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The wife has been helping a friend of hers organize an estate sale after the death of the friend's dad. Friend's brother took everything worthwhile (guns, ammo, reloading supplies, newer tools) leaving not much of value behind. But from the looks of the remains he must have been one of "us"...

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Wow! Glad you are OK Scrum. That's just plumb scary to us reloaders. I've been loading shells for 50+ (hmmm...maybe 50+++) years and have never had a primer detonate in the process, and surely did not realize they'd go off just being adjacent to another primer detonation. That event would add a seri...

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Danged fine job Griff. And... Happy Birthday!

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Jim, you may be amused to hear that QuickLoad includes the 22 long rifle. QL thinks your 1.5 grains of Bullseye should get you 1075 fps and 90% powder burned, while your 1.6 grains Lil' Gun would get 400 fps if it could get out of the barrel, only 15% of powder burned. QL would be thinking close to ...

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Thanks fellers! I celebrated by helping a daughter inventory the remains of her dad's gun stuff as she gets ready for an estate sale. "Remains" is the word, as her brother had brought a U-Haul truck and removed everything of value and left behind a few stocks taken off military guns that t...

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Looks about like my 1950 vintage '94.

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Well poo -- COSteve has been my hero on the Rossi 357 levergun. Everytime I would think "this dang thing is just a 100 yard gun" I'd see one of his posts and decide to try again. And now he is "done" :shock: !? 100 yards with decent accuracy is all I'd normally need from a jack r...

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Yesterday I was going to load up some 357's to take out to play with the pistol silhouette folks (friendly fellers who like pistols and leverguns). But we got notified that the BLM has demanded we close the range to all uses because of fire danger, so there went the shoot. And also our buffalo shoot...

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Until recently I had only had one bad experience with the USPS and that was a check I sent to jdad who lives just across the mountain from me. Check didn't arrive in a week or 10 days so I cancelled it and sent another. As you'd guess, both checks showed up at his place within a day of each other. T...

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At the ballistics you are talking obviously either cartridge will work totally fine. But I always give the nod to anything that processes with carbide size dies vs lube, even though the spray-on lube makes this a minor differential.

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I miss that range, Earl, as well as your most excellent company. Well come on back Bill, we could really use another local shooter. As we sit today with one of the niftiest ranges around we have only 4 locals who shoot the buffalo rifles and three more who only shoot the Friday stuff, while 3 of us...

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This range sits at the 4000 ft. elevation range so runs a little cooler than the forecast temps for the nearby towns (Bend, Prineville). So we were just hitting upper 90's when the weatherman was calling for low-to-mid 100's in the towns. And we are done with match shooting by early afternoon, nicel...

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Some of us fellers (and a couple of ladies) shoot neat old guns the fourth weekend of the month in these parts. This was the first shoot this year that didn't get some part of it cancelled because of snow/rain dousing down the firing line. Might have been a leetle on the warm side but that beats the...

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Oh No M. M. -- That just makes me ache to hear about. Big condolences and healing wishes sent toward you and his young-uns.

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Biggest trouble of being stationed on a carrier was that when you hit the beach you had a couple thousand other fellows all with exactly the same ideas. My trip to Nagasaki from Sasebo would have been a pretty full-up bus; I have no recollection of any sitting problems but I was a lot more flexible ...

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Yes I remember that typhoon, cable. Would have been on our '67-'68 deployment. They locked the ship down with nobody allowed out on any exposed deck. My primary job was taking care of one of the big radars sitting on top of the "island", so from my work space I got a wonderful birds-eye vi...

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Being from West Virginia he is not tuned in to public land. New Mexico has lots of public land managed by BLM (not the riot-guys, this is the "other" BLM). Also lots of US Forest Service in the state. This old kid would hunt up a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) office and clean them out of...

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I wouldn't mind having one of those myself -- I did the "completed auctions" thing on Gunbroker and found they'd recently sold from $611 (had a big old scope mounted on it!) to $915. Less money than I'd have guessed. Need to figure on another $50 or so for shipping when comparing.

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I've heard that cases formed from .30-30 should have the necks and shoulder annealed to eliminate split necks. In one box of empty brass there are probably 10 cases with blue felt pen on the bases. A note on that box states, "split necks as marked" So it appears an owner figured out after...

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Now that is a thing of beauty! I also have one of those highwall 219 Imps though probably not a PO Aclkey one -- I used to think it was good to be able to make the cases from 225 Winchester brass (took just a scosh of base swaging in mine). Nowdays you would need to go the other way if you happen to...

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Well dang, OS. You must have been hanging at a pretty poor sort of gun range. Win '92 is fairly common in this part of Oregon at the range I hang around. I shoot a m92 25/20 for our "quarter bore" match and have a second one that somebody screwed a m53 barrel onto that I loan to my shootin...

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I don't know about "real life" but when I play around in QuickLoad with this concept it looks to me like Lil' Gun would be the cat's miastrophy. And then when I looked at the Hodgden site they don't have any 300 grain loads in the 44 Spcl, but they had my QL generated 44 Spcl load in the 4...

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I would bet that those would have pretty nice bores and make good shooters. A little above my preferred price point though.

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By the time I tried it that link didn't show any firearms. Guess that'll keep me from drooling on my new keyboard -- which I just acquired because the old keyboard had a sticky "r" and I thought I'd sploosh it with a little carburetor cleaner and free it up. Ooops! melted the plastic and g...

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I looked at the picture and thought "yeah, that looks like my 22" but "speedmaster" didn't sound familiar. I pulled mine out and it says it is a "fieldmaster" 572. They sure look the same: anybody tell me what the difference is between a 552 and a 572?

