Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Hey guys, I frequently like to admire and fondle my leverguns, and sometimes I even like to admire their ammo. I did an ammo lineup, and then thought maybe it would be fun to post. Here are individual bullets for each of the levergun calibers I have. I'm sure you guys can guess what the calibers are...

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Looks great! Good job!

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I really like the 'distressed' finish! so is the bore in good shape? if not, I'd send that thing off to JES for a rebore!

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I'm glad you are enjoying the 327 Henry. I've always been a fan of 32 cal and own two 32H&R mags and a 327, all revolvers. I've read that Federal is coming out with a 130grain load as well, specifically for the Henry. I've also read that the 100 grain federal ammo pushes 2000fps in a 20" ba...

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I personally have had phenomenal success with the 30-30. I've shot more deer with the 30-30 than any other weapon or caliber, and the overwhelming majority drop either instantly or within sight. I've never lost one. Distances ranged from 20-100 yards. You will have a very hard time convincing me tha...

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Perfect! Thank's guys! Dollar coins up through the IKE dollars were 1.5" so Malamute's info matches Elmo's measurement.

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Hey guys

can anyone with a centenial/bicentenial/commemerative winchester 94 with a medaillion in the stock, measure the diameter of the medallion for me?

I'm assuming that they are all the same size, but if not, that might be good to know as well

Thanks!

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Is it a coincidence that there is a box of corn pops in the foreground? I imagine some of you will get the reference.

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What caliber is that rifle? Those rounds don't look like 30-30-30s to me

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That's terrible!

The safe must have been in a basement or a shed something. I've never seen a gun rust like, and I've seen some pretty sorry gun care (or complete lack of).

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So far I'm the youngest at 42. Not a regular contributer but have been on here off and on since at least 2005 (diff user name originally).

Been shooting since about 7 and accompanied my dad hunting from probably younger than that. I'm pretty sure that the love of leverguns is in my DNA.

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I've heard about summer parasites in rabbits, but hadn't heard about it being a problem with squirrels. We've had the June season for a few years now and I've eaten plenty of them without a problem.

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Hey guys, VA has a june squirrel season so a good friend took me out to his family's property for some squirrel hunting yesterday. I used my dad's old winchester model 150 with weaver 4x scope, and had a wonderful time. I think va dgif was very smart to open a june squirrel season. the gun is surpri...

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My GP100 .357 cylinder measures 1.61"

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go handle a few and see what suits you best. I've always like the mossberg 500 better than the rem 870 Except I do really like a pardner pump that I got that is supposed to be a clone of a certain version of the 870. I've read really good reviews on it. Before Remington shut down H&R, they offer...

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Wow! Very nice!

When I was young, my grandfather told me about shooting an 8 gauge when he was young.

I had a 10ga stevens for years. shot deer and turkeys with it. I think the hevi shot turkey loads I shot were 2 3/8 oz !!

Hope you enjoy the 8ga.

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I have a break action 20ga that was made by CBC and imported by FIE in the mid 1980s I think. I've always thought that even though it was a 'no name' gun that it seemed very well made, and locks up nice and tight.

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This might not be helpful at all, and I've never worked with hard maple, but I do a lot of axe handles, and sometimes the hickory is really white and boring so what I use is equal volumes of pure tung oil, citrus solvent and pine tar. I'm not sure if it is very good for a gun stock, but works well o...

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Wow, that's amazingly generous, thanks man. I'm happy to compensate you. I'll send you a PM.

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let me tell a little story that kind of supports both sides of the argument about Henrys. when I was young, we lived in a shotgun only area. However, my dad had his fathers old (1903) winchester 94 that I would frequently fondle. I thought that it was the coolest gun in the world. In around 2000, as...

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no, sorry, I've confused everyone now. if you read the original post. I couldn't make a 760 magazine that I bought off ebay work in my 760. Then ywaltzucanrknrl asked me questions about the fitment of the mag, etc. but I had already returned the 760 magazine to the seller. However, I still had a 742...

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ok, so I just tried the 742 mag again. It has similar problems with this gun as the 760 mag that I just returned. First, here is what the 742 mag looks like https://i.postimg.cc/cLHY6WVb/IMG-20200523-093505349.jpg and here is the back side https://i.postimg.cc/7YX0xhQz/IMG-20200523-093453083.jpg Lik...

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After the bolt contacts the round and starts pushing it toward the chamber, what stops it? Is the bullet tip hitting high, low, right or left of the chamber? Or is something in the magazine stopping it, like the magazine lips or the shoulder stop? I may have a magazine for you. A few years back I c...

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^^^^Right on bdbrown66!!!!!!^^^^^^^^^ I own two Henry .22s and LOVE them. Very smooth and accurate. Beautiful guns. Just the other day, my friend told me that his two boys were saving up so that they could go in together and buy a .22 rifle. I asked if they would like to go shooting so we went out t...

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Hey guys, I know its not a lever gun, but pump rifles are almost as cool so hopefully will get a pass. I have a rem 760 in 30-06 that was made in '52 and looks like it wasn't ever shot much at all. I didn't get a magazine with it, and shot it a few times last year single shot. I do have a Rem 742 al...

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if you like the shotgun, buy it.

my dad bought a winchester model 120 ranger slug gun in around 1986 and hunted hard with it for 30 years, it received minmal care as it was a tool, and it never had a single problem. brought home a LOT of deer.

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Please, leave that Winchester 71 alone! THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! In general I'm a huge advocate of folks doing what with their stuff. However...... A winchester 71 in 348 is my all time dream gun. I'm hoping one day to be able to get one, and with the scarcity and price of them it would seem a DARN shame t...

