Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

Carlsen Highway

Guys, I am considering getting another Rossi 92, this one in .45 Colt, being the cheapest way I can get the equivalent of a .45-75 :lol: I am wondering if the Rossi will feed the heavier .45 Colt bullets, the ones available to me here are the 300 grain XTP or 350 XTP hornady's. Or I would consider b...

Carlsen Highway

Make sure you shoot a drug dealer when your there. Apparently its a free for all at the moment.

Would have to be the friendliest people on the planet.

Carlsen Highway

Carlsen Highway: I check Buffalo Arms web site and Venturino's books are in stock -- Shooting Buffalo Rifles of the Old West -- http://www.buffaloarms.com/Shooting_Buffalo_Rifles_of_the_Old_West_it-163839.aspx?CAT=4150 Shooting Lever Guns of the Old West -- http://www.buffaloarms.com/Shooting_Lever...

Carlsen Highway

I would love to have the Buffalo Guns book, I didn't know there was one. but I live on an island in the middle of the Pacific. (Literally.)

Carlsen Highway

I was just looking at the pictures in Lever Guns of the Old West too...glad to hear he is back home. Oh I hated to be in hospital, I am glad he is out.

Carlsen Highway

The worst thing about stupid people is that they think they are as bright as everyone else. To put it another way, they think that other people are as dumb as them. I work with a couple of people who do not have the brains the good Lord gave a carrot, and they are forever trying to outsmart each oth...

Carlsen Highway

Why couldn't they have bevelled the bottom of the receiver the way the old ones used to be? I don't like the hard edges of the ports 64's. I am disappointed they didn't do that.

Carlsen Highway

I understand what you mean. People have to make the effort to sell it if they want me to look at a link or video. Cause theres a great deal of stuff in the world I am not interested in, and I am here to participate in a leverguns forum. And frankly, when I look at a post, I am looking to see what th...

Carlsen Highway

I'm in and out all the time. I am holding up the cause from the southern end. The very deep long distance south.

Carlsen Highway

Yeah I don't like the term "harvesting' either. I believe its an attempt to remove the word kill, shoot or hunt, out of the pastime of hunting, to sanitise it for non-hunters and make it acceptable sounding, equating hunting with farming somehow...anyway, I think tis the wrong thing to do. If y...

Carlsen Highway

I reckon the .44 '92's were exported. They were common at one time in Australia and New Zealand, (and also Brazil I understand.)

Carlsen Highway

That is very interesting. I imagine there was still a good deal of debate at that time over relative merits of different smokeless loads versus black powder loads and heavier bullets, the smokeless loads had only been commercially available for less than ten years at that time.

Carlsen Highway

Yes, I like that one as well.

Carlsen Highway

Do Rossi still make the .454 Casull carbine?

Carlsen Highway

Tell you have a gun. Tell her you also have an axe. And several sharp knives. Tell her you have a motor vehicle that can travel at 150mph with 15 gallons of high explosive in the back, on roads where the only safety feature is a long white painted line. Tell her that she will eventually die no matte...

Carlsen Highway

Wow what a beautiful rifle, and well photographed.

Carlsen Highway

Oh, I think it was M.M. Wright actually...my mistake, and credit to him! The crimp on my smokeless load with jacketed XTP's was failing. Bullets were telescoping back into the case. I need to be able to load and unload the rifle each day when I am hunting, and so on a trip the cartridges have to be ...

Carlsen Highway

BlaineG wrote:So, about that snipping of the mag spring?

Yes. Thank you. You were right. I should have listened to you right at the start...

Carlsen Highway

I can only get SPG in a form that is used in what is called a 'lubrasizer machine'. Could I manually lube bullets with that? I am dying to shoot a deer with black powder and one of these lead bullets. With a carbine that shoots them into three inch groups at 50 yards, its the nearest thing to bow hu...

