Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Wonderful. A life lived well.

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Welcome Home!

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The first one I ever saw converted was back in 1969 .. it was converted to .45 Colt.

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The Ruger .357 Flattop is the ideal size sixgun. Almost identical to the Colt SAA in frame size, grip shape and cylinder size. They make nice .45 Colt conversions and .44 Special conversions. I won't convert mine .. I like the .357 in that size gun .. but I have seen them done. IMG_2653.JPG IMG_2658...

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I never had a terrible one. I have heard stories but have never personally witnessed one.

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I am sorry to hear that. I understand. When you've had many miles together and learned to listen to each other .. and now they are gone .. life seems empty. Keep the memories of the good times!

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Color me weird but I have never understood the fascination of shooting shot out of a sixgun. I grew up in snake country. Lived many years in snake country. I never carried shot loads in the sixgun and I killed lots of snakes using standard ammo for the handgun I carried. If I wanted to use shot I to...

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That is funny. I am sorta gun amish... I wouldn't have 'em on my handgun. But if anyone wants to use them, that's fine by me. The biggest issue I run into is PWDP ... People Who Don't Practice ..with what they carry. Whether that's iron sights, scope, red dot or a white stripe painted down the top o...

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wvfarrier wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:05 am My wife gets mad at me for yelling at the TV

I have shot mine in my younger days.

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:04 am I find it funny that some well known Western actors look like they have never fired a rifle or a revolver in their lives...

It's even funnier watching them on a horse.

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It bothers me when movies don't get it right. I was looking at one the other day ... supposedly in 1869 .. but they were using Colt Peacemakers and 1892 Winchesters ... -sigh-

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5 in 1 blanks used in movies (fits .38-40 rifle .38-40 pistol .44-40 rifle .44-40 pistol .45 Colt pistol) 5in1.jpg 5in1blanks.JPG There are also "dummy" rounds made up with a bullet seated but no primer or powder. EDIT: There have been deaths on movie sets from blanks. Back in the 1980's I...

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We here all KNOW that it takes 2 separate and distinct actions involving 2 different parts of his hand to cock and then fire a single action pistol. As the pistol was inspected and found to be in proper working order, the only way it would fire is if he cocked it with his thumb and and then pulled ...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:24 am I feel bad for Thell Reed. No father wants to have to go through this.

I don’t know if she deserves to be found guilty. I’m not on the jury and I didn’t hear the evidence.

But I feel bad for Thell.

I doubt if very many people know who Thell Reed is, Scott.

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Each doing what they felt was right.
I pray we never face that sort of situation again.

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Now that there will bring a tear to yore eye ................

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Griff wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:58 am
Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:21 amThe old guns are almost always [striketru]sometimes[/strikethru] better.
Fixed that for ya!

Why can't I do a strikethru?

Spelling?

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:23 am Jim, that's a keepsake for sure. That's Arizona javelina country, right?

Yessir. Northwest of Tucson near the town of Oracle.

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Back when the Sixgunner.Com website was running we had Gary Reeder build a custom Ruger Vaquero .45 Colt for the first 20 that signed up. When I got mine I never did check the chamber throats or the bore diameter. I just started shooting it. A lot. I took it after Javelina and shot a sow with it. Ne...

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It's quite fascinating how much power you can get from a short .357!

125 gr. Speer JHP 20 gr. WC820
From a 24" Rossi leveraction - 2184 fps
From a 1 3/4" S&W Model 340 - 1339 fps

Nearly 2200 fps from 2 foot barrel and well over 1300 fps from less than 2"!!

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The majority of the time, the one I spent the most time shooting became the most accurate one.

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Thanks for the GOOD REPORT Bill!

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Sometimes the entire gun is a burn ring!

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Non-Literate is right!
I've had people want me to teach them to reload. When I gave them a loading manual and told them to read all of it carefully and then we would start they refused. They just wanted to learn "the steps to follow" in order to reload. I said, "Goodbye" ...

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There's a lot of good stuff going on around the world. Most of the people doing it never make the "news" nor do they want to. A lot of them have no "social media" presence and are not online. They are out doing the stuff.

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Bill ... BILL! You're in Texas now. TX is pretty good sipping whiskey and if you sip enough of it you can crawl in a tight sewer pipe and not mind it!

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The talking Bibles we gave out were searchable by Book, Chapter and Verse. They were complete Bibles .. Old and New Testaments. We got them from South Africa ... about $25 each. We gave out several hundred of them. A friend of mine brought in 500 by himself. Also had some friends who ran a radio sta...

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The Official State language is Portuguese. There are 26 or 27 tribal languages. The area where I was had 2 predominant ones. What we have written in the Bible was passed orally for a long time before it began being written down ... at least great parts of it were. The thing about oral cultures is th...

