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Nice to see somebody else hunting prarie with a levergun!
Good shot!
What was the load/velocity? Some of my intent with this thread was to compile picture evidence of what a lot of the guys here...

Alloy was air cooled wheel weights, lube was vasaline and beeswax (cant remember the % mix, i made 10lbs of it last year and have lots left)

Same 200gr bullet as last year, 21gr of h4198 for 1695fps. Gives me 2.5" groups at 100 yards with the semi buckhorns.
Shot through a my muley lengthwise at 90 yards, bullet entered just inside the...

2000fps is pretty fast for plain base! I was under the impression that you need a check even with htc

I believe you are right and my material is just too thick, when i was punching them from pop...

Super slow reply on my end sorry.
It is a 1 stage, i had issue with the .004 being found between muzzle and target at inconsistant distances, AND in the berm... switched to .012 thick flashing and...

My checkmaker took longer than expected but it works pretty good! Checks are almost 60 dollars in Canada and my 3030 hunting/target load is now down to $220/1000 from 280, thats significant for me,...

alright, went too the range, i buggered up the elevation measurement for the aperture and it was hitting 8.5" low at 25m (27y), flipped up the factory rear and poi was center of the bead on the third...

as soon as i read this i went looking around for a piece of scrap angle iron.
wife was not home so i flipped our mattress and chopped off a 1/2" piece from the steel bed frame. she wont notice...

That certianly sounds a lot easier.
I would be worried about glue in the holes, might be better off screwing the base onto the reciever (after coating reciever) and then filling the gap, then...

my first plan was a swivel stud, and thats where i got the idea haha, but the one in my parts bin is threaded for wood



thanks! i used all hand tools with the exception of a cordless hand...

thanks all for the praise! it was a pretty simple project compared to 90% of the stuff on this sub.
also thanks for the offers to ship out some screws, a local buddy had a set of mossberg 590 bases...

That is why i am having the checkmaker designed to produce a check with an ID of .312, i will be using them on plain base bullets and thicker material would be undesireable.
I believe Pat Marlin...

I recently purchased a marlin 336y as a replacement deer rifle, i have been down too one rifle for the last while and dragging my dads model 94 through thicket and swamp to get scratched and dropped...

this reminds me, I have a bunch of fat trimmings from my deer in the freezer,
how well does straight tallow work with smokeless? does it run on a hot day?

my uncle is a machinist and will be building me one of these sometime this month, minor modification to make plain base checks from .004 thick pop can aluminum because I am cheap. should be a 0.312...

lately it has been my 3030 loaded with a 311008 and 5.5gr of titegroup, works wonders on gophers!
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when i had my 1895gbl it seemed to shoot well with 45gr varget, a .7cc scoop of COW and a plain base NOE460-405

i am one of those guys that just cut the thing off, now it functions more like a half cock, fixed my issue of misfires though

i had my arm inside a few deer!
that is pretty close right?

oh.... live ones...

i had a gorgeous muley 10pt walk 7 yards from me this fall, broadside, perfect presentation, i was sitting at...

i use that same boolit with 20.6gr of h4198, it only gives 1695fps but it went through both shoulders and a rib on my whitetail at 90y this fall,
i will have to pick up some leverevolution powder...

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Well, Fank Marshall was right it would seem.
My 3030 loaded with a 200gr fn (noe clone of the rcbs 180gr fn, 200.2gr checked and lubed 27.6gr varget) at right on 1850fps.
He pushed his 311284 with...

I load a noe 311008 over 4gr of titegroup for 970fps, or i quench them and use 6.3gr for 1400fps

It is great when it comes together, to be fair though.. i was kinda lucky the dog was dumb and ran straight at a parked car...
That being said, hell of a rush, not sure why but it was different from...

So i got out to my hunting spot nice and early this morning, 2 hours of fighting with a frozen call and a bad reed later i went back to the car and for coffee.
Put my call on the heater, drank my...