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    9422 vs 39a

    I like them all. Shot my late brothers Erma 40 years ago and liked it. That of course became the Ithaca/Henry. 10 years ago, after talking others into buying a 39A, I bought my own finished challenged example for $250. Sure it’s bigger than it has to be but its so comfortable to shoot and I...
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    Is BHN 10 for OLD wheel weights typical & sufficient for 500g buffalo rifle bullet handload pressures?

    I cast with clip on wheel weights and stick on wheel weights almost exclusively. I sometimes separate soft stick on wheel weights for blackpowder balls. Some are softer than others. These days when we buy the scrap wheel weights, we are getting about 1/2 the 5 gal. bucket with lead wheel...
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    Best SD ammo for .38 Snubby

    Go to you tube and search 38 special snubby for many videos of performance. I used to prescribe to the light JHP 110/125 HP group but lately the 158 SWC or even grandpa‘s 158 RN still performs with good penetration. If wadcutters are loaded to full pressure, sure…..but most factory wadcutters...
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    I'm Thinking of Getting My First Suppressor

    I’ll add that if you buy from a dealer, they can e-file a form 4. My understanding is 90-120 days for e-file. Also, I was put on a trust for the above suppressor and an 9mm suppressor. 3 of us are sharing 2 suppressors.
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    I'm Thinking of Getting My First Suppressor

    This silenco is a lot of fun. It’s rated for full auto 223. The price to properly convert that huntsman including shipping both ways was as much as simply buying the Ruger 22/45 light. I am shooting cheap ( oops, there is no cheap 22 anymore) bulk high speed 22 in my backyard and it’s...
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    Model 12

    This mid 60’s colt pump shotgun was made a blue gun ( non lethal) buy cutting its choke off for bean bags. We bought it really cheap and replaced the poorly painted wood with good wood. And a gunsmith put on the savage cutts compensator/choke. Now it’s any choke we want to dial in. The...
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    Canadian provinces refusing to confiscate banned rifles

    Probably why Canada in the past and now with the handgun ban, makes the guns non transferable. Of course with handguns, they know who owns most of them. Hope they can fight it.
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    What is the lure to YOU of the cowboy gun?

    As a teenager in the 70’s, it was a Ruger super Blackhawk 44 and colt peacemaker 22. Added later a colt single action 44 spec. and New Frontier 45 colt. Then I got into the colt double actions because of their accuracy while generally only shooing single action mode. After getting trained...
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    Machine guns on an old warbird?

    I remember reading a few years ago in a pilot magazine about a WW2 fighter returning to the US. With the FAA, it needs approval to be ferried back into the USA out of annual inspection, they also wont allow ejection seats for civilians and in this case, the ATF met the aircraft at its first...
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    Gatling Gun category

    The modern 45-70 Colt repro 1877 gatling transfers as a title one firearm. At a MSRP of $50,000.
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    Why do guys buy a 357 mag, and shoot only 38 caliber in it

    The best selling feature of magnum revolvers is the ability to shoot lighter ammunition in it. In my .357 magnums, it probably about 95% of the time that they are shot with a 38 or 38 plus P round for an enjoyable range outing. And my bulk loading .357 is a reduced 158 SWC going out about...
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    Firing Blanks

    Here in a rural subdivision in So. Indiana, I discharge my Winchester 10 gauge signal cannon with blanks. The only occasional calls I get are from neighbors with dogs that start barking. I am accepted on July 4th, other than that, they may complain after 1 or 2 shots, then I stop.
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    My two cents on the .25 Auto after being shot by one.

    I agree that any gun carried with a round in the chamber, cheap or quality should be drop tested. My own way doing this is with a rubber mallet and "simulating" a drop by tapping the hammer with a primer powered only case in the chamber. I have a Colt 25 auto that had a recall. Before I...
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    An 1898 Colt Bisley Flat Top in .44 Special

    It appears typically when colt marked its revolvers just 44, it was chamber for 44-40. The early New Service revolvers from 1898 were marked as such. I believe you have a reworked second generation barrel installed on your bisley that has had the front sight changed to the original style that...
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    Colt Mk III / Metropolitan

    Your target stocks have of course been sanded down a lot. If you keep your eyes open on ebay, these can be had for 30-$60. I consider the metropolitan a short chamber Lawman which was chambered in .357. Heck yes, it will fire any 38 special load you feed it.
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    Firearm for a new shooter

    Yesterday 3 ladies including my wife were shooting my 1977 police positive special 4" with a heavy barrel. All 3 were novice shooters. The load was a 125 grain bullet and 2.8 grains bullseye simulating 38 short Colt. Very mild and no one complained about recoil. I then moved to 38 wadcutters...
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    Picked up a Colt Police Positive tonight

    3" was a detective special Rarer than that was the not often seen 3" detective special with a heavy shrouded barrel. Sometimes one can find the barrel by itself for sale. That would be the least costly route. I was just out shooting my nickel 1977 police positive 38 that my wife shoots well...
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    .45AutoRim: The Great Survivor

    Smith 1989 25 45/45AR I am a Colt collector so I have a pristine original 1917 Colt with original blue. But the best 45/45AR firearm I ever shot to date was a Smith 1989 model with 5" barrel and stainless. That gun could keep up with the best of my Colts including a python out to about 75...
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    If you were an LEO...

    Most of the time it would be a auto but Rural with a AR in the car as back-up, then nothing shoots as well as my original (python action) Colt trooper .357 (same as the above M357). More often than not, sometimes you just need one good shot. Urban, semi with 3 mags. without a doubt, when you...
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    Helping value old SAA

    I would have no problem shooting current smokeless loads out of that gun which most loads are in the 17,000 CUP or PSI range. Since it was originally designed to be bored out to 45, boring it for 32 leaves a lot of metal in the chambers and barrels. I am just now reloading for 32-20 in a...
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