Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I remember a nicer house in a much larger lot than most of our neighbourhood where the bigger kids including my middle sister would often mob together for any convenient games of "rounders". Any flat object would do for the bases and homeplate. I said "rounders" because there was...

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If that slavic monopoly money does indeed cipher to twenty five franklins then the original functioning dark-bored grey-rat maynards that S & S and Lodgewood frequently list for half those prices are bargains provided they (originals) don't break with usage.

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One thing I like about the shorter .44 russian and .45 schofield/govt. cases is when I am using lee dippers or fixed rotors like the rcbs little dandy is the volume gap between two dippers or rotors almost always results in either too much or too light of the tried and true standards of bullseye, re...

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Just as entertaining nonetheless but the first version I remember reading it was "manuel".....

I also seem to associate the story with a site that played a very electronically synthesized. "streets of laredo" or "red river valley" or the like....

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2026 8:31 am .45, if reading Foa on the 'puter doesn't set well, the book is one of those in the Capstick Library and easily available used.

Thriftbooks has several......used like new from $10.90 to $537.00 !

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If you want to know how practical a .303 double is in Africa, find a copy of Edouard Foa's "After Big Game in Central Africa," published in 1899. It's a fabulous read about this Frenchman's epic explorations and hunts, and while he had larger bore rifles for the dangerous stuff, it is rem...

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Most pocket pistols & revolvers shoot low. The most notorious example is the charter bulldog. When he reviewed the first sample bulldog he received, major nonte said he knew from just examining it even before firing that it would shoot quite low due to the obvious frame-barrel-front sight geomet...

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Wow ! Those lugers seem most interesting.

That p.w. of redmond washington......not virginia is an importer of old, surplus arms and new chinese and turkish designs and close copies of others.....

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=haoLlc357p8&list=RDhaoLlc357p8&start_radio=1&pp=ygUPUmF5IGxlZSBjYWx2YXJ5oAcB CALVARY ! Verse 1 There's a hill lone and grey In a land far away, In a country beyond the blue sea; Where beneath that fair sky, Went a man forth to die, For the world and for you ...

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https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=958765#p958765 Most interesting ! An amazing collection. The one at the far right (.50-95 ?) is most appealing. One like that in a more sensible .45-60 should be most welcome to anyone who does not suffer from tactitardism. Makes me want to reread R...

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Flint, that is an excellent reply to a great o.p.

Looking at the o.p. date.....near the end of 2020 seems like a lifetime ago with all that has happened since then.

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Shooters reference website.....

https://shootersreference.com/reloadingdata/

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Pablo, I'm glad you all have archived and maintained that site. The cumpston articles, especially the .44 special one is most interesting..... https://milesfortis.us/mcump/mc15.htm This is all that is left of the model 24 information..... https://www.milesfortis.us/church/akc19.htm I think I met him...

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I wonder if the model 24 specific forum at milesfortis.us is still operating. There used to be lively discussions and information posted on the diverse models produced over the decades. There is a way to get into an over-under 30-30 that is reasonably sight regulated by starting with the very rare 3...

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There was once an excellent article (guns & ammo ?) by ross seyfried on hunting smaller antelopes & various fowl for camp meat using period rook rifles, the .22 hornet & the .22 wmr. The federal 50 gr. .22 wmr was preferred but the several 40 gr. solids had their uses. It would be nice t...

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It’s important to watch for changes. For instance, I tend to have coffee at a certain place and pray while the sun come up. There are a variety of middle eastern men who I see every Sunday morning without fail. None of them were present this morning. Does it mean anything? Perhaps, perhaps not. But...

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Way, way back in the day, a famous gunwriter (the subject was suppressed ruger self-loading pistols) instructed that the best reactive targets were pingpong balls. Then about 15 years later.....in the same glossy periodical, a former texican high-sheriff wrote that common compressed charcoal briquet...

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I just realized (as is noted above) that the Feb. 2026 N.R.A. American Rifleman is the last print issue. Digital from now on. Most disappointing. I had read on other forums that the issue with the board member ballots inserted was said to be the last physical print edition but I did not quite believ...

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One good use of the modern starliine brand schofield brass is that when handloading afield or on your truck tailgate at the range, using either yellow lee dippers or a fixed rotor mechanical measure (little dandy, etc.), the tried and true charge weights for the "long" colts often fall bet...

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Bringing a deceased member's post(s) back to the top is a good way to honour his contributions to the forum but obviously he cannot answer questions.....

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I have had to trim brass to shorter than specs. in similar situations..... That does not logically seem applicable but it has almost always sufficed. How much to trim ? Trial and error, just enough to close the lever normally. I have had to resize the loaded rounds as well and like to have a sizer w...

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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34063/pg34063-images.html#C34 An excerpt from chapter 25..... I always wanted as good a gun as there was on the market. By this I do not mean the highest priced, nor the highest power gun, but the gun that would do the business. A man by the name of Orlando Reese...

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Those few minutes that I have been able to stand before I muted the telly every year for as long as I can remember have been really bad acts that cost many millions of $. The NFL should ask for at least a partial refund or else stop the check's clearing. I remember that here were great expectations ...

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. Yeah, I have actually had both single action and double action revolvers lock up. It's pretty darn rare, but it certainly can happen. Probably about the only thing more reliable than a crowbar or a baseball bat would be a break open single shot shotgun, but I'm sure even those sometimes fail to f...

