Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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... (trillions) of ungulates... flora and algae belches and bubbles greenhouse gases many times more... Volcanoes and their inestimatible volumes While I don't believe there are trillions of ungulates, I admit I don't understand the fuss over cattle, for here in North America they basically replace...

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... didja see the evidence from the new telescope that concludes that there was no "big-bang" ??

No, but I did read that early claims over what was being seen proved to be wrong.

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Again why are we quantifying co2 and not WV? Because water vapor is considered a function of the heating, not the other way around. The warmer the air, the more water it can hold. The theory that CO2 can drive atmospheric heating goes back to when Winchester was a new company and Victoria was queen...

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N105, N32C and N530 as I understand it need significant changes to plant set up vs Viht's other powders so that's why there is still some stock. I had looked at VV's site and saw N105 still listed, but it appears I've assumed too much from that. Further searching found a UK site with an exchange fr...

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Those VV powders appear to remain in production but are simply not being exported to the US. I quite like N110 for full power 357 rifle loads and wanted to try N105 for medium loads. Oh well.

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Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:00 pm ... well maybe N105 and 300-MP are in the ballpark now.

I read that N105 has been dropped from the US market.

I hadn't heard anything about Norma. I don't think I've ever seen a jar of the stuff around here, VV and Vectan sometimes, though.

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I've seen a few old British 2 bore guns, both singles and doubles, at an auction house. I never picked one up to inspect it. I knew just looking at the muzzle I would dislike firing the thing.

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I've just taken the carrier out and using 150 grit sandpaper taken about .005-.010 thousandths off each side... That space between the sides of the carrier and the mortise will hold fouling, usually just about 1/8"-1/4" back from the breech. I can see that working well enough. After annea...

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Yuck. I'm no prude, but that's just crude.

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You might ask the guys over at CAScity. If you plan to shoot BP, guys there will tell you to first anneal 45 brass, which is a step not needed with the thinner 44 brass. I've only handled the HRA and Uberti Henrys. The HRA are more heavily buffed than the Uberti. The magazine sleeve bound on both th...

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You might be able to have your browser save a copy to your computer. No, that won't work. The Web Archive adds stuff to each page to allow one to navigate between archived versions. I hadn't done any programming in a while, so I copied the code from the Archive's page and made a page on my web site...

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I have used that calculator. The web site on which it was kept is gone, but the Web Archive has a copy you can still use, for it was coded to run as part of the web page instead of as a separate program on the web server. The screen formatting is a little rough, but I just tested it with the inputs ...

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Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:00 pm ... Taylor's also carried something called the Stallion... Seems they are mostly in .38 Special...

My son tried one with the conventional grip. It was a disaster. The ejector doesn't line up with the loading gate and binds on the empties.

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He came to the conclusion that 13 gr of HS 6 under a 255-300 grain bullet in the .45 Colt was all that was needed. That would be what, something under 1100 fps? Did he still advocate 260 gn at 900 fps for hunting deer? I wrote down his comments on that revolver load many years ago, and it still sti...

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I am sorry to hear he is gone. His writings on the effectiveness of revolvers for hunting lead me to turn away from conventional rifle cartridges.

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Does that video imply Uberti is using cut rifling? I see they bevel the mouth of the chamber. It was amusing to watch them stamp the proof markings into the "color case hardened" metal. Is it good practice to wrench the action onto the barrel via the side plates? The CNC does leave a nicer...

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My son acquired a lightweight A5 recently. He's waiting for his double to be restocked and wanted to keep shooting skeet, etc when he came across a nice example at a local gun store. He likes it, other than the trigger kicks back hard and batters his finger, apparently a complaint not uncommon.

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I talked with a gal at S&W last summer after wondering why there were no receivers available. She said T/C has been for sale for a while and that production had ended over a year before, I think it was.

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I'm saddened to read that. I wish you well.

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Ross Seyfried has paper patched jacketed bullets to increase their diameter. I suspect, but can't demonstrate, that doing so would allow a monolithic to be used in older barrels.

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I agree Spomer has a valid point, but I'm not so sure the "plumbophobic" balls for muzzleloaders are. Certainly a high speed bullet with its relatively hard lead core will fragment badly. That fragmentation is part of the reason the high speed rounds are so effective. How about, though, th...

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Reason? What does reason have to do with anything in a state run by Democrats! Illinois long limited firearm hunting to shotguns firing slugs or to muzzleloaders using BP or similar propellents. The idea was to keep high velocity ammunition out of the hunting fields. I guess they figured bullets cou...

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... so long as you remove the magazine spring and follower.

I think I'll leave my '73 be.

The funny thing is a '73 can function as a repeater without the spring and follower, although that would certainly violate the "spirit" of the new law.

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That works?! I probably won't load any more BP until spring, but I'll give it a try. To the good doctor: The swirl charging loads a case through a funnel, but the powder is poured in to the funnel tangentially so that it spirals down the funnel and in. There are a couple more details in the little e...

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Simply swirl-charge the case, you will get a denser charge and better ballistic uniformity.

I've only recently begun loading black powder, so pardon my ignorance, but what is swirl-charging? I'm interested.

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I think JimT has it correct. One video clip from behind and below shows the approach and impact. I doubt the P-63 had the B-17 in sight almost up to the instant of impact.

It's possible he blacked out if he had been pulling in too hard.

