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pokey wrote: you don't really think he's gonna give that up to his brother, do you?

Well, maybe he would for a Marlin m39...

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Dang, Canuck, I had no idea old 4227 had such an interesting story. I used to use quite a lot of it and my old rifles didn't notice the switch from H4227 to IMR4227, although my pocket book did at the time. But since I discovered how much nicer H110 meters, and now we have "Lil' gun" too, ...

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I picked up my "new" 30 Remington today -- nope, no lever on this one -- more of a trombone thing. Proceeded to hit the trusty internet to see about load data. Sooo: looks like ya just use 30/30 data. OK, I can do that. But on the Alliant site which I maybe haven't visited in several month...

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1) It'll load those just fine and a jillion more. Note that for those mentioned you'll need 3 different shell holders. If you get Lee dies they include a shell holder, but if you go with another brand, remember to get the shell holder. 2) Just because it has a primer arm doesn't mean you have to use...

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Welcome to the circle Udy: we appreciate another hat thrown in the ring. Sounds like you've got a nice rounded start of a Marlin stable there. Pretty fond of them myself: older 336A 30/30 gets more action than any of my others and his almost twin brother in 35 rem. has been getting more and more sho...

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Wow! I can see why you are proud of her Kirk. But the practice we get being wrapped around a daughter's finger comes in real handy later on. Next the granddaughters (they get to us real quick) and today I spent quite a lot of time being directed by a great-granddaughter (and brought home from our wa...

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My favorite old Marlin 30/30 makes about a 2.5 to 3" for 5 shots group at 100 yards with most everything including various 170 grain jacketed and the 311041. Which does me fine for everyday shooting, of which this baby sees quite a lot. But it does especially like the Speer 110gr. spire point w...

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Well, when you run your spreadsheets, count me in to buy a couple... :wink: While you're at it, make a scaled-down one some of the .223-sized rounds like the .204 Ruger, .223 Rem, and 6.0 or 6.5mm 'benchrest' rounds, maybe a subsonic .338 Whisper or something. 8) Put me in here, too. My present mai...

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Looks like the site uses the Madis numbers for the 94's. Mike D and Pete44ru have me convinced that Madis got quite a bit off in the early parts of the 94 spectrum. (Much thanks fellows; it's been very educational). The site tells me my "new" 32 special was made in 1908; the info from Mike...

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I wasn't on the forum when you first posted the thread, longshotz. Reading the advice and comments you generated was interesting and a little amazing. I'm with Old Savage on this one: that has to be one extremely strong action or they wouldn't be chambering for those belted magnums. I'm sure if I'd ...

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I don't remember ever having a "failure to fire" except from an auto pistol that really got gunked up. Until, that is, I got a Remington bulk pack about 10 years ago. A couple years later I bought another Remington bulk pack. Same thing, occasional FTF. Slow learner here, I bought still an...

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I was considering the Lee turret a couple of years ago, but at that time Hornady would sell you their progressive for $300 and give you 1000 bullets. I figured "gee, that's like getting the press for $100". So that's the route I took. And though I seldom process ammo from empty through loa...

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What happened here. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/InTheWind/009.jpg Well you're probably taking the picture from the ungrazed road area, looking into a quite thoroughly grazed pasture. I would say from the good ground cover showing that this is not an "overgrazed" pasture, but on...

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Thanks Chuck, I may have to chase that article down.

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They had a Marlin 1894C in .44 magnum. Brand new. Beautiful. Good price. They also had a Marlin 1894 Cowboy with a 16" barrel in .357, used, at a very good price. Seems Tomlinson's has an excellent repeat customer who often buys a new piece, shoots it a bit then trades it back for something el...

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300 gr. LBT gas-check, LBT Blue lube, of waterquenched wheelweights pushed by 25 grains of ww296, CCI 350 primer, WW case. My Ruger Redhawk has shot bushels of these in the days when I was practicing a lot to be prepared for hunting. Killed 2 elk, several bunnies, lots of beer cans. This is not a mi...

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Sure be a slick machine for somebody in the firewood business, though might be a little overkill for laying in the year's wood for the family.
Also, somebody still has to go out in the woods and yard in that batch of logs.

Neat to watch: that operator has been doing that for a while.

