Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

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Beautiful country and photos. Sounds like you still had a good time. Yes. I was wet, but warm, saw some wildlife, and had the satisfaction that I got within range, and if getting a buck had been my highest priority, I could have done it. If I can figure out how to get better pictures with my camera...

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I've had two experiences as a dog owner that necessitated me to eliminate my own dogs. One time we had a stray that wandered in and the kids liked him, so we kept him. The neighbor up the hill came down to the house one day and said we had a problem. My dog took to going on his porch and drug off hi...

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This is the sight picture from one of my guns. Too bad that the front sight won't show up in the photo, but you get the drift. Attachment: Mike, That looks similar to the setup I have on my 45-90. That's why I asked about peep sights. Mine doesn't have an aperture, and it seemed that it would have ...

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The semi-buckhorn sights seemed to help home in on that deer. I swept the front sight past it, aiming about 3' ahead of it and dropped it with one shot. I tried to do that with this buck. They went behind a couple of 3-4 foot fir trees and I was set for them to come out the other side. While behind...

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My apologies for the out of focus pictures.

My excuses are:
1. It was so dark under the trees,
2. I didn't have my readers on,
3. I had to snap them one handed,
4. It was the camera...

Some of the pics are out of focus, or in other words, they look like my eyes see any more.

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While hunting with my 40-82, I missed an opportunity at a buck that was trotting through heavy timber. This was old growth where the smaller dominant trees were 2-3 feet in diameter, so it was easy for him to get lost in the trees. I didn't take the shot because it would have been too far back. A fe...

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I headed to the woods the last couple of days to see if I could bag a blacktail buck. I left my scoped BLR at home and carried my 40-82. I really wanted to get something with it, since it hasn't drawn blood for at leat 80 years, and maybe longer. The weather cooperated. :evil: The wind blew and it r...

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A hearty salute to your son and all of the other young people who love this country and are willing to serve her. God Bless America!!

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If you are using Internet Explorer as your web browser, click on Tools in the menu bar. then Internet Options. Click on the General tab and about halfway down the dialogue box there is a Search area and it says Change Search Defaults. Click on Settings and another dialogue box opens. There should be...

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For my timber cruising boots, I used Huberds Boot Grease. Sno seal is a good waterproofer, but it doesn't feed the leather like Huberds. I think both products are made by the same company. FWIW

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One of the local hardware stores has CCI small pistol primers. They limit you to 400 at a time at 4.95 per 100. Last weekend, Cabelas had some in Olympia for around $33 per 1000. For the last couple of months I have been seeing small pistol and small rifle locally.

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My favorite action thrillers are:
Eagle Eye, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum, and Master and Commander.

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Take them all ao you can change from day to day based on where you are going to hunt. If you are going to hunt the field side where shots could be long, use the 300. If you are going to hunt the woods, chances are you will be shooting under 100 yards, so either the 30-30 or 38-55 would be plenty of ...

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The only problem with being north of Everett is that you have to go through the Seattle metro area to get to the rest of the state unless you go over the North Cascades Pass when its open. As others have already said, Everett to Tacoma is a mess on the highways and is a bastion for people that lean ...

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Thought you might get smile out of this one. This could be considered political, if so, go ahead and move it, but I thought it was pretty humorous. Old Butch John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs....

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When I was a kid, my dad came home from a hunting trip with a sage hen. Mom cooked that thing up and the whole house smelled like sage brush. You couldn't eat the flesh, and you couldn't eat the gravy. It was cold at the time, but we opened the windows anyway to air out the house! :shock: The other ...

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One of the worst shots I ever made was on my first bull elk at 15 feet. I was using my BLR in 308. I was in a white fir thicket where 10" of fresh snow limited visibility because of the snow laden branches. I caught a flash of movement in front of me and realized it was a horn moving back and f...

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when I was in college, I was out on the Snake River with a couple of friends. We each had our 22 pistols and were shooting at most anything that was hard to hit and moving. We were shooting at a blackbird sitting on a reed at about 35 yards. The wind was blowing, and it was a pretty hard shot. I pop...

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For me, the calibers that conjure up images of leverguns are the 30-30, 300 Savage, and 40-82. Those were the calibers that I saw as a kid that were in lever action guns.

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Hobie wrote:Can you go wrong with the Craftsman stuff?

I have a 16 gallon Craftsman vacuum that is over 20 years old and is still going strong. I've replaced the filter several times over the years, but other than that, it has been trouble free and can still suck the warts off a horned toad!! :

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A 30-30 is pretty hard to beat for effectiveness on most game animals and has a fairly light recoil. My 94 in 30-30 doesn't have near the felt recoil of my M92 in 44 mag. As others have said, a lot depends on what she wants to hunt, but a 30-30 fills the bill pretty well in North America. IMHO

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The 86's in 40-70 had a faster rifling twist rate than the 40-82's 1:28, so they could handle heavier bullets than the Express calibers (40-82 and 45-90). The 40-82 can be fired in a 40-70, but not the other way around because the 40-82 rifling won't stabilize the larger bullets loaded in the 40-70....

