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On a tangent, has anyone tried Minwax Natural Paste Wax? It's available at the big box stores and online. On the surface, it appears that it would be a good substitute for Johnson's (no longer...

IIRC, the .357 Mag was/is at it's best as a 'man-stopper' with a 125 grain JHP bullet. We're talking one-shot 'stops,' here. That's according to the FBI, or whoever it is that keeps track of such...

Some advocate Kiwi Neutral shoe polish. There are spray mold release agents that work well, but they tend to be spendy. Way back in the olden days at Fort Hood, TX, at the MTU, we used to keep our...

Agreed.

I can remember a lot (most?) of the things mentioned:

rotary dial phones
milk delivered by the milk man
getting polio vaccine applied to a sugar cube
green stamps
regular and ethyl gas
riding...

Interesting; Hodgdon only lists data for a very few cartridges with WST. The .45 Colt is not among them.

I gave up on the .net Ruger forum years ago. It seemed like every time I made a post, Io***an took issue with something that I had said for some reason, and felt the need to correct me. I get...

Doug: so sorry to hear about your health issues! By all means, concentrate on taking care of yourself! I do regret dawdling and procrastinating on sending a cylinder or two to you now, but I will...

They make bag riders for AR-15s, but... they only fit A1 or A2 fixed stocks and the old 2" diameter aluminum free float tubes of yesteryear:

https://egwguns.com/ar-rifle-parts/ar-bag-riders

Pan lubing would be the easiest way to fill the lube grooves, but you'll also have lube on your rebated bullet bases. You probably already know this, but go to Walmart, Goodwill, or somewhere and...

My reply wasn't aimed specifically at you. I have a long love/hate relationship with Ruger.

I think my biggest issue with Ruger revolvers is thread constriction/choke, where the barrel is threaded into the receiver. Since manufacturers decided that thread timing took too long and required...

Most people that buy the big hand-cannons shoot a few rounds and realize that they bought way more gun than they need - or want. I've seen several of them for sale annotated 'only fired X rounds.'

I personally saw the third-world jeweler's assistants sweeping up the gold shavings from where they worked. They separated the dirt and junk from the gold, and tossed it into the melt. This was in...

As stated above, most of the small bits are MIM - hammer, sear, grip safety, thumb safety, slide stop, etc. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're junk, just that they're MIM.

Straight from the Alliant website. Note, there are no indications of +P pressures:

45 Colt 250 gr Speer LSWC Winchester 1.6 5.5 CCI 300 2400 15.4 972 -
45 Colt 250 gr Speer...

I briefly owned a Springfield 1911 in .40 S&W several years ago. I bought it with the intention of fitting a .357 Sig barrel to it, but guess what nobody offered at the time? Guess I should have...

Great idea - if only I had (or could afford) a 3-D printer. Someone should patent this idea and manufacture them for sale. Then, when someone else with big cash comes along, they can sell the...

Don't worry, the anti-gunners have lever guns picked out for banning next. They just have to finish with semi-autos first.

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The zinc disks were tried back in the '50s with limited success. According to Dave Corbin, that's because of the way they were cut. He makes dies to cut out a copper disc and swage in onto the base...

There are still over 1 million people in the Houston metro area without power from Beryl. Ours was only out for a day. Some just went down again locally, due to a downed wire.

Look into having the wood stabilized.

Personally, I don't want to turn my yard into a toxic waste dump. I believe that I will refrain from using petroleum products to kill ants. I did learn about the dish soap and water spray, though! ...

I think Elmer Keith described the Colt New Service as something that no human hand fits. The backstrap to trigger distance is very generous, to put it politely.