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A fine looking classic there! I like the look of honest wear and would leave it just like she is. But that's just me, and I live in dry country where rust is not a worry.

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A good back surgeon saved my life a few years ago: I didn't know what pain was until the old sciatic nerve started getting pushed around. Good luck Bill! -- pulling hard for you from up here in the middle of Oregon.

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Don't know how close it is in the real world but when I asked QuickLoad that question assuming I'd used TrailBoss to make those 750 fps Cowboy loads -- QL thought I'd gain 150 fps going from a 6" barrel to a 20" barrel.

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I don't have either one of those cartridges but I looked at the dimensional drawings and I can see why you are asking the question. I can see from the drawings that if I had dies for the Linebaugh I would certainly be happily loading the Alaskan as long as I only needed to neck-size. I would worry a...

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"When I empty garbage in alley I carry cleaver. When labbit go 'meow' I go chop-chop!" Hah! I may have eaten some of that labbit. Did he have a branch restaurant in Olongapo? Anyway, back in my nearly forgotten days of yore I was stationed at a repair facility in Danang '68-'69. Navy boys...

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At the time I left the grey floaty thing in the Tonkin Gulf to do my shore duty over on the beach at Danang I was ET-2 (electronics technician 2nd class (E5)). Fixed radars.

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Nice! Very nice! I've been shooting your Marlin's younger brother -- made in 1906. It has shot well with RL-7 but by the time I got enough powder in to burn consistent the velocities were up where I needed (or at least I assumed I needed) my gas-checked bullet. If you have plain-based bullets you'll...

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That is verrry interesting to see that stuff slowed down like that. Thanks for the view!

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Well I spent a little time in the same Yacht club: '66 to '68 -- USS Bon Homme Richard CVA 31. I'm pretty sure there are lots of survivors; how many are levergunners is the question I suspect Joe is asking.

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I don't have much to contribute to the discussion because all my "powder measure wisdom" has already been covered -- bias toward ball/small granule type powders, give a little vibration (I have a little "double-tap" I do when operating measure), use pistol drum when measuring sma...

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What's the story on the pistol gripped '92? Or is it a 65 with the Whelan stock...65's didn't come in 38-40 but I'm thinking something different. One of those "gun show" finds -- pretty sure the buttstock, the front sight, and the barrel are not what came out of the factory initially. It'...

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Well.... yeah, you gotta' have a 30 Herrett now. And your friend "owes" you the dies for it I would think after foisting those relics onto you.

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Sometime in the mid 1920's my dad and his older brother pooled their resources to buy a m92 25/20. I don't know about the older brother but dad told me he'd earned his share by delivering grandma's butter and eggs to the neighborhood store (a little 10-mile jaunt by horseback). The older brother die...

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My 25/20 supply is not quite low but sure could use more. Every time I see a box of loaded ammo I buy it regardless of the $$$$$. Guess if I had to I could fireform some of my Bee brass , got couple hunnered of those. The Starline 32/20 brass forms into 25/20 awful easy. Just run the new case over ...

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Guess I missed the barrel length in your previous post on the 1894 Marlin? That's 4" over standard, and a very cool special order feature on your gun! Looks like a pretty accurate rifle, and likely even better once you find the perfect load. In my initial post l mistakenly reported that it was...

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Here she is, all 7 1/2 pounds with that 28" octagon barrel Marlin3840143.jpg As compared to 7 pounds of M92 with 22" round barrel Win3840151.jpg The stuff I had loaded for the M92 was a couple thousandths too long in the Marlin so I seated them a tad deeper. 3840Bullets168.jpg 205 grain Ac...

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The 400 pieces I got from fellow levergunner roughcreek showed up on the porch yesterday.

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A thing of beauty!

I know it looks like 32/20 brass but it is really 25/20. And maybe a few Bees....

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earlmck wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:13 am A 44 mag levergun is a 44-40 for which you can get carbide dies and brass that lasts almost forever and (in normal times) factory ammo at a decent price should you not wish to "roll your own". Super super flexible round if you are a reloader.

No mystery to me it'd be popular.

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A 44 mag levergun is a 44-40 for which you can get carbide dies and brass that lasts almost forever and (in normal times) factory ammo at a decent price should you not wish to "roll your own".

No mystery to me it'd be popular.

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Interesting how these things work in different guns. My Marlin "Cowboy" 38/55 with a full .380 bore won't let me get away with .382" bullets although .381" seems OK (this is in Starline brass). Thus I was afraid Marlin might be kinda' stingy in the chamber dimension area, which m...

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That should work nicely Bearskinner. I'm using the 38-250G which appears to be identical except for the wider meplat on the BG. My concern would be that the 375 is too tight in the chamber to allow a bullet much larger than .376. But I'd bet that by switching to 38/55 brass you would get a thinner c...

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I've been happily shooting a 250 grain cast/gc in my Marlin 38/55 with 18" twist -- I think 250 grain is the most common size used in 38/55 and a lot of folks prefer the 275 grain. That 375 Win has (according to my twist-rate info) a 12" twist. Sheesh -- you could shoot 350 grainers out of...

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Earl, interesting to know that your range scrap is working for BPCR. I need to get a set of those pencils, too. I had a 50 BMG ammo can full of foundry type I had been hoarding and wouldn't you know it got lost in a move. If we do our own salvaging we'll probably have a pretty good idea of the kind...

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I've bought 3 batches of range lead the past couple of years. Two tested out as BHN 9 and one is BHN 11 (vs the 6 for pure lead). I don't have anything fancy -- just use the pencils to see which is the softest that will still make a scratch. Seem to be making pretty fair BPCR bullets as is and I cou...

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They are not totally banned in this household but they are now a "seller of last resort".

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