Mojave Lever Crew - Roll Call!

[golfish]

I think it was the late Duece McGurk that mentioned LS&B to us here in the MLC Roll Call thread... or it might have been golfish, one of our founding fathers. Duece knew the guys over at Gunslinger's in Covina.

LS&B is in Simi Valley, and someone there or someone formerly associated with them is a Champion SASS shooter.

The LS&B that I knew was in San Gabriel behind the Northwoods Inn. This was 50 years ago. I don't know if the shop in the valley is the same outfit...

Every time I go to Phillips I tell myself that I'm going to go to Gunslinger. My nephew does a lot of shopping there. They also have a lot of action going on on GunBroker.

We need a good desert trip.....and I mean a good one..

[ar15barrels]

The LS&B that I knew was in San Gabriel behind the Northwoods Inn. This was 50 years ago.
I don't know if the shop in the valley is the same outfit...

It's not.
My friend Lew started LS&B 10-15 years ago.

[pennstater]

LS&B, the old one in San Gabriel would get a visit anytime we'd go to the "Boat". What a great place to eat and have a beer or two! Ahh, the days.

MLC

[200Apples]

My friend Lew started LS&B.
His nephew Spencer runs it now.
Spencer's cowboy handle is Lead Dispencer.
He was world champion 3 times in cowboy action shooting.
http://www.spencerhoglund.com/

That's it. Lead Dispencer. I've seen some video of his shooting. How can anyone be faster?



Thanks, Randall.


And it was BOBGBA that first brought up the subject of LS&B in this thread, now that I remember. He posted a link to that .35 Remington-chambered Marlin 336... I'm still dro0ling.

[BOBGBA]

According to the LSB website:

"Lock, Stock & Barrel was started by Spencer Hoglund, a noted firearms collector, researcher and a World Champion Cowboy Shooter. Spencer realized gun owners were in need of an honest and reliable destination for selling their guns and related items. Lock, Stock & Barrel has grown to be the largest auction house of its kind on the West Coast."

https://lsbauctions.com/about/

[BOBGBA]

As one of the many MLC Enablers here, in case you haven't bookmarked the links, here you go.

Here's their latest set of available lever rifles

https://www.gunbroker.com/Lever-Acti...27&PageSize=24

And here's their revolvers, although not all of them can be transferred to CA residents.

https://www.gunbroker.com/Revolvers/...27&PageSize=24

Here's C&R stuff, additional levers and revolvers (and more)...

https://www.gunbroker.com/Curios-Rel...Sort=13&View=1

LSB auctions guns every two weeks on GB. Usually the auctions end Sunday at 5PM-ish.

Hope this helps quench your thirst and gives you guys something to ponder...

[splithoof]

Thank you for the link Bob.
I think I’ve met that nice hunting dog in your pic....
Please give him a hug & a pet from me!

[M1NM]

No opposition noted here that they are lever guns. They were first discussed way back around message 120.
People have tended to lump all lever guns into the cowboy gun definition. If you go back far enough you see how the Winchester etal evolved from the single shot lever operated gun into the magazine fed lever action.

[200Apples]

We are, in the spirit of the 21st Century, an all-inclusive Lever-Operated Firearm Society and, as such, we include the #1.




Jonathan Browning, John Moses' father, was a gunsmith of renown in his time. One of his first notable designs, his "Slide Gun", moved a flat magazine laterally through the receiver for each of it's five chamber bores. It was an ingeniously simple lever mechanism and produced between 1834-42.

(John M. Browning AMERICAN GUNMAKER - By John Browning [eldest son] and Curt Gentry - Doubleday, 1964)

[pennstater]

We are, in the spirit of the 21st Century, an all-inclusive Lever-Operated Firearm Society and, as such, we include the #1.




Jonathan Browning, John Moses' father, was a gunsmith of renown in his time. One of his first notable designs, his "Slide Gun", moved a flat magazine laterally through the receiver for each of it's five chamber bores. It was an ingeniously simple lever mechanism and produced between 1834-42.

(John M. Browning AMERICAN GUNMAKER - By John Browning [eldest son] and Curt Gentry - Doubleday, 1964)

Hot damn! I best bring my No. 1B out next time we venture out. May as well bring the Mod 94 as well!

MLC

[Spyder]

Hey, if my Sharps and Hankins counts, a #1 counts too!!

[ar15barrels]

According to the LSB website:

"Lock, Stock & Barrel was started by Spencer Hoglund, a noted firearms collector, researcher and a World Champion Cowboy Shooter. Spencer realized gun owners were in need of an honest and reliable destination for selling their guns and related items. Lock, Stock & Barrel has grown to be the largest auction house of its kind on the West Coast."

https://lsbauctions.com/about/

When Lew started it, they didn't have a website or an actual storefront location.
That all came years later when he handed it over to Spencer.

[gratefuldog]

Alrighty there, Smokers:
I'll see your cheese and raise y'all some Smoked Butter!:

https://cowgirlscountry.blogspot.com/2021/03/cold-smoking-and-canning-butter.html

Not my blog, but she makes some pretty awesome lookin' stuff.

[nickel plate]

Alrighty there, Smokers:
I'll see your cheese and raise y'all some Smoked Butter!:

https://cowgirlscountry.blogspot.com/2021/03/cold-smoking-and-canning-butter.html

Not my blog, but she makes some pretty awesome lookin' stuff.

Really enjoyed that blog!
Smoking butter? Way out of my league so I guess I'll have to fold with a pair of muensters, gouda high but did add the smokehouse build to my favorites.
Thanks for sharing.

[Spyder]

I'll get photos (hopefully) for you knuckleheads tomorrow, but...

The epic that was purchasing, acquiring, and finding new purchases to go with the 45 Colt Buntline we talked about months ago has come to an end.

I bought the ivory one back in December. Some shipping snafu's occurred, and I wasn't able to DROS it until late February. When I went to pick it up, there was a Ruger MkII MK10 that was factory drilled and tapped on consignment, which I just HAD to have, and today was the pickup day for it. I also picked up my CMP Garand from the ffl today, and my Liberator pistol a while back.

To stay on the lever gun topic and subforum of manually operated rifles, the Buntline will be a great companion to my pair of 20 and 24" Marlin 1894 Cowboys that are also in 45 Colt.

But...I'll round them all up in the stable sometime soon and shoot off a photo. The Buntline shoots great and I'm VERY happy with everything about it, and it shoots the same plinking load I shoot in the 24" 1894 excellently, so no need to even work a new load. I'm gonna have fun with this new bunch.