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I really prefer the look of the short magazines. I don't like the look of poorly fit dovetail fills. How obvious is the fill on the old hangar's dovetail? If not terribly obvious, I'd leave it as is.

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Thanks for the description of the mechanism. I have not handled one and did not kown how much of it reciprocated with the slide.

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Layman's recent book on military rollers says the French WW-1 jobs were later reproofed for Balle-N. That should be about the breech thrust of a .348 WCF -- pretty stout.

That said, I'd never fire one in .308, nor with Balle-N. My .30-40 won't be loaded much above 33,000 psi.

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A few thoughts related to previous comments: w30wcf: the pressure reported by Sharpe is about what Whelen reported back near WW-I. BP pressures can be much higher than is commonly thought. earlmck: I wouldn't be surprised if that conversion formula is using Denton Bramwell's linear fit to SAAMI data...

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I have Pressure Trace II pressure testing gear, but have been too busy to ser it up and do the testing. Your .405 is similar to the .400 Whelen and the .411 Hawk. Z-Hat has tested their .411 using Oehler's strain gauge equipment, and stayed within .30-06 pressures at speeds beyond that of the .400 ...

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.400 Jeff. ballistics in a lever--nice! The Powley computer says .30-06 pressures at an -06 cartridge length, so it's reasonable. Good work.

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- Lever Action Magazine Rifles Derived from the Patents of Andrew Burgess, by S.L.Maxwell - Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Its History & Development from 1865-1981, by H.G.Houze - The Winchester Book, by G.Madis I don't currently have ready access to Brophy's book, but I recall it was pretty...

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Around 1916 Whelen wrote BP .45-70 loads could run 25,000 psi. What his pressure sensor was I don't know, but it was likely some crusher. Modern factory loads are said to be under 20,000.

Bolt thrust is difficult to calculate. A case grabs the chamber walls and lessens the thrust some.

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Thanks for posts. I do have a proper set of screwdrivers and hammers, so I'll try to take a look inside. If all is well cosmetically and it seems to function properly, I'll load up some mild rounds and take it to the range. If the gun leaves me with a grin at that point, I'll send it off somewhere f...

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My First Levergun -- is in the mail, an Uberti Henry. I'll have a 5 day inspection period. Are there any particular trouble points to watch for in the Uberti toggle link rifles? I've seen a few 66's at the store, and I was surprised at how many had malformed ends on the various pivot pins. The one H...

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That Model 64 is one of the nicest looking '94 actioned rifles I've seen.

KWK

This agnostic worries about you religious types, for if it turns out there is a creator, he might punish all who had the temerity to proclaim they knew the unknowable. As for atheism, it's as much a religion as all the others, so a "national" day for them would be a violation of the separa...

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The muzzle blast should make quite an impression on you (and your ear drums).

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I get by with cartridges and guns designed in the 1800s.

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Wow! I haven't seen a photo of a nickel plated '66, and I like it. The silver framed jobs Winchester & Uberti made had so much engraving you can't judge how a plain, silver colored frame would look. Any one else ever wanted an aluminum framed '66? The bronze frames are a bit weighty for the mild...

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I dont know where I got the 2200fps factory data. I just checked a 1932 Ideal handbook and they list MV of the 33WCF as 2060...so I guess I am at fault here! No fault of yours. References such as Cartridges of the World quote 2200 fps, so I'm sure some late factory stuff was (claimed to be) that fa...

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Whelen's 1918 (or so) book says factory .33 WCF was about 2050 fps.

Perhaps most of the factories later kept to that speed? The 2200 fps may have been possible with later powders and the same pressure, but was it used by all factories? Just speculating here.

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6.5x52R which is nothing more than 25-35 Likely close enough, but the European counterpart to SAAMI lists them separately with slight differences in case dimensions. The situation is similar with 5.6x52R and the .22 Sav. I have to wonder if some company in Europe long ago took a caliper to factory ...

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Blech!

I enjoy being land locked.

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...a wave of the flag turns honest men into government suckers. By a fifth tour, this fellow had ample time to quit. He knew for what he fought, and I deem his cause just. Whether his sacrifice will prove effective, I doubt, for it's been a badly run war. Regardless, his letter indicates he was no ...

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... men left the security they enjoyed in their home country to come to his.

A most honorable young man he was.

The turd in the White House can't comprehend what this fellow was saying.

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The Pocket Positive is the Police Positive with a shorter grip frame, to make it easier to conceal. The .32 Police could be the .32 S&W Long, but I'm not sure. Colt called the .32 S&W Long the ".32 New Police" so not to give S&W any free advertising, but the ".32 Police&qu...

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Stan in SC wrote:North American Arms already makes a .32 break top but they are EXPENSIVE.

I knew of the top break .22; it's now listed in their discontinued models. The .32 must have been phased out a while back, then.

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... a new .380 revolver (yep) being released by either Charter or Taurus... Ooo, that's intriguing! Every once in a while I'll send an e-mail to NAA suggesting they scale up their Mini's to .32 ACP or even .380 ACP. As for the question originally posted, the S&W 337 is likely the lightest .38 e...

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What do you mean by "lightweight variant"? Production carbines were about 7 1/4 lb (Uberti quotes a bit higher for theirs). The early guns were rather overbuilt, and in the latter half of the production run Colt offered a "light" carbine. Not only was the barrel contour lighter,...

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I hope Uberti gets the bugs out of this action. It's calling my name, but I resist. If they bring out the lightweight variant of the action, resistance will simply not be possible.

