levers?

[Mutt]

After being away for a spell ,I notice there isn't as much talk about lever guns once was.
..................................Mutt

[AJMD429]

We go through cycles.

Many/most of us on the forum have MANY interests, with the common theme being 'leverguns'. Typically, that means we also like:

• Single Action Revolvers.
  U.S. History.
  Medium & Big Game Hunting.
  Ballistics.
  Pro-Second-Amendment Material.

and many other things, like:

• Welding.
  Horses.
  Gardening.
  Boats.
  Tractors.
  Motorcycles.
  Vintage Automobiles
  etc...

Sometimes we even go way off topic and discuss:

• Church Missions.
  Humorous Stories.
  Computers.
  Women.

There are "gun" forums which restrict all topics to the particular brand/design featured, and even break up all the 'gun' posts into sub-topics, to be sure nobody interested in 'reloading' has to be offended by seeing a post on 'holsters', and I've participated in some of those forums, but. . . they are usually boring, repetitive, and hosted by know-it-alls.

The variety of 'associated' topics is what I like about this forum.

But yes, we DO sometimes get our acts together and delve deep into the topic of actual 'leverguns'...

[madman4570]

We go through cycles.

Many/most of us on the forum have MANY interests, with the common theme being 'leverguns'. Typically, that means we also like:

• Single Action Revolvers.
  U.S. History.
  Medium & Big Game Hunting.
  Ballistics.
  Pro-Second-Amendment Material.

and many other things, like:

• Welding.
  Horses.
  Gardening.
  Boats.
  Tractors.
  Motorcycles.
  Vintage Automobiles
  etc...

Sometimes we even go way off topic and discuss:

• Church Missions.
  Humorous Stories.
  Computers.
  Women.

There are "gun" forums which restrict all topics to the particular brand/design featured, and even break up all the 'gun' posts into sub-topics, to be sure nobody interested in 'reloading' has to be offended by seeing a post on 'holsters', and I've participated in some of those forums, but. . . they are usually boring, repetitive, and hosted by know-it-alls.

The variety of 'associated' topics is what I like about this forum.

But yes, we DO sometimes get our acts together and delve deep into the topic of actual 'leverguns'...

well said!

[JerryB]

A BIG AMEN!!!!!!!!!!! Brother Doc AJ. Yes well said.

[Old Time Hunter]

Don't forget the weather:

[horsesoldier03]

ARE YOU TERRY MURBACH REINCARNATED?

[Blaine]

Don't forget honey badgers.....

[mod71alaska]

Hey, MUTT, welcome back to the Forum! Not a lot has changed; it's just February!

[Griff]

Welcome Back Mutt!

A BIG AMEN!!!!!!!!!!! Brother Doc AJ. Yes well said.

[Buck Elliott]

After being away for a spell ,I notice there isn't as much talk about lever guns once was.
..................................Mutt

Whenever I mention it, I get called "reactionary.." Maybe not exactly, but that is the gist of it.. :-/

A lot of the younger/newer guys are not so steeped in levergun tradition as some of us older fellers.. They also tend to believe that we are just as intrigued by their new snow-blower as they are.. (or whatever their new "toy" of the moment may be...)

I compensate for the lack of levergun talk, by ignoring the majority of posts that pertain to other things.. I'm still interested in families, and read and respond to prayer requests and such, even if I may not post a reply.. There have been times when ignoring extraneous subject matter has left me with an entire page of nothing I cared to read.. But... I keep coming back, in the almost vain hope of finding a subject worthy of discussion, from a levergun perspective..

[earlmck]

After being away for a spell ,I notice there isn't as much talk about lever guns once was.
..................................Mutt

Whenever I mention it, I get called "reactionary.." Maybe not exactly, but that is the gist of it.. :-/

A lot of the younger/newer guys are not so steeped in levergun tradition as some of us older fellers.. They also tend to believe that we are just as intrigued by their new snow-blower as they are.. (or whatever their new "toy" of the moment may be...)

I compensate for the lack of levergun talk, by ignoring the majority of posts that pertain to other things.. I'm still interested in families, and read and respond to prayer requests and such, even if I may not post a reply.. There have been times when ignoring extraneous subject matter has left me with an entire page of nothing I cared to read.. But... I keep coming back, in the almost vain hope of finding a subject worthy of discussion, from a levergun perspective..

I'm pretty much with Buck, though I have a slightly wider interest -- I'll also read anything relating to motorcycles. But guns and motorcycles get slighted this time of year: they'll both pick up considerably in the coming months as the days get longer. Maybe through the winter we should formally assign (If Hobie asked, they'd probably do it) range reports to our southernmost brethren?

