Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Good luck on you hog hunt, and I hope your new friend gets to go.

Don't forget to post some pictures, if you can.

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Thank you, I may try to pull them on the net. I have been considering trying that type of sight to see if I like. I currently have a Browning 92 that I really don't want to drill holes in for a receiver sight, and something like that might be better then an open sight.

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I have a ladder sight on my Browning 1886 that I am removing, to make room for a Fool Proof receiver sight. I might sell it, at a decent price, cheaper then you can buy new. I might need it if I was to sell the gun, but I don't see that happening, so I will probably be willing to sell it.

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I like to have some guns, set up both ways. I keep some with scopes and some with ironsights. Ironsight are better if it is snowing hard, or raining, although I have killed deer in the rain with a scope, you just have to be careful what you are doing, but a driving snow will make even a low powered ...

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I have one just like that one. That's one of the more disirable ones in IMHO, because it is still like the original. It has no rebounding hammer or tang safety. My advice is run, don't walk, and get it bought before someone else buys it. Heck, I gave 900 for mine, several years ago, but I wouldn't t...

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Is that rear sight homemade, or does someone know where to buy those?

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I wonder what I missed? I recond it must have been on one of the political threads. I wish I had a picture of my tractor to put up. It's a 74 Ford with a newer bucket on it, but it's auful dirty. You guys probably would not be impressed, but it does start even on the coldest day, and I darned well n...

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A scope is the best sight, for 90% of all hunting with a rifle. And I like iron sights, for many reasons on leverguns. To me it would be a sin to scope a Winchester model 71, 86, or 92, etc. But at the same time, I want a scope on my Browning BLR, the Marlins can go either way. And in reality a good...

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I'am just the opposite, I will take the pretty girl, if I can afford her. And I will still drag her through the mud if I have to.

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I would hate to give 2800 for it, but I am guilty of giving 2800 for a minty 71 Deluxe rifle. The dealer I purchased my 71 Deluxe had a short barreled 71 carbine, maybe a little slicker than that one, for 4000 at the last gunshow in Tulsa. Original 71 Carbines are pretty rare.

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I think I will stick with the 44mag, because I am used to it. Plus I only own one 45 colt and it's a peacemaker replica, and I don't want the chance of getting a hot handload mixed in with lighter loads for the handgun. And as a general rule, if I want to just use some factory loads, I can find a lo...

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I wouldn't hesitate to take a shot with a handloaded keith semi-wadcutter in a 45ACP. I have only killed one deer with a 45ACP, and that was with a lightweight Commander so velocity was a bit lower then a 5 inch gun. It was a lung shot, and I believe if I remember right it was loaded with a jacketed...

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I have shot the 2.5 inch .410s in a Thompson Center Contender in 45/70.

The extractor always slipped over the rim and I had to dig them out with a knife.

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I gave the scout scope a good try, and hunted with it last year, some. Unfortunately I am right eyed and left handed so it's hard to use with both eyes open. But even if my eyes were right it no faster then a low power regular scope. I shoot both right handed and lefthanded, so I have tried the both...

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For the money they seem to be a pretty good gun. I have handled several, and worked the actions, I think there are people out there that do action jobs for cowboy shooters, that can really slick up one of these. I have a WWII riot 97 with military marking on it, Not to be confused with the trench gu...

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I serously doubt if they will ever make the 94 like the original. I am afraid we are stuck with the stupid safetys, rebounding hammers etc. The best thing to do is, search out and buy an original pre-64 while you can still get one, if it's important to you.

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I have all I need and most that I want, but I am still buying several guns a year and occasionally sell one or trade one off that looses favor with me, or one that I eventually relize I really have no use for. I have everything covered two or three times, and then some. I think I have been buying ex...

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I don't think you can define best without being more specific as to the task involved. Task #1 Best all around for taking Cpx 2 game at any range from 10yds to 350yds, anywhere. Older steel framed BLR in .308 win with a 2x7 Leupold scope. And even Cpx3 game can be taken with it, too. Although in som...

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Yes, he was my favorite, too. I have a few books written by him and about him. Some historians believe he was probably bi-polar, which allowed him the drive and intensity to do all of the things he did in his life.

Too bad we can't get him back. I wonder what Teddy would think and do today.

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Petie, You will find fans of about everything here. Here's my opinion, based on my own personal experience, for what it is worth. I have learned to trust my Winchester 94 angle eject Trapper in .357. It's a very reliable gun and not very finickey at all on ammo choices, and a sheer pleasure to shoot...

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I have always lived in Arkansas, and I voted for him as gov. Personally, I never liked him but I hated everyone else more, so he was always the lesser of the evels. I sorta doubt that he will get the nomination, and if he did, I sorta doubt that he could beat the dems but at least he doesn't scare m...

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That would not bother me at all! One of the worse guns I ever owned back in the mid 60's. Replaced four ejectors and sold it after replacing the fourth one. That one did not last the new owner very long. Bought a 9422 later and never had a minutes problem with it in all these years. I'll stick with...

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B-lever wrote:There are probably some differences in the manufacturing and parts between the B 71 and 1886.

You're probably right, but it seems like it would have made good sense to have kept things the same if possible.

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I wonder if the best way to go, might be to take a Browning 71 and a Browning 86 and swap barrels, and bolts. Then sell the 45/70 with the pistol grip, and keep the converted 86. That way if there are any differences in bolt faces, you would solve that problem also. But who knows, you may run into h...

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A better idea might be to just locate a Browing model 71, then you can have both. Lastmohecken, I have the Browning model 71 carbine. Just wished it looked more like my Browning 1886 SRC. I might be in pretty good shape as is. :wink: Don McCullough You can probably get there, one way or another. I ...

