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High Desert Hunter wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:16 pm What bullets are you gents using in your 38-40s?

I use the Lee 90431 it works good for me, just tumble lube it around in a bowl
175 gr

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This is my choice for the hyphenated cartridges
25-20 - 32-20 -- 25-35 -- 30-30 -- 38-55 -- 45-70 -- 38-40 -- 44-40 --

i have used all of these for pleasure or hunting, they flat out work!

oh forgot 32-40 & 30-06, might be more?

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Awesome X two!! Now ya have to warm up the barrel

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I ve had 3 99s & one 88 in 308, now have a model 70 in the newer feather weight, it is a real gem

was out shooting prairie dogs the other day with it, out to 300 yards it does good, after that
its operator error

dont worry i still have lever guns from 22 mag to 45-70

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Very nice buck Ben!! How come when i lived in that neck of the woods it was below zero & at least a foot of snow?

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Loaded up 94 cases with 7 gr. of TiteGroup with the same Lee 429 200 gr. bullet my 44-40 in the Ruger has to have them sized at 427, 429 & they wont fit the cylinder yep its way out of wack, bore is tite at 417 dia. on the lands :shock: odd thing is it shoots bout like any hand gun i shoot, yes ...

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Yes thanks a million!!!! I think i looked at every gun on gun broker

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Always have a hand gun on me, the one time i really needed a gun i didnt have one with me
that wont happen again, some how a roaring 600 lb black bear at 10 feet leaves a lasting impression

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I can relate to quit hunting deer or Elk, SE Wyoming is the wost place for it in Wyo. ive shot 8 deer that looked healthy & wiley but tested for cwd, that was 8 out of 10 that was tested, dont have a clue how the other 10 might have tested as i didnt have them tested & the game & fish dr...

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My 375 win. is a 99 Savage, only shot an Antelope with it, it did the job just fine. i take it out & ring
steel with it, does a fine job doing that also, like the ranch dog 235 gr. bullet & have a old Lyman mold that cast
a 280 gr. bullet that works real well

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Well Doc i agree on your choice of guns, i disike the AR with a passion, its like a ugly 2x6 next to a big pine tree just no comparison, had my Mini out today & got one fast shot at a coyote & missed, in around 400yards i got one shot, ground was full of little gullys, couldnt get on him aga...

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ollogger wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:31 pm that sure looks good too me! took out my 44-40 Ruger Vaquero today & shot a 50 box up

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That is an awesome find Ted!!

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that sure looks good too me! took out my 44-40 Ruger Vaquero today & shot a 50 box up box

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M y brother bought the birds head in the revolver, said it shoots real good & works like it should
he also has a few Henry lever guns & likes them, I have 3 Henry levers 22 mag. - 357 & 45 Colt in the trapper
like em all but the 45 is my favorite

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Looks great to me! beats rubber all to heck!

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First glance at it, LION ! showed it to the wife she said the same thing, LION we have both seen Lion close to the house or from the house, year ago or so i shined a light on one bout 10 yards from the house, you wont forget the eyes, ive shined plenty of barn cats, coon & other critters, i thin...

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bout 2 years ago a lion screamed just out side of my open window, i was sleeping i jumped out of bed so fast i gave my self whip lash bout 35 years ago when i lived in Wisconsin i had a giant black bear charge me, that was one of the times i didnt have a gun ( since then i always have a gun on me ) ...

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That is a big sping bear! happy for your sucess, so where was the hit & did you recover the bullet?

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That is one awesome hand gun & in great shape! have a baby Vaquero in 32 H&R its stainless its a fun gun to shoot, a few weeks ago at a gun show i got a Ruger Vaquero in 44-40, i about fell over when he said id take 600 bucks for it :shock: are you going to try to ware out that great gun? ol...

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Oh Scott a No. 1 RSI Sweet! Just came in from thnning prairie dogs, was using my RSI 250 Savage
( sorry its a bolt gun )

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Ive shot deer & antelope with the 25-35, bullets were 75 gr. speer FP & 117 Hornady RN also a Nosler partion 115 gr. loaded as a two shooter, all bullets passed through A bud of mine shot lots of Elk with his 25-35 all with factory Winchester 117 gr. loads I asked him how it did on Elk, he s...

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I have one in the H&R handi rifle, it shoots very well but out past 200yd. for me on prairie dogs its kind of poke & hope, slight breeze is a big problem, yes it will kill a coyote! on the PD town next door to me i shoot alot & they get gun shy, so i use a 223 or 243 for alot more reach,...

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have you checked out Brightworks? lots of good stuff, to get more subscribe for a month i took 18mg. of ivermectin for a month before for colin cancer sugery, i was sure it was helping as bowel movments were getting more normal but still took the surgery, a bud of mine was taking iver for prostate c...

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have you checked out Brightworks? lots of good stuff, to get more subscribe for a month i took 18mg. of ivermectin for a month before for colin cancer sugery, i was sure it was helping as bowel movments were getting more normal but still took the surgery, a bud of mine was taking iver for prostate c...

