Well dang, Savage, all us levernuts are a little crazy, aren't we? :lol: And JP, I've got a feeling that the reason there isn't any warning on the 35Rem factory ammo is because at least some of the folks over there in the ammo dept. at Remington realize it is a total non-problem. The problem would c...

The reason this kid got stirred up about the "Pointy-bullet-in-tube-mag" thing is a little wildcatting project I got started on. My personal prejudice is that I think the m92 was the finest little gun ever made, and Rossi is doing a nice job of turning out new ones (with a little smoothing...

OK, got my shooting done today. Here's pics: http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb418/earlmck/TestCartridge6499.jpg Test Cartridge, No powder, Federal L.P. primer, 300 gr. Hornady XTP http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb418/earlmck/FiringPin6501.jpg "FiringPin" cartridge, with tape used...

Shooter, you done real good there. My Redhawk is my favorite pistol, and I have several Colts to compare with. My grandboys once a year get to snag a gun of their choice out of my safe. I put about 6 or 7 off-limits, and the Redhawk is one of them. My SuperRedhawk, though, is probably getting claime...

Grandboys have thinned down my stuff and made room in the gun safe for... Dang, I think I'd like a Rossi m92, 24" octagon, in .256 Win. (kinda' a 25/20 on steroids).

A number of good points being made. I didn't give much detail on my test procedure, I see. Here's a bit more: Yes, the firing-pin cartridge is a bit lighter than a my other rounds, but only by about 5 grains. I drilled out enough hole to slide about 1/4" of steel down for epoxying. The cartridg...

Much appreciating the input. Obviously poop can happen at times with no regard to the shape of your bullet! And I have been going along thinking old Arthur Savage made up the "no pointy bullets in the tube" mantra about 1895 as another point in favor of his new design, and it was just repe...

I shoot a lot of cast bullets in my 30-30's. Mostly Lyman 311041 (180 gr. flat nose) and 311467 (180 gr. semi-pointy). I like to bell slightly with the Lyman 2-step expander die so I don't shave any lead when seating, and then when seating I adjust the seater die so it just removes the bell without ...

Don't use pointy bullets in tubular magazines!!! So has there been a magazine article written about lever actions in the past 100 years that failed to include that warning? Maybe so, but not many. And yet I'll bet a fair number of us lever-nuts have violated the warning at times. I know I have (110...

Yikes! Pushin' $5 grand with 10 days to go when I just looked. I think I'll the collector folks battle that one out. If a feller needed to pursue critters today (cold rain coming down on old snow here in "sunny Central Oregon") Rossi is making nifty m92's. Can be had in stainless steel sho...

Very fine looking batch of leverguns, M.M. I can see you are a Browning fan. What is your experience with them? The only one I ever got to shoot had kinda' a poor trigger-pull on it, but seemed real fine in the accuracy department, though we were just popping white rocks on a far hillside, not makin...

I acquired my 38-40 about 20 years ago. At that time 38-40 headstamped brass was not readily available like it is now, but I got a really good deal on 500 44-40's. They were real bad to wrinkle the necks when sized down to 38 (actually .40 as we know) until I figured out that you need to iron out th...

I've much appreciated you fellers sharing your rifle photos. So here's my contribution: I think these are brothers. http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb418/earlmck/pairofMarlins6476.jpg Both 1950 era rifles. Top is 35 Rem. and bottom is 30/30. If the 30 isn't my all-time favorite rifle, it is awfu...

If you want to do lots of shooting over many years to come, get a Ruger. I own a couple wore-out colt SAs, a wore-out colt Python, and a couple of rugers with more rounds thru 'em than you would believe and they are still tight as when I bought 'em.

Powder has remained pretty consistent. Main difference between new max loads and old max loads comes about from better pressure-measuring technology. The boys found out what pressures those old loads were really generating. A few cries of "holy goose poop" or similar, and they backed off t...

Here in Oregon... Well, the Department of Fish and Wildlife (locally known as Odeeef&W) never did manage deer. They count 'em and lower the tag numbers yearly. But deer numbers are pretty much habitat determined and our habitat took a big whammy from the enviros when they managed to virtually el...