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LeverGunner wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 1:05 am I've shot a few clays with them though, and I do like them quite a bit.

My older son's only 410 is an HRA lever. He sometimes shoots skeet matches with it, to the amusement of the 12 ga shooters. He's never in last place when using it.

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We also have the NECG aperture sight (which constantly works itself loose). The crown isn't uniform and that so far is our best guess as to what's wrong. It's already been to the factory twice under warranty. I'm ready to trade it away. My son's Super Redhawk was also a piece of junk. I'm very hesit...

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ANDYLARSSON wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:40 pm Something we have been field testing: Marlin 10mm 1894 Trapper.

I agree it's a good cartridge for a compact levergun. Have you two done any accuracy testing with the rifle? The last Ruger carbine (77/357) I tried was miserable, pie plate diameter groups at 50 yd.

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Now that's tempting. It will easily match the 38-40 but have a slightly lower muzzle report.

It will headspace on the mouth, and I've never loaded for a semi-auto, so I don't know how finicky crimping would be.

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Oh, that's nice.

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Sorry, I've been out of town. For 2400, reporting QL's numbers as: charge, fps from 20", and psi: 17 1529 21,700 18 1606 24,800 19 1682 28,400 20 1756 32,300 Powder lot variations alone prevent QL from accurately converting charge weight into fps and psi. I generally use it to estimate psi from...

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It's good to hear from you. Belated happy birthday!

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Nice Time Machine!

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Have no fear. It says this is a temporary ban!

It hasn't dawned on them that every car is a rather deadly weapon.

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Of all the old Winchesters I've handled at auction houses, the one I most enjoyed was an 1866 carbine with a crescent butt. These were common early on, but I'd want the later centerfire conversion so I could load for it.

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Hurrahs to the tech team!

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Indeed.

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A unique farewell. You have my respect. Best wishes.

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... 32-40 loaded with duplex black ... 2F in the bottom and something called Curtis & Harvey up top. Curtis & Harvey from the UK was considered the best BP of the day. I think it was Seyfried who wrote the Swiss BP of today isn't far behind it. For those interested in A.W. Peterson, there's...

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Why is diesel more expensive than gasoline when it is supposedly processed to a lesser degree than gas? Supply and demand. Diesel contains more energy per gallon, and the engines extract a greater percentage of that as useful work. One can pay more per gallon and still come out ahead. Also, it's th...

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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 said just like deer & antelope they all died & never lost an animal. Ray had one big game gun & that was his 25-35, was surley his all arounder! Another Ray, Atkins...

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Well written; thank you. I'd never heard of the region. Google's satellite view shows it today mostly covered in farms, to an extent similar to parts of Illinois around me, but without everything laid out on a compass grid. I noticed only one town of any size in the area. From the google van, it loo...

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I, uh, think I'll keep my cue.

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I'm on the road and late to the party, but here's a belated happy birthday.

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My son's R51 is small and light yet is about the most accurate 9 I've ever shot.

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Ouch.

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Inspirational words indeed...

Hear-hear!

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That's easy: The local library has a copy.

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Archive.org has copies of the old LASC.us site. The archive often doesn't capture images, though.

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He survived 5 years of flying military aircraft in war and went on to live to 105: Remarkable luck! I didn't know any of those pilots were still alive. I drink only once a week, and I'll lift a toast with my friends this Friday.

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My oldest son got whacked very hard with the flu this year. My wife and I have been keeping our heads down, and nothing has hit us as yet. I think I heard the annual flu shot wasn't effective; they guessed the wrong strains to include.

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JimT wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:27 am... shooting 300 + rounds through the 454 the previous day.

Even as a young guy I never had a desire to try that! Today, a 38 is Just Fine.

Thanks for the reminiscences.

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John (Linebaugh) lives in Wyoming and I’m in Idaho, and there is nothing that walks among us we can’t handle with a 260-gr. hardcast bullet at 900 to 1,000 fps. He and Linebaugh agreed on this, and it's a touchstone for me as to adequate cartridges. My notes have numerous quotes from his works. I'm...

