Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Got bored and thought this might be fun. Pretend it's 1939, and you just landed a summer job, watching over a herd of sheep, in the high country. You will be horse back, and you will be gone all summer, without the luxury of resupply, everything will be carried on your horse, or in the one wagon yo...

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I hope the new stuff chronographs like the old stuff. More than once, when a gunwriter posted his results with various factory snubby loads, the 125-grain standard velocity Nyclad was true to its advertised velocity, while +P 125-grain stuff, for all its noise, was moving slower than the Nyclad. Fed...

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I will probably be there on Saturday with my ten-year-old nephew. I might wear a black cowboy hat, or perhaps a black Nike runner's cap. If I can find it, I will wear a name badge with "Rex G" on it.

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Lefty Dude wrote:Very nice indeed!

I wonder if they put a stupid bolt safety on the piece like the Rossi has.

No, but it has the Mirokuchester safety on the tang. Look at the photo again. Edited to add: Hagler beat me to it.

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Sweet! I have three non-TD BLRs, and have been keeping my eye on the Takedowns. A local dealer tends to keep one or two on the rack; I visit often.

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Prayers up!

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Welcome, Dos Perros!

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Interesting! I am not sure I need a .45-70 lever rifle, but except for the oversized lever loop, this one looks good to me, and would be my pick of the current big-bore Marlins. Now, for the same features in a Trapper-length .357 1894, please!

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Browning Lightning BLR, short action.

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Well, already a change of plans since my last post here. I went to liberate the stainless pre-keyhole S&W snubby from layaway, and instead left with a SIG P229 in .40 S&W, another of the first run of the "SAS" limited edition, with a dehorned slide, spurless hammer, and DAK trigger...

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I always like to see the weapons and prop be historically correct. I can understand changing the plot a bit, as the real event is often just so complicated and drawn-out. Composite characters are also sometimes necessary to keep it all understandable while maintaining brevity. What irks me is when s...

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My sincere condolences, Griff.

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Howdy, from SE Texas, and welcome to the forum!

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I have a Marlin 1894CB in .357 mag, and a pre-keyhole S&W M649, both on layaway at the local enabler, so I reckon I will start with those. Having finally finished building an AR around a Colt HBAR upper receiver I bought in 2007, I could use a lighter-barreled flat-top upper receiver unit which ...

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IIRC, when the FBI was on its 10mm kick a number of years ago, they obtained 10mm HK MP5 buzz guns. There may be some longer-barrel velocity data if you search in that area. I seem to remember a couple of alerts that were broadcast when these were stolen from FBI vehicles parked at area motels. I al...

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No peeing contest intended; we are on the same page, overall. :) And, I believe in keeping the weapon up and oriented toward the target, too, at least until the decision is made to let it hang and go to pistol. FWIW, the Magpul Dynamic DVDs present the "S.P.O.R.T.S." malfunction clearance,...

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And, FWIW, I don't train to think of "bang" as part of malfunction reduction, because my rules of engagement differ from those of the military. The last part of my malf clearance is to bring the weapon onto target, and only bang if it is then still necessary. Private citizens can reach the...

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When I mentioned I did not agree with all aspects it the training DVDs, one part that comes to mind is in the malfunction reduction part; I don't think that slamming the bottom of the magazine is always the best first step. What you described is part of what is know as Tap Rack Bang. This is immedi...

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While the definition of "carbine" is not set in stone, in the context of AR15 rifles, excluding other weapons, the ones with 20" and longer barrels are usually considered rifles, and the 16" and under weapons carbines. A longer-barreled weapon can be equipped with a collapsible s...

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I am not O.S.O.K., but the buffer tube is indeed different if you are going to use a collapsible stock. In total layman's terms, there is a rib along the bottom of the carbine-type buffer tube. Something that will really help you understand any weapon is the DVD series by Larry Crow. I have seen the...

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I'm looking for thinking of buying a 308 lever action. Can't spend a fortune but want one, can't help myself, already have marlin 30-30 but want a 308. Any suggestions. Welcome to the forum! :) You being new, we do not know your level of experience, so I thought I would mention that .308 Winchester...

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I am not sufficiently computer literate to understand all the differences, but I know Firefox works better in my computer than IE or Opera. There definitely seems to be fewer attacks from bugs and such than with IE. Opera never experienced any attacks I could find, but it seemed to not load properly...

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I don't think it would be far different from my Lightning BLR in .308, purchased new in 1997, but I don't have any hunt reports or other adventures to write about. My life has been quite unexciting the past ten or eleven years. I will say that I LOVE the way it fits and handles for me, and is a plea...

