Mojave Lever Crew - Roll Call!

[Horsewright]

The MLC should have it's own version of Gun Fund Me.

I feel your pain, my good man.

Yep these guys made BIG holes in my checkbook! The new saddle:



And the new filly:



No B92 for me right now......at least for right now.

[RayPDA]

[Spyder]

I'm going to divert attention back to me for a minute ME ME ME!!!

...This antique marlin I picked up recently... stamped 25-20 on underside of barrel, 25-20 chambers smooth and easy and I fired one. And it blew the shoulder forward quite a bit. What might it have been rechambered to at some point over the last 120 years? Still 25 caliber, and the body of the brass is the same, just shoulder pushed forward and almost like a weatherby shoulder instead of sharp or long taper.

I'll do a photo once I get home later today.

[bergmen]

I'm going to divert attention back to me for a minute ME ME ME!!!

...This antique marlin I picked up recently... stamped 25-20 on underside of barrel, 25-20 chambers smooth and easy and I fired one. And it blew the shoulder forward quite a bit. What might it have been rechambered to at some point over the last 120 years? Still 25 caliber, and the body of the brass is the same, just shoulder pushed forward and almost like a weatherby shoulder instead of sharp or long taper.

I'll do a photo once I get home later today.

Can you do a chamber cast in order to measure and examine the nature of the existing chamber? The fired shell may be good enough for that though.

Dan

[Spyder]

Yea, I can do some measurements on it later. A bit more research and I'm fairly confident it's 25-20 Improved/255 Dean, or it could be 256 Winchester Magnum. Seems that a fair number of them were recut to the 256, which is iffy because of the big pressure differences. But the one black and white photo I saw of the 25-20 Improved the shoulder looks the same.

Fire formed brass on the photo on the left.

More research tonight!

[Killer Bee]

A .410! I was thinking a single shot .44-40 or .45 Colt. Damn nice. I would definitely like to get one of those. I think. Pricey?

MLC

There are some crazy guys on YouTube that take a similar gun in .410 and shoot just about anything they can through it, it was a pretty good video. I think one of the guys passed away a few years back.
This is one of those guns that holds it value. It was about $60.00 in the early 70s and is probably worth about $60.00 now

sorry to go out of context again, but I LOVE .410! got a couple of them, just no levers yet..

these are mine, the two in the middle are mossberg 183 .410 models, lower a deluxe..

bottom is a stevens 59a .410 tube feeder also a deluxe.. top is a 20ga, sorry



my 8yo already shooting grandpa's (my first shotgun experience) with 3-inchers

[200Apples]

Had a last-minute get-away to a local public shooting range this morning in San Francisquito Canyon called A Place To Shoot. Took my Marlin Texan in .30-30, a .357 Marlin 1894 and a .44 B92 along with some handloads.

I met BOBGBA out there and we made a morning of it. He got to break in his new-to-him, 2003-made .357 Marlin 1894! and it's a shooter! He was hittin' up the hill on a 100 [Edit: Correction: 125 yard plate] repeatedly with .38 +P and .357. I think he's pretty happy with it!

My .30-30 handloads using a lighter bullet (125 grain Sierra sjhp) and 30.4 grains Varget (2.2 cc Lee dipper equivalent) made consistent hits on 100 yards with virtually no recoil. It's a pretty nice plinkin' load that would get after some varmints, too.

[Revhendo]

Why do we not have a "like" button on this forum?

[RayPDA]

[RayPDA]

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[pennstater]

Ray, that 39a is a dandy! Scoreboard!

MLC

[inyocountymark]

Why do we not have a "like" button on this forum?

cuz this forum isn't comrade Facebook or whatever the crap it is

[DueceMcGurk]

I'm going to divert attention back to me for a minute ME ME ME!!!

...This antique marlin I picked up recently... stamped 25-20 on underside of barrel, 25-20 chambers smooth and easy and I fired one. And it blew the shoulder forward quite a bit. What might it have been rechambered to at some point over the last 120 years? Still 25 caliber, and the body of the brass is the same, just shoulder pushed forward and almost like a weatherby shoulder instead of sharp or long taper.

I'll do a photo once I get home later today.

.250-3000 Savage
25-06 Rem
Both have tapered cases (I think)

[200Apples]

Had a last-minute get-away to a local public shooting range this morning in San Francisquito Canyon called A Place To Shoot. Took my Marlin Texan in .30-30, a .357 Marlin 1894 and a .44 B92 along with some handloads.

I met BOBGBA out there and we made a morning of it. He got to break in his new-to-him, 2003-made .357 Marlin 1894! and it's a shooter! He was hittin' up the hill on a [Edit: Correction: 125 yard plate repeatedly with .38 +P and .357. I think he's pretty happy with it!

My .30-30 handloads using a lighter bullet (125 grain Sierra sjhp) and 30.4 grains Varget (2.2 cc Lee dipper equivalent) made consistent hits on 100 yards with virtually no recoil. It's a pretty nice plinkin' load that would get after some varmints, too.

I wanna go back right now! but cannot for another week at least. Gonna have a heavy honey-do list to tackle immediately after Memorial Day, and the weather is gonna be a little warm. Weatherman showed us a map of the High that will sit over the soutwest that will be blocked from moving by a Low on either side. He called it an "Omega block". We'll see. At least I can build ammo in the evenings!

[Spyder]

.250-3000 Savage
25-06 Rem
Both have tapered cases (I think)

Nah, I'm pretty confident it is 25-20 Improved. The fire formed brass looks identical, is the same exact length as regular 25-20, and those two are both WAY too long for it.

I'm almost convinced to send Hornady 3 pieces of fire formed brass and have them make me some custom dies for it, and just go with it from there. Should be easy to work up a load with.


And, because I think I forgot to put photos, here's some terrible probably too small phone pics to look at.