Paco Kelly's Leverguns.com

Lastmohecken

Well, gosh, if I can only have one, I guess I would have to go with a shotgun, because I love to hunt Pheasant too much, so in that case I would probably choose one of my Browning A5's with a riflesighted deer barrel, smoothbore and add screw in chokes to it. With that I pretty much could hunt anyth...

Lastmohecken

Actually, both flags belonged to the bar owner. Regardless, the only thing different he should have done is sharpen up that K-bar. It took him too long to cut threw that flagpole rope. Good on the vet! :D Yes, I also noticed that he was having a little trouble getting through the rope. Being a comm...

Lastmohecken

If you handload and seat the bullets out to where they contact the lands of the rifling then headspace will be more consistant, and with cast bullets you can even roll crimp if you headspace on the bullet, whch might not be a bad idea in the leveraction anyway. At anyrate, I am not trying to spoil t...

Lastmohecken

What caliber is it now? Maybe I shouldn't say anything, but I can't help it. I have seen 45ACP leveractions before, and I have never shot one. But I did run into some probems with a Ruger Convertable 45ACP/45 Colt Revolver. I found that the Ruger was very picky on the brands of ammo I shot through i...

Lastmohecken

I support this vet, because he had the guts to act instead of just complaining to someone about it. Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe.

However, I would have rather seen him put the American flag back up, and throw the Mexican flag on the ground.

Lastmohecken

Lastmohecken, I think we got your die problem discussed enough, but I have a comment about your press. If you are using a RCBS JR press, you don't have enough press. I sprung my JR press simply full length sizing 30-06 cases. I'd suggest moving up to a Rockchucker or what ever RBCS is calling them ...

Lastmohecken

I guess I should be quite at home with iron sights after 45 years of struggling with them, but even to this day, I find myself guessing and often debating on wheather to upgrade or make some kind of modifications to every gun I decide to keep iron sight on. I have never had a Globe sight, but I have...

Lastmohecken

Well, I guess I have been lucky, I have bought and sold a lot of guns over the years, but I almost always sold a gun to come up with money to purchase another gun that I wanted worse at the time. However, I did sell a Colt AR-15 Heavy barrel, for $400.00 back in 1986 to purchase a wrecked CJ 5 Jeep ...

Lastmohecken

For sizing or reforming? Both, but I am not doing major reforming, although I guess it is more difficult then resizing a .308 Win into 358Win which is about all of the reforming I have done. But I only reformed one case which was a 50 Alaskan which only requires necking down to 45, and really that ...

Lastmohecken

cas wrote:What (if any) did you use for case forming lube?

I was using One Shot spray lube, which I have used for years.

Lastmohecken

Yes, it darned tempting, but I have blown too much on guns lately to afford it. Good Luck!

Lastmohecken

Well, this was a 2 or 3 part problem for me, but I think it have it fixed now. I got to noticing that if I just had one round in the Magazzene of my Model 71 in 450 Alaskan, sometimes the plunger would not push the last round out of the tube completely or fast enough to advoid a jam. I was starting ...

Lastmohecken

On second thought, I may have broken this die tonight, when I run a 50 Alaskan case through it and reformed it to 450 Alaskan. In Rifle Sporting Firearms Journal, Dave Scovill stated that it was no problem to just run the 50 Alaskan through a 450 resizing die or even a 348 win resizing die if you co...

Lastmohecken

Well darn it! I got my 450 brass in and was trying to get my loading dies set up, and load a few rounds. The new brass would not chamber, no real surprise there, so I resized one, but didnot full length resize at first, but soon discovered that I had to go all of the way and bump the resizing die to...

Lastmohecken

Wow! is right. I made the top one my Background. You can get lost in that picture.

Lastmohecken

Ysabel Kid wrote:
Lastmohecken wrote:
At this time I perfer a short barreled Super Blackhawk with the rounded trigger guard.
But the dragoon-style trigger guard is so COOL!

Yes, they are cool, but that grip doesn't fit my hand very well, I think my 44mag has the slightly different Blackhawk Grip instead and it fits me better.

Lastmohecken

Recoil really is a subjective thing. I bought the first Ruger Bisley I ever saw in 44mag and had it cut to 4 3/4 inches. It did handle the recoil better then the Super Blackhawk grip did in factory form. The Bisley might be a little harder on the wrist though. And I eventually got away from it, beca...

