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You would buy another Browning firing pin to weld on rather than just use the one that's in the gun? Im not sure exactly what differences there are between the Browning safety/inertia firing pins and later Winchesters versions, but I don't think its tremendous. Heres replacement, aftermarket firing ...

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I think theres more to "what did a 94 cost in X year" and "what did a car cost". The 94 is basically identical then and now, the vehicles have much more changes and technologies that have changed since then. If the same level of change happened in guns, they would be more like a ...

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Is it possible to easily transfer all your images on photobucket to imger or other hosting site?

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There are no non-inerta Browning 86 firing pins. The one mentioned is the standard inertia type. The aftermarket firing pins made for original 86s and 71s are probably adaptable. I believe they are close dimensionally, but may require some fitting. The one that one of our guys here had trouble with ...

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Are you having trouble getting each individual entire round in all the way or having trouble getting the next one started into the gate? Ive used the "dont push each one all the way in until the last one" but feel its generally a poor substitute for pushing each one all the way in with a p...

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Saw these discussed elsewhere, apparently Texas, and perhaps other states aren't thinking they are OK. Check local laws before travelling with one.

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I dont agree with his conclusion, nor do I agree that shooting in poorly ventilated ranges is the only way to take in lead. The residue onfired cases, and in particular the dust from dry tumbling can be an exposure route. Some have had elevated blood lead levels and mitigated it in reducing exposure...

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I have the Lyman 311252 32 auto 77 gr mold. I haven't cast with it yet, but it should be a great extra-light load bullet. It was listed in some of the old Ideal load manuals in many 30 cals as a gallery/cellar or small game load.

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Nice addition to the family! Patrick Kelley did a video a while back of doing a "from the box to the match" review of a Mk VI Webley 45 cal. Looks like he had a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQq80s8Z8Q Almost forgot to mention, the Safariland speed loaders for K frame S&...

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Excellent! Glad you got it fixed!

When you described how hard it was to move the firing pin before you filed and polished it down, it sounded like you were on to the answer.

I would be asking for a refund from the gunsmiths that charged you to not fix it.

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I would start soaking it in penetrating oil. I believe the bolt comes apart very similar to the 73, the extractor pin is driven out, the extractor removed, that then allows the rear part of the firing pin to unscrew from the rear. Exploded view of the 1860 and 1866 action. http://www.rarewinchesters...

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For me, the Smith 27s (or all the N frame 357s and 44s), K-22s, the Colt SAAs, the 1886 Winchesters, and the super clean M1 Garand I had that looked unfired. It was a Blue Sky import. Some others come to mind, those are the most egregious examples though.

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The info about pepper spray is to NOT consider it a repellant for an area or objects. People have tried that, the bears sometimes come roll in it. It acts completely differently on the ground or whatever versus sprayed in their eyes and nose. so, Id guess you may be making it worse with cayenne or o...

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Keep in mind you don't need to remove all machine marks to improve the action smoothness, just knock the high parts off will improve it noticeably and not open tolerances enough to worry about, though it probably wouldn't hurt anything on the sides of the bolt anyway. I use my small ceramic triangle...

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I think it serves two purposes, one, to avoid a hammer down, impact to hammer discharging the gun, as the older style can do, and probably as a drop safety. I don't recall reading official information about their intent. I cant tell anyone else what to do, but the old style half cock safety has alwa...

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You may be onto it. Did you disassemble the safety parts and see if the firing pin slides forward in the bolt without hanging up at the forward end? If it hangs up without the safety parts, there may be a burr or crud. If it doesn't hang up with no safety parts, or your modification doesn't help, pe...

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Is that with the inertial safety parts oriented so they aren't lined up with their groove to stop forward motion? If so, the bolt may have a burr in it. Did you clean the firing pin hole in the bolt with solvent and a 22 or similar small brush? (edit to fix what stupid spell correct messed up) I fou...

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Godspeed friend.

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Sorry for the blue look, I don't have editing software in this computer. downsized_0413170820.jpg 0413170829.jpg I haven't had a Browning apart to see, but if the extractor pin is holding the firing pin in, you may need to turn a section of the Winchester type pin down a bit to work. Its just a gues...

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With it cleaned up, how much moving resistance is there of the firing pin in its channel in the bolt if its not indexed for the inertial safety to work normally? I compared a spare original type model 71 firing pin with the spare Browning pin. It may be possible with a little lathe work to get the o...

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Its a Browning, not a Winchester/Miroku, it doesn't have a rebounding hammer.

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\ ... I'm constantly surprised at how many people who claim to have a CCW license handle guns completely unsafely. The first thing they do is put their finger on the trigger, muzzle us and everyone around the counter or point the gun at themselves. 90% don't practice basic safety steps when handling...

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That funny little dogleg part (po70110) in the parts diagram is part of the inertial safety. I don't know exactly how the firing pin comes out, but think it has to have the small inner part of the rear firing pin pushed in, then that releases the rest of it (in other words, push the inner part in fr...

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That pin is for the extractor. You have to remove the bolt, or at least remove the lever and its pin to the bolt, that's part of what holds it in, don't recall about the Browning, if theres more. The Brownings don't have a longer firing pin than the channel in the bolt, like an older 94, its inertia...

