Recent content by WVGunman

Putting really light loads through it IS the one thing I haven't tried. Hmmm...

Please note: I am deliberately NOT mentioning a brand name here, because that will immediately sidetrack all discussion into arguments about that and other brand names. This is about personal tastes and aesthetics, which are not unique matters to any particular make, market niche, or model. So...

Okay, over the last year or so I lost a LOT of weight, about 90 pounds. I went from a pretty beefy guy to downright lean (I look a lot more like my dad now.) But now I'm finding some of my long guns actually kinda hurt to shoot. I never had this problem before, and I wonder if the "fat pad," for...

Agree with everything said so far. The Marlin was designed after smokeless powder was known and has a locking bolt action. I own one in .44 Magnum; if the action can handle that with any kind of steel, it is stronger than any gun designed in the black-powder era. (Ok, except maybe the Remington...

Love that large lever loop. Wish I could find one for less than 100 beans, but alas ....

Wife: "Give me the lever-action Marlin or I'm leaving." Me: "Darling, I will miss you." :p

Ditto! I'm hearing about some rounds here I didn't know existed before!

I was going through my little shell collection, and found a single, lonely .30-40 Krag case I found about 8 years ago now that I had forgotten about. I also,once upon a time, found a single.32 Smith & Wesson (the original shorty from the 1870s, not Smith & Wesson Long). I have literally never...

I have heard of that sabatoged ammo too. I heard it was created in the Vietnam War, left in Viet Cong stockpiles. IIRC, the rounds were filled with plastic explosives. I've never met a serious anti-gun type who had the required knowledge and equipment to do something like this, even with just...

Pulling the nipples will ALWAYS cost more money. What?

I've only been to a few different Cabela's stores, but I seem to recall they once had at least one box of just about every caliber of ammo known to man. Now? It feels like 50% or more of whatever they have is 5.56 or .308.

So that is a 795 receiver and a Model 60 barrel? How much force did it take to get the original barrel out of that receiver and then to insert the new one? Some have said here the barrel may be press-fitted as well as pinned. Is that what you found?

Please post what you have!

I hadn't thought of this. From what I can see of the 795's serial #, it IS of Remlin-era manufacture. This is an important factor.

This is General Discussion instead of gunsmithing because I'm interested in general opinions on feasibility, not "how-to." So I bought a very junky Revelation 120 years ago .... Pictured: Not my own gun and have had the barreled receiver: ...knocking around ever since. It's followed me...