Lastmohecken

Thanks, for the info.

Lastmohecken

With the octagon barrel it sounds like you had a pretty neat rifle there. I guess there is nothing wrong with the Ackley conversion, but the 30/30 is a better round then many give it credit for as is. In the 99 you can load pointed bullets or of course try the new Evolution ammo. Why not take the mo...

Lastmohecken

I prefer tang sights, on most of my levers, only because it's what I'm used to using for silhouette. My receiver peep preference would be one of the old Redfields, but that's not a listed choice. Mine too, when it comes to recevier sights, I like the old Redfields, also. I had that as a choice, but...

Lastmohecken

Well, I wanted to load up some 350gr Speer Flat points, but couldn't find any locally, I guess I will eventually get some from Mid-south or somewhere. So I bought some 300gr Hollow points Sierra's for the 45/70 which I probably need to work a load up for anyway, because that has always been a pretty...

Lastmohecken

I guess I am pretty picky.

Lastmohecken

I used up all of the options, I wanted to add a few more choices, like the Partrige sight, the old Redfield Receiver sights, that are no longer made, to name a couple. Actually, the old Remington 700 sight wasn't a bad sight. One of my favorite open sights is the one that came on many Winchester 94 ...

Lastmohecken

Just wondered what everyone used. I have tried several variations, and have a few favorites and a lot I don't like very much.

I am talking mainly about the rear sight, Front sights probaby need their on poll.

Lastmohecken

Well, I started hunting about 44 years ago, and I have tried them all. I have used lots of open irons of various styles, lots of peep/ receiver sights, and scopes. And I would feel fairly safe to say that if you want the best chance of bagging game, under most conditions, then a Low powered variable...

Lastmohecken

I have owned three 95's. My first one was a Winchester Japan model in .270 with the rebounding hammer and the top tang safety. Like others, I really wanted a bigger caliber, and I had problems with the 270. It did not feed very good, the points of the bullets would stick on the feed ramp, If I remem...

Lastmohecken

The last time I had only one centerfire rifle was 1973. It was a levergun. Same here, around 73 to 75 or so I had just one at a time, anyway. but later on around 78 or so, I usually had at least two, and for a few years I only kept a Remington 700 in 270 win and a Marlin 336 in 30/30. I would often...

Lastmohecken

If I am camping, yes I usually have one, but what I carry varys. It used to always be a 44mag of some kind, often a 4 inch model 29 or Ruger super blackhawk. But I don't usually take one into the woods when leaving camp to hunt with my rifle, because I don't like the pack the extra weight, and I nev...

Lastmohecken

Starline is absolutely the best quality brass available. I'm to the point where I will not use anything else. It is tougher than any other brass, but will reform easily if you don't try to do the entire operation in one pull of the handle. I other words, you to "finesse" it. I have made p...

Lastmohecken

I am a little curious about the rifling in the barrel. I know the original 348 barrel was rebored and rifled, but the rifling looks to be very shallow. I wonder exactly how they did that back then. It looks sorta like a micro-groove marlin rilfling. It seems to shoot accurately. I have not put it o...

Lastmohecken

I am also debating on brass. I can get 348 brass, but I will have to fire form it, as in the old days. However, I actually have found some loaded ammo in 450 for sale, and also new reformed brass for the 450, at least they call it reformed. Reformed from what? 348 brass or 50 Alaskan? I can also buy...

Lastmohecken

I am a little curious about the rifling in the barrel. I know the original 348 barrel was rebored and rifled, but the rifling looks to be very shallow. I wonder exactly how they did that back then. It looks sorta like a micro-groove marlin rilfling. It seems to shoot accurately. I have not put it on...

Lastmohecken

Oofffh. That is really nice lastmohecken. I especially like the full length mag tube underneath. Yes, I like that too, it gives me at least one extra round in the mag. I stuck 5 rounds in the mag, last night, I didn't try for six, but it might go, and it allows for a little more weight out front. T...

Lastmohecken

don tomas, thanks for posting those pictures for me.

