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Yep, such a fine cartridge. And such nifty rifles to shoot it in. And to add a bit of spice to your 30 cal life, how 'bout the 30wcf's rimless twin, the 30 Remington? Remington Model 14 pump in 30 Rem to go with 30wcf in Marlin or Win lever and you don't need it any better than that! Which I just fi...

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It may be a 6.5mm X .257 Roberts conversion. This was the most popular "fix" back then. (I had one rechambered back in the mid-50's. Quick and easy - and effective.) Yep, odds are 99 to 1 this is what you've got there. I have one sitting in the garage just like that. Unfortunately it does...

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We tend to shy away shooting round nose bullets in tube fed Lever rifles. In the tube the round nose is sitting on a primer of the cartridge in front of each other as they are loaded in the tube. Upon recoil, or a jar or drop of the piece could set off quite a chain fire. Gee, Lefty, we've put up w...

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I agree with your assessment, Don. For packing around, especially if horseback, in a jeep, or whacking a way through the thick stuff the carbine is more handy. But when it comes time to actually do some shooting the longer barrel and nicer shaped stock helps a fellow do a better job. And now I find ...

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Thanks Peter: that's quite a nice looking rifle. Hard to believe they didn't sell bunches of those back in the day. I'd like to think I would have bought one in 25 Remington if I'd been in the rifle-shopping business in 1910. And Goodman's rifle in 35 Rem. at $1150 doesn't sound too bad for a decent...

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I can't believe it. Starting page 3 of an interesting thread and not a single picture

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Sorry, no data to contribute: I'd never even heard of a Stevens high power.

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You're onto the right idea there for a nice plinking load. Depending on how tight the neck portion of the chamber is, those bullets (which are probably .313) may or may not cause the neck of the loaded cartridge to be too tight. In which case you could size 'em down a bit and they'd be fine. Just by...

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Grandad is a pretty important position in the business of life. I remember some years ago, one of the older grandsons was 9 or 10 and I'd set him down at the loading bench doing some menial thing like depriming a bunch of brass getting it ready for a wash. I wandered off, got attention diverted and ...

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I have two Marlins in 35 Rem. The older 24" bbl has regular rifling, while the newer 20" bbl has the microgroove. I've chronographed several different loads with 180 grain and 205 grain jacketed bullets. With the same loads there is virtually no detectable difference, but if anything the 2...

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"These dies are very expensive," $100- $139? That's not, " expensive", it's immoral. Sigh, even though I agree with you, I'm still gonna buy one. Joe Redding is pretty proud of their dies: I'd own more of them if they priced 'em about 30 to 50% less. But they make some stuff tha...

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The key (I think) to good accuracy with a powder measure is the diameter of the drum. And convenience requires a good micrometer to go along with it. In the process of trying to get my Hornady progressive loader working satisfactorily I bought their "bench-rest" powder measure. Lots larger...

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Dual ring carbide die! Wow! This is an idea that was way overdue for getting into production. And with this dual-ring concept, seems to me they could extend the wonders of carbide to some more cartridges such as 44-40, 38-40, several others. 45-70 comes to mind as one that would get a lot of attenti...

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The 30wcf outshines all other 30 cal. cartridges as a cast bullet shooter. If you are thinking 30 cal. and Savage 99 and jacketed spitzer bullets and better velocity than standard 30wcf... Well at that point the 300 Savage is just the ticket. Danged fine cartridge and will be the cheapest model 99's...

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Savage 99 has the nifty rotary magazine, so no worries about staggering in the magazine. And since the action handles cartridges using closer to 50,000 cup I would feel comfortable using 30wcf loads that would be a bit hot in our levers. The thin brass will no doubt limit you to pressures lower than...

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This rifle could be a fun project. I know I was a little negative, warning about the oversized bores of the two Arisakas I own. But I don't have any idea how common it is to have an oversized bore in these rifles: could be I have the only two that slipped out of the factory that way (though I kinda'...

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If you are really curious about headspace you'd use 270 or '06 gauge. But it's a wildcat which means you control headspace when you make your first rounds. You'll probably be using 270 brass (or '06). Just ease the brass into the sizer die with it not screwed down quite all the way, and keep trying ...