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I believe they likely take the magazines out of guns out on the floor so they don't disappear. Several years ago in walmart, I was curious why they mad you pay for ammo from the case right on the spot. They said it was because people would walk around the store and fill their pockets with the ammo a...

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Yes, most of the ones I have or have had were pre-64 and some pre-war. Griff, yes, most of mine have been 30-30 also, though one had a Saskatchewan Commemorative 38-55 carbine barrel. It didn't seem finicky about loads, but I didn't shoot it much. Another was an early 1900s receiver with custom 38-5...

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Interesting, Ive never found them to be difficult to take apart. I did my first one the same age Joe did, and had no manual or internet to guide me. After figuring it out, and realizing it was relatively simple, I also realized there wasn't any reason to take them apart for most cleaning and mainten...

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Cool, that should alleviate that issue. Thanks!

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I was going to ask if the nose of the bullets that didn't feed were fatter than the ones that did feed, but that's been answered. I'll be the odd man out I guess. I disagree that they have to be operated briskly. Some guns may not work if they aren't, but I don't think that's proper operation. I thi...

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This may get confusing, theres already a well known member using w30wcf. When I first saw your post I was wondering what he was going to change his name to.

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... 07&start=0

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I saw this discussed elsewhere, I believe some got a chance to shoot the demo models at the SHOT Show. It has a lot of pages, but they are short pages.

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php ... Colt-Cobra

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I think your J frames would be much more useful all around than the gun in question, and pretty darned easy to carry and fairly easy to shoot decently well with proper grips.

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Good choice. Ive had one or two of the Buffalo Bills and maybe 3 of the Canadian Centennials. I never shot them on paper much but always enjoyed them quite a lot. William Iorg has worked with the 26" guns some with various loads, he has much good to say about them. They give a noticeable boost ...

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I sent Driftwood a note on another forum he posts on. Hopefully hell be along and be able to help Two Bit with the info he wanted about the gun.

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There is some pretty good pictures and info on sights at this link. It has several links from there detailing the sights for different periods. http://winchestercollector.org/forum/winchester-sights/Winchester+Model+1894+Sights+Project/ If you can find a copy, even to borrow at the library, The Winc...

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Out of curiosity, are you chambering a new barrel?

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was slow to choose 147 gr. back when they were the bee's knees until i realized that they nearly duplicated the so called fbi load .38 special that i routinely carried at the time but with 15 shots...... i often carry a magazine full of xtp 147s with either a liberty civil defense or a cordon/glase...

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Ive also heard cowboy action shooters saying the Lighting copies didn't work well. Im not sure they were that great in the original version either, but for a new gun, Id expect more reliability out of the Italian copies, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

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^^^ Except,...winter. I'm getting less interested in winter as time goes by. I want to be a snowbird. 27+ years in the winter wonderland, with occasional visits to warmer country in winter, a habit I hope to make more regular.

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Midwest Gun Works had some of the parts, and maybe complete lower tangs, (not sure if half cock or rebound) last year. Not sure if they still do.

I vaguely recall complete lower tangs were about $150-ish.

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M. M. Wright wrote:It won't be US lead as they forced the shut down of the last lead smelter in the US last year.

They?

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Depends on what you want a camp knife to do. For food prep, any butcher or kitchen knife of the appropriate size would work. For light wood processing for fires something heavier would be better. Ive not tried to make a knife to camp wood production. A light axe/hatchet does it easier. Some guys hav...

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If I were a machinist, I'd make me lots of different cartridge adapters. I'd like to see an over-under shotgun where the top barrel was set up to use indexed chamber/barrel inserts. Maybe 20 gauge with inserts for 45 Colt, 32-20, and 218 Bee....or if I had to be modern, 44 Mag, 357 Mag, and 22 TCM....

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Well heck. If they were going for early type 94, they could have put the front band where it should have been instead of where they were located after ramp front sights came in. Oh well. I'm more likely to buy a Winchester in any event, its not hard to find them.

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I saw something a while back about a woman that was riding solo across Africa. Looked like quite the adventure. There are other makes of bikes around the world besides what were used to seeing. I think the woman in Africa was riding a Chinese or Indian bike or some such for part of her trip, or had ...

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Carbines are pretty plain vanilla compared to rifles, rifles have a bit more class and panache. It would be simplest to get a true rifle barrel and magazine ring (the front band you have is for a carbine). If you have a line on a fair condition 30-30 rifle barrel, it may fit your current fore end an...

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Are butane lighters different than Zippos?

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Joe, if it does it again, try a battery charger on it. Some vehicles can have enough charge to turn over and sound normal, but if there isn't a certain voltage to the coil, it wont actually fire or start. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard of it, but some are that way. Hope it stays straig...

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Hmm, I just looked up strings for my old recurve. $9 to $14. I can do the installation. If I'm going to step back that far, I'd just as well make myself an atl-atl. :roll: :lol: Oh, I don't know, they seem to work pretty well. I guess it comes down the how much you value the perceived improvements ...

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Hmm, I just looked up strings for my old recurve. $9 to $14.

I can do the installation.

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