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- Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .257 Roberts
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2119
.257 Roberts
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- Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5520
Re: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
We are all living history. What I have read about the people of Iceland was interesting, being a reltively insulated group until recently etc. The men are all of Viking Norwegian ancestry. Nearly all of the women are Gaelic Scots. Those Viking raiders based themselves out of Iceland and raided up an...
- Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Realistic number of cartridge cases w/bullets and or loaded
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1603
Re: Realistic number of cartridge cases w/bullets and or loa
You guys will probably think I am nuts - I have got: 36 x .44/40 80 x .30/06 of 180 grainers 29 x .30/06 of 150 grainers 50 x .257 Roberts 15 x .303 But I really only shoot at deer, so that's enough for the rest of my life really :lol: But I need more .44's, going to have to get a box of bullets and...
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone got a Win 94 in the following sn range?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2183
Re: Anyone got a Win 94 in the following sn range?
Don't have the serial number on me but my one dated at 1952 was not factory D&T.
- Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rossi carbine cartridge guide screw
- Replies: 4
- Views: 329
Rossi carbine cartridge guide screw
Okay, like an idiot I was taking my .44/40 carbine apart, for no real reason other than I wanted to lube the insides because it might rain a lot on my next trip, and when I was screwing the cartridge guide back into the receiver, the screw kept going round and round - and it turns out I have strippe...
- Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Which 92 clone?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2466
Re: Which 92 clone?
I just voted with my money and bought another Rossi carbine in .44/40 two weeks ago. Lovely little rifles. The Browning 92's ones are rare here, (never seen one in person) and cost way too much compared to the Brazilian rifles. And really, I have had three Rossi's. I dont know what kind of class of ...
- Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Installing a 3 Leaf sight without drilling and tapping...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 797
Re: Installing a 3 Leaf sight without drilling and tapping..
Nicely done. That looks like an excellent rear sight too, and at a pretty good price. I would think about that sight for one of my rifles.
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What sort of pressures are our old-style cases built for?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1450
Re: What sort of pressures are our old-style cases built for
Shoulder location seems the greatest threat to brass. My 32 Special isn't too bad but my 303 is really something. The early lever cartridges had long necks and short chamber necks. I often wonder if this is about shooting ammo prone to fouling or in trenches. I once thought it was not an issue beca...
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Review discussion...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1624
Re: Review discussion...
In any reloading I have done for rifles in either chambering, the .30/06 has come out on top by 200 fps, regardless of what the loading books say, and that is with 125-150 grain bullets as well as heavy ones. I think there is a too much talk about how you cant tell the difference between them, or th...
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What sort of pressures are our old-style cases built for?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1450
Re: What sort of pressures are our old-style cases built for
A timely meditation on pressure and brass cases, coming as it does at the same time I am reloading and about to test some more .44/40 HV loads.
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .44/40 and Titegroup
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Re: .44/40 and Titegroup
Thanks for your considered replies. I have already used 24.0 grains of H4227 with 200 g XTP's in two other Rossi .44/40's with success; my question arises because I really only have two choices of powder for this cartridge where I am - either H4227 or Titegroup. And so I wondered about Titegroup. Al...
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Let's not forget
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1031
Re: Let's not forget
My grandfather was at Schofield Barracks on the 7th December 1941. He was in the 25th infantry and later went to Guadalcanal and the Phillipines.
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .44/40 and Titegroup
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
.44/40 and Titegroup
Does anyone load the .44/40 with this powder? (This is for 200g jacketed bullets in a Rossi 92)
I am interested in making hunting loads of around 1500 fps in a carbine.
Is there anything to recommend it over H4227 other than economy?
Any experiences of interest.
I am interested in making hunting loads of around 1500 fps in a carbine.
Is there anything to recommend it over H4227 other than economy?
Any experiences of interest.
- Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I NEED THE WISDOM OF THE GROUP.
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2377
Re: I NEED THE WISDOM OF THE GROUP.
When I get that feeling, I go and buy another .44/40 Rossi 92. I just got my fourth this weekend.
Other times, at the very least if there is nothing else, I will go and rescue/buy another old .303 Lee Enfield. Don't know why. Like adopting an old dog.
Other times, at the very least if there is nothing else, I will go and rescue/buy another old .303 Lee Enfield. Don't know why. Like adopting an old dog.
- Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: China
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1340
Re: China
Norinco bolt action .22's are fairly popular here simply because they are cheap, and even the Chinese cannot screw up a rip-off of a pretty good Brno design. Otherwise their stuff is pretty low grade. I was nevertheless, as the poster above, tempted by a Bush Ranger in 7.62x39 (basic bolt action) bu...
- Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Post-64 Winchester 94s
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4352
Re: Post-64 Winchester 94s
We are splitting hairs here, and I agree it all depends on the indiviual rifle, but I have owned pre 64's and post, and of the post 64 years I will buy anything made in the 1970's. I think that decade was the best of the later rifles. I don't mind the scintered metal receiver (unless some fool has t...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30-30 bullet recommendations
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4441
Re: 30-30 bullet recommendations
The 170 grain Hornady will work well for you.