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WOW, what a killer deal! I have certainly never heard of SB shotguns selling for that little around here! I've always liked SB shotguns. Here is my savage 220 that is a real sweet shooter! I had a MUCH higher hit percentage than they guys I was with who had semis. I think it had a full choke when I ...

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That thing is pretty crazy!

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Thanks, ok, I'll probably shoot for about 13 - 13 1/4" then.

I'm now trying to figure out the right pitch. I seem to prefer more pitch - like 5-6 deg

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Yeah ….. 520 - that's old school! The 520-30 and 620A were made as trench guns for the US military during WW2. My Uncle carried one as a boat captain (or whatever their title was) on Higgins boat during WW2. Fun story - Uncle had one with a rudimentary shark carved in the butt stock. I asked him as...

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Set the LOP for hunting, I'm sure you do a lot more hunting than having to defend yourself. If you practice gun mounting the muscle memory will take care of the rest. As a trap shooter I shoot longer LOP, I'm 5'10, but trap shooters as a whole are stock crawlers, I shoot 14.5" but my rifles ar...

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I've got a 12 ga pump that I'm setting up as a home/truck defense gun. It doesn't have a recoil pad on it right now and the LOP is about 12.25" and feels pretty short Normally on my hunting guns I like 13.25 - 13.5 LOP Should a defense shotgun have a shorter LOP for any reason? The starndard 1&...

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I've happened onto videos of this guys inventions off and on for a few years now. Even if you don't think that any of the stuff he comes up with is particularly useful or whatever, you have to respect the fact that he is constantly coming up with new stuff and improvements on his designs - and is su...

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Flint I like my 38-55 so I understand. I also have a 35/30-30 (as stamped on the barrel) and if you can’t do the 38-55 the 35/30-30 has some interesting things to consider. Brass is everywhere, if you reload for the 35 Remington you already have the bullets and the dies. I fire form 30-30 to fit th...

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IIRC, that Jesse has to have at least .050" per side, at the muzzle, above groove dia. for a re-bore. So you need at least .475" or so, of muzzle diameter. I am sure he prefers more than that, but IIRC, that was the minimum. I would want at least .100" per side myself as at .050 and ...

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Have you spoken to Jesse about it? Nobody will have a more authoritative view on it than him. He's not great answering the phone but should ring back if you leave a message. Thanks, yes, I'll call him sometime soon. The Win 94 BB 375 barrel measures .610 at the muzzle. So this shouldn't be a proble...

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Hey guys, I few weeks ago, with some help from you guys, I shortened the mag tube on this rifle and I really like the way it turned out. https://i.postimg.cc/Sj0StHBF/IMG-20191224-162101995.jpg I now would like to send it to JES for a rebore to 38-55. However, I'm a little worried that there isn't e...

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I've DEFINITELY on more than one occasion had ads pop up on my phone after I mentioned certain related words in a phone call ! and it is definitely creepy!

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Victor Tool was the original manufacturer of the woodman's pal. I have their wood handled version I also have a Pro Tool Woodman's pal that I got at least a decade ago - that one is the leather handled version with handguard. The quality of my Pro Tool woodman's pal is still really good so must have...

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ok, cool, that's good to know.

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I have two of them, and LOVE them. I always have one in the truck with me - and it has come in very useful. I've used it to cut small trees that have fallen across forest roads and it makes very short work of them. Excellent tools. Like a cross between a hatchet and a machete. Cant say I'm real keen...

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When I was a kid, my grandpa gave me a really old sears and roebuck catalog. Don't remember what decade it was from. maybe the 20s? not sure now. I was maybe 10 years old at the time. I was always a gun nut, and enjoyed looking at all the old guns. the other thing that stuck in my memory were the me...

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It greatly depends on the individual rifle. MOST .22's I've shot with CBs were definitely louder than MOST airguns. However, we used to have a Remington bolt action - I think it was a model 512 or something like that - and with CBs it was totally quiet. that was such an accurate rifle too. I have pe...

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nevermind. I was able to get it. my hardware store miraculously had a 1" screw of the correct thread pitch - which by the way if anyone ever finds this post on a search - is 8-36 for a post 64. I was able to cut the screw down with a hacksaw and then grind the end down with a bench grinder and ...

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I shortened the mag tube on a 30-30 rifle I acquired. https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=75688 very happy with it. until tonight when I drilled the new hole in the barrel for the magazine plug screw to extend in to, to keep the tube from flying away. it "turns" out ...

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M. M. Wright wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:54 pm
Now THAT'"S how a rifle should look. Put a receiver sight on it. Or better yet a tang sight to give it a longer sight radius then give us range report. I think you're gonna like the grou[s it'll shoot.

Thanks! Will do!

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Well, I cut the magazine tube down tonight and I'm pretty pleased with the way it looks and handles. I cut the tube to 9 1/2" and it ended up being about 9 7/16" after filing, etc. Extends past the forend cap about 1 1/2" and it holds 3 rounds just fine which is plenty for my uses. I ...

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Very cool!

I inherited my dad's Winchester 150 - which is kind of like the 290 but lever action and with a straight grip stock. It has an old 4x weaver scope on it. Haven't shot it much yet.

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My really old SRC has it's magazine shortened to 4 round length. Was that way when I got it about 60 years ago. It's a 25-35 but that doesn't matter just the fact that it shoots much better groups this way. https://i.imgur.com/KN58y0D.jpg?1 For several years I put the full length magazine on it but...

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