Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I occasionally see thses relics as display items in restaurants that have an old west theme. Kind of neat...buy a relic and claim it on your taxes as a business deduction!!

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Good job getting more people interested in lever guns. Now if I could only figure out just how cold it was in fahrenheit!!

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Just did a search with the title favorite cartridge, just to see what people like on this forum, and to see if I am out of touch with my choice. Amazingly, I coul not find a thread that dealt with that topic, so I will start it here. Forgive me if it HAS been covered before...I just could not find i...

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I wonder what "heel" did this???

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You want to see pictures of his tooth?????

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It sure inspired me. Now the only thing the modern media pays attention to is Britney and Brad and .......

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My 1876 Chaparral in 45-75 is superb,in fit, finish, and shoots like a dream.

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"Infinite universe; billions of galaxies made up of billions x billions of stars, and now it appears that planets are common for stars rather than rare. The numbers are with life. " Not really once you eliminate variable output stars, multiple systems, unstable systems, planet size and orb...

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Well, I hope I can add my 2 cents worth. I have 2 major interests in my life: guns and astronomy. Have been actively observing since 1974 (the same year I got my first .22)...and believe me, if you think leverguns are addicting...you ought to see the telescopes I have made over the years! Anyway, I ...

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Anybody know where a GOOD detailed schematic is for the set triggers Winchester installed on their 1873"s? I tried searching this site but found nothing. Remember seeing one awhile back....I think in an old American Rifleman but i cant recall exactly where now.

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Thanks for the link. It was very timely too. I have been writing down a lot of the lyman mold numbers from my #30 ideal handbook, and at first thought all my work was for nothing. Instead, your link added a lot of moulds to my list, but as 6pt-sika alluded too, there are a lot left off too.

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Bucks, head up. Does, head down. Why? I see no difference...but it is easy to hang a buck by his antlers.

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But they also made them in fancier versions correct? The 435, 445, etc. maybe each had its own serial range and that is how they get the 26000 number (add them all up). About 2 years ago saw one of these go for around 125$ on gunbroker...it was a penny auction and I forgot to check up on it. It was ...

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According to R. Renneberg in "Winchester model 94 the first 100 years", the phenolic buttplate replaced the steel buttplate in what he calls the variation 3, type 2 Model 94, which was produced starting with serial 3,400,000 . Serial number 3,400,000 is a 1971 vintage Model 94.

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What does your bore slug out to? Also does it slug bigger tal the breech or the muzzle? Some of the Chapparral guns had quite large bores. Lino is ok for plinking but you will want a way softer bullet for hunting, yo may have to size at 460 or better. My lands are 0.449", the grooves are 0.456...

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I got the 45-70 paper from a box I bought off of Dixie gunworks, it held 8. I wondered the same...why not 10 or 12. only when I tried making packaging that size did I see it just didnt look right. With 8 in a cartridge this size, the package comes out the size of a bar of soap..it just looks right.

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Forgot to add, velocity 15' from muzzle is around 1460 with my 80%lino/20% lead bullet. This weighs in at 335gns, wheelweights weigh in at 358gns but I have not chronod this yet...probably will be closer to 1400 fps.

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Mould is a Lyman 457122 Hollowpoint, but as can be seen in the photo I turned it into a solid. Casting is a chore I dread and the hp design makesit even more of a pain. Alloy was wheelweights, dropped out of the mould into a can of water to harden them. Also, the mould was held open by those 2 HVAC ...

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No, I dont have factory open sights on it, I put a tang sight on it last year. And it is a statistical fluke. Done from a bench...thru the spotting scope after shooting I wondered where the 3rd shot was...only when i walked up to the target did I see it nestled in there. And, if you shoot enough gro...

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Still load developing for my Chaparral 1876. So far my main load utilizes a 80%linotype/20%lead alloy with a lyman mould. The problem is I am running out of linotype. Other alloys do not shoot as well (I have tested 8 alloys: pure lead, 20:1 lead/tin, wheelweight, and linotype alloys). As the lead c...

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Sorry about that chief.

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I also wonder if the reason the 45-60 case is split so bad is because it WAS fired in a 45-75 chamber! Wonder what the owner was shooting at? game? Maybe a target or a stump set up somewhere??

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Okay, its 2006 and I am in the bighorn mountains of Wyoming, metal detecting where my brother and I are camping. Have been doing this a dozen years and never ever find anything important. Well, its raining and I am ready to turn off the detector, having only found a few modern pennies and the usual ...

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Right marlinman93, no matter how it is spun, $20 for 82 cents postage is too much. Bottom line.

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yes, a padded envelope. Actually those were forever stamps they probably bought for 41 cents. So I overpaid by $19.18 and I tell you I contacted them. Said there was nothing they can do except maybe discount a few parts on a future order. Sorry...no deal. Probably will not order parts later anyway, ...

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Bought some parts off of USFA. They ship fed Ex for $20 but I cannot receive Fed ex at a PO Box, so they shipped it USPS parcel post rate. Look closely at the envelope they shipped it in (If I can get the photo to load..I always have trouble with this). That is two 42 cent stamps. that is right, 84 ...

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Well, I thought of that, it could be done, but.....I would have to find a shorter magazine tube...I would have to get a new forend tip (round vs octagon is different), and the biggie: I would have to get a new forend. All possible and still an option.