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30-30 bullet recommendations
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4441
Re: 30-30 bullet recommendations
150 grain power point at 95 paces
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30-30 bullet recommendations
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4441
Re: 30-30 bullet recommendations
I have used the 150 grain Winchester Power Points and Hornady Interlock round noses on big red deer stags with perfect success.
- Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WDM Bell, elephant and the 6.5X54
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6199
Re: OT: WDM Bell, elephant and the 6.5X54
Actually, he died in 1954 I have discovered. And the quote about going to back to Africa and using a Winchester 70 in .308 comes from his own article that he wrote about "Small Bores and Big Bores" which was published the same year. He liked the Winchester plainly and wrote favourably abou...
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Westley Richards Falling Block pics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1212
Re: Westley Richards Falling Block pics
I am quietly weeping. Thank you for posting those pics. Please put more up and tell me a story about this rifle.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Well heck ya i can rope !!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 638
Re: Well heck ya i can rope !!!
I learnt to do it when I was a kid. I used to rope the neighbour's dogs by the leg. Got pretty good at it. Never roped anything off a horse though, would love to try, though I havnt been ona horse for years.
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need help from the Aussies on this board
- Replies: 5
- Views: 885
Re: Need help from the Aussies on this board
Kirk, Australia or NZ? We got a lot of '92's in NZ as well. You would be lucky to find a specific rifle - what year was it made? The trouble is what with all the gun buy backs and hand in's in more recent times, you also have to contend with all firearms being handed in for the war effort in WW1 and...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for folks who often switch between iron and scope si
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1533
Re: Looking for folks who often switch between iron and scope si
I had a Husqvarna 1600 .30/06 that I switched between a 4x scope and a receiver peep sight. With the scope it would do exactly one inch groups with just about any load I gave it. For comparison, with the receiver aperture sight I did regular 1 - 1.5 inch groups at 100 metres. Not enough difference t...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Range Report: 44-40 Model '73 with tang sight (photos)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 725
Re: Range Report: 44-40 Model '73 with tang sight (photos)
Kirk, thats a great post, and I love the photo of the '73 with the saddle. I think you enjoy photographing old guns just like me. I also like the cut off your jib with the work you do on open sights, I enjoy messing with them and shooting iron sights also. I have recently rediscovered the bead front...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday Carlsen Highway
- Replies: 7
- Views: 298
Re: Happy Birthday Carlsen Highway
Thank you gentlemen, I appreciate it.
Weather is cold and rainy....no suprise. Was intending actually to go to the range but will go later in the week. Loaded up a bunch of .30/30's just for the occassion of turning 42...
Weather is cold and rainy....no suprise. Was intending actually to go to the range but will go later in the week. Loaded up a bunch of .30/30's just for the occassion of turning 42...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New kid - new 94
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2505
Re: New kid - new 94
I'm in the 'seventies '94 club too... I am a bit ambivalent about receiver peep sights nowadays...I used to accept that they were more accurate and faster to aquire a target as everyone always says, but I found with my last two .30/30 '94's, that I was getting the same sized groups at 100 yards with...
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Never chatted with a Paco Kelly's member I didn't like.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1089
Re: Never chatted with a Paco Kelly's member I didn't like.
Levergunners dont have the need to prove their manhood on the interweb. 'tis known.
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It's been 42 years today since I got married.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1918
Re: It's been 42 years today since I got married.
Congratulations! For us, we're just kids. Just gone 15 years. Interestingly, when we first got married, the wife went to town to do some name changing, as women have to, and took the marriage certificate. It rained that day and the ink ran on the bottom part of the certificate. So now you can't read...
- Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .30/30 Brass question...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1015
Re: .30/30 Brass question...
It occurs to me - wouldn't the crimp automatically take care of differences in neck tension?
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shooting the Win. 94 video.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 609
Re: Shooting the Win. 94 video.
Yup thats running real smooth I blasted some today with 25-35, 38-55, 45 colt & olugly the 270 put a rec. sight on olugly trimmed it up real nice now have to find a taller front sight as its 16in. to high ollogger Just an aside - OLLOGGER - I am pleased to find someone else who shoots a .270 wi...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .30/30 Brass question...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1015
Re: .30/30 Brass question...
Thanks for your replies guys. I have a bunch of all kinds of brass but have stuck religously to one headstamp that I have the most of out of habit from my other rifles, it suddenly occurred to me that it might not make much difference with a low pressure round like the .30 WCF. I have used a Lee cri...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .30/30 Brass question...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1015
.30/30 Brass question...
How much difference does it make reloading mixed brass in a .30/30 (Win94)?
