Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I guess I am just the opposite, I always hold the forearm with my hand and rest that on the bags with another bag under the butt stock, but I try to always have my hands on the gun in the exact spots they would be under hunting conditions. I do this regardlesss of what kind of rifle I am shooting, b...

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Speaking of zip tying the guns. Very few folks are willing to buy a gun without peering down the barrel or working the action and peering inside. I've noticed that many dealers are cutting the ties off and replacing them (depending on the anal retentive characteristics of the show promoter). Yes, I...

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Smith and Wessons vs Rugers? I guess I will add my 2cents worth. Back in the 70's and 80's and early 90's, I managed to wear out one Ruger and 3 each Smith and Wessons. I wore out my first Ruger Stainless Single Six, and had to get it rebuilt, I wore out a Smith K22 and had to get it rebuilt. I wore...

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I like a 4" barreled double action stainless revolver with fixed sights, such as a S&W 65. Roll my own ammo, so I can tune the ammo to the projected situation. Hogue rubber grips. The 4" barrel gives me enough sight radius to be accurate at 35 or so yards or less, stainless is more we...

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This is my favorite forum, also. Even the most opinionated of us remains polite, and decent in our post's, very different then other forums I have frequented, elsewhere.

I don't know anyone presonally on here, but in general, I am certain a better bunch couldn't be found, anywhere.

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I have noticed while handling lots of 99s, over the years, before they started zip tying all of the actions at the gunshows, that some 99's didnot feel right when they closed, or opened, so I suspect that due to hard use or abuse the 99 can have issues. I had a used 99C in 308 Win, back back in the ...

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It seems like I remember reading, somewhere, that the 99 action has been known to stretch and develope excessive headspace. I believe I read it on one Elmer Keith's books. I probably have it somewhere. Of course I maybe wrong about it being in one of his books, but I know I have read it in some book...

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If he is going to stay with iron sights, then IMHO beg, barrow, steal, or get a second mortage, but somehow scarpe up the extra money to get a pre-64 Winchester. I have had pre-64's, Marlins, post 64's all of the way through the angle eject, crossbolt safety models and the pre-64's are my favorite, ...

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I have done a fair amount of pheasant hunting, I can just imagine how that went with a bunch of reporters going along. Chances are a pheasant flew straight up more or less and everone shot with guns elevated at 11 O'clock and in sorta the direction of the reporters, and of course it was an oportunit...

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I got a one shot kill with a 25 auto one time. About thirty years ago, when I was working on a large farm as a young man. It was in the wintertime, snow on the ground, and we were feeding cattle, like we did every day, during the winter and as we drove into this one field we spotted a pretty good si...

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I have a Colt Peacemaker replica (EMF Dakota) in 45 Colt with a 5 1/2 inch barrel that I carry sometimes. I like it because it has plenty of knockdown power, and it's more compact then a Doubleaction revolver of simular power, and 100% reliable. And it shoots the aluminum cased Blazer hollowpoints t...

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I guess I don't know much about the reasoning behind this. Why use 38-55 case instead of 375 Win cases in the 375 Winchester? Does it work better for cast bullets or something? Why is there two different lengths of 38-55 cases? Just trying to learn something, since I have never messed with the 38-55...

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Yes, I tend to agree, now. It's probably a bad run of primers. Plus I have never been a big fan of CCI primers, anyway. I have had more misfires with CCI then any brand. Back in the days when I shot IPSC and Hunter Silouette in the 80's, we would tune our revolvers with a lighter hammer spring and w...

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Good looking gun, I used to have one just like it. I have had quite a few Marlins pass through my hands over the years, and the 444 I had, is one I wish I had kept. I had an old Redfield recevier sight on mine. That particular rifle holds a special place in my memory, because I made a very memorable...

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Another thing that, I didn't see mentioned, which is very likely the problem, or at least it has been a problem for me, years ago, is crushing the primers when seating them, espacally small rifle primers. The 30/30 was the first caliber I ever reloaded and I had some problems with misfires, then. Ar...

