I can absolutely GUARANTEE that no Engineering was involved in the design of this piece..Pete44ru wrote:.
An imaginary levergun......................
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- Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It takes All Kinds
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1439
Re: It takes All Kinds
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: More idiots with Tannerite
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1181
Re: More idiots with Tannerite
"Whiskey gets blamed for a lotta things it didn't do..."
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 1:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It takes All Kinds
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1439
Re: It takes All Kinds
It don't Take all kinds.. We've just GOT all kinds...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: One-group sighting-in.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2304
Re: One-group sighting-in.
One shot should do it, if the shooter can shoot...
Makes you wonder how any game was ever harvested in the days before "technology" and the internet...
Makes you wonder how any game was ever harvested in the days before "technology" and the internet...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: One-group sighting-in.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2304
Re: One-group sighting-in.
You don't need a laser to get the same results..
Just place the gun in/on a sturdy rest (even a cut out cardboard box will do), center the scope on the target, then move the cross hairs or the center of your previously-fired group.. Voila! !!
Just place the gun in/on a sturdy rest (even a cut out cardboard box will do), center the scope on the target, then move the cross hairs or the center of your previously-fired group.. Voila! !!
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: John Wayne shooting cyclists.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5014
Re: John Wayne shooting cyclists.
They were the bane of motorists' existence in Teton N. P., back in the day.. The roads were/are very narrow, and passing oncoming motor homes, while pulling a loaded 10 horse trailer could be dicey at best.. Add a cyclist or 2, who demanded an entire lane for themselves, and things could get pretty ...
- Sun Sep 06, 2015 9:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range report Ruger Super BlackHawk .454
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2961
Re: Range report Ruger Super BlackHawk .454
... The .454 is said to be capable of pushing a 300 gr. bullet to 1700 fps. I just had a vision of that firearm bouncing off of my forehead... :shock: :lol: :lol: Dick Casual had it figured out decades ago.. He told me that after 50 rounds or so of the Real Stuff, most .454 shooters would gravitate...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quigley question ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1225
Re: Quigley question ?
J.J. Croft did all the leather for Selleck's movies...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Forum will go down briefly on August 27, 2015
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1106
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Back in the US of A
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2848
Re: Back in the US of A
Welcome Home Jim..!
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "You have cancer"
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5132
Re: "You have cancer"
Prayers for Anna and you, together.. You are together on this journey, and in all it brings you..
- Sat May 30, 2015 1:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: disaster! a girl, a grizzly and a 30/30
- Replies: 67
- Views: 8506
Re: disaster! a girl, a grizzly and a 30/30
Oh no... Say it isn't so...jruppert2 wrote:And the rifle's not even scoped!
- Mon May 25, 2015 11:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 1894 .25-35+Winchester 1886 .50 EX
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4152
Re: Winchester 1894 .25-35
Beautiful example.
My favorite '94 configuration..
My favorite '94 configuration..
- Tue May 12, 2015 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question on Unerti model '73 short rifle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1169
Re: Question on Unerti model '73 short rifle
Front sights on my 73 SRs are blades.. Rear sights are closer to the receiver than on 'standard' sporting rifles..
- Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pedersoli 1886/71 Boar Buster 444 Marlin
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3945
Re: Pedersoli 1886/71 Boar Buster 444 Marlin
FWIW, I'm not all that fond of the 'venerated' .30 WCF either..., nor of the '94 Winchester..
Many of the features of the '94 came about out of the desire to cover Winchester's butt in the patent race..
Many of the features of the '94 came about out of the desire to cover Winchester's butt in the patent race..
- Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pedersoli 1886/71 Boar Buster 444 Marlin
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3945
Re: Pedersoli 1886/71 Boar Buster 444 Marlin
The full sized '86 is just more gun than is needed for the scrawny little .444.. Browning ' s big levergun was designed for the bigger bodied, more robust cartridges of the day.. FWIW, my '86 Extra Light pitches hard cast 405s down range at around 1950 fps, with no real discomfort, and certainly no ...
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Bottom Line, 'Magnum = Marketing'
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2765
Re: The Bottom Line, 'Magnum = Marketing'
WRF = Winchester Rim Fire..jdad wrote: Winchester had their 22 WRF (Winchester Magnum Rimfire) that later evolved into the 22 WMRF, .
