Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

Old Ranger

Well, I personally cannot stand anything on the AR platform. However, they sell like hotcakes and the aftermarket products from them is booming. I am traditional enough that I see a scope on a levergun I feel it looks out of place. But these are just ONE opinion of one oldman. What is pleasing to my...

Old Ranger

Horse tradin' ain't what it used to be

Wade

Old Ranger

Uncle Buck, In my saying that they pull fouling thru the bore, is that there is a 2' semi- absorbant piece of poly/cotton tube being drug thru the bore inpregnated with dirt and fouling. Now I am not a rocket scientist, but dragging this much filth over and over thru your bore can not render a true ...

Old Ranger

Here is just the opposite.I have found the boresnake to be of little use to me. They pull way too much fouling thru the bore after a pass or two and this is counter productive to my needs of cleaning a bore properly. I sought out another method that has worked well for me. I have been using the Otis...

Old Ranger

That's just nasty!

Wade

Old Ranger

By the very nature of the cartridge design, you might not see the "classic" signs of pressure you see with necked smokless cartridges. Cratered primers may appear, but it is understood by those that design them, that a levergun will "let go" before it will show real excessive pre...

Old Ranger

The only thing holding me back form placing this dinky redundant computer in my sights is that if I blow this one to pieces, then I won't even be able to get back here and yack with my buds! I guess that I'll just have to live with the fact that Ican't see half the stuff there is to see. Ok, I'm an ...

Old Ranger

Must be nice to have a computer that will load things. Mine is about to meet the fate of the last one that failed me. Four rounds from a .45-70! Couldn't get the thing to load this and after 30 min. I gave up. From the reaction, it appeared something worth looking at. Guess I'll never know...... As ...

Old Ranger

Bigfoot real? Clearly you've never seen my second ex-wife!

Old Ranger

Hey Boreman!

Ain't birthdays great? Did mine yesterday and if yours is half as good as mine, then you're doing great!! Have a good one bud and be proud of being a "January Man"!!

Wade

Old Ranger

The more I look at those pics the uglier it looks....might just be me, but it just don't look right. I know some Henry weapons look real pretty, but I can't see the family resemblance here.

Old Ranger

So what do ya do? Load it like a giant .22 with a removable magazine tube insert? And I agree that the sights are ugly! But, with Marlin soon to be only a memory, I guess this, and the Rossi Rio Grande, will be the next thing for us to seek if we want newly made .45-70 leverguns....

Wade

Old Ranger

Now I know this isn't a lever gun range report, but that old '56 M&P is a tackdriver! I got set up this morning on my range out in the woods behind my place and fired off 18 rounds at 12.5 yds (mid combat range for me) and shooting single action, ate the X ring out of the target! And going doubl...

Old Ranger

Thank you all my friends! IT was and is a good one! I bought myself a birthay present, since no one else would! :lol: Got my hands on a 85% super clean 1956 S&W M&P in .38Spj. 4" 'pencil barrel' all original and has a 100% clean bore and chambers. Action is tight and timing is perfect. ...

Old Ranger

Maybe the M.O.com folks didn't pamper their computer and give it enough expresso in the morning!

Old Ranger

Well I don't use kitchen utencils for my weapons :) I'm a hard bitten old school kinda guy. Used to use turpentine, then later Kroil, to soak the bore to raise the lead out of it. Kroil does that nicely and lifts fouling at the same time. I got it all clean and happy now. :D The offending bullets ar...

Old Ranger

Stonegate, Guess my manual is outdated. (like me :lol: ) It listed tops as 13gr. Oh well. The bore miked out at .429" and I had measured the bullets with a eletronic caliper that gave me .430". Now I just went out to my shop and got my old, but VERY good micrometer from my gunsmithing days...

Old Ranger

Well, I now have a lead mining operation going on in the bore of my Browning 92. I upped the load with the 240's to 12.5 gr of Unique and had what can be compared to a shotgun pattern at 25 yds with 50% keyholeing. The bore is now lead plated from breach to muzzle. :x I have the weapon soaking with ...

