Hanging some in there, for you both. Y'r in our prayers.

More interesting with each post. Now, I'm confused apparently about leveraction and cowboy silhouette guns and matches. I have a friend who just shoots a stock-39A in some sort of 'siily'match. Then there is a pistol caliber class, too? I haven't followed this subject over the years, but recently it...

OK, some good answers and more questions to ponder. On the .25-35 -- it is not going to be used for CAS, but more for my own recreational off-hand steel banging. Soooo...the mod's are pretty open there. On the .357 idea, and according to your input, just about any decent, stocker traditional levergu...

Looking for ideas and pics to build a [presently] 336, .25-35 20" carbine into an off-hand silhouette steel clanger. First of all: why 'DO' anything to what might be a perfectly good rifle? Because: this 336 was a backseat/cargo box gun in the South for years.the cosmetics are pretty challenged...

Is that a Mattel? And what's that fragile-looking long tall bulky thingy sitting on top of a utilty fence post bullet pusher?

Anyway, "function is, as function does."

It ought be available in pink, tho. Y'know, just so's the color would match the overall design.

Thanks for the kick-ins. Will copy/paste them to a document and send 'em on. Your experience and advice will be appreciated in his decision making process. Were it me, it would be simple. A Marlin guide gun with some aftermarket tweaks/treats and a 4" .45 Ruger Redhawk. Unless I could wrangle M...

Friend of mine from another board is making inquiries. The fellow already lives in the Anchorage AK area, and is not confident with his handgun or his skills vs Mr Bear[s]. So he's thinking 'rifle", that is easy to carry and keep handy. We spoke of assorted Marlin .45-70's, and the main thing h...

Quite nice illustration of gun, sights and holster, that go together like a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sammich. Ran out of time lately, on the "nag'em, till they make'um" King Gunsight Revival. Workin' for money is OK, but it sure takes away from life's meaningful pursuits. ;~`) Anyway, so...

You have a good eye for design and obvious skills. Keep after this knife biz, and post the results of further projects. They'll be appreciated here, f'shure.

Wow...I had no idea Brownell's carried such a line up. Thanks, and lots of fun now! ;~`)

Have gotten my butt-stock for the .25-35 336 [from Numrich]. And,thanks to board members, I'll have the info/pattern to whittle the lever into an 'old style'. Now, to complete the makeover of this battered ol' gal, I'd like to do a button magazine fore-end , with the requisite hardware. In the past,...

Chuck and Airdaleman,

Thanks for the advice, pics, and tracings.

Now, a little TIG'ing to build up the bent/warped areas of the fingerloop, install the new Numrich stock, and the old girl will be lookin' a whole lot better.

For very quiet pest elimination from a rimfire rifle try the Super Colibri's. They have a bit more pfftt than the regular Colibri. And unlike the regular Colibri, the little slugs don't seem to have a tendancy to get stuck in y'r bbl, either. The report is considerably less than either spring or com...

For very quiet pest elimination from a rimfire rifle try the Super Colibri's. They have a bit more pfftt than the regular Colibri. And unlike the regular Colibri, the little slugs don't seem to have a tendancy to get stuck in y'r bbl, either. The report is considerably less than either spring or com...

...behind the pivot on the action bottom. Will trade a couple of vintage Western hardbacks for the effort. Have rec'd my 'new' crescent-butt stock for the .25-35 Bienke reline'd 336. When the truck ran over the grip area it also mangled the lever loop. It was apparently straightend on a brick with a...

Well, I'm still pixxed because Marlin went for the .338 Lever-etc when they COULD have gone for a light recoiling, flat shooting .25/257/ [or the kiss of death 6.5, which is about as good as the .338 so far as saleability, IMNSO humble market opinion]. There was a large majoritarian opinion on the o...

"That old work thang has slowed some of my posting." Must be the new motto of the decade; never been working harder than now, as well. "I had a fast twist barrel and Greg had a slow twist barrel. " Will have to do a check on the one I'm caretaking. "Greg’s barrel was ruined...

John Taylor can either rebarrel your 336, or reline it. I personally would go with e reline, as it saves you rebluing, and all the original markings. John's work is the best, and I can attest to that! http://www.johntaylormachine.com/ Endorse a re-line. The .25-35 Marlin I was given in exchange for...

CEMENTHEAD wrote:37.5 grains of 3031,under a 200 grain Remington CoreLokt RN.

Thanks, a Gold standard, there. Of the three .35's I've owned, all shot the 200 Rem's as well or better than anything I put thru them. It is a bit stiffish, but normally I'm not plinking with it, either. ;~`)

I don't have any 'plinking' loads for the .35. But I have one GREAT load. 200gr Jacketed or the RCBS 35-200 with 37.5grs of H322 will stay inside an inch at 100 yards in most of my .35's, both rifles and T/C's. In the 25-35 I don't have 'plinking' loads there either. But 24grs of 3031 with the 117g...

I shoot my 356 Win. like a 35 Rem., and the RCBS 200 Gr. FNGC from Montana Bullet Works has been outstanding. They are sized .359 Good endorsement, thank you. I've looked at MBW catalog and noted that bullet as being esp good in .35Rem. What powder[s] and weights have you found to be good? TIA John

Whot birfday? You ain't old enough to have that sorta misery. However,if you insist on acknowledging such dreary reminders of mortality, then may it be with a splendiferous and exuberant expenditure of powder and lead. And mebbe a new shootin' iron, ta boot. "Slim', eh? That boy gets around the...

Thanks, for a good start. Will put'em on file. Definitely want to find a 158gr SWC pistol bullet plinking load for the .35. Have a nice 50-100 yard spot for busting busatables. ;~`) Also, thot a woodchuck safari might be appropriate along the edges of drainage ditches. Quick shooting. .25 is most fo...

As I gear up the reload bench for the summer, I thot it would be interesting to hear an update of other folks successful efforts for these two calibers. I know that William Iorg, f'r instance,did a WHOLE buncha research on twenny-five's, but for some reason I never found his definitive test results....