Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Levergun Leatherworks https://levergunleather.com

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I like older movies. One thing I like to do is spot bloopers. So, I just finished watching Clambake with Elvis. It supposedly takes place in Florida. The final scene is Elvis and Shelly Fabre sitting in his car as he explains that he's rich. And in the upper right corner of the screen is a street si...

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My dad and I put that roof on about 28 years ago. The modified, torch down roofing on the rear slope and flat(ish) roof are holding up really well. The shingles on the front slope are being held together by the moss on them these days. Long past their replacement date. We've been looking for someon...

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The photo of cleaning the roof brought back memories. My family had a cabin in Big Bear from 1951 until 1993. Now my dad didn’t like heights. So as soon as I was big enough anything above ground level became my job. That meant that cleaning the roof, replacing shakes, and making sure the chimney scr...

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H&R’s can be very accurate. The 999 sprang from a target revolver. Take a look at the sights and the trigger guard. My 4” 999 shoots very well with most stuff but phenomenally ( not from my hands anymore ) with target grade ammo. I bought it because as a lefty it was one of the few friendly revo...

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Gunny has it. Especially evident on the left screw. Look at the distinctly different color and structure of the one on the left as opposed to the solid color of the one on the right. You should send that photo to Ruger.

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Don’t know if Ruger makes their own fasteners but either way I don’t think it’s a design flaw. Just not that much stress to cause failures so fast.

I’d love to see what a metallurgist would have to say after testing the failed parts.

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I wonder how much found it’s way into politicians pockets.

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The biggest problem for some is that they are spending some of the money set side for their retirement on their kids who either refuse to work or get married and bring their own kids and wife home to live off of their parents Only if the parents let them. After high school, my sisters had to either...

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I feel your pain. State government is even worse than the corporate world. Only 3 or 4 more years of "Day Prison" to endure. -Stretch Yea, but you'll have a nice lifelong pension and healthcare. And that ain't nothing to sneeze at. After all, it's called work. As in working toward a goal ...

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I was blessed that during the final phase of my career, while I had to deal with corporations, I mostly dealt with old guys like myself. People with whom a handshake was better than any contract ever written.

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When I bought my Stainless .45 colt Blackhawk, .45 acp convertibles weren't available. But a good smith dealt with that. I have several Smith's in .45 acp, by far my most accurate turns out to be a 1917 from the Brazilian contract. Who'd have thought that. It really likes cast and is pretty forgivin...

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Walt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:45 pmThe way it is

Obama looks like he suffering from the Michael Jackson disease.

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Old No7 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:54 pm
Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:46 pm Turns out that the residue is blue. From shooting my sixgun across the bed...
It could be much worse...

Bullet Car.jpg

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Bonnie and Clydes car?

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Stainless, 4 5/8”, 45 colt/45 acp. Stainless because I like the look but also my hands con corrode blued steel in a heartbeat. 4 5/8” because they feel better in my hand than longer barrels. In preferred cross draw holster it’s quick and easy to bring to bear on a target 45 colt / 45acp. Because wel...

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How can folks think an earthquake is foreshadowing the end of the world. At best they are just a very localized disturbance. I have friends who have plans to dig in and "survive" if "the big one" happens here in SoCal. My plan is entirely different. I'm just going to load up my J...

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My first centerfire Revolver was a used, very, Model 10 4" pencil barrel. I got it from a relative that had worked as a security guard while she was in college. Actually used wasn't correct, neglected is more like it. I think it had got rained on and left in a leather holster. But stripping it ...

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We don’t even wake up for anything less than a 5. And even then I often confuse it with the vibration of my bed.

A good reminder though to secure stuff that can fall.

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Truth often shows the false narrative of the current global warming fantasy.

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Windshield washer bottle full of tranny fluid. Line running back to tailpipe. Smoke screen.

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I’d say the sear is fine. Woke pandering assigning a woman with insufficient upper body strength is the problem.

Note, all it took was one good tug by the “assistant gunner.

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Needs remote operation. Maybe laser aiming via a HUD worn be the occupant of the vehicle.

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Right now L A has one. The dept brass aren’t talking and the press is mute. But, talking to a recently retired battalion chief it’s been a miserable failure.

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He did walk under the barrel not in front of it. Still could have rung his bell pretty good.
Mostly, I got the impression he was upset because they gave the honor of firing the gun to a woman too weak to pull the lanyard.

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It isn't a right if the government can restrict it. The Bill Of Rights is a pretty simple document. If only the government would abide by it things would be much better. The problem is, about two seconds after the elected and appointed officials swear to uphold and defend the Constitution they viola...

