Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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This show is on Animal Planet. This one has Alaska scenes, a pretty girl named Pfred, a gruff store manager and the typical reality gun shop crew. It also has some hunting footage. The show is based in Jim West's Wild West Guns in Anchorage, AK. I think I'll watch at least a few episodes.

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My friend in Anchorage sold all his 223 ammo for $20 per twenty round box, and he had about 100 boxes of it. He also sold a Bushmaster AR carbine for $1600, then bought a longer barrel Colt AR from the table next to his for $1250 and about 20 minutes later resold it for 2 grand. He sold various othe...

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Since you already have the Ruger Ranch Rifle in 223, I think you have the high cap defensive rifle side of things well taken care of. If you have a source of 308 or 7.62x51mm ammo, you might go with the M1A. More power if it's ever called for, and that might turn out to be important.

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octagon wrote:Took an elderly friend dove hunting at the ranch recently. He brought his .270, but forgot the shells.

He took a .270? Just how big are your doves anyway?

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bgmkithaca, that highway is called the Denali Highway. There are many outdoor opportunities to be found along it. I've only been as far as the McLaren River Lodge from the Richardson Highway side, but it was beautiful country. I need to be spending more summer days in that area.

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:oops: :oops: Dang...I get mad when I'm paying 200 extra to heat.....Puts things into perspective for me. Hey Blaine. I just spent $150.00 on heating oil, and if the cold doesn't ease up pretty soon, it won't last until next weekend. I pay as I go, and fill up 5 gallon jugs all winter to keep the h...

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3leg/Todd, I thought we had a pretty good summer. There was a week or so in July when it was sunny and hot in the 80s above. There weren't too many days when we got smoked out by forest fires either. We did have some extended periods of rain, but it wasn't too bad. Mostly it was our typical sunny we...

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http://newsminer.com/pages/arcticcam Right now it's about -42 F here in Fairbanks, and this is a pretty good representation of what our day looks like. The sun got a little higher today and is on its way down, but we don't see the sun for very long this time of year. It was a little warmer last nigh...

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The college kids won't mind you being there too much, at least until they realize that you, with your good study habits and work ethic and no need to party, are skewing the grade curve. Older students have always been the bane of my education career. I didn't have a need to party but I still wasn't ...

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Beautiful location and beautiful food, Ji! I'm envious.

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Paco wrote about killing an eland with two shots of ball ammo from his 45 ACP to feed a starving village. "Over those years, I have never been far from a 45 ACP in the 1911 format of some make or model. I probably killed the largest animal ever killed with a 45 and military ball ammo. In Africa...

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I had a Model 94 Classic carbine that I liked, but sold it when funds were low. I saw a Classic rifle with the box and manual at a gun show for a good price, but didn't have the money. I located another a few years ago for $500.00 but held off on that one too since it was so close to Christmas. I've...

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This took place 3 years ago. http://www.adn.com/2009/08/13/897940/tw ... er-to.html

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The good news is that there doesn't seem to be any tsunami damage resulting from this quake.

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I wouldn't say anything to the guy. Shame on him, but if he'll poach a deer then brag about how good a trophy it is, with pictures even, what else would he have no compunction about doing?

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You'd rather have an illiterate handling your baggage?

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They work fine but you really should have an effective way of venting the cooking odors to the outside of your house. I use mine during the winter to do cheese sandwiches, bacon, chicken, hamburger, brats, hot dogs and steaks, but I put a fan in an open window to blow the smoke and smell to the outs...

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A Rogue River Chipmunk is very lightweight and handy. It's also surprisingly shootable, given its small size. I carry one in the truck when I might need a .22 rifle.

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The piano player in my church up until 1983 or 1984 was an Army band director during WWI. He might have been stationed in France.

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If I have the money and no foreseeable expenses in sight, I go and buy it. That system seems to work for me. I used to show my wife every purchase, but now they mostly just go in the safe.

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I don't see a rear sight on the barrel. It looks more like a single shot shotgun than a rifle to me.

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I know a guy who uses his 6mm Remington as his Dall sheep rifle. The shots are long sometimes in that kind of hunting, and he wants a smaller round with good long range performance. He told me it was a grown up 243 Winchester on the performance scale.

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You could extend the l.o.p. by installing a slip on recoil pad. Cheap fix for a low cost rifle.

