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Les Staley

Mine is a later model. About 3 years old. Taurus Braztech. A little past a half turn in 16" bbl. roughly 1/30.

Les Staley

My mouse fanny burp load for my 357 mag trapper (16") is a cast 158 SWC nudged by 4.2 gr of Trailboss. I will send a pic to anyone that can post pics of a target with carbine and load data including chrono velocities. 950 fps and 2-1/4" at 100 yds five shot group.

Les Staley

They will send it to anyone with an email address. Great news! You guys will like it. I'm already loading a few for testing in 460 S&W magnum.

Les Staley

BHA just gifted me an electronic copy of their new Reloading Manual for their big bore leverguns. 500 Linebaugh, 500 S&W, 500 Auto Max,460 S&W, 454 Casull, and 475 Linebaugh. I've been groping my way along with cast, gas checked and powder coated bullets, but now have some new parameters to ...

Les Staley

Welcome to the insanity! Looks a lot like my 1909 version of the same thing only in 25-20. It was relined when I got it, hence a little cheaper than if it had been original. The external finish is just like yours. Wish it could talk...what stories!! Now when it speaks ground squirrels and ruffed gro...

Les Staley

Puller, been thru Bucklin Ks many times. Part of my "avoid the scale house" route north out of Oklahoma City. Anytime you have to quarry your fence posts from rock, you know there ain't many trees. (Stone Post County). And, for those that don't travel thru Kansas, Liberal is the name of a ...

Les Staley

Blaine, ain't it the truth! I turned 70 last August. And that seems to be my prevailing attitude.

Les Staley

Jerry, don't discourage these fine folks with Wyoming weather reports. I'm trying to sell my Trophy Log home on highway 89 between Daniel and Pigs Hiney, er... big Piney. 35 acres with 1/2 mile highway frontage. Built it in 1995 ..attached garage sheltering the house from the prevailing winds, 300 y...

Les Staley

Doc, I read somewhere (prolly on the Internet) that 444 Marlin brass makes good 410 shells. Been meaning to try it, but bought a MEC Reloader for 2-1/2 and 3" shells. Had to buy brand new..everyone wanted new price for their old ones..glad I did at the price of new ammo!!

Les Staley

WM, thanks for the heads up. Love a Mil Surp bargain. Used to have a Shoe Repair shop, and kept my Singer 29K71 patcher (big heavy duty free arm sewing machine for sewing patches on shoes/leather/canvas/. Should work at least as well as super glue).

Les Staley

Doc, that beautiful ten point is just a bi- product of your good training. Good job!!

Les Staley

Okay, made my wife order one for me. Gotta be good for some laughs

Les Staley

I have GOT to get me one of those! O, wait.......I already have one

Les Staley

I have one of the Winchester 94/64 factory rebuilds. Double proof marks. My rear, action and buttstock date 1911. I was talking with a vender at the Gunshow this weekend. He had one on his table. It seems they were more common than I thought. Mine wears a Lyman tang sight w/o wind age adjustment and...

Les Staley

Stopped by Freedom arms in Wyoming to pick up a holster for my 97 in 45 Colt, and stepped into the toilet. The TP holder was a longer barreled 83 mounted on the wall with a roll of TP on the barrel. Took some pics, but can't find 'em.

Les Staley

Welcome to the forum, Prada. What part of the country do you call home? I hail from the Idaho panhandle, mostly verticle and dog hair thick timber intermixed with clearcuts, and many miles of logging roads to idle along. Whitetail and elk, some turkeys, and ruffed grouse when they are up-cycle (not ...

Les Staley

Grizz, I have a 74 made for 22 shorts onlye. Mine is marked "not English made". And has British proofs (several) and a threaded muzzle. So, being a "Lend Lease " firearm (WW2) it was made sometime in the late 1930s or early 40s. I looked the manufacturing date up once on line but...

Les Staley

I bought 11 acres at the end of the road here in Idaho a couple years back. Just for parking trailers, and other misc. frozen assets. Gated the only road in at the property line for security (?). Got pics of elk, deer, turkeys, coyotes, bear and one trespasser last fall. I IDed the guy and had a cha...

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Pete44ru, thank you for taking the time to help another old coot. I don't have a mouse, as I'm working with an I pad. Pitchy's instructions got me one picture posted. Had to try it a couple of times, and it seems like I'll eventually catch on. I'll try a few more tomorrow when I'm a little fresher.

Les Staley

Cool! Thanks Pitchy! First pic I've been able to share with you guys in months, since Photobucket pooped on us. This buck I killed on Black Friday 2014 chasing another buck and a hot doe. I must have made that other bucks day, if I was reading the situation right. I'm gonna keep your instructions on...

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on my I pad when I click on the box to the right of hot link for forums, it says I have to copy the stuff by hand. I tried select all and copy, but it tells me it was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image. Please verify that the url you entered is correct. Am I doing something wrong?

Les Staley

Thanks, Pitchy, I'll give it a whirl. I pad, right?

Les Staley

anyone have any luck with post image.org? If so, I need someone to walk me thru step by step..thanks

Les Staley

I have one. Great shooting pistol! Plenty of elevation in the sights to let you put 240+ cast booklets on target with elevation to spare. If I didn't already have my 5 hole Freedom 97 for carry in the woods, (killed a big doe with it a couple years back) this would be perfect for a hunting sidearm. ...