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308 and 30-06 for deer and elk. 150 grain corelocks.

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I used to hunt ducks, and had pretty good success too. The problem was that at the same time, I was shooting pheasants, chukars and huns. If I had to choose whether to eat a waterfowl or an upland bird, waterfowl come in a distant 105th. After failing miserably at finding a way to make duck taste li...

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I really enjoyed that story. Well done Jim!

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My hunting boots are a pair of Kulien calk boots that I bought in the early 90's. I bought three pairs since 1975 and primarily used them in the woods. I tried Danner, and they were completely worn out in a year. Kulien boots are made in Centralia, WA. It is a family business that has been operating...

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Rangerider7 had a great thread about his worst hunting moment, but few are adding to his experience (which I might say was electrifying!) :lol: I KNOW that there are a lot of good anecdotes among the members of this forum. I'll start out with a few of mine. Lets be men here and fess up! :D Incident ...

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Thanks for clearing that up for me Blaine! :lol: All I know is that whatever it is I have got, it isn't much fun, especially with deer season upon us! Had to go to a funeral Saturday in Coos Bay, OR. Two days riding with my daughter who has been sick for four or five days was more than my immune sys...

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He doesn't know if he' sbeen punched or bored!

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My Grandfather was a blacksmith and spent his life handling horses. When he got his first car, he pulled it into the carriage shed and pulled back on the steering wheel and said whoa!! as he drove through the back of the shed! New technology is hard to handle! The car to him is the computer to many ...

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That is a heck of a deal. Congrats!!

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How steep was it? Steeper than a cows face! How dumb was he? Dumber than a box of rocks! How cold was it? Colder than a well diggers *** in the Klondike! How sick were you? So sick I thought I'd die and was afraid I wouldn't! How hard did he hit him? Knocked him into the second Tuesday of next week!...

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I have a 70's vintage Miroku in 308 that has shot a 1/2 inch group at 125 yards. I shot it tonight at 465 yards and had a 6" group with Federal blue box 150's. The trigger is a bit heavy and has a bunch of slack that you just pull through, but when it is time to line up on a furry critter, it i...

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From what I have seen here locally, that is a fair price. I recently picked up a pre 64 for $300. It was cosmetically challenged, but turned out to be a good shooter. The few post 64s that I have seen here that were in good condition ranged from 325 to 375. If the bore is good, I'd say go for it. :w...

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BTT
+1000

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IIRC:

Courage

Capt. Midnight

RS - ###

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I'm no expert by any means, but since the freezer is cold, I would guess that the compressor is ok. If the freezer side is working, then the problem is most likely with the airflow from the freezer to the frig because the refrigerator side is usually cooled from air from the freezer. I'd look for an...

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50-110 Ballard single shot. Had a long range tang site that hit my forehead each time I shot it. It weighed around 14 or 15 pounds IIRC. It was a fun BP un to shoot.

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A high powered attorney was shooting ducks on his estate and one sailed over the fence onto the neighbors property. He crawled over the wall and was walking toward the duck, when the farmer who owned the property putted over to him on his tractor. The farmer asked the lawyer what he is doing, and th...

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Thats what I thought when I saw it. I told the shop keeper that I thought it was an altered gun, and he plead ignorance. IIRC it was priced at $585 and had a receiver sight on it. Thanks for the confirmation. Just goes to show you that if a guy hangs around here for a while, some of the knowledge in...

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I didn't want to steal Redcaps thread, so I started my own. Recently while visiting a shop, I saw a Model 64 that had a straight stock. The barrel was correct for a 64, but I have never seen a 64 with a straight stock. Could that be a genuine unadulterated 64 or is it a parts gun. Anyone have any id...

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Kirk, When I was living in Lewiston Idaho, I would spend my lunch hour fishing in one of the mill ponds. The biggest bass I caught was a 19 inch smallmouth on a 2 weight flyrod. I also hooked a few carp that were way too much for that light rod. Flyfishing is a kick! (No pun intended, since this is ...

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This is the straight scoop. UPDATED 6 pm, March 11, Update at end of article. The pending purchase of Sportsman’s Warehouse by UFA Co-operative United (UFA) of Calgary, Alberta has partially unraveled. (Click here for NewWest.Net’s breaking story on the acquisition.) In a teleconference with all Spo...

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A friend of mine told me this story. His wife is really into yard sales and she drug him off early one Saturday morning, much to his chagrin. They get to this place and are walking around looking at the stuff and he spots a Browning auto 5 standing in the corner. He asked the woman there if it was f...

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Only a child could ever get away with saying that!

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71,
PM sent with the results of my web research on 45-90 loads. Best to be on the cautious side when loading the old ones.

George

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Dad was a hunter, but not a collector of guns. He was very practical and owned one rifle, a sporterized A3O3, one shotgun, a 16 guage Winchester Model 12, one 22 Stevens bolt action, an Erma 22 automatic pistol and his one extravegance, a model 1886 in 40-82 that he bought when he was a kid, and nev...

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First lever gun was a 1977 BLR in 308, still have it.
First single action, 1970's vintage SBH in 44 mag.

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