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I got a Rossi 45C trapper in stainless a couple months ago. Just put a bullseye sight on it last week. I load 45C a little hot (about 21K psi) with 300gr HC bullets, and the throat on mine is...

The new one I just got appears to be 1:20", or thereabouts. My older 357M is 1:30".

Universal has vanished online, it seems. Some powders show up from time to time and then sell out, but Universal hasn’t been one of them, at least that I have seen.

I was not able to parse that. Just to be clear, you said you didn’t want to trim brass to make the cast bullet work. I was just observing that once-fired Hornady brass from those particular...

I had some (discontinued) Speer 240 grain Silhouette bullets that had to be loaded too long for the Henry. Don't remember, but I think the COAL was longer than 1.615. I could load and shoot them in...

I have a case trimmer as well as Lee Quick Trim dies. But I am apparently too lazy to trim the several thousand pieces of .357M brass I have. There's a technical problem with that as an alternative...

Marbles makes a tang sight for Miroku-made Winchester 1892s. Hopefully your limited edition has the small hole drilled and tapped in front of the screw that holds the buttstock on. You’ll order a...

I use coated 300 grain truncated cone flat points (and 250 grain JHPs) in .45C Henry. I don't recall ever shooting any semi-wadcutters in it. My general experience with semi-wadcutters in Henry...

Count me among those who experimented with WST due to lack of availability of more familiar powders to me. I made it work well enough, but I don’t expect to buy it ever again.

I tried "neck sizing" .357 magnum because the chamber on my Rossi 92 is a little large in back, leading to slightly bulged cases. The resizing die couldn't reach all of it, anyway. Chambering a...

The biggest problem with the Henry rifles is getting an optic low enough that you don't lose your cheek weld. You can get a cheek pad, of course, and then it doesn't matter so much, but the solution...

I have different lever guns with different sights, mostly receiver peep or tang, but I stuck with the Uberti semi-buckhorn and small bead front sights on my 1873. I’m definitely partial to a small...

Of course the sights are designed to require minor fitting so that a perfect fit can be achieved on almost any rifle, but that raises an interesting question. Skinner sells front sights specifically...

Have one. Works fine. I really like it on the trapper. As I recall, I fitted a thin brass shim to make it fit securely, no wobble on mine. As far as adjustability, there is no windage...

I've never used Clays, but based on my experience with Universal, I'd go for it.

I had some Missouri .452" RNFPs (Hi-Tek, BN18) and .430" RNFPs (Hi-Tek, BN12), both 200 grain, that I had tried and decided would do best over a fast powder at relatively low velocity. WST was the...

The drop at the comb is pretty severe, so when I had a scope on my Big Boy Steel, I didn't particularly like the Henry scope mount. The Henry mount was designed to work on both the steel and brass...

Standard disclaimers apply, i.e. you're responsible for backing off and working up your own load, yada, yada, yada, but ...

My load for the 180 grain (Hi-Tec) Missouri RNFPs is 12.5 grains of 2400...

This. But I do find it annoying that manuals will tell me the COAL (usually) but not bother to mention the length of the bullet they used. Who hasn't substituted bullets? But the single biggest...

To be honest with you, I didn't pay any attention to it to begin with, and I didn't really understand why velocity was worth discussing. If I had been thinking more clearly at the time, I would not...

I use both tools now, and I normally don't even bother putting the cylinder gap into the model with GRT. It's pretty seldom that predicted velocity coming out of a revolver is something I care very...

LOL. I have no idea why I got on to the 629. I should probably not post so late at night.

I've heard of success when using these powders at lower pressures behind heavy bullets for caliber. Is that the context there?

Well, as I said, I used 5.7", and the reason I did so was because most 629 cylinders are about 1.71" long, and the standard barrel length of the current circa-4" model is currently 4.125". I don't...

I think N110 safe to download, but it likes to be loaded at nearly full case capacity or somewhat compressed for clean and consistent burn. As with most magnum handgun powders, just because you can...