Everywhere I’ve looked is out of most, if not all, brands of lube/sizers, and I had to go on eBay to find two of the three top punches I need for .357 bullet molds I just bought.
I was lucky to still have a .358 die from the old days.
For those of you who have been on pins and needles wondering what I decided to go with....
A six inch S&W 586 should be on the way shortly. My local dealer couldn’t get one through one of his distributers so I had to go online and found one that will be sent to my dealer. It will end up costing...
With a ten shot group from the bench at fifty yards I might get five fairly close together and the other five anywhere from inches to a foot away. I am blaming the bullets because the bore slugs about .580 and most Minie balls molds cast .575. I have an old Lyman mold that casts a .585 Minie...
I have actually held one of the 25 he made of those in my hands. My first mentor in muzzleloading was dad’s brother in-law’s brother. The last several years of his life he lived in Maryville, TN, and when he passed away uncle Porter went down there to get some of his ML stuff to try and sell at...
Back to the Ferguson rifle.
A few years ago I was looking at 4-H exhibits at the county fair and was drawn to one about the history of firearms in the Shooting Sports area. The kid did a pretty good job about explaining how revolutionary for the times a Ferguson rifle was. But the gun he used...
I already have the one I would want.
A North Star West Officers fusil. .65/16 gauge flintlock smoothbore that, depending on how it’s loaded, can take anything from a quail to a moose.
And I was able to get the bayonet for mine so if I only wing a squirrel or rabbit I can defend myself if there...
Just started loading .38 Special again after several decades away from it.
Here we see pages from different years of a Hornady manual for 125 gr jacketed bullets.
The page on the left is a photocopy in One Book/One Caliber from what I guess is a recent Hornady manual. The page on the right is...
Does anyone know the final disposition of this? I thought the story was interesting on a couple of levels.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/bear-witness-to-whether-this-is-the-proverbial-good-shoot.859883/
Depends on what I’m shooting and what the game is.
For each rifle or smoothbore that goes to the woods or primitive shoot there is a dedicated bag and horn that I try to keep ready to go with enough powder/patching/balls for thirty to fifty shots. Flint gun bags will have a very simple...
I have a Uberti Cattleman in 32/20 and a Vaquero in .45 Colt. And a Wrangler and a Navy Arms 1858 Remington and a Pietta 1863 Remington. There is also the sort of one shot single action Tingle.
But the only double action revolver I have is the S&W 637. Great for what it was designed for but it...
To those saying get my hands on both of them, that’s the twin brother to impossible right now.
I have a new model Vaquero that should be awfully close to the Blackhawk except for sights. But if I have my dealer order either of the two it may be months before I get it.
Playing with my new S&W 637 has been enough fun that I would like to add a more practical 38/357 that will be good for target work and have good accuracy past the fifteen or twenty feet I expect from a snubnose.
I have the choices narrowed down to two very different but good for the intended...
I took it to the range the other day just to get some idea how it shot although the main purpose was working up a load with a flintlock rifle. Keep in mind that:
The closest target frames at the club range are fifty feet. A gun like this was never intended to shoot at a target fifty feet away...
Among the things I have lying around are a set of RCBS 38 Special dies and a .358 size/lube die. They are leftovers from several 38/357 revolvers I have owned in the past. I didn’t own anything in either cartridge currently, and it seemed a shame to have those dies just laying around without...
A little personal note since I started this string yesterday.
A couple of years ago I sold my Smith 586 to a friend, and since it was the only 38/357 I owned I threw in several hundred rounds of handloads, mostly 38 148 grain wadcutters.
But I still have the dies, and looking at various handguns...
This might be more of a handgun question than a rifle question but it can apply to both.
When gun shopping do you take the cost of shooting enough to be proficient into account?
Seeing a Facebook post from a friend who has never owned a gun about taking a concealed carry class got me to thinking...
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