Recent content by gwalchmai

250gr LSWC over 8.5gr of Unique. The gun will handle more but anybody that won't kill ain't meant to be killed.

I have a SoS 3" and an early blued pug. I keep both mine stoked with 180gr full wadcutters over 7.5g of Unique and Fed LPPs. They're accurate and controllable in DA with this load and both guns seem to stand up to the load well. Looking into the chambers at those full wads is pretty...

I thought the .500s used the same grip size as the L&K models.

I think my favorite big bore SA is a 4&5/8" .45 convertible. Robust enough for your manliest handloads and then you can shoot standard hardball through the ACP cylinder and they're like .22s. Mine never has liked .45ACP SWCs, though. The band is too wide and it hangs on the headspace ring. Ball...

I have a stainless 7.5" Dragoon that will shoot any .44 Mag load manufactured and most reasonable +Ps. They're essentially a SuperDeeOoper Blackhawk. (fits fine in a Super Blackhawk holster. Heavy enough to soak up any recoil generated by heavy loads, too. When you explain to people how...

I have one just like it in blue. Nice gun.

It's pretty HR if it keeps you from blowing something up. ;)

OP, I recommend you put aside all your reloading equipment and supplies and read a quality reloading manual cover-to-cover. And do not use gunshop employees for reloading advice unless you personally know they're proficient (and even then seek confirmation of anything they tell you). As far as...

I think you'll see more gun-to-gun variation that brand-to-brand. That said, all my 1911s like 185 and 200g LSWCs running around 750fps.

It may also be educational to try some small pistol magnum primers in the SPP brass. Everything I've read indicates SPP makes no diff in .45, but if it does the mag primer may make up the difference.

Sounds like their QC dept isn't doing their job. The .44 SPL could be loaded and shot in your .44 MAG, but I wouldn't load it to .44 MAG levels, in case someone fired it in a real .44 SPL. But .44 Winchester is .44-40, isn't it? That wouldn't work at all.

Thanks for sharing.

I suspect that can be said of just about anything, but it doesn't change the fact that they were issued to troops and served well in three major wars.

K-frame was also issued to troops.

3" S&W Model 65.