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Claybob, I am guessing it will cut the value nearly in half. Maybe worth 1200- 1300 now (the outside is tha nice), if I reline it (which btw the liner and glue adds up to about 140$), drops the value to a PITA to sell and I would probably only get a high offer at a gun show of $700-800. I have been ...

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If I reline it I will do it myself, it is not that big of a deal frankly. My main concern is if I want to KILL the collector value! My other 2 1873's are a 32 WCF with a sewer pipe bore also, but it shoots the RCBS cast bullet with pyrodex only if the bullet is cast from wheelweights (I took a squir...

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Picked up a fairly nice, TIGHT Winny Model 1873 in 38 WCF. Action is tight, gun looks all original. Got the info from buf bill historical center and it is as it left the factory: 1885 mfg, round bbl, standard rifle features. This is my third 1873 and is by far the nicest. No blue left, but brown pat...

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Bought a Defender at a gun show early this year after looking at them for a few years. Mine was barely used. I have put a lot of rounds thru it, both factory FMJs and winchester silvertips, plus my own handloads (FMJ ammo and lead roundnose I cast with wheelweights from an old Herters mould). So far...

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The screws on my Chapparal 1876 are fine. That gun is assembled here in the US from Italian parts. You may be able to buy parts from them that would fit your Uberti.

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Thanks guys. I know it is small.....it will be put up in the woods about 200 yards from my house so no, it is not really a hunting cabin. My goal is to have a place where I can build fires, sit around the cabin, maybe let a hunting buddy stay in it, or my girl and I can occasionally sleep in it. I a...

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Plan on building a SMALL (8X10 or 10X12) log cabin in my woods. Not a log house. I am looking for ideas and/or plans online and all I can find is plans pertaining to log houses. Anybody direct me to a website that may have what I am looking for??? Thanks in advance

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My girlfriend dumped me last month. Does anyone know if Sarah Palin has a sister

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Bogus Bill, I heard that too. I believe he had a rifle built around that barrel. read it in a muzzleloader or muzzleblast magazine several years ago.

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I have seen a few of these in museums, but never saw an original J&S or S Hawken for sale. What do they bring nowadays???

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Anybody shoot these? I have 2 and am forever having to tighten the takedown screw. Maybe 3 or 4 times for every box of ammo. Thinking of putting locktite on the threads, but I do use the takedown feature. How about tar or something gummy on the threads? Any ideas?

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Rihmfire, the nuts are everywhere. They are part of what Rush Limbaugh calls the "blame America first" crowd. I call them the "hate America first" crowd. There is nothing that will convince them otherwise. In their minds we are always wrong and always at fault for everything. I r...

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Sure hope this wasn't covered here before, I tried a search and found nothing on it. Here we are, levergun lovers. We talk and write about them all the time. BUT, how do you define a levergun? Say a person who knows NOTHING at all about guns asks you for a working definition of what YOU consider a l...

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I am with you J Miller. I love reading the story about how FAST the M1 Carbine was designed, engineered, prototyped, tooled up, the production lines going full speed. it was done in a matter of months. It is a COLASSAL record. One that can never happen here again as all manufacturing is flying out o...

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Rebuilding an 1873 in 44-40, I have an original 32-20 bbl that the interior is pretty bad but the exterior is good....planned on relining it myself (have done that before) to 44 WCF caliber, but now I am thinking....since the barrel has to be opened up anyway, why not forget lining it but ship it ou...

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I am with you Ysabel, but watch out. Whenever I bring up all the foreign cars around me (at gubshows, etc) I get called a xenophobe. I mean, I can understand all the kias and hondas and toyotas at a coffee shop or an art gallery, but at a gunshow??? Maybe the foreign beer will open our eyes.

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KCSO, at the grocery store the transaction is immediate and I have recourse if something is wrong. My hunch is that actually you and I DO leave a form of feedback at the grocery store. If they really tick me off a complaint may be stated at the checkout. If the service was great I'd be polite and sa...

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When I say I have dealt with dealers, I mean both big and small and private...from the guy selling a few cast bullets to a big time dealer. Does not matter, few take the time to leave feedback on gunbroker. It is just different on ebay, maybe 80% leave feedback there. MY policy on ebay (I buy and se...

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I don't get it. I have about a 20% success rate getting dealers to list feedback for me on gunbroker. I pay immediately, they experience NO problems with me, thank me profusely in a return email after the sale, I leave A+ feedback for them.....but I get feedback posted literally about 20% of the tim...

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Did some 4th of July shooting today....25 rounds of 45-75 thru the Chaparral. Came in and had a few minutes to kill after cleanup. Decided to check the screws on the gun and found the hammer screw to be quite loose. Checked some other lever guns and found a couple of loose screws there also. Always ...

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Incrementalism. We got this way with the lefties doing us in one step at a time. NOW we are getting our rights back....one step at a time. It may not be a perfect decision....but I am mighty glad this step has been taken!!!

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Thanks for the help, but neither one worked for me (ctrl and the mouse wheel or ctrl and the + or - key). I am getting used to the new format tho, so long as I get my dose of leverguns I guess font size doesn't matter much! Thanks anyway.

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