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Right, I didn't address this :). The Silvertip in 45LC is a fine self defense load and would do well enough against most critters short of a griz. It's time-tested, it works. The Gold Dot 250gr is something special though. What Speer seems to have done is taken the superb 135gr 38+P "fat...

Folks, In doing some research I needed a copy of the USSC Heller decision that was authoritative and could be cited for page number references, etc. So I came across this: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html Cornell law library online, not too shabby. That direct link is to...

Blacksmoke: I bought a NewVaq357 because I didn't need more horsepower than that, and the NV357 is a fine, tough platform well suited to the cartridge. Here's the kicker. Take a dozen NewVaqs of either factory caliber, put them in Ransom Rests, test their groups. Do the same for a dozen...

Quoting Jack2427: Then you have no idea what you're talking about. OK. First: the New Vaquero in 45LC is about as strong as a Colt SAA of recent vintage. *Maybe* the Ruger is a fraction stronger but then again maybe not. Like the Colt, the cylinder bore walls are almost paper thin. (Which...

In terms of raw energy, the 357 has the edge, by a fair margin. If we're talking about "the most deadly bullet" for defense against humans, I believe the 357 still comes out on top...800ft/lbs energy in a few high-end loads, where the 44Spl will top out around 550 and most factory loads don't...

Something tied up the action from recoil. Damned if I know what, but, a quality gun shouldn't do that. I have a 17oz 38snub too - a vintage Charter Arms Undercover (late 1970s production). Good gun, unusually accurate, but there's no way I'd shoot BB 38+Ps in it.

Has anybody read Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash"? I won't mention WHY it's relevant but trust me...:D

My prediction: I think the circuits will agree on incorporation. The USSC left too many hints throughout Heller, including the dual warnings that Cruikshank is stone-cold evil and can't be relied on. I do think at least one circuit, one covering either California (9th) or whichever ones cover...

To be fair, I do have Windows XP runnable in a Virtualbox virtual machine. That means any time I want to, I can fire up XP in it's own 786k (adjustable, out of 2gig total on my laptop) memory space and run any XP apps I *really* need in there. This gives two advantages: * Ubuntu feeds XP it's...

The Remmie GS isn't a bad load. I'm pretty sure the Speer God Dot 135+P passes it as do a few others, but it's not the useless junk that, say, the Hornady XTP is in all weights and flavors of 38/38+P.

Strike the Gaucho for starters. Quality control problems. If you're on a budget, any 357 will be cheaper to shoot. All else being equal, Rugers spit out their slugs a hair faster than many others. A used Ruger 6" barrel GP100 will be your most cost-effective answer. In single actions, the...

I won't post the full link but they ARE still having problems...the link involving the work "paraord" tries to infect you. I went ahead and clicked "sure, why not?" on the various popups, my, it says I had all KINDS of Windows buggies, mercy me, then I get to laugh as it bounced off of Ubuntu...

Believe it or not, go check out camera shops. They have lots of small, velcro-flapped cordura mini-lens-case belt pouches and the like that work perfectly for speedloaders yet are extremely "stealth" in terms of gunnie-lookin'.

Yup. Except that the SAA is a 45-class frame by 19th century standards, not 20th. The cylinder wall thicknesses are marginal by modern standards. Black powder didn't do as much peak pressure as smokeless; the only reason lawyers for Ruger and the like didn't freak out when they saw the NewVaq...

Right now Ruger quality control across the board is considered to be in an "up period". They do at times "slump" but they've done well of late. From the reports I've seen, in the New Vaquero, NO, they're damned good. It seems it's easier to make sure one drill bit/reamer set per cylinder...

It does sound fair. Guns don't age by "years", nor is their value much affected by same. They age by shooting and "the checkout" is a fairly good way to sort out how much wear has happened. Not 100% accurate of course but in most cases it's better than relying on holster wear! A lot of guns...

Man, good question. To me, the way to really answer it would be to find out from Ruger if they're doing the cylinders on the large-frame SAs one cylinder bore at a time in the process that started with the NewVaq, or are they still done six-at-once as the large frame SA cylinders have been...

The S&W 6-shot N-frame 357s like the 27 and 28 were very tough in terms of resistance to blowup for any given "hot load". They match and possibly even exceed the GP100 in that department. What kills the N-frames is their relatively fragile action parts. They can even be beaten to death firing...

Well in Ruger-speak, "New Model" always means "1973 or later", which in turn means "it shipped from the factory with a transfer-bar safety system. "Old model" Ruger SAs didn't have transfer bar safeties. They had frame-mounted firing pins and coil springs instead of flat, but they otherwise...

ALL Hornady defensive ammo in 38Spl and 38+P is junk. Hornady needs to really re-think what they're doing there. The XTP is a deep-punch slug unsuited to low-velocity applications. Their willingness to ship ammo that has "fail" written all over it in EVERY test I've ever seen makes me...