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JRD

My son's 308 bullet which was a Federal 150 gr factory load we recovered at the butcher shop under the hide on the far side. It went through the lungs behind the shoulder. It mushroomed perfectly, although I have not weighed it. The 300 Savage bullet we did not recover. It also was a lung shot behin...

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A couple weeks ago I was blessed with good fortune to share a successful Maine moose hunt with my father and oldest son. The time since the moose lottery drawing last June when I was drawn for a bull tag has just flown by. I literally won the lottery to be selected for one of the 2700+ moose permits...

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Got dug out this morning in RI up north of Pete. The snow was over knee deep but dry powder so the snow blower went through no problem. A few hours outside with the wife and kids and we had the driveway, porch, walks, and wood pile cleared out. Also had the boys shovel at the neighbors across the st...

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Pete,
I have a copy of that book!

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Specifically hunting versus history? And excluding African hunting. Some I've enjoyed are: Alaskan-Yukon Trophies Won and Lost by G O Young Ridge Runner by Getald Averill Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass by Harold Gatty When Ducks Were Plenty by Ed Muderlak Marsh Tales by William N Smith The ...

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I've read a good many western novels. After a while you need something different to spice things up. A change of scenery if you will. I read those early Sackett novels way back in high school and old England and colonial America were a nice change of pace from the old west. Along the same idea is &q...

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A company called Kessler made short throw lever action shotguns in the early 50's. Do a google search and you will find they closed up shop and Marlin somehow came out making the Levermatics in the. 60's. My dad has a 30 carbine Levermatic from the first year they made them which was around 1966. Ha...

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I'm from "out East" and never heard them called "speedgoats" until I hunted them for the first time last year. The locals in Wyoming referred to them pretty casually as speedgoats and didn't give the impression that it was a fancy new nickname. And they do indeed smell bad once y...

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Wow. How did I manage to miss this post! Asleep at the switch.
Sorry Pete. I'll PM you. My two boys are going to be very happy.
Thank you.
Jason

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Pete,
Please re-enter me. My boys would have fun with it.
Jason

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My find was on private land in the backwoods of northern Rhode Island. While doing my detective work, I had to think of calibers that were plausible to find in RI. A surplus military round to me was more plausible than finding an old Sharps cartridge. If we were in Texas, then it could be a differen...

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I was up in my tree stand a couple weeks ago during muzzleloading season. Heard some crunching in the leaves and something was coming my way. Turns out it was this coyote. I waited for it to come in, got the gun up and hammer cocked, and waited for him to cross into my shooting lane. Dropped him rig...

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Guys, This isn't a lever gun, but may be of interest to some of you. My friend Dave put several years of research and engineering analysis into a book on the Thompson M1A1 that was just published yesterday. Dave is a long time engineer in the firearms industry with a long tenure at Remington and is ...

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The battleship Massachusetts has been a floating museum in Fall River, MA since the 60's. I slept on board with my boys as Cub Scouts twice. I got talking with one of the volunteers there and he said they shoot BP blanks out of one of the 5" guns during special events. I didn't see it when I vi...

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Sixgun, I've only disassembled one medium frame Lightning- a 44 baby carbine. It was 1886 vintage as I recall. It most definitely has a locking mechanism. Don't confuse the slide handle not being locked forward with the bolt not being locked. Part 170 in the exploded view definitely does lock the bo...

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You were right. I left the revolver in the truck and had absolutely no snake worries. The 4" of snow on the ground also helped me not to worry about them. The snow made the roads a greasy mess and that limited access into my area. After glassing a lot of goats goats I shot a buck with average h...

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I bought my conservation stamp online and printed it out. That was easy.

Thanks for the help guys. If I have a successful hunt I'll try to post pictures.

Jason

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Thanks for the help guys. I'm in Zone 74. I'll be flying into and staying in Riverton.

Jason

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For our Wyoming expert Levergunners, I've got a couple questions. I'm heading to Wyoming next week after antelope. I was drawn for a non-resident tag in the lottery. I will be hunting with a friend who is a resident of the zone my tag is for. My questions: Can a non-resident carry a handgun while hu...

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FDR played a roll in it back in 1934.

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Good information on neck tension. It's important across all reloading, but especially so with cast bullets and tubular magazines. I learned about neck sizing the hard way when I first started reloading for an 1873 in 44-40. I had to pull the mag tube cap on my 1873 a couple times to free up the acti...

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Wow, lucky day. Thank you Pete! PM sent.