Les Staley

Pete44ru, I couldn't have said it any better. Would make a great hat, but it wouldn't all fit!!

Les Staley

All righty, then, how about the Model of 1917 vs the Pattern 14 discussion? Very few posts get that right.........

Les Staley

When my IPad starts mis behaving, I give it a time out, just like an unruly child. I shut it off for 10 minutes. Usually when I fire it up it does what I expect. YMMV

Les Staley

What's the rate of twist? Hope a little quicker than my Bighorn Armory 460. IIRC the BH is 1-38, not much hope to stabalize a heavy long bullet at a reduced velocity. I tried a 350 cast and 50 yds is about it for any tight groups.

Les Staley

Thanks for the seven year bump. I made mine out of a 40 soldered inside a 44 mag case. Easy Peasy.

Les Staley

There is a Bulldog in the Custer museum in Gerryowen Mt. (Just down I90 from the Battlefield, you can see the pine trees on the ridge at the battle site from there). Custer was supposed to have been carrying one at the time, but never found. on the newer gun, found one to fondle at Cabelas yesterday...

Les Staley

Well, it may be getting a little better. I noticed for the first time yesterday that I didn't have to log in every time I checked the forum. Still has me this morning. (I can turn my head to the right a little to see who I am). No worries!

Les Staley

No, it ain't only you. I'm getting used to "change". Photobucket quit working for me, not even recognize able any more. No more pictures from my end for now at least. Had a great ap on my phone and I pad, on X hunt. Easy to use, lots of layers, property lines, govt land, property owners na...

Les Staley

I gotta quit reading everything you "Enabelers" write.. Jay, glad you passed on that GP100 44 Special..I hit buy it now with free shipping. Should have it by week end. Pics and a range report to follow. (I really NEEDED this pistol!).

Les Staley

Grizz, I for one would be interested in learning how to load round lead (hard or soft) balls in the 12 ga. Not wanting to de-rail Blaines thread. How about starting a separate thread on it. Thanks. Les

Les Staley

If you're shooting these aforementioned round balls in a rifle with a patch to engage rifling, then they should be dead soft. It is necessary that the lead be soft to let the warp and weave of the patch impress in the lead so the spin is positively imparted to the ball. Hard lead often times will be...

Les Staley

I've got the mate to that gun, mine being a 1946. I couldn't tell if yours has a fluted comb, doesn't look like it. (One of the identifiers of a third model, first variation). Mine is also Ballard rifled and over all looks almost as nice as yours. Congrats on your find!

Les Staley

Blaine, if you gotta go in to a regular clinic to get this taken care of get off some of those bucks and do it! Don't mess around with your health, as I might need you to guide me around western Wash this summer. Thinking of a little fishing/crabbing/claming trip up around Port Angeles.

Les Staley

Gunny, Earl ain't kidding, call the dog over and give it a try! (Standing on a wool carpet).

Les Staley

If you insist on actually spending money go to the dollar store and BUY a plastic bowl with a snap on lid. Just get one with a #5 in circle on bottom (recycleing number). This formula plastic generates the best and correct type of static electricity. And don't even ask about using any other color Ai...

Les Staley

Get a cool whip bowl, with a snap on lid, has to have a #5 in a triangle/circle on the bottom of the bowl indicating the type of plastic for recycling purposes. Some black air soft BBs 1/4 " in the bottom of the bowl, (black works best, no substitutions). Put in 20 or 30 bullets, a teaspoon of ...

Les Staley

I have an older Lee bottom pour with the operating handle with counter weight on it. I keep a piece of wire shaped like a 7 with a little loop on the long leg to act as a handle. When the pot won't stop I clean it out by poking the short leg up into the molten lead thru the bottom of the pour spout....

Les Staley

Use the Same bullet in my 92. One coat of Harbor Freight red seems to do it. Even if splotchy looking, if you look close they are completely covered with the shiney polymer coating even though not "red" all over. Good enough for ground squirrels!

Les Staley

Thanks for sharing this. Maybe you young whipersnapers will start listening to us old pharts.....not likely!

Les Staley

My SIL is headed there in the morning. He oversees fire fighting efforts from a small plane. Just got back last week from Rolla Missouri. He has five years left before he retires from the USFS.

Les Staley

My buddy BJ has that same machine. Works great! Griff, you remember BJ from last weekend.

Les Staley

Blaine, I have cleaned up a couple of old military barrels by taking my cleaning supplies to the range, shooting eight or ten shots in quick succession. Get the barrel as hot as you can, and get after it! Kroil and JBs bore cleaner, or maybe some of the lead away cloths and a tite fitting brush. The...

Les Staley

Six, I was thinking about the special snowflake $20 bill I dropped in the mail that self identifies as $75. We must accept it and do nothing that would hurt it's Feelz. Guess those 6.5 brass that you shipped should still be ok...That's what that smile was about.

Les Staley

Gary, nope but I've met a few other Staleys in my travels. Lots in Green River Wyoming, some in Jackson Hole. The family has a long history of running.. Started in the early 1700s in a little town Staley Bridge near Derbe (Darbey?) England. Staleys left there for the new world for religious freedom....

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