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- Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ALERT - - - Black Friday Scam…😳
- Replies: 6
- Views: 275
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 9:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Music to cry to. It's okay.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 808
Re: Music to cry to. It's okay.
Sounds good. Never met my Great Grandfather who fought in the War between the States. That music was probably similar to what he heard in his time. My Grandmother who passed while I was in my late teens was nearly deaf, and I don't know much about her musical tastes. She had musical talent accordin...
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is a takedown less strong than a non takedown?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 381
Re: Is a takedown less strong than a non takedown?
. I would guess that anything that might be in that fine line between blowing up a takedown versus a non-takedown rifle, would be FAR in excess of anything I'd dare fire in it. As far as durability over-time, like 'wearing loose', from what I've gathered the good ones are meant to be able to tighten...
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 9:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unique and 2400 in stock
- Replies: 5
- Views: 275
Re: Unique and 2400 in stock
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That's cool - I love both of those powders...!
That's cool - I love both of those powders...!
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 7:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: On these 'repurposed' drugs used for cancer...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9994
Re: On these 'repurposed' drugs used for cancer...
. This is one of the little blurbs I give patience to try to explain why repurpose drugs can be so useful, and maybe why those without a background in pharmacology (or more specifically, pharmacognosy) seem to think that claims of efficacy for repurpose drugs amount to some kind of snake oil salesma...
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Exceedingly O.T.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 546
Re: Exceedingly O.T.
. My former girlfriend Marilyn McCoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmS29CXNZ8&list=RDjqmS29CXNZ8&start_radio=1 THIS takes me back to the heydey of 60's and 70's music - so many families transitioning through the Boomer generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7HgO9QhAc&list=RDUx7H...
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Saving the Thanksgiving Turkey....or not...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 175
Saving the Thanksgiving Turkey....or not...
. I had hoped that since Trump is not running again, and since he loves to troll the Left, that he'd be the first President NOT to 'pardon' the Thanksgiving Turkey. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/watch-live-president-trump-save-gobble-waddle-thanksgiving/ In fact, I'd have loved it if he h...
- Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:15 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: He screamed for help....but lived in Italy....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 162
He screamed for help....but lived in Italy....
. Hard to find a more clear-cut example of just why no citizen should EVER allow government to decide who gets to carry a concealed weapon. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/italy-shaken-migrant-thugs-smash-car-force-man/ The situation likely wouldn't even happen in a place where the attacker...
- Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Warming Up a COLD Rifle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 346
Re: Warming Up a COLD Rifle
. If the rifle has a scope, I cover the lenses to prevent condensation there, then I put the rifle in our furnace-room (we heat with wood and that room stays cozy-warm - probably 100 degrees or so at the level the rifle is, but 140 at the ceiling). The heat and dryness in there brings the temperatur...
- Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: NRA magazines
- Replies: 11
- Views: 482
Re: NRA magazines
. If you want the NRA to do well, they have to balance spending money on lobbying, range-building, education, hobbyists, and 'marketing', and the magazine is probably under 'hobbyists' mostly, although I think plays a role in education as well as marketing - I switched my membership address to my 'p...
- Mon Nov 24, 2025 8:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Hadn't seen this much on 'Tower 7' before...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 202
Hadn't seen this much on 'Tower 7' before...
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Some of the stuff they present does indeed make me think that building was dropped intentionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vf-A_ai7K4
Some of the stuff they present does indeed make me think that building was dropped intentionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vf-A_ai7K4
- Sun Nov 23, 2025 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If one of you likes to INVENT things, namely triggers…
- Replies: 0
- Views: 178
If one of you likes to INVENT things, namely triggers…
. Watching some stuff on striker-fired handguns, even though I prefer exposed-hammer ones. They all seem to have something similar to the Glock or even Savage rifle trigger, and that there is a central blade that basically doesn’t do any mechanical function per se, that serves as a ‘first’ part of t...
- Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: sight question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 532
Re: sight question
. I definitely prefer aperture sites, like the Skinner, on pretty much all long guns, and actually on hand guns as well …! These two threads cover, bunch of that and have some pictures. Long gun aperture options: https://levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=390174#p390174 Handgun aperture sights: ...
- Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Something that made me wonder
- Replies: 13
- Views: 565
Re: Something that made me wonder
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I can see why people don’t wanna open that Pandora’s box, although usually after a couple of generations have passed people don’t care so much. Unfortunately, if you wait that long, you don’t get to meet the people you’re related to.
I can see why people don’t wanna open that Pandora’s box, although usually after a couple of generations have passed people don’t care so much. Unfortunately, if you wait that long, you don’t get to meet the people you’re related to.
- Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Working on a project with Fermin Garza.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1085
Re: Working on a project with Fermin Garza.
. That’s pretty cool. It seems like a service a fairly skilled gunsmith should be able to offer, and really makes life easier for those of us who are willing to sacrifice subsequent adjustment in exchange for a very rugged sight set up, but what excellent visibility instead of a plain black post upf...
- Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hold/position sensitivity?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 364
Re: Hold/position sensitivity?
. I’ve seen experienced shooters post comments that the position of the rifle BEFORE they shoot, as in which way the powder tends to be positioned in the cartridge, may make a difference. Obviously, that would be only a factor for loads with empty space between powder and bullet, and from what I rec...
- Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Impressive bullet-stopper…!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 172
Impressive bullet-stopper…!
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Kevlar is the King, but for a $30 home-made plate, this is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxRJPVhuxh8
Original post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jiIQOgwtI
Both are good.
Kevlar is the King, but for a $30 home-made plate, this is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxRJPVhuxh8
Original post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jiIQOgwtI
Both are good.
- Sat Nov 22, 2025 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Steer Panels can rip skin off…!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 241
Steer Panels can rip skin off…!
. I have an alleged week off, and I always say ‘alleged’, because no matter how much I try to over work the week before and set aside catch-up time for the week after, there’s always stuff that comes up. It’s just the nature of the job. But I’m also blessed with a herd of patience to care for that. ...
- Fri Nov 21, 2025 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shots (injections)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2889
Re: Shots (injections)
My son in law did 25 years in the Navy and was 45 when he retired. He got a job with a company during covid, and was told he had to get the shot before being hired. So he went and got it and reported to work. Within 2 weeks he became violently ill and went to emergency with all sorts of intestinal ...
- Fri Nov 21, 2025 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The last penny was minted in Philadelphia today
- Replies: 15
- Views: 667
Re: The last penny was minted in Philadelphia today
I believe a simpler and more cost-effective solution would be to eliminate all paper currency and redesignate the cent as a dollar. We would then have $1 through $100 coins which are fast becoming pocket change anyway. Interesting idea. Would sure be interesting in how to 'transition' though. Those...
- Fri Nov 21, 2025 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The last penny was minted in Philadelphia today
- Replies: 15
- Views: 667
- Fri Nov 21, 2025 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I was wondering how many of you have explored the Leverguns Site?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 746
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: An amazing young woman…!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 295
An amazing young woman…!
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19 years old and saved 48,000 lives…???
https://youtu.be/_LDE9z9ZQiE
She rewrote British Naval Strategy.
Sad it took so long for the bureaucracy to listen to her.
19 years old and saved 48,000 lives…???
https://youtu.be/_LDE9z9ZQiE
She rewrote British Naval Strategy.
Sad it took so long for the bureaucracy to listen to her.
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shots (injections)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2889
Re: Shots (injections)
Have had 3 major strokes, 78 TIAs, and 1 Gran Mal seizure from the Covid shot. Anthony the Fraud Fauci owes me more than he can pay. I would extend that to any bureaucrat, Hospital, administrator, business owner, college, Dean, or other minion, who demanded employees or students get vaccinated. The...
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:00 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Dems will call this 'revenge politics'... but it isn't...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 154
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 10:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Well, ANOTHER thing I want but don’t need…
- Replies: 0
- Views: 196
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Forum Behaving Better...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 348
Forum Behaving Better...
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The 'remembering me logged in' thing (whatever that's called) is now working (...for now...).

The 'remembering me logged in' thing (whatever that's called) is now working (...for now...).
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Dems will call this 'revenge politics'... but it isn't...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 154
Dems will call this 'revenge politics'... but it isn't...
