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I am loyal to a brand as long as I get the quality I expect. I have no long term expectations other than I hope the company is around in five years. Ownership changes have ruined brands for me: the American factory closes down, production is moved over seas, the majority of parts are...

This RIA ejected magazines when new the magazine latch was either insufficient, or as I now suspect, held the magazine too high. As the slide went forward, the magazine was ejected down! RIA sent me a replacement, this was the old one Magazines sat in the pistol very low with the...

Interesting! May the Divine Being will grant me the extra lifetime to see Tisas repros increase in value. I would gladly accept an additional 70 years of life to see that happen, as the early Italian reproductions came on the market in the 1950's. I am afraid, like always, my timing is awful.

I don't know if this would be called "Confirmation Bias" or not. However, we tend to see only what we want to see. I have been there any number of times, where if I did not conduct "useless" safety checks, I would never have discovered the something that was amiss. As much as I hate empty...

Is nasty medicine better than sweet medicine? Concentrating on sight alignment and trigger is great, but a bad trigger will stay a bad trigger, and your trigger pull mechanics will not improve because of it. The factory triggers on my Ruger MKII's had a lot of take up, creep, and over...

Good deal! Take a look at the quality of wood you got in the 1930's on a low priced rifle. Can't get that on a $100 dollar rifle today.

At least the buyer gets a pistol that is close to an original military 1911 at a reasonable price. Plus, shooting it won't ruin any collector value.

I have talked to Vietnam era Soldiers, and can remember two LEO's whose careers extended to the 1970's. They told me of LEO negligent discharges with 1911's, not revolvers, but I am sure they occurred with fools playing quick draw games, with loaded revolvers. One Vietnam Company Officer told me...

Tisas claims on another forum that the frame and slide are forged from a 4140 equivalent steel. And that the frame and slide are heat treated before machining to prevent warpage. I did not notice that the Tisas firing pins in my Tisas pistols are "Series 80" parts, and I really don't care if...

I am going to have to check the mechanism to see if it has a later drop safety. If it does, then it is the one of three of my five screws with the improved lockworks.

Phillip Hemphill, two time Bullseye National Champ, and ten time PPC National Champ, told me he primarily shot the 148 gr bullets with 2.7 ish grs Bullseye, unless he was required to shoot major, or some other rule. Phil claimed he had 600,000 rounds through a Shilen barreled K frame and it...

The shooting world orbits around the wants of the quick draw crowd. Quick draw games have redesigned historic handguns so the firearm can be fired in an instant. It used to be hard to shoot yourself, especially with double action revolvers. Double action revolvers took ten or more pounds to...

I have a bud who said he shot in 300 yard F Class matches. Everyone blew out the ten ring, made it hard to score. 300 yard F Class target https://www.nationaltarget.com/product/mr-63c-f-class/ MR 65F. The 500 yard F class target https://www.nationaltarget.com/product/mr-65-f-class/

Fill all of the grooves with lube. Seat the bullet and crimp the case on the upper crimp groove. The velocity you want is to keep the bullet from tumbling at 50 yards is just at 700 fps. That is easy to make with 2.7 grains Bullseye, but depending on the lot, you might have to bump it up, or...

Must not have been a positive block, as known discharges with this model are why the lock works were redesigned. I would have to take the mechanism apart to test this, and I won't, but I think a hard enough blow to the hammer would force that block down.

I am confused about this statement. Not the part about measuring fired brass, but the part, as if I understand it correctly, that fired cases come out shorter than the chamber. That will only happen if the internal case pressures are not enough to stretch the case sidewalls, and that does...

You are right, I was wrong. Looked at my H&H Catalogs, the earliest is to the 1930's, only rimmed cartridges are being used in H&H double rifles, and only H&H belted cartridges are being used in the bolt guns. Searching the history of belted Magnums...

It is unsafe to load six rounds in this revolver: This is a five screw Smith and Wesson, I don't know exactly when the lock works changed, but changed they did. These are the internals : note the sloped surface on the back of the cylinder hand. That is a ramp. As the cylinder hand...

I would not modify a rare Rem M30 Express to a 404 Jefferies. Firstly, those are antique actions made of steels with lots of slag and inclusions. There is the real risk of action failure with the increased bolt thrust a big 404 Jefferies will exert on the action. The M1917 action is dismal in...

I really hate the belted magnum. For decades I read in print articles praising belted magnum cases, and now that I can stand on my own, I realize just how little those writers knew about good case design. Belted magnums were a solution for double barrel rifles loaded from the breech. Belted...