Old Ranger

Well the load for the .44 is quite mild. It just may be too mild and is allowing the gas cutting to occur. The load for the 45-70 with the Unique is almot 10% below max for that powder, but may not be pushing the slug hard enough either. I'll switch to some healthy loads of some 2400 and see if thin...

Old Ranger

Happy New Year all! Folks, I have a bit of a problem with leading in two of my weapons involving Meister bullets. Now I'm an old reloader and bullet caster of well over four decades, but recently my lead supply has dwindled to almost nothing. So I obtained some rounds from Meister Bullets for my .45...

Old Ranger

Wow Pitchy!

Here it's 68 degrees with clear skies and full sunshine...
Guess I could say, "It ain't snow, it ain't snow. We got sunshine and it's warm! Yea!!"

Glad you like the snow....Now, here, we Texans go all stupid when it snows and crash into each other!

Wade, the Warm One

Old Ranger

You gonna hunt with this bow, or just punch targets? The learning curve is much greater in your favor if you get a light (30-35#) to learn with. If you start out with a 55# bow you will learn many bad habits. Not comming to full draw. Pulling as fast as you can and trying to get the shot off without...

Old Ranger

Pitchy,

Just let the guy take what he wants and then as he's leaving, let him use your Big Bicycle for a getaway vehicle. When he falls off and breaks his neck, you can have a good laugh and your stuff back

Old Ranger

Good call on the quarter sawn. It does being out some interesting grain patterns huh? Well done sir....Cable locks? Is that a standing order in Canada even in your own home? IF it is, then that is as wrong as two boys going out on a date!

Wade

Old Ranger

Pizza! What else?

Oh...and a smaller bicycle for Pitchy. I'm worried that he's gonna fall of the one he's got now!

Wade

Old Ranger

Pitchy, It's a good thing those injuns weren't from my nation. Remember, we Lakota got Custer! But if you rode that thing onto the Rez now, my kid brother would have to pull you over and write you a ticket for being "Too tall in the saddle" or maybe "Impeeding traffic"!!! I don't...

Old Ranger

I have no words that will be of any comfort to you. They do not exist. I do know the pain. However, her memory will be yours alone forever. That, will never die....

Wade

Old Ranger

Now it's confirmed.....Pitchy's back!!!

Buddy, you crack me up!

Wade

Old Ranger

Much like our friend Marvin S, I live alone in the woods and thus I did give me one present. Besides PIZZA :lol: Bought me a 1981 production Browning B92 in .44mag. About 98% perfect. It was both a Christmas present and a Birthday present to myself from me....I was a little embarassed to say that I ...

Old Ranger

PIZZA!!

Old Ranger

Well, this is not right. Pitchy, if you were offended by anyone here, then shame on THEM! And I can't see how anyone could be offended by what you ever had to say. I, for one, do not wish to see you leave this forum. Your posts have been a real joy to read and the things that you create are unique t...

Old Ranger

Griff, I didn't understand a word you just said! :o But for me, my taste in long guns has gone to all leverguns. I've had bolt, pump, auto, and singleshots, but the levergun is just my thing, and has been for sometime now. The bigboys in .45-70 and my new Browning 92 in 44 and such just look, feel, ...

Old Ranger

Well I guess I'm a B92 junkie! Here it is 40 degrees give or take. Raining off and on. A slight mist when I went to my range....Yup, I HADDA go and shoot some more with the B92! I just couldn't stand it. It's been days since I pulled a trigger and this beauty kept calling my name... What can I cay? ...

Old Ranger

So the new cataloge is out eh? And many weapons are not among the listings? Is anyone really surprised with this? The Marlin Firearms that we knew is dead. The accountants killed it. It will not be brought back to life by Remington and their poor excuse of building weapons either. As so well put ear...

Old Ranger

Perry,

I'm sorry that you missed out on your 92!