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"........you want a USN damage control specialists." Way back in the "old navy" there were the u.s. naval enlisted rates shipfitters and damage controlmen. The Navy kept outdated things like O.B.A.'s for years after just about every other fire department on the planet had change...

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Speaking of the decline in reading printed material, as I walk around my neighborhood I notice that newspapers are getting smaller and smaller, based on what I see rolled up in driveways. They are a mere shadow of what they were 20 years ago. It's a wonder that the local newspaper is even in busine...

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In 1978 the Atlantic Trader, well past its prime, lost it's steering in the main channel of L. A. Harbor. It hit the end of a floating drydock, which probably saved quite a few lives, they slammed into the bow of an FFG before tearing into the dock to which the FFG was tied. The amount of damage a s...

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Except for tabloid type magazines that seem to appeal mostly to women magazines, like much printed material is slowly dying off. My kids, who aren't exactly young anymore read what they want online. I suspect that in a couple of generations the printed media will be just about extinct.

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I'd say go with Dillion. A progressive makes a poor choice for someone just starting reloading. But you're experienced so buy what you will eventually end up with first.

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Sadly, many of my kid’s peers were drugged as children. While some folks refer to folks born at different time as boomers, gen x, gen z, etc. prefer to those kids as generation R. The R stsnds for Ritilan. Too many kids were drugged just because they exhibited symptoms of childhood. You know, things...

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Thanks for the hard work Gamekeeper.

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Now there is living proof there is hope for this world.

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Perhaps it looked/sounded funny, but to the critters involved it was a true fight for survival. Not necessarily at that moment but from starvation later.

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Hmm, looks like we have a Texas judge in King Biden's court.

Sorry Bing.

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Your photos seem to prove that DC is truly upside down.

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Throw in terms like Hawgleg, Smokewagon, forty five, etc and the true use of any word becomes clear. That use is to convey thoughts and ideas in a manner that others can understand. So, whether you refer to a semi auto as a pistol and revolvers as a pistol, as long as the thought or idea is conveyed...

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I’m an impulse buyer so only one ever got away. A Webly-Fosbery. I hesitate because at $7000 and with two kids…. It sat for some time in the shop then one day it was gone. I haven’t seen another in the wild since. And prices are stratospheric. But I have promised myself I will have one. It’s just no...

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I too started with the .45 acp. I have a load that functions in all of my pistols and revolvers. It’s more accurate than I am and has been used on everything from cans to coyotes, effectively. A 200 gr LSWC, 4.7 grains of Bullseye. Brand of primer and case doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve been using it ...

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We constantly here that the term AR stands for Armalite Rifle. Yet so many use it to rifles obviously not from Armalite?

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The old gun writers, unlike most of today’s crop knew what was because they lived it.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:37 am
jeepnik wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:32 am I question the wisdom of calling any weapon an “assault” type. Better to call them all self defense weapons.
This is part of the bigger problem of letting the fear of what people might think control what we might say.

I’m not sure I care what people like that think.

We better, they vote.

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The problem is new, read younger, employees find out they actually have to produce instead of playing in the internet all day. So, they quit and draw benefits as long as they can. The last few years I was working we’d try to hire and applicants would apply and then tell us what they wanted to do not...

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Over many decades I've been asked this question many times from new potential gun owners, and my answer is always the same. A revolver with a 2"-4" barrel, in .38 Special or .357 Magnum. The .357 can be loaded with .38's for someone smaller who doesn't like recoil, or until they get used ...

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Can't figure out why any fool ever put a pistol grip stock on a lever gun. Makes working the lever a pain in the butt. Then again, I can't count the number of folks I see taking a levergun from their shoulder to work the lever. I'll ask them if they do that with a bolt gun. The answer is inevitably ...

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See my comment in "what ever it takes" thread.

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I am sure there are some out there, but I don't know that I have ever run into a "helpless" woman. I have run into helpless young ladies but all they needed was some real life experience. :D Amen. My wife, all 5' of her was sort of timid and shy when we met. One reason I liked her. One da...

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lthardman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm And, when it comes to remorse, who can forget Josey Wales famous line when his partner laments they can't take the time to bury some would be attackers:

"To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat too, same as worms. "

Worms still get heir share, buried or not.

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Due to a recent neighborhood home invasion I have been helping a number of neighbors navigate their entry into firearms. Since I grew up shooting I never realized just how much it costs to learn and remain proficient. I have had a few be surprised at the equipment costs. Range time isn’t too bad, bu...

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My condolences. And prayers up for him and all those whose lives he touched.

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