. It isn't "revenge" when the Democrats are actually commiting crimes - are we just supposed to ignore their crimes since a year ago they were accusing 'us' of cimes (which were pretty much fake and bogus)...? Bondi needs to charge ALL these individuals with TREASON - if they aren't guilty...
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 8:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Took our old levergun to the Range today
- Replies: 11
- Views: 508
Re: Took our old levergun to the Range today
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This makes me feel OLD....
My 'new' 1894 in 44 Mag was a 1974 or so version...
This makes me feel OLD....
My 'new' 1894 in 44 Mag was a 1974 or so version...
- Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:47 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Education then and now...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 210
Re: Education then and now...
. The other thing is - the people who DO listen to such discussions are almost all male, but females are an increasingly influential political faction, and overall seem to prefer to organize government based on feelings and 'equity' instead of facts and 'equality'. And pretty much NO 'liberal' males...
- Wed Nov 19, 2025 7:14 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Education then and now...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 210
Education then and now...
. As education gets technologically more sophisticated, it gets intellectually less so. When I see the textbooks of my parents' generation (people born in the second decade of the 20th century), what they were expected to read and calculate an elementary school would be high school level today, plus...
- Wed Nov 19, 2025 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Continuing the tradition
- Replies: 9
- Views: 476
Re: Continuing the tradition
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That is great - we need way more young'uns introduced to the real-world instead of the fake city-world.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use a bunch more 'hunter orange' though - just in case some less-well-supervised person out there mistakes him for a game animal. It happens, sadly.
That is great - we need way more young'uns introduced to the real-world instead of the fake city-world.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use a bunch more 'hunter orange' though - just in case some less-well-supervised person out there mistakes him for a game animal. It happens, sadly.
- Wed Nov 19, 2025 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Remember the Remington ‘Accelerator’ rounds…?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 670
Re: Remember the Remington ‘Accelerator’ rounds…?
. It is interesting as the 'confirmation' (if we are to believe anything these days) that there was 'no exit wound' (and then maybe no other 'entrance' wound either) comes in from various hopefully-credible sources, as to Kirk's public murder - the idea that the shooter may have been supplied with s...
- Tue Nov 18, 2025 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Remember the Remington ‘Accelerator’ rounds…?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 670
Re: Remember the Remington ‘Accelerator’ rounds…?
. Speaking of sabots, someday I want to try developing a 50 cal saboted load for my BHA 500 S&W; I see sabots for 30, 35, 40, 44, and 45 caliber pistol bullets. Like noted above with muzzleloaders, it might be pretty accurate. Part of the reason such loads may be more accurate than using a 223 b...
- Tue Nov 18, 2025 6:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whats New with YOU ???
- Replies: 21
- Views: 764
Re: Whats New with YOU ???
. Speaking of 'sights' - my main 'gun' project is still getting more of the double-aperture pistol sights set up so I have the sight I prefer on a gun I prefer. Not an easy thing when the dovetails are all different... :| http://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=1014043&sid=046bd3a82053...
- Tue Nov 18, 2025 6:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: IT APPEARS WE ARE BACK AND RUNNING!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 525
Re: IT APPEARS WE ARE BACK AND RUNNING!
. I was a founding member of Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws, and we ran into the same problem in the late 1990's. Another site called KeepAndBearArms, run by a guy named Angel Shamaya, consolidated several 'niche' groups like ours under their banner, as an attempt (which succeeded) to have a source f...
- Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The new Glocks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 281
The new Glocks
. Looks like a new hurdle for the gang-bangers with 3D-printers… :roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odVdV3JbcAA I don’t know exactly how the ‘switches’ worked, but if they just made the magazine empty with every trigger pull, it won’t take long for the gang bangers to figure out another way. I’m...
- Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The last penny was minted in Philadelphia today
- Replies: 15
- Views: 667
Re: The last penny was minted in Philadelphia today
. If you have a few pennies and some sandpaper or a concrete block or rock to 'sand' them with, you can at least use them to make a battery in an emergency. It won't have much power, but will light an LED for a couple days. Just sand one side of each to get the copper off, put some damp felt or news...
- Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 'Gun Collection Envy' - try not to fall into that trap...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 810
Re: 'Gun Collection Envy' - try not to fall into that trap...
