Foxyboy43
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Nice!
My 22magnum winchester takes the pull-through brass end easily - is it the shorter chamber stops your pull-through?
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My 22magnum winchester takes the pull-through brass end easily - is it the shorter chamber stops your pull-through?
Graycj
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Yeah exactly that. Just a wee ejection port. Maybe if I shop around a bit I can find a smaller one that’ll fit. Or a flexible plastic one maybe.Nice!
My 22magnum winchester takes the pull-through brass end easily - is it the shorter chamber stops your pull-through?
Smellydog
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Why are you wanting to clean a 22 barrel?
Nice rifle by the way.
Graycj
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I learned to shoot with the cadets and then the army. The thought of putting a rifle away in the cabinet without a decent clean makes my brain itch…
Smellydog
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You don't clean a 22 buddy. You want the bore coated in the bullet lube.
By all means remove any moisture from a center fire rifle bore but your 22 will be fine.
Even Roadway Green 5.56 NATO ball has a tar like lube on the jacketed bullet that would of coated the bore of the service rifle. Not many know that.
Over cleaning can do damage as well.
Your 22 will be fine because of the bullet lube.
Jameshenry
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Is it still for sale?My old Winchester 94 in 30-30 is available for around £500.
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Smellydog
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Yes sir
Doubleplay
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We have a Marlin .35 Remington lever action and killed two bears with it shooting 200 grain bullets.
It's a fantastic gun and cartridge for blind hunting under 100 meters or stalking in thick brush.
Very easy to carry and move trough thick stuff.
All you need is a low power like a 1.5- 5 on it with illuminated reticle.
Obviously ballistics is not good for mid to long distances.
LeftHandGuy
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I have the same. Although I run a Skinner sight which (IMHO) is superior to an optic for short (100 M and under) ranges.
I run the Speer 220 grain over H4895 and find it to be both very accurate and very effective.
Saying that, if someone wanted it for use in the UK, the lighter 180 grain Speer or 200 grain Hornady flex tip might be necessary in order to get it "legal"
alberta boy
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A friend of mine uses the Speer 180 grainers in a Remington Model 14 that he inherited from his Grandfather , a beautiful old rifle , but that's another story . I've seen him take a few large bodied deer with that load . One was a respectable Mule Deer buck at about 125 yards , the other was a very large White -Tail buck at 75ish yards . Both went down almost instantly , a very effective load . His Grandfather and Father both considered the 35 pump a great Moose combo as well and dropped a number of Swamp Donkies with it over the years .......................... neither of them read gun magazines , so they were both unaware of the fact that the 35 Rem is totally inadequate for Moose lol .
AB
Smellydog
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Oooo ooo, one of my favourite powders. Lovely stuff.
Smellydog
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Like me, toilet roll, PARDON......
scrumbag
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Very nice! What is it?
45-70?
aboynamedjim
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Enjoy it sir. Mine is from 1967 and I love the 30.30. Very intuitive and so much easier to handle in woodland staking. Wear good ear defenders and go have some fun!
Smellydog
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Talking of leverguns I just read this elsewhere and borrowed it.
"So, yesterday afternoon the sun was shinning, the wind was light, the chores were done so what to do? Have a levergun day at the range!!
So, I packed up 6 favorites, my 2 .357 Mag Rossi 92s, my .45 Colt Uberti 66 and 73, my 30-30 Mossy 464 and my .308 Winchester 88 and headed for the 200 yd stands at the range. After setting up I got to some serious plinking with all 6 platforms. Nothing fancy, no chrono testing, no sighting in, not testing loads. Just some good ole' plinkin fun.
I was having a great time just plinkin away when a few younger fellows stopped by to ask about my rifles sitting in the rack behind me at the line as most of them were shooting a variation of the AR, be it 5.56, .308 or one young man with a 50 Beowulf in an AR platform. A couple of them mentioned that they'd never seen anyone actually shoot a 92/94 pattern levergun. When I brought out my scoped Winchester 88, they all were puzzled as it looks very much like a Winchester model 70 but with a lever instead of a bolt.
As I was shooting the 92s and the Uberti 66 and 73, they couldn't believe that I was shooting a pistol bullet at targets at 200 yds. I explained that I'd loaded them specifically for the longer barrel of a levergun vs the commercial loads (and especially cowboy loads) that were used mostly in SA pistols and so the velocities and hence, longer range performance, was significantly enhanced.
This seemed to baffle all but the Beowulf shooter as he was the only other reloader in the group. When I told them that my hot 158grn .357 Mag loads produced 2,005 fps out of the 24" Rossi rifle, they couldn't believe it so I took a bowling pin out to 300 yds, adjusted the tang sight for that distance, aimed as carefully as I could and to my relief hit it on the second try after just missing on the first.
To say that they were astonished was putting it mildly as one said that he didn't think he could hit that bowling pin with his scoped AR at 300 yds. So, I gave them each their choice of the .357 Mag tang sighted Rossi 92, 24" rifle or .45 Colt tang sighted Uberti 73, 24" rifle and 3 rds to shoot at 200 yds and they admitted that the leverguns were easier to shoot long distance than they thought.
I explained about the target aperture in the tang sights and how it aided one's Depth of Field making shooting that distance easier than it looked and I must say that they were impressed. A couple said that they might just have to look at picking up one as they were more fun to shoot than their ARs because they got to manually cycle the action (just like in the cowboy movies).
I mentioned that, as they didn't handload, some Buffalo Bore Heavy .357 Mag or .45 Colt loads in Marlins produced some even higher velocities than my loads did but that the Uberti's design dictated that they stay with stand pressure (14,000psi or under) loads which is what I was using. I could see in their eyes that the session lit up an enjoyment for my leverguns and I'm sure at least one of them will end up with a levergun soon as he can find one to his liking.
All in all, it was an enjoyable afternoon shooting and I may have influenced a couple of shooters to give pistol caliber leverguns a try and that's always a good thing to show the young folks that there is a whole world of rifles out there that aren't ARs.
Steve".
"So, yesterday afternoon the sun was shinning, the wind was light, the chores were done so what to do? Have a levergun day at the range!!
So, I packed up 6 favorites, my 2 .357 Mag Rossi 92s, my .45 Colt Uberti 66 and 73, my 30-30 Mossy 464 and my .308 Winchester 88 and headed for the 200 yd stands at the range. After setting up I got to some serious plinking with all 6 platforms. Nothing fancy, no chrono testing, no sighting in, not testing loads. Just some good ole' plinkin fun.
I was having a great time just plinkin away when a few younger fellows stopped by to ask about my rifles sitting in the rack behind me at the line as most of them were shooting a variation of the AR, be it 5.56, .308 or one young man with a 50 Beowulf in an AR platform. A couple of them mentioned that they'd never seen anyone actually shoot a 92/94 pattern levergun. When I brought out my scoped Winchester 88, they all were puzzled as it looks very much like a Winchester model 70 but with a lever instead of a bolt.
As I was shooting the 92s and the Uberti 66 and 73, they couldn't believe that I was shooting a pistol bullet at targets at 200 yds. I explained that I'd loaded them specifically for the longer barrel of a levergun vs the commercial loads (and especially cowboy loads) that were used mostly in SA pistols and so the velocities and hence, longer range performance, was significantly enhanced.
This seemed to baffle all but the Beowulf shooter as he was the only other reloader in the group. When I told them that my hot 158grn .357 Mag loads produced 2,005 fps out of the 24" Rossi rifle, they couldn't believe it so I took a bowling pin out to 300 yds, adjusted the tang sight for that distance, aimed as carefully as I could and to my relief hit it on the second try after just missing on the first.
To say that they were astonished was putting it mildly as one said that he didn't think he could hit that bowling pin with his scoped AR at 300 yds. So, I gave them each their choice of the .357 Mag tang sighted Rossi 92, 24" rifle or .45 Colt tang sighted Uberti 73, 24" rifle and 3 rds to shoot at 200 yds and they admitted that the leverguns were easier to shoot long distance than they thought.
I explained about the target aperture in the tang sights and how it aided one's Depth of Field making shooting that distance easier than it looked and I must say that they were impressed. A couple said that they might just have to look at picking up one as they were more fun to shoot than their ARs because they got to manually cycle the action (just like in the cowboy movies).
I mentioned that, as they didn't handload, some Buffalo Bore Heavy .357 Mag or .45 Colt loads in Marlins produced some even higher velocities than my loads did but that the Uberti's design dictated that they stay with stand pressure (14,000psi or under) loads which is what I was using. I could see in their eyes that the session lit up an enjoyment for my leverguns and I'm sure at least one of them will end up with a levergun soon as he can find one to his liking.
All in all, it was an enjoyable afternoon shooting and I may have influenced a couple of shooters to give pistol caliber leverguns a try and that's always a good thing to show the young folks that there is a whole world of rifles out there that aren't ARs.
Steve".
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