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AJMD429 wrote:Some folks complain about the 'tube-loading' feature, but I like being able to unload a gun quickly without moving rounds through the chamber.

I recall reading old B.T.Henry preferred his way of doing it, too.

KWK

From the trailer: "I need pilots who'll put the bombers ahead of themselves." I've read a few histories of the air war, and this line strikes me as rubbish. It's one thing to laud the efforts of the black pilots; it's another to denigrate the efforts of the whites who preceded them in comb...

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Ackley said and wrote, on several occasions, that his favorite caliber for deer, elk and antelope was the .220 Swift He's not the only hunter of yore who had enough success with .22s on larger game to warrant writing about it. A few of the old African hunters tried the .22 Savage on game up to abou...

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Sissy tasting beers are from Europe?

Well, I guess I'll have to agree, for Anheuser-Busch beer is about as sissy as it gets and A-B is owned by a European company.

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... to the later project where again I put myself in his hands. His rifle has been my only custom gun; however, I think one is always putting oneself into the hands of a custom gun maker. In a way, they are artists, and some of their personality will come through. The rifle I received from Dave was...

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In the e-mail I received, it's not stated if it was his gun or his vehicle.

He was certainly patient with me. I visited his shop over 11 years ago, but it wasn't until this year I had him build me a .30-40 sporter. Many e-mails and phone calls came between. He will be missed.

Karl

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Many of the classics of pre-WW-I on shooting and hunting are available free on Google. I have about 20 of them loaded on to my PC.

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There's a '66 (or was it a '73) made with a solid silver frame, probably some alloy. Keeping the tarnish out of the engraving would be a pill. Uberti has a made a few replicas of that gun. Which brings up something I've wondered about. It'd be interesting to try a '66 in a light aluminum alloy. All ...

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Grizzly Adams wrote:... where does one find a decent longbow?

I've gotten two basic but decent bows from this fellow.

Mine were not hunting bows. Just some 20 lb jobs for fun in the back yard.

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The shot start pressure is a crude approximation for the rather difficult to model problem of bullet engraving. Combine this with the author's admission the burn model is not especially accurate at low pressures, and I'm not surprised a cartridge such as the .45 ACP is modeled poorly. I've never loo...

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... we went from the dark ages to the Mac in the mid-80's. Desktop publishing was forever changed and I believe the Mac platform is responsible for that. Yes, for home computers, the Mac was the first major platform with the graphics routines ready to go for such work. They led MS quite a bit. Over...

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I'm typing this from my new MacBook Air. It's my first Mac. I'll have to say, if I could rewind the clock a few weeks, I'd get the Samsung Windows machine instead. The software delivered on the Mac is rather basic and crude. The underlying OS is Unix, a system I detest. Yeah, the command line can do...

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... how a bullet with longer D band will be more stable! Unless you mean it will be a little shorter! I believe there's a bit more to it than just shorter. A longer section at full diameter means more mass out further from the axis of rotation. The gyroscopic inertia of a bit of bullet mass rises w...

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In the mid 1880's John Browning already had a pump Shotgun the model 93 up and running but Oliver Winchester didn't want a pump gun. He felt their market was leverguns. That author also noted Browning had suggested the pump was the way to go--and in the end he was proven correct. The author also ac...

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A little web searching turned up something I didn't know: The original 45-70-500 gn load was 2.8" long. In retrospect, that was obvious, for you couldn't get the -70- part in the same case with a longer bullet. So, to get the original ballistics in a Marlin, smokeless is required. Hodgdon's dat...

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Why in the world do you need 500 grain bullets? Whelen once wrote the .45-70-500 was one of the finest big game loads available -- when he was writing circa WW-I. He put it ahead of the .30-40-220 and in the same league as the .30-06, .35 WCF, and .405 WCF. Of course, it was then loaded to 1200 fps...

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The local library has a copy of the 2012 Gun Digest. There's an article in it on the 1887 Winchester lever action shotgun. The author wonders aloud if that action scaled down for .44-40 wouldn't have made for a spiffy lever action rifle. Comments? I've no experience with the 1887. It is a clever act...

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I always double up on hearing protection. Foam squishys and muffs... The foam squishys stay in from when I get out of the truck until I'm back in the truck and headed out the gate. That's the way I do it, too. One of my buddies uses just muffs. I remember the sound he made when I lit a .357--he was...

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They may have been noted in these forums already, but I just noticed that Woodleigh is now offering 200 gn FN bullets for the .33 WCF. Their products are not cheap, but they generally get very good reviews. Add the Hawk's and the Hornady FTX, and we now have at least three sources for bullets for th...

KWK · Re: 35-30/30 (35-30) Did I miss any? .22 Savage and .25-36, for starters

Did I miss any?

.22 Savage and .25-36, for starters

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The drugs will be Carboplatin and Gemcitabine

My father in law is on those now, for late stage cancer. It's been rough on him, but it has arrested the spread of cancer in him. I sincerely hope it works for you too.

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I think the deltic is the one. A totally unique engine with a totally unique sound. if it's the one I couldn't remember. Grizz, the basic principles of the Deltic's engine -- the opposed piston -- were during WW-II used in German bombers and in US submarines, and after the war it was used in US loc...

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Zeros ain't bad looking, but The radial engine WW-II fighter was for me the FW-190. The co-founder of MicroSoft has had an original restored to fly, the only one in the world, complete with its original BMW engine. I simply must hear that plane fly one day.

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