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This serves to remind us that if you can't bend your knees and lift if off the ground using your legs, you should just leave it sitting right there on the ground. Of course we old(er) guys know that, but the young indestructible ones don't.

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The one I used to own had about a 1 1/2 pound trigger pull. How's the pull on yours?

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The Chinese SKSs I've tried have all been good guns. Completely reliable and accurate.

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This rifle is your idea of a beater? I don't see where it's been beat at all.

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I think I would buy however many came along for that price and condition. Nice find.

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Us math challenged types would probably find an answer to the question by sighting in to hit dead on at 200, then we'd tack up a target at 50 to see where it hits there, while wondering why the original question was asked in the first place.

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My brother gave me a Mernickle holster made for a 4" N Frame, and it's an excellent holster. I like carrying a 4" N Frame when I wear it.

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Your pile of ingots looks almost too pretty to cast into bullets. Almost.

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A bake on finish in a grey or black color would probably improve the looks a lot. You've gone to a lot of trouble to save it, so you might as well continue and get it looking as good as possible. It looks much better now than it did before, and I'm sure you will have it shooting again.

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ebay/paypal can still kiss Flo's grits as far as I'm concerned.

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Buy one Blaine, that is if you can find one. I haven't seen one on a store shelf since last October or so, and the one I saw at a gun show in February had a high price on it. The one I've tried shot and handled well. Hearing protection makes even loud guns, and I don't know if this one is excessivel...

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Once again, this loser finds that he really can't do anything right.

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I've been thinking lately that I should be buying guns that are a little more special, and passing on lesser guns such as Marlin rimfires. That was my view until I actually took it home, and then took it out and shot with it. This is a great 22 rifle, and one that I anticipate carrying and hunting w...

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I went back to the show yesterday and bought a steel Lyman 66 sight for this rifle. It's handier and more correct than a scope would be, and it matches the rifle very closely. They go together just right.

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Maybe you should try some other 22 Mag loadings in your rifle. You might be able to find one that it likes well enough to shoot more accurately.

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I went to the gunshow this morning and went around to the different tables to see what was available. The only other gun that I was considering was a Smith & Wesson 17-6, with a 4" barrel for $475.00 with a pair of combat fingergroove grips, or $400.00 without. I came to a friend of mine's ...

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This is my BLR in 358 Winchester. It's one of the mid to late 70s steel frame rifles. I found it on a statewide site about 4 years ago when a man in Juneau listed it. I live in Fairbanks. My email got there first, and he was willing to wait until we were both able to get to Anchorage to meet and fin...

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Alaskan moose lack the proper bacteria in their gut to be able to digest hay. They would actually starve if all they had to eat was hay. I wonder if the moose down south are any different?

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El Chivo, I've also heard bike guys recommend against using 3 in 1 oil, mostly because it attracts dirt. If it were the only thing available, I'd use it on my guns. I had a blue revolver that I left in the tent while I hiked for miles over the tundra. I neglected to bring a good belt holster with me...

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I think you guys stopped watching too soon. After a few more 444 Marlin shells, they tried to kill their Rossi shotgun with a round of factory loaded Speer Gold Dot, 300 gr. 454 Casull at about 55,000 cup. They chronographed a round at 1755 fps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAnbDvLIAac&feature...

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I haven't heard of shooting 444 Marlin in a 410 shotgun, but I've heard of shooting 45 Colt loads in one. I've done it myself a couple times with moderate loads, and while I don't know what it proved, it didn't hurt anything. If nothing else, the 45 Colt loads make much less expensive slugs than the...

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This picture looks like a Beretta semi auto pistol.

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Dean Grennell, John Taffin, Jim Taylor, Ross Seyfried, Mike Venturino, Clint Smith, Massad Ayoob.

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What is that? Abby...thing. I'm not doing a google... if it's a soap opera, then yes. Abby's a Masterpiece Theater presentation, usually on PBS-TV I REALLY liked the UK/WWII based series from the 1980's IIRC, "UXB" (Unexploded Bomb) - about a chap whose duty was to disarm Nazi UXB's dropp...

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Are you sure it's a 92? The new Winchester 92s in 44 magnum that I see now retail for over a thousand bucks and have a tang safety.

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"between 10 when they open and 12-12:30 when the church attendees start to show up." That's funny, because we notice the same thing here. I bet it's hard for those guys to concentrate on the sermon while wondering what great deals the heathens are buying at the gun show.

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