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Indeed, Christ IS the reason for Christmas, but I am getting really SICK of people saying Christmas is Jesus Christ's birthday. That is not only untrue, but I don't like the original significance of the date that was selected for Christmas. If you want to hold a Mass for Christ, to counterbalance th...

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Done!

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OK, three BLRS in .308, and a Marlin 1894C in .357 mag. That is what I have right now, and anything in the southern tier of the lower 48 would be in danger of dying if shot by .357 or .308, assuming the right bullet construction. Four different rifles, I presume, was the question, so, to "play,...

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Done, and will do.

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This is easy; my favorite is a Ruger GP100 I purchased in the early 1990's, probably 1992. I bought it as a fun gun and plinker, but I decided to use it as an interim duty sidearm while between autoloaders, and in the summer of 1993, two weeks after I started carrying it at work, it was called upon ...

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SIG :wink: I think if I were getting a "new" plastic pistol it would be the new SiG P250 Modular with the "drop-in" reciever/trigger group. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/P250-beauty-detail-4.jpg The ability to switch from subcompact to fullsize to whatever ...

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Another WARNING to NOT use cast bullets in your factory barrel!!!!! Get yourself an aftermarket barrel for that!

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One reason PDs still usually go with Glock instead of the XD for issued handguns is because detail-stripping is far more complicated, and there is no armorer program available for the XD; it has to go back to Springfield Armory for service. I do not know how good SA's customer service is. S&W is...

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I was looking into piston ARs a while back, and one negative was that heat was not dissipated as well. Letting the gases blow into the receiver allows better heat dissipation. I don't remember the technical stuff; this is just what I recalled, and it was enough for me to determine that if I bought o...

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I am sorry it didn't work for y'all. Wish I was closer; he could complete a Bloodhound trio for us. We have had good success housetraining some older dogs, though males are more difficult in that regard.

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Good movie, and a great lesson on why ya don't mess with an old man.

Valdez made good use of a Sharps and short double gun, too.

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Wonderful! We have two Bloodhounds, one from a lady retiring from canine SAR work, and one who was a local stray. They are such sweet, noble pooches.

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My sincere condolences. This is something that sometimes must be done. We dealt with this not too long ago, when a dog knocked an elderly relative, who lived in the same household, out of the way to try to attack this relative's smaller dog. (No, this is not the wonderful dog we lost in October.) Be...

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My sincere condolences. I lost Malcolm on 10-19-2008, and yes, I cried. Not just a family member, not just my best friend, he was an integral part of the family, and truly the director of home security, and a better person than most humans I know.

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I have a question for all you guys lucky enough to own several home defense firearms. knowing full well that you are WELL practiced with your choice of weapon, I was just wondering, if having just been woken up in the night by some sort of disturbance, then being attacked by an intruder, would it n...

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Amen! Rest in Peace.

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IMHO, the NRA Convention is not OT; they will have some nice lever rifles on display there.

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My condolences. Prayers up.

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So the first questions are: What Firearm do you have as a go to weapon in your home? What ammo do you use and what other items do you have to assist in the defense of your home? How iminent do you feel a breech of your home is? (do you think it could happen any time and are vigilent nightly with yo...

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More important than number of posts might be length of time on the forums. Anyone can post a whole bunch of "Amen" and "+1" posts in a few minutes. One forum, Warriortalk.com, actually requires for-sale posts to be individually approved before posting.

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Thanks for the reminder. I was going to buy some ammo this Friday anyway, on payday, but for the sake of Ammo Day, I did drive to an area Bass Pro and get 2 five-packs of buckshot and 50 12 gauge target loads, about all I could afford with cash on hand.

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Interesting; thanks for the heads-up on this. I am a fan of the .308 BLR. I had thought of it as a Lower 48 rifle, but it looks like it may not be useless up North.

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My pre-election buying spree was non-political, based on availability of things I had been seeking for a while, a couple of new Marlin 1894 lever rifles in .357, and a good all-stainless-steel pre-keyhole J-frame Bodyguard. The 1894C was bought outright with money accrued by working hurricane-relate...

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The "evil-er" part simply means I can manipulate a shotgun better than an AR rifle, and, of course, nobody can deny that a shotgun can do a tremendous amount of damage to a target. New in-service training, in which I was taught how to use buckshot for breaching, was another card in the sho...

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I never learned to be a fan of the AR15, and traded our last AR today toward a Scattergun Technologies TR-870. It has the well-known sight package and Armor-Tuff coating typical of this company's products, plus a Vang-comp barrel for throwing tight patterns. I have been using a bead-sighted Vang-com...

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Good find!

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Congratulations!

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