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    #1 Rolling Block in .32-20 WCF

    mm93, I am seriously envious. What a nice find! Dave
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    Memoir from WW1, Battle of Gallipoli - from a new member

    Interesting story bit isn't there a better place on the forum to post this than the Black Powder section? Dave
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    10mm or .45 ACP?

    I would pay good money for an L-frame in 40 S&W with a 4 inch barrel (and I've sworn off new S&Ws). Most 10mm is loaded to 40 performance levels and Moon clips for the shorter cartridge would feed better. I have a thing about shooting guns properly chambered for the cartridge being used. I...
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    Would You Schofield?

    Black M-Z was an earlier version of American Pioneer Powder, distributed by Hodgdon. They have since discontinued it but APP is still in production and used quite a bit by cowboy action shooters who don't like messing with real gun powder's fouling. APP can be cleaned up with just water and the...
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    Would You Schofield?

    I have one of the S&W 2000 Schofields, chambered for the 45 S&W cartridge. S&W touted them as being "exact reproductions of the original". They lied. The hammer is completely changed from original because some safety Nazi decided this gun needed a frame mounted, floating firing pin. Despite...
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    Just Stating What Everyone Knows Already...

    Gamesman mentality. More power to you if that's the way your stick floats. The first 357 Magnum was the 6-shot Registered Magnum. My first duty weapon (in 1973) was a 4" M28-2. Six round revolvers just seem proper to old geezers like me. Dave
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    .32-20 or .38 S&W? *.38 S&W, not .38 Special*

    I would vote for the 32 WCF because it is a black powder cartridge. That is my preferred way to shoot these days.. Dave
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    Good Alternative to S&W's J-Frames

    I bought a new Ruger SP101 when they first were introduced - yes, that long ago. Not too much later I bought the newly introduced 3" SP101 but eventually got rid of them. My problem with the SP101 was that a revolver that heavy and stoutly built should at least carry 6 rounds. Why Ruger never up...
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    US finished Pietta SAA's on the horizon

    If they offer one of those with a black powder style frame, in 44 WCF, I might have to buy another gun. At 75 years of age I told myself I wasn't going to do that anymore. LOL Dave
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    Proper way to shoot a SAA/Clone 1 or 2 handed grip

    Ethan, what an outstanding (and beautiful) picture. Thanks for posting that. I've seen it hundreds of times but I've never been able to capture it with a camera. Dave
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    What’s the limiting factor of 45acp?

    Reading many of the responses here I can't help but wonder exactly what kind of Zombie Apocalypse do some of you think you're going to get into. Twenty nine rounds on you! You shoot half that many people in a gang they're still going to label you a mass shooter. Then you real problems will...
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    Springfield 1871 crack

    If you determine it is not a crack but a forging flaw as some have suggested, I would still recommend you shoot nothing but black powder in your 50-70 hand loads. The pressure peaks are measurably lower than even with what some call light smokeless loads. Dave
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    Brazilian Contract 1917s?

    A friend believed he owed me for a favor and gave me a 1937 Brazilian S&W that some previous owner had tried to turn into a target gun some years in the bast. The front sight was enough to put me off in the first place but when I took it to the range not only was the trigger mediocre, the gun...
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    First .357, First Kimber, First Squib.

    I have a metal version of the one on the left (bear) hanging on my shop wall. If I could find the middle one I'd hang that up too. LOL Dave
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    Cowboy Load versus Half Cock

    Ever wonder why Ruger got taken to court so many times it forced them into switching to a transfer bar system, while during the same time Colt continued to build and sell their traditional SAAs with the original action and are still doing so? No transfer bars in the Colts to this day. Dave
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