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kid_couteau - The Black and Stainless looks cool and would be 'camo' at night...

oklahoma red - what brand stock is that, or did you camo it yourself?

I wish they made a camo one to fit the Rossi Pumas and/or the Marlin 1894's...

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yup, that seems an easy deal, drive 100 feet, take a picture, drive 100 feet take another one. I am sure it is automatic some how....maybe John Browning invented the camera they would use! I tried a couple of places all said "no street views available" I think it is just a car with a plas...

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Was it in this thread...?

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... er#p306858

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Why "NO OIL" on a file? Is it bad for the file, or just not necessary?

I understood them to be very hard steel that was even more prone to rust than softer alloys.

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madman4570 wrote:None required at all.
All the work you do here,seems to me any apologies should be going to you,not from you.

Same here.

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all new :) I just spoke to NEF - I was wondering if I could order a set of the steel sights that they used to put on these - nope, don't offer them. Oh well, I kinda like the way it looks right now anyway. I mounted a Williams Shorty ramp and bead - I think the barrel measurement was such that the ...

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[ any eye clearance problems with that hard kicking bigbore? ] Nope - but I'm not a stock crawler, and also hold my rifle tight enough to keep them from getting a run at me. I tend to be a stock crawler, and even with a mild-kicking 24" 44 Mag octagonal, occasionally something tips the tang si...

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Sorry - I don't have a pic of either the Marble's or Taurus tang peep sights, nor a skinner receiver peep, mounted on any of my rifles; and I have no exotica, like Win 98a bolt peeps, etc. Here's a pic of the Taurus tang sight (I have one on several Puma's and it worked perfectly on my 1889 Marlin ...

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I also personally was involved in a nightime "bear in the chicken house" incident years ago that left me with an empty .45/70 Marlin in less time than it took to type this sentence. I suppose a .454 Casull Puma might be just the ticket. 'They' say not to hot-load them, but an 80%-Casull l...

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That ic-fishing-hut picture makes me want to watch "GRUMPY OLD MEN" again...!

Where's that cute red-headed old hippie-gal - she was in the movie too...

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Doc Hudson wrote:
AJMD429 wrote:Great information and history lesson, Doc...!
Don't forget GunSmith!

He's dirty dog that got this chase started, I just joined the pack.

Yep. GunSmith deserves equal time...! Sorry 'bout that.

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Great information and history lesson, Doc...!

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Yeah, I FINALLY :evil: got to see the first picture, and realized (of course if I'd read your text I'd not have needed the picture) that you weren't talking about a duplex recepticle... :oops: I am SO tired of my browser, my computer, my anti-viral software, and this website combining to make me LOG...

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Far be it for me to dissuade you! I liked my old one and like the new one ... :wink: Hobie, I was checking out the link there ( http://shootingwithhobie.blogspot.com/2009/02/marlin-1894-44-magnum-carbine.html ) and noted your WINCHESTER jammed, so you replaced it with a MARLIN... You must have been...

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My computer will never load embedded pictures consistently, so I just caught a glimpse of one, but it almost looks like they took a 240-volt circuit and 'divided' it between the two outlets in that box. It is a 'common' practice on 'utility' circuits such as in kitchens, etc, where you may have high...

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KWK wrote:Some of the questions here are covered in a short article on my site.

The link embedded above, "http://kwk.us/twist.html", doesn't work for me - is it correct?

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Yep. No using it until checked out.

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I'd err on the 16.5" or more end of things, due to the extra magazine capacity, and just to hedge against jackboots with warped rulers, or (hopefully not) any need to re-do after the first cut.

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Post a few PICS if you can (if you don't know how, let us know and we'll walk you through it). That might help bunches. The up-and-down sliding-thing (... quit laughing at me guys , I don't remember what it's called ... :oops: ) that locks the bolt by riding up in the grooves in the receiver and fit...

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Around here I know several folks who keep them as 'truck' guns; they may carry another heavier-hitting gun for CCW, but for the times they "leave home without it", they at least have something. That's NOT to say the guns are 'bad' - it's just the use they tend to get put to around here (ki...

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I was gonna, but after I sanded the 70's-era Marlin 'varnish' off the old wood and saw how nice it was, I just oil-finished it. Maybe next time, or if RamLine or somebody affordable comes out with a camo synthetic stock for the 1894. This is as close as I got... http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa...

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Cool list.
I'd be curious as to some of the 'modern' guns.
I'd think something like a Ruger No1 would be pretty stout.

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The camera does it auotmatically. Just trip the shutter and move the camera in an arc. The photo I posted is un-retouched. I'll take some better pix next time I'm out at the farm. Awesome. I'd have to try moving it in arcs, or rotating it around the center-of-lens axis, just to see what would turn ...

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Looks cool.

Is that panorama one you assemble later using software, or does the camera automatically line up images internally, or what?

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Cut - $175 Is the reason the "Cut" is the costliest part due to also having to shorten the tubular magazine and so forth? I'd think labor-wise the "cut" part would be almost the easiest, vs. the labor and skill needed for a careful re-crown, proper dovetailing, and decent sight ...

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If you size the pics down under 1000 pixels I think they'll post directly with the "Img" command above.

Cool pics though, and even though those Savages have the lever on the side, they shoot good, especially in a round like .243.

