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Mine still has the " how to " book with it. I guess I could try to copy it. JMiller, get instructions here, from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=how+to+use+a+slide+rule&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=31181070650&hvpos=1t3&hvexid=&...

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I saw three of the Single Seven revolvers on GB yesterday. They have started delivering them.

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I wonder if they make one for a Colt Delta Elite?

*** They do!

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I don`t think orienting the case in the chamber is meant to correct a bad chamber but to minimize and differences in bullet and case orientation that is made during the case prep/sizing,bullet casting and seating. The case is also oriented in the loading press and bullets are sometimes also oriente...

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I like all the suggestions... thanks! :D I've seen the notch in the rim... always thought if case orientation in a chamber was important, then the chamber "ain't right", so to speak. That's tempting, but it means something already. I want other people (like my kids) to see that the cartrid...

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I have 60 rounds of 32 WS that I am reloading as I shoot them. I'm also working in a few pieces of necked up 30-30 brass so I will have more than 60 rounds to shoot. When I convert them, I paint the end of the case, but it comes off easily. Does anyone know a simple way to change or mark the 30-30 h...

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Rusty wrote: WAIT A MINUTE...You told her there were buff tracks in the creek bed and she bought it?

Is the Good Lord punishing him for that lie, with split cases?

Perhaps there is nothing wrong with Rossi Customer Service...

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I didn't think you could fire a .32 ACP in a .327 Federal Magnum chambered gun. No different from firing it in a revolver chambered for 32 H&R Magnum, 32 S&W Long, or 32 S&W. Each of those fires the smaller ones. My Blackhawk is chambered for 327, and it shoots everything down to and in...

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Malamute wrote:It looks like a copy of the new Henry 22's.

...the real thing is about the same price as the Uberti look-alike.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/inde ... re+Rifles/

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My daughter says carrying a 327 single six is impractical... Our neighborhood is lousy with copperheads. This evening I went around back of the shop and found a fat copperhead coiled up on a small debris pile. I stood still while I removed one 327 Magnum cartridge, and thumbed in a 32 ACP cartridge....

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AJMD429 wrote:What kind of grip frame is that...?

Colt Lightening style grip frame for Ruger single action revolvers:

http://www.gungrip.com/items_558__Ruger ... traps.html

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Wish I had not been a few minutes too late for this one... someone got the TC Peep and a Globe front sight for $35 delivered!

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Mine has two patent dates, and no other markings: "Jan 29, 79 - May 6, 84"... underneath is a tiny "E". I also noticed that the center of the insert aperture is slightly higher than the center of the open ring, with the aperture flipped down. That may explain why I was able to hi...

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...I'm leaning towards the shortest barrel. I will probably only short .327 Mag's occasionally. I really see it as a "kit gun", or a "woods walking" gun. Seems ideal. :D I agree. Here's mine: http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/MacEntyre/Teeth/327/TigerMaplec_zps66b6db0d.png

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Found this on SASS Wire classifieds... most unusual tang mounted peep sight I've ever seen. The seller said, "I dont remember what I took this off of. The base of the peep site is 1 3/4". its 1 1/4" center to center in the holes." I'm curious, and would like to identify this sigh...

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...appears to be a Lyman No. 1 Combination Tang Sight. That's what is on my 1902 Marlin 94 32-20... I'll have to take it off again and see what's stamped underneath. I was amazed to find the tiny flip-down aperture when I bought the rifle. Had no idea it was there, and found it by accident. It work...

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Pete44ru wrote: ANY Browning rifles made after 1964 were made under contract with the Miroku Gun Co (Japan)...

Early BLRs were made in Belgium... are they the only exception?

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...get moving young man and pop an old Lyman on there! While I am hunting an old Lyman, this one will do. http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/MacEntyre/Teeth/9432/399432TangSightb_zpsa8bb3a42.jpg http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/MacEntyre/Teeth/9432/399432TangSighta_zpscd84f671.jpg Ahhh......

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Les Staley wrote:The buttplate on that carbine is more rare than most...

I didn't know that. I prefer the crescent butt, or the curved modern butt... this one is nearly straight.

Les Staley wrote:Nice gun, MacEntyre...

Thank you very much!

I might shoot it today.

edit: raining steady... no chance to shoot!

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I solicited a lesson from a forum member in technical terminology, including "exceptionally minty"...

Please accept my apologies for agreeing to a term whose meaning I did not know.

I'll stick with "pretty good", which is a North Carolina superlative.

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As that's a pre-war, you will notice that the tang is factory d&t for a tang sight, so.....get moving young man and pop an old Lyman on there! I noticed that... and since the rear sight wedge is new, I will wager a brand new penny that for most of it's life, it had an old Lyman, and no rear sig...

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Here's a slide show: http://s98.photobucket.com/user/MacEntyre/slideshow/Teeth/9432 You can see the flaws showing that it's not really 'exceptionally minty'... someone set it in wet grass in a meadow, rusted the butt plate and water damaged the finish a little. It has some dings. But it is in pretty...

