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Oh OK, I see. I've never tried that, loading a bullet backwards! What, you never loaded HBWC’s backwards for a .38 spl defense load? It’s all I use for my 2” revolvers. Even with today’s magic bullets I don’t think there’s a better load for snubbies. No, I hadn't tried any this stuff. All my reload...

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I hunted with a Browning 71 quite a bit for a couple years. Shot 6 or 7 deer (crop damage permits) and a black bear. Beautiful rifle that handled great but as OldWin said, it's a lot of iron to pack around when you're hunting small big game. I'm a walking hunter and it wasn't doing anything for me ...

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Emptied 3 Mags standing off hand as fast as I could aim and shoot at 7 yards

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I love the ones that came on my Kimber. The night sights that glow in dark.

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And as far as battery life, I've had great life out of all mine. The Moultrie been there since mid March, last I checked I believe it showed 90% still, that's 8AA battery's. Most use 8, but the Browning is only one I've seen which holds 6 AA.

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Doc, I had 2 Stealth Cams that I used for several years, one was good, one was not much. They where identical, cheap. Now I've run one the cheapest Moultries I could get at Walmart, aprox $50, and it's been great, really perfect. I had a really cheap Tasco a buddy gave me that seemed to be doing goo...

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Welcome, and you've come to the right place for Leverguns Lovers! Growing up reading the old adventure stories of mainly B.C., is what give me my love for levers, and there you are already there! If you ain't careful you'll be buying a new gun cabinet before long

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A 6" S&W 357 was always my pistol, mine a Mod 19. I kinda abandoned it when I started packing 4" 45acp, because it's so light and handy, but the S&W is my first love! Good shooting!

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One of the new products I have started using for a special purpose, Gun Medic. To clean a bolt, trigger assembly, tight spots in fishing reels, etc. Spray it out good with Gun Scrubber, the aerosol kind, which I've used for years, it is under pressure. Just recently I got a Tikka Bolt Action made in...

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Good looking setup YK. I'm a firm believer in Ballistol. To clean any barrel I've shot, swab it first with Hoppes #9 PS, brush it. Then do the same again with Ballistol. If I know I'll be shooting it again within months, I just dry it, I'm done. If it's gonna be a while, I'll go over it last with oi...

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I sure miss his post. He's a wealth of Levergun knowledge & info, and great pics of the subject!

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I knew a search would find a good man busy! Good to see you Pitchy, and still hammering!
Most all of us I believe, got to keep hammering Quit working a garden, it's soon runover with weeds, disease, or something for sure!

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Oh OK, I see. I've never tried that, loading a bullet backwards!

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Looks like rabbit medicine to me! If you're looking to do any testing with any other bullets, I've recently tried some Speer 130gr H.C. with a minimum load of 3031. In my 20" 94, they're grouping at squirrel hunting accuracy at 30-40yds. Didn't chrono them, didn't matter.

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Yes Bill, go right ahead its worth a try! I've searched a number of times, questioned, but never gotten any answers. It's obvious these two spent a lot of time together in the B.C. Wilderness! And I've read others acknowledge Bones plenty times, but always in relation to him just in the time spent w...

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My Tikka LSA 65 in 30-06, bolt gun, and my Mod 64 in 30-30! They'd do everything I wanted to do there!

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I've probably asked this before, but I've never started or seen a thread about him. It's obvious from reading 3 of Townsend Whelens books, numerous other articles and articles other people have written about him. But best I can tell, Whelens first trip ever to the far north- B.C., was in fact the tr...

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Congrats on a great rifle and a cartridge I'd like to get to know! And yes more pics are welcomed.

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I got one back about April-May for my granddaughter, who is almost 18 months now. I'd planned to redo the stock up real nice, but changed my mind. I gave it to her then, box still sealed, one tube of Daisy Bb's 400 or 500. Now I look forward that hopefully she'll want to open it new whenever she's r...

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Love the rifle, cartridge, load, and game pursued with it. Been raining here all day, so I been reading about the 73 and it's cartridges. Full circle when you spend your time and money, enjoy the prep & pursuit, then the best meat there is!

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I have a Williams FP on my Winchester. 20220402_115458.jpg For quick shots, they're just as accurate as a scope, maybe more so out to hunting ranges usually encountered in big woods, brush, low light, most anywhere really, at least as far as I ever get a shot in these conditions! Now that is a hunt...

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I have a Williams FP on my Winchester.

