Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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The obsession with Facebook is a disease. Some, like this poor young woman, post every detail of their lives hoping the approval of others -- complete strangers, although falsely and insidiously styled "friends" on Facebook -- will lend their lives validation and worth. Others frequent Fac...

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I'll have to dispute your definition of Rednecks. The people you describe are White Trash. The difference is subtle, but profound. Rednecks are basically country folk -- at least country-born-and-raised. They like shooting, hunting, fishing, maybe do a bit of farming. They tend to be pillars of thei...

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Here's an interesting article:

https://www.wired.com/story/stratolaunc ... aul-allen/

The wings are based on gigantic aluminum spars made by a special process, the same process being used for many other large components.

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Multiple failures in combat. In 1971 there were special procedures taught in training to try too prevent failures to function in the field. The problems they had were not caused by the design or the rifle as built. First, the Army ignored the specs for the ammo and used a different powder than what...

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I am still kicking myself for getting talked in to going to the last one. It was the most chopped-up, disjointed mess of a movie I've ever seen -- and told exactly the same story as the first one. No thanks.

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Properly-seated primers and semi-wadcutters should pose no danger.

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The problem I have with Promags is their inconsistency. Probably 1 out of 3 Promags I have bought just would not work worth a darn. MecGar, on the other hand, has never let me down. By look and feel you can tell they are quality mags, and they work -- period.

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With lead bullet loads, "bashing away" should not be called for. Unlike jacketed bullets, they're pretty slick and slide pretty easily. I don't like dowels for the job, though. Better is a brass or coated steel cleaning rod -- they won't break, as so many wooden dowels are prone to do. Usu...

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The 94's built post-'64 weren't bad rifles, just not as finely made as the earlier ones. They went to a sintered-metal receiver, changed some screws to pins and some solid pins to hollow, and used some stamped internal parts that had previously been machined. The stamped cartridge carrier in particu...

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Sorta looks like it could use a little Viagra...

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If you're unwilling to buy bigger pants -- don't carry IWB unless it's a micro-.380 or some such.

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:42 am Did you try starting from scratch? I know it’s a pain but after weeks of trying it did work.

Tried it, three times...even tried opening a new account, but then I get "this e-mail address is already in use."

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Still not letting me in. I try signing in once a day and it gives me a "You have tried to log in too many times, so you have to type in the reCAPTCHA phrase below" -- and reCaptcha gives me the message that reCaptcha v1 has been shut down. The reCaptcha website says Version 1 was shut down...

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For a while Uberti offered an "antique" finish that looked very much like that. I believe some Cowboy Action shooters wanted a gun that looked well-worn, like a gun that had been rode hard and put up wet by some cowhand for years on the range. Personally, I always felt that real cowboys we...

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About 48 hours ago, I found myself involuntarily logged off the Ruger Forum. Tried to get back on, and my login was not accepted. Got a message I had to use the reCAPTCHA to get on -- but it wouldn't give a reCAPTCHA word/phrase to copy, just a message that reCAPTCHA v1 was shut down. Any clue as to...

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Sounds like an early manifestation of OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder. If you've ever known anyone with OCD, it ain't funny. It can start out with one minor quirk and build in to full-out weirdness.

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I think Taurus/Rossi already beat them in the race for a fully impractical rifle:

https://www.rossiusa.com/product-list.cfm?category=15

BTW, what the heck is an "assault bullet". I don't want to use one -- too dangerous. I'll just stick to the ones commonly used to hunt coyotes...

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To me, Dick's has always been an overpriced purveyor of mostly "fashionable sporting attire", with way too much golfing stuff and Lycra clothing, and a very poor selection of firearms and ammo. I really don't care.

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Oh, please. Let' not! I loved both Elmer's and Jack's writings, but the fact is they were both crotchety pedants with a personal disliking for each other whose constant arguing boiled down to a way to both vent spleen and, conveniently, get paid. Both had good valid things to say but carried them to...

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Over 140 years ago men weren't restricted by today's "rules" or limitations on various rifles and calibers. They also weren't afflicted with our distorted concepts of "what it takes to get the job done." I know people who seriously believe that whitetail deer require something o...

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That is a special DW, right there. Not that I could afford one, but just out of curiosity -- details?

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:38 pm
How anyone can like a creature that can hurt you bad makes me wonder.

Oh, I don't know. I know from experience a cow can hurt you pretty dam**d bad, even kill you -- but I love 'em! Medium rare, please...

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For my needs, and for any I can reasonably expect to arise, my 39a and my 336 will fill the bill nicely, thank you.

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This sounds good, and I certainly hope it is true. However, these days my cynicism has grown to the point where I am increasingly skeptical over things like this, as well as the organizations they purport to support. But even assuming that Gun Owners and NRA are 100% legit, I prefer making my donati...

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3rd in murders? Hardly. More like 83rd, with a rate of 4.9 per 100,000 population.

