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Looks like a good book. Please add my name to the draw.

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This appears to be a Lyman No. 5A, a combination front sight designed for either target work using the hooded sight or hunting using the "Barleycorn" open sight.

(per page 54 of book "Old Gunsights" by Nick Stroeber)

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It has been some time since I had my 95 apart, but as I recall, a slave pin (dummy pin) is needed to reassemble the magazine. You have the right idea.

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Shasta, how are you liking your Uberti '76? It is one of my favorite rifles. I use it for NRA Cowboy Lever Action Silhouette offhand shooting (chickens @ 50 meters, pigs @ 100 meters, turkeys @ 150 meters, rams @ 200 meters). I have it set up with an MVA vernier tang sight and Lee Shaver globe fron...

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Wow! Great pictures, and on a first post too! You'll fit right in here at Leverguns, and welcome.

By any chance are you THE Shrapnel, of MLV fame?

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In 1963, I was in 7th grade and took my hunter safety training from one of the teachers after hours at the school. On the day we were to actually shoot, I took my .22 bolt action rifle and ammunition to school with me on the bus! No case or anything, just carried the rifle openly. It was handed to t...

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I have the Uberti-made 1876 in .45-60, a recent issue Winchester 86 takedown in .45-70, and a newer 1895 in .405. All have enough power for black bear, but if I were to pick just one it would be the .405 simply because it is lighter to carry, and bear hunting in my area usually involves a good deal ...

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(Testing out the rifle rack I built for hat Creek Rifle & Pistol Club) SHASTA :P Gotta ask; did the number of guns available determine the length of the rack, or did you have some limitation on space? :P :lol: Nice lookin' rack! Griff, The rack was made to fit a certain space at the Range. The ...

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(Testing out the rifle rack I built for hat Creek Rifle & Pistol Club)

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I recently traded into an identical rifle and gave it similar treatment. Smoothed the action, Lyman 17A front sight, and Marble's tang sight. It is not shooting too well with cast lead bullets, but a new experiment is in the works.

I would be interested to know how yours shoots for you.

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Wow! It's not often you see three in the same truck! Good job guys!

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I have one of the reproduction Winchesters in .405, and recoil with full power jacketed bullet loads is indeed substantial. A box of 20 rounds is about all I want to shoot in a single session. The rifle is much more pleasant to shoot with reduced cast lead bullet loads. I have even loaded black powd...

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I have a couple silhouette leverguns with the Shaver globe sight, but most of mine have the Lyman 17A as i have not found the level in the Shaver sight to be useful enough to warrant the extra $50 in cost. The Shaver insert card is a very good investment though.

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The July-August 1973 issue of Handloader magazine has an article on the .45-60 written by James Barnard. His load data using a Lyman 457191 cast bullet weighing 300 grains gives 19.0 grains of 2400 as a maximum load. Velocity was given as 1,292 FPS. The newest edition of the Lyman Reloading Manual h...

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This shows up on a Google search:

http://www.archive.org/details/Gunsmoke

You could probably download it to a CD if necessary.

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Sounds like you got yourself a fine rifle there. You didn't say what your primary purpose for it will be, but a tang sight is a great asset for precise shooting at longer distances, especially if the range is known. The Marbles and Lyman sights are each manfactured to fit specific guns, so hole spac...

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I've got a Smith & Wesson Model 61 Escort just like that one! It's not real accurate, but does function reliably. If I recall correctly, they made three variations of it and they could also be had nickel plated.

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I wear wire-frame prescription eyeglasses with polycarbonate safety lenses. My vision insurance does not cover the $50 added expense of the safety lense, but that is a small cost for the benefit I get from having them. For shooting I often add a set of clip-on yellow lenses. These I get by taking my...

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I"m normally a Winchester guy, but recently I traded into a used Marlin Cowboy with 24" barrel in .44 Magnum caliber. I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to shoot well. I've thoroughly cleaned it and slicked up the action and added a Marbles tang sight. The Ballard-rifled bore slugs rig...

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Congratulations Griff, looking forward to the range report!

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A very enjoyable read, Mike. Thanks for taking the time to write it up, and congratulations on that deer!

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This is my fourth and final report on my efforts to get a nice old octagon-barreled Winchester 1895 in .38-72 shooting with reasonable accuracy. Here is a link to the previous report: http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37563 After thinning the Bertram Brass case mouths from .0...

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Gee, Sixgun, I never thought of you as condoning laziness. That shooter hasn't done a lick of work in close to 120 years and you're not going to work it?

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Hold out for a Marble's. You can get them for the same money and they have windage adjustment the Lyman does not.

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Good shooting, and here's wishing you many more successful hunts in the future!

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Nice Winchester!

I'm kinda' going through the same thing, except I brought a Marlin into my Winchester collection!