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Yes, 400 or so is about right, for lots of the commeratives only a couple of years ago. Now, I would say the average price is 600 to 750 for NIB, but a few go higher. The Oliver Winchester is one that goes higher, probably 750 at the cheapest, and up from there.

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Check this one out.http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=88308209

The Oliver Winchester is one of the more coveted Commeratives, lots of the others go for around 600.00 or so.

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I like the commeratives, I have a Winchester Legendary Lawman Trapper, and a Antlered Game Commerative rifle. Prices have went up on these guns, do partly to Winchester going out of business, even though these guns haven't been made in over 30 yrs anyway. Some of the Marlin Commeratives are still a ...

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I need clarification on this new law. Am I to understand that if someone living in your household is bi=polar, that you must give up your guns? How will this happen, will someone confiscate your weapons? Or are you just not allowed to purchase anymore, because you can't pass the NICs check? Please, ...

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I may be all wet here, and even though I personally have not had the best of luck in the reliability dept. with Marlin 94's in 44mag, I believe for this game, I would give one of the long barreled Marlin Cowboys with the octagon barrel a try, because I believe it would be the most accurate.

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I used to own a Colt AR-15 Heavy Barrel, almost new, back before the Brady law got passed. I didn't use it much, and sold it for what I had in it, which was $400.00 and this was a fair price at the time. Money was tight and I was trying to scrape up money to buy a 78 CJ-5. I really don't miss the gu...

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I guess I missed the 1981 change to rebounding hammers, I thought it started with the angle eject model.

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I have always heard that the .357 Marlins have the problem a lot less often then the 44's, but it isn't a myth and you don't have to shoot them 1000s of times either, before it might happen. However, I am sure many have had trouble free service with them. But I have see it happen offen enough to be ...

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I don't like it. Remington's customer service is sorry, and in 3 years I bet we will only get new Marlins with not only crossbolt safetys, but some kind of darned keylock engineered into it also.

OH Well, there are still a lot of good used Winchesters out there.

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I remember back in the 70's, there was a local gunsmith who I delt with that would not hardly trade for a used 44mag Marlin because he had too many people bring them back with complaints about jamming. I was sorta wanting a 44mag leveraciton a few years later, and I resoned that surley if Marlin had...

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I have purchased several guns off of gunbroker. It can be a bad habit, like going to a gunshow every day. :wink: It is true there are not that many bargans on gunbroker, and buyer beware. Some dealers will try to start a gun way too high, but many will start a gun at a more resonable price. The good...

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I agree, I could sell everthing but my Brownings and still have a pretty good arsenal for about everthing from self defense, small game, upland game, and big game, and look good doing it.

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As far a pointed bullets go, maybe they have some merit in the 30/30 but the way I see it, if you can't take your game with a 150 or 170gr flat point, then I doubt that a pointed bullet will make that much difference. Now you bump that on up to .308 win class, and maybe the pointed bullet starts to ...

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The older 1980's BLRs with the steel frame and flat bottom magazine, were the best leveractions ever made, and will rival a Marlin 336 with scope for weight and handling. But they were never real plentiful and always more expensive, and people were into the hot rounds chambered for boltactions, not ...

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A wonderful story and a lesson for all of us, when we start feeling sorry for ourselves.

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I have killed a lot of dogs, and I like dogs. When I was young man, deer were run with dogs a lot, but eventually, when the bigger farms got broken up over the years, and lots of out of state people and city people started buying up these smaller parcels of land, confrontations happened between land...

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I have carried about everything from a North American 22mag mini-revolver to a 5 inch 1911 in town. Out in the woods and farm, I guess I have done the same, but usually carry a Colt Peacemaker replica 45 colt, or short barreled 44 mag, and sometimes a Browning High Power 40cal. Probably one of my fa...

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Yes, I have to agree, out of probably 15 different Model 94's I have owned, they all worked reliabily 100% of the time, except for one really slick pre-64 (believe it or not) and I did have some failure to feed problems with it. It was a beautiful gun made in 1948, but I never could get it to work 1...

