check your lever screws
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coyote nose
- Levergunner 2.0
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check your lever screws
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 checking SAA screws but never really made it a routine to check levergun screws, I will now. Just a heads up to those out there in levergunland. Have a good 4th and remember to thank those responsible for our liberty.
"...for there is a cloud on my horizon...and its name is progress." E. Abbey, 1958
Re: check your lever screws
I've heard all my life that I have a screw loose and thought this is what they meant. Was I wrong?
Yes, I check my screws...
Yes, I check my screws...
Sincerely,
Hobie
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
Hobie
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
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Lefty Dude
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Re: check your lever screws
Y'all need one of my Cowboy Screw Drivers that I make for such a purpose.
Check them out below under cowboy products, This site also has other nice products for the shooter.
http://www.uniquetek.com
Check them out below under cowboy products, This site also has other nice products for the shooter.
http://www.uniquetek.com
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Arizona Cowboy Shooter's Assoc.
Cowtown Cowboy Shooter's Assoc.
Uberti 73/44-40 carbine, Rossi 92/44-40,
Marlin 94CB/44 24" Limited, Winchester 94/30-30
Arizona Cowboy Shooter's Assoc.
Cowtown Cowboy Shooter's Assoc.
Uberti 73/44-40 carbine, Rossi 92/44-40,
Marlin 94CB/44 24" Limited, Winchester 94/30-30
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Ben_Rumson
- Advanced Levergunner
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Re: check your lever screws
A routine I have is always check for missing screws just before I leave the range...Much easier to find them around where I've been shooting if one has worked itself loose...
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Grizzly Adams
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Re: check your lever screws
Lefty's screwdriver is a good piece of equipment, and no lever gunner should be without one - especially if you are a cowboy shooter who uses a Marlin. Good friend of mine lost 8 shots on a stage at EOT because of a loose screw on her Marlin! Less than 100% reliable is unacceptable in any firearm. Check your screws!
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NRA Life, SASS Life, Banjo picking done cheap!
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Re: check your lever screws
i looked at the site and didnt see the screwdriver. what did i miss? i'd like to have one of those.Lefty Dude wrote:Y'all need one of my Cowboy Screw Drivers that I make for such a purpose.
Check them out below under cowboy products, This site also has other nice products for the shooter.
http://www.uniquetek.com
g rice
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J Miller
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Re: check your lever screws
I have only one lever gun that has a screw loose. My 94 30-30 Trapper. It seems the hammer screw is always just not tight. It never comes completely loose and it's never come out. So I don't use my blue fix on it.
I have only one specialty screwdriver that I've purchased, that's one from Peacemaker Specialists. It works for the grip frame screws on my Rugers.
For my lever guns I use my Chapman bit driver set, or I do an IFM on an existing screwdriver. Got several of those.
As for checking the screws I do once in a while.
So far, so good.
Of course I don't abuse my lever guns like the cowboy shooters do.
Oh Hobie, I've been told the same thing most of my life too. Never did figure out why.
Joe
I have only one specialty screwdriver that I've purchased, that's one from Peacemaker Specialists. It works for the grip frame screws on my Rugers.
For my lever guns I use my Chapman bit driver set, or I do an IFM on an existing screwdriver. Got several of those.
As for checking the screws I do once in a while.
So far, so good.
Of course I don't abuse my lever guns like the cowboy shooters do.
Oh Hobie, I've been told the same thing most of my life too. Never did figure out why.
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
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NEVER MIND LEFTY, I FOUND IT AND ORDERED IT.Lefty Dude wrote:Y'all need one of my Cowboy Screw Drivers that I make for such a purpose.
Check them out below under cowboy products, This site also has other nice products for the shooter.
http://www.uniquetek.com
g rice
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runfiverun
- Levergunner 2.0
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Re: check your lever screws
funny this should come up now, as at the leversilhouette shoot there were two guys that lost screws today