This will get me started reloading 300 Savage. My first objective with the new brass is to load some light cast bullet loads for my son to shoot out of "his" rifle. Once those are shot up I'll make some real loads for bambi next winter.

Jason

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Pete,
Please include me. I just got my first 99 in 300 Savage last month and need some brass to reload. Just got the dies yesterday.

Jason

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Note that while Winchester never launched their revolver into production, and Colt did drop the Burgess lever rifle, Colt didn't exit the rifle market entirely. Colt introduced the Elliot patented slide action Lightning rifle in 1884 and kept them in production until after the turn of the century.

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Granted, we don't know the source for the original list, but in regards to the 270 Winchester I'll relate a story. My boss at a former employer was a Christian who grew up in Iran and escaped the country after the revolution by being smuggled on a camel across the border in the middle of the night. ...

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Thanks Borregos!

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I have a need to find out the outside diameter of the barrel on a Marlin 444 levergun just ahead of the forend and just behind the front sight. Can anyone throw a set of calipers on their Marlin's barrel and let me know? I don't have the gun handy for measurement.

Thanks,
Jason

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Here's a couple pictures of the gun. It looks like Photobucket stores them as tiny pictures because they weren't tiny when I uploaded them from the camera. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/jkdubois724/100_1414.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/jkdubois724/100_1413.jpg I guess Savage use...

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Here's the story of my first Savage 99, and how I gave it away the same day. I've been wanting a 99 for more than a few years and have been just waiting patiently for the right opportunity to find the one I could afford. That came last Saturday. My dad got to talking with a guy down at the Legion po...

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I'll second the recommendation on this book. A friend let me borrow his copy last year and I loved it. It was a great history of life in Alaska back in the teens, not just about wolves and hunting them. The Alaskans back then were a hearty breed. (and are still pretty tough)

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Joe, Are you counting the flash hider in the 18.5" barrel length? S&W lists 16.5" as the barrel length on their website, but the flash hider adds some to the OAL but is not considered part of the barrel because it is not permanantly attached. AR's kind of grow on you. I was always a bo...

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Howdy Driftwood. Farmer Jay here. I have a rifle just like yours that you probably even saw before at Manville years back. Mine is polished and reblued, has the same stamp on the side of the receiver, a similar import stamp on the lower tang (mine was imported by Century Arms in Vermont though), and...

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Old No 7,
Your Dad's sword is a Mansfield & Lamb made in Forestdale, RI. I grew up less than a mile from where that factory used to be.

My dad has one of those Model 1860 Cavalry Sabers made the same year as yours. I always thought it was pretty neat to know it was made right next to home.

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My old 50's vintage 39A has the plain old hammer, but a friend just bought a brand new 39A Marlin. His has the safety and a rebounding hammer. I knew Marlin put in the safety on their leverguns in the early 80's but wasn't aware that they had put a rebounding hammer in the 22 leveraction. The reason...

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I've got one of the NAA 22LR mini's. After carrying it plenty, I decided to either carry a more effective gun or not carry anything. (I now carry a 38 J frame.)My NAA has a tendency to keyhole bullets occasionally. Couple that less than stellar accuracy with no sights and you are at contact distance...

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Pete,
Please throw my name in the hat. Thanks.
Jason

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Timothy,
It was Remington factory ammo. 405 gr FN Core-lokt. I shot a couple deer with the same rifle and load a couple years ago.
Jason

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I've been meaning to post this for a little bit. Here goes. This is a picture of my Dad's black bear mount that he got back last month. He shot the bear in Maine last October over hounds. He said it was just like the coon hunting he did years ago except on a giant scale. The dogs had radio collars a...

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Two years ago I got a Ruger #1 375 H&H. I love the rifle and it shoots great and I've been dying to shoot something (a game animal) with it. We can't hunt deer with rifles in my state. My dad and I made our annual trip down to hunt with a friend in Viriginia a few weeks ago. I lugged along the ....

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Thanks to all for the recommendations. I think I have enough material here for a good Christmas book list to give my wife.

I probably won't get all the books suggested here at once, but I've printed a copy of all the replies to keep for future lists.

Jason

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I am in need of some sage advice from my fellow levergunners. I've read through all the books my wife got me last Christmas and it's time to start making my list of books for this Christmas. I've already read most of the "standard" books for gun folks. Based on a discussion I saw here last...

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Cementhead,
There is a list of clubs in RI at http://www.rihunts.com/
You can start looking at clubs based on which part of the state you are in.
I'm in northern RI and shoot cowboy action at the Manville Sportsmen's Club.

Jason

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