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I have read a lot of his stuff. He definately was a writer. He may or may not have let a good story get any worse for the telling, But I believe he was a hunter, and a I think he was a game control officer, also. No doubt he could spin a yarn, but I believe if you read his stuff, and if you have eve...

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That title kinda shocked me for a minute, and I half believed it, knowing that Marlin got bought out. But I am not too worried, because I already have a 39M and a BL22, and a 94/22mag so I am pretty set anyway, plus I probably would not buy a new one with a crossbolt safety anyway, unless it was a r...

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A better idea might be to just locate a Browing model 71, then you can have both.

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Thanks, Perry That one is definately priced cheaper then the Riflesmith sights I was looking at on Buffalo Arms, but I am a little worried that it won't be tall enough, based on how the sights looked before I removed the rear barrel sight. I am sure it would work with a tang sight, but my receiver s...

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I am considering ordering a Beach Combination Sight for my Browning 78 Single Shot. I am putting on a Williams FP recevier sight, and will need to change out the front anyway as it's too short. I would hate to spend a hundred plus dollars on a sight without know the higth. Would someone please measu...

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67 mm can be shot in 65mm/ 2Â½ inch chambers but beware of putting 70/ 2 3/4 mm there. By the way, old hotguns deliver the best patterns with fibre wad loads. Plastic wads pattern too tightly to be useful. Old Sh. I don't know about the shooting the 67MM in the 65MM, it's I guess it's all right, ac...

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1886 wrote:Hey Y.K. What is the rear sight on your SRC and why did you change? Regards. 1886.

It looks like a Williams barrel sight to me.

I have a Browning 1886 High Grade, and I just dropped mine off at the gunsmith yesterday, to get it drilled and tapped for a Williams FP-71.

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Well, personally I think the risk is low, very low anyway, because I am not going to shoot anyone by accident with my modifed trapper, because I use my brain when I use my guns. The way I see it, I risk a lot more, every time I crawl into a automobile, to head done the road, and espacally if I decid...

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The problems with the leverguns is so many of us have cut our teeth on older guns without safetys, that it is very common and anoying to get a click, when you need a boom. But whoever said, just don't buy a gun with a safety, has a good point. That is pretty much what I have done. I look for the old...

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Thanks, I guess I will do a little more looking, I may try one.

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I was considering trying one on maybe my Browning 78 single shot 45/70. How do you like yours? Does the point of impact change when you flip it one way or the other? Is it spring loaded, or something, so that it won't flop around during recoil?

Where is the best source for purchasing one?

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The tang is a Marbles and it worked out just fine with the factory front. I have since removed it however as I did not like the way it felt to grip with it in place. I went instead with a Smith full buckhorn rear sight which works good for me as a peep type sight. Did you have to go to a taller fro...

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Calibers I have loaded for, anything else, I stuck with factory for conveience and because I just never got around to it. 30/30 444 marlin 45/70 450 Alaskan. handloads only 375 HH mag. handloads only 35 Whelan, handloads only 350 Rem. mag. Handloads only .308Win, usually just use the 180gr factory s...

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I used to shoot 80gr of 4350 behind a 235 gr Speer semi-spitzer out of a light Remington 700 Classic. Recoil was heavy but managable. I killed several deer with it. I killed several running deer with it, one year, some with less then bragging bullet placement. Performance was kinda werd. It did not ...

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Yep, I ordered one of Paco's books, only yesterday. Be looking foward to receiving it.

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I guess I don't have any really good stories to tell regarding the early west. My dad's side lived in Kansas, I do remember my grandmother telling me about one of her relatives who was killed by indians. And she also told me ( she was born in the late 1880's) that when she was a young girl she had a...

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The Ruger M77 is pure Mauser as well. I think the two main things that say Mauser more than anything else are 1) controled round feed 2) large claw extractor Winchester and Remington have neither of these except the 798 which is also pure Mauser. Basicaly if you want to know if it's Mauser look at ...

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I spotted this gun a few days ago. There is only about 12hrs left on it. I though it might be of interest. It maybe too expensive, but maybe not. They're not making any more of these.[uhttp://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=90369359rl][/url] I guess I can't post a link. I don't know why. I h...

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KirkD, How do you insert the toilet paper filler? Do you roll it up, or fold it in a certain way, lay it centered over the case mouth and push in with a dowel pin, etc.? I was just wondering if it mattered. I am sure your goal is to keep the powder back next to the primer for better inition. How fas...

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Well, I don't know where this thread is going, but for me the long and the short of it is, I take my game where I see it, as long as the weapon I have in my hands at the time, is capable and I am capable. However, I won't take an unsafe or unresonable shot with a low precentage of possible sucess, a...

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I have gathered some brass, Win and Fed LR primers and Rem 405 bullets. I want to put together some loads for my Browning 1886SRC that will shoot close to POA at 100yds. Can anyone give me some suggestions? Going to reload after work tomorrow, thanks.The carbine has that weird ladder sight. It's a ...

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The Brownings are great, and IMHO often better finished, and fitted then the originals. I have had several of the later Winchesters made after the Brownings, pass through my hands, but every Browning reproduction I ever bought I still own. The actions are slicker, and no added safetys or rebounding ...

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Well, for me, it's almost always a leveraction that I choose, but I have many, and it sorta depends on where I am hunting, and how much value I place, at the time, on taking home game, vs. experiencing something a bit more primitive. Since I am older now, and have a lot of kills under my belt, I can...

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