Recent content by Jim Watson

Would an L frame Smith be big enough for six Manly 10mms or would it open up a divide like the Ruger only .45s for Big Rugers but not for Little Rugers? They made an L frame .40 with titanium cylinder, I fear a gunsmith would throw up his hands if asked to rechamber one. But Google says it has...

I consider it incorrect to show a percussion action and call it a flintlock, converted or not.

And here already SA is advertising the Saint Victor "pistol" on an AR type action with Colt type metal magazines. Seems they are competing with themselves. Does the fact that the Kuna is imported and the Saint is domestic (isn't it?) matter?

And both of them dead ends. I have come to think we would have done better just to have paid Mauser for the whole design package. We would have quit paying royalties in WWI anyhow.

Seems unusually sensible for NY. I once had a sneak thief in and out type burglar. I have been a lot more careful about locking doors and windows since then. So I do not see much scope for the "innocent intruder" type incident we hear about. While we do not have a "training" requirement...

Do people take into account the total cost of such a Lego-gun after they have discarded and replaced so many factory parts? I recall one post, a guy had accumulated so many takeoff parts that he was able to just assemble them into another gun.

One trainer said as much, a nighttime intruder is all yours, ambush him at will. That was a good many years ago, I wonder what the LE and DA reaction would be now. Another said that he would be warned by alarm and barky dog. All an intruder would see would be one eye over a shotgun barrel.

I’ve wondered about those oil filter and drink bottle connectors. I read that you cannot buy repair parts for regular silencers. So doesn’t that make your first oil filter THE silencer?

You’re joshing us, right? When I was a wee little kid, our apartment neighbors were from Cuba. Big Tony was going to med school, Mrs Tony kept house, I played with Little Tony and Ilene. They surely moved back to Cuba when Big Tony got his MD which would have been a few years pre Castro. I...

I would not want to be the test case on that one. You have a gun with a SBR maker's mark on it. The government has a file that says #9995 is a SBR. I would not want to pay a lawyer to explain to a judge that a different barrel or "brace" cancelled all that out.

Straight pull, fast firing, don'cha know. There have been a couple to throw the bolt at the shooter; probably due to funky loads, there is no really good brass for the job.

Are you either able to do a nice refinish yourself or are willing to pay a real expert more than the gun is or will be worth to do it for you?

Gunmakers have known that safe carry was a selling point and have been working on it for a long, long time. Ever see a flintlock with a "stalking safety?" Seems like most of them have it pretty well worked out by now, but SIG missed the boat on this one. Is this why they are offering so many...

Yeah, kind of sad he listed the "Model 1835 flintlock muskets." and illustrated the actual percussion arm.

And blatantly, too. I saw it at a big match during AWB. When the vendor tents first set up, Dealer A had tubes, Dealer B had internals. After a while they had swapped around and each had tubes and internals side by side. By the end of the match, they had rebagged and were selling complete kits...