Carlsen Highway

W30wcf, Thanks for your reply, The NOE 432-200 bullet I lubed with just animal fat, and it was sticky. Might be worth reshooting with bullets with decent bases and a lube 50/50 beeswax and fat perhaps... I have made my lube even softer than 50/50 beeswax and tallow, I have made it one part beeswax t...

Carlsen Highway

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/_DSF0729_zpszbxwcnpp.jpg This is the little rascal here, although she wears a Williams receiver sight at present. Once I am done target shooting I might take that off and start messing with sights, I much prefer a bead front sight and a wide open V rea...

Carlsen Highway

Just a follow up and to say thank you for all who have posted and made suggestions over my .44 WCF in some threads I have made over the last while. I have spent the last few weeks experimenting with ammo, doing a lot of shooting, and also doing a lot of black powder reloading for the first time and ...

Carlsen Highway

Here in New Zealand for many years after WW2, .303 ex-mil FMJ ammo was very cheap (used to sell it by weight) and also the government used to provide three .303 cartridges for every deer or pig tail that was handed in. (To keep numbers down.) And everyone had .303's. It was common for people to clip...

Carlsen Highway

Thank you that's excellent, I will read through those articles.

(Griff, what is HDPE?)

Carlsen Highway

Thanks guys this is all a great help. I went back and shot the Elmer Keith bullets with the commercial smokeless lube it they came with, (I loaded them before reading Chucks post last night) and as was pointed out, fouling was extreme and just as bad as before, three shots and Ihave hard fouling at ...

Carlsen Highway

So I need a different lube too?
(Its green if that means anything...)

Carlsen Highway

I am about as far south as you can get without going north again. I think I will give up on jacketed bullets with black powder, the fouling is so much I cant see how you can shoot more than three or four rounds. But good news - I have found another bag of cast bullets I had put by for such a day as ...

Carlsen Highway

Thanks, The bullet I am loading at the moment is a metal patched one....a 200 grain Hornady XTP. Everything seems fine except there is a lot of fouling in the bore, in my opinion. (Having nothing to compare it with, this is the first time I have shot black powder.) It cleans up easy enough though, w...

Carlsen Highway

Guys, I have been shooting black powder .44-40's for the first time in my Rossi 92 - quite as accurate as my smokeless load, and much more impressive when it goes off! I have been shooting 36 grains of a locally made FFFG black powder, which chronographs 1170fps out of my 20 inch carbine. When peopl...

Carlsen Highway

Excellent work guys, and congratulations to Shasta.

I fully intended to participate but every day this month I could go to the range, it was a rain....spring in New Zealand.

Carlsen Highway

I have shot a lot of S&B in many cartridges, because its cheap and because I found it universally to be quite accurate, and also higher velocity than American ammo. For hunting, the bullets in my opinion are harder than others, but not excessively so, and I would use them without thinking twice....

Carlsen Highway

I believe the bullets setting back in the magazine. The 'shock loading' of the rounds shunting back as each new cartridge is lifted out onto the cartridge lifter is bumping the bullets back, until the crimp is defeated. I will examine the idea carefully that maybe the chamber or leade is pushing the...

Carlsen Highway

M.M. and "Mr. 30-30 WCF could not have said it better. Follow their instructions and you will be on your way to happiness. :D The only thing I can add is when the above instructions do not work out, you gotta get one of these babies.......a canneluring tool made by CH.......(In this pic I obvi...

Carlsen Highway

Thanks for your replies guys, I don't believe its the mag spring on the rifle - its not stiff, its perfectly reasonable, and I have no trouble loading ammo into the tube, not like some where you can cut your finger on the loading gate, or the rifle will spit rounds back out the spring is so hard... ...

Carlsen Highway

Okay, who else loads the .44/40 with Starline brass, jacketed bullets and smokeless powder, and then shoots them in a lever action? I have had continual trouble with what I was term "crimp integrity" with my .44 WCF reloads. I have a LEE FCD. I have tried the old school crimping as well. I...

