Recent content by Dr T

I look at it as a way to maintain focus. When starting back from a long layoff, or warming up for deer season, I will put a box or two of 22 shells through my titanium J-Frame kit gun with a 3 inch barrel and adjustable sights. At least half of this will be done shooting double action. By...

Gee...Wasn't there something a while back called the 300 Savage...

The Rifle is very pretty--but I like the sights on the carbine a bit more...

Granted, I am not a huge fan of the .357 Magnum. In a handgun, it generates a lot of muzzleblast (and a huge fireball from a 2.5" barrel), and a 38 Special +P suits my needs just fine. In a rifle, it just seems a bit anemic. I have just never really wanted one. Until I came across this...

You can't take it apart into two pieces....Oh, wait....

You may want to look at the 1-4x24 VLOPs with the 30mm tube (and perhaps an integral red dot). I put one on my Contender 30-30 carbine and it seems to work well.

The thing is that I am not sure how safe it would be to load the 460 cases light. The case is 1.8" long and the powder would likely not be evenly distributed. My approach will be to find a heavy load that will work in the Bisley (7.5" barrel) and I will get what I get in the Encore. I have...

I have some H110 and Lil'Gun and 100 225 gr Flex Tip seconds on hand. I have a box of factory 45 Colt flex tips for reference, but the handloads will be hotter. I also have a bunch of cast bullets to play with. I will load the Flextips with Contender/Blackhawk data and the lead at standard...

One of my spring projects is to work up some loads for a 45 Colt. Specifically, I have a 20" 460 S&W Magnum barrel for my TC Encore and I am after something a little less punishing (Something like a 2600 fps 240 gr bullet out of a 5 lb rifle gives me pause). One thing about this load is that...

I think that you are seriously overthinking it. Until you reach competition, just go shoot the thing and clean it when the chamber gets sticky.

I think my best buy was a Leupold Var-X III 3.5-10x40 for well under $200--but that was a long, long time ago...

I tend to buy "Obsolete" scopes. I very carefully look for scopes that are very good at their current price point when they are new in the market. Then I wait until the manufacturer comes out with a "new and improved" model and the distributors start to clear out their old stock at clearance...

FWIW, on this date Midway has some factory overrun 375 H&H brass for about $60 for 50.... https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1026572891?pid=308105

I have one somewhere for my SKS. The safe is too crowded to keep it mounted. I never could figure out how to use it and I think that if you don't know how to properly use a weapon, you are probably better off without it. I am more comfortable with a shepherd's crook for defense. I usually...

Thanks for the update. There is nothing magic about the Vipers, except that I have had fewer feed issues in the Mark I - IV Rugers with the truncated cone than with round noses. But they always seemed to be loaded a bit hotter than the bulk box. I suspect the same with the Federal (but I have...