http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__Aimoo CityAimooen-USAimoo http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Sorry-I-can-start-a-new-thread-but-can-t-enter-text-Using-200Gn-LRNFs-1-974520.html 4fingermick 2004-04-12 00:29:25.0 Leverguns Sorry, I can start a new thread, but can't enter text. Using 200Gn LRNFs http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/375-Win-came-home-1-970471.html lar45 2004-12-18 09:17:01.0 Leverguns The rifle that I missed by 10 min awhile back, came back to the gun shop. The owner held onto it and I picked it up last time I went in. I packed it through the woods this past weekend, it sure is light and handy. I didn't see anything legal to shoot though. Maybe next weekend.Anyway, it's a Winches http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/375-shooters-1-962372.html arkypete 2004-02-17 04:57:15.0 Leverguns Between a divorce, eight years ago, two moves I've not shot as much as I used to.Ok with that said I have bunches of 375 bullets RCBS, Lyman, Saeco and NEI sized, lubed, gas checked. These bullets have been waiting patiently for me to seat them in a case and fire them down range, for the past eight http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/30-38-JAT-1-962123.html starmetal 2004-08-02 22:19:19.0 Leverguns Hey Deputy AlHow about this one. A 30/38 JAT (38 spcl necked down to 30 caliber Joe Al Tokarev) for a neat little hot round for a 92 carbine? http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Bore-and-Stroke-Win-94-1-938408.html lar45 2005-01-28 13:17:23.0 Leverguns Hi, anybody see any problems with lengthening the stroke on a Win mod 94?I found an extra 375 bbl and was thinking about trying to do a 375WSM or something similar.It looks like the frame isn't quite wide enough to take the rim of a 45-70, but a RUM case will just squeeze in. http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Tried-Re-7-in-44-40-1-931579.html fourarmed 2005-03-31 10:27:40.0 Leverguns After noting a thread on the subject here, I found data in an Alliant manual and gave it a try.  I loaded two loads, both with the Lee 200 gr. round flat nose bullet.  Both used 23 grains of Re-7.  One load was with Win. LR primers, the other with Fed LP.  I was surprised at the http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/30-30-problem-using-beveled-plain-base-bullets-1-925242.html jh45gun 2005-01-02 16:14:20.0 Leverguns Ok hear is the deal I have quite  a few of these left  ( around 200) 165 grain beveled flat base flat nosed cast that I bought. The company is not in business any more ( If memory serves me right I think they were called Mid Kansas)  I did make up some light loads http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/New-brownchester-for-2005-1-921991.html onceabull 2005-01-06 07:38:37.0 Leverguns Just in case I'm only next to last to get the word... two options in 25-35 Win. chambered mdl 94's are apparently shown in the 2005 catalog.. I'm told that both are 20" carbines,..!! Onceabull http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Guide-Gun-Porting-Questions-1-916263.html BruceB 2005-02-08 09:48:40.0 Leverguns A good friend is looking VERY hard at a .45-70 Marlin Guide Gun at a local store. It's a stainless-steel version, but it has the now-discontinued barrel ports.His questions:-just how efficient is the porting in reducing recoil?- how much noisier is it than a similar unported gun?-(The BIGGIE, and I http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Thanks-575-for-the-44-40-Henry-BP-load-1-910383.html BlackpowderBill 2004-04-10 20:00:41.0 Leverguns Jim: Thanks for the info on the RCBS 44-225-swc load w/ 23.5 gr fff,.4cc cow & your musket lube. I plan to try it. The 44 moulds I now have on hand are Rapine 211 gr hollow base, Lee 429-200 RF (casts .430 weighs 210 gr), Lyman 429667, & RCBS 44-200 CM & several old .44 Magnum moulds (some are g http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Winchestor-94-with-LEE-158-RF-1-892218.html willbird 2005-03-11 16:50:06.0 Leverguns Will the Lee 158 RF work in a win 94 in 357 and using 38 brass ?? and if so what oal works well ? is feeding sensitive to oal ?Bill http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/A-Marlin-M93-redux-1-883741.html Buckshot2 2004-05-01 14:34:07.0 Leverguns .........I had my grandfather's M93 Marlin 30-30 for probably 20 years, but it was actually my brother's. I got the M1903 Springfield Sporter, he took the Marlin. A sweeter shooting levergun would have been VERY hard to find, I think. I knew that one day my brother would come calling for it, and so http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/What-s-the-trick-to-cycling-a-Marlin-1-876240.html LostCajun 2003-12-15 19:58:38.0 Leverguns At long last I used my Thanksgiving vacation to retrieve the remainder of my small arsenal from my parents' house (usingmy 'new' BIG truck). Oh, yeah, plus a half-bucket of wheelweights.I was trying out the Marlin 94 .44 with some dummy rounds, and kept getting jams when I tried to cycle them throug http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Well-Duh-1-871710.html kcso912 2004-12-07 11:52:25.0 Leverguns As I sat at the bench the other day loading some practice rounds to shoot in my Savage 99 30-30 the light bulb when on.  