Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Very nice guns. Out of my league though. My great grandfather was a market hunter and used a 10 gauge. Ironically in those days thandard load was 1 1/4 ounce. By todays standards it was a lot of gun to carry considering the shot load. Of course the market hunters probably were not doing that much ca...

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What gave you the idea you would see that cougar? They are typically ambush predators and odds are you will feel it before you ever see it.

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The problem is that the gun came with a safety. Once it is removed the lawyers will have a field day if anyone is injured with that gun. It no longer becomes an 'accident'. It then becomes the consequence of a deliberate act to circumvent the safety. I am not fond of the safeties either and normally...

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Six o'clock hold makes sense when punching paper but I ain't never seen a deer with a bulleye painted on his shoulder. Train the way you fight and practice the way you hunt.

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Is Remington .444 ammo still using the same light construction pistol bullets they used when the round was first introduced. Punching steel is not the same as penetrating flesh. Velocity is much more effective against steel while weight is more important for deep penetration. When I bought my first ...

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LK, I don't care if you never load to the max, never take any OTHER chances, etc... It seems to me that deliberately loading without a scale to double check the supposed volumetric accuracy is negligence. Sure, people load great volumes of powder using measures which are based on the volume of a gi...

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"Not entirely accurate. DuPont used to make a "Bulk Smokelss Power" for shotshell. . They also made "semismokeless" but neither one was intended to be used on a volume basis , and neither one is still available in a usable amount outside of what some collector might have st...

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There are also some chachalaca on Sapelo and a couple other coastal islands in Georgia. They were introduced many years ago by hunters.

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"That's not a particularly good idea, unless you are dealing strictly with blackpowder substitutes, which are the ONLY powders designed to be used on a volume basis" Not entirely accurate. DuPont used to make a "Bulk Smokelss Power" for shotshell. Lee dip measures throw rather co...

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For NATH, or GAMEKEEPER

How popular are lever action guns in the UK? We tend to think of them as an American idiosyncrasy. I know there are a few individuals in other countries that use lever actions but I don't believe they were ever widely accepted.

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Nath, Aren't your rabbits 'real rabbits, wild ancestors of the domesticated rabbit? And I believe yoy also have hares related to our jack-rabbits and snowshoe hares. I did not know you had the little America 'cottontails' (woods rabbits). How big do they get over there? Most of ours are pretty small...

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Back when the .308 was first introduced an unnamed relative bought a new M99 Savage. He brought me a coupled of fired cases insisting there was something wrong with his new gun because the fired cases didn't have a neck. I told him he had the wrong ammo he should be shooting .308 and not .300 Savage...

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I think 'Hawthorne' brand was Western Auto. Or was it Revelation?

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I have used Quickload for years. Because it actually calculates internal ballistics instead of retrieving them from a pre-existing database it is very flexible. All that is needed is case length, bullet type, and case capacity. It supplies that for hundreds of calibers and for wildcats and unlisted ...

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Steve what recoil pads are on those guns? I have some older gums with hard butt plates but arthtitis demands I use something a bit softer now.

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If you don't want to feed the King's deer" fence them out. We went though the laissez faire syndrome once before. The result was that deer, elk, bear "black and brown", turkeys. etc became threatened species and thete was far less game to hunt than there is today. Do tou want that aga...

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Les Staley wrote:'Preciate the tip about blue dot and 125s.. guess I'll look for another powder to blow 'em up with....Les

What's with the Blue Dot warning. I have been using Blue Dot and 125 grain bullets since 1975 (?) in both carbines and revolvers with no problem. Someone loading them too hot again?

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I have a Handi-Rifle that was factory chambered in .357 Maximum. I shoot .38 Special, .357 Magnum and .357 Maximum. I even shoot round balls from .357 magnum cases.

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I have three M94 Taurus. Two 4 inchers and one 5 inch. Never saw a 6 inch or I probably would have one of those too. I did have a 3 inch 941 model (.22 WRM) but sold it as it was too lound. Made shooting unpleasant and in the short barrel didn't do anything the 22 LR couldn't do cheaper and quieter....

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There is an old saying that the proof in in the tape [measure]. In this case it is in the calendar. The .30-03 was replaced by the .30-06 in 1906. The .270 was developed in 1923. Now why would any private arms/ammunition company design a new cartridge based on a cartridge that had been obsolete for ...

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Had the same thing happen to my Buick Century about 10 days ago. Took it to a very reliable shop in town. The ABS controller had failed They informed me that since the light came on we had been driving with only front brakes. As this is my wife's work car, 6-10 miles a day - in town only, she might ...

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I like Google better than Bing. Bing comes up with too much unrelated **** and aparrently it thinks "yyy zzz" mean yyy OR zzz, not "yyy AND zzz"

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In many countries tipping is illegal. It would be a good idea here. If the employers weren't so darned cheap the help wouldn't need to depend on handouts and they wouldn't have to put up with **** in order to get it.

"A worker deserves his pay." 1 Timothy 5:18

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Let's face it, no one is going to make a serious western any longer,

He said "make", not remake.

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We have all been aware of errors and unrealistic scenarios involving guns in the movies. One that always grabs me is when there is a hell bent shootout in a room and someone whispers to his buddy, "He's over there Joe." I remember the first time I ever fired a real gun inside a room. I rem...

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That is a sportfishing record. The absolute record was a pair caught in a beach seine in North Carolina that weighed 125 pounds each.

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I don't shoot muzzleloaders so I sort out the little soft lead squares and use them to cast split shot fishing weights.

