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This is one of the top-mount Williams receiver peep sights made for the Winchester angle-eject rifles, a 5D-94AE (the other is the FP-94AE FoolProof) http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r431/pwawryk/th_DSCN0385.jpg . That's exactly the setup I have on my early '80's vintage trapper 44 magnum. It doe...

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J Miller makes some good points. The first thing I'd recommend (and if it were me, do) is to bring your pet to your vet. You can't assume that cats always "go" somewhere because they are being territorial or mad at another pet. Most cats would use fangs and claws first if they had it in fo...

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I cast for nearly every rifle I own. What the other guys have been saying is worth paying attention to. It does take practice, but in the end, you'll get it, and the result will be bullets (or "boolets" as they say on the Cast Boolets website) that will shoot every bit as good as the jacke...

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Wish I was there, I would of even brought the medieval Diet Dr. Pepper. :D Enjoy your feast I'm sure it will turn out great. I would have brought a flagon of Ballantyne Ale--since I don't think anybody sells mead these days! How about providing more detail--including some recipes that your guests l...

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I didn't know anything about the 38-55 so I googled it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.38-55_Winchester Looks like the anemic factory ammo for it is about as powerful as .357 magnum out of a carbine so if you aren't reloading at all wouldn't the .357 be a better than the 38-55 for ammo price and ava...

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Old Savage wrote:I vote to throw Chas off the board.

Yup! I'll second that, Old Savage. I tabbed down to the first photo on his post and darn near barfed up my lunch!

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Welcome to the forum! as others have pointed out, 30-30 will be the most logical choice if you don't want to reload. The last time I bought over the counter ammo was for the 30-30, it was cheaper than 223 at that time and they had plenty of 30-30. The 223, not so much. Besides,it will be easier to ...

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There've been millions made-plain and fancy, standard and custom, and the crappy commemoratives that came out every time a day was discovered to be the anniversary of some historical person's most recent visit to the outhouse. In my opinion, the Winchester 94 that was the best made is the one I reac...

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Not me.

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Did these fancy ones have the lawyer safeties? The pictures on GunBlast didn't seem to show a cross-bolt. Perhaps they have a sliding tang safety? The last time this was discussed, a couple of months or so ago, the photos shown indicated that there actually was a sliding tang safety. It was either ...

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I've never tried it with my Rossi rifle, but a number of years ago I got to wondering about how BP would work out of my Winnie trapper, so I loaded some up. I used a cast bullet (Lyman 429215), and as I remember, I used real black powder, poured from a flask that I load a revolver for--about 25 grai...

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Good morning I could see popping groundhogs in the ditches, racoons off the yard with a handy light weight lever gun. A 16 .5 " barrel would be about right. A Winny 92 frame would really make a nice pachage. I like Marlin´s in calibers that start with a "4" But that is just to much f...

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why not shop around for a decently-priced angle eject Winny? Once in a while they turn up, particularly around this time of year. If you can buy one right, either Numrich or a similar vendor offers a half-round/half octagon barrel with half-magazine and forearm that should fit right on. You'd end up...

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Looking at the site again this morning at least Uberti did fit the '73 .44 mag with a shotgun style butt. with the drop in the stock of a '73 and a 19" barrel it will be allot of fun to shoot on a summer day with a t shirt on. :o . one of the Members over at cascity has taken delivery of a Bur...

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It looks like the wood stock of that Marlin clone has a slimmer forearm than the real Marlins. Marlin never did get a clue about forearm slenderization--not even after numerous websites have comments about slimming down their fat front ends. Must be Rossi reads some of our stuff. That having been sa...

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I generally look with skepticism on most gun writers, but Sam Fadala wrote an excellent book on the 30-30 Winchester, Model 94. Another (living) gunwriter whose work that I enjoy is Mike Venturino.

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Terry, Besides this one, I'm interested in loading standard calibers with cast bullets. I became a member of the "Cast Boolets" website. They seem like a pretty good group. No problems there yet. I go on "Graybeard Outdoors" as well. So far so good with that one. That makes 3 inc...