WMR = Winchester Magnum Rimfire
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The World's Largest Revolver
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3591
Re: The World's Largest Revolver
I can see it all now... Round-butt that monster; cut the barrel back to a manageable 18" or so, and build a kydex IWB shuck for it, and PRACTISE A lot..! :D Fwiw, I did have the knowledge and expertise, and built a levergun around full power ,454 Casull ammo... for all the good it did me or the...
- Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: An Important Message From NRA About Ivory In WA State
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1160
Re: An Important Message From NRA About Ivory In WA State
All while poverty-stricken African nations systematically torch warehouses filled with hundreds - even Thousands of tons of 'contraband' ivory, seized from alleged poachers, rather than turning it out onto the waiting world market.. And yet, with no 'legitimate' market, the poaching continues, while...
- Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The .444 is back.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2696
Re: The .444 is back.
(...yawn.....)
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Steel F/X Patinas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1324
Re: Steel F/X Patinas
I believe I would have disassembled the gun before I slopped that much water and chemicals all over it.
Somebody wasn't thinkin' too good...
Somebody wasn't thinkin' too good...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cayenne
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1812
Re: Cayenne
So very sorry, Ms Boots..
Prayers and condolences. .
Be well...
Prayers and condolences. .
Be well...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mossberg just gave Ruger some serious competition
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2848
Re: Mossberg just gave Ruger some serious competition
Nothing Moss berg has produced in the last several decades is of any real interest to me.. Sorry, but they just don't get it.. Ref: their "tactard" levergun, for instance..
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moving!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1912
Re: Moving!
There is something unbelievably liberating about knowing you can pee off your own porch...
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The new Henry Original
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2823
Re: The new Henry Original
Some of the early Henry Repeating Rifles had 'iron' frames..Gaucho Gringo wrote:But none of the originals had a steel receiver.
- Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Christmas dinner?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2949
Re: Christmas dinner?
A friend prepared elk tenderloin medallions, wrapped in bacon, served MR, with smashed potatoes & sauteed wild mushrooms... Indescribable cream pie for dessert..
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Non-corrosive cartridge loops - ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3130
Re: Non-corrosive cartridge loops - ?
Seriously....?? Carrying the same ammo in your belt for 15 years or more sounds a bit extreme.. Better to shoot it, over time, and replace it with fresh stock.. I do have a small supply (maybe 250) of nickeled .45 cases that i use for belt carry. I've never had corrosion problems with the nickeled c...
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 12:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lookee - a levergun in 460 S&W is now available...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3398
Re: Lookee - a levergun in 460 S&W is now available...
Depends on the function of the cartridge stop at the magazine...
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: No more Click and Clack
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1775
Re: No more Click and Clack
"Don't drive like my brother!"
R.I.P. Tom..!
Thanks for the memories...
R.I.P. Tom..!
Thanks for the memories...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marvel Mystery Oil?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2612
Re: Marvel Mystery Oil?
Also available at Walmart, if you aren't offended by entering such a business...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What is the shelf life of 22 LR?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2019
Re: What is the shelf life of 22 LR?
I still have a couple bricks - and several boxes - of Remington .22 LR ammo my Uncle brought with him when he left Remington near the end of WWII. He was a chemical engineer, and worked on new priming compounds, which were loaded into small lots of rimfire ammo for testing.. Remington told him to ta...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: IMR introduces 3 new 'Enduron' powders.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 407
Re: IMR introduces 3 new 'Enduron' powders.
The "IMR" brand is owned by Hodgdon..
The new propellants do sound interesting though..
The new propellants do sound interesting though..
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'm not a sailor...but I made a marlin spike
- Replies: 14
- Views: 995
Re: I'm not a sailor...but I made a marlin spike
I have an old wooden one (hard, close-grained maple, I believe), 16" long X 1 3/4" diameter at the large end, and gracefully rounded off.. The pointy end is pretty sharp, making it perfect for untying or untangling rope, cord, twine, &c..
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: To shoot an unfiored late 2nd gen Colt or not --
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1996
Re: To shoot an unfiored late 2nd gen Colt or not --
Shoot your Colt !!
It will love you for it..
It will love you for it..
- Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Poachers in Wyoming get hammered
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1972
Re: Poachers in Wyoming get hammered
I see that Old Ironpants is at it again, with self-contradicting, pseudo-libertarian rants, bushels of red herrings, and unanswered rhetorical questions.. We've all asked the same questions many times before, but OI still doesn't supply us with the answers we seek.. Just more meaningless, philosphic...