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We used the audio Bibles a lot in Mozambique and my friends there still are giving them out. When I was there the government admitted at least 45% of the country was illiterate. I knew a lot of Mozambicans that could not read or write, including pastors and evangelists. They loved the audio Bibles. ...

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Thanks for the report and it was good to hear you had a great hunt. I hunted the Limpopo in 2008 and enjoyed it immensely. It is great country! The flight to Africa is never an easy one. It's halfway around the world! I made many trips back and forth between 2008 and 2018, the last time I went. In t...

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I might differ with you a bit Doc. I am not sure they hate all guns. It's my impression that many of them hate the average person having guns. They don't mind their security guards having guns. They just don't want us to have them.
Maybe? That's my impression ... for what it's worth.

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I was handloading by then. My standard load was the keith 250 gr. SWC over 18.5 gr. 2400. This was a pretty hot load in the .44-40 and sometimes resulted in case head separation. The rifle had a bit of excessive headspace. But I shot it at distances to 400 yards with pretty good results and it held ...

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el tigre.jpg EL TIGRE The Spanish company of Gárate y Anitúa made a copy of the Model 92 Winchester in .44-40 called "El Tigre". These were a very close (if not exact) copy of the Model 92. Spain was a major patent infringer in making firearms because its patent law had a huge loophole: p...

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My FA Model 97 has 2 cylinders ... 45 Colt and 45 ACP. The ACP is what I have in it 90% of the time. AND ... you can use a 1911 magazine for a Speedloader

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Whatever the source, I don’t like it because people are not behaving in a civilized fashion that we have come to expect in our society. We are seeing more and more of this in urban crime but that’s only the most obvious. It’s much deeper and more widespread. Possible Answer: "Our Constitution ...

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It's extremely difficult to point that out without being accused of being racist, but the problem isn't one of race - it's one of culture. Reminds me of a song from the book "LUCIFER'S HAMMER" ... "All day I face the barren waste without a taste of culture... pure, culture ..."

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It looks like you are having more fun than the law allows!
Thanks for the report.

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I was tasked with introducing one of my law partners to one of the lawmen in my personal circle yesterday. So I strapped on an old and trusted friend of many years. A bit heavier than I tend to carry daily but still felt right on my hip. I enjoy wearing mine. I don't mind the weight. Like you said,...

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The willingness to employ your gun is vastly more important than its caliber. I actually know people who carry a gun thinking they can just use it to scare away bad guys. Those folks have already lost their gunfight, whether they carry a .45 or a.22... YESSIR! "The willingness to employ your g...

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The .357 is a completely different animal from a rifle or carbine.

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You and I have been loading and shooting 14.5 gr of 2400 behind a 160-173 gr bullet for how many years? Not to Paco levels, but certainly closer to what the .357 was meant to be. I started handloading for the .357 when I was 15 ... 62 years ago. The Keith SWC and 14.5 gr. 2400 lit by a Small Rifle ...

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:53 am Very good Jim. Thanks for posting.

I was reading your posts earlier and it reminded me of Paco's article where he spoke about the .357 and early loads. So I looked it up and posted it it.

I shot his .357 handloads over the years and watched him shoot them. They were heavy! And effective.

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It Starts in 1935 by Paco Kelly Up until the year 1935 the word "magnum" was used primarily with Champaign bottles that were larger than the normal quart sized. That year Smith & Wesson brought out the first handgun cartridge called a magnum, because of it's larger shell casing. The ....

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Sixgun wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:12 pm ……he don’t know it yet but I’m gonna hit Jim T up for the bucks……

I don't have the cash but I can have someone send you a check.
I just need your bank account number and access codes.
Thank you .. happy to help.

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I have had good experiences ordering powder, primers and ammunition through Fed Ex. I have a shipping account and have shipped ammo etc. without any issues.

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:05 pm People are so fixated on their phones that these things have invaded almost every facet of their lives.

I was in the airport waiting on my flight. Looking around there were 50 or more people there waiting. Me and one other old cowboy were the only people not looking at a phone.

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Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:11 am Jim, I had no idea such velocities could be achieved. I wonder how corrosive it is.

I don't know about corrosive chemically but I am sure match heads are abrasive. However, in a situation where they are the only option that really doesn't matter.

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A dangerous person is one who is capable of great violence and has it under control. Wouldn't it be the one who " doesn't have it under control"? Old No7 They would be dangerous, it's true. But you can see them coming. The one who has it under control does not stand out as a dangerous per...

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A dangerous person is one who is capable of great violence and has it under control.

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I will post an announcement. Amazon only lets me do it every so often.

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