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- Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Pete44ru and peter richards.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 811
Re: Happy Birthday Pete44ru and peter richards.
Thanks guys.
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ARE YOU ALONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS 2014
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2335
Re: ARE YOU ALONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS 2014
You are a good man Joe, you are the master at paying it forward. I am sure it will come back to you when your family needs it.
- Sat Aug 30, 2014 5:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2093
Re: 60th Birthday report (Photos)
Congrats old mate, happy birthday. Your posts & photos are always interesting.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BEST FATHER'S DAY EVER!!!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2918
Re: BEST FATHER'S DAY EVER!!!
Congratulations mate, there's nothing else like it. I got my first boy a Winchester 9422 when he was a baby & cut down the stock off an old parts gun, but he grew big enough last month to put the original butt stock back on. He will use that rifle in the cowboy action national titles with me lat...
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with a Marlin 1888
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1006
Help with a Marlin 1888
I picked up a Marlin 1888 in 32-20 from Sureshot on my last trip to your shores. I am heading down to pick up it & 15 other firearms from customs next week as I just got all the paperwork done. Fortunately my government is insisting on saving me from my self & ensuring that these over 100 ye...
- Fri May 23, 2014 8:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3479
Re: Prayer Request - close to a miracle....
Great news mate! Stay positive, remember, good things happen to good people.
- Fri May 23, 2014 8:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WOOHOO! Doc was good!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2850
Re: WOOHOO! Doc was good!
Great news mate! Without your health you have nothing, & chicks dig scars.
- Thu May 15, 2014 6:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 3 days in south Louisiana
- Replies: 10
- Views: 586
Re: 3 days in south Louisiana
CRS
it looks like you are as good with a rod as you are with a 405 Winchester. I had never heard if a Bull Red before, is that where Red Bull comes from.
it looks like you are as good with a rod as you are with a 405 Winchester. I had never heard if a Bull Red before, is that where Red Bull comes from.
- Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aussie visitors update
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2212
Re: Aussie visitors update
Just boarded our last plane in LA. We had a great time, thanks again to all you folks that made us feel so welcome. When I get home I will post some pictures. Our hunt in Hondo was a success , one of the guys got a Bison which he is getting full body mounted, I got a Blackbuck Antelope & a 4 hor...
- Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aussie visitors update
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2212
Aussie visitors update
Sorry I have not been able to update sooner, we have been on the go since we got here. We have had a great time & it has been great to meet a few of you. Sorry sixgun, we were too late getting in to see you, it was great talking to you. A big thanks to CRS for putting us up & organizing the ...
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tulsa Wannamacher Gun show April 5-6
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1016
Re: Tulsa Wannamacher Gun show April 5-6
The wife and I plan to spend the weekend in Tulsa and hit the guns show once or twice (shhh...she thinks we're having a 'weekend' :D ....I also told her our African safari was a vacation :D ) Wouldn't mind shaking hands with other Levergunners there. Or even eating supper Sat night and having some ...
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Aussies Have Landed - pics from home
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2251
Re: The Aussies Have Landed - pics from home
Nice pics. If I did not know better, it looks like Pennsylvania. If you happen to get to Targetmaster, just ask one of the guys to give me a call and I'll get there in 10 minutes. Rent yourself the machine gun of your of choice and I'll see you there!----Jack 6, We'll call you Thursday afternoon, l...
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Aussies Have Landed - pics from home
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2251
The Aussies Have Landed - pics from home
We are in LA waiting for our flight to New York. Thank you to all the forum members who have been so generous making times to meet with us. It will be great to see you guys, while waiting for the flight I thought I would share some photos of my family from our Chital deer camp last Christmas.
Pete
Pete
- Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ammo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1727
Re: ammo
That's incredible! I can drive 4 miles down the road and fill up the back of a pick up with all the ammo I want, or I can just take a walk down the basement and do the same thing. It's probably going to take two or more years before the ammo supply makes it's way out west. We easterners are too bus...
- Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
Re: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
mod71 alaskamod71alaska wrote:Great trip planned...welcome to the USA!
It is going to be great. PM sent.
