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Hmmm. I bet PETA made a raid on "photobucket". Oh well, sounds like you got something good to eat, Nath. enjoy!

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You can load 180gr JHP's to 1300 fps in a 6 1/2" Blackhawk and it's not bad at all on the hands. Don't have the exact numbers in front of me but it will have a minimum of 500 ft./lbs at 50 yards. In other words it has more power downrange than the .357 load Griff used at the barrel too. The 18...

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What kind of front sight is that on the 1886... I don't know what to call it Doc. I went back to my original photo and here is a close up... 86frontsite.jpg I have a Remington 14 in .35 and haven't shot it in several years, but you have inspired me to wring it out some. Yeah, until a couple months ...

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Tuesday I met up with friend Larry to do a little shooting. Mid 80s here, a few clouds around and a gentle breeze out of the Northwest. I had a couple of "new" Remington pumps in 35 Remington to try out. Poor Larry just had a couple of old Leverguns. He doesn't do computers so he won't eve...

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Seems to me that was one of his short stories: if your library has a book of his short stories there's a pretty good chance it'd be in there.

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I hadn't heard that info about the Marlin 32/20 chambers being longer. But even if true it just means you now own a "32/20 slightly improved". And a mighty nice looking rifle it it, by the way! Since the 32/20 headspaces on the rim and not the shoulder, even if the shoulder area grows duri...

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Last winter I built a little contraption to test various bullet tips against various primers. With a big whack (many times what you can generate in a tubular magazine in a rifle) I could get both sharp hollow points and the polymer tips to act as a "firing pin" and set off the primer. The ...

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If your 32 special is chambered generous enough in the neck so those 8mm bullets chamber with no resistance I'd think you are good to go. (Assuming you're talking jacketed bullets). But if you feel them chambering hard you may want to back off before you get pressure problems from the neck not relea...

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I keep thinking about your problem, Canuckcowboy. Seems to me the ideas so far are good ideas for working on a gun that gives 4" groups at 100 yards and you want to improve on that. What you have is much worse: only thing I can think of that would spray your bullets that bad (now that we know t...

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That's real good news, Mike! And just in case this happens to you... my old Uncle Hughes had the radiation treatments (what they had 40 years ago, which didn't work all that well). And when he went home he found that the treatment had changed his taste buds to the extent that the beer and whiskey he...

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Wow! with it shooting that bad there has to be some visible reason. What did it slug to? I mean, those results are what you'd get shooting 30/30s out of a 32 Special! Zounds! Anyway, I think you should surely be able to investigate this a bit more and find the problem, from which your options will b...

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Why hasn't Winchester or Browning produced a lengthened model 92 for the 30-30 cartridge? Well they are not really into innovation anymore. Big Horn Armory is making an oversized 92 but so far they are quite pricey and not chambering for what I would consider a pleasant shooting cartridge. We need ...

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I've lived lots of places and most of them were good places. But Northern Nevada is danged close to perfection, far as I'm concerned: big valleys, rugged mountain ranges with lots of country above treeline, and most of it accessible without having to know or pay someone. Yeah, LeverBob's country. I'...

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Ouch Victor! I know what you're talking about there: I thought I had high pain tolerance until a ruptured disk pushed on the sciatic nerve and I found out what a wimp that constant pain can make you. What saved me (along with the pain meds) was one of those adjustable beds where you raise your head/...

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iceman wrote:What do you think of my new toy?

Now that's shaping up to be a really nice rifle! Congrats on your good deal. It is better the other fellow has a shotgun he wanted and you have a rifle that you know enough to appreciate.

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because it seems like the accuracy is not there. I just fired off the last of my 35 Rem with pistol cartridge bullets, and results have been disappointing. Hmmm. I've got at least reasonably satisfactory light cast bullet loads in most of my rifles, but I have to say one of my bigger disappointment...