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When you get to thinking about it, there are lots of very interesting possibilities for our leverguns. If I live long enough and don't continue to get my attention diverted, I may yet come up with my "ideal running bunny shooter" which is a 6mm/454 Casull :D . Rossi action, of course; Lyma...

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John, I opened up Nonte's "Home Guide to Cartridge Conversions" to see if he showed anything convenient to make the brass from. Nope, he doesn't. It's quite a lot larger diameter than .348 Win that was my first thought for a base case. Dang! Be nice if you could shoot that old babe.

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Joe, I'm not sure your tastes are really changing as much as they are "maturing". Somewhere along the line it is apt to happen that we realize we are not packing a rifle in a saddle scabbard all that much anymore and we begin to notice that other configurations, not so saddle friendly, fee...

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I have some friends who have wonderful gun collections, but haven't shot most of these in many years. And they have no one special to pass them on to and I feel bad for them. So I have come to realize how lucky I am to have grandkids who think many of my old guns are really really neat. So I take ad...

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Sounds like you have your project well thought-out. I'll be real interested in your experience: looking forward to pics and report! I picked up my octagon-barreled .357 Rossi off gunbroker last month just for this .256 project. But am afraid I'm going to get fond of it in .357 and will have to get a...

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Roy, before you go looking for a .25 cal barrel, see if the .357 barrel can just be lined to 25 cal and then chambered for the .256. I may not know what I'm talking about here, knowing virtually nothing about barrel lining. But that was a thought I had when reading about relined barrels on this foru...

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That'll have to be one fine rifle, Roy. A 25-20 on steroids. I've been contemplating the same thing, but thought I'd start with a Rossi in .357. That way it should already be feeding the cartridge OK without working over the cartridge guides, and the bolt face would be right. I'm puzzled that Rossi ...

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For those of us that like to have a box of cartridges that were manufactured the year our rifle(s) was/ were made......here's the one for 1950 (1946 - 1958) w30wcf Thanks for the neat pic, John. Brings back memories. Dad had a box of those for several years 'til I came along and shot them all up in...

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I think we're getting the 30WCF bracketed: dad's old "thutty" he bought in 1950, serial # 1,709,xxx is marked 30-30 WIN.

Has a fair amount of rust itself. Needs somebody to rescue it.

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Looking forward to your full report, 86er. This is important stuff to us old guys who can't afford to loose any more hearing. I double-bag when shooting a lot, and especially when I use the big pistols, or short-barreled rifles. But my real favorite, that I use most of the time, is my hardhat that I...

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Big Congrats, OS. From the pics, I see she has taught you well on how to handle the event properly: no more roasters. I bought my girl a rifle for our first anniv. Seemed like a good idea at the time. I won't do it again. Maybe if I'd tucked a $100 bill in the muzzle it would have worked out a littl...

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Ooooh, I'm going to have to do one of those. Too cool. Then too hot. That's the way my casting always has gone. Thanks for posting the info

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I sure wish I had that 284 to measure for you, cbennett. Got a 284, but it is in an old Rem Rolling Block, so not any help. But I thought I'd congratulate you on your nifty purchase there and move this thread back to page 1. There have to be some levergunners who can help you out who just missed see...

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The great thing about America is you can have what you want. In your case you want a rifle that looks cool. You mistakenly got one that works great and feels good to shoot. But the Winchester crowd calls it "fugly" and hurts your feelings. So sell it (put it on gunbroker.com and I may end ...

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Unique is a good powder for what you want to do. You might try about 6.5 grains with that 200 grain bullet for a pleasant cowboy load. Maybe 8 grains with the 240 for a heavier load (44 spl) . If you want more power for a deer load you'll do better with the 2400 powder with the 44 mag case.

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antilley, since you are loading cast bullets and need a bit of a bell to load them right, you've got some options. Lee makes a "universal" belling die that will do many different calibers. But Lyman's "M" die, caliber specific, does a nicer job (as in easier to manage when case l...

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Thanks much for this tip, Shasta. I've tucked this idea away in the brainpan in case I need to figure out "what is it?" sometime myself. And I've always got beeswax available, unlike some other substances. Yep, real handy technique.

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This is such an informative forum for me. I did not realize reloaders ever sold or replaced anything: I thought we just made additions. A big part of my loading is still done on the RCBS A2 press (pre-RockChucker for you young folks) even though I also have a turret and a progressive. And I still ha...

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The only way I have "lost" any posts here is totally my fault. I type out the post, hit the "Preview" button, and think "yeah, that's it". Then I continue happily onward browsing the "active topics" without remembering that the "Preview" is not the s...

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Hey, that looks really nice! My setup has a very similar organizational concept, but I've never got it quite put together. In fact, if mine ever came even close to looking that tidy I think the wife would faint.

You did that special for the pictures, didn't you?

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I like Marlins, but owning one has always been a case of "you pays your money and you takes your chances". My go-to rifle is a 336A made in 1950 that I got a really good deal on because it did the "Marlin Jam #1". I have a late 80's with exactly the same problem that was cured wi...

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Like several of you fellows I like 'em both and have 3 of the 30's and 2 35's with another 35 in the future. But for 35 fans who reload there is one more bullet option that puts the 35 ballistically ahead of the 30/30: the Hornady 180 grain spitzer. My 35s like this bullet the best for accuracy, and...

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Dang, guys. Those "guns of yesteryear" had those little toothpick stocks because 'most everybody packed 'em around in a saddle scabbard and thinner is definitely better when the thing is riding underneath your leg on the saddle. About the turn of the century the scabbard use began dropping...

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I had one in 300 Savage. Shot pretty good, I just thought it felt and handled kinda' heavy and clunky so it became one of the few rifles I have ever sold. And I have a Savage 99 in the 300 anyway and it is a lot more my style. And I have Marlins in 35 Remington and they are much neater rifles (in my...

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I thought I was going to be able to "make your day" xxclaro. A few years ago I had a 99 in 308 rebarreled to 260 Remington. I coulda' swore that take-off barrel is floating around my garage and I was going to offer it to you. But I can't find it, and can't remember the last time I even saw...

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Hey, that's awful close to the 22/454 Casull I've been contemplating (and even tried to produce with my sizing die collection, though not successfully. Tricky to get that much necking-down without wrinkling something rather badly...) Anyway, great minds, etc.
Thanks for the link!

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Yeah, Joe, I think the comments are pretty much right on. Not enough velocity difference to worry about. The only place I have rifles with duplicate cartridges but different barrel lengths is in 30/30 and 35 Remington. In these, the same load in 35 Rem pushes out the barrel just slightly faster in t...

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I wondered if there was a possibility of the soft pointed tip breaking off and then danger of of an explosion in the tubular magazine. Don McCullough Don, a few months ago I decided to test the old "don't shoot pointy bullets in a tubular magazine" mantra. Epoxied a firing pin into the no...

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A few days ago I acquired a used Rossi 92 in .357 that somebody had already partially set up. Nifty Williams peep and a green fiber optic front. This was my first experience with a fiber optic. Wow! I'm in love! And I was a fellow who thought the small ivory bead up front couldn't be beat. I've been...

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Do the poor wolves have to wait all the way until June to get a fresh supply of calves? Maybe the FS would want you to turn out a little early if they thought the endangered wolf was getting kinda' hungry for beef.

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http://www.alliantpowder.com/products/powder/power_pro_varmint.aspx Alliant Powder Pro Varmint. Thanks for the link mikld. I should figure out how to do that sometime. Anyway, when you go to that site it gives you a button to select "show all varmint loads" and there with the 22s and 24s ...

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Oh yes! Nice rifles. And nice pictures of the nice rifles. Thanks!

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I've just started playing with the 32-20 so don't have any experience yet. I tried a mold that put out a .311 bullet and it didn't do well in my .312 barrel, so ordered a Ranch Dog .313 mold. Unfortunately it casts up about .317, so I'm not sure it is going to be a big help -- looks pretty "scr...

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