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Back nearly 20 years ago, some notable sixgunners got together and created the 480 Achilles cartridge. As Jim Taylor notes in his article, there's no practical use for this cartridge, and the team's motto was "undaunted by common sense." Fundamentally it was an exercise in getting the largest...

Ah, I'm doing a little more reading up and seeing that even with a reamed cylinder, the .32 H&R doesn't have the length to deal with heavier bullets. So if one of my goals is to handload relatively heavy bullets, I should probably stick with the Single Seven?

Hello, I previously owned a Ruger Single Six in .32 H&R and really enjoyed shooting it. I really dug the smaller/handier frame, compared to my Ruger Blackhawk in 32-20 (which I'll probably sell). I sold the Six a few years back, planning to put the funds towards a Single Seven, but life got in...

Great site, thanks! Good gracious, they cite one load at 416 ft/sec with a 420gr, 3.5gr of Trail Boss. Quite the softball! And looking further at grips, these Compact ones from Altamont (did they replace Lett?) look cool, and have texturing both on the side panels and on the rubber: The Carter...

By the way, as I'm looking at 480 Alaskans, I see that these days they're offered in 6-shot, but there was a period where they were offered in 5-shot. If I'm not planning to ream it out to .475 Linebaugh or anything, is there any virtue in trying to find one of the less-common 5-shot variants...

Just like me! Nah, I'm just a little chubby, but that's a good reminder. Honestly something like the Webley is just what I'm thinking, but I want a modern piece rather than milsurp, plus top-breaks can be a bit fragile. Really an even closer example of what I'd love would be the obscure British...

Some great ideas: Charter/Rossi/Taurus: these see to be more carry guns than range guns though, and while I'm sure if you get a good one it's great, these three folks have mixed reps on QC. Though I grant the Charter Bulldog is something I've wanted since I was a teen in Seattle in the '90s...

One of the shooting niches I really enjoy is shooting relatively big bullets at low speeds, so I've been debating getting a big-bore snubby for that. I'll emphasize it's for no practical hunting/bear/CCW/HD purpose, just for casual shooting fun and to have something interesting to handload for...

Bushmaster-Gwinn Assault Rifle

I've added a few of these, and working on others, so this has been helpful. I ran across an interesting puzzle, which I don't necessarily think we'll figure out the answer to here, so I'm just leaving it as "automatic rifle" on the chart. In 1969, Somali president Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was...

@wojownik Some really useful Makarov ones there; I'm finding good sourcing for some of these, just need to figure out the best-sourced and ones which most indisputably pass the bar of "assassination" vice murder.

While I think you are quite correct, it'll take me some digging to find sources without applying too much of what Wikipedia calls "Original Research". That is, finding enough corroborating reports that 17N used an M1911 .45 ACP pistol for the attacks. Just with an initial look at GoogleBooks...

I tracked down the problem, there was a "Redirect" sending 760 views to 7600, but I have corrected it. It was not I who added OBL, but I don't necessarily oppose the inclusion because an encyclopedia should have no "we" but rather be objective. I checked the OBL page and is has him categorized...

Some years ago I created this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_firearm The intent was, for those of us with a wonky technical interest, to list the specific models of firearms used in famous assassinations. Oswald's 6.5 Carcano, Guiteau's .44 British...

Thanks for the Shopkeeper heads-up (my cousin got one as a gift as her first gun and loves it), but I need a barrel at least 4.2" or I can't bring it into Canada. I'm a US citizen but living in Canada right now and might use this as my base camp, and start a small business, while traveling...

Well, solve one problem. Clements says "no way" to alloy gripframe or cylinder, but assures me he has some Big Ideas to add to his Bearcat list that will be announced soon, so I must cool my jets, know that I'm locked-on for the waitlist, and be patient... Oh, no worries at all, be real! If...

I really don't like the 2-cylinder idea, I want one nice compact package all together. But horses for courses I suppose...

Greetings, I am purchasing two rifles for my parents as a retirement gift, for them to shoot at their summer cottage they bought for their golden years. I was thinking to get just a quality Pelican case, but a friend suggested giving it more personality and getting them some modern quality cases...

Great lead on the Subsonic .22WMR! Do you have a link to the Aussies that carry it, so I can look for the same product here in Quebec? Re the chambers, I think we have a crossed wire: WRF fits into WMR just fine, it's LR/L/S/CB that doesn't, so I want to have at least one chamber suitable for...

As y'all may have seen in my other thread, I'm about to make the leap and customize some Rugers! My 10mm "M1877" idea was at the top of the list, but just this week on GunBroker I got a Buckeye Blackhawk in 32-20, and already it has a date with Hamilton Bowen for Bisley-ification, so we're on a...