But I got a feeling that if there's another out there waiting for you to grab, you'll do it! I'd sure like to see your range report on it when you find your baby!

Good hunting!!

Wade

Old Ranger

If memory serves me correct, Browning introduced the 92 model in 1978 making 6,000 that year as a "Centenial Model" in .44mag. In 1979 they began standard production of the .44, and in 1981 brought it out in .357mag. They halted production I think in 1987. That's the best history I can rem...

Old Ranger

Picked one up last week that looked like it just came out of the box. Made in 1981 and in .44mag. A stunning weapon. After tax, I spent about the same. The near full buckhorn rear sight is tricky for my old eyes, but with some work on getting the sight picture right I was able to put three in the 10...

Old Ranger

Nice killshot!!!

Old Ranger

Well overall, I don't blame ya. When I was younger my temper with things was always like a calm lake. Smooth and unmoving. Flash forward to the present. I'm now a grumpy mean old man that lives alone in the woods and could care less for stuff like Kindles, ipods, Mp3, and all that new fangled junk. ...

Old Ranger

You are not alone with the eletronic gizmos getting shot to pieces. Had a laptop that went haywire on me and I spent two hours trying to get it back up and running right. Lost my cool and the laptop and I went to the target backstop on my range. Four rounds from my .45-70 changed it's way forever! :...

Old Ranger

You folks make me feel way old! I still use map and compass in woods that I'm new to. Shucks, I used map and compass to guide myself throught jungles, mountains, and such in S.E. Asia for over two years and didn't get lost :o But that's why I'm an "Old Ranger" :lol: I looked at those GPS g...

Old Ranger

Pitchy,

Ah HA!!! I knew it! That fine little fella was in on it too!
Love the pic of Snoopy and his running rig!
Thanks, I needed a good pick-me-up this morning!

Wade

Old Ranger

Ok, now come clean here Santa....Just how does that little pup pull your sleigh?

I just couldn't resist

Old Ranger

Pitchy,

Taking the time for what you did for those kids was a true act of a fine man. Well done indeed. I salute you sir!

Now, we'll just hope that "Santa" brings you something that will fill that empty spot on the reloading bench or the rifle rack!!

Merry Christmas Pard!

Wae

Old Ranger

A good working dog in the woods is a true joy eh? Good hunting is always better with a friend. Mine was a half English/Irish Setter that would hunt anything from butterfly to buffalo! You have fun with your dog in the woods! Oh, and Nath? Your steering wheel is on the wrong side!! :lol: :lol: (could...

Old Ranger

RR7, Thanks for sharing this with us. Spent many a day and night outside Cisco and parts of Eastland Co....Lots of history there. Glad your family was part of it! Hope that your wife is doing better and that she beats that illness into the ground! You take it easy now as I know all too well the frus...

Old Ranger

I know how aditictive the 45-70 is. Been having a fulltime afair with that round since 1967! It is my absolute alltime favorite rifle round! In fact, I just installed a Williams Fire Sight up front last night that came from Brownells yesterday afternoon. I'm on my way tomy little range in my woods a...

Old Ranger

Howdy Pitchy! Yes sir, I'm glad that I thought to ask here first before I cast up a bunch and loaded 'em! Sorry to hear that you had to find out the hard way. I bet the frustration level was way up there then huh? So what ya loading in you 92 nowadays? I'll bet you got a load dialed in that is perfe...

Old Ranger

Machado, Yes sir, I always viewed 17.5 of BlueDot as tops for that bullet in this cartridge. I'd say that your load is a bit over the top so to speak. That could explain why it is so unpleasent for you :wink: My main old .44 was a S&W M29 4". That was my duty piece for some years before the...

Old Ranger

Well, I got home before the light was too bad to shoot and the rain had let up, so I hopped ou to my range and blasted off ten rounds of some old "gunshow" ammo I had. They were some shorter 240 SWC's. Feeding was a not too bad. The weapon fired sweet and I love that gentle nudge that rese...

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