Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Charles Yup still kicking, just not as high as I used to :mrgreen: I'm enjoying my retirement flying my plane more than shooting but I did buy a couple new ones last year and plan on working with them. I still shoot the 405 occasionally but haven't used on p-dogs since the time NE450 was up here. CO...

Leverluver

Charles "but too many liberals have moved there over the decades and that has reduced the allure of the mountains." Bingo, that's why I moved to WY 40 years ago. My niece (lives in Conn) says I should be fine in WY as it is the only state where "social distancing" is a way of lif...

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I was passing through a small town in Utah and there was a bar next to my motel that had tomahawk throwing; kinda like darts but with more danger :mrgreen: Now the throwing is fun and I have been known to toss back some liquid entertainment now and then but I don't think I want to do both at the sam...

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Absolutely Rube A lot of "not into westerns" folks just don't get the overall plot of the genre. The whole point is that they were "morality plays". They taught us when maybe we didn't know we were being taught. We learned why the bad guy was bad and the good guy was good. We cou...

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Probably have to get a clipper set soon. I'm beginning to look like a cross between Einstein and Grizzly Adams

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They should have a service at the hotel in Medicine Bow. The notoriety has brought them more than a few customers over the years, including me.

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First off, I don't think you are going to find any data by Ackley as I don't think that the cartridge was an Ackley invention. More than likely it was an invention or alteration based on the 348AI. AS to why; like most wildcats, the reason is lost to history. Even if you did find Ackley info, that s...

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If you do it, no matter in which rifle, have the reamer rental or manufacturer send the print and measurements so you can send that to the die company of your choice and confirm that the reamer and their dies will work together. Early on, there was only the AI and I still think that if you order 348...

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Be careful which one you get; there are at least three versions of 348 Improved. The Ackley is a short neck with minimal (dang near none) case taper. I've seen long neck (same as the original case but blown out body), short neck with at least two different degrees of case taper. I would get drawings...

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I very much doubt that you can stuff any 348 based cased in a Big Bore. The 348 case was based off the 50 WCF and that big of a case just won't fit without a lot of hogging metal which would weaken the gun. The M71 will work in 416 but there are no readily available bullets that you would be able to...

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I recall an article of a Siamese mauser (meant for rimmed) chambered for 348. They were often rebarreled for 45-70 so a 348 seems possible if not practical. Of course that is going to be a whole new barrel and not a ream job.

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Love M/S !!! Double set triggers and butter knife bolt; what's not to like

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I wonder how long that box had been setting in that gun shop? I still have about 100 rds of the old factory 250 silver tips loads that I gleaned from gun shows in the 70s and 80s in the Rocky mountain west, mostly CO but also MT, UT and WY . I've only fired a couple of rounds through a pressure barr...

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My foray into the AI was with the 348. Yes, it did make one heck of a thumper....on both ends. There are a couple of downsides regardless of the performance aspects. First, the sharper shoulder and less tampered body does not feed as well in a lever action. Second, the shorter neck limits the use of...

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I've often looked at lower than max charges of Lil GUN with the interest in middle of the road loads (~1400fps with 170gr cast) for one of the new Winchester 73s in 357. I know the rifle can take 36,000psi but I'd sure prefer ~24,000psi. Our goals are not exactly the same but I'm still looking forwa...

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Don't mean to be a downer but most of the lower cost (anything under $8,000 is lower cost in doubles) double rifles had two leaf rear sights because it was meant to sight in each barrel for its particular and separate rear sight. For the money made off lower priced doubles whether, ML or cartridge, ...

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A friend where I worked had one of these. The mag was near limitless (1000 rds) and his ran off a small tank as well. One evening there were some cows that got into the gas plant (yes they are more than annoying as they had already rubbed, scratched on stuff and shut the whole plant down). He had it...

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Right on! That's about the only way to get one that shoots good without fussing with. Neither Ruger nor S&W has ever figured out the 45Colt; one makes the throats too small and the other makes them too large. Very frustrating.

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My 250 was not desmo. I know they were available but maybe not when mine was built (64-65?). I don't know whether it was float or not but it topped out at 11,500 which was also the redline on the tach. Actually the megaphone racing tailpipe was not that practical on the street as it stumbled a lot u...

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When I was a pup in the 60s, I had a Ducati Diana MK III. Man was that a smokin' bike for 250cc. It came with two exhaust systems, one for street and one for racing. Of course, I got in trouble a few times for having the (loud) racing one on when on the street :mrgreen: . You would have a hard time ...

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Like Bill eluded to, it all started with a game "ranch" on the front range in Colorado. From there it spread all along the NE front range of CO and into SE WY primarily the Laramie range. My opinion was that it was always around but in very small percentages. It's when you bring the animal...

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Depends on what you are hunting and the velocity that the projectile is expected to impact at. For the 45-70 (which Mathews was talking about) I would agree with his assessment for the game he is talking about. I am not a "pencil through" person but with some cartridges on some tougher ani...

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Indiana, like a lot of states have recently made new rules about taxing out of state/internet purchases so we might as well get used to it. Most are written up like Indiana's also, meaning if a company does over $100,000 a year in any state, then they collect that states taxes. It does go to your st...