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"A .50 BMG downloaded to 1000 or 1200 fps would pass through tissue like a field arrow. Big whoop! They did that in 1866 with the .50-70, and they didn't cost $5 a pop, nor require a "crew-served" weapon" I suspect the spitzer nose on the 50 BMG would cause it to tumble. It might...

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Ysabel Kid wrote:Could be worse - could have not woke up and "found" that on the way to the head or to get some coffee!

I thought that was the head.

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I have noticed that a lot of people who obsess over people spying on them flatter themselves. I think they like believing that they are worth spying on. Most everything THEY want to kinow about us they already know. The rest they can find out regardless of what we may do trying to prevent it. Worryi...

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Case trimming is the part of handloading that I hate the MOST . Handgun brass seems to stretch VERY little compared to some rifle brass. I sure as hell anin't rich but I'm not so poor that the time spent trimming handgun brass isn't more valuable to me than the little it costs to buy new brass. By t...

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There have been several 'improved' fifty caliber machine guns over the years. They all had two shortcomings. 1). There weren't as cheap as government surplus for an 80 year old design. 2). Although they were definitely 'better' they weren't 'perfect'. As "the best is the enemy of the good"...

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I am pretty well settled right here in north Arkansaw, real fine country. I'm in Thayer, MO not far away. I like the hills. Got no use for anything high enough and steep enough I gotta use my hands and knees for climbing. OTOH the hills block enough of the horizon that I don't feel closed in on. Th...

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About a month ago I reloaded some .32 H&R. None of my manuals had info for 98gr LRNFP's and Hodgdon's Titegroup so I started with 90gr JHP loads and worked down and back up from there. What I ended up with was 3.7grs which is well above the JHP max loads. I was not getting much for pressure sig...

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About a month ago I reloaded some .32 H&R. None of my manuals had info for 98gr LRNFP's and Hodgdon's Titegroup so I started with 90gr JHP loads and worked down and back up from there. What I ended up with was 3.7grs which is well above the JHP max loads. I was not getting much for pressure sig...

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Thanks for a great report. The more I look at penetration tests I see the Linebaugh tests results repeated. For best penetration a fairly hard, heavy for caliber projectile at 1300-1800fps is best. I would think the most important consideration is that the bullet not fragment or deform excessively....

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Ackley wrote about an experiment with case stretching in his book. IIRC the gist of it was that it wasn't normall sizing that caused case stretching. More like stretching occurs by firing in oversized chambers so when case is sized down again it is elongated.

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What is the difference between cynicism and paranoia?

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Sarge,

That would have given the TOF and the mean velocity but it would not have given the muzzle velocity or impact velocity. or even the velocity at any given point in the path as they didn't much understand how much drag air really caused.

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There is also quite a bit of bullet energy absorbed by the bullet itself when it expands. If you want a bullet with lots of penatration, cast 'em. Cast out of linotype or some such will give little to no expansion and will drill. Cat The bullet doesn't absorb any energy. It has all the energy it wi...

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The higher the velocity the faster the rpm necessary to keep it stabilized. What causes the bullet to become unstable and tumble is the pressure from air resistance. This pressure increases with speed which is why fast projectiles slow faster than slow ones.

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Had a chance to get the lead lining from an old X-ray lab. About a ton of it. Gave a lot away and alloyed a lot with 50/50 bar solder. The one pound bars that are half Tin/half Lead. That way I could control the mix and get 20:1 and even made some bars of 30:1 for my bullets. Ran out of 30:1 and we...

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If the world were running out of lead it would be a lot more expensive than it is. It along with steel is one of the world's cheapest metals. A couple of days ago I came across a DTIC paper on the future availability of strategic metals. According to it lead is in very good supply. It also noted tha...

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That was a common method of testing for penetration many years ago. I believe it was also used by the army. IIRC the nominal 1 inch boards were separated by a gap equal to their own thickness.

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I had surgery on my right (shooting) shoulder last December. RA got to where I couldn't raise my arm high enough to shave, brush or comb. Much improved but I have stayed away from the boomers since. Easy enough during the winter but now that weather has warmed I am feeling the itch. I will be replac...

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There is also quite a bit of bullet energy absorbed by the bullet itself when it expands. If you want a bullet with lots of penatration, cast 'em. Cast out of linotype or some such will give little to no expansion and will drill. Cat The bullet doesn't absorb any energy. It has all the energy it wi...

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As to why no 45 Colt in a lever in the old days, I don't think anyone really knows why. If I was going to guess I'd agree with AJ. But I have never seen any kind of documentation one way or the other. Has anyone seen such a thing? AJ, I have read that your Cowboy Special brass will fit in Taurus re...

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cas wrote:From what I testing I can recall, the smaller, heavy for caliber (meaning long) ones works the best for "brush bucking" (which doesn't really happen. Heavy 6.5's working the best IIRC.

I disagree. The bullet with the greatest stability factor will be the most stable regardless of shape.

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The test I remember best was in Guns and Ammo, I think, about 35 years ago. The author crafted a box with half inch dowels spaced so that at least two would always be hit. Factory .45-70 was lousy ... the winner was the .222. My personal belief is that unless there is some type of emergency the ani...

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I have a 10/22 but am not fond of it. Keep it around for guests. I much prefer my four Remington 66. Much more accurate and reliable. I believe the reason the 10/22 was such as success is that the conventional wooden stock and the detachable magazine made it much more amenable to 'customizing'. Seem...

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