Recent content by tomr8368

I found the answer to my own question in the rifle section of the site..... :banghead:

Yesterday I saw a Golden State Arms Centurion model 100, 30-06 at a local gun store. The Blue Book of Gun Values describes the company as no longer in business, but was an importer and re-manufacturer of military rifles. The rifle shoots three in about the same hole at 25 yards (indoor...

No one has mentioned the Colt Government 380... in nickle. Great size for pocket carry and a great shooter, IMO. Tom

Thank you for all your help on this... it clarified something that I wasn't able to make sense of. Its nice to have a revolver that's a little out of the ordinary and I'll be sure it stays in the family. Tom

S & W Letter I got a letter today from Mr. Jinks about the revolver. He simply concluded it was a post war hand ejector and did not address the question of when it might have been built, given the pre war serial number and post war 2" barrel. He did say it was first shipped in 1949 to a...

Steve: You could also try www.horstheld.com . He is a dealer in antique pistols but should know someone who deals in antique shotguns... Good luck, sounds like a very fine shotgun. Tom

OF: I fit the definition too, but you claimed it first.... Again many thanks and have a great holiday. Tom

Old Fuff: (what's a Fuff?) Your description of the old and new hammer block was enough for this guy who doesn't know a whole lot about guns to tell you that it does have the new hammer block... the face of the hammer under the firing pin is square ( or really rectangular), so it must be as you...

I appreciate your reply very much. I'm afraid an oversight of mine may have mislead you. I failed to mention that it is chambered for the S&W .32 long cartrige. The revolver looks just like the one on p. 93 of the Standard Catalog of S&W. Is there a way to identify which hammer block is in it...

I have a puzzle. When my father passed away I inherited his S&W HE serial no. 534,815. The serial No. appears on the barrel, butt and cylinder and is within the range of the pre war HE, ie 263,001 - 536,684. However, it has a 2" barrel which was introduced in 1949 according to the Standard...

Texas issues to people from out of state, see Packing.Org.

Well, I sure learned something... I'll wipe a couple of them off and try them at the range next time...will let you know if they go bang. I suspect they will....:confused: Tom

I'd sure first get a good reloading manual like Speer or Lee or others, and then read it. (The reading is the hard part, "real men" hate to read directions). Also, all the powder mgf have booklets you can get free at the gun shop where you get your powder that have good reloading data...

I've got an old aluminium pie plate and just keep a layer of oil in it and put the cases down in it for several days or weeks. A local gun range will take them but I like to kill the primers rather than let them sit arould "live". Funny thing, once I called the police and asked it they would...

the klintons How old will Hillary be in '08? I don't see her as a viable candidate then... or really having enough dem party influence to make it. Isn't Kennedy pushing Kerry and still pretty much in control of the party in the background, and therefore the nomination? Somebody sure cut off...