The hammer on my SKS broke I was thinking about getting a new hammer from Murray's or APEX or buying an entire trigger group from keep shooting. I want a good quality hammer that will last. What should I do? Do you have any other suggestions? What is the quality of the warranty/customer service...
Just to clarify when I was talking about the positive lock I was referring to the hammer block and I did know that the tight cylinder lockup was called a bank vault lockup. However I did not know how accepted the term bank vault lockup was so I didn't use it in order to avoid confusion. I also...
I know that Colts with the positive lock design are designed to have the hand applying pressure to the ratchet inorder to make the cylinder hold still for more accurate shots and this causes the hand to wear away quicker causing timing issues. When the mk III series came out they replaced the...
What is some of the differences between the .500 special, .500 jrh and .500 we? Can they be fired out of a gun chambered for .500 mag? I understand that the .500 special can be fired out of .500 mag guns and the .500 we is belted but I want to know more.
Is there a difference between the throat and the leade or are they the same thing? My impression was the throat is the area where the bullet is seated before being fired and the leade is the tapered part of the rifling to help ease a bullet into the rifling.
I have one of the current production Win 70s and it appears it doesn't have the firing pin block the original pre 64 has. Does it safely secure the firing pin in case of pierced primer etc. and if so how does it do it?
The 7.63x25mm is based off the 7.65x25mm and the 7.62x25mm is based off the 7.63x25mm. Since this is the case can I fire all three rounds out of my Tokarev.
I know that before 1957 the S&W model 27 was called the .357 magnum and the ones produced between 1935 and 1939 are called registered magnums. My question is this. Is registered magnum an official name given to the revolver by S&W or is it a nickname given to it by collectors?
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