Number 1? El Salvador, with a rate of 108.6/100,000.

I am tired of both political extremes in this country lying to make their spurious points. And even more people who swallow those lies whole.

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With virtually no atmo to speak of bullet velocities should be higher and allow easier escape velocity . I guess your gun might need an oxygen tank to achieve optimum ignition. Nope, and nope. Acceleration ceases the instant the bullet leaves the barrel. The lack of atmosphere ahead of the bullet i...

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I made my first trip to Seattle -- other than just passing through SEA-TAC on my way to Alaska one time -- and found many unique and attractive things about the city. The terrain, the great diversity of people-food-music, the friendly attitude to strangers I encountered in most places -- all were th...

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[/quote} The top of the slide on both is open like the old Walther P38? [/quote] Yep. The P-38 was one of the designs the 92 was based on (with the pivoting locking block), although the open-top slide was, I think, probably an original Beretta feature going 'way back to their original semiauto, the ...

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Either one of them will hold up a whole lot longer than you (or me).

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:08 pm Practical? Maybe not. Fun? Heck yes. Some of those short shells or just down load regular length ones. Would scare the heck out of a bad guy. Only thing is who’s going to clean up the brown trail.

No shells involved -- it is a black powder muzzleloader.

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Snap Caps are not action-proving dummies and should not be used as such. Does the problem occur with real ammo?

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Definitely sounds like an overpressure round, nothing to do with steel case or brass. What manufacturer?

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Lived in another country ( Taiwan ) where the kids went to the military out of high school. During their school years they all had uniforms and haircuts, the boys had high and tight flat tops,the girls a bowel cut. This was in the 70's and don't remember them having all the strange ideas and proble...

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I think the levergun applications would be limited by what seems to be a primary feature of this round -- headspacing on the case mouth. To me this would seem to rule out tube-magazine designs since the crimping necessary to prevent bullet set-back in tube mags doesn't mix well with headspacing on t...

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Some classy old gals, for sure...

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Although it can strike at any age, cancer is predominantly a disease of old age. Live long enough, and you will develop some form of cancer. It may not be what kills you, but it'll be there. In 1900 the average lifespan of a US male was 58. Now it is nearly 80. Cancer has always been there; it just ...

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OldWin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:48 am
He is right, it will have a global effect, and possibly will never recover.
It's happened before. They called it the dark ages.

Seems to me we eventually did recover from that...

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Leave the guns; take the cannolis ...

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We’ve got Cheerwine here and it isn’t terrible . But I’d like to try that Blenheim Ginger Ale . I grew up on Cheerwine, and I'd pretty much agree on that. But, now, the Blenheim -- well, there's just NOTHING better to mix with a nice, smooth rye or bourbon, or even just plain, ice-cold on a hot day...

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I just read this on another forum; posted by the moderator of the lever action rifle forum in response to a shooter not liking the Winchester brand on a rifle made out of country: ================================================================================== If it'll make you feel any better, W...

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Pete44ru wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:10 pm .

Truth is stranger than fiction - you just can't dream this stuff up...…..

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Except -- I've been seeing/hearing that last one for at least 40 years...

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Simply outstanding! I can't wait for pics of the finished product and a first range report.

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J Miller wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:34 am
I wonder what the the price will be?

Joe

I wondered that as well. I guess it may be in the "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" category...

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My hope would be that Winchester might put that new 350 in a lever action. It will be interesting to see what the ballistics look like. Those should be out soon I would think. Has anyone seen a box of these in a store ? I would doubt it. A cartridge in a tube-magazine rifle needs a strong crimp to ...

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Clearly a round designed to appeal to one market -- states where rifle hunting is limited to straight-sided cases. Without that restriction, I think I'd prefer the .35 Remington. And I wonder about headspacing -- -- from the looks of it, I would guess it headspaces on the case mouth, meaning that fo...

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:22 pm https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/18/18188 ... date-2-1-4

Interesting....

Not...

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Curtis was a professional singer long before he was an actor. When Sinatra left the Tommy Dorsey band, his first replacement was -- Ken Curtis.

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A number of years back I used this bullet to make up some reduced-recoil hunting loads for my stepdaughter. In a stock , scoped 336, that load would shoot three in to an inch at 100 yards, benchrested with me shooting, and did it through 21 rounds in one afternoon, generous cooling-off periods betwe...

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Is a $150 knife better than a $15 knife? Yes, by some measures, and it darned well should be. But here's the thing -- eventually I lose a knife, whether it cost me 15 or 150. I cry a whole lot less when the cheap one goes missing. And, for 1/3 the cost of one Benchmade I can have 3 or 4 Gerbers, Sch...

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I have friends who have used it to close wounds, but so far I have not been so adventurous, although the neurosurgeon used something like it to close the surgical wound on my L5-S1 laminectomy. I won't post the photo as it is one of those indelicate "can't unsee" things ... ... :O eyeblea...

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