Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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What I really need is a tool for cutting wads. I've got a 12 gauge muzzleloading shotgun that I've hunted with for over 30 years. I use a 3/4" hole punch for making wads from cardboard. Thin cardboard like cereal boxes for the overshot and thick cardboard boxes (with the corrugated inner layer...

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Looks to me like someone came in here looking for an arguement. I'll pass on giving it to him.

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Those .454's are nice guns. Do they have the "out of round" chambers like the 45 Colt rifles? SAAMI specs for the 454 call for a tighter chamber than the 45 Colt. Which works out great for 45 Colt case life. The thing with Rossis is to go in prepared to do a little tinkering to get it rig...

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I've owned a few 22 Mags over the years but these days, I'd just as soon go ahead and use a 22LR and if more power was needed, a 357 Mag.

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I haven't been to a gun show in a few years now. They had got too crazy then, let alone now.

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Never been a fan of either the AR or AK. Some folks like them. I did 20 in the Navy and never got a chance to shoot a M-16. Qualified expert with the 1911 and M-14 thought. I did get to shoot an Uzi while on an exchange tour with the Belgian Navy but that's the only full auto experience I've had. I'...

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Unfortunately, that's how Wal-Mart operates. Their "service" is legendarily bad. They'll let people stand in line for 30 or 40 minutes for their groceries rather than pay one extra cashier when it's busy. It's one of several reasons why I don't shop there anymore. I was in there a while b...

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I had a 7mm one years ago. Accurate, but had a sloppy chamber and the brass would get all stretched out. Don't remember what I ever did with it.

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Folks including our own NKJ hve said in 2000 (after Interarms ended/had morphed into LSI as the largest distributor) Rossi retooled and subsequent guns have been smoother, better. Around 98 or 99, Rossi started making an upgraded gun for Navy Arms who sold it as their 1892. Real walnut and better f...

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And another convert

I've never shot the 357 out of a Win 94, but I won't part with either of the 357 rifles I have here. They're just too handy and too much fun.

Keep on enjoying yours.

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Navy ship that I was on broke it's boilers and we spent a month in Haifa Israel getting them fixed back up. I really enjoyed my stay there and would go back in a second if I could. There's some really great people there.

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I've got both a Marlin 1894 and Navy Arms 1892 (high end Rossi 92) in 357 and won't part with either. Leverguns in 357 are just too handy. As for a 22 lever, the Marlin 39 has been called the Cadillac of 22s for years, but now that Remington is building them, I'd be a bit leery of the new ones. A lo...

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If it was a proprietary Winchester thing, then why didn't Marlin or Whitney Kennedy or another levergun maker jump on the a 45 Colt chambering and have that market? I'm leaning towards the weak rim theory myself.

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In my younger years I traded guns around like changing socks. These days, I know what I like and won't part with them when I get one. Usually an exposed hammer and an octagon barrel in a caliber I like is all it takes to get the juices flowing on one.

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I almost lost my Sassy on a road trip once. Fortunately after a short search we found her. I hope Pitchy's lil friend Snoopy turns up.

For years, I wouldn't have a little dog. Now I can't imagine not having one. They have a special way of getting into your heart.

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Another vote for the Lyman, although I'm a bit behind with the 47th.

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It's been done on Marlins before, but like mentioned above, you'll need lever, lower tang and stock. If you could find someone who has a straight grip and wants a pistol grip to trade the parts out with, it could be done fairly cheap.

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My Marlin 1894 Carbine in 357 Mag was bought new by a cousin of mine. She used it for over 20 years deer hunting and averaged 2 or 3 deer a year with it before she sold it to me when she got into a money bind. Now, my Navy Arms 1892 in 357 I special ordered from a friend with a FFL back in '99 and k...

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What's cool?

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About 1970 and it was for my uncle's 264 Mag that I was using to shoot crows at long range. Still the only belted magnum that I've reloaded for.

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I saw a Super Constellation in a TWA paint scheme around 2000 at an air show in Texarkana and did the tour inside thing. I'd love to go up for a flight in one.

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Navy Arms was importing 92s as early as 1999 as that's when I bought mine.

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Up until the 70s or 80s the Navy named all it's subs for marine life. Then they named a few after politicians in a blatant attempt to get more funding. These days, it's after cities and states.

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I tried my hand at it years ago with an aluminum press, but never really got the hang of it as I was trying to figure it out on my own.

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Another fan of 2400 here. 14.5grs behind a 158gr jacketed bullet lit off by a SR primer. Both of my 357 rifles like this load. Although I find Blaine's use of Blue Dot interesting. 30 years ago I really loved that powder in the 41 Mag. Now Alliant says it's a no-no in the 41. The 158gr is just a goo...

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Fill the mag tube, put one in the chamber and then add another to the tube.

