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This thread is too good to die! The .357 mag is one of my fave cartridges. I'd buy a semi auto .357 mag in a heart beat. It would be a great small game rifle, personal defense carbine, plinker, and with 180 grain hornadys a great deer, hog, and black bear rifle. Lemag use to converted M1...

Not sure anyone is interested in this thread any more, but there are always folks ready to try black powder and their alternatives other than smokeless, maybe to get a more frontier or primitive effect or atmosphere. Anyway, Hodgdon says Triple 7 FFG only for cartridges. However, triple 7 FFFG...

What a great discussion in a great thread. THR members pull through yet again as the most informative crowd on gun forums! I have researched this topic for several days now and it is well discussed on mostly SASS forums by cowboy shooters. Nothing against them, but they have certain prejudices...

Which nightguard? Actually I'm on this thread to figure out this very question, and as of this post, the 325 appears to be winning. Right now I have a 325 on layaway, and I'm thinking of putting either a 327, a 386 or a 315 on layaway. Why did I choose the 325? I have a 325 4" which I put a...

22lr and 22 mag People don't realze that to get the performance out of such a small case, the .22 rf is loaded to high pressures. They are way smaller than .22 mags and usually will split with a release of gases back toward the shooter. .22 WRF will fire in a .22 mag, but cripes the .22 mag...

accuracy and cylinder gap As was mentioned previously, cylinder gap has little if anything to do with accuracy, but has to do with velocity loss and the ability to annoy your neighbors with the blast. For the factors and mechanics of accuracy in a revolver, a diffinitive and simple discussion...

686 As was mentioned previously, the US custom 3" are very rare and a 3.5" was never made, so yours is probably a 4" measured wrongly. If it is a 3", then it's worth some $.

.454 Since we don't know the bullet used and where he was hit, it would be difficult to determine how he responded. Those .454 bullets are more meant for penetration in game, than expansion for self defence. Bullet and palcement are everything. Mass Ayoob tells stories of people being hit by...

Ruger security six As long as it shoots well, as you say, then no worry. While not as strong as the GP 100's, I have never heard of one go out of time or have a bent crane, even after years of heavy loads and use. It is one of the downsides of buying off the internet. I'm sure we could all...

bad trigger Go to gunblast.com and under "archives," look up and read "A Poor man's Trigger Job" for Ruger single actions. It's so simple to do, it's rediculous, but works.

three chamberings The problem is with the headspacing of the cartridges. the .454 and the .45 colt have rims of similar thickness, so that's no problem. The .45 acp has a rebated rim, so the clips make up for that, but when used with the acp cartridge actually makes it so the rim is thicker...

I would never by pass a safety. As much as we don't like them, they are a symptom of the times. If ever an accident happened with the reworked gun, your chances of being prosecuted and/or going to prison, even if it was not your fault, are significantly increased. " Ladies and gentlemen of...

Sure in some ways life was simpler, but then that "cheap" colt was still worth a months wages..... our income was far less too. I was makin $5000 a year in the late 60's. People died of stuff or were severely crippled by stuff we are immunized for and tuberculouses was prevalent. I was...