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Thanks for the reply, Med. Technically, though, there were by the introduction of the Colt New Line (1873) two .22 calibers--the .22 Short and the .22 Long (not to be confused with the .22 LR). The latter was introduced in 1871, while the former had been around for a decade already. I can't...

All, Does anyone know which of the .22 rimfire cartridges the Colt New Line pocket revolver took? It can't be the .22LR, since this was introduced several years after this revolver had been in production. .22 long? .22 short? I appreciate the help.

"uberti going to transfer bars and wire springs in all saa models So with uberti joining the pile of companies that load their saa clones with wire springs and extra safety garbage who is left that still makes a actual saa" In my old age I've learned it pays to take a deep breath and give...

Had that experience, and pursued both options. Read carefully: Option 1 - I once worked up a small African battery, expecting to go on my dream plains-game safari: Cogswell & Harrison .375 Nitro Express double rifle, .333 Jeffery Mauser (the sweetest rifle I have ever owned, makes me mad just...

Eb1, I don't think people here suggested that you send the rifle to just anybody. To be fair, it took you a while to explain the whole story--namely, that your Enfield used to shoot well until your cousin damaged a specific part of it by likely dropping it. Your initial posts were not about...

I just simply, truly, totally don't get it, and I don't think I ever will. Why? :mad: Taking a perfectly-good historical rifle, which embodies the best technology of its time (not to mention a piece of the past that will never be made again), and hacking it up into pawn-shop-grade junk? As...

"Hope that this was of some help"?? :D This was precisely the kind of pointed answer for the lack of which I was so frustrated on other fora!!! I take it you used the Core-Lokt Remington bullet, such as the one here...

I have just acquired a 1907/15 model Berthier rifle, with a near-mint barrel that slugs at a groove diameter of .3265." I have it all ready to go, with the sling, the bayonet, the en-bloc clips, the dies and the brass. I am generally quite good at finding answers on the 'Net. On this one...

Larry, A wee bit pessimistic, are we? I don't see any of the things you predict coming to pass. That would be the most draconian set of anti-gun laws I've seen passed in my lifetime. I promise you, that's not going to happen. Wait for the media to move on to the next shiny object (which...

"A lot of people's gun knowledge can fit on a 3"x5" index card with room to spare, and they got it all from the media." I was just watching O'Reilly (whom I generally respect, although he has his own macroscopic blind spots). Hearing him and his "is it legal?" team (K. Guilfoyle and L. Wiehl)...

I think the main problem is that as long as we let America's issues be framed by a narrow sliver of coastal blue-state extremists (AKA the "mainstream media"), we'll be busy chasing our tails, as we're already doing in this thread. The fact is simple: the MSM are our political enemies--not...

I once again urge everyone to remain calm. Here are a few thoughts that my help everyone do so: 1 - We are still in the shock and disbelief phase--the tragic mass-murder is just too recent, and the interested parties' ability to reason calmly has not yet been fully regained. I know mine...

Sorry, ACP--I don't think so either. I respect your point of view, but I think you consider gun ownership to be a concession from Government that we must go begging for, hat in hand, every three to five years. And just who is going to ensure that our enlightened betters will not clamp down...

ACP, "Lots of reflection and SOME NEW THINKING is required by gun owners here, and NOT the reflexive statements like the "if only the kids and teachers had guns!" drivel that is put out by pro-gun groups. NOBODY believes that." I think you are caricaturizing what is instead a very...

Guys, I think we won't be 100% effective until we understand what motivates the antis. There are mainly two groups of anti-gun people: 1 - The first is made up of well-meaning but generally-misinformed or uninformed people who think that if you just make it harder to get guns, society will...