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.50-110 Smokeless Powder Lever Action Rifle
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 6/5/2019 | T Vickman

Posted on 06/05/2019 5:14:46 AM PDT by w1n1

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1 posted on 06/05/2019 5:14:46 AM PDT by w1n1
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To: w1n1

Once again, the writing in this article is truly atrocious.


2 posted on 06/05/2019 5:27:10 AM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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Always good for a chuckle. Or a head shake.


3 posted on 06/05/2019 5:32:40 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: w1n1

“a big more”?

Don’t care, 50 cal, 450 gr bullets, more power than a 458 mag. I want one.


4 posted on 06/05/2019 5:34:10 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: w1n1

I know you post this a lot. If you are the owner of this blog, learn to structure and punctuate a sentence. If you know the blogger, suggest he do the same. People will refuse to take you seriously if you cannot string together a sentence or two.

CC


5 posted on 06/05/2019 5:36:33 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: w1n1

The 1886 was Browning’s first lever action. That loading sounds a bit much tho. The .348 Winchester would do just fine for me.


6 posted on 06/05/2019 5:37:23 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: Redcitizen

Kicks like a mule, how accurate at 100 yds plus?

Great idea for in close but not a scope style gun .

Good for home defense? Likely go through an engine block.


7 posted on 06/05/2019 5:42:17 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Everyone should start hitting Abuse on these posts. I tried and was apparently ignored. Same goes for all the other bots.


8 posted on 06/05/2019 5:44:56 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: w1n1

Firing one of these things is gotta hurt …….


9 posted on 06/05/2019 5:45:06 AM PDT by njslim
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To: w1n1

Notice the curved steel butt plate. That has got to be a painful thing to shoot.


10 posted on 06/05/2019 5:46:52 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Redcitizen

It’s astonishing, really. I’d be ashamed to publish that.


11 posted on 06/05/2019 6:11:23 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: MCF

IIRC, the buttplate is placed not against the shoulder but in the crook of the arm next to the shoulder.

Someone makes a leather pad which covers those `horns’ and creates a flat butt surface.


12 posted on 06/05/2019 6:14:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 (No matter how bad things get, it can only be worse in New Jersey!)
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To: w1n1; All; Jim Robinson

Don’t never, ever load any cartridge with any load that didn’t come from an industry loading manual. Using load data that comes from some dumbass blog pimp could have unexpected results.

Conversely, be aware that sharing unpublished load data on the internet might be something to be done with discretion.


13 posted on 06/05/2019 6:33:10 AM PDT by OKSooner (Shoot the coyotes.)
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To: w1n1

The original YouTube video was published on May 6, one day short of a month ago. This is typical for American Shooting Journal. They like to make posts off of someone else’s less recent content for the ad revenue.


14 posted on 06/05/2019 7:08:41 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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Putting smokeless powder in cartridges designed for black powder is chancy at best. Using such cartridges in the rifles designed for black powder is insane. The writer and poster of this article are fools, at best. Doing this can maim, blind and/or kill you.

This is beyond foolish.


15 posted on 06/05/2019 7:32:38 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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...Putting smokeless powder in cartridges designed for black powder is chancy at best...

Just off the top of my head, .30-30 and .38 special were both originally black powder cartridges. Lots of these are loaded with smokeless powder and sold every year.

16 posted on 06/05/2019 8:07:34 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
“a big more”?

IIRC, Bigmore was the lesser-known equivalent to Creedmore, but limited to "big" cartridges (those over 45 caliber)...

17 posted on 06/05/2019 8:14:44 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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I’d shoot it, but only with real Black Powder.


18 posted on 06/05/2019 8:17:28 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Seruzawa
Yes, transitioning from black powder to smokeless is something that should be approached with caution. However, the Winchester 1886 action was originally loaded up to .45-90, IIRC, putting it near "buffalo gun" status early on.
The .50-110 smokeless chambering is pretty common today, though I'd base such a rifle on a new/reproduction action. The '86 design is stout beyond belief.
19 posted on 06/05/2019 8:23:24 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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Yes the 86 action is plenty strong.

Winchester changed their steel around 1895 to handle smokeless powder. I think the 30-30 was the first smokeless powder cartridge.


20 posted on 06/05/2019 8:30:10 AM PDT by yarddog
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