch bullet that is available for reloading has two cannelures. Does either cannelure permit reloading 45-70 ammunition when using brass trimmed to 2.10 inches and 2.55 inches overall length?

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Rebarreling again to .308 should be fairly easy and straightforward. But to miss an opportunity like that to have a M99 in .358....... :cry: :cry: When I lived in the midwest, I owned a tang safety 99 358 Winchester. I disposed of it - didn't care for it. In retrospect, what I didn't care for was t...

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I have a Savage 99F action (only) that was originally 308 Winchester. To barrel the action with a stainless steel 308 barrel, what am I getting into - in terms of difficulty for the gunsmith, in terms of dollar cost, and anything else that comes to mind? Whom would you recommend to do the job - unle...

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Guys, Hawk Precision Bullets http://www.hawkbullets.com/maintest.htm is your answer. They manufacture bullets using the same process Barnes used on their originals. AND . . . Their jacket thickness is variable, from, I believe, .025 through .068 inch. They make a bazillion bullet designs, and for a ...

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I prefer H322. Having written that, for those of you who prefer IMR 3031, I have an unopened 8-pound container of 3031 that I want to swap - swap, not sell - for 8 pounds of H322.

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. . . When I read "mule deer," that pretty much rules out where I am; I have never seen one within 30 miles of my home, and never in my back yard. I hunt within a mile of my home, so 30 miles is a stretch. Unfortunately, I have little valid information on public land elsewhere in Montana....

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Are you coming to hunt, or to have near certainty of harvesting your deer/elk? I ask because non-resident tags are very expensive. What will be the duration of your stay, excluding travel time? Are you coming alone or with hunting partners? Do you prefer handgun, rifle, or muzzleloading hunting? Do ...

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Perhaps you might query Wes Daems at 7X Leather Works in Ennis, Montana. http://www.7xleather.com/ . Among things to consider are: vegetable tanned, or chrome tanned; cow hide or horsehide; full thickness or sueded? Of the things I mentioned, by far the most important is how your leather was tanned....

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Among non-premium (strongly prefer those available in bulk) jacketed bullets satisfactory for use in 308 Winchester, what bullets in the range of 180-220 grains retain sufficient bullet weight under 100 yards to be satisfactory for use on elk?

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Many thanks for the information.

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While I recognize that converting Savage 99 rotary magazine action is acknowledged to be a major headache, what's the skinny on - what appears to be - a nearly non-invasive, simple conversion, such as 300 Savage to 308 Winchester? Would there be significant differences in difficulty/complexity betwe...

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I have first-hand experience only with his pistol smithing. Gunnar Christenson Armco Machine & Plating P.O. Box 21073 Spruceland RPO Prince George, BC V2M 7A5 250-962-9713 http://www.armco-guns.com armco@telus.net Mr. Christenson answers his telephone only certain days of the week, only at certa...

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I have no idea (although I have owned three different 99's) but the folks at the Savage Collectors forum at http.//www24hourcampfire.com will probbly have a handle on your enquiry. I have completed registration, but, 24 hour campfire will not activate my membership to allow me to query the members ...

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How many Savage Model 99s have been made? I include the pseudo 1895 commemoratives that were made briefly near the end of 1899 production.

Of this total, how many were side lever safety versions, and how many were tang safety versions?

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