Carlsen Highway

Now why do I relate this short tale? There I was, at point-blank range on a medium-sized animal, shot it with a .243 Win 100gr SP traveling 2900fps at a downward quartering-angle in the neck, and the bullet did not achieve a full penetration. Just that. :wink: :mrgreen: This more or less echoes my ...

Carlsen Highway

Thanks guys. Am now working on the back 40's.
Bought a Lee crimp die in .44 WCF to celebrate.

Carlsen Highway

So what? Really? Did you eve read the article? The DNC worked with corrupt communist party members to import military guns then shiploads of other weapons, they continued for years to throw tax dollars at them and then at the same time, work relentlessly to strip our kids' civil rights of gun owner...

Carlsen Highway

So what. Who doesn't want to sell guns and live an life of western luxery. Cant see anything wrong with that.
I loved my SKS. I sold it in a moment of madness, but I am going to have to get another one.

Carlsen Highway

This picture from Impact Guns of an M85 in 7.62x39 shows controlled round feed but mine made in Feb 87 is as you describe. That picture is not from a Mini-Mauser M85, its actually of the actual Mauser 98 model that Zastava make. (which to continue with the misleading marketing, is called a "Mo...

Carlsen Highway

Yes thats the Zastava model 85. Theres a long guide rib that's in the same position on the bolt body which at first sight looks like a Mauser long extractor, but its a push feed action, with an enclosed bolt head, virtually the same as the Sako L461. I am not sure why they call it a "Mini-Mause...

Carlsen Highway

They are Zastava model 85 rifles, made in the old Yugoslavia. The mini-action has got nothing to do with a Mauser, but anyway. It is very similar to the old Sako Vixen action. (although the bolt handle is even smaller.) I had one and it was a pretty good little rifle, in .223. Also, you can get some...

Carlsen Highway

I just never knew you might get more than six, so I was surprised. I thought I had miscounted at first. Oh well. The rifle is probably unfired, although old stock, and I am reasonably sure it has has not been tampered with. I am the first person to make a mark on the loading gate. It is not a weak s...

Carlsen Highway

I can fit and feed seven rounds from the mag of my 1978 Winchester 94 carbine in 30-30 with no issue or difficulty. Making a total of 8 rounds carrying capacity, 7 + 1 up. The other two 94's I had ( a pre'64 and another '70's vintage) could only hold six down, which is what I always thought was corr...

Carlsen Highway

Wah-ter is not right. I'm sorry but you're pronouncing it wrong. Jane Seymour is right. :D What you're describing (hard to tell since you are an American spelling phonetically and the sounds you are writing are not the way I would hear them in my head or pronounce them) sounds like an upper class Br...

Carlsen Highway

Its a non issue anyway, my pushfeed 1981 fthwt .30/06 will feed sideways, upside down, anything, never faulted. To be honest just about all the feeding issues I have had on bolt actions have been Mauser action rifles. More important to me on the Winchester is that it has the smoother action with the...

Carlsen Highway

As a matter of fact, I have three boxes of 150 power points lying around here somewhere....but the idea of the 170 seems 20 grains better....I read a post from an Australian guy who used the .30-30 a lot on wild pigs and he said the 150 killed better in his opinion.

Carlsen Highway

I posted the other week about how I couldn't find a Winchester 94 and I was thinking about a Marlin....some wise men counseled me to bide my time, advice which I followed, and now my patience (and their wisdom) has borne fruit. I had the good luck to finally find another worthy Winchester 94 in .30-...

Carlsen Highway

Ok I was wrong in every way. It DOES have receiver sight holes and it a standard 94 which is what I want. Literally mint condition, dated to 1979 going by my memory of seril numbers. Unfired owned by original owner of the shop and just put by in the back room... anyway I have done a deal and going t...

Carlsen Highway

It must be an AE, I must not have noticed.

What kind of safety do early AE's have? Half cock or do they have that rebounding hammer? It didnt have a side safety, cross bolt, or a tang safety.

Search found 482 matches