Lastmohecken

No pics yet, but I will try to get some up, soon. I have not posted a pic on this form so I will have to figure it out. There are still a few pics on gunbroker.com where I bought it. Auction #79780336

Lastmohecken

This gun has a very good set of open sights on it with a good clean sight picture that doesn't cover up the target. Does the Model 71 normally have any writing on the tang? This one does not. So the lower tang very well might have been replaced with a left over 1886 tang. I can't hardly see how the ...

Lastmohecken

I got my rifle today. I had a busy evening, but I did find time to fire a few shots. The gun arived in good shape. It has a very good recoil pad that really soaks up the recoil. Since I had never fired a 450 Alaskan or a 458 winchester, I was a little concerned as to what I should expect in the way ...

Lastmohecken

I believe that's a reasonably stiff load in 3031. Just guessing of course ... not necessarily 3031. Yes, It would be pretty close to max. The previous owner of this gun wasn't fooling around. He had that thing loaded for a stopper. According to the seller, the old man who kept this gun until he die...

Lastmohecken

I had some 3031 IMR and some IMR4064 and I believe it's IMR3031. I guess it could be something else. So, I think I have found my load. In the book "Cartridges of the World" it shows a loading of 67gr. of IMR3031 behind a 350gr bullet. But it also shows a 400gr bullet being pushed by 67 gr....

Lastmohecken

Well, I am back again. The bullet weights 349gr. I pulled the bullet with a pair of pliers so I might have scratched a grain off of it. So we have a 350gr. bullet behind 66 grains of a long cylinderical powder for a slightly compressed load. So, I would guess these bullets are literally loaded for b...

Lastmohecken

Well, I havn't got the rifle yet, but I did receive my reloading dies and loaded rounds today. The dies are RCBS and look to be in good shape. The ammo, almost two boxes, are of course reloads, they look pretty good too. Normally, I wouldn't trust someone else's reloads unless I knew them pretty wel...

Lastmohecken

Looks like $900 took it. By Bob Barker's rules ... I'm out. Who came closest without going over? Maybe 900 is the going price now, for one like that. I looked at one at the last local gunshow that was almost identical, except it didn't have a recoil pad and his lowest price was $900 but it seemed a...

Lastmohecken

model55 wrote:lastmohecken, Sarco inc has your barrels for $75.00 item number msr 254

Thank, I may look into that.

Lastmohecken

Elmer Keith liked what is called the northwest position with the sights or scope turned up. This is probably one of the best positions if you are actually hunting off of a horse, but not nessairly shooting off of the horse, which is probably not a good idea, anyway, unless you know your horse very w...

Lastmohecken

Wow! Some of those, I had never heard of. I have a Legendary lawman, unfired and I guess I have the box, I bought it off of a friend and he couldn't find the box, but now says he has it for me, I guess I need to go get it one of these days. I also have a Antlered Game, but it's been shot some, so it...

Lastmohecken

Those are getting rare. I have been looking for a good one for years, at gunshows etc. You rarely see one in original condition. My dad and my Uncle both purchased one, for deer hunting back in the late 50's. I was born in 57 and I can't ever remember him not having it. My uncle had his customized a...

Lastmohecken

Gentlemen, One of the photographs in that listing gives me the oportunity to ask a question that I have been wanting to ask for a long time. Why do so many Marlins have "pry marks" on their breechbolts, like these: http://san1.atlanta.gbhinc.com/GB/080465000/80465543/pix2586115984.jpg I h...

Lastmohecken

During the 'late 40s to early '60s, unnumbered 1886 lower tangs were available from Winchester for a song. That is probably what was used, but you'll know when you see the gun. I wondered about that. If that is the case, then the buttstock is probably from an 1886 also. Otherwise, it would probably...

Lastmohecken

By the way, I asked the seller of the Browning 71 what the length of pull was on it, since it had a recoil pad added. He told me the stock didnot look to be cut, and the length of pull was 13 1/4 inches. So, the way I see it, the stock has been cut, but it must be a good job. There is no way it can ...

Lastmohecken

I didn't really mean to highjack this thread. I am going to guess that the Browning model 71 goes for $825

Search found 1856 matches

Magazzene spring/plunger probem on 1886/71 Winchester?

Split Resizing die on my 450 Alaskan, among other problems.

Reloading data needed for 450 Alaskan

Poll make your choice of iron sights

I got my rifle in today. Winchester M71 in 450 Alaskan

450 Alaskan Model 71

Re: swedish