Recent content by Jake H

I sometimes hunt around Cascade (MT), but usually in the foothills surrounding the Little Belt Mountains (near Stanford). I'm from Great Falls. I've taken a few 5X5's and a handful of smaller ones. The biggest had a spread of around 22", good mass, and was perfectly typical. You?

mtmuley, No offense taken. I guess I got a little off topic from what the original poster asked. Down in the lower rockies he shouldn't have to worry about grizzlies. And a .357 Mag would probably be sufficient to take down a black bear with proper shot placement. We agree on one thing...

I don't have any reason not to. What are you implying? Are you a rancher?

Here's an interesting story about grizzlies that was on the news and in the papers about 3 years ago. An older guy was hunting in southwestern Montana when he came upon a grizzly sow and two cubs. He claimed the bear charged him and that he shot the sow in the head. It was either a .270...

I just googled it and the Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness is actually the 3rd largest, but is bigger than the Bob Marshall. The Bob Marshall is the biggest in Montana though. I guess we were both wrong. That was an old rogue bear that killed him, and those are the bears you have to worry about...

Amen to that. My best friend's dad has told us stories of backpacking in the Bob Marshall Wilderness here in Montana about 25 years ago. "The Bob" is renowned for its remoteness and for its grizzly bear population, and I believe it is the largest area of wilderness in the contiguous 48...

Blacksmoke, I reload my own ammo for my S&W model 15 .38 Special, and on a few occasions I have purposefully loaded the bullets out as far as possible, and they still chamber just fine. In other words, the tip of the bullet is flush with the end of the cylinder. Are the bullets in the +P+...

Obviously light bullets such as the 110 and 115 grain bullets have less inertia than a heavier bullet, and therefore pick up more speed inside the cylinder before smashing into the forcing cone. This is obviously one of the causes of cracked forcing cones, but there is one thing I haven't heard...

Sistema is wrong. As you know the model 67 is a .38 Special K-frame. I have a model 15 which is the same as a 67 except it is made out of chromoly steel and has a blue finish. I had a model 19 before and sold it to fund the 15. I like my model 15 more than the 19 simply because it is a .38...

Yeah it's really hard for me to tell if it has had a refinish. The gold stuff in the lettering makes it hard to judge the depth (of the lettering). If it is refinished they did a good job.

Thanks! Jake H

Here's a new picture in different lighting that clearly shows the jeweling on the trigger and hammer. I actually like the look of the jeweling with the black Pachmayers installed, but I would still prefer the original case-color hardened finish. The group in the picture is the one I...

Pinky, there's a new bit of information I never knew. Thanks. FWIW, here's an enhanced version of one of the pictures that shows the roll-marks a little better. Jake H

Xavier thanks for the reply. I did notice that the bluing has a slightly different tint to it than my 19-4 (roughly 1979 production). However, it is very deep and good quality. Maybe the older bluing on the model 15 is a little deeper and higher quality? Like I previously said, by comparing...

Thanks for the replies. To clarify, the action doesn't have any more of a hitch than any other S&W revolver I've owned. I'm pretty sure what I am referring to as a "hitch" is the "staging" of the trigger. So while the action is quite smooth (not gritty), there are still two, or maybe a few...