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I'm with Hobie, I'll take a ROUND, especially the rapid taper pencil style, barrel any day over the octagon. Out of all my Winchesters only one has a full octagon barrel, and one is half octagon. :) Well, for carrying on a hunt you fellows are sure right. But at the range shooting silhouettes, does...

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This would be a great cartridge in the right rifle. I'm not sure you have the right rifle: I have a 6.5 jap and a 6.5X257 in these type 38s and neither shoots very well, most likely because of the grossly oversized bore. The 6.5 jap slugs .269 and the 6.5X257 slugs .270. When I load 'em hot enough t...

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.358 Winchester? Isn't that a rimless case as well? Tell us more! Details man! Don't worry about hi-jacking. We're all friends here. :D As is the 35 Remington rimless. The Marlin especially doesn't depend on the rim for stopping the cartridge, and I'll bet a little alteration would allow the winnys...

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Looks like it would be very interesting. Ackley doesn't show one in his book, so you might have a first! And Ackley shows the 30/30 improved as getting 2700 fps with 150 gr. bullets. The 30/30 Imp. "...is quite decidedly a surprising cartridge" to quote Mr. Ackley. He attributes much of th...

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A slightly greasy case and a load on the warm side and it's gonna try popping the lever open. That's one of my "you've gone a bit too far" pressure indicators when working up loads into uncharted territory with a lever.

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I got the "M" die to expand necks and flare the mouth, and found it ruined lots of cases for me. If your press or case isn't lined up just right, the die mashes the case mouth. I went and bought the Lee, and it works well on the mouth, because it is loose in the die and seats itself. And ...

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Don't worry about it :D It's when the primers start falling out the case you got a problem :D nath. I'm pretty close to Nath's opinion. Many of the old levers have a little excess headspace, but it isn't a problem if you are using factory ammo and aren't worried about getting a bunch of reloads out...

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Thanks for the heads up Earl. I went to Cabelas for a planning meeting for an upcoming shoot on Saturday, and picked up 3000 of the small rifle primers.....and they just happened to have a 1901 vintage winchester model 1892 in 32wcf that followed me home also. So many thanks. Tom Dang, sure wish we...

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Yeah, kinda' funny what you can run into in a gun show. Especially out here on the "left coast" there are a lot of folks that have no clue what a 35 Remington is. Everybody and his brother has a 30-30, but to get a 35 Rem you have to get one from "back east" (at least as far &quo...

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Bigahh, we need a little more info on your chambering problem. Occasional hard chambering is more likely to be in the neck area: is the brass a bit too long? Is the finished round a bit too large in the neck? Is the bullet engaging the riflings before the bolt is quite closed? Is the reloaded round ...

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If you are only going to use factory ammo I wouldn't worry about a little excess headspace in this moderate-pressure round. All the excess headspace is going to do is reduce the expected brass life a bit, and that won't bother you if you don't reload it. However, if you plan on reloading, don't want...

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I'm with you, Beaker. My attraction to a rifle increases directly with how well I shoot it off-hand. That M14 I shot in the service was the very top of the line for off-hand shooting, as far as I am concerned.

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Won't share that one with the wife, but I printed a copy to share with my non-computer shooting compadres.

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If our 'gun laws' weren't so absurd, we could all have our firearms with integral suppressors if we wanted. I'm sure some of the folks who insist on shooting only historically authentic guns wouldn't go for it, but I sure would. Even the leverguns 100 years ago were often offered in a threaded-muzz...

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Yeah, Pitchy, a grandkid talked me out of my 1895 a couple of years ago and my shoulder celebrated the transfer. And I like the 35Rem/Marlin so well I have two of 'em. An older (1950) 336A with the rifle barrel, standard rifling. The other is a younger brother of yours and Old Savage's, (late '80s)....

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A few weeks ago I made a quick trip to Arizona (uncle's memorial service). Happened to stop in a gun store in Clifton, and among a bunch of nice stuff spotted a Marlin 308ME with a $400 price tag. Not very convenient to buy guns when you are flying home in these unfriendly skies, but I was going to ...

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Is the sale in stores also or just on-line? That I don't know: we don't have a Cabela's store anywhere near. My order showed up via UPS today. I'd gone in with a couple of friends so the HazMat got diluted down to not much per thousand. The flyer says "items may not be available in our retail ...