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For quick shots, they're just as accurate as a scope, maybe more so out to hunting ranges usually encountered in big woods, brush, low light, most anywhere really, at least as far as I ever get a shot in these conditions!

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Glad to post it here, I knew there be plenty here that would enjoy it! It really is in my opinion anyway, a quality read! Everything in it, we don't need to forget!

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I truly think it to be Levergun perfection, considering stock & barreled action, from what everyone who's familiar with it says, so I don't doubt it. Even the cartridge, Winchester sure hit the mark with the 71! Just think how many they would've sold, had this same Rifle & Cartridge had come out, as...

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I'm gonna look into getting this book, never heard of it before!

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I read that is was may-june 1974 by Jim Scott, and sept-oct 1976 by Ken Waters. I'm not sure of the issue numbers?

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The best complete book I've ever read on these subjects was "The Muzzleloading Caplock Rifle" by Ned Robert's. For me, the best part was Ned growing up with his uncle teaching him all he knew, he called him Uncle Alvaro. And I'm sure Ken Waters knew Ned Robert's and I think Townsend Whelen. At first...

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I recently ordered a few back issues of Rifle Magazine. I ordered 2 specific ones, from the mid 70's, because each was said to contain 2 of the better articles written on the Win Mod 71, and it showed them still available, so I jumped on them. One article by Ken Waters and the next by I believe Jim ...

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Bryan, I saw your posts on Ky Hunting Forum. I often read there since I live in KY, but I don't participate to the forum. Great info, in depth, well done, very interesting! I love mountain Hunting, only type I have available. Shot my Mod 94 sat, in the woods, just fun Hunting practice. But you make ...

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Looks like

the perfect get-a-way place! We had one very similar in Tenn from 1970-about2000. On a hill, and we'd cut small pines, lay em long ways with small sections nailed in between for steps, put a little dirt & gravel in for steps.

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Bearskinner, I'm certainly no authority on the old Win, but according to a special edition magazine I have, only the Mod 1876 was, and from a quick scan only, a good portion of those where a special order by Canadian Northwest Mounted Police in a Carbine model. There's no mention of it in the 1886. ...

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Thank you very much, just another year!

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The Rem CL is on top, and the bottom is a 150g Win PP, that actually probably performed even better? The deer was within 10 yds of me, and I shot right at back edge of the left shoulder, missing it, but the bullet went almost full length, and broke the hind right leg completely, the deer hit the gro...

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I shot this buck at aprox 50yds with a 150g Rem CL from a Marlin when the shot finally came in heavy brush. It went in center of right front shoulder, busted the left shoulder and I found the bullet in 2 pieces right against the hide. When I pulled the trigger the bucks nose hit ground, both front l...

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Beautiful gun, I seriously considered one back around 2015, when I knew my eyes where slipping. I mostly squirrel hunted with a iron sight 22, and the DB with the right chokes & Shot, make the ultimate squirrel & turkey gun! I already had 3 CZ 22's, and I know that's a quality gun. Loved their littl...

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They look great, and look as if they'll feel great!

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Forgive my lack of manners! Welcome to the Happy

Hunting Ground!
I remember you can go to the web site, download maps with regulations for each wma. National Forest IDK?

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Get you a Ky Hunting guide, the spring issue is probably still on the Walmart counters? Laws best I know, there's plenty of both, WMA and National Forest, most all them open to all hunting, BUT I think the specifics of most them are or can be very different, but the guides cover each well! I've neve...

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Middle of wilderness is miserable

place to get all locked up!

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For anyone that may not have read Whelens story. The first 2 pages and last 2.

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One item listed in their supplies, you might find kinda peculiar?

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Done knew I wouldn't try it, can't take hardly any fumes. I have Black lung, copd, emphysema, smoked 25 years, and then when I retired, found out I have Alpha 1 ZZ. Take infusion every 2 weeks, and on home oxygen. I worked underground mining almost 40 years, and I ran a continuous miner 32 of those ...

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Take plenty of gun, make sure there's plenty powder in the cartridge! Bearspray=BS!

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Wilderness Hunting by Townsend Whelen

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"To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord!"
Pray for you and family, because her gain is your loss, and living here without her is going to be tough!
Lost mine in 95 my dad in 98. Praise be to Jesus, she didn't die, just a change of life!

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I was browsing Midway, and they had the 170gr Nosler Partition for 30-30 @ little under $40 a box. These are usually $55-60, so I ordered 2 boxs=100. Did a search, found this old thread, a good one, and confirmed what I already knew from experience, the Win PP & Rem CL, Speer HC has about been perfe...

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