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Talking to a couple of cartridge collectors and was told that most of the time the box is worth more than the ammo if it's in any kind of shape.

I've got several old boxes of Remington and Western paper 16 gauge shells and I'm just hanging onto them in case I run out of anything newer to shoot.

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I have a hard time resisting a 16 gauge too.

Cats can be fun however. I let my 3 Miniature Pinschers practice their small unit tactics on 'em.

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I've been thinking about this a bit more and will say that a Rossi 92 in 480 Ruger would be nice. But those are as scarce as hen's teeth.

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I hunted everything with a 16 gauge Browning A-5 for years. Still had my rifles, just used that shotgun when meat on on the line.

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A cousin of mine used Remington factory ammo 125gr JSPs and killed a couple of deer a year for over 20 years with her 357. Was she also using a rifle? Yeah, a Marlin 1894C. I've got that gun now as a project gun for Mrs Willy. I always thought my cousin was going a bit light on the bullets too. She...

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Same here. The newest gun I own is a Marlin in 44-40 that was built in 2000. I bought it more for the caliber than anything else.

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Nice rifle. Now you need some more lever guns in 357 to keep it company.

Oh, and if you don't already reload, I'd advise you to get started. 357 rifles are hungrier than a teenage boy with hollow legs. They flat eat up some ammo.

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In a 357 rifle, not a pistol, but I've killed several deer and a few hogs with the Winchester 145gr Silvertips. Got a couple with Hornady 158gr XTPs too. A cousin of mine used Remington factory ammo 125gr JSPs and killed a couple of deer a year for over 20 years with her 357. Deer aren't that hard t...

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I looked at a 24" 357 Legacy and had about made up mind to buy it and then changed it to buy a Navy Arms 1892 24" 357.

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For years black powder was about all I used until I finally decided those new fangled cartridge guns might just catch on. One thing about black powder and pure soft lead. When the powder goes off that soft lead will obdurate, bumping the bullet up in size a little to better match the barrel.

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Griff, your description of that '51 Navy makes me think of that Remmie New Army in my pic. I've owned it right at 30 years now and it's been all over the place too. I traded a Nylon 77 for it used so I have no idea how old it actually is, but it's finish hasn't really changed since I've owned it. It...

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I use reproduction 19th Century military flap holsters for my single action revolvers, just the butt end of the grips stick out from under the flap and it protects them quite well. If I think I'm about to use it, the flap is easily tucked in behind the pistol.

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I made some "quickloaders" for my 12 ga double muzzleloader out of pieces of 1/2" coldwater PVC pipe and plastic caps to fit. They worked great until the ex Mrs Willy's brother got to playing with them making pipe bombs while I was on deployment in the Med.

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Nath wrote:What you do is, cut all that fiddle out n' get one of these;

and a .690 ball mold fro Lee and load one tube with shot and t'other with ball, job done n' never look back

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Already did but mine is a straight stock.

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I didn't finish High School as I figured I was smarter than the teachers (got a GED) and started college at 41 years old and had a blast. School is much more fun and easier the second time around.

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I've owned several Marlin 1894s since the late 70s, still have two (357 & 44-40) and have yet to experience a jam from "letting in two". Not saying that it don't happen, but it's not as common as some let on. Now I will say that I've had more problems out of Marlins in 44 Mag than I ha...

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It brings back a lot of memories of the Charleston area after Hugo in '89. There were a whole lot of things seen that we wished we hadn't.

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In '99 I stood and watched a pair of Kfirs on an airstrike drop a bombload into a launch site on the Lebanese border, when the "Lebanese" (Syrian supplied and trained) shot a couple Katyushas over the border at an Israeli town. Katyushas are truck-mounted heavy artillery rockets, not an R...

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We've deep fried ours for several years now.

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I bet you'll find that if you shoot black powder loads with soft lead bullets, it'll shoot a lot more accurately.

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How many here "DO NOT HAVE" an EBR Of some sort ? I don't and have no desire to own one. I think they're ugly as sin and just give me walnut and blued steel. Preferably with a lever hanging out the bottom of the action. If other folks want them, that's their problem, not mine. I'm just no...

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I've owned both and have never broke any of them. But then I also run mine just like they came from the factory. A lot of the issues that I've seen with others guns is when they start modifying them with non factory parts or trying to slick them up by weakening springs, etc. That said the worst leve...

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I was stationed in Scotland for a couple of years and made friends with some of the local folks. I'm originally from the Arkansas/Texas stateline area and have been accused of having a Texas accent all of my life. My Scottish friends though said that they could understand me better than they could m...

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(putting on my asbestos underwear) When I was growing up, we were taught by our elders to kill every hawk or owl we got the chance to. Losing chickens and other poultry to them was a common occurrence. I've set many a leg hold trap on top of a tall fence post to catch them. We had one hawk that was ...

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