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Varget seems to be in good supply again at local shops here in NH. Nice to see.

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I have an old vintage all-steel one for the .348 WCF. Works fine, but the "claw" that snaps over the rim to pull the case back out of the die makes a pretty good scratch about 1/4" long near the rim of the case. The claw is sharp, but I don't want to radius its edge because I'm concer...

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just a quick thought. A big difference like that can happen if one shooter grips the forearm while sighting & the other one doesn't. Without the grip on the forearm, recoil is free to raise the barrel & the gun shoots much higher. A friend & I were shooting a Win. M71 (.348 cal) a couple...

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That's a good price with those extras.

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Ran up to Riley's in Hooksett NH today. Been out of everything for a long time, but today looked quite a bit different. Had Varget (limit: one of any one type of powder, 2 pounds total limit), had .30-30 brass, had .357 158gr jacketed bullets (2 box limit), had CCI Blazer Brass (reloadable) 9mm 115g...

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I'd be tempted to put some oil on the aperture threads and spin a .22 or .24 bronze gun cleaning brush in there for a bit to clean them up. You can buy extra apertures in a variety of sizes from Brownell's:

http://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts/si ... od862.aspx

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The Model 65 took a Winchester #98C bolt peep. Assuming that it takes the same aperture as the #98A that they put in the bolt of a Model 71, it'd be a 7/32 x 40 thread.

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Beautiful place Victor. I have got to make it up there to do some shooting & sit down for a beer. Gotta be time some weekend this summer.

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What? You mean $118 for a brick of .22s is expensive??

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I was in my local small shop today, he hadn't had .223s for quite awhile. He had what I'd guess was 30 or 40 cases of 1000 rds (50 boxes) of PMCs for $599, or $12.99 per single box. Also had Remington/UMC at $12.99 a box. CCI Mini-Mag .22s at $15.99 per box of 100. Nobody grabbing any of it that I s...

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I had about the same goals, and went with a Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22. Trigger was lousy, I put a Geissele into it & it's just a pleasure to shoot. Less than 2" at 100yds is no problem, mine will do a fair amount better. They come with a match-grade Thompsin heavy-ish barrel. Magazin...

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Stopped at WallyWorld here in NH today. They had: 4 varieties of .243 Win. 2 varieties of .270 Win 2 varieties of 7mm Rem. Mag. 7 varieties of .30-06 and virtually nothing else. Zero centerfire smaller than .243. Absolutely zero rimfire, not one box. Pretty fair selection of shotgun ammo. A very few...

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There is one of these listed as NIB with all the paperwork on Gunbroker. A couple bids, it's currently at $1700. Wow. And this with what's described as "a minor safe ding near the toe of the stock" (has a picture of it) that seems not-so-minor to me on a "NIB" gun. You've got you...

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I think these "longer" show reports are always interesting, you get a little flavor of the situation in various places. Good reading.

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I noticed on Gunbroker that there's new .348 ammo available from Winchester. It figured that they had to do a run, now that they're selling the Miroku Model 71 copy. The new ammo is 200gr "Power Point", so it looks like the Silvertip is well and truly dead. I thought they might go with the...

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Just ordered a pair - thanks for the tip.

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I checked Midway yesterday. They listed 36 different varieties of .30-30 ammo, 35 of them were "sold out, no backorder". The only one in stock was by Buffalo Bore, at $57 per box of 20.

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Welcome to the fire Steve!

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Victor,
The Hornady 200gr FTX bullet is available as a component, but there isn't loaded LeveRevolution ammo available.

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If you're going to shoot leverguns, you're going to do the vast majority of your cleaning from the muzzle end. I have leverguns I've been cleaning that way for almost 50 years. If done carefully & gently, I see no need to worry at all. I've never seen the slightest "rod wear" or fall-o...

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I spent one high school summer driving two Farmalls, an "H" and a "Super H". Really fun machines.

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I have a Dillon. Took me awhile to get one, but I wouldn't be without it any more.

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Welcome to the fire. Very nice Winchesters.

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Welcome to the fire! Grew up in Western NY myself.

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Trained by my dad when I was 14 years old back in the '60s. My first were .30-30s too. Big red Lyman turret press & the Lyman powder measure with the little hammer-thing that you pulled away & let go to give the measure's throat a good tap. Jacketed bullets were 4 to 5 cents each (expensive,...

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Ho,Ho,Ho!

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It's therapy of the finest kind.

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Great story & photo.

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I was there a couple weeks ago, they had a great stock of both new & used.

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Winchester's own records (see link in my post above) show no model 94s for the years 1943-1947 inclusive. This seems consistent with your quote from the 1943 Shooter's Bible. Their records do show, however, about 30,000 during 1942. Seems to me that qualifies as "wartime". Whether those 30...

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If Winchester made NO sporting guns during 1943, why do we find among their factory records tallies of serial numbers assigned during that year for some few sporting models? Many models so recorded (M70, M97, M12, etc) may have been for the war effort, but 89 Model 71s? Perhaps this was assembly &am...

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That original 71 will make you smile every time you look at it.

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If it's all original & looks that nice, it's a very decent price on a choice pre-64.

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In the 70s, I used to buy stuff at the only Gander Mountain back then, a one-story concrete block building on a back road in the middle of nowhere in Wilmot, Wisconsin (I was stationed less than an hour south, in Great Lakes, IL). It was a warehouse doing mail-order business from their catalog, with...

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I have a 3x-9x, a great scope. They're built in the Leupold plant by the Leupold people, and carry the same unbeatable guarantee. Leupold bought the Redfield name so they could offer scopes at a lower price point without hurting the Leupold line's sales.

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I strongly second mod71alaska's input to go for an original or one (the Miroku-Browning) that was built to replicate the original without all the half-a?&ed lawyer-ization.

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Need at least one more color of "duck" tape, AND a bit of Gorilla Tape before you really qualify for RN designation on this one.

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Thanks!

Eleven years, really tough duty. 7+ years at Great Lakes, Illinois; 3+ years in the Bahamas.

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Great to have you back Victor!

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What a great adventure. Just the way it should be!

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G & A's subscription price gets really ridiculous when you become a lapsed subscriber. A few months after my last subscription ran out, I finally succumbed to their monthly entreaties and re-upped, 2 years for $15. $7.50 a year, less than 65 cents an issue, delivered. At that price, I can put up...

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Happy Birthday Victor!!!

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The new Redfields are, of course, made in the Leupold plant by the Leupold people. Leupold bought only the Redfield name so as to have an entry at a lower price point without damaging the Leupold brand's price position. Carry the exact same outstanding guarantee and product support as a Leupold. I h...

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Brownell's is good people. Midway is frustrating as hell, but they're the big show in town. Good reliable service at least, but they take advantage of every opportunity to nickel-and-dime the customer. I go to Brownell's if they have all the items I need, otherwise it's grit your teeth & get rip...

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An interesting thing to do is watch the movie, then read the original book (William Dale Jennings 1971). Very interesting to see the changes they made in the movie. Even better ones to do the "movie-then-book" thing with are True Grit (Charles Portis 1968) and The Shootist (Glendon Swartho...

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