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I have an old loading leaflet they used to put out that had some surprising (smoking) speeds for RE7 in the 38-40 at standard pressures. I haven't seen that data published (by Alliant) since. All the 38-40 current data will be found in the wimpy CAS load data. I am sure that Alliant brochure is buri...

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Are the pic of the pages creating an optical allusion or is the rifle sort of an 1877 saddle rifle?

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Hey Charles, smear the juveniles with catfish head juice; problem solved

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If you are going to Dubois, at least take the short drive from near the top of Togotee pass (on the way to Dubois) up to Brooks lake. The scenery is stupendous and there a couple of cool lakes to the west of Brooks (NW of parking area) that I always did well with native cutthroat. It is a short walk...

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Looks like the gun Richard Widmark used in (I think John Wayne's) Alamo movie. It looked like it needed a set of wheels in the movie too.

https://www.nratv.com/episodes/curators ... alamo-1960

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ooops double tap

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Just one persons opinion but I have done pressure tests on some cartridges that have gone into modern 95s, both in dedicated pressure guns as well in 95s after the baseline was set. I think the 35Whelen is an excellent cartridge for the 30-06 Browning 95. There is basically no extra fiddling necessa...

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Didn't Navy Arms take the Miroku Win and have Turnbull case harden it? They certainly aren't cheap but it is the outcome you are looking for IF they are still using Turnbull.

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I also have a love affair with the M71. A low serial deluxe was my second big game caliber rifle purchased back in 1972. That was followed by a Browning that I converted to 348AI (if you really want to get kicked) and a Browning 71 carbine a little later. I am also a great fan of the 45-70 and have ...

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I'm sure you all have heard of canine distemper- the human race is suffering from distemper! It stems from living in condominium complexes, sitting in traffic sucking exhaust fumes, packed like sardines in office buildings and the constant hum of flourescent lighting- and let's not forget the radia...

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Glocks are Glocks...it's real easy to get Glock replacement parts, mags are somewhat cheap--- BUT , if you looking for something that's SA/DA, a single-stack, that looks like a viable option--go to Cabela's and see how it fits your hand, the bore-axis stuff, price of mags, and search both google an...

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That's what I bought my airplane for. Now to find a barn no one is using (have to see the movie first)

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I'd be careful with "load switching" as I am sure that the loads for the single shots were using a bullet that had most of it's weight/length outside the case...more like Sixgun's. The bullet you are looking at has it's weight/length inside the case. I did some testing (with pressure equip...

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Until the "higher ups" found out about it, Lindbergh (shaded as instruction) had gone on several combat missions. He was informally credited with a kill and shared a damage. Of course, there are no such credits in USAAF records because a civilian cannot have credited kills. When it was lea...

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The visible smoke and the political smoke have both finally cleared. A lot easier to breath now.

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If you want the story of the Voodoo record attempt. http://vintageaviationecho.com/voodoo-speed-record/ There is a lot of hubbub about the old speed records (Lyle Shelton flying Rare Bear a 3350 powered Bearcat at 528 mph) being retired. FAI (a French outfit) sets the rules which are a lot of stuff ...

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Now he needs to go to Colorado and take on the 50+ 14,000 footers

I climbed a whole three before I left the state. Too old for that stuff now so I just fly over them. Congrats to your son and WOW is that country beautiful; I never knew.

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I may have told this story before but I'm getting old and forget a lot :wink: In 76 I attended the Erv Malnarich ( another giant of a character) guide school in Hamilton MT. We were doing the rifle marksmanship classes in Victor and Elmer came as a guest instructor. Now both Elmer and Erv were known...

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From what I have seen and tested, deer doesn't surprise me as that, one would presume, was what they were intended for in the first place. The ones I tested, I wouldn't use on a hog of any size >200#; as they truly were varmint bullets. Then again, production improvements can always make a bullet be...

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The only thing I use for p-dogs are large caliber lever cartridges and buffalo guns. Not knocking large cal for p-dogs at all. I've done my own tests of the FTX and that is all I WOULD use them for

ergo, the question.

Leverluver

You goin' prairie dog hunting with the 45-90 ?

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Yeah, if that puppy was weak CRS would be walking around without a face

….like elephant gun stuff.

That thing will take more than 99.999% of people can withstand.

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Wow, I didn't hear the details, doesn't sound like they seriously want to lower the count much at all. I have a friend that lives above Dubois, they have become a problem in their area. Where do you live, are they a problem in your area ? Kinda the point; they have no intention to lower the total n...

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I've never seen exactly how many tags but I don't think it is anywhere near 500. The grand total (if everything goes right on what sex is shot) is a total of 24 bears killed. In the Greater Yellowstone Demographic Monitoring Area (DMA) (which is twice the size of the Park) there will only be two hun...

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That made my first and no doubt biggest smile of the day. A class act gaggle of fine young ladies and, I'm guessing, a very proud dad

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If you worried about this (and you should be), think just as hard before buying one of those new "smart" TVs.

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I had the same issue when my Capt Shaffer arrived. The whole time unwrapping I was mumbling "It better not be a Rem, It better not be a Rem" Luckily it wasn't. Guess it is just their generic box that all cap and balls arrive in. Sure does get your heart rate and adrenalin up while getting ...

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