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I think for a hunting rifle that 3 shots is good. Three shot groups is all I ever shoot. After that, range time is mostly just target practice and plinking. If your rifle is properly zeroed, a one-shot group with a good load, like others have stated this morning, is all that's really necessary. Any...

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Yup!!! I hear ya brother!!! Ninnies one and all. You can add Marlin Owners moderators and Azshooter's to that list as well. If they are not just politically correct Awipes, they have other personal agendas at work. Or, they are just not gunners! All just boils down to cliquey power hungry narcissis...

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Good find, Kirk! They certainly made rifles with class and style back in the day, didn't they? You'll have fun with this one, and I suspect you'll be sending a few more woodchucks to that great alfalfa field in the sky with this one too.

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Thanks, the rifle is in good condition. My father bought it new in 1940's. As I said the rear sight dove tail is about 3 5/8' forward of the receiver and the band around the barrel and forestock is 4" beyond that, I suppose either the band could be drilled and tapped or the reciever to provide...

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They are ugly guns but..............they shoot :D . I've shot 'em but never did own one. $160 is a nice snag price. Just make sure the magazine is in the rifle as many of these guns are missing them. Replacements in 25-20 are very hard to find. Also, make sure the bore is nice as 25-20's with nasty...

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O.S.O.K's pics pretty much cover anything you'll need. I agree with the critics of the old Lee Whack'em loader though. Particularly when the cheapest Lee press goes for only about 24 bucks or so and is good enough to start with. Before you're done though, keep all of that stuff and get the top-of -t...

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I recently picked up a vintage "94" Marlin in 25-20. someone had painted the metal with looks to be black oven paint. after removing the paint and taking it apart I find that it has no original finish. Is this thing worth having someone re-case hardening the action, re-blueing the barrel?...

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Way back when I was in grade school, my father came home from work with one of these, used but well-kept, won in a raffle. Dad said it was the only raffle he ever won. Me and my 3 brothers all hunted deer with it--of course this was before the gunrag writers were all saying that the only way you cou...

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Very nice set up you have there. Not having any experience with the Bushnell 3200, how do they hold up in the long run? i have the same set up but with the Leupold VX-1. Have over 2500 rds. fired with this scope and no trouble of any kind. Wasn't the Bushnell 3200 once the Bausch & Lomb Elite 3...

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Very nice! Did you slim down that forearm or did that one escape the factory that way? That's a graceful looking Marlin, and it looks like it's just waiting to be fired. Have you tried any cast 200 gr bullets through it yet?

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Thanks for the info guys...my buddy gave me a pail of corn cob, another a pail of walnut stuff, and my wife donated the rice (she'll never know it's gone, she'll be thank'n me for make'n dinner...stuff should boil out ok). Seperated 100 cartridges out for each and I will let you know which is bette...

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I shoot 18 grs of aa 5744 with that bullet. I'ld also recommend you purchase a Lyman 49th reloading Handbook. Don, I've used that very load, and it's a good one. One thing I did notice though, and I wonder if you've experienced the same. For some reason, AA5744, while shooting tight groups at 50 yd...

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I use corncob. I check all of the flash holes, though, when removing cases from the media. I made myself a flash-hole unplugging tool by pounding an 18 ga finishing nail into a short piece of dowe a little ways, and then grinding off the nail head. That makes for a handy little device, with the piec...

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Congrats Bogie!!!!! :wink: :wink: :wink: You've just stepped into a much broader world Pard! So much to learn, read, experiment with. Just be careful out there & use common sense Pard. Prould of you brother levergunner! By the way...Santa prefers a sourmash like Dickel...not a blend. :mrgreen: ...

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Please quote the source of your reading, so we'll know enough not to waste our money on that magazine, or bother to believe anything that the author of the article writes. I just got myself a Rossi 357 trapper model, have plenty of brass and the rest of the makin's, and as far as I'm concerned, if t...

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Great!! Except possibly for the footgear, this is how deer hunting should be!! I hunted like that years ago, and remember all too well the cold feet that went with rubber uninsulated boots, or soaking wet leather boots (even when "treated" with the greases of the day. Footgear is way bette...

