The recommendation for the mid frame flat top convertible was a point I was going to make after reading this thread. They are quite refined, and built on newer tooling, and after a couple of years...
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The recommendation for the mid frame flat top convertible was a point I was going to make after reading this thread. They are quite refined, and built on newer tooling, and after a couple of years...
The 1963 is half right, the mid frame/1873 continued on with ears for the .357 Blackhawks. In 1973 the mid sized frame was dropped, and the SBH frames were used for all centerfires until the .32...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Have a mid '90's heavy barrel .300 Win Mag, with the tupperware stock. With the first box of Remington factory SP ammo, it was shooting into under 2" at 200 yards. Handloads with match boolits are...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
A good retailer, with good prices and great selection, not really nationally known, but they are opening up with mail order, is Production Tool Supply http://www.pts-tools.com/cgi/CGP2HOME . They...
Forum: Special Projects
A few years back I handled an M1903A3, in .45 ACP that looked to be a Springfield Arsenal build from 43 or 44 (the barrel was marked as such). Ran on stripper clips. Wish I'd had the foresight to...
Forum: Special Projects
I can't stop thinking about this. Would love to get a group buy for barrels..
Remember Brian Pearce putting something in print about Ruger not producing the 77/22-Hornet-.357-.44 for a while because of some changes. Don't remember if they are moving manufacturing or ....?
How bout dat
http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/revolver-ballistics-test/
They also have done .380, 9 mm, .40 S & W, and .45 ACP. Worth a look.
Let the Flaming begin.
You are pushing into the land of diminishing returns, beware. Have you mic'ed the slugs? Not with a dial caliper, but with a micrometer? Did you mark the chambers on the cylinder, when you were...
Warrp8nt, thanks for the response. Definitely actionable information.
Firmly believe the K frame is one of the greatest machines ever created by humans...!
While I've found RedDot to need...
That is looking GREAT waarp8nt! Really liking those grips, they look like the targets by the lack of finger grooves? How far do they extend below the bottom of the grip frame? I've got pretty big...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A dollar store stainless steel frosting spatula, and ground the end to match the lower edge of the pot. A couple of secondhand spoons have been modded to suit other needs.
There was a run sold in late December 2015 to January 2016. There were over 199 showing on the stock available tab from memory. No idea if there is a known number on these, and they are the only...
Those are nice, going by everyone else's measurements mirroring the ones on mine. Throats at .314, and barrel grooves about .313-.3135. Down side is they are rare, maybe a few hundred made (no real...
Forum: Special Projects
Brownells Oxpho Blue does some nice fast work on aging brass, or giving it the dark, almost blackend look theat was on those snaps when new.
Check with a shoe and bag repair shop, there have to...
Forum: Military Rifles
SBR's are legal in the mitten these days sir! :-P
The lightweight is a fairly rare and collectible SingleSix. The only Old model/three screw Ruger SA's with a factory steel gripframe were the Super Blackhawks.
Honestly, keep your eyes open. With all the shop closures over the last 10 years, there are a lot of good used tools out there, cheap. A few years back an old Starret was had at an estate sale for...
The 50 Anniversary flattop .44 mags have the same size frame and cylinder as the Super Blackhawk. The difference is the fact that the rear sight "ears" aren't there, and the size of the gripframe...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
As for the cost factor, it tends to wash out for me at about $4-5.00 per lb. Some 6 oz pieces I pay $3-4 for, and some 1.5 lb pieces I pay $3.00 for. Just as soon have seven lbs at $5.00 a lb, than...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just wanted to say thanks for this Jailer.
In '09 when everyone went on buying sprees, remember some trying to sell primers for $80 per K. Many places around here never went back below $40 per K, while nationally and online the prices went...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Just thinking out loud, maybe work it down in stages progressively smaller dies, IE work from the seating die to the sizer. Maybe has to do with GRUMPA different brands of dies, maybe the brass...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
This should be a sticky! Doing this in a Blackhawk convertable, they could be very long, or you could use .460 S&W brass with the Colt cylinder. Just looking at it from the POV of the dies and...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |