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That makes me feel better about my own experiences, I have had two percussion guns which I don't think I had a misfire, but once or twice, and it was a faulty cap. Now I have a flintlock, which when I have a good flint positioned right, is quite reliable for a good number of shots, but when that one...

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A William 5D or the Lyman 66 receiver sights (needs screw holes drilled by gunsmith to fit) fitted will work with a 16 inch barrelled Rossi 92, and give you enough elevation to use the original front sight. (The 16 inch ones often shoot too low for their sights because Rossi were putting the same si...

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I much prefer open sights with a bead, over a peep sight. I recently shot a test for accuracy between two Winchester 94's shooting each rifle with Williams receiver sights and then the standard open factory sights. I found literally not a difference in group size between the sights 110 yards. But on...

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Bill, thanks for your kind words - but I just took those stock carvings off! I felt they were not well enough executed for my liking, plus I am not a guy that likes too much ornamentation. Luckily the stocks on these Pedersolis have enough to them that I can do this kind of thing...I just made the s...

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I like the "Last of His Breed"" The guy ended up being a fur trapper in Siberia.

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OK yes I understand that, I have experienced it.

I still think the OP's problem is a cartridge guide issue.

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What do you guys mean when you say the crimp helps for feeding? How does the crimp help?

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Maybe you didnt tighten it up as much when you put the guide back in or something, maybe its sticking out slightly further than it was I would encourage you to try a shim on both sides just as an experiment, just one thickness each. You dont have to take the action apart to do this - keyhole surgery...

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Yes, that's all just New Zealand. (Siberia river is in the NZ SouthernAlps - Not Russian Sibera!) I would like to go back to the States and go whitetail hunting in some of the deer camps I have seen, somewhere down south again. I have been to the Ozarks, maybe Appalachia One day I would like to go E...

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I know deer camps in America are a little bit different, I saw and stayed in some good ones in Arkansas, from rustic old shacks to trailers to a five bedroom house once. But I like to take pictures of my campsites - I have many more, but this is what I have loaded on Imgur at the moment: Siberia Ri...

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I know deer camps in America are a little bit different, I saw and stayed in some good ones in Arkansas, from rustic old shacks to trailers to a five bedroom house once. But I like to take pictures of my campsites - I have many more, but this is what I have loaded on Imgur at the moment: Siberia Riv...

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Not really leverguns at all, but I thought some people might be interested. Have long wanted a long rifle, and particularly a flintlock one. I didn't get one for a long time because I thought they would be fiddly and unreliable and too much new stuff to learn, but finally I decided to just jump in. ...

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Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Due to the time difference, it was yesterday. Or I am talking to you now from tomorrow.
I got some socks and some fried chicken, so I am satisfied. I shall wear the socks to the range later...I have a .32 Special '94 to shoot, My .44-40 '92, and my .50 flintlock.

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Taken a couple of 1892’s out for walks this year, and missed a sika hind :oops: https://preview.ibb.co/hUWc0e/D76727_E0_1662_4_EE7_BFB7_4113_DE789267.jpg https://preview.ibb.co/cFT1RK/359_D72_A7_3300_405_B_953_B_293_A13818_A31.jpg https://preview.ibb.co/hB486K/3_C5248_DC_061_E_4206_82_B3_896_DFFA78...

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He did borrow the rifle he made the famous shot with, the guy who actually owned it was killed in the attack. The downside of the Billy Dixon story, if I remember correctly, is that he took the rifle away with him afterwards, and the man's widow had great trouble either getting it back or payment fr...

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Did they ever actually do the show on a grizzly? I couldn't find it.

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Tanqueray posting above - has the solution for this issue. The space between the cartridge guides needs to be reduced so it lifts the back end of the cartridge up higher, sooner. Follow his instructions and shim one side or both with aluminium from a can, and then see if it helps, I am virtually cer...

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To be fair, I'm not sure you could make an honest western involving Indians where the white people were not horrible to the natives. That was the fundamental lie of Dances with Wolves, that white people being nasty to Indians was the exception. You read from the period, and they hated Indians... Bon...

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I can't live with white spacers either. If I meet them I take them off, or if I can't do that I paint them black.

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They still make old ones into glue don't they?

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Regardless of if your car is parked on private property ( a hotel!) they have no right to enter your vehicle for any reason. I would have called the police. What is America coming to.

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It is a failing of this internet and typed correspondence, that people read into a simple statement, the possibility of an attack on their own opinion. Then there are the others that actually are attacking people for having a different opinion. It would be entirely different if we were all sitting i...

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Of course, to those of us in the British empire, the man is a despicable traitor.

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I actually worked for Disney once, as an assistant animator. I remember there was lots in the contract about conduct outside of the workplace, you couldn't embarrass the company etc. I used to forget to draw Goofy's ears. That caused a lot of drawing. Now its all computerised. But I can say I dipped...

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Huh. I did try once to sort it out with the US embassy, but got a very confusing form to fill out, so I left it as I was getting married and the wife didn't want to go to America. Even though he has lived here since 1976 my father religiously renews his passport; over here there have not always been...

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I have two Leupold M8 scopes, fixed 4x and they are still my workhorses for my bolt action rifles, on my .30/06 and my .257 Roberts. They still have excellent lenses, better than the mid range scopes today, never, ever, lose zero, and are still watertight; they are also lighter than most scopes too....

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I take it this is just something off the internet, but just of the top of my head these same things apply in New Zealand as well. Government business is conducted in English, Non-residents can't vote, foreigners cannot hold public office, Foreigners can't join the military, foreigners cannot receive...

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I have thought of something along these lines also as much of what I do is backpack hunting. I had Hawks idea too, that if you bedded around the buttstock with epoxy that would reduce wear and tear of taking the gun down...but then decided even then something could chip off. So now I am thinking of ...

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Inside the abandoned Winchester New Haven factory:

http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2016 ... inchester/

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Gutted a deer with the sharpened edge of .303 magazine spring. 19th Century knives seem to be either weapons (like the bowie knife) or are butchers knife type, like the Old hickory. 20th century hunting knives were mostly (around here) either green river type curved skinners, (Hide hunters worked he...

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I bet he tells everyone they can't get 40 grains of black powder into the case...

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I corresponded with John the last couple of years, and he was a man of rare knowledge. He was always to me in his emails an open and dignified man and I have missed him. I opened this thread fearing to see what I knew it might be. I had already decided that if I went back to the United States that I...

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We had a Rossi Puma in the early 1980's as well, with the cat's head logo and the saddle ring, it was in .44-40. I believe that Rossi copied the Winchester 92 design from familiarity with the Tigre carbines that Brazil was full of - the Puma logo was their own version of the Tigre cat on those rifl...

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I believe that Rossi copied the Winchester 92 design from familiarity with the Tigre carbines that Brazil was full of - the Puma logo was their own version of the Tigre cat on those rifles. I am not sure when they stopped putting the Puma badge or logo on the side of the receiver, probably the earl...

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We had a Rossi Puma in the early 1980's as well, with the cat's head logo and the saddle ring, it was in .44-40. I believe that Rossi copied the Winchester 92 design from familiarity with the Tigre carbines that Brazil was full of - the Puma logo was their own version of the Tigre cat on those rifle...

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In my opinion, the test on the ham will not be illuminating other than to tell you that your bullets will shoot straight through that ham and bone with little trouble. If it is of any interest, last year I was shooting red deer with a .44 -40 with pure lead 200 grain cast bullets and black powder, v...

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I am on the what we call the Mainland.

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I saw it the other night. I was ready to love it, I had been waiting to see it for a while. The basic premise was great.

(As for guns, I noticed the main characters having Winchester 73's instead of Springfield rifles, which were issue at that time I believe. They were in the army after all. )

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That's something I never thought about..

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It's amazing what a little common sense will do. I've always believed ....and have proven many times, with rifles from the 1870's on, that if a barrel is straight, a decent lock up from behind, decent rifling, a good crown.....that it WILL shoot at least a three inch group at 100 as long as bullet ...

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Tanqueray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:36 am Good work. I saw it up for sale yesterday and felt a bit of guilt for having put you onto it, glad it has worked out!

I had a moment of despair, but I came right...I just couldn't bear to part with it.

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That is really good news, now you can enjoy the rifle. Are the Red Stag in size about half way between our white tail deer and elk?? Hi Jerry, yes, now I can relax and enjoy myself without worrying. A good stag will go about 225 Kg or even more sometimes - we grow bigger red deer than they do in th...

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Where is the photographs? Photographs are essential! This is a rifle I want to see.

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So when I last left off, the .32 Winchester Special, in the from of a very nice old pre-64 Winchester 94 carbine, made in 1958, for which I had paid a ridiculous amount of money, was still shooting 6 inch groups with reloads I cobbled together with parts from an 8mm die and a .30-30 die and somethin...

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I know what you mean. The magic might rub off and it'll stop working again.
It seems your on the right track, have another go at it.

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Mitch - good work.
Try another experiment - make the shim thicker, fold the peice of aluminium making two thicknesses (on one side or the other) and try that, I am picking you wont have to work it so hard to chamber, you time it right and it should feed without effort.

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Deeply impressed with both of those. The deluxe version - I have never seen a period 1894 rifle of such class.

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You're braver than some Mitch, Well done. I think what you should do now, is take your other one apart and see if you can spot the difference with those lifters, even try swapping parts and see what happens maybe.

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Well this .32 spcl is turning into a roller coaster ride - I went back to the range today to reproduce this group and alter the point of impact also. I had made up a handful of the same loads, made exactly the same as the load above. First thing I saw was my rabbit. This rabbit has been seen lurking...

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Mitch, sent you a PM.

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