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Zealand--via--Google Map
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1463
Re: New Zealand--via--Google Map
Never lived there but traveled from the Bay of Islands at the top of the North island all the way down to Invercargill at the bottom of the South Island back in the early 90's. We were visiting some friends who lived in Hamilton and I must admit, I fell in love with the place . . . . and the people...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: More levergun opinions needed
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3560
Re: More levergun opinions needed
I would leave it as it is. I can't see what you would gain messing with it, there are plenty of other rifles with full mags underneath... That rifle plainly had a lifetime just the way she is. That kind of configuration was popular back in those days - at least in '92's anyway where I come from, you...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3460
Re: Thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many
Blaine, plainly you don't know a thing about Maori people. I am not sure why you bring up NZ considering the US record, I rather think you should be crying in the corner just at the thought...but perhaps you have NZ people confused with Australians and the Aborigini's, in which case I forgive you. I...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3460
Re: Thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many
I disagree, the Gurkhas have had quite a few VC's awarded. The CGM is their equivalent of the DSC. Not sure how much they're paid but it in Nepal is basically a fortune, and they are HIGHLY regarded among British and any other allied forces, I've spoken to a few Gurkhas and mostly their Brit suppor...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3460
Re: Thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many
I hate to suggest it, but a white man might have got a VC. And how much is he getting paid - last I heard the Ghurka troops in the British army were getting the equivilent of a "decent" wage in Nepal, Something like $200 a month. Meanwhile doing the same job alongside the UK troops.
- Mon May 14, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Antipode Map--other side of world
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1239
Re: Antipode Map--other side of world
Ha! Spain. Somewhere near Codova.
- Thu May 03, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Seller & Bellot
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3499
Re: Seller & Bellot
I thought I would just mention related to the last post and brass in the 7x57mm - I also have come across 7mm Mauser brass issues with fitting in the shellholder, and it seems that the European made brass is to a different size than the US manufacurers; Sellier and Bellot and Prvi Partisan, (made in...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Seller & Bellot
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3499
Re: Seller & Bellot
It probably wont last as many firings as other brass, but you can get by with sellier and bellot.
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Seller & Bellot
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3499
Re: Seller & Bellot
I have used Sellier and Bellot in a number of calibers and it has averaged as probably one of the more accurate factory brands across the board, despite how cheap it is. The bullets they use are very hard though, when used on game.
I have reloaded their brass and done just fine.
I have reloaded their brass and done just fine.
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Firearms errors in books
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3031
Re: Firearms errors in books
I just read a war book, about the war in the Pacific, with some Aussies and American soldiers doing stuff behind the lines in Papua New Guinea, and all of them were carrying "Mills guns" around, and when they used them, it sounded like he was describing a sten gun. Now,I have never heard o...
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2061
Re: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
Yes, I am very pleased with the rifle. And I got it for a song too... :D My 1952 pre'64 only shot slightly less well than this one with tailored handloads, (I say "tailored", but it took one afternoon to settle on it.) so I wont hear anything about Winchester leverguns not being as accurat...
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2061
Re: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
I was using factory Prvi Partisen 150grains.
I have the set up to reload for the .30/30 again, and a whole bunch of Winchester Powerpoints on hand which is a fine performing bullet in my opinion, but the rifle shoots so well with this Serbian factory stuff that I havn't got to it yet.
I have the set up to reload for the .30/30 again, and a whole bunch of Winchester Powerpoints on hand which is a fine performing bullet in my opinion, but the rifle shoots so well with this Serbian factory stuff that I havn't got to it yet.
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2061
Re: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
This is on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand; about four hours drive away. This is what she looks like, although the receiver is showing more wear on the blueing and where some old rust got taken off than the photo suggests. http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/WINtwo.jpg
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First deer with "new" Winchester 94
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2061
First deer with "new" Winchester 94
Well, I got this old thing last month, and posted earlier about how it turned out to be probably the most accurate .30/30 I have ever met....looks like a beat up campaigner on the outside, and nothing special pedigree-wise - a 1979-'80 Winchester. But it will shoot one to 1.5 inch groups with the st...
- Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rossi 92 Butt Stock replacement
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9409
Re: Rossi 92 Butt Stock replacement
I have swapped the carbine buttstock with a crescent rifle one on Rossi 92's and they are interchangable.
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your best lever action deer picture
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6220
Re: Your best lever action deer picture
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/MoaningBastardonthehill.jpg At ten paces. The stag was a gnarly timbered character I had been after for four years running. With an Old BLR in .308 and a weaver 3x. http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/Carlsen/SIX.jpg But I like this one too, because...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Final goodbyes when we leave this earth.
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7018
Re: Final goodbyes when we leave this earth.
I have explained to the wife that when I die, I have left instructions to the effect that a parade should be organised up the main street here. Doesnt have to be much, but get the classic car crowd out, the ballons, the marching girls and some bagpipes, the local school kids can make flags and carry...