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Well, she was a different lady today. She was there with two different young fellows, so we started from scratch. Got away with the rifle for $599 plus tax, total $640, which is $10 more than the fellow turned down yesterday!

Off to make some pictures... stand by!

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That's about my thoughts also. 5 c notes is tops unless the gun was exceptionally minty.---6 After close inspection, I would call it exceptionally minty... I'm just not willing to pay $677.25 to get it out the door. Edit: I might visit the Mamma tomorrow and see if she will walk away from cash on t...

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Just tell the shop owner ... Well, I don't think it would have worked. The pawn shop is under new management by an Asian family. The young man who handles gun sales asked his mother if they could trade for my rifle plus cash, and she looked at me and said, "No. Go sell your gun somewhere else....

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mod71alaska wrote: Mac, if you're describing a 94 "safe queen" that's a far cry from "pretty good condition" you said in your opening post.
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BUY IT! Post pics!

Maybe I will take a 1941 Savage 99 to trade...

I'll see what I can do, and let you know.

Thanks!

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I guess that helps to show/explain how a series of recent postings here mentioned that "multiple discharges" from percussion guns were more likely to occur with sloppy nipples That's a good point, well illustrated... Glad I use sections of silicon tubing to cover the percussion caps on me...

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Ray, Go ahead and use that 10 mm cylinder. Mine is unbelievably accurate +1 for the Buckeye BH in 10mm... it outshoots all my pistols and some of my rifles! I bought it as part of a matched pair, 'cause I wanted the other one, in 32-20... was going to sell the 10mm/38-40 until my daughter and I sho...

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Do you have anything you might want to use as trade-in value for it? Gosh, I puzzled over this, and was surprised to find that nothing I have is worth as little as I want to give for this 32, except a Marlin 30-TK that my daughter likes a lot. Maybe I will trade it anyway, and give her my Marlin 33...

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...an older 94 in .32 WS for $395. Rather blue-worn and very "pawnshop dirty", but looked mechanically very good. The one I'm looking at appears to have been used little, stuck in the safe a lot. I don't know how else a 75 year old rifle can stay in such good shape, cosmetically. I like t...

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Found a 1939 Winchester 94 chambered in 32 WS, in pretty good condition, at a pawn shop. Bore looked great, very clean, smooth action, light trigger, missing front sight hood. Would have been much more interested if it hadn't had a tag with "$700" on it...

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AJMD429 wrote: I want an SP-101 in 32-20...

I want a 5 shot New Model Single Six in 32-20...

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The Lipsey exclusive in production is a Single Seven...

http://www.lipseysguns.com/post/Ruger-S ... -7-12.aspx

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BrentD wrote:The rifle is a Marlin lever...

Most unusual... Marlin-Ballard falling block with set trigger? What caliber?

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I bought my pre-81 BLR spare mag on eBay... had to pay just over $200, after lurking for months to find one less than $250.

Sure wish they held 5 rounds instead of 4...

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I have three boxes I have been trying to sell for $25 each... had to return the 94 in 32 WS for undisclosed defects (I hate internet sales) but I had already bought the ammunition.

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Shasta wrote: The rear sight is a Lyman 21 repo from Providence Tool Co.

I've been wanting one of them for my 1895... savin' me pennies!

Had a chance once to buy a Winchester 95 in 30-40 Krag, manufactured the year I was born... passed and regretted it!

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Here is the correct information, from Clyde himself: My address is P.O. Box 318 Bridgewater, SD 57319 I tried for 2 years to get leverguns.com to up date my contact info with no reply, I still have some on hand. Thank you, Clyde Ludwig The address in this link is wrong: http://leverguns.com/articles...

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My 1941 99 in 300 Savage is lighter than my 30-06 Browning 1895 and my 308 BLR, and it holds 5+1... the 95 and the BLR will only hold 4+1. The only thing I can say bad about it is that is doesn't have a straight stock... but it does shoot straight! I had a 1929 straight stock takedown 99, but I thin...

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I sent Clyde money and an order several months ago, but I have heard nothing! Called and left a msg, too.

Do you have an email address for Clyde?

Edit: Thanks for the PM!

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1886 wrote:...I have the the cross bolt safety replacement that resembles a screw. 1886.

If you have the blued kit, I would love to take you up on your offer.

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BrentD wrote:I don't think the old ones are really all that high priced relative to what other vintage rifles tend to be.

...unless you are buying a Marlin 94 in 32 H&R magnum.

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It's the constantly growing teeth... same reason bunnies in a cage will chew the wire, and can escape from behind chicken wire. Power companies are constantly fixing aluminum cables that support insulated wires.

Pigs and wolves are also cannibalistic! Ugh!

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They almost hid that gap in the fold of the magazine... but then the gap at the barrel band would have been more apparent. Oh, well...

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1886 wrote:I believe I have several. You are welcome to one. 1886.

You have the saddle ring safety delete?

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I'm in!

Thank you very much...

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oooh! I'd love to have that Saddle Ring Safety Delete! Alas, they are sold out...

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We used to have a Rossi 92 trapper in Ruger 480... liked it a lot! Alas, my father sold it.

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...was the corpse a marine, or an army engineer?

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