Recent content by Old Cannonballs

Ooooo. I want! I want!

You never know when it might suddenly become "illegal" to buy a gun in the the ol' U S of A. There's them that dream about doing that to us. Maybe better buy that puppy while you still can... (just sayin') :evil:

From Larry Correia's own website ( http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/mhi-sample/#comment-51338 ), the next MHI novel will come out (drum roll, please...): Summer 2014. Monster Hunter Nemesis. Agent Franks vs. The World.

I thought he said he traded a .36 and a .44 Colt for the Remmy. Anyway, I like my '51 Navy. Not trading that one!

I just went on the Investarms website, and the picture they showed of the model 210 didn't have double set triggers.

Also her left elbow is double-jointed and she's wearing a modern brassiere.

And don't forget Larry Pratt and company $20 for an annual membership and a no-compromise voice in Washington! Don't get no better than that. http://gunowners.org/

Back to the original subject, I can recall having seen a scan of an original instruction sheet for a .44 cal black powder revolver (I think it was an 1860) specifying the use of FF powder. FWIW.

Let's try that Lyman 1851 again...

Here is my humble (but much loved) contribution, a Lyman 1851 from about 1978:

I tried some FFFG for a while in my .54 cal Lyman when I got a deal on some, but it was already used to FFG and didn't like the change. I tried varying the charge and all that, but nothing helped. With FFG I'd been getting fairly good groups at 100 yards, but with FFFG I was missing the paper...

If you used that thing for self defense, your attacker just might start laughing so hard you could subdue him without having to plug him.

If you can determine the size & no of threads per inch, you can get a short length of round wire or rod the right size and thread it yourself with a die.

I didn't even know Hollywood was around 300 years ago!

It's been 20 years since I saw it, but I think Dances with Wolves has a scene early on where someone — I'm thinking it was the Kevin Costner character — loads a black powder revolver. They show it close up in glorious detail. The only other scene with loading a bp revolver that I can remember...