Recent content by Cop Bob

Or if your not within the city limits, take it in the back yard, point it into the ground, put a pillow over it so it does not scare the neighbors, or run the cat off, and pull the trigger. Sounds like an ammo issue, the Walthers are really very well designed guns, well proven.. I own 4 or 5 of...

Ahh,, Yeah,,, Two good solutions, Shoot it, or knock it open, again careful to contact the slide, and not the fixed barrel in that PPK... again, SAFETY ON, On the Walther PP model pistols, the safety has nothing to do with slide function or lock as in some others, like the 1911. You may be...

#1.. for a light tack, the MIG with the heat turned down, an .023 wire, using standard welders mix as a shielding gas, the job will be done in about 1 second of dwell time.. and it does not require a high skill set to do. TIG, it can be done, there will be a bit more heat, and dwell time.. but...

I am a Smith Aholic.. I love smiths, in any shape, flavor or form.. However, the newer ones are a little less than desirable in the trigger pull department... Also I notice that the prices seem to have jumped through the roof... Last summer, I was in a gun shop with the wife, and noticed that...

Mr Boreland is in the room, and he, again has spoken wise and sage words... I would listen.. Added note, as stated the N frame is difficult for many to master, and it is a handful over the course of a day at the matches.. but in the N frame, the felt recoil of a 45 ACP is almost negligible...

RC, I have a buddy that does the same thing, rusts everything he touches... Go to hand him a pistol or a rifle and he will throw his hands up and say "No I'm a Ruster!" sad thing is, he is one of the most skilled machinist and motorcycle mechanics I have ever known... But he is right. where he...

That type of perfection is an illusion... as a general rule...

I don't believe that you mentioned what bullet weights you intend to shoot, or what performance range you were looking for? Unique is a good all round pistol powder, I have gotten good velocities from both calibers with it. 2400 may work well with the 357 in heavier bullets, but it's volume...

Welcome to the club... it's a drug... once you find, and you have already, that you can make better ammo than you can buy, cheaper.. your hooked. Sorry, I know of no 12 step programs to get you off it.... it's a life long addiction.. and it's NOT a bad thing..

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I have never seen a Stainless Smith with a forcing cone issue, only one blue gun, and it was a civilians that shot a steady diet of high speed hand loads that, well frankly were in my opinion way too hot... I have always shot midrange velocity lead bullets for practice, saving my 125's for...

BC Rider, I can relate... Boy can I relate.... At least you are trying to do it right.. or at least what I was taught was right.. Both Eyes Open... Some of the Bullseye guys will put a piece of frosted Scotch Tape over one lens.. but that kind of defeats the purpose of "Practical/Tactical"...

So Many Smith's... So Little Time... I love ALL my Smith's.. but my favorites are, 19-2...6" 19-?...2.5" 13...3" forget what the dash # is, it is one of the FBI models with a round butt... and a K-38 Target Master and the Matching K-22 Target Master that my dad 1st taught me to shoot with...

I remember some years ago, some of my buddies in the Bomb Squad had recovered some German Potato Mashers, They were scared to death of them.. Seems that the materials, especially the fuse material had a tendency to denigrate over time and could become somewhat unstable. Something about crystals...

Got two, would not trade them for ANYTHING... Great performance, shoot ALL DAY recoil, really nice accuracy, just an all around barrel of fun!!! Give me my 43 Winchester and 800 yards, and I own all within it..