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yo smart folks .....
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7992
Re: Yo smart folks .....
I still have my old K&E log-log-duplex-decitrig slide rule that I used in High School and College. it was my Dad's, and was passed along to me.. It is made of closely-milled bamboo, with inlaid celluloid faces. i still trot it out from time to time, although my TI calculators are handier for mos...
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone hear from COSteve lately...
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6657
Re: Anyone hear from COSteve lately...
I see 6 has run out of his required medications again.. (or has he neglected to take them as prescribed..?) Either way, it makes him a pitiable critter for sure..
Sad..
Not that I really care.
Sad..
Not that I really care.
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Food For Thought: High Country Packtrain
- Replies: 7
- Views: 914
Re: Food For Thought: High Country Packtrain
If goats could be counted on to eat only the Noxious weeds, they may have some use.. That ain't gonna happen though.. Goats will eat Anything and Everything they can reach..
BTW, many forest areas are off-limits to both pack goats and llamas..
BTW, many forest areas are off-limits to both pack goats and llamas..
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Food For Thought: High Country Packtrain
- Replies: 7
- Views: 914
Re: Food For Thought: High Country Packtrain
Why would I take animals into the back-country that would "eat the bark off trees", and can only pack 50-lb or less -- requiring at least 3 goats to pack as much as 1 horse..? Horses can be eaten too, if necessary, and taste a lot better than goat, IMO.. And the USFS takes a dim view of cr...
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do you regularly dry fire your rifles?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1861
Re: Do you regularly dry fire your rifles?
I "dry fire" several times per week, using snap caps the will cycle thru my leverguns, integrating the mechanics of the whole routine.. Same for my double shotgun and SA revolvers. A ZOOM snap caps are perfect for my use..
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Leverguns on the Horizon
- Replies: 10
- Views: 582
Re: Leverguns on the Horizon
Yep... Glad to see that..casastahle wrote:The old toggle link still riding tall in the saddle
- Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Modern offhand position?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1158
Re: Modern offhand position?
Rifle and shotgun shooting both naturally require an asymetric stance.. One shoulder and arm are naturally behind the other, at an angle, and the body turns to follow the lead of the forward arm.. The upper body is free to turn from the ankles, knees, hips or waist. Such a stance provides natural sk...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Civil War Medal of Honor.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2529
Re: Civil War Medal of Honor.
It is the CONGRESSIONAL Medal of Honor.. Not bestowed by the President..
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pretty '73
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2111
Re: Pretty '73
wOW...Sixgun wrote:Big deal...that stuff is JUNK compared to this baby.......A BOLT ACTION SHOTGUN.
EAT your hearts out because this baby is MINE!!---6
good thing you were able to rescue that beauty, before the refuse hauler trucked it away..
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cowboy Action Today
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1522
Re: Cowboy Action Today
Got my sights set on Montana..
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pretty '73
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2111
Re: Pretty '73
And some folks ask us why we love our old leverguns.. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d197/sass93/Smilies/thumbsup.gif http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d197/sass93/Smilies/thumbsup.gif If they have to ask, they won't understand the answer! 8) Correct !! Now, pardon me while I hunt up a slobber c...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cowboy Action Today
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1522
Re: Cowboy Action Today
[/quote]Real men play RUGBY! Boys pretending to be men play American "football".[/quote]
In Montana, Girls play RUGBY! and they play for KEEPS !!
In Montana, Girls play RUGBY! and they play for KEEPS !!
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pretty '73
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2111
Re: Pretty '73
And some folks ask us why we love our old leverguns..
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rossi Customer Service - - - my recent experience . . .
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4287
Re: Rossi Customer Service - - - my recent experience . . .
It wouldn't make any difference if the chamber was reamed deep enough for the .460 S&W... The .454 (along with the .460 and the .45 Colt) seat - or "headspace" - on the rim, at the chamber mouth.. FA .454 chambers are Basically cylindrical, but are tapered (.001" included, as I re...
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FOUND!...1851 Colt Open Top (Clone)!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2269
Re: FOUND!...1851 Colt Open Top (Clone)!
Maybe you should leave MA and move to America...
Hard to believe one of the "Original Colonies" - especially one that figures so strongly in the birth of modern gun manufacture - could have fallen so far..
Hard to believe one of the "Original Colonies" - especially one that figures so strongly in the birth of modern gun manufacture - could have fallen so far..