Aftr all these years it dawned on me that I didn't HAVE to shoot flat point bullets.  All 30-30 shot flat points, right.  So I loaded up some LEE 155 gr. spire poin http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/A-trip-to-the-range-with-the-model-92-clone-1-870969.html elbStJoeMO 2005-01-04 08:02:29.0 Leverguns I went to the range yesterday to try to get a target or two to send to the postal match. I could have picked a better day, freezing rain and cold. It was about 28 degrees. my hands got pretty numb loading the 99 Savage and the groups showed it, so I gave that up and tried the new little Puma in .357 http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Another-30-30-1-857529.html JDL1 2004-08-29 20:38:12.0 Leverguns After not having a .30-30 for near 30 years, I got my 2nd one yesterday in a 3 month period. This one is a Winchester Model 94 carbine made in the '50's that's about 90% condition, with a Lyman 66 all steel rear sight and a sourdough front sight. I like that front sight!!!! Even without my glasses o http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Lee-158-RF-and-Marlin-1894C-1-851499.html Bill Storey 2005-03-22 15:41:45.0 Leverguns About what velocity do you normally see accuracy start to go away with the Lee 158 RF? http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/165-grain-plain-base-for-30-30-any-good-load-ideas-1-835313.html jh45gun 2004-07-29 21:53:32.0 Leverguns Hears the scoop I bought 250 plain beveled base 165 grain cast bullets all ready lubed with a red lube. They are Mid Kansas Cast Bullets which wnet out of business. Any ideas for some 30/30 loads with these. I do have some unique I would like to use up but any other good loads I will consider as I p http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/REPORT-TO-THE-PRINCIPAL-S-OFFICE1-1-827353.html floodgate1 2003-11-14 09:39:17.0 Leverguns REPORT TO ADMIN!Geez! Whad'd I do now?? (And how many more posts to my second star?)floodgate http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/KCSO-s-Rossi-article-1-826946.html Tpr Bret 2004-09-27 06:19:32.0 Leverguns Jim was kind enough to send me a copy if his forth coming articles on the Rossi '92's. Good reading and nice pics! Thanks Jim. Keep writing, I enjoy it. http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Phat-30-and-the-really-big-Marlin-336-1-822737.html Chargar 2004-11-18 06:28:16.0 Leverguns I got my round tuit and went to the range and gave my MM custom Phat 30 a try in my Marlin Westerner 336 (30-30) with the big .306 land to land diamter. It is a 180/FN/GC design that runs .307 on the nose and .315 on the body. I had the top driving band cut short (.70) to fit the short throat of the http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Exploded-view-of-a-marlin-39A-1-813242.html 7br 2004-06-24 04:22:27.0 Leverguns While this isn't strictly on topic, this is probably the best resource I have for solving this problem. I have temporarily swapped my Contender for my nephew's 39A. At this point, the 39A is non functioning. From the looks of it, the shells are not making it out of the tubular magazine and the carri http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Unloading-the-tube-magazine-what-s-Your-way-1-813164.html Finn45 2005-02-05 23:26:56.0 Leverguns This topic seems to be popping up time to time, so how do You empty Your tube magazine? My Marlin 1895 in .45-70 works this way; a lot easier than cranking them through the chamber as user manual suggests (video about 4 megs):--> Load - unload <-- http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Low-Vel-Cast-1-808171.html jh45gun 2004-08-17 20:25:36.0 Leverguns Well went and shot today with my 8mm mauser and my 30/30. 30/30 loads were 9.6 grains of unique with a 165 plain based bullet. 8mm was 11 and 12 grains of unique with a lee cast bullet ( 170?) un-gas checked as I do not have a sizer or checks for them yet. at 50 yards the 30/30 shot ok about 2 inch http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Another-99-1-799806.html Tpr Bret 2004-10-24 17:20:32.0 Leverguns Found the mother of all deals the other day and let myself fall into the trap. An early 70's (I think) Savage 99C in 308. Complete with that god awful pressed basket weave checkering for $245.00. Great shape and it's just like my Dad's long gone 284. ILOVEthat top tang safety and the clip always app http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Speaking-of-Marlin-336A-s-1-796422.html Marc1 2004-05-31 21:22:27.0 Leverguns My name is Marc and I am a gunaholic! Another member of our gun club is fleeing the PRK and moving to Idaho. He is a gun dealer and he had a yard sale today. I scored one of