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I figure that killing snakes is a Biblical duty as a son of Adam. That nearly bucked me out of the chair, Yep i kill every rattle snake i see, we had dogs bit friends that nearly lost their life from bites, i could write for 10 minutes on my go rounds with snakes but wont bore ya with that, put 2 s...

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I very well know what you're saying
My eye Doc. says if she could make glasses that would let the shooter see the back & front sights
& the target clearly she would become very wealthy, thats all i know about that

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Very nice Scott! Thought i had a skinner on some thing, turns out its a XS on a Henry trapper 45 Colt

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You got a deal on that one for sure!! Awesome find!
have a Vaquero in 32 H&R nice little gun

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marlin man no i was shooting into a big block of wood, put up a big target & had no
extra holes in it, 18 rounds were with in 6 yards, so im sure they stayed on that far
around here my gravel & saw dust piles are full of lead, be hard to sniff them out

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Good read Jim & thanks! i know ive seen it be fore but i could have seen it a week ago
and it would be like ive never seen it at all

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last summer i bought a bunch of bevel base bullets for my 357s real cheap, they are hard as a rock & left alot of lead in the barrel, that was with 5 gr. of titegroup my favorite plinking load i always have leaded bore with hard lead, so i was going to toss them in the lead pot & redo them h...

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Never have found any old 45s but have found 50-70 inside primed & 45-70 with primers the size of shot gun primers, South East Wyoming the calvary from Fort Laramie passed close by a few miles west of our place, can still see wagon ruts in places where they hauled logs & fire wood close to Wh...

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Ted That load in the 375 Win. will take any thing in North America I took my 375 out today & rang the steel gong bout 30 times, very big difference between a 30-30 with 170 gr. cast & the 375 with 280 gr. cast, 375 really slams the gong yep mine is a 99 savage also, shoots great! gave the Wi...

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Yes i think the new one will cure your problem, had to replace one a few years ago worked like a clock then, i like the mini way better than the AR, just couldnt warm up to them mine works real well on prairie dogs out to 300 yds as well as coyotes, i quit worrying about finding all my brass ollogger

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Great photo!! Yes some times a guy gets a easy one, a big Elk can be alot of work going back to the pickup while Elk hunting, there i spot a cow bout 50 yds. ( thick timber) so i give her a shot & she took off heading towards the pickup, she fell on the 2 track road i was parked by, that was the...

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Never heard of the breed, showed the wife & she did a search on the breed
now know alot more about the Cane Corso, sounds like a pretty cool dog!

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Thank you Doc,!! Been taking 9mg, of iver, 2 X a day for a month, yep colin cancer found out 3 weeks ago, surgery in 2 weeks, they are sure they can get it with 5 in. removed, ive noticed the stool looks alot better with the iver. its a head banger trying to figure this out BrightWork has some good ...

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This will bring Jack around, sold his old 25-35 for 2 thousand bucks No not really, but i could have :lol: OW you said how quite the Maine woods are, i can relate to that The Wisconsin north woods are very quite at 40 below, until the wood peckers start & the hard woods start cracking from the c...

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100 % on what Jim said, yes ive had it happen

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Must of been a grand collection of cool old stuff to fund that Hot Rod!! NICE!

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Not sure but to me it looks like they are to hot for the gun, will they go back in the chamber?
may be punch the primer out if it drags on the primer while locking the gun up, did you measure the case for

for to much stretch?

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Ouch!! guess i keep using 231 & TiteGroup, did unload 50 rounds of the same two powders last night in a 44 mag.

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Scott i have a 32 H&R baby Vaq. that the front sight came lose on,so i ran the sight over the flame of the cook stove to heat it up a bit, then took the solder & solder gun & melted a bit of solder on both sides of the sight just a bit as not to fill the gap full, mine is stainless so it...

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I've cast thousands of Lee bullets from the 200 - 255 & 300 gr. gc, hand guns, carbines & rifles, all the way from mild to wild, used a lot of RL7 with a Rossi 24 in. bbl & the 255 Lee, that load would really bang the steel now im all out of RL7 so switched to LiLGUN for fast loads in a ...

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I cut logs in the northern half of Wisconsin for 16 years all but the hornbeam in your area ive cut, in fact ive never heard of it, the other 7 years i cut Ponderosa in the Black Hills ( SD & Wyo,) been here For 29 years, some times i think i had more brain damage than i thought when that limb h...

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Cool photos! OK ive cut alot of different trees in 23 years of logging, but dont have a clue as to what
grows in Maine,so what all grows on your place?

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Jim , im never gonna get used to loading 9 mm even though i have one, little finger pinchers

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Thats nice when that happens! 60 right now with no wind I'll take that, split wood for nearly 3 hours
said thats enough of that, so i grabed the Mini 14 from the pick up & cut lose on the prairie dogs

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Have a Taurus M 44 that is ported, with hard lead with a gas check or plain base it will lead the bbl. & the ports
thats at about 1100 fps, change to softer lead like wheel weights & the leading goes away
both ways are with the same load, go figure?

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