Recent content by Jim Watson

Everybody wants to muck around with .45 loads, the Rugerites load them heavy, the CAS load them light. When I was still in SASS, I shot .44-40 at factory equivalent. Did that make me a "warthog?" When FLG was adjusting my Cimarron ASM .44-40 to zero, he first milled the V notch rear sight to...

Yeah FA is weird. There is a manipulation of the 83 hammer that is supposed to get it into a safe condition, better than old quarter cock, but then they say to load 4. The 97 has a transfer bar.

The Luger is a foreign gimmick. The real overlooked service pistol is the Remington Model 53 Navy. I, too, struggled with magazines for my High Standard Citation Military. A friend got lucky on gun show clips but I didn't. I heard about the "A" magazines from the rump organization in Texas...

Well, he did, a few. The story goes that the Browning Brothers were in low rate production of the "high wall" rifle when it was noticed by a Winchester exec who sought them out and bought the rights in 1883. It took a while for an 1878 design to become a model of 1885. The Brownings are...

I don't know when adhesives were first used, I vaguely recall Brownells plugging Acraglas for the job. But as I said, Parker was offering a soldering system in 1939 and no suitable glues on the market. I don't know if they kept it after the War.

Agree with most. I have a Garmin and its portability, no wires, and no out-front setup are great advantages. My CE and CED are completely obsoleted. Now if I had my own range where the CED could be left set up, it would serve well, but I don't. I agree that clicking through the options...

Geez, what did it end up costing after throwing away so many stock parts in favor of aftermarket or other model stuff? I see that sort of thing all the time wrt P365 and Glock.

Yes, he did some wild and wonderful conversions. His .45s were built out of two guns cut into unequal parts, the larger sides welded together. But I was more captivated by the gunzine centerfold of his .22 WMR Luger Navy style. In the 1950s there was the Wyatt-Imthurn .45 Luger. It was one...

All I could find on the subject in Taurus literature was "The Taurus 856 revolvers have a swing out type cylinder with six (6) chambers, turning around a central axis which allows you to fire six shots."

There was an agency that would slip a .380 in with 9mm P to set up malfunctions to be cleared in training. It didn't hurt the Berettas but it didn't function, either. But that was the idea. As said, real antique .45 Schofield would be worth more to a collector than to shoot. Got pictures of...

I recently read that the barrel of a Smith & Wesson Model 36 is being made out of MIM. Seems like a big part for the process.

A friend has a little Martini that was lined down from some obscure Rook cartridge to .22 by the old Parkerifling process. The liner is soldered in and is stamped Parkerrifled on the muzzle across the seam. I have a 1939 Stoegers (reprint) with the equipment advertised and the process...

Ubiquity doesn't bother me. If I liked the way a P365 handled, I would get one. But right now the leading contender is a Shield Plus. If I decide to change at all.

The conventional wisdom is that there were only two .45s made and one of those ruined in destructive testing. But I once saw a thread in Luger collecting circles that there were likely six of them. Not all the same, did you notice the part about fudging the grip angle in the Lugerman guns? So...

The 1911 contract said that Springfield could start making pistols after 50,000 Colts had been delivered. I don't know what the business deal was that brought Remington-UMC in. I found a post that said the North American Arms 1911 arose out of a deal to reassign pistol production from...