Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

AkRay

From past experience of having guns available to buy but passing on them when they were right in front of me on the dealer's shelf, I'm thinking that these lever actions will command top dollar 10-15 years from now. That's when today's price tag will seem very reasonable in comparison. While they do...

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One of the local stores has 3 or 4 of the new Winchester 92s on the rack. They have 16" or so barrels, and a sliding safety on the tang. The guy told me they were chambered in 357 Magnum, 44 Magnum and 45 Colt. They were blued and the stocks were wood but looked pretty plain. A couple of them h...

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I've enjoyed all 4 of the 9422Ms that I've had shooting access to. They're great small game rifles and the performance they give is worth the price of the ammunition. I think people make a mistake in comparing them to a standard 22 rimfire, because that makes it hard to justify paying for the ammo. ...

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Maybe a Toyo 56 or 73 Laserstove would be a better bet. They vent straight out of the house through an outside wall and run on heating oil. They put out plenty of heat, and are very efficient. I'm pretty sure they're powered by a 110 electrical socket too.

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My father in law used to collect Steven's Boys Rifles. He had about 20, and he made a nice display board for them. He'd set up at gun shows and talk to people who came by his table. Lots of guys started out with these little 22 rifles, if the numbers who stood around and talked to him were any indic...

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Is this picture taken inside the Palmer State Fairgrounds? It sure looks like it.

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I can't remember if I've ever posted pictures of this lever action here before. I found it last summer, and the seller told me he bought it for his mother to use to keep the bears and such under control out at her fish camp on the Yukon River. It's a good shooter, and it has a nice smooth action. ht...

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My friend Bernie locked himself out of his junky little Subaru wagon one January night about 20 years ago. We were eating out at Denny's, and since it was really cold, about forty below, he locked the door and left the car running while we ate. People here frequently do this so the vehicle doesn't g...

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A Toyostove that runs on heating oil would provide all the heat you need, and it would be efficient enough that it wouldn't cost that much to operate.

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Nice jeeps, Sixgun and Sixgun Jr., but where are the winches? And I don't mean Winchesters. Not this time anyway.

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Another option would be to go with the 450 Alaskan. It should give you the same bullet diameter.

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My Model 94 Classic had the flat steel checkered buttplate too. It had to go when I was raising money for a new fridge, but I did like it. It had a pretty wood stock, a lot like the one in the pictures here.

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Thanks for the responses. It just means I get to bring more money to the gun show this weekend.

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I see an ad for a Model 96 for sale with an extra stock, which I would have a good use for, but I don't know if Ruger used the same stock on both rifles. Does anyone know?

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Your collecting style matches mine pretty closely, which is why you won't find multiple variants of the same model in my accumulation. I find accumulations to be much more interesting than collections anyway. I want to find, own and experience as many guns as my location and bank account allow. Forg...

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I'll wait until you post some pics before I offer an opinion.

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I have 2 Savage-Stevens 73Y rifles. I got the first one in 1976, but ruined the stock in my quest to own a handy 22 back in those days. I bought the second a year ago for $25.00 because it had a good stock and it was cheap. This second one had the bolt but no extractor and no sights. I decided to us...

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I asked for and got a Wheeler's Engineering set for Christmas a few years ago, and I'm disappointed in the quality. One of the screwdrivers was missing the magnetic insert, and some of the bits were misformed. One of the bits, a smaller, thinner one, is bending with use. While I still use it from ti...

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This rifle is sized right for younger shooters, but I'm interested in trying something else for the grouse and ptarmigan I find while out hunting. I always have a powerful rifle or handgun along, but I don't shoot small game with those. I'm interested in finding out if a small sized rifle would work...

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I've carried 22 lr handguns as guns of opportunity for small game gathering for the past quarter century, and I've been fairly happy with them. Handy size and weight, and immediately available are the qualities inherent to this class of firearm that I appreciate the most. However, the main thing tha...

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Find a source for dermestid beetles. They eat everything to the bone and leave you with a clean skull to mount.

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My wife and son went on a kayaking trip to Valdez a couple weekends ago. Valdez, AK is on the ocean, with lots of beaches and trails and bears. The gun I sent along with them was my Glock 20 and one 15 rd magazine loaded with high energy JSP bullets. They got swamped by the wave from a ferry that pa...

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Maybe it's time to upgrade to a GNR frame and barrel, John. I'm sure that this moose hunt you were drawn for doesn't come along very often. You may as well go after your Bullwinkle with guns you have complete confidence in. It will probably be hard enough to connect on one anyway, regardless of whet...

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I reload too, but I haven't loaded a round in a couple of years. I need to find all my stuff and get going on it again. Maybe it's finally time for a Dillon 550b.

