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This isn't meant to give anyone a hard time but I have to ask. Why go to all the trouble of loading black powder in your 45 Colt cases, lube your bullets with the correct BP lubricant, and then use a totally in-appropriate and non-traditional bullet weight and configuration? The standard bullet...

Please tell us, the unwashed masses, who or what "Simpson's" might be. Dave

I had the DAO model (can't remember the Model number all these years later) and as everyone has said it was a lead brick to carry. It functioned with everything I tried in it - mostly my various 10mm hand loads. It was just heavy. Heavier than the Colt Delta Elite I owned in the same time...

Since you liked your SR1911 in 45 why not get one chambered for 9mm. The slide will be much easier to manipulate (manual of arms), recoil will be lighter, and you will have 10 or 11 rounds on board. If you spent any amount of time shooting the 45 this will be like coming home to the 1911s SA...

The weakest link for a semi auto handgun system is the magazine. If the magazine fails what are you gonna do? Revolvers are another discussion entirely. If I were involved in a shooting with a revolver, even if it was the proverbial "3, 3, 3" I would want spare ammunition for an administrative...

Curious about the reference to a 'pistol "plinke"' on the paper work. Neat little 22 what every they called it. Dave

A Glock by any other name, etc. (smile) Dave

I've carried N-frame S&Ws and Colt SAAs concealed but not IWB. Largest gun I've carried IWB was a Colt Government Model 45 in a Milt Sparks version of the original "Summer Special". Carried a spare Magazine on the weak hand side in a single mag pouch Mile made for me as well. As I got older and...

The single most important thing for successful 45 Colt black powder shooting is a proper and adequate lubricant. My go to since the 1980s (when it was introduced) has always been SPG (thank you Steve Garbe). When I found a source for Big Lube bullets, cast of 1-20 alloy and lubed with SPG, my...

Same with Arizona. Fire restrictions most every where. Still, a very KOOL picture. Dave

When I did that chronograph test in the early 1990s the only powder I could get was GOEX. The charges were 40g by weight. Dave

That Marlin Ballard is really impressive. Very nice! As for the shotgun, I'm a brass shell type shot gun shooter so... And, I always thought his name was "Grove". The things you learn late in life. (smile) Dave

OOPS! Pictures didn't work. So never mind. Dave

mm93, I am seriously envious. What a nice find! Dave

Interesting story bit isn't there a better place on the forum to post this than the Black Powder section? Dave

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...

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...

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...

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

I would vote for the 32 WCF because it is a black powder cartridge. That is my preferred way to shoot these days.. Dave