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I'm glad that I stopped by the forum today. I have some 45-70 on the way. Thank you! I still can't find any .375win though.

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Take a gander at this article, "The .45 Colt - Dissolving the Myth, Discovering the Legend" from someone who knows a little bit more than the average guy about high performance six (and five) guns... If, after reading the article, you "still don't get it", that's OK. We won't ho...

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Just one, a mod 94 wrangler in .44mag. Never hunted with it yet but it has sent a lot of lead downrange. Very fun plinker.

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I've been looking for a Marlin in .32H&R for a couple of years now. The couple I've found were going for over twice what they cost new. It seems there are lots of people that still want a rifle that was discontinued due to "lack of interest". I'd like to see Marlin make another run of ...

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Congrat's on the deer. I shot my first levergun deer with that same rifle and I'm pretty sure that same bullet....in 1977! I bought the rifle used from a friend for 65.00 and was home on leave from the military and went deer hunting with my dad and some of his friends. Now I'll end up spending half ...

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I'll weigh in on this one also. I agree with Mr. 86'er in that it depends on the operation. When I lived in Texas in the late 80's and early 90's, I hunted at a couple of different game ranches and have shot mouflon, corsicans, feral goats, and a white dall. I hunted a bit at a ranch up in Chico and...

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I've had that happen with my .243 and a very similar hit and what I believe caused it was all the fat built up behind the shoulder and on the haunches. The deer where I hunt are very well fed between feeders in summer, food plots, and acorns and they have more fat on them than any other place I've e...

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Way back when, I was stationed at Eglin AFB in Florida. Huntiing was allowed with certain restrictions. One obviously being no shooting aroung runways and such. Well the darned deer knew this as well. Come the season, they would bunch up in the open areas adjacent to the runway complex. Darned smar...

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I'm starting to enjoy mine more and more also. I initially bought it for my wife but she prefered my 10-22's. I wasn't happy with it because of the cheesy plastic barrel band and front sight. I've since replaced the plastic parts with metal ones from Henry and started feeling better about the rifle ...

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Growing up in Wisconsin, I took my first deer with a 12ga springfield single shot at 12. After that, my dad let me use his model 70 in 30-06 (with open sights) while he used his BAR in .308win. I knew a ton of people that used levers in 30-30 and .35rem. and always wanted one. After I went in the mi...

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I couldn't imagine someone using a single action pistol in a uspsa match. I doubt you could finish a four stage match before nightfall. :P I don't get it. I was thinking about single action revolvers. My mistake. An I don't understand why they don't have any single action autoloaders in production ...

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Looking at the approved list it seems to me that ONLY the 1911, Browning HP and clones thereof are excluded. All the whiz bang plastic fantastics, DA or SA revolvers etc, are included. Why SA revolvers are permitted but the 1911 is excluded (except those with the LDA triggers or DAs like the Double...

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I already have been to both websites. The USPSA rulebook seems to suggest that single-action pistols are disallowed, but doesn't say that specifically. In addition, I see no 1911's on the list of approved firearms. Some manufacturers are not listed at all. I couldn't imagine someone using a single ...

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Go to www.uspsa.org to find out anything you ever wanted to know about USPSA. The website is very informative and all of the requirements and restrictions for the various classes are clearly described. IDPA is an entirely different organization that I know little about but I'm sure that they have a ...

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My wife has no idea as to how many rifles or pistols are in my safe. When she sees me working on or cleaning a gun and asks "Is that a new gun?" my standard reply is "What, this old thing?".

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They are a pest down here. We have them at my shooting range and they root up the place. The owner says go ahead and shoot them, but he want $50.00 for every one you shoot, so nobody shoots them. I think this is the reason that the populations have exploded in Texas. There is very little public hun...

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Amazing how things have changed in a few years. They mention Tarrant county having a bad hog problem in the video and when I lived there, I never saw a wild hog anywhere near Tarrant or the surrounding counties. Down around Llano and out in west Texas we saw them everywhere. Before I moved to Texas ...

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Looking to reaquire a non angle eject one in decent shape. won't go above $350.00. :o so I may have to be a little patient :lol: . If the economy is truly as bad as they claim it shouldn't be a long wait :wink: I searched far and wide when I bought mine. If you find one on your terms, it will be ju...