those big propane burners on a sturdy stand for $10. It should be perfect under the dutch oven I got from the neighbor for http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Back-when-some-of-you-were-pups-1-781297.html 45nut 2004-02-04 12:47:34.0 Leverguns Hmmm, Back in 1911 those prices may have seemed steep, But I would sure like a crack at em now45nut http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/32wcf-1892-cast-1-779757.html JohnK454 2004-02-10 04:58:28.0 Leverguns Ok, I know I'm the FNG, so please bear with my relative lack of cast bullet knowledge. Thought I would try posting a pic...Wish I could claim those two as called flyers!That is a 50' NRA slow fire target, the black is 3". Group measures exactly one inch, but here's the best thing -- it wasn't shot f http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Speaking-of-Williams-sights-1-775692.html JDL1 2004-05-30 13:53:44.0 Leverguns I have just bought a used Williams Foolproof receiver sight for my Marlin 336A. I know that the slide has a lock screw, but doesthe small screw at both the windage and elevation adjustmentneed to be loosened whenr adjusting?What is thevalue per click with a sight radius of 26 1/2"?I had the firesigh http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/A-bargain-1895-Winchester-1-775539.html BruceB 2003-11-09 13:04:53.0 Leverguns I'm kinda sorry to keep asking for input about these various guns I run across, but I value the opinions very highly.A friend just encountered a gent who is looking to unload EVERYTHING he owns in preparation for a move to Montana. Among the possessions is a Model 1895 in .30-03 (NOT .30-06) which m http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Cross-bolt-safety-question-1-761870.html marlinlover 2004-12-19 06:42:44.0 Leverguns I'm not used to the cross bolt safeties. But now I own one on my Model 94 in 45 colt, I'm wondering what's the way other hunters carry the rifle in the field, when close to game? Round chambered, safety on? This way requires pushing the safety in and cocking the hammer back for a quiet shot. http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Winchester-94-1-761131.html waksupi 2005-02-19 11:59:46.0 Leverguns Someone clue me in on this. My winchester is a .44 Mag. I did some shooting this morning, and 16 gr. 2400 behind a Kieth 240 GC WW bullet, gave me a group of 2.08 at fifty yards. Is this about the ball park for expected accuracy? I'm sure my eyesight has something to do with the group size. http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/44-Puma-1-756087.html Tpr Bret 2004-09-16 12:48:27.0 Leverguns So there's a 44 mag Rossi Puma waiting for me at the gunshop. It's the Saddle Ring Carbine job, a knock off of the Winchester '92 which has a real good reutation according to the boys at sixgunner.com and leverguns.com. It's about new and other than one obvious factory repair to the forearmit's good http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Build-a-25-20-Help-Please-1-751981.html ustabewoody1 2004-05-24 15:03:25.0 Leverguns Learned ones.  I really need a 25-20!  I'd really like to be able to scope it.  What would I have to do to a Marlin 94CS (357) besides change the barrel?  Could I get by with a different extractor or would I have to swap bolts also?  I've run 32-20's thru my 357 and they fee http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Marlin-or-Winchester-Lever-410-Shotgun-1-751860.html steve-in-kville 2004-04-24 06:04:55.0 Leverguns Anyone have either one? Local shop keeps the Marlins in stockand can have the Winchesters in a few days. Would make a fine pest control gun. Any comments?steve http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Magical-Marlin-30-A-and-the-FAT-30-bullet-1-745651.html Oldfeller 2005-03-30 19:27:22.0 Leverguns OK, this is a thread about a used microgroove Marlin 30-A lever-gun that I bought for $180 as a rusty gun special from a pawn shop. I never had owned nor had I ever wanted to own a lever action before in my life, but I had told some folks that Lar45's FAT 30 bullet would fit a microgroove marlin 30- http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/There-Baaaaaack-26-quot-Barrells-for-the-Win-94-1-733888.html Brazos 2004-05-12 17:13:13.0 Leverguns Yesterday while reading the latest Cowboy Chronicle, I came across a Gun Parts Corp. add. They are now again offering a 26" octogon barrell for the model 94 Winchester This time around it is offered in 38-55. I have a 94 with one of their old 26" barrells that I'm getting tired of. In '87 when http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Winchester-95-30-06-Data-powder-IMR-4895-210-grain-cast-boolet-1-723924.html arkypete 2004-10-20 00:47:46.0 Leverguns I found a wonderful buy on 8 pound jugs of reclaimed IMR 4895, so I bought four. The closest load I found to work with, was an old Lyman cast boolet loading manual. I used the lowest powder charge for a 208 grain boolet, from this manual.Some of you guys have long