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So there I was at the range with my son and a couple of his friends, enjoying my new to me pre-safety 1894 Marlin with a box of CCI Blazer 240 gr. 44 Magnum ammo. I've used this ammo with success in Smith & Wesson N Frames, Ruger 44 Flattops, and even Desert Eagles. I don't remember having a pro...

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I agree with you guys who say this gun in a 44 Magnum kicks pretty good. My last other one had a barrel that a previous owner had had cut down to 16 1/4", and also had the older style barrel bands. I saw that the front band was a little "stretched" looking when I bought it, but I didn...

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The seller wanted $380.00 for this one, but for an additional 10 dollars included 27 factory loaded Winchester 240 gr. JSPs. It has a smooth action and cycles and ejects loaded rounds nicely. I bought it from the guy right after I checked it out earlier today, so it turned out to be a good day to st...

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I just found this one on a local board. According to the seller, it was used in his mother's camp on the Yukon River, but they used it lightly and kept it in nice condition. The gun was well suited to the job of dealing with bears and such, but was replaced with a lever action in 30-30 because the m...

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Maybe Filson's can take care of you. Since it sounds like leather chaps are expensive anyway, maybe Filson's rain clothes aren't so far out of line anymore.

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Maybe Karamojo Bell was smart in another way with his light caliber rifles. I read where Frederick Selous, who used large caliber black powder guns that had tremendous recoil to hunt elephant, had regrets later in his career. He claimed that the recoil of the big guns affected his shooting, even wit...

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He's got tall berms around his house, but bulldozers don't compact the soil as they place it. They have too light of a footprint. He would have needed a roller, or loaded trucks to drive over it as he placed it. Hopefully the floodwaters recede before they wash his work away.

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Nice find, but the grips don't look original to me. They should be walnut.

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I saw a factory original Big Bore in 356 Winchester at the last show for $750.00, but it seemed like too high a price to me. It was just the rifle. What's a good price range for them?

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I got my '89 Wrangler last summer, and since it wasn't running quite right and had a broken muffler paid only $900.00 for it. It came with CJ doors and probably a CJ hard top, along with a bikini top. I then paid my bro in law the other $100.00 to take it home and get it running right, which he did....

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That guy's a lamo.

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My brother in law wrote up this list about a month ago, and he's had 81 vehicles since about 1983 or so. And with him, there's no end in sight.

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I thought that was why bikers wear boots with thick soles.

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Great job, Sixgun. I would have enjoyed showing my finds off to knowledgeable people who should have known better too. I'm so ignorant about old rifles though that I would have walked right by these rifles, and I've probably walked by tables full of them without a second glance while trying to scope...

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Are these hard to find when chambered in 41 Magnum? Seller claims it's in excellent condition. I'm trying to decide if I should make a phone call. What would be a reasonable price range for a 95% example?

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I'm not taking any part of this guy's side, but shouldn't his wife get some percentage of his military retirement/pension? She helped him get where he is today, and she didn't commit any crimes. When a guy dies, his widow still collects about half of his retirement. What's she supposed to do now?

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My teaching job takes 12-15 minutes to get there and back from, so that's not bad at all. My summer job is about 45 minutes each way, so that's an hour and a half times 6 days per week. I usually drive about 20 minutes and park and get a ride with my boss, but I still don't like that commute very mu...

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My first jeep is a '48 Willys CJ-2A that my bro in law and dad in law rebuilt for me. I supplied the money to buy the jeep and necessary repair parts, and they provided the mechanical know how. My second jeep is a '99 Wrangler with a hard top that I got last summer for $900.00, mostly because it did...

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Bob Munden modifies his guns so they stand up to the speed he works them at. No one taught him how to do it either. He was one of the first, and he had to figure it out himself. He's not only fast, but when he's working at slow speed like the rest of us, he hits what he aims at. He's got it all as a...

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It didn't fall down in the movie. I was just thinking that they fell down a lot with this type of revolver, but didn't know that it was corrected with this model.

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What are the chances that the loading ram on her revolver would have dropped down and tied up the cylinder when she shot Chaney with it?

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Missed the deal. I originally called the seller yesterday and asked about the rifle. He told me that he was going to work late, today wasn't so good for him, and that he'd call me tomorrow(today). This morning I got up and waited for the call and then called him, only to hear "Oh yeah, she's go...

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I'm going to look at one of these later this week. The rifle hasn't been bubba'd according to the seller, but has been hunted with and has bluing wear and some dings on the stock. This one was made sometime in the early 50s. Is this lever action/caliber combination desirable or are they generally ov...

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The grip and lever remind me of the Winchester Model 71.

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