[jnyork]

We go through cycles.

Many/most of us on the forum have MANY interests, with the common theme being 'leverguns'. Typically, that means we also like:

• Single Action Revolvers.
  U.S. History.
  Medium & Big Game Hunting.
  Ballistics.
  Pro-Second-Amendment Material.

and many other things, like:

• Welding.
  Horses.
  Gardening.
  Boats.
  Tractors.
  Motorcycles.
  Vintage Automobiles
  etc...

Sometimes we even go way off topic and discuss:

• Church Missions.
  Humorous Stories.
  Computers.
  Women.

There are "gun" forums which restrict all topics to the particular brand/design featured, and even break up all the 'gun' posts into sub-topics, to be sure nobody interested in 'reloading' has to be offended by seeing a post on 'holsters', and I've participated in some of those forums, but. . . they are usually boring, repetitive, and hosted by know-it-alls.

The variety of 'associated' topics is what I like about this forum.

But yes, we DO sometimes get our acts together and delve deep into the topic of actual 'leverguns'...

You forgot the nonavailability of .22 ammo.

[Gaucho Gringo]

Some of the people prefer the meandering route and side roads as opposed to the straight shot.

[Nath]

We go through cycles.

Many/most of us on the forum have MANY interests, with the common theme being 'leverguns'. Typically, that means we also like:

• Single Action Revolvers.
  U.S. History.
  Medium & Big Game Hunting.
  Ballistics.
  Pro-Second-Amendment Material.

and many other things, like:

• Welding.
  Horses.
  Gardening.
  Boats.
  Tractors.
  Motorcycles.
  Vintage Automobiles
  etc...

Sometimes we even go way off topic and discuss:

• Church Missions.
  Humorous Stories.
  Computers.
  Women.

There are "gun" forums which restrict all topics to the particular brand/design featured, and even break up all the 'gun' posts into sub-topics, to be sure nobody interested in 'reloading' has to be offended by seeing a post on 'holsters', and I've participated in some of those forums, but. . . they are usually boring, repetitive, and hosted by know-it-alls.

The variety of 'associated' topics is what I like about this forum.

But yes, we DO sometimes get our acts together and delve deep into the topic of actual 'leverguns'...

Errrr....what about small game? Hmmmmm!



Say I get Buck's point!
I have tried to broach many a discussion of a Win94 interaction at the lever link to bolt pin loadings when locked up!
Usually all I hear back are tumble weeds!

N.

[Blaine]

I'm just as interested in The People here as I am in their leverguns....I stopped buying Gun Magazines because the same subject matter was always recycled about every six months.

[vancelw]

I'm just as interested in The People here as I am in their leverguns....I stopped buying Gun Magazines because the same subject matter was always recycled about every six months.

You read the articles? I just look at the pictures.

You know what they say about guns...once you've seen one...you want to see them all.

[AJMD429]

I'm just as interested in The People here as I am in their leverguns....I stopped buying Gun Magazines because the same subject matter was always recycled about every six months.

That is a very good comparison; thanks for posting it that way.

It isn't exactly like Leverguns are new-fangled things we haven't worked most of the 'bugs' out of, so we tend to 'recycle' the same topics, too. Not that it's bad, but - like the Gun Magazines - it would be pretty boring if all it was on here was a bunch of 'Marlin vs. Winchester' and '45-70 vs. 444' threads.

Leverguns are a part of all our lives here on this forum, and a part that gives us something in common. It also happens that we have lots of other stuff in common that is fun to jabber about, too. Even when we get to arguing about stuff, it's still more interesting than 'Marlin vs. Winchester' for the 99th time.

[Hagler]

...from Junior's excellent site, a lever-plus:

Model 94 disassembled.jpg

Shawn

[Canuck Bob]

Welcome back, what is your main interest in levers? Hunting, reloading, older traditional levers, new hammerless levers, or maybe scoping them? I'll start up a thread to welcome you, I'm always asking questions often just for fun and an education.

[AJMD429]

Welcome back, what is your main interest in levers? Hunting, reloading, older traditional levers, new hammerless levers, or maybe scoping them? I'll start up a thread to welcome you, I'm always asking questions often just for fun and an education.

Good idea...!

[Nath]

Like I said .....tumble weeds

[J Miller]

I agree with Buck Elliot too. We've lost so many of our original members the roots of this forum are pretty much gone. So all we're getting is fluff and chaff. Very little wheat.
I stick around here because this is the only forum I know of like this, and I do know most of the members.
However it just keeps loosing it's foundation and will eventually crumble to nothing. Sad to feel that way, but I've been here from the beginning and that is what I'm seeing.