Pete
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
Re: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
Peter, Let me know your plans for Dallas and I may be able to see your guys or even have you out to the farm for a game dinner. You know, the usual, venison, bison, quail and pheasants. If Joe can come too, we can eat some of his elk back straps I am keeping for him. :D Charles, Sounds great old ma...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
Re: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
Pete. I called and had your M-16's, (223 and 9mm) M-2's, and supressed MP-9's set to the side with 30 cases of ammo....for your shooting pleasure. :D ----------6 Just let me know a day or two before and I'll see you boys there. Thanks mate, I can't wait to catch up with you, I have always wanted to...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Look At These M-1 Ruger 96's from OZ
- Replies: 3
- Views: 460
Re: Look At These M-1 Ruger 96's from OZ
While I share your disgust in the mutilation of 2 fine leverguns, all I can say in their owners defence is this is what happens when they ban semi automatics. This guy was obviously suffering from M1 carbine withdrawals. Keep up the fight boys, don't follow our path. Over here firearms ownership is ...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
Aussie Invasion - Gun Trip USA 2014
We are doing it again, this time next week I will be again heading to your fine shores to seek out & plunder your Levergun collections. A smaller group this time with 4 of us Aussie gun enthusiasts hoping to catch up with as many of you as we can. We start in New York on the first of April, at t...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My holy grail of leverguns
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4199
My holy grail of leverguns
I Recently picked what would have to be the rarest levergun in my collection so far, one of only 20 made. The Naughton Fieldman, .22 lever action made in Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia in the 1960's. I bought it of one of the apprentices who helped make it, this one is a prototype made from their s...
- Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Please - another round of prayer needed 2/13
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3461
Re: Please - another round of prayer needed 2/13
Thinking of you mate.
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mod 94 Undercarriage Problem - "Build Up" of Cartridge Stop
- Replies: 4
- Views: 509
Re: Mod 94 Undercarriage Problem - "Build Up" of Cartridge S
I recently had this problem with my .356 Big Bore, I had it built up with tig weld, then just kept filling it down as Pete said, just keep going until it stops scratching or denting the case. You will become very good at pulling it down & putting it back together, I must have had 12 or 15 goes a...
- Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Farm Boss
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3108
Re: New Farm Boss
I run 5 Stihl saws on my farm, from a little baby one for mortising thru to a big 660 for falling, they a all reliable hardworking machines. I usually sell about 100 loads of firewood each winter to help fund my Levergun Collecting habit, so they get plenty of work.
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Please - pray for us
- Replies: 92
- Views: 16889
Re: Please - pray for us specifically for this Friday
Joe,
Thinking of you my friend, be positive, you are a good man & good things will come your way.
Thinking of you my friend, be positive, you are a good man & good things will come your way.
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 8:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1794
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Thanks for your company thru 2013, look forward to meeting some more of you next April.
- Sun Dec 15, 2013 4:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2464
Re: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
Peter, great trip and itinerary for your group. The Tulsa Gun Show looks like my best opportunity of catching up with you folks. Perhaps I can get my Aussie (Melbourne) son-in-law to drive up from Austin, TX to translate for us. :wink: Looking forward to it. - John Goatguy It would be great to catc...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2464
Re: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
Charles,crs wrote:Peter,
I hope to see you again in Hondo.
I look forward to catching up with you as well.
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2464
Re: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
While you are in Waco, TX at the Texas Ranger Museum, you might as well go a few blocks over and see the Dr. Pepper museum. While there you can see how the oldest carbonated beverage still in production in America got its start. Piller I don't know if we will get time to get to Waco, but we will be...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2464
Re: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
Streetstar, that would be great, will PM you closer to the trip.Streetstar wrote:Will try to catch up with you folks at the JM Davis museum ----
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2464
Attention all Aussies, & Americans Too
I have put together a second trip to the USA - Gun Trip USA 2014, from the 1st to the 12th April, 2014. We will start in New York at the Intrepid Museum, then up the New Haven, Connecticut, to catch up with Winchester Historian, Author & Engraver Pauline Muerrle at the old Winchester Factory sit...
- Sun Dec 08, 2013 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cool Alpine - Weather post
- Replies: 3
- Views: 390
Re: Cool Alpine - Weather post
Charles,
You'll have to head down under old mate & join us. We are at the start of a long hot summer, the only ice here is in our drinks.
You'll have to head down under old mate & join us. We are at the start of a long hot summer, the only ice here is in our drinks.
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Big trouble at home - please pray hard for us
- Replies: 124
- Views: 12707
Re: Big trouble at home - please pray hard for us
Hope all is well old mate, your friends here are thinking of you.
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Took the boys on a hunting adventure
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1923
Re: Took the boys on a hunting adventure
You are a lucky man Joe, lucky that Brandon & Justin let you have a shot. Great report as always.
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: case lube
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1868
Re: case lube
I just use cable pulling lube, like electricians use. Looks the same as the Lee stuff, but heaps cheaper.
- Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Found my 1970 Mach 1 Mustang
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1647
Re: Found my 1970 Mach 1 Mustang
Great to see old american fords down under, I am rebuilding a 1954 F100 at the moment, it's a lot of work, but looks like most of the hard work is already done on the 'stang.
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 6:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Pete44ru & peter richards.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 319
Re: Happy Birthday Pete44ru & peter richards.
Thanks mate, I have had a great day, it is just finishing for me here down under while you are all just getting up. It is hard to believe that a year ago today I was having a steak & bourbon with my travelling companions at Buffalo Bills Irma Hotel in Cody Wyoming celebrating my 40th birthday &a...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Deer with 356 Winchester...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1036
Re: Deer with 356 Winchester...
You can't beat a Big Bore, the .356 Winchester is a very underrated round. I just got mine back on the road, it had a worn cartridge stop causing a under carrier jam, and it sat in pieces on my bench for the last 18 months. I will take it with me on our family Deer camp over Christmas and try it out...
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: C Sharps Hiwall
- Replies: 10
- Views: 958
Re: C Sharps Hiwall
We toured the factory last year, they were nice folk that did some fine work.
- Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First hunt with .358-30/30 w/ deer
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1520
Re: First hunt with .358-30/30 w/ deer
Nice work Joe, I've been following your 35 cal Henry concept, good to see it in action. I really like my '94 Big Bore in .356 & BLR in .358, I picked up a Marlin in 35 Remington over there last year but have not been able to try it out yet as I have not been able to get any brass here in Austral...
- Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pictures from the Leverguns Hunt 2013 ...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2364
Re: Pictures from the Leverguns Hunt 2013 ...
86er, can you fill me in on the scene here, I am not used to professional hunting. Up here, if its deer season, you shoot a deer. Turkey season, and so on. Down where you are, is that a hunting preserve or something? Or is this a wild area that has all these different animals? If its a preserve, do...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Firearms made it home from Gun Trip USA 2012
- Replies: 6
- Views: 489
Firearms made it home from Gun Trip USA 2012
We finally got the last of our guns home from our trip to your shores last year. I was mostly looking forward to seeing my Winchester 1895's in 405 & 35 WCF again, & I received my raffle prize from the WACA Reno Show, a Model 70 in 30-06. It looks great but seems to have a problem, there is ...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Has Or Is Your Dream Hunting Vehicle?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 8859
Re: What Has Or Is Your Dream Hunting Vehicle?
My 3 top Hunting Rigs, '02 F250, hope you like my number plates, PR-3030; 2011 Polaris X2 550, second one on the trailer; & my 12 y/o Quarter Horse named Winchester.
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prepping for August Leverguns Safari
- Replies: 7
- Views: 843
Re: Prepping for August Leverguns Safari
Looks like you guys are ready to go Charles. Great to see you taking time with your grandson, make sure you leave a few animals me to hunt next April. I just got my 405 back a couple of weeks ago, I am going to try it out tomorrow on some local Axis Deer.
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Scoping one of the earliest angle eject model 94s
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3550
Re: Scoping one of the earliest angle eject model 94s
I had the same problem with my .356 BB AE, I tried everywhere to get the correct mounts, but ended up getting it drilled & tapped for the latter model mounts. That fixed it.
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: Lets see those military long guns
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6599
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 1886 Makes Meat
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1823
Re: Winchester 1886 Makes Meat
Great work Pop, nothing beats an old Winchester.
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday 86er
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1392
Re: Happy Birthday 86er
Joe,
Happy birthday from your mates in Australia, today I finally picked up the 1876 in 45-75 & the 1895 in 405 that you held for my Bison hunt last year. I was just looking at our pics from Texas when I logged on here to see it is your birthday, so all the best mate.
Pete
Happy birthday from your mates in Australia, today I finally picked up the 1876 in 45-75 & the 1895 in 405 that you held for my Bison hunt last year. I was just looking at our pics from Texas when I logged on here to see it is your birthday, so all the best mate.
Pete
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Leverguns Summer 2013 Hunt and Get-together
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2680
Re: Leverguns Summer 2013 Hunt and Get-together
Joe will show you a good time in Hondo, he is a great guide & good company as well. I wish I could get there for this, we had such I good time in Hondo last year. It is just a bit far to go from Australia for the weekend. Can't wait to get back there next year, we are counting the days.
- Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: RIP George Jones
- Replies: 8
- Views: 750
Re: RIP George Jones
He will be sorely missed.
- Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Here are a few items I picked up lately.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 710
Re: Here are a few items I picked up lately.
RR7, you should open a museum, thanks for sharing.