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I've got a natural: .219 Zipper. You could barrel it with a fast twist to shoot 70 grain .224 bullets and have a .22 hi-power, but much better. No John, that's more of a "natural" for a Marlin 336. A "natural" for the Savage 99 would be better in .22-250, don't you think? (Savag...

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Savage 99s are wonderful rifles and quite available at fairly modest prices for the ones in less-than-collector condition. After admiring from afar for many years I finally started acquiring a few. Left 3 alone but couldn't resist rebarreling a 308 into 260 Remington. This makes a nifty rig and is a...

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And he makes it look so easy. Disgusting!

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32-20 case capacity might do the job you are wanting but the normal twist may not stabilize your desired bullet. I know my 32-20 doesn't quite stabilize the 150 grain round-nosed cast bullet I wanted to shoot in it. Got some sideways bullets at 25 yards, though the ones that stayed point first wante...

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Drifts out easy, left to right. I don't have a bunch of nice punches to choose from: the primer-punch from one of my loading dies worked just fine. I replaced mine and one for a buddy with Steve's peep sights but the blank should go in just the same.

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Old Savage wrote:Saw a recent one in 45-70 that looked quite good. Nice wood and good fit and finish.

Good to know, OS. I'm pulling for them to put it back together. I'm ready to acquire a shiny new 7mm Marlin Express as soon as the local Bi-Mart gets one in.

Huh? They're not making 7mm ME? Well they should!

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Thanks much for the good shootin' thoughts! Celebrating by taking the rest of the week off, heading over to the Steens Mountains in SE Oregon. Now don't you folks talk about anything real interesting for the next 4 days while I'm gone... don't want to miss out on too much!

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Do you think the barrel being a smoothbore was an important factor in it's performance through vegetation? Would a rifled slug barrel tend to deflect the slug more readily due to the spin if making contact with vegetation? I have a Winchester model 1300 XLT Featherweight 12 gauge with identical len...

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Yeah, folks have these really neat things, they read how much better something else is, and they get the desire to get rid of the good stuff cheap. And sometimes -- there we are!

Ain't it great?

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For the last 10 years or so my "favorite rifle" has been a 1950 era Marlin 336A (24" bbl, 2/3 magazine) in 30/30. Granted I don't own a model 64 Winchester which would be a better test of "favorite-ness". Went shooting yesterday with a couple of the grandkids and their famil...

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Can't help on the pistol, but the dies should bring something. I still use several Herter's dies and they are just fine, built similar to the RCBS of the period and far as I know SAAMI specs for 25/20 and 30/30 chambers haven't changed in the last 50 years. You didn't pick up an extra "Model Pe...

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This got started because I'm researching my next lever. I like the traditional levers and am considering the 32 Special Dang, Bob, for a fellow who has been dreaming of a 32 Special you are now acting rather flexible. If you really want to check out some slick "new" options, have a look a...

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I've been rather happy with the cheapo plastic tubs you pick up at the grocery store (wish they were just a bit stouter). You can see the bullets inside them and they are nicely stackable. A good variety of sizes and the see-through is a big help with my disorganized storage "system"!

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I'm a sucker for the model 64 Winchester long barrel rifles. No disrespect to others but that is what a Winchester should look like to me. Yeah know what you mean. I was wandering around the local gun show a few months ago, one of the fellows had a couple nice Marlin 336A's (Marlin's equivalent of ...

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Yep Thanks Griff !!! 8) Now, thank Hobie, for that's who taught me. I might be a "hi-tech redneck", but even we have to learn from someone! Well holy macaroni! It works! I too was wondering how 'ya did that. Thanks for asking the question Pokey, and thanks for educating us, all you who re...

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I am sure the 45-70 would do well also No madman, I think the results of real tests (such as you did with the slug gun and the 7mm) have shown that big slow bullets from slow-twist rifles do not do even remotly well when going through brush. If you insist on a rifle the best ones tend to be fast-tw...

