Recent content by cherryriver

Here's two easy things you can do right away. Dryfire a lot. Two reasons- not just trigger practice, but as dfariswheel so often points out, it's a trigger job for free. Wearing the parts together gets rid of much of the roughness that a paid-for trigger job would be trying to eliminate...

It's really not a good choice for this type of cartridge. Several of the Enos Forum boys have tried and given up. The pressure curve is too abrupt- the line between good and explosion is too narrow. Stick to WSF- it's Winchester's solution to the question. It works.

Based on the guns I've handled and owned, the easiest-to-rack full-power handgun is the 9mm 1911. I imagine the Hi-Power should be right behind it. Another factor to consider is that greater length usually equals a softer spring tension to work against. The Government Model is noticeably...

First guess: gunk. Lots of old Colts have a grease in the works that can harden with age and disuse. I once bought an virtually unfired 1950 Cobra that couldn't even cycle because of the hardened gum in the works. Taking a Detective Special apart to clean this stuff out isn't especially hard...

I would have to say the best validation of the existence of the .41 Magnum cartridge would be another cartridge not even a sixgun round in the first place- the .40 S&W. Here's why: the .41 was an answer to the call for a big bore round that wasn't a full-sized bullet like the .44s. So indeed...

My third gun was a six-inch M-28. I looked at the weight and thought it might help with getting my wife to shoot .38s. In my youthful figuring, I neglected the size. Her small hands couldn't master this large gun. But, this is the gun (in tandem with the spiffier 27) that the .357 cartidge...

Holy smokes! You can shoot a double-action revolver by cocking the hammer with a thumb and then pulling the trigger to drop it? Who knew?

A new Colt Magnum Carry with 2, 3, and 4" barrel choices. If you haven't shot one of these fast, you won't know how well you can hit with a true snub when you're in a hurry. While I didn't pick up on this thread before now, I dream the most about... well, women, of course, but then a set of...

No, you wouldn't really say it's a Police Positive Special, since the Cobra's alloy frame is a significant model differentiation from the steel PPs. Apart from that distinction, it is pretty close.

It so happened that this event took place while we were in St. Louis for business and I was able to follow the local coverage closely. I believe that the initial reports said that the killer began with a five-shot Charter Arms .44 Special, not a .44 Magnum. This is what he used to kill the...

Just to fill in- My 940, which I purchased used, was a sticky extractor like many, not all, 940s. I sent it back to Smith, on their dime, and they worked it over to correct not only the barrel flaw it had, but to replace the cylinder with a new one. They touched up the action, too, and then...

And don't forget the odd duck Smith & Wesson 547, a blue revolver with a Rube Goldberg spring-wire ejector star that ejected the empties and then allowed the fresh cases to slide past into the chambers. A search will turn up a number of photos of these. My 940 is perfectly practical to use...

You won't regret the Simply Rugged. I have nine. They are extremely comfortble and the high sides cover up lots of metal for two benefits- keeping the hard bits from biting you during strenous activity, and keeping a smooth profile on the cover garment. I have one that disappears a full-sized...

You know, it's funny, LAR-15, but five years ago, I would have said the same thing about Illinois. But somehow that perception has turned. The gun-rights movement has managed to get a little bit of momentum going. It took a long time and it isn't always forward movement, but outside of inner...

FTA84- I didn't actually read all 385 pages of the meeting agenda, but I did use the search function for both "gun" and "firearm" and got no hits. I do recall hearing somewhere that they were putting off this vote until the Bradys and LCPHVs were able to come in with a suitably restrictive new...