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Well, that PH could have left off that last sentence about leveractions belonging only in western movies, that shows that maybe he doesn't know all there is to know about our American Leveractions. But his other comments have value. He is right about the sectional density of the 450's 350gr bullet, ...

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I have one pre-64 which was a sorta beater, but in general, except for bluing, a pretty nice gun, and several post 64's, commeratives, top ejects, angle ejects and angle ejects with safetys. All are good guns, but for an iron sighted gun, I will take a pre-64 any day of week. You can hand me a pre-6...

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I had problems with a Winchester model 23 side by side after a while, and I disasembled it, as far as I dared and used brake cleaner, a lot of it, then I blew it out with air to help get rid of any thing left, then re-oiled it with a good gun oil, not WD-40, and it has worked fine, ever since.

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I used to have one just like yours. It was an accurate gun. Like others have said just leave the safety on fire, and treat the rebounding hammer position like a half cock. Now the bad news, That rebounding hammer system in the 1886 Extra Lightweight, has been know to misfire. I did not experience th...

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Here in the Ozarks or Arkansas, I see about everything, but mostly Boltactions, with the 7mag, 30-06, even .300mag. It seems by new sales anyway, that lots of new shooters end up getting these cheap Savage Package rifles, but really you see and here of about everything, from SKS's and old turkish ma...

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I was just wondering, I have been tempted to pick up a post 1964 Commerative octagon barrel model 94 Winchester, but most all of the the octagon barrel models were made in the middle to late 60 with the thin sheetmetal loading lifter. I know some have not had any problems with those, but many have a...

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Well, I am starting to wonder if I an not just plain over saturated with guns, espacally leveractions. I have more then I can shoot, or will probably ever shoot to any degree. Sometimes I think less might be more. But I don't have a single leveraction I want to get rid of, at this time. What's a fel...

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A steel frame short action Browning BLR in 350 Remington Mag.

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I don't know what else I can say that hasn't already been said, except to quote what a friend of mine said to me once when I was having a hard time of it.

He said "Don't worry this time too, will pass". God Bless You.

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Yes, I have used it a lot. Espacally in the 38 Special and 45ACP, However I did switch to Bullseye for a lot of shooting because it goes a little farther. Still yet one of my favorite loads for the 38 Special case used to be a heavy load of 231 behind a 175gr cast flatpoint bullet. It was a magnum l...

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My most used levergun has to be my Browning steel framed BLR in .308 win. That's the gun I grab when I absolutly want to kill something. Handgun? That's a tough one, as I use several, but I guess it has to be my old Colt series 70, 1911 45ACP because I handle it every day. It's my bedside gun, it's ...

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I recond my first choice would be an older Steel Framed Browning BLR in .308 Win. Because I can do more with it. With a scope I make 300yds shots easy. It's got enough power for about anything I will probably be hunting and accuracy to take advantage of the ranging qualities of the .308 Winchester, ...

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I started deer hunting in the 60's, and back then, the deer were pretty scarce, it was really something to celebrate if you killed one. I only got to hunt maybe 3 days a year or so for deer. But the year I turned 21, I said to hell with it, and I layed out of college, and hunted the whole week with ...

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It was 1978 and I was 20 yrs old. I had already been hunting deer for ten years with an assortment of guns. Deer hunting back then was tough, in my part of the world there wasn't that many deer, not like now. My grandpa had killed several, and he could remember when there wasn't any deer at all in o...

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Well OK, I will try to use mine more this year, pre-64 Winchester model 94, but I an kinda wanting to try out my, new to me, old model 71 Winchester in 450 Alaskan. I guess I won't get in the club if I use the 450 instead?

Too much gun, I know.

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You do have a beautiful gun there, I really like the checkering and the lever. Good luck on the conversion if decide to do it.

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Many years ago, I owned both a Marlin 39A and a Mountie. They were both good guns. In the 80's I shot Hunter Silhouette .22 rifle with the Model 39A and a 12 Leupold target scope mounted on it. IT also had a great trigger done by a local gunsmith. I found I could be very competitive even against the...

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Changing out those sheetmetal lifters in a 64 or later model