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I purchased a new Colt Python a couple of months ago. From the get-go, it had an occasional problem with the DA trigger. When I pull the trigger on DA, the hammer sometimes gets about 3/8" into its rearward travel and stops; I am unable to pull the trigger any farther. I've noticed that I can...

Greetings All; There have been a lot of Turkish shotguns on the market (Stoeger, Hatfield, Dickinson, ATI, Armscor, Charles Daly, CZ, Winchester, and even a few Mossbergs). When doing some research, it seems that there are dozens, if not hundreds of shotgun manufacturers in Turkey. I happened...

Some of this is curiosity, some of it is just random musings. I am aware that a few manufacturers make some DA revolvers with a higher capacity than the general standard of 6 rounds. For instance, S&W and Ruger both make 10-shot .22 LR (617 and GP100), and Taurus makes a 9-round .22 LR that has...

Okay, all... Fair warning: Outside of reading a few threads, I am absolutely knew to the realm of black powder, so pardon my complete ignorance. I have some questions about black powder substitutes loaded in the .44-40. For background: I was given a full pound of some 3F Triple Seven a while...

Hi All; Does anybody know of a website that lists approximate, target, or average bearing surface lengths for various bullets, especially those made by common brands (Hornady, Sierra, Nosler, etc.)? How about for base-to-ogive length? This information is, as far as I have seen, never listed...

I was talking to someone about the various iterations of the UTS-15, and how it has gone through, up to this point in time, 3 versions and is now on "Gen 4." I know the original guns had some issues concerning reliability. This was supposedly changed with the Gen 3 gun that had metal tube...

Hi All! I wanted to get your guys' opinions on .300 WM AR style rifles. The first long action AR I had ever heard of was the Noreen BN-36, a .30-06 AR-styled rifle that is now available in .270 Winchester and .25-06. The first .300 Winchester Magnum AR rifle I ever heard of was the Nemo Omen...

Hi All; First off, a little disclaimer: I recently got a polite notice from THR moderators requesting that I stop posting experimental data that may be unsafe. So, just to be clear; the data I used in this particular instance is .44 AMP (Auto Magnum Pistol) data published in Hornady's...

Greeting High Road Travelers! A few years ago I had the opportunity to buy a Pasadena Model AutoMag and so I bought it (an impulse buy that, despite losing my job a month later, I still do not regret). I made the mistake of shooting up all the factory ammo that came with the gun (~30 rounds of...

Greetings All! I figured I'd post some results for reloading .40 Super. I developed the load in a very unsafe way: I weighed a bunch of DoubleTap .40 Super 200 gr. Nosler JHP rounds, and subtracted the average weight of one of their cases and the weight of the bullet, and then gave myself a...

Hi All! I figured I'd post some results for reloading .400 Corbon. I developed the load in a very hand-wavey fashion, taking the mid loads for 180 gr. 10mm and moving up from there. I was using a Lone Wolf 6" barrel in a Glock 21 (Lone Wolf doesn't make a stock length .400 Corbon barrel :( )...

Greetings; So my question is as follows: Can one buy a .44 Magnum (like a Ruger Super Blackhawk) and have a custom .41 Mag cylinder and barrel put in? If so, how much would it cost? If that is prohibitively expensive, does anybody know what it costs to get a revolver refinished to...

Greetings, all; I recently worked up a load for .40 S&W using 9.3 gr. Longshot and 155 gr. XTPs. When chronographing the loads, all I noticed was that they were a little sooty around the mouth, but not terribly so (I've heard that is usually due to low chamber pressures, and Longshot tends to...

Greetings: I would like to know: Has anybody here used .452" jacketed bullets (for .45LC) in their .45 ACP, .45 Super, or .460 Rowland reloads? I know that they CAN be used, and I would like to use some 250 gr. XTPs over Longshot in .460 Rowland. However, I need some baseline of comparison. I...

Anybody have any data for loading: .40 Super 200 grain XTP Longshot Powder Thanks By the way, the data I received a couple of years ago from Tony Rumore of Tromix did not include Longshot data. I might put into him again to see if he has an update, but I figured I'd fish around THR...

I was looking around at possible .30 Carbine wildcats. [For those who must know why: I have thought about buying a .30 Carbine, and all I could find on the net were people comparing them to either full power rifles or to hand guns. I have been looking at it in terms of PDW calibers like 6x35mm...

Hi all; I have spent the last few weeks tinkering around with some 9x25 loads in CFE Pistol and Longshot with 147 gr. XTPs. I used DoubleTap's 147 gr. Controlled Expansion as a guideline for judging velocities and pressure signs. I shot the factory stuff from both a 4.6" standard length Lon...

Hi All! For starters, I don't really have the required experience to do any wildcatting, so this is kind of an academic question. But I know rimfire wildcats exist, out there in the aether, as I have found posts about them (and we can believe everything we read on the internet). What are the...

I currently use XTPs, as they are locally available. However, they don't seem to have an economy of scale attached; buying 1000 at a time costs the same as buying 100 in 10 separate purchases. I recently learned about Montana Gold. This maker appears to have a decent selection of bullet weights...

Hi all; I reload metallic, but do not reload shotgun ammo (yet). I was discussing the possibility of getting into reloading for shotguns with a family member, and our discussion raised some questions. Most importantly, I would like to know if the length of the shell is fixed, modestly...