Sad.

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On the other hand Hepburn's designs seemed to always be simple, and designed to be easily manufactured. I believe that's why when HRA wanted to make new short and medium lever action designs, they turned to Hepburn's patent, as did Rossi when they wanted to make a 30-30. Other than nostalgic replic...

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I've found discontinued rifles listed on guns.com, older new stock from some gun shop. I don't see this one listed on Winchester's site. It may have been a special run for a distributor such as CDNN, who seem to list a bunch of odd Miroku Winchester configurations on GunBroker.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 8:18 am I have a Kindle device. . . somewhere. . . :?

Your phone, tablet, or computer will do.

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Hepburn may have contributed much to the firearms industry, but short of John Browning, no one had the inventive genius of Andrew Burgess. I have a good book by Samuel Maxwell Lever Action Magazine Rifles Derived from the Patents of Andrew Burgess which covers that portion of the Burgess firearms. ...

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marlinman93 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 9:45 am... Marlin was booming in 1886 when Remington filed bankruptcy...

That explains it, and within a year he had a design for Marlin worth patenting.

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I was thinking Hepburn was still at Remington when the 1888 was designed, but obviously he wasn't. It's possible he was moonlighting with Marlin and made the switch when Marlin decided to go with his repeater. Did Remington ever try a lever action repeater? Maybe Hepburn had this idea which just di...

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That's the first straight stock No.1 conversion I've seen. I like it. Excellent cartridge, too.

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LL Hepburn had nothing to do with the Model 1888 Marlins. He didn't start designing Marlin lever guns until the next year model the 1889. Hepburn patented the 1888 action in 1887 and assigned it to Marlin. The patent shows the top eject. In the photo Shrapnel gives, compare the trigger guard and lo...

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Oh, that's nice. I think them the best looking of the Hepburn lever actions, just inching out the 1894. How well does it cycle? I once came across a YouTube video of a gent running his. Chambering wasn't reliable, and I've wondered if there was a design problem, or if something was simply worn in hi...

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... i have never seen a sextant sight reduction form that could be solved with the metric system. in fact, there is no way to tell time based on the metric system is there?... nautical miles are based on the circumference of the earth. Actually, as originally proposed and (briefly) implemented, the...

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I read of it in an article by Dean Grenell circa 1995 and still use it.

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I've recently acquired my first 1873 Winchester, one which had been reworked by Turnbull about 15 years ago. I'm surprised how heavy is the hammer pull, and that in turn makes for an action very stiff to open. Is this a consequence of the huge firing pin on these, or can the mainspring be lightened ...

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You see nothing because it's not there. However, in their craving to have a far more expansive central government, the progressives a century ago twisted the commerce clause into allowing the federal government to regulate business activity within the states. As part of the dissent, the justices not...

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While the Supremes made the correct call, the debate is far from over. A majority of Americans support abortion in the first trimester. It takes the petition of only 2/3 of the state legislatures to open a convention to debate the issue (and any others they care to at that time) and then a vote of 3...

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Thank you, Bryan!

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3. We lost control over where the antigen would be presented in the body. With normal vaccines we give the antigen and it goes from subcutaneous or muscle tissue through the lymph system and predominantly winds up in the nearest lymph nodes to be processed by the immune system. That is one way norm...

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So regardless of where one stands on the overall issue of vaccines, or mRNA vaccines in particular, I think it's reasonable to say we still have much to learn, and need to quit sweeping things under the rug. Thanks for the update. Given the anti-vax hysteria around the web, I largely stopped follow...

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piller wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 9:08 pmSomething in the J&J vaccine triggered the reaction.

Ah, while rare, that is a recognized risk with the J&J and A-Z vaccines. Multiple events over a year is a new one to me, but having taken Moderna, I didn't follow the J&J news. Sorry to hear about your woes.

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Spike protein seems to be produced off and on for a LONG time after vaccination in many people. Evidently the mRNA can be sequestered and read later. Plus it penetrates into tissues most 'vaccines' wouldn't enter, so the antigen (spike protein) gets expressed in places where the body isn't prepared...

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Grizz wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 10:55 am VAERS Database Hijacked: Vaccine Data Tracker Compromised, Adverse Events Deleted

I've had a hunch VAERS is being filled with fabricated events, both by the anti-vax crowd and by foreign troll farms. It's a wide open data base.

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I am on long term anticoagulant therapy now. I am finally free of the T. I. A. attacks caused by the CoVid vaccine. At least 50 in the last year. I've heard of clotting soon after vaccination (although it's worse with covid itself), but not of clotting over the course of a year. What mechanism is p...

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The clinical data for Pfizer's vaccine is hidden in one appendix (read below), which contains 1,291 unfavorable side effects in alphabetical order. Let's have a look at some of the negative consequences of taking the Pfizer vaccine that begin with the letter "a": ... Alcoholic seizure... ...

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I believe this to be due to the amount of powder that is down beside and "beneath" the initial ignition of the powder...possibly creating a "boost". The more shallow the pocket, the less "boost" created. Now that wasn't expected. I'll hazard a guess the flame front was...

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the point is how intimidated some physicians are they are afraid to voice any dissent on a matter that at the very least has created a range and spectrum of opinions Interesting. Despite that observation, I do find mainstream reports (eg. Wall St Jnl) that many doctors are not convinced the data sh...

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