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That's a good price. I was happy to pay 550.00 for mine two years ago. I actually even found a box of factory ammo for mine once. If you reload, there's lots of choices out there. Hornady even makes a jacketed bullet specifically for it. It's a 220gr fp interlock and 38 grains of RL7 will push it ab...

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The AARP starts sending you stuff as you near 50 and they are about as anti gun as an organization can be. They use their influence over elderly people to further a political agenda. My parents used to be members until the early 90's when AARP was inundating them with mailings asking them to support...

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Personally, I would go with a tang sight or a scope with a long skinny brass tube. I lean towards the tang sight.

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I've used the Speer #1835 110gr HP in my 336. The Speer manual shows data pushing them anywhere from 2000fps to 2700fps and I remember them being fairly accurate. It's probably been about 25yrs since I messed with them but I'm pretty sure I used around 34 or 35 grains of 4064. (max charge in the Spe...

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The controversy was about the magical Barnes 250gr TSX out of an 1895 at the max listed velocity being able to shoot point of aim out to 400yds. The OP was adamant that it could and those that were aware that the bullets total drop at 400yds is around 93.75" tried to explain that what he wanted...

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Some people on other websites were getting upset off at my idea to get a 250 grain bullet and push it fast, they said it would shoot less flat than a 300 grain bullet. They were really nasty, I guess I bruised their ego's maybe. I read the thread that you started on another forum and all of the rep...

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So none of ya'll made gas cannons with the old steel beer cans, duct tape, and a tennis ball? Oh, and some gas siphoned out of dads car.

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A 30 year old 336 is not really old. I'm sure it has "micro groove" rifling and many think that you can only shoot jacketed bullets in it to begin with. Cast bullets are cheaper and I have had no trouble with shooting cast in mine. I water quench wheel weights and end up with an 18 to 20 B...

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Natchez Shooters Supply shows a pretty good variety of .35 cal bullets in stock. I've bought quite a bit of stuff from them and they're a good company to deal with as well.

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I'd say something in .45colt or .44mag. No levergun collection is complete without a few model 94's and there's quite a few out there in the price range that you specified.

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I've got a Win 94 trapper with a big ring and in my case, it's more for looks than practicality. The big ring is so a hand in a glove with fit more comfortably in the lever. Not for speed. Trappers wear gloves, right?

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Where I've been hunting in Alabama, all anyone wears are muck boots. It's the muddiest place I've ever hunted in my life.

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OP posted this same thread on the guns and ammo forum, because he thinks there's more serious bigbore shooters and reloaders there. :roll: You're being a little presumptuous. You don't know me whatsoever and you certainly don't know what I think. I did post this on the guns and ammo board because I...

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OK, who has one and what can you tell me about it? I'd been reading around, trying to decide what new rifle to dream about next and I came across some stories about Teddy R and his love for leverguns. I have a modest assortment and I do gravitate towards the big bores. I stumbled onto some stories a...

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I've got a model 94 in .375win and I chronographed some loads for it a few months ago. I was using the Hornady 220gr fp interloks in front of RL-7. 34 grains averaged 2070fps, 36 grains got me 2135fps, and 38 grains was 2195fps. 34 grains had the lowest SD at 31fps.

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Personally, I agree that a small rattler sounds just like a cicada. I've stumbled on many of them in the seven or so years that I lived in Texas. I've always seen cicadas on trees or the side of structures and I've always seen the rattlers on the ground. My general rule of thumb is that if the bush ...

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I stripped and refinished my 1895 after the first time I hunted with it. Where I hunt, it's usually wet and muddy. The first time I hunted with my 1895 and got it wet, the finish spotted with ugly white blotches. They disappeared when it dried out, but it still bugged me. I stripped the poly off gav...

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I have the Burris 3.5X10 with that same reticle on one of my bolt rifles and am very happy with it. Some of the guys that I hunt with have looked through it at dusk and exclaimed "that's cheating!" I have two more bolt guns in the safe that I need to scope and after having used an illumina...

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During my last range visit I chronographed my .375win loads. I used new WW cases, WW primers, Hornady 220 gr interlocks, and Reloader-7 powder. Averaging five shot strings through my 94BB, I got 2070fps with 34grains, 2135fps with 36 grains, and 2195fps with 38 grains.

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Sarge wrote:Gotcha, Malamute. After reading Buck's posts & reading the JES site, I'd tempted to just have a forged 94 rebored.

Why not just buy a 94 bigbore in .375win and call it a day? They aren't hard to come by. When I found mine at a LGS they had two of them.

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