I was a much better shot when I had 1 or 2 big bore handguns, 1 rimfire handgun, 1 rifle and 1 shotgun. "Beware of the man with but one gun..." I'd say that might be just as true if he has 'several'... :D I certainly don't NEED any more firearms, and don't need many of the ones I have, bu...
- Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Decent kitchen (‘steak’) knives…?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 408
Re: Decent kitchen (‘steak’) knives…?
When I look at the prices for a set of 6 steak knives (ranging from $80-$100 per knife), I get it - they are doubtless better than the ones where you get eight knives for $80 (or less), but it almost tempts me to get some high-quality steel and try to make my own. I made a great straight knife (we c...
- Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: As always, with today's Democrats - the Ends justify the Means...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 186
As always, with today's Democrats - the Ends justify the Means...
. https://joehoft.com/you-cant-make-this-up-comeys-attorneys-reportedly-commit-fraud-when-presenting-evidence-in-his-perjury-trial/ It's just FINE to lie, cheat, censor, steal, assault, and of course - even murder - as long as you are so morally superior and so more intelligent, that you must force ...
- Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Decent kitchen (‘steak’) knives…?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 408
Decent kitchen (‘steak’) knives…?
. Tired of the crappy flimsy dull knives we’ve been using, and noticed out John Primble Hickory knives we’ve got 45 years ago as a wedding gift are still sturdy and sharp. But we don’t have any of the small steak knives; only the larger butchering ones. I believe we had a complete set originally, bu...
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 10:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: TONIGHT (11-11-25) go out and look… Aurora borealis…
- Replies: 0
- Views: 155
TONIGHT (11-11-25) go out and look… Aurora borealis…
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At least here in Indiana…!
At least here in Indiana…!
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shots (injections)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2889
Re: Shots (injections)
I was told jab or job, so I left. Not so much worried about the jabs contents, but I dont support Nazi edicts. Not as easy for some to leave their jobs, I get that, I have no dependants. Yeah I would actually have considered getting it (the mRNA theory seemed kind of a good idea at first), but once...
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hope our forum survives
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1150
Re: Hope our forum survives
. "...Without some young blood we're on slow downward trajectory here..." True of the firearms hobby in general, and true of FREEDOM in general. The solutions involve: >>> Get them back to church (take them with you, and do something more 'fun' afterwards - even something THEY like...) >>>...
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Easy to fool or scare people but hard to un-fool or un-scare them
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5657
Re: Easy to fool or scare people but hard to un-fool or un-scare them
. "... Even though I love and respect my physician, I am better-read and informed of my particular health concerns than she is ..." SO TRUE - physicians are usually fairly intelligent, and certainly have the endurance to survive the rigors of training. HOWEVER, many non-physicians are just...
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 'Gun Collection Envy' - try not to fall into that trap...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 810
'Gun Collection Envy' - try not to fall into that trap...
. So there's this guy, juat about my same age, who has a podcast, and a gun collection, and he has episodes on various types of guns, cartridges, and so-on... The other day I realized his collection of just double-rifles alone, would exceed not only my own entire gun collection's value by ten-fold, ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Remember the Remington ‘Accelerator’ rounds…?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 670
Remember the Remington ‘Accelerator’ rounds…?
. Gotta wonder if that’s what Charlie Kirk was shot with, although I’m not convinced that the accused was the actual shooter. A young fool like that probably wouldn’t even know about that cartridge that was produced back in the 70s and 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEJuO0ZGEc However, someon...
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 6:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New bullet source
- Replies: 5
- Views: 352
Re: New bullet source
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Now that's good to know.
Someday I need to reload a BUNCH of levergun cartridges (mostly 44 Mag and 357 Mag though).
Now that's good to know.
Someday I need to reload a BUNCH of levergun cartridges (mostly 44 Mag and 357 Mag though).
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 6:55 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Irony in New York... Who's the 'facist', and who's 'Hitler' now...?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 206
Irony in New York... Who's the 'facist', and who's 'Hitler' now...?
. When you've spent a decade calling conservatives 'Hitler' and 'NAZI' and 'fascist', all of which are not even remotely accurate, then you ELECT A REAL COMMUNIST, shouldn't those words now have a POSITIVE connotation...??? I don't see the Republicans calling the new New York Mayor any of those thin...