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...but the "Manage Attachments" button wouldn't work. It's a good thing I was good this past year, because Santa found a 2.5-inch stainless Python after a mere year and a half of looking. It's currently in my gunsmith's hands for single action trigger pull reduction and replacement of the...

It's not as though I were addicted to .22 caliber pistols. I could stop buying them any time I wanted. Honest. Would I fib? Left column from top: 1951 Smith & Wesson K-22 with Roper stocks. It took me twenty years to find this pistol after foolishly selling a perfectly good model 17. I...

A purported client ripped me off for $5,000 in invoices and roughly another $7,500 in billable hours in the winter of 1985. I'd been about to buy a new car, which would have been my first genuine new car. I went to my vendors, hat and largely empty wallet in hand, explained my situation, and...

This Colt Python started life with a six-inch barrel. A month or two after buying my first Python in late 2000, I spotted it in the used guns case at the National Shooting Club in Santa Clara, the People’s Republic of California. It was in pretty good condition. The trigger was excellent. The...

You knew—you just knew—there had to be something better than Hakan Pek's stocks.

The model I was scheduled to work with this morning called to cancel. That's more than a good many models do, and her excuse was inarguable: morning sickness. Oh, well! As long as I had cameras and lenses and assorted other gadgetry out, I took some pictures of the flowers I bought yesterday...

I've been a bullseye pistol shooter about three decades. For the past year, I've been shooting two evenings a week at the cleanest, safest, airiest, best lighted range I've ever seen. Sad to say, my scores weren't improving appreciably. Oh, the wild flyers were becoming somewhat fewer, but I...

I bought an R.C.B.S. A.P.S. priming tool several years ago. I liked the idea of not having to use shell holders, as well as the idea of not having to fool around with loose primers. I think the gadget is a great idea; unfortunately, it's never worked right for me. It doesn't still stick very...

I live in Colorado, which recognizes the right of the people to keep and bear arms. It's legal to carry openly here, although the police in Denver wouldn't necessarily be above arresting an open carrier for "disturbing the peace," "frightening the bliss ninnies," or some such equally silly...

My new (to me) Python is definitely a shooter, and has a pretty good trigger, too. I field-stripped it for cleaning over the week end, and noticed a few spots of dark grey, almost black color where the crane and frame intersect. I thought at first it might be old oil and/or Cosmoline, but it...

The Colorado contingent of the High Road met at Larry and Sandy Ashcraft's farm today. One of our more solemn activities was a 21-gun salute to High Roaders Labgrade and Kentucky Rifle.

I recently bought a three-inch pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 629 from one of our members. It was an impulse buy, of course. I thought it over for a good ten seconds, then beamed him an E-mail. It's a dandy gun and a pretty good pointer and shooter—two-inch groups at fifty feet with both...

I could use some High Road out of the box expertise. I’m attaching two views of the stocks on my pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 41. Randall Fung made the stocks for me several years ago of maple. They fit my hand just fine. I didn’t care for the finish, which was glossy and yellowed...

I'm in the process of replacing the Contender I've sorely regretted selling since 1985. I've got a frame and an old Herrett's grip stock that I'm refinishing, but no barrels, forends, mounts, scopes, et cetera. I'm planning to start with .22 long rifle, but doubtless will want to add others...

I've just received my .22 caliber Colt Diamondback with six-inch barrel and almost flawless blue finish. There's play in the stocks, of course—Colt never could seem to make decent stocks—but the gun locks up like the oft-cited bank vault. The serial number is P561NN. Does anyone know when...

I just did a search, and couldn't find any information on .44 caliber wadcutter bullets. Does anyone know where I could buy these? Ideally, I'd like to find hollow-based wadcutters, but would settle agreeably enough for double-ended. Thanks, eh?

Why is there a rod in the rebound slide of my pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 617? I took my old K-22 to the range Tuesday evening. It did a fine job on slow and timed fire, but the trigger was too stiff for rapid fire in my arthritic hand. I decided to swap the main and rebound slide...

The Colorado contingent of the High Road met today at Larry's ranch in Pueblo. Here's about a third or half the group.

Since it seems the High Road is back up to speed, I'll post some pictures of my recently refurbished Smith & Wesson model 27-2. It's been through about as many metamorphoses as the average politician. I bought it new in 1978 or 1979 