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I think Tom Jones sang a song about her! ...; She's A Lady Well, she's all you'd ever want She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner But she always knows her place She's got style, she's got grace--she's a winner She's a lady Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady Talkin' about that little lady And t...

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kimwcook wrote:Congrats on your deer. Sounds like he needed taken out of the gene pool beings he didn't take off long before you got your rifle out.

Yep, butt-ugly antlers and way-slower than me...survival of the fittest, and I won? Go figure! Must be something to that gene pool stuff!

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That's a beauty Mike! They usually don't look that fresh by the time they make it up my way. I've never caught one legally :oops: but in my mis-spent youth helped a few into the smoker, smoking being the only way I like river-run salmon from around here. Glad to see you are out-and-about and doing w...

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Hobie, The rear sight is a Lyman 21 repo from Providence Tool Co. It comes with the screws and even a tap to re-thread the front existing screw hole from metric to standard. I installed the sight myself. It required disassembly of the action to drill and tap the rear screw hole, the most difficult p...

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My Browning 1895 rifle in 30-40 Krag is proving quite the deer gun! This is the fourth Blacktail buck I've taken with it and none required a second shot. https://i.imgur.com/x0ZKI2Y.jpg I didn't get a buck last year despite a lot of effort. My knees didn't take the hiking very well either, so this y...

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I've been interested in getting a .44 Magnum lever action for some time. I wanted a 24" octagon barrel and checkered stock and was hoping for a Winchester, but a used Model 94 Marlin Cowboy Limited showed up at a local shop and looked pretty good to me. Asking price was too high at $695, but my...

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I have a copy of "Early Loading Tools and Bullet Molds" by R.H. Chamberlain. This is a wonderful little paperback that thouroughly discusses the many various models of Ideal tools produced beginning in 1884. Yours appears to be a Number Six with adjustable chamber, which Mr. Chamberlain de...

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Here is a bit of history on these tokens taken from an online auction site: Remington Arms trick shooting token 1920's Original brass trick shooting advertising token used by Remington trick shooters such as Billy Hill in the 1930's and 40's. They would flip these up in the air and plug them with th...

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Whipping cancer and buck hunting too! Glad to hear things are looking up, Mike.

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Great shooting!

It feels good when you know you are capable of doing that. Maybe not every time, but the ability is there.

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Don,

When I noticed difficulty chambering a loaded round and extracting a fired round in my model 94 .30-30, I traced the problem to my brass being a bit too long. Trimming to length and re-adjusting my reloading dies cured the problem.

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Pitchy, your craftsmanship, creativity, and productivity is nothing short of astounding! I'm thinking you must not take much time to sleep!

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I see you have an eye for quality.

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A very good read, thanks for posting it. Sounds like ol' Joe would have made a pretty good Texas Ranger!

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Take a look at this one sold by Joe Williams at The Gun Works in Springfield, Oregon. I usually use pre-cut patches, but I do have one of these knives. They look great!

http://www.thegunworks.com/custprodgun. ... 2Option=no

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Yep. One shot will kill a whole flock of ducks, singe off the feathers, flame broil 'em, and drop 'em on the ground ready-to-eat!

That is a really cool picture!

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We have the Redwoods and the Sequoias reasonably close. What I am fascinated by is the OLD pictures They have of Them. Then of course the Redwood that a Car will fit through. https://i.imgur.com/qHFWwGU.jpg This is the living redwood tree Perry refers to shown as my 1955 Chevrolet Nomad passes thro...

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Nath, Judging from your questions you might suspect that my cast lead bullets are possibly running out of lube. I do try to be mindful of adequate bullet lube as I shoot cast lead bullets almost exclusively. For the BP loads I used regular 50/50 beeswax and alox lube on the bullet, but I also added ...

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Kirk, excellent and informative as always. On your Jamison brass, what is the case neck thickness? I think I need to order a hundred or so as they are much less expensive than the Bertram brass I have been using.

I am very much looking forward to hearing how your new bullet performs!

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You are absolutely right, and I really need to get started. But at this point, I'd settle for the Fountain of Middle Age!

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Here is another installment of my on-going work with an 1898 vintage Model 95 Winchester in .38-72. This link will take you to the previous thread: http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37503 I'll start with today's work using the 240 grain Lyman 375248 bullet sized .378". I...

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Kirk, The batch I moulded up last winter measure .379 as-cast, hardness on Saeco tester is 9, or about 17.1 BHN. Weight is 258 grains before gas check is applied, after gas check and sizing weight is 264 gr. My weights sometimes vary depending on alloy used. I don't know the alloy composition as I j...

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Kirk,

I stocked up on those .375 gas checks from Midway when they came on sale several years ago. They cost about $32/thousand now.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/de ... ber=381078

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Well folks, here's another step in my quest to get my 1898 vintage Model 95 Winchester .38-72 to shoot. For those that missed the first report, here is the link to that thread: http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37307 I really appreciate the willingness of members here to offe...

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