BLR in 308, 2-7 Redfield scope, 1/2 inch group at 125 yards, 3 shot group. I shot the head off the thumb tack that was holding the target up with the fourth shot.

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A pretty blonde gets on an airplane after a tiring day and sits down next to an attorney who sees an easy mark and he says to her, This is a four hour flight, so lets play a game to pass the time. She is really tired and told him she was not interested. Not to be dismissed so easily, he says, No, th...

Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread. I knew that that some of you would have experience in overcoming sighting problems when the old optics start to decline. It sure has given me some new ideas and best of all, hope that I'll be able to draw a bead on that target that disappeared on me! :lol:

Old Savage Posted: Put a scope on it! Good suggestion, sometimes... I scoped my BLR, but I don't think that is an option for my 86's. :shock: The 40-82 has a buckhorn rear sight and the 45-90 has a Redfield peep on it. That particular day, I was having trouble with the peep too. It made me realize ...

Alas, by posting this thread, I am admitting to the world that I can no longer see worth a darn.. :oops: After living most of my life with 20-10 vision, this admission is the pits!! :? This is especially annoying when trying to use open sights. The last time I went out shooting, I tried using my &qu...

I wear a red plaid wool coat when I'm far enough back from the road to be away from other hunters. (That's over 3 miles) Otherwise, I wear a lightweight hunter orange vest. One time when I was deer hunting, I was kneeling on a rock outcrop watching a bull elf on the hillside below. Five cows decided...

I've tied flies for over three decades. Started out tying steelhead and salmon flies because they are bigger and easier to tie, and were more expensive to buy. After that, I started tying trout flies which also work for all kinds of things like bass, perch, blue gill, catfish, suckers, whitefish, ca...

I bought my first levergun in 1977. It was a BLR in 308. I reallly liked that short throw lever action compared to the old 86 Winchester that was in my dad's closet while I was growing up. The first two shots out of the gun were shot with open sights at 50 yards with factory ammo, and were touching....

i feel we were being watched over but i wonder sometimes how much can we take.

Keep the faith my friend. These thing happen for our experience, but we will not be given more than we can handle. The Good Lord is in the process of making steel out of soft iron.

Sixgun said: Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It got to be a joke smacking a clay bird on the bank at 500 meters or busting a crow sitting on a branch at 300-400 meters. No challenge. Shooting cast in new ...

Last evening, I got out of the house and punched some more holes in paper with my 40-82, and shot my 45-90 for the first time. My object was to compare the results of the same loads with TP and cornmeal fillers to see if or what difference changing fillers makes. In the 40-82 I loaded 25 gr of 5744 ...

Kansas Ed wrote:

My buddy and I load for two different 40-82's.

His likes 42.0 gr of 3031 with a 265 gr gas checked cast bullet. (1753 fps, SD 20)

Does your buddy's 86 have a nickel steel barrel? I have been shying away from loads that get over 1600 fps.

Griff wrote: I'd be interested in rthose scans also. Would it be too much to ask? I spent about 2 years locating as much information on reloading the 40-82 as I could - while I was putting aside a little money now and then to finance my entry into the reloading world. It was in that search that I ra...

KirkD Wrote: Do you know of somewhere where a fellow can read up on the use of cornmeal for filler? KirkD, Mike Venturino used it in 40-82 loads that he worked up and chronicled in an article titled, Loading the Winchester 40-82 in Handloader 84, and in an article titled, Winchester 40-82 Again , in...

Thus far I just fill it to the rim of the cartridge and seat the bullet. This compresses the powder and filler enough to keep them from mixing it up. I measured the total bullet weight and found up to a 5 grain difference in the weight. I attribute the difference to the filler weight, but will be ch...

I have been gearing up for some time to start testing loads to push through my 40-82. It has an oversize bore, so I needed to get .410 bullets. I ordered some bullets from LTD Custom Cast Bullets and while I was waiting for them to arrive, a friend gave me some .410 bullets he cast for a modern 40-6...

I live in western washington now, but have lived in Oregon, Minnesota and Idaho. Spent 25 years working as a forester and timber cruiser. I now buy timberland for a large timber company. I love flyfishing and tying flys and am just getting into reloading so I can shoot my 86's in 40-82 and 45-90 wit...

I wonder how much lead they had on that bird??

My go to gun for hunting is a 70's vintage BLR in 308. Reason is that its absolutely accurate. It's a quick woods gun and handles deer and elk with dispatch. That said, my 86 in 40-82 is really fun to shoot and is going to see some action this fall for the first time in 80+ years. As others have sai...

I found this web site some time ago and am wondering if anybody on this forum has ever bought a stock from them. A plain walnut butt stock for $45 and a forend for $30 for an 86 seems fairly reasonable to me if the product is any good. Fancy wood is available if desired. http://www.gunstocksinc.com

He really was quite a roust-about. The rest of the story was how he died. Apparently one of his sons got in a bar fight and there was a woman who was badmouthing the way he had fought in the fight. That ticked off GGrandpa and the next day he got liquored up and decided to go give her a piece of his...

This is my GGrandfather in his Confederate uniform. The story that was passed down through my Grandfather is that he was fighting in the border wars and fought with the Quantrels and the James bothers. His squad was detailed to cut a telegraph wire in Kansas, which they did. They were pursued by Uni...

I managed to salvage the thread on the old forum site when some of you discussed the methodology of taking the excess off the outside of the casing. I was more prone to inside neck ream, but as I thought about it, it shouldn't make any difference. I will try that method when I get the bullets. I wil...

Thanks to all of you for the advice and sharing your experiences. The bullets were 1:20 alloy that were used in the BP load. I was really surprised that they didn't fill the bore and engage the rifling. The other two loads I tried were 30grains of H-4198 with the same bullet as the BP load, and 34 g...

In the 70's I made it a personal mission to spruce up the guns that I owned at the time with a Tru-Oil finish. I still remember how proud I was of a 22 that I had put about 3-5 coats of oil on. It shone like a brand new nickel. I showed it to a friend who asked if I had any steel wool. I brought out...

I've put in a few posts recently, but I consider that this is my first real post because I have a question that I hope some of you can help me with. My dad bought an 1886 40-82 in 1929 in an auction for $1.50. The auctioneer handed it to him and said, "Here kid, use it for a crowbar." It w...

I got my first deer in 1965 when I was 14. It was a blacktail doe that I shot at 15 yards with a Remington Model 721, 30-06. I had saved my paper route money to buy a rifle. I went with my dad to a hardware store that had some used guns, and fell in love with a model 70 featherweight in 30-06, with ...