Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I have a few, 2 rifles and 2 cabines. They are all in excellent original condition and I shoot them quite a bit in CAS matches... http://i.imgur.com/HpiZ9oKl.jpg 44-40 SRC on rabbits http://i.imgur.com/hlpOWC3l.jpg 38-40 First Model and Colt Bisley in 38-40... http://i.imgur.com/Ve7qPrBl.jpg 44-40 F...

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I have been chasing a few Winchesters around for several years and finally got one. He has some nice old stuff, but we haven't been able to complete a deal other than this 1866. It was made in 1885 and is in real good condition... http://i.imgur.com/ojaFHXN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5oS5Lgs.jpg http://...

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I got it out for snow gophers and got it christened...

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I also found a die made by Neal Waltz that can put a hollow point in the 22 long bullet. It is hard enough to find 22 lons, but you can't find any that have hollow points. This tool is finely machined and it is made to put an adjustable depth to the hollow point and it also has a top punch that you ...

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I upgraded this nice old gun with a Lyman tang peep and a rare Sheard front sight. The gophers are in trouble if it ever thaws out...

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The 40-65 is hard to beat. I have 2, both frontier marked guns. I have shot everything from rabbits to deer with them. One is marked W.F. Sheard from Livingston, Montana, the other is a single set trigger from 1887 sold from Browning Brothers in Ogden, U.T. The 40-65 is the cartridge to shoot in tho...

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Never had a '74 sidehammer....never could find one like yours that fit my criteria....decent, solid, good to excellent bore, original...finish is not important as there's probably not 500 '74's with 50% or more condition left........ones I found were either worn and loose junk with sewer pipes or $...

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Sure Shrapnel.....hey....your in the vicinity of MVA. Those guys make one hell of a scope...the blocks that fit into the dovetails are color casehardened...but you probably know that. ....those guys are probably buddies of yours as Montanans stick together, unlike us eastern guys. We all make mista...

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Could be a tough one to scope and miss the various Sheard and caliber rollstamps. Need one back by the action, and another 7.2" forward. Quite likely one of the two would damage the stamps. That was a good find for a regular gunshow...half rd/oct are hard to find in any model. You can scope th...

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Scruffy49 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 1:26 pm Very nice find. Like a bigger better made Stevens 44... my M44 drives tacks at 115 feet with a $7 Walmart Tasco on it.We supposedly have the correct scope around here somewhere.

That would be a great idea. I would like to find a vintage scope for that rifle...

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I have several other Sheard marked guns; 1876 Winchester 45-75, 1886 Winchester 40-65 and a Marlin 1889 44-40...

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The Livingston gun show is this weekend, I went early Friday with a couple friends and when I got there, I was told about a Winchester low wall that was stamped "W.F. Sheard, Livingston, Montana." I looked at it and it is an original half round half octagon in 22 Long. Not many of those ar...

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I get a bit bugged by the rehashes, but then I do consider that there are youngsters out there for whom it all new. My only problem is when they get it wrong. Seems some of the "younger" scribes fail to read what the older folks have already learned. Rehashes beat the hell out of stories ...

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Very nice display! And wonderful historic Sharps rifles! Was Walter Cooper a gun dealer, gunsmith, or what was his business in Bozeman area? I do monthly displays at our collector gun show here, and it's a lot of work, but fun to talk with people and explain these old single shot rifles, and their ...

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Kirk, you are lucky to have a fine local museum, and the museum is lucky to have you as a patron. It's sure nice to see those Sharps bottleneck cartridges with appropriate paper-patched bullets. I have had rolling blocks in .40-70 Sharps Straight, and one in .40-70 SBN built for me by John King, bu...

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The local museum in Bozeman has built a display around Walter Cooper and some of his contributions to the founding and building of Bozeman, Montana Territory. The museum graciously designed the display with some of the items I have collected over the years, significant to Bozeman and it's earlier ye...

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It is nice to shoot big animals, but that isn't always the quest. I waited 5 years to get this rifle and now that I got it, I have used it on several animals this fall. Today was a small 4 point mule deer buck. I spotted it and several other does feeding in an open field, then moving into the sage h...

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Wow, that is a really nice buck you got. :D Now I would like to know more about that very fine rifle, such as caliber and barrel size. Did you use BP or smokeless? Shasta It is the latest rifle introduced by Shiloh Rifle Company in Big Timber, Montana. It is a model 1877 in 45-70 with the tradition...

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Hunting is as much about the gun as it is the animal you are hunting. I ordered this 1877 five years ago from Shiloh Rifles in Big Timber, Montana. It took awhile, but they finished an exceptional rifle and anything you get from them is nothing less than a custom rifle. Sure, it isn't easy packing a...

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It is 45-70, I took it out in the snow and cold and sighted it in on rocks and such. I got it to Minute of Antelope, now I go hunting with it...

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After a 5 year wait, I got this beauty yesterday... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/rifles/DSCN5284.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/rifles/DSCN5285.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/rifles/DSCN5286.jpg http://i235.photo...

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I load 24 grains of IMR 3031 and it works well.

This is the 25-35 I now have, it is a takedown rifle...

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I have shot everything from grizzly bears to antelope with a 25-35. I have never seen where the Hornady 117 grain round nose wasn't sufficient... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Antelope/104_0029.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Antelope/104_0031....

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Being talented is one thing, timing, having a story and a potential audience is more important. We were able to find the last 3 ingredients to get this project accomplished. I haven’t seen the finished product and I am a bit concerned with how they will show it...