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Smith and Wesson changed the ejector rod threads from right hand to left hand in 1961 with the standard weight barrel model 10-2 and with the heavy barrel model 10-3 the same year so the isssue of the cylinder locking up was eliminated. I guess my example from '73/'74 did not get the message that t...

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I just realized that above when I cited to historic handgun hunters with using the .221 fireball to good effect, I said Dalrymple, thinking Byron of outdoor life fame. I was incorrect. I meant Jim Dougherty the famous pioneering modern bow hunter and handgun predator hunting enthusiast.

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The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed. Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an ...

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The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed. Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an a...

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There is a photo in Keith's autobiography (page 144 in my edition) of which the caption cites 1935. Same rifle , shirt and hat but clearly a different photo than that in the video. There is also a similar photograph that I downloaded from online that cites 1933 and mrs. Keith's .300 h & h "...

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I don't know why Keith and O'Connor were at such odds with each other. But Keith had very little use for the .30-06, proving he had huge blind spots. Ask Alaskan moose and bear guide Phil Shoemaker, whose sig line on accuratereloading.com is: Anyone who claims the 30-06 is ineffective has either no...

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There are other factors involved that greatly muddle the issue..... Very frangible varmint bullets of medium (not the lightest avail.) weight at slower than optimal velocities perform quite well on larger animals. How is less more ? Think a 6.5 jdj with the 120gr. speer leaving at 2400 fps. The inim...

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Paul105, that 986 looks cool. I have tried quite a few d.a. 9x19 revolvers and always experiment if they'll fire without the clips. So far I have only had one factory loaded cartridge prove to be too short without the support of the clip(s) but I have had several more than that of my own handloads g...

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Here is an interesting excerpt from chapter 20 of the electronic version of martin hunter's "canadian wilds" that I linked above. Seeing a small shark brought ashore the other day by one of the salmon fishermen, who had found it rolled up in his net, put me in mind of an exciting adventure...

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Someone once posted a video link of a sixgunner who was quite practiced at swiftly ejecting empties and used an improvised speedloader of sorts like a tube with a stopper on one end. Could it have been the rev. j.a.t. ?

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Hydrogen peroxide used to come with a warning that it lowered intelligence upon application to hair. Has anyone else noticed the prevalence of fake blondes on fox news ? Most all are quite attractive but some of them need to groom those dark, near unibrows. It's like leonid brezhnev has a bunch of ...

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I also like those "anti-type blonde" jokes which draw you into them then in the end the blonde is much more clever than expected..... A somewhat trophy blonde pulled her ferrari convertible into a long term parking garage and was told that the price, including insurance would be $500 for t...

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Alas, several of these are out of print but the "canadian wilds" edition that is apropos to the theme of the o.p. seems available. https://www.furfishgame.com/shop_online/ff_harding_historical_books.php Here is the electronic book online..... https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34173/34173-h/3...

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I just realized that Y.K.'s foto above is most probably a pietta instead of the uberti I mentioned. For those who did not understand the hollywood /television reference I made above, here is some context..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3uF5t9NOJLI&pp=ygUXYmF0IG1hc3RlcnNvbiB0diBzZXJpZXM%3D Fas...

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https://texasescapes.com/JefferyRobenalt/Battle-of-Walkers-Creek-and-Colt-Paterson-Revolver.htm "they fired only 150 shots....." Let this soak into the little grey cells for a minute. Certainly there was much gun emptying and multiple cylinder recharging ongoing that afternoon in/on arms t...

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that uberti is gene barry in character as b.w.b. masterson cool !.....if that makes any sense.....

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Way back in the day I-40 from memphis to little rock was a runner-up for the "lunar landscape" poster child but last summer I-59 from gadsden to the georgia line took the title.

Glad you are back and it is rio san gabriel wading weather. Be careful of those slippery rocks.

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Plum Wodehouse had a bit of a lark with the movement but then the plot hit too close to home in just a few years......

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I just discovered that all of my old 2.5x compact scopes that have been faithful companions on leverguns & single-shots & slug-loaded fowling-pieces & somewhat modern muzzleloaders have dimmed and yellowed inside. They still look as if they might work but I miss the clear, bright view. S...

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As for the o.p. topic self-loading gat...... Good old-fashioned configuration : https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/10964 And the subsequent replies re. the h&r so-called magnum roscoes..... https://choiceammunition.com/product/32-hr-magnum-78-grain-rn-black-hi-tek-coated-lead...

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Wilhelm, I know exactly what you mean about the overdone bitter nuts but I drink so much strong, black coffee and, being diabetic, the chocolate I am allowed is 70% + unsweetened cocoa so I have learned to almost like the dried-out ones. To a diabetic, a handful of peanuts can seem like a lifesaving...

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There was a S & W model 431 that georgia arms brand .32 h & r with the old speer 100 gr. locked-up and while it wasn't wrecked, it now has a hitch in its get-along double-action wise. Once upon a time, we had a largish shoe box (boots?) full of self-loaders that the products from several of ...

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After 45 years of battling percussion revolvers that shoot exceedingly high, the problem of a low-shooting, fixed-sighted sixgun is incredibly easy and requires no filing. Simply raise the front blade in your sight picture. It is repeatable, especially with a horizontal reference line or mark on the...

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to ken this example of the obtuseness of chinese programmed so-called artificial intelligence.....

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anyone who grew-up crappie fishing with a roadrunner jig can see the absurdity.....

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And we thought it was difficult to find a bride forty years ago when the criteria was, if her virtue had been indeed already compromised, at least a model with low mileage and had not been with a spade.

Today ? Is she even a woman ?

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