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I'm from Indianapolis and didn't watch the Super Bowl. Never have.

Besides, we just got the Colts from Baltimore in a card game.

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I found the safety on my Puma switched itself to "Safe" and I had a problem with it at the range. I finally used some Loctite to make it stay in one place while leaving it where it will still work----if you want to get a brass punch and a small hammer. A safety which switches itself for n...

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I have often wondered just how much the subconscious and unconscious mind perceive regarding a patient's condition and/or surroundings, when they start coming out of it. THEY HEAR AND UNDERSTAND QUITE A BIT...! I won't go into details or examples, but I've personally seen numerous instances where t...

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Thanks for all the responses. From the symptoms, and the consensus I get here, I'm thinking a tooth on a big gear bit the dust. I'll see if the owner wants me to check it out or what. I feel bad it's broken when in our possession, but the owner was the one who wanted to 'pop it loose' vs. dig it ou...

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Some of the older rounds sure had case-volume going for them! I suppose the only way I'd be tempted to do it would be to chamber a modern gun for a "Ackley Improved" version of the case, set up so it could NOT enter the chamber of a classic/fragile gun. That would be hard to do with the st...

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I know they're "Brownings", but I just can't get used to guns that have the guts come out the bottom when you work the action. Maybe I'll try real hard someday, but it just doesn't seem right, somehow...!

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Those kinds of shooting GAMES are what we need more of; they make it a heck of a lot more FUN at the range; not everyone is an obsessive-load-developer or whatever like some of us are

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mescalero1 wrote:Welcome,
some of us tend to think out loud with our keyboards,
you will get used to it.

YOU MEAN LIKE THIS MESCALERO1?

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I've always found it interesting that the venerable .45 Colt wasn't chambered in a venerable lever-gun until the 1980's - kind of like not trying to mix peanut-butter and chocolate to make a Reece's Cup until centuries after both had been discovered and used individually.

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My nephew's 1970's-era John Deere 650 has been stored at our place for the last year until he finds a place he can use it, and we've put maybe 10-20 hours on it, finding it runs well, despite the usual dings, rust, and some minor repairs needing done. The other day when it was super-cold, we started...

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Around here it would have never made it to the shelf at that price ; someone would have been a 'friend of the gunshop owner' and had dibs on it. Indiana just started 'pistol caliber rifle season for deer' a couple years ago, and the shotgun guys are finally realizing their fancy 'high-velocity sabo...

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Another general resource on Marlin rifles - http://www.leverguns.com/articles/fryxell/marlin_history.htm There IS a "Marlin Owners" website, but threads aren't as varied or as active (or so I think), or maybe it's just the site is broken up into so many 'sub-forums' you have to do more sea...

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Photobucket works ok for me. I'm not very demanding of 'features' - just want a place to post photos so I don't have to re-embed them in messages, etc. They do have 'editing' and all sorts of sharing and video and sub-albums, for those high-end users. It's FREE unless you load probably THOUSANDS of ...

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You just may want to keep that gun, or if you sell it, use the money to get a carbine-size levergun in whatever revolver caliber you have. Reasons: 1. Leverguns are handy, non-politically-incorrect, home-defense guns. 2. Leverguns are actually capable of better accuracy than you may think ( not 'be...

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Two guns I only wanted to fire ONCE ( both owned by the same friend - a recoil masochist ?) Long gun - 10 gauge magnum (firing a slug) breakopen gun with barrel cut to 18-1/4" and with stock shortened enough so lead weight it came with was not in place (still legal length, and still a shoulder-...

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If you need more than 5 rounds of 45-70 might be good to think about what you are up to. :lol: - :) - :? - :shock: I suppose in a 'ranch' rifle that got drafted for 'home defense' it would be nice to have something with more capacity. . . . . . weren't there Gatlings in .45-70? . . . :twisted:

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They just did. Marlin came out with the 1895SBL and 1895GBL. Cool - just did a search: This the 18-1/2" 1895GBL (6+1 shot .45-70)... http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa132/AJMD429/Leverguns%20etc/Marlin1895GBL.jpg 7 lb, 37" Here's the 18-1/2" 1895SBL (6+1 shot .45-70)... http://www...

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A window-decal just made for her...!

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Somebody on this forum did just that (I think with a .444 XLR in stainless); he'll probably post on it if he sees this thread. Looked real nice.

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Prayers up.

You might find practical advice, solace, and insight, listening to the Dave Ramsey radio broadcasts (or website). He's sort of a 'financial preacher' and has helped many folks get back on the right path.

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Now I can see the targets better...

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Being self-employed, and our business gets very little income during November through February, we get to borrow around $9,000 each January to pay quarterly taxes on the money we will make later. Hard to get real excited about paying $9,000 when you have been paid $1,500 so far for the year. STILL, ...

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It is true that many of the "X or Y" questions posed involved two different length actions. Still, those factors are part of the cartridge's characteristics, so they are fun mental exercises (... especially as a way to delay going out to shovel snow ...). Both are excellent rounds, and for...

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Bogie35 wrote:I would take the 30-30 and re-chamber it to 35 Remington!
Best of both worlds! A 35 caliber with plenty of range!
bogie

That's a good one!

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