Recent content by JRD

The T/C brand remains for sale by S&W. The website is still active but no new T/C products have been manufactured in two years.

Did you put dummy rounds in the charge holes when you tested for carry up? If not, go back and retest. S&W standard is to have “simulators” (dummy rounds) in the “charge holes” (chambers) when testing for carry up. The case heads themselves will remove a tiny bit of play between the...

The Cobray flats are non-firearms and need to be bent and welded to be turned into receivers. They were basically precursors to the 80% home built craze of modern times way back in the 1980’s. I don’t think they are worth much, but I may be wrong.

Ephraim, That’s a great rely. The book sounds very interesting. Please do share if it covers the motivations behind the Root. The Colts which went to Florida must have been the ring trigger rifles and early revolvers. Colt’s products evolved quite a bit before the Navy, Army, and SAA’s...

From “A History of the Colt Revolver” by Haven and Belden copyright 1997, they write: “This arm was different in almost every respect from the regular Colt models of precious twenty years.” “The working parts of the lock operated for the most part in a manner precisely the reverse of those of...

I decided to do some old school research and actually cracked a book. It’s a darned shame that our minds get computerized and opening a book from my library was an afterthought. “Colt Firearms from 1836” by James Serven copyright 1954 dedicates the first 158 pages to percussion revolvers- of...

I've known the Colt Root revolver existed for many years and always knew it was kind of an outlier in the Colt lineup of percussion revolvers. I guess I always thought that it was a early model that was succeeded by the more prevalent designs. The other day something made me start looking up...

Owen did a good job describing Marnie. I'd like to add a little bit. I've talked to Marnie's friend Dale a several times about Marnie since he told me she took a turn for the worse and finally lost her long battle with cancer. He was very close to her and worked with her at Target World...