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Just curious, will this cover his entire life, his military career, or just his last acts? Sadly everything I've seen and read tears apart one poor decision, but ignores the things he did right to become America's youngest general during the Civil War. This is not specifically about Custer but what...

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piller wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:35 pm I am working on Friday evening and have set my DVR to record it.

It is on at 8:00 AM Eastern Standard time...

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Shrapnel, I surely did not intend to pick any fights over this stuff. It seems we both have a reverence for history, and there always seem to be two sides to it, if not many more. I have had a copy of Custer's "My Life on the Plains" on my shelf for some years. I expect I had better read ...

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I certainly never called Custer a jackass. Who did? I did say he served as the symbol of the hubris of federal policy toward Native Americans in the 19th century. As to Cody's comments, he made them during a dinner with Seton in Washington on Dec. 15, 1915. Cody at that time had the wisdom of his y...

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I watched an interesting piece on Custer a while back that suggested that not only did the Indians have the advantage in number, but they were also better armed than Custer's cavalry. Custer's troops had Army issued single shot rifles and many of the Indians had repeating rifles. The cavalry couldn...

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Blaine, When did Custer outrun his supply train? What were Custer’s orders from General Terry? When did Custer first see Indians? When did the Indians first see Custer? Where were they when these sightings happened? Why did Reno follow Indians to the Little Bighorn river? Where did Reno go with his ...

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Custer outran his supply train in unfamiliar territory and, against a foe about which he had virtually no intelligence, divided his forces. What happened is what could be fully expected to happen. Forget about which side was the good guys and which side was the bad guys. He was an arrogant jackass ...

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Read the book. Draw your own conclusions. Custer certainly treated the Indians with tender solicitude at the Washita. My issue is not with you it is with people that comment with little or no knowledge then make a statement like “Custer was a jackass.” Seton making the claim, as reported by you “Cu...

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Funny he should mention Cody being such and advocate for the poor Native Americans as Cody himself tried to join the Army after the Custer Battle and fight and kill those noble savages. For someone of such note to name Custer as such a villain in regards to the American Indian, it was Custer that te...

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I'm looking forward to anything that can shed new light on what happened at the Little Big Horn. Like so many American boys, I was raised with the conventional "comic-book history" view that Custer was the hero and the Indians the villains. I have since come to share Ernest Thompson Seton...

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well, from from i have been reading from different sources, was that the ammo that custer was using was copper cased instead of brass. they were having trouble getting the empties to eject from being stuck in the the throat from expansion. We forget that Custer was armed with the latest in firearms...

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It will be called: Custer, The Final Mystery and aired at 8:00 AM Eastern time, September 28 on History Channel...

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It has been decades of interest and a few years of work to get this story told. Craig Fellows and I have been chasing small threads of information for over 40 years just out of personal interest. It was only the last 10 years or so that Craig decided to step it up to the next level. What has always ...

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6pt-sika wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:03 pm
Shrapnel wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:42 am Shiras moose taken with an original 1876 deluxe in 40-60...

Seems to me I saw this pic in one of Venturino’s books .

As a matter of fact, you probably did...

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Shiras moose taken with an original 1876 deluxe in 40-60...

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Worse things can happen with less initial trauma. This is what happened to my lower leg after I tipped my motorcycle over on my right leg... http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Odds%20and%20ends/imagejpg1-3.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Odds%20and%...

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Really the question hasn't been answered. Winchester was still caught up in the Lever Action world and Browning had already invented a full automatic weapon and had ideas way beyond the 1886 and 1895. He developed the 1895 with a box magazine to accommodate newer bottleneck, rimless cartridges and i...

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I have both the 45-75 and the 45-60. I can tell you from experience, the 45-60 is the way to go. It is easy to get or make brass and will work in the rifle with less trouble than the 45-75. Of course, I am shooting originals, but getting the 45-75 to even chamber was a process of inside neck reamin...

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I have both the 45-75 and the 45-60. I can tell you from experience, the 45-60 is the way to go. It is easy to get or make brass and will work in the rifle with less trouble than the 45-75. Of course, I am shooting originals, but getting the 45-75 to even chamber was a process of inside neck reamin...

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I have both the 45-75 and the 45-60. I can tell you from experience, the 45-60 is the way to go. It is easy to get or make brass and will work in the rifle with less trouble than the 45-75. Of course, I am shooting originals, but getting the 45-75 to even chamber was a process of inside neck reaming...

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I would watch it. That sounds really interesting and informative. The Lakota (Sioux) were a proud and intelligent people. They certainly made it difficult for the Army to move them out. If not for the virtual elimination of the bison, we might not have been able to do it for a long time. We had too...

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Shrapnel, this is a very worthy project. Would your friend's initials be M.V.? 8) Actually, no. There is a point we got to where recreating a shot from a 45-70 trapdoor was worth filming and I got ahold of Mike and he and I put together a shooting scenario that helps the viewer understand more abou...

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marlinman93 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:05 pm I enjoy these types of shows if they don't stray and become too hypothetical, or contain too much guess work. Hope the History Channel does a good job on your legwork!

This is a real concern as they are looking at this from a completely different perspective...

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A friend and I have been pursuing what happened to the personal effects taken from the Custer soldiers for quite a few years. We made a teaser video about 5 years ago and the History Channel picked it up and filmed for about 5 weeks the fall of 2016. We saw some video of the uncompleted project and ...

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Winchester 1873 SRC in scarce 38-40 with a first generation Colt in 38-40...

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I have the Mattel "Shootin' Shell" rifle/pistol set I had as a kid. You can still find ammo for them, but it is expensive...

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