Mojave Lever Crew - Roll Call!

[nickel plate]

My favorite gold mining movie stars one of my favorite actors.

https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Rider-Clint-Eastwood/dp/B000H2GS6Q

You would have been known as "Golden Golf". lol

Richard Kiel was the 7'2" bad guy who fought Clint in that movie. I bring this up as he was a resident of the foothill town of Coarsegold, Ca. between Fresno and Oakhurst.

[splithoof]

Gotta say always had a fondness for that dapple grey the Preacher rode.....

Tombstone, Quigley and Young Guns get watched alot round these parts.

Then there is Danny Glover and his two Henry's in Silverado.

That was a tall steed.
Although I think the effect would have been better if he had arrived on a Lippizan or Andalusian.

[Horsewright]

Tall ponies work for us tall guys. Downtown Mister Brown is pushing 17 hands:



"Little" George here is a mere hell for stout 16 hands and my son is on Downtown:





Now back to our regularly scheduled programing:



Just noted two of my 4 pics have flags in em.. America!

[200Apples]

'MERICA! **** yeah!

One of our biggest Western movie fans is the illustrious Apples. He would favor any Louie Lamour movie. Bet he loved Quigley Down Under and the Spencer rifle.

One would think!

I have yet to see Quigley in it's entirety, but I am familiar with the premise.



An older, 30-minute episode of Gunsmoke just aired, titled "Cheyennes". In it was a brand-new Spencer, but Matt said, .44... you could see from the 1959 film footage remastered for digital broadcast that the rifle was indeed N.I.B condition.

They found the gunrunners supplying the redskins; this time the 'runners brought a wagonload of ammo along with some guns and just as the "hostiles" descended upon the booty, Chester dumped coal oil on top of the load and Matt lighted the match.

Black powder go boom.


And believe it or not, I've not seen all of Clint Eastwood's westerns, and the last time I watched Shane was maybe 40 years ago. These are all on the list!

[Horsewright]

All crew members should watch Wind River if they have not seen it. A Marlin .45-70 is one of the main characters.

[200Apples]

Wind River was great! and reminded me of two different actors in a good, long episode of LONGMIRE.


The lil' stainless .44 Mag Marlin 1894 SBL was called "Wind River Light" by somebody on calguns awhile back.

[Killer Bee]

uhm, Lucas McCain and Josh Randall?

[glassparman]

Don't hurt your eyes looking at my face but here is a nice shot of my '94 Winchester. This picture is in the canyon off Backus and 30th.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpftXkVnVAO/

Mike

[Killer Bee]

Ray, I looked at it a few times, but decided to pass



It seems impossible to find a great deal (or even good) on a pistol caliber lever gun.

Tell us about any great deals you've found on a lever gun in the last 2 years. Inquiring minds want to know, include price and where you found it. Pictures too!

Maybe you can help me up my game, I know how to search, but tell us about the alert options you use, please.

Thanks,
Bob

gunbroker site did change a few years ago, and admittedly I haven't bought anything through there in a few years, 2017 looks like from my profile..

Killer Bee A+(33)
Member Since 02/09/2009

but all of my searches are still there and email alerts are still available.. the criteria is quite extensive and always worked for me.. you can customize as many searches as you need until just what you're looking for sifts through.. I really don't like the new website format but I'm not buying much these days, stuffed a 30" and a 40" cannon to the gills each plus everything back home already..

the advanced search, completed items tab (must be logged in) is great for finding past auctions to determine national value.. unfortunately there isn't (or wasn't) a 'sold' tab in there so you have to sort through them all to find sold, and they only keep closed auctions for 90 days.. if you study a particular model, age, condition, etc. for any length of time, you will start to see a trend of what others are bidding and what they actually sell for.. calguns typically didn't have enough or any of the type of guns I was buying to find any for sale or form any reliable data so I kept going back to gunbroker, if for nothing else to see if it was worth listed price..

gunbroker isn't perfect or even the best, but probably the highest traffic and good place to add to your search places.. as for buying from sellers there, I haven't had any issues and haven't encountered one 'no sales to ca' that I wasn't able to flip if I was wanting to bid/buy.. good luck!

as for my deals, only one lever but here's a couple of specific 1971 Winchesters I wanted that may have taken a 100 years to land here..

prices may not be stellar but I got exactly what I was looking for, model, caliber, year, and vintage scope mounted where possible..

$585 shipped 4/2012 '71 model 88 .308 w/ Japanese Tasco 3-9x40 model W39X40 on Weaver rings and base



$417 shipped 11/2012 '71 Winchester model 100 .308 w/ Bausch & Lomb BALFOR A fixed 4x on Kuharsky Bros. plunger mount

look up that scope and base, I doubt very many of you have ever even seen one and it was something I was hoping to find eventually on a vintage rifle.. if you don't have one of Strobel's books, get one



$368.17 plus $35 shipping 7/2012 Winchester model 70 .300wm magnaported complete with original sights and white line recoil pad.. shown here with a decelerator pad, sights removed, filler screws, and some older leupold bases, still working on vintage scope but have mounted a couple of modern models for research purposes

[BOBGBA]

Killerbee -

Thanks, those are all very nice guns and are really good deals.

I've tried and use all those techniques on GB, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. I didn't like the changes they made to the site either.

[Killer Bee]

thank you! I guess it really depends what you're looking for.. modern in-production guns may not be as many deals out of state or out of your own local area.. but the older models out of production is where the broader range helps the most.. and calguns has pulled through with a few '71 guns for me as well

[SanJoseMarkp]

I have not been looking since I buckled when I saw by Model 1873 Deluxe Sporting in .45 colt. I seem to not be able to get a good picture show how beautiful the wood is.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mastersniper1967/49891654558/in/dateposted-public/

but you might also browse around the sass classifieds: https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php...e-classifieds/

[bergmen]

I have not been looking since I buckled when I saw by Model 1873 Deluxe Sporting in .45 colt. I seem to not be able to get a good picture show how beautiful the wood is.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mastersniper1967/49891654558/in/dateposted-ff/

but you might also browse around the sass classifieds: https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php...e-classifieds/

Can't see the picture on Flickr since an account is required (and I don't have one).

Dan

[SanJoseMarkp]

Can't see the picture on Flickr since an account is required (and I don't have one).

Dan

sorry can't seem to get image insert working. I changed the rights to public on Flikr try this one

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mastersniper1967/49891654558/in/dateposted-public/

[golfish]

nice 73