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I pull up the original Greek, and I see one word where Amplified uses three, two of which aren't related. I must believe that translation might be a stretch. The word in question is "character," from which the English word is descended. If "expand" is part of that meaning, I thin...

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Unfortunately for your argument, other translations are no where near "expands." NIV uses "sustaining."

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I am working on setting up a 460 Weatherby to push 300 grain bullets over 3500 fps.

It hurts just thinking about touching that one off.

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... drop an elk... I have taken several with a 40 S&W. Surprisingly effective. That sounds interesting. What bullet weight and type, what range, a single shot required? I've read of 10 Auto used with good effect on large game, but the 40 isn't as common. Makes me think my 38-40 rifle might be m...

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Why, thank you! I enjoyed reading Joy in the Wilderness and have now loaded Old School Gunology.

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I went over to Rossi's site and see they still offer a 92 style carbine in 454. It seems to be the only model with both a side loading gate and a magazine tube loading port: Why the latter?

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I could never match that with a revolver.

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3 F here in central Illinois. It's forecast to return to seasonal Wednesday. Fortunately my bed warmer is flying home today from visiting her mom.

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Apollo 1

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hfcable wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 7:24 pm ... but it is very light weight [ under 5 pounds ] and well balanced.... and just darn cute !!

Indeed.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:27 am This is what got me to shooting lighter loads in my .45 Colt.

I've referred to that same passage over the years. I'd copied it into my notes. I'm looking for a 45 Colt levergun and plan to load it subsonic, with Linebaugh's recommendation in mind. It should be a pleasant little shooter.

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Subsonic 22 LR in my HRA are quite enjoyable. Out on the grass away from the firing line, I touched off a few without earplugs: no worries. I've since been looking to get a 45 Colt lever and doing the same 1000 fps or so with it.

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Well, I didn't know about those. We passed through Grafton on US-50 once heading to Winchester (and Taylor's, of course), but it was night and so it would have had to wait until next time regardless.

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Venturino's Shooting Lever Guns of the Old West has 50-110-300 data. With an NEI cast bullet in a 2.75" cartridge (2.40" case), he used 40 gn 5744 for 1605 fps and 105 gn FFg for 1726 fps. Both speeds best the 1536 fps he gave for the factory rating. All speeds are for a 26" barrel.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 4:33 am ... Unique... was discontinued and all of the sudden it was available?

I don't believe it was discontinued, rather civilian production was halted due to shortages created by the wars in Ukraine and Israel.

I wonder if Midway found a few cases from the back of some warehouse.

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My son is pleased with his US made HRA in 410. He briefly owned a Turkish made double that did not please him at all.

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Well, I was planning to give you a Holland & Holland double rifle, but seeing you prefer the magazine rifles, I guess that's off.

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I did not like it so I sold it and bought a Colts, which was a good gun, but one day I was doing some fast work on a bunch of deer and in my haste I did not work the lever just as I should and it jammed Was that a Burgess, or might he be referring to the slide of a Lightning? I've read the Lightnin...

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Thank you. Sadly, a bit of arthritis has set in this past year, so I can say I'm officially "old." At least it isn't affecting the hand which works the lever on the rifles.

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Looking in my notes this morning for something else, I came across those for the Uberti '73 in 44 Mag. A 2015 forum post said that at introduction, Uberti talked about using different steels in the 44 Magnum. I noticed, however, that the parts list on the factory site gives the same part numbers for...

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LeverGunner wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 5:34 pm... what is the "Add Foe" button for?

I've never used the feature, but I recall reading on some other forum it will withhold all of said foe's posts from your display. You wouldn't see what he has been writing, and so you wouldn't be irritated by him.

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Bronco wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:12 pmVery interesting, I saved the formula.

Indeed. Me, too. Thanks.

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