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Back when I first got into the shooting game, the only 9mm handguns were mostly war surplus pistols (Surplus Lugers were $49.95 mail order + a box of cartridges.) and the word that there was an Israeli revolver patterned after the S&W Military & Police (There being no model numbers in the public...

If this is braggin', so be it! Back in the last century I tried my hand at holster making. Got pretty good at it but lost my zeal for the work. Decided to leave that to the professionals. But here is one I made, back around 1975 or so: Here is the same holster some forty five years later...

Several posts hereabouts about Charter Arms revolvers. I've had only one, a .44 Special Bulldog from many years ago. I bought it primarily from Skeeter Skelton's article in Shooting Times introducing the .44 Special. I bought the Charter Bulldog and immediately began loading for it. Due to...

This much I know: The Model No. 1 (Smith & Wesson) was a tip-up revolver in .22 rimfire. Next was the Model No. 2, a six shot .32 rimfire, also a tip-up. Then came the Model No. 1 1/2, a five shot tip-up model. After these came the Model No. 3, a top break six shot revolver. All models; the...

In the discussion of the Bearcat I mentioned the Uberti Stallion but did not show it in my post. So to make up for that oversight, here it is posed with my Rugers: Its a dandy little gun, and just seems more petite compared to the Single Six, largely because of its smaller grip, which is...

We recently discarded my wife's old Singer sewing machine. This was a model that had had an electric motor added on some time after it left Singer. Going through the cabinet before discarding, I found a handy oiler. This oiler is a plastic tube, maybe six inches long, of clear plastic with a...

During its heyday, were any Smith & Wesson No. 3 revolvers sold chambered for the .45 S&W cartridge that were not of the Schofield pattern? These commercial models? As I recall, some double action top breaks were made in this caliber, and know the .45 No.3 was sold commercially , but were...

A recent thread here about grip adaptors prompted me to post this. I had a Colt New Service revolver, a .44 Special which I had loaded fairly stout handloads. Some of these left my shooting hand looking like fresh hamburger meat, so I tried a Pachmayr grip adaptor. This looked awful and did...

Y'all were very kind in your remarks of my other photo post, so thought I'd try one more. Here two .45 Colt revolvers, Ruger Blackhawk and Colt New Frontier: This Ruger has had over 20,000 rounds fired in it. The Colt not so much. Bob Wright

"Why climb that mountain?" The reply: "Because its there." "Why post these photos?" "Because i have them." The top is a .45 Colt "Super" Blackhawk that is a former Bisley. Bottom are a New Model and a Three Screw Super Blackhawk. I'm fond of all three. Bob Wright

I just received my new Tom Threepersons holster from El Paso Saddlery. I ordered it with forward cant, which was a big mistake. Most of my holsters for everyday carry have 18 ~20 degrees cant. As near as I can measure, this one is near 30 degrees. It tilts to such an extreme that when...

Comments made recently about loading the New Model Ruger Blackhawks with full six rounds. The gun is certainly safe for carry so loaded. Then why do I continue to load in the traditional way? Well, When I'm on the range, my cartridges are in those plastic slip top cartridge boxes. These...

On another forum I've been in a discussion about the use of wax bullets, and that reminded me........... Years ago I bought some practice cartridges in .38 Special. The cases were green plastic with three scallops around the rim. These took small pistol primers. The bullets were dark gray...

Recent post here regarding accuracy reminded me of this........ Years back I was doing some long range revolver shooting, using my Ruger Super Blackhawks. I was shooting on the Shelby County Rifle and pistol range. The range had a berm about ten yards behind the 100 yard line. I often would...

Just arrived today from Doc Barranti. It's the Ranger Model for my .45 Blackhawk: Bob Wright

While folks hereabouts recently bemoaned the Army quartermasters in the issue of .45 Colt vs. .45 Army (.45 S&W) ammunition, consider these headaches: The US Army had the Remington revolvers, which had been converted to cartridges and took the .44 Colt cartridge. In addition, there were...

Last night I pasted a photo in a post I made and the photo did not show up as I supposed. I made this post this morning to check to see what went wrong. Bob Wright

A number of years back I acquired a little S&W Model 442, a lightweight, hammerless, .38 Special snub nose five shooter. Not too savvy concerning hammerless revolvers, I ordered a Bianchi holster for the little companion. This is what arrived...

Since y'all were kind enough to ask, here's a little continuation: The Colt New Service I had suffered a broken mainspring. I could have repaired the gun myself, but decided to put it in a nearby gunshop. I did, and while it was there the shop was broken into and several guns, including my...

Maybe a bit boring, and y'all may think a mite pompus, but the thread about your "First Love" brought this on. So skip it if you will. When I was a little tad, WW II was in full progress. And cowboy movies were riding high at the local theaters. So I had many toy guns, and thought, at maybe...