experience using the Data powder, r http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Your-Personal-All-time-Favorite-Lever-Action-1-705059.html steve-in-kville 2004-08-19 11:01:17.0 Leverguns Things appear a little slow on the Leverguns forum... so I beg the question.... What's your favorite lever gun of all time? Please limit it to one's you actually have owned or shot.Maybe something you currently own or a rifle that's long gone. Maybe it was your dad's or uncles. Maybe just a certain http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/300-Savage-M99-1-689483.html 26Charlie 2005-02-08 10:01:31.0 Leverguns Well, haven't bought a gun inover eight months - but the deal was too good to deny. M99 .300 Savage for $350 - built around 1955, I would say, blue & finish quite honorable for its age, no add-ons, extraneous holes, only modification appears to be that a previous owner didn't like the sling swiv http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/How-does-one-differentiate-Savage-99-models-1-680143.html shooter223 2003-10-09 12:59:49.0 Leverguns What better way to introduce yourself than by showing ignorance. I bought a used Savage 99 this past summer. You know, one of those itches that needed scratching. I think the card the guy had on it said 99F. However, that model is supposed to be a takedown version and I am not sure it is. It's a nic http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/336A-1-674602.html Crazy Mark 2003-11-24 21:37:20.0 Leverguns One of these 336A's just happened to follow me home tonight. It's a 35 Rem made in 1951.  It's been used but not abused. Has a Redfield receiver sight and a great looking bore. Now I have another gun to work up cast loads for.   Mark http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/33-WCF-load-data-1-669469.html ejjuls 2005-01-18 07:16:42.0 Leverguns Howdy all,Just have a simple question....Where in the world does a person find load data for the .33WCF?????Lee offers "load data" with their die set for the .33WCF - is this the only published data available? Is there a manual out there that offers this caliber data?If anyone out there has data, pu http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/1894-Marlin-44-MAG-1-656215.html CaptainMidnight 2005-02-25 10:55:19.0 Leverguns I picked up this nice 44 MAG at the gun show this weekend. It has a nice 3X9 scope and is in excellent condition. It does not look to have been fired much. I would really like to know what the going price for one of these is on the used market as I do not have a 44 MAG anything and would wish to http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Win-94-44-mag-troubles-1-654892.html Bullthrower 2005-02-13 18:11:32.0 Leverguns Hello guys...I posted a wile back about a win 94 in .44 mag and getting Kieth boolits to feed reliably..well, I fixed that problem by crimping over the front driving band...feeds great now, but doesnt shoot anything worth a darn..Best 10 shot group at 50 yds is 5", Iron sights rested. I have tried c http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Cowboy-Loads-for-1866-Uberti-Yellow-Boy-in-44-40-1-654063.html 4fingermick 2004-04-19 17:44:59.0 Leverguns Cowboy Loads for 1866 Uberti Yellow Boy in 44/40 http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Knocked-out-the-1893-Marlin-project-that-had-been-hanging-around-1-651407.html Buckshot2 2005-03-10 15:10:50.0 Leverguns ...........Boy! I'm getting some stuff done. Got the Springfield Garage Sporter all done, and now this one. In fact I got this one done and started on a Martini 577-450 sporter also! Greener action, Westley Richards cape barrel and I had to make a spacer for it too.So anyway, it's a 1893 Marlin stan http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/The-Winchester-1886-1-645196.html kcso912 2004-09-09 19:35:56.0 Leverguns I just picked up another 1886, this one a Winchester Extra Light. I have a Browning that has served me faithfully for many years. The Winchester has a tang safety and a rebounding hammer, two features I am not happy about , but I thought I could live with it. Wrong!!!On the first trip to the range I http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/Win-Leveractions-in-Pistol-Calibers-1-644174.html starmetal 2004-04-01 22:45:39.0 Leverguns Over on the Accurate forum someone posted about having a 44 mag Model 94 Win leveraction that the action is, well, damn hard to operate. Everyone chimed in, and some with the same rifle stating that the Winchesters in pistol calibers are hard to operate. One fellow went as far to claim that being th http://forum1.aimoo.com/Cast___Boolits__/category/SCORED-1-638921.html Tpr Bret 2004-10-21 07:28:34.0 Leverguns Happened to be in my favorite gunshop today and way ina back corner of a dim part of a back room I found them- An original Marlin 1894 32-20 rifle and an original Marlin 1897 22 rifle! Both are filthy with more or less no blue. The 22 bore is a definite lost cause and the 32-20 is a probable. The 22