Joe

[92&94]

Complaints in this vein pop up on every internet forum, not just this one (specific to the forum subject of course). The amusing thing is that there is an easy way to fix it - start talking about the subject one feels is under-represented rather than complaining about it

Tell ya what though, I will go take some pics to post up this afternoon. Should have done that a couple months ago anyway.

[Buck Elliott]

Some of the people prefer the meandering route and side roads as opposed to the straight shot.

That's why there's Facebook...

[AJMD429]

Since there doesn't seem to be a forum that is 'strictly leverguns', whatever levergun stuff there is likely already here, just diluted down by all the 'fluff'. Some of it is no doubt on MarlinOwners, or Rossi-Rifleman, or Winchester-Lovers or whatever, being similarly diluted.

Perhaps some of our programmers on the forum could write some sort of a 'bot' for you guys that dislike reading posts about things other than leverguns, and it could scan for REAL leverguns posts.

Then you wouldn't have to be so depressed about how the forum has turned from being a wonderful source of levergun-inspiration, free of all distractions, into a cesspool of whining posts (whining about 'too many 'OT' topics excepted, of course ), repetitive posts (repetitive posts about 'too many 'OT' topics excepted, of course ), and posts about stuff like politics, which doesn't affect "leverguns" at all (other than potentially getting them banned, and being largely the biggest driver of the social changes which have resulted in "not enough levergun posts").

It would be nice if there were ten times as many levergunners, because then there would be ten times as many people wanting to post 'levergun' topics on here, and many of them would be interesting, and perhaps new, and reading them all would leave the rest of us too busy to post about our new tractors, or working up a handload for our revolver, or just 'life'. The problem is that the nature of our real world these days is that there are NOT as many levergunners, and it is NOT the fault of the FORUM.

I know there are some brilliant hard-core levergunners who have left the forum because there are "too many off-topic posts", but - I'll wager there are far MORE amateur levergunners who don't participate, because they get tired of the whining about "not enough levergun posts", or some of the condescending responses when they DO post a 'dumb question' about a levergun. I know I'm just an 'amateur', but I often learn just as much when some 'newbie' dares to ask a 'stupid question', as I do when SOME OF THE 'OLD GUARD' STARTS IN AND RE-PLAYS THE SAME SAGELY ADVICE OVER AND OVER, REPLETE WITH SIDE-TRACKS ABOUT HOW EVERYONE WHO IS UNDER AGE 60 IS JUST A FOOL AND HAS NO BUSINESS PLAYING WITH GUNS AND HOW THIS FORUM HAS BECOME A WASTE OF THEIR PRECIOUS TIME...

Buck Elliott, you tend to still give good advice, worth listening to, and I probably have read every one of YOUR posts, and I know what you mean about 'FaceBook' (this is probably a forum serving somewhat of a 'FaceBook' function for us guys who wouldn't be caught dead on the real 'FaceBook' - when I'm on here, sometimes my wife actually says "Are you on 'GunBook' again...?" ). However, there are some who post here whose 'sagely advice' I miss out on, because their posts are so polluted with rants about how the rest of us heathens don't deserve their time because we haven't devoted 24 hours a day to studying leverguns vs. having anything else in our life, that I just skip past them.

[jnyork]

What AJMD429 said.

[mod71alaska]

Yup.

Maybe it's time to post some levergun porn.

[Blaine]

I'm fresh out of ideas....perhaps the disillusioned ones can start a few interesting lever threads. I keep hearing about how bad it is, but, where are the grand masters when we need them?....Wait, I know....sewing machines Quityerbitchin' and post something, you malcontents

[J Miller]

Wait, I know....sewing machines

J e

[cas]

This forum is in a rapid nose dive and it goes beyond non levergun topics.

[Streetstar]

What's facebook?

You guys want to hear a knock knock joke?

Knock knock
-who's there?
Orange!
Orange who?
Orange you glad you're not a potato?

[horsesoldier03]

I'm just as interested in The People here as I am in their leverguns....I stopped buying Gun Magazines because the same subject matter was always recycled about every six months.

My wife recently ordered me a new gun mag. I was SHOCKED! I gave them up long ago and for the same reason!

[Canuck Bob]

I might suggest we only need to start posting levers more often.

One thing I like to do is ask questions to expand my education. As an experiment I'll start more such threads and see how the forum responds.