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I need a source for 200gr round-nose .38 bullets. Making major in USPSA with 200grainers is a cinch, and is nicer to shoot (and faster) than 158s. Speer used to have 200gr conical-nosed TMJs for silhouette shooters. I picked up a couple of boxes of them and they were excellent. I also tried...

I have a couple of thousand of Winchester small pistol magnum primers I'll be unlikely to ever use. I do want to put up a run of .38 Specials and don't need max loads. Any direct experience with substituting? Problems?

Okay, it's painful to admit, but I've never used Speed Strips. I use speedloaders a lot, including in competition, so I'm comfortable with them. But I just bought Speed Strips to try and I don't think I get it. Maybe the instructions would be good, but they got lost. So, the proper, most...

This is kind of unusual, and sometimes I wonder if it really is operator-induced error. I have a terrific little Colt Mustang Plus II .380 that I traded into. It shoots very well indeed, and runs fine. My wife even likes it, a considerable accomplishment. But what seems to be happening...

Why, for heavens' sake, would a guy want more flash and bang in his .357 snubs? you may ask. To annoy 9mm shooters at IDPA matches, that's why. Especially the indoors ones. So, what powders seem to do the best for that, in two- and three-inchers? I'm figuring 2400'd be a good start. Any...

Much discussion about powders centers on their cleanliness. Not only do most of us dislike cleaning guns, but crudding up a gun makes it function worse. There's rarely consensus, but one that might be true for pistol powders is that Vihta Vuori is pretty much the cleanest. I know I've pretty...

I have some Speer 200gr .357 FMJs to use up and would like to make up a load that produces about 850-900fps in .357 Magnum cases. I'd prefer to use Unique, since I stock it, although VV340 would be good, too. I could use a recommendation for a charge weight, since I can't seem to find any on...

I keep looking for a nice, clean, consistent .357 load shoving a Berry's 158gr round nose at about 1100fps or a little less, in order to make major power factor. I've tried Bullseye, Unique, VihtaVuori 320, and a couple of others. I don't always like the pressure signs that the latter two...

Has anyone tried fitting the Safariland I-frame (Python) Comp II speedloaders in one of the superb three-place carriers they sell for Smith L-frame loaders? I have a K-frame carrier I use for the the small-frame Colts but it won't accept the I-frame loaders. I find this carrier to be the most...

As a voter in the Illinois Senate district that sends Susan Garrett to the Legistlature, I have just received a mailing from her and State Rep. Elaine Neikritz that they will have a townhall-style meeting in Des Plaines at the DP Public Library at 10:30am, Saturday, May 5, 2007. Garrett is one...

Stir crazyness is clearly setting in with the annoying winter redux we're having in this neck of the woods. It leaves too much time to cook up silly loads, but not enough chances to get to the outdoor club range to chrono them. I prefer to only use .357 cases in .357 chambers, having seen a...

I posted a little while ago about how I was coming more to believe in the current USPSA thinking about heavier bullets and faster powder giving less recoil in the 1911. The theory is that the gas escaping is a factor in recoil and is an important part of the kick equation. Be that as it may...

I've spent a lot of time and effort trying to get my wife, who is no shooting enthusiast, to at least enjoy it a little bit, enough to blow off a box or two every now and then. After a couple of years of this, there's no doubt in my mind the best thing for such a shooter is the 1911 platform...

I have a Springfield Armory 1911 that originally came with a ported barrel. I think it was called the V-12 or something like that. When I got it, I took it back to SA and had a plain barrel installed so I could use it in USPSA matches without going into the Open division. I forgot about the...

This one's been keeping me awake nights for a while, now. This is the left side of my Combat Commander, the one that was my first gun. There's a mark here just behind the scallop that sure looks to me like a crack. At the limits of my close-up photography skills, you can see two marks, a...

Does anyone with one of those spiffy DPMS LR-308AP4s happen to know what the overall length of the upper is, when the rifle is taken down? In other words, can I fit one into my bike's 28-inch side bag? Thanks Bill

A local dealer has a Competitor single-shot outfit, with two barrels and a reflex sight. One barrel is a .444 Marlin and the other is a .27-08 as I recall. It also comes with a fair amount of handload ammunition, factory .444, some brass, and sets of reloading dies. Does anyone have any...

Two of my Colt Combat Commanders are losing their mainspring housing pins during shooting. Both came with arched housings, but I do better with flat ones, so over time I've ordered flats made by Masen and Brown. Both were stiff going in so I did a little filing to fit them. Maybe I'm missing...

I've pretty much gone back to WST for .45 Auto. Last autumn, I loaded a quantity of 230gr RN TMJ Rainiers with 4.3gr WST and thought my chrono was telling me they were in the 715fps range. I went to 4.5gr in hopes of making major. Just this weekend, though, I had the chrono back from loan...

I think I've seen posts that go around this one, but I can't say I've seen the one that is just what's going on with my Officer-sized Para Companion LDA. The empties leave the gun, apparently properly, but a fair number of time, the last one before slide lock ends up with the case mouth crushed...