Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Nice gun!..Nice pic!

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Nice shooting...Thanks for the report..I'm hoping to make a report soon..Mebbe this w/e

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Very very nice..Quality is always in fashion...

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So you be the New Model Sixgun.. Welcome!

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I like the Forster..Totaly adjustable..I long ago removed the crank handle & run it with a cordless drill.. the shaft is tool steel and hasn't been phased whatsoever..The crank still threads on...You can inside neck ream as has been said.. There is also a dead center that can be used..This set u...

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Ed.. Just curious...The hammer has a standard half cock notch then?

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Griff.. thanks for taking the time to make those pix...Very nice set up all the way round..I've gotten my Remington nipples in a zone where the RWS caps split upon firing and fall off when the cylinder rotates.. Don't know what I'll do when the fire holes erode too far ...

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I'd say that peice is soldered there so the sear doesn't catch in the half cock notch..With a fine trigger pull the sear doesn't move very far before it cleard the full cock notch, and sometimes doesn't get out of the way of the half cock notch when the hammer falls..Whether this mod is factory or n...

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Using pure lead will be difficult if you are trying to cast grease grooved bullets because pure lead doesn't want to fill out everywhere in the mold..You'll get places on the bullet where the bands are not filled out..Go to a 30-1 or 40-1 lead/tin mixture & you'll get bullets that will fill out ...

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Also had guards put in place to keep the caps from following the hammer back into the action to match my two other '51s.

Griff, I'd be interested to hear or see a foto of what these guards are.. Thanks

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Thin rubber will let the proj thru but won't let it bounce back out..

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Yeah sure..I went thru a spell of buying & spending...consumption.. when I was younger...sort of thing I did just because I had never had made enough money to do it until then..But even then I was conservative about it compared to my peers... To me $$$ in the bank has always been what's cool..I ...

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LOL.. Good one ED!

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Hey that looks great..Keep up the good work..Thanks for posting...& g/l

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Thanks Jim

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Thanks Nate

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adirondakjack... That's a neat modification..But I'm curious to know what do the Henrys use for a cartridge stop what with no loading gate? Anyone? Is it just the rear of the lifter?

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Yep ..I belonged to a neat sportsman's club... people shooting there for years & years...But the area gradually got built up and sure enough the shooting range got closed down because the owner got tired of hearing all the stupid sniveling jerks that moved in by a shooting range

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I had one bust just like that Griff...43 Spanish Lee made shell holder...Replaced with RCBS.. seems to be holding up fine...

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I don't know what Paco's method is..but temperature marker sticks are available and may be of use to you... these are made to change color at a specific temp.. mark your bullets.. heat them with your torch until the mark changes color...I think Brownells sell them.. Some welding supply stores have t...

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Nice report..Looks pretty chilly out there though..

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Griff.. Well put! If there was ONE magic load that worked in all instances, life would simply be too easy, and there'd be little to talk about on this and other forums where this subject comes up! As I read in another discussion on another subject, the pursuit of perfection is what drives most of us...

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geobru... Nice report... great results...I like your method of thinning the cases.. IIRC George Nonte used corn meal in a Speer Manual..Separate from the standard reloading recipes in an article about shooting the oldies..

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Yep.. those of us that shoot the toggle link rifles are stuck with "The ammunition is, in fact, the cartridge stop and is part of the feeding mechanism. " Good crimps in the right place are the deal with these rounds! Nice article.. thanks for putting up the link...

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Anybody not want to call that 50 A TACKDRIVER!!!!

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I ringed the barrel of my dads Springfield 22 back when I was a kid using Federal 22s..They were the cut rate cheap brand back then..It stayed just as accurate as it always was..but I did quit using Federals for a long time..I've seen ringed barrels that one couldn't detect the ring with a tight pat...

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Nice Save!!! Neat gun!!

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Get the Lyman bullet casting book..You wouldn't go wrong with a Lyman 20 pound capacity melting pot bottom pour...The Lee 20# bottom pour is good too..The smaller cap melting pots have to be replenished more often.. then you have to wait for the melt to come up to proper casting temp.. your mold wil...

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Having just torn into my 99 1960 vintage Carbine I didn't see much that looked to be hand fitted..The mag rotor looked like it was die cast aluminum with a few machine marks.. The sear was a stamping..so was the carrier spindle support..The trigger is hung with a pin and meshes with the sear via a y...

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I've thought about doing some paper patching..But don't you need a crimp for the tube magazine on your 45-70?

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A VERY cool day for sure! Well done

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There are books about it in the Libraries too..I found some barbed wire from the 1870s.. & researched it.. There are for sure collectors of it.. The stuff I found sort of looked like the razor wire on prison fences..However it was galvanized.. What was kinda neat was that it was stapled onto a w...

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I had mine lubed from day one..The replacement however was defective & thanks for the input fellas.. I'll give Lee a holler & we'll see what we see..

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OK!.. thanks for that info John & offer... I'm on it!! mail sent !!

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Leverluver...I'm running that bullet thru my Win 73 & they're waay to long.. by about 60 thou..I"ve experimented with bumping the bullet shorter, but it's pretty radical to get one short enough..Strains the Lubrisizer too..

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Man... you're in a tight spot... & your post count will suffer to boot!!...Oops.. forget I said that...& good luck sport!

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Thakes Nate.. I was afraid that is probably the case..I googled Lyman 429434GC... Two results..Taffin's article..

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I won't give up on the Lee priming device as yet...As I said it worked fine for many years I'm more worried about getting the rotory mag out & back in.. The screws on the action are pristine..Iv'e doused them with Kroil in preparation for the job..Keeping my fingers crossed! http://img.photobuck...

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I was reading about the 44-40 in a John Taffin article I found online and he mentioned a Lyman mold 429434GC .. & said it works in leverguns..I don't see it listed on Lyman's page..I don't see it at Midway either..Anybody know if this is a special order mold or if it's no longer made..I'm now us...

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Agreed...That is a danged good day!

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Be sure you are firing it out of direct sunlight from the side..glare on the blade can make it shoot toward the sunlight .. nothing to worry about if the sun is at your back tho... You can also thin the blade a tad if you don't have to move POI much..Thin the side of the blade on the side that it sh...

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One time early one morn as I was getting my coffee.. I notice our cat eating at her food dish in the laundry room next to our kitchen..but hey I'd just saw that black & white mouser sleeping on the couch..No way she could have got by me and be eating..Well you guessed it.. A skunk..Yes they do l...

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Well stuff happens..Didnâ€™t make it to the range today due to a couple of reasons..My Lee priming tool lever bustedâ€¦.Naturally it was two cases after I had been musing to myself that I had never had one break!.. Heh heh.. no prob I had a spare on hand â€¦ bought it a couple of years ago for just ...

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Well I don't know if it was HeMan or not.. more like dumb kid..Let loose w/ a 12ga sxs both barrels at once one handed.. Aimed like apistol ;) ..lol'.. I remember looking down at the neatly rolled back flesh on my third finger cut in from the trigger guard..Took a few seconds before the blood starte...

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Very cool Sarge!.. I'm gonna clock some Rem factory 150gr fodder out of my 99 carbine 300 Sav tomorrow.. I'll post the results too..

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Sounds like it would be a hoot Griff...I'd go with my 50/70 Roller Musket, Sav 99 300 (no scope) & finally the Win 73 SRC 44 WCF..

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Thanks for the heads up!

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