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Well Merry Christmas Terry, I lucked into one of those a few years ago myself--serial number also beginning with V, in 35 Remington. They had some STYLE back then (except maybe for that gold-colored trigger)!! I'm sure yours will shoot great! By the way, mine is particularly fond of the 200gr RCBS c...

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I've always cast mine with wheelweight mixed with about 10 percent pure lead. I use a Hornaday gascheck. I don't have a chrony, so I've never checked velocity for sure, but if I believe the load data, I'm loading them to about 1900 fps. I've done this since the 1970's and have yet to experience a le...

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Ted, I've used that 311041 bullet for years out of several 30-30's . How much and what powder you use will kind of depend upon what results you get from experimentation. A .311 bullet may work pretty well--and is a good starting point. Bigger may or may not cause chambering problems--that could be r...

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Hello Drew. Welcome to the group. My only question is what took you so long to get a levergun. I must have been mistaken with the assumption that every guy in Texas was given one at birth. :P Anyhow, I'm not only glad you got one, but that you intend to shoot cast bullets as well. Way to Go! What I ...

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Let's get to the real core of it - you don't like juries who make the awards. You're right about that but I dislike lawyers that force excessive settlements in lieu of a trial just as much. These days my impression of most members of the bar is that what matters most to them is lining their own poc...

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let's get to the core of it. I DON'T LIKE TORT LAWYERS!!!!

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A levergun and showshoes!!! Just like the old days, except maybe for the scope. Hope they're wooden showshoes. You will get a workout still hunting on snowshoes for sure, even if you don't have to drag out a deer--but I wish you the best in getting one in order for you to attain a really full workou...

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The model 88 in .308 was a favorite of one of my old friends, who passed away last year after living his whole life in the same town in which he was born. He used to hunt on my grandfather's farm, in the same town, quite often. You'd see him carrying that or a model 95 Winchester in 30-40 Krag. You ...

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I heartily agree with those who've referred you to the Cast Boolet forum. Along with this one, it's one of my favorites. The guys who post there are always willing to offer help/suggestions, and their expertise ranges from those who are just thinking about casting, to those who have made it a scienc...

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Hey guys! Here in Northern Vt today it's been in the high 30's/low 40's. Cloudy but bare ground and no snow (so far). I love this global warming!! I was talking to a guy in the post office this morning who told me that he saw that Texas was getting snowstorms. We agreed that if you folks down there ...

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What do you already have in your gun cabinet that might fit the bill? Perhaps down the road when the kid's grown, he might like to have a gun that was his Dad's-given to him by his Dad-and remember you on holidays like this one? Just a thought on family unity on Thanksgiving. By the way--I'd like to...

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Those Arizona rocks seem to be a lot tougher than the Kalifornia deer that last year some guy posted were immune to the 30-30 caliber. Or was Kalifornia tough deer posting on another website? I don't really keep track of these postings like some do, but never, ever underestimate the 30-30 round fire...

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My 16 Ga side by side Baikal is my grouse hunting choice, and it does OK on trap as well. It's lighter than its 12 ga big brother, and handier than my 870 express 12 ga. But I like all 3, and shoot the 12's on clay birds more than the 16. Too bad more people don't use the 16-it's a great guage.

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The Marlin in those pics look a whole lot better than the gussied up new ones that are being sold today. The forearm even looks slimmer, and the lack of ugly "checkering" gives it a certain utilitarian elegance of its own.

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This brass was in the basement. First I tumbled it, sized and decapped it then put it in a zip lock bag. It sat there for quite a while. Then I took them out, primed them, and set them in my cartridge tray. No wasps, no mud dobbers, no little bees that plug up things in the basement. There is nothi...

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The post-64 cast carriers seem to work fine. But if your heart is set on a machined carrier, Wisners makes them. Scroll to the bottom: http://wisnersinc.com/rifles/winchester/94.html thanks Mark and J Miller, I'm sure the cast carriers are fine but this gun was first run in '65 and has no good stam...

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I've been tempted so many times to pick one up.... :idea: Remember what Mom used to say? "You'll shoot your eye out!" seriously though, Blaine, you should buy it, try it, and post your targets on the website. As I recall, nobody ever "shot anyone's eye out" but we did manage to ...

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