Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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I have one in 12/7X57R, a bit of a handloading proposition, although Graf probably imports cartridges for it. Haven't used it much, but it shoots OK. It's blocky, and heavy, and built like a tank. I think that's the Russian way. Seems like I only have to look at it to make it rust, though - really n...

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Hornady has a kit, not too expensive, easy to use. You need a slow-turning drill or driver to rotate the cases in the flame. Have had good results with it.

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A second vote for the Peltors with the behind-the-head band, if you intend to use a hat, and particularly if you plan to use them hunting, where a hat may be more important than at the range. You can damage your ears just as easily out in the field as at the range, and it can happen with only one sh...

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I'm certainly no expert on BLRs and their variations, but the stainless/takedown model in .325 WSM that I bought a couple of years ago has a 22" barrel. That seems to be the standard length, at least with newer rifles. I don't think that I'd want a shorter barrel with this cartridge. In my opin...

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You don't need a big gun for moose, but you do need premium bullets to get adequate and reliable penetration. I've shot moose with calibers from the .270 Weatherby to the .30 WCF to the .375 H&H, and the Weatherby kills them as quickly as anything. That said, if you want an 8mm, my vote is for t...

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Are you restricted to knives?

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New is too much? Well, I think that there are a lot of good new scope values out there, but I seldom buy a new scope, when I can buy a perfectly functioning model (mostly Leupold) used for half the price. Even better: buy a quality used rifle with the scope that you want, keep the scope and sell the...

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Filter and use it in your furnace, or give it to someone you know. BTW, I'd love to see an alga that can grown in diesel fuel.

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I'd vote for a Ruger in .45 Colt, but it would be a 4" Redhawk. Keep pulling the trigger until the threat is neutralized.

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There are no "wild horses" in North America. They went extinct thousands of years ago. There are, however, thousands of feral horses overunning western rangelands, competing with native wildlife, and costing taxpayers dearly with the government's irrational policies. Exactly why isn't the ...

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Stainless takedown in .300 (or .325 WSM if you handload.) Perfect.

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Adak is an eerie place, a modern ghost town. And a good example of government waste - they built a beautiful new high school a few years before the Navy pulled out. I never understood that. You'd think that this would be a strategic location for the military. Anyway, there's no way the native corpor...

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This is a private, for-profit operation, so don't be fooled by the "club" moniker. I subscribed many years ago, but never arranged for a hunt swap, which seemed to be the primary reason for their existence, and a good concept. I don't know how well it was executed. I always found the "...

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I bought a stainless/takedown .325 WSM model a couple of years ago, and it's a great rifle: light, powerful, strong, accurate (despite the trigger), well-balanced to carry all day, and weather-resistant. It ain't pretty, but it almost immediately became my favorite, go-to levergun. I really like the...

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Never had alligator or mountain lions, but have taken and eaten black bear, moose, barren ground caribou, whitetails, mule deer, elk, Dall sheep, mountain goat, pronghorn, Kodiak Sitka blacktails, beaver, and musk ox. All personally prepared from field to pan, so not subject to the vagaries of assor...

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In this age of hulking scopes that are as big and heavy as spotting scopes, we should be thankful that Leupold still makes two of the finest all-around hunting scopes of all time: the VX-II 1-4, and the VX-III 1.5-5. They are also incredibly light, something no other maker seems to be able to do, an...

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I used to think that the BLRs were not very attractive leverguns, but when they came out with the stainless takedown .325 last year, I had to have one, and now I'm a convert. It's an amazing rifle: light, well-balanced, very accurate (despite the trigger), corrosion-resistant, easy to pack, and stro...

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The United States has never had a "Teddy Roosevelt" as president. There was one "Theodore Roosevelt", however, who happened to occupy the office early in the last century, and who was (my opinion) one our three greatest presidents. If this auction house doesn't have the knowledge...

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Stainless/laminated/takedown in .325 WSM, shooting Barnes 200 grain TSX handloads. Good for anything on the continent. Amazingly accurate, despite the trigger. You can't do better for an all-around big game rifle.

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IMR 4350 56.0 grains (max; start lower), Federal 210 primers, 180 grain Partitions. No animal will know the difference between 2700 and 2800 fps.

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Geez, hard to imagine a bull being able to do that.........

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About a month ago, Nosler ran a father-son mule deer hunt, in Colorado, I think. The son was about 13, and he took a shot at a mule deer that was wayyyy out there. I ran the segment in slow motion several times, and it looked as though the bullet struck about three feet over the buck's head. The son...

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Last summer, I bought a BLR synthetic/stainless takedown in .325 WSM. It is one of the most accurate rifles that I own, and own a few. Other posts here have also attested to the accuracy of BLRs. Although I only own this one BLR, I doubt that there is an accuracy difference between these and the sol...

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Thanks for the advice. I'll watch the temps a little more closely, see what happens.

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I have access to a small but steady supply of wheelweights, but darned if I know how to tell zinc ones from lead. Advice, anyone?

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If you don't like the shiny finish, get the stainless/synthetic version. I never owned a BLR, but when they came out with the stainless model a couple of years ago, I told a friend that if they came out with a takedown version in .325 WSM, I'd scoop one up. Well, last summer I spotted one in a gunsh...

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Come hunt with your purty blued gun in Kodiak. I discovered the hard way that I love blued guns, but not when they turn brown.

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I would buy it, too. I have one of the early rifles in that caliber, and it's one of the most accurate rifles I've owned. It's also easy to reload, although the initial price of the Norma brass will set you back a few dollars. I use nothing but 150 grain Partitions and 7828. I started with this comb...

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Renfro seems to be a good operator. He should have a good time if the weather cooperates. The only place that I might eat out in Bethel, though, is Subway. Better yet, he might get some food from the store and prepare his own meals. The B&Bs seem to be OK, too. He wants to stay healthy before an...

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The gun manufacturers had better hope that Obama introduces anti-firearm legislation, because after the current wave of panic buying passes and the buying public is tapped out, they're going to be in for a rough ride.

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Hope you get your moose tag, Bigbore. I wrote and lobbied through the New Hampshire moose management bill in the mid-1980s, when I was executive director of NH Wildlife Federation. It included authorization, for the first time since the very early 1900s, for a moose hunt. Believe it or not, NH Audub...

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Most of the moose that I've shot fell to my Ruger 1B in .270 Weatherby with 150 grain Partitions. Ditto for the only one that dropped instantly on the spot (not a head or spine shot, either.) The one that went the furthest (75 yards) was hit in the chest from a 300 grain Partition out of a Ruger 1H ...

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Let's see. Where can you hunt brown bears, Dall sheep, and mountain goats without having to pay a guide $10,000-$15,000 a pop? Plus musk ox, moose, caribou, elk, black bear, wolves, Kodiak Sitka blacktails, and (maybe) bison? Plus a free, permanent hunting/trapping/fishing license at age 60? Guess I...

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Just my opinion, but it seems to me that those who try to advance their arguments by name-calling have already lost them. Unlike most of the posters here, I've voted for Sarah Palin. Twice. In the primary against the most unpopular governor in Alaska's (and maybe the nation's) history, Frank Murkows...

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