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Just after these two tests done,feel better with the Deerslayer! Thanks much for those tests, Madman. I don't normally walk around brushy forests having bears in them, but if the time comes I am filing away in my brainpan the results of your tests. So if we really need something to punch through so...

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If it fits you it just has to be good. A Savage 99 in 308 is a nice find and you got a heck of a price on it. I have your Savage's twin brother here but I gave closer to $500 for it and didn't think that was bad. Good goin' there, Noah.

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I've got one load that needs both the long drop tube and some vibration to get enough room to seat the bullet (I use an old electric shaver that has lots of vibration to it). Another thing that can get you is that a can of powder that has been open a long time will not be as dense as it was when fre...

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We all probably read the same articles on deflection after hitting "stuff". What I took from the article I read many years ago, and filed away in memory, is that the faster the twist the less the deflection. That's why the 45-70 would have fared rather poorly. My one experience with some i...

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Went out to visit my friend Doc today. He got the Big C diagnosis a little over 2 years ago (pancreatic). So we made a "farewell" motorcycle ride summer before last, spent 3 days riding lots of twisty roads around the town of John Day (Oregon). Had another one last summer; twisty neat road...

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After reading the posts about model numbers and SRC's without rings I had to go look at mine to see what I have. The 357 and the 454 are labelled as Puma model 92's, no mention of SRC; and the 44/40 is Interarms Rossi model 65 SRC (with no ring). And I'm happy to have all of them, no matter how they...

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Good points on how the lighting affects open sights -- I've sure seen sun from one side or the other make a noticeable difference, especially in windage and that's one of the reasons I went to peep sights as a matter of preference clear back there when I was young enough to actually see those open s...

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Made a little jaunt to my favorite gravel pit today to celebrate another perfect day. Took along the old 32 Special (1909 Win.94) that I picked up at the gun show a few months ago. Somewhere I had read of this interesting idea where you load one round each at a series of different powder levels, thi...

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One POWERFUL post, Bob. Heck with the flyboys, I'm salutin' you.

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The only downside I see to the AI is for cast bullet shooting. The short neck of the AI is not a benefit for us casty shooters: not conducive to best results to have the base and lube grooves poked down into the case below the neck as would be the case with heavy cast bullets. But for jacketed bulle...

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What nice ideas to contemplate, 6pt. I have a 6mm BR loaded up and sitting on my loading bench, reminding me I still want to get a lever gun (92 win style) to shoot it. As loaded with the bullet stuck out where it belongs it is a full 1/4" too long to work thru a normal 92-style action like my ...

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kimwcook wrote:Trees sometimes have a mind of their own where they want to finally lie down.

Especially the dead ones.

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I think it wasn't until about 1954 that Winchester started drilling/tapping the 94 for the receiver sight. I know my 1950 model is not.

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I have a couple of those old 35 remmys. The 336A is fixed up with a nice older Lyman receiver sight and small gold bead front which still works fine for my aging eyes. On a newer 336 carbine with micro-groove rifling I put on a 2-7x Burris with their "ballistic-plex" reticle. Temporarily, ...

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We call 'em "sage rats" around here, but they are really the Belding ground squirrel I've been told. Not much left after being traversed by the Speer 110 sp outa the 30wcf at about 2600fps. Or for that matter, the 60gr cast roundnose from the hornet at 2300fps tends to leave them in two pi...

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Yep, such a fine cartridge. And such nifty rifles to shoot it in. And to add a bit of spice to your 30 cal life, how 'bout the 30wcf's rimless twin, the 30 Remington? Remington Model 14 pump in 30 Rem to go with 30wcf in Marlin or Win lever and you don't need it any better than that! Which I just fi...

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It may be a 6.5mm X .257 Roberts conversion. This was the most popular "fix" back then. (I had one rechambered back in the mid-50's. Quick and easy - and effective.) Yep, odds are 99 to 1 this is what you've got there. I have one sitting in the garage just like that. Unfortunately it does...

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