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When I take "questionable" wood off a gun & am too financially embarrassed to buy a decent stock I "tighten" it up with my epoxy/acetone solution.........I call it the "Viagra of gun stocks" in that it makes them harder & last longer. :lol: pricedo, my Rossi st...

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Kevin, you're not going to go wrong with any of those larger cartridges for hogs, etc. I can't tell you one would be better than the other, because once I bought a 44 mag I never needed another handgun. I was shooting so much I thought I'd probably wear it out (Redhawk) so I bought another one to ke...

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I was loading up some 35 Remingtons this morning using my Lee dies and the 180 grain Hornady spitzer. Naturally the seating stem nose of this is made for the big open round-nose and is a total non-fit with the spitzer. But I never have trouble with these, or with the 110 spitzer in the 30/30, or sev...

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Cabela's flyer just came. CCI 400 (small-rifle) primers on sale for 20/1000. And thanks to COSteve we know that the CCI small-rifle primer is identical to the CCI small-pistol-magnum in all specifications (primer material, cup material, cup thickness). Small-rifle and small-pistol-magnum are the mai...

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Wow, I had no idea these rifle were so poorly made.......Guess I better get rid of it before self destruction.............. :roll: I'm glad you started this thread, rbert: I learned something here, 'cause I didn't know about those magazine tube issues. Turns out I ended up with one of the new style...

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I see where you say you live near the middle of Oregon. Years ago I worked on the Antone Ranch near Mitchell and John Day. Great memories of hiking and picture taking near Spanish Peak. Antone had a post office at one time--if I remember correctly. My little house was right next to Rock Creek, coul...

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Hey, antilley, you did quite well for the first time. Everybody has a learning period, getting the feel of "how things should go when it is going OK" The crinkled cases on seating are from too hard a crimp, probably because a few cases are a bit longer than others. With copper plated bulle...

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Don, while you are waiting on your seating stem/nose punch thingamajig, you might try the old loose-seating-die trick to see if it allows the bullet to seat straighter. It does help on several of my cartridges.

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Big Horn Armory's model 89 (upsized m92) is getting real close to being a "gotcha" for me. Only thing is, I don't want it in 500 S&W. I'm thinking it'd be the ideal platform for the "Benchrest" series of cartridges. So give me that m89 in a 22 Benchrest and I might have to fo...

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The one reason you might consider trimming is if you take advantage all the discarded 38's you find at a public range and you end up with a batch of cases with slightly different lengths. Loads that you crimp should be real close to the same length because about the largest velocity variation you'll...

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Don, Malamute is probably correct in suspecting a little seating stem mismatch. But sometimes it helps to not lock the seating die down tight with the lock ring but to leave it pretty much loose (I think this may help adjust for the seating stem imperfection).

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I think that there is an increase in popularity of the 32 Specials lately. Maybe because they are not so common as the 30-30s. Can you still buy factory ammo for them, I wonder? Not only can you get factory ammo if you so desire, but you can also get it in LeveRevolution with the 165 grain gummy ti...

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Thanks much for the info, jdad and pokey. A hog trough sight :!: And worth a few bucks :D That's good to know. Now if I can ever get the barrel clean I'll see if it shoots. The only other rifle I have seen that had this much jacket material left behind in the bore was an old 6.5 Jap military rifle. ...

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Ouch! When they don't move like they're supposed to it is painful. From your post, I'm afraid you may already have performed my suggestion, which is to fit the screwdriver in the screwhead and then give a sharp rap on the top of the screwdriver like you are trying to drive the screw in deeper. That ...

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Until a few days ago I owned only one model 94. Redmond gunshow last Sunday, this thing followed me home (32 Spcl). Some previous owner had reblued the frame and tried re-stocking. Pretty wood, but he musta' used a chainsaw instead of rasp and file. About 1907 mfg. date. My question to you fellers t...

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Now the only way this 2-gun thing happens to us is very big political badness. Sooo 1) Ruger 77/22 (suppressed) 2) Walther P22 (takes same suppressor) With which I'd figure on re-arming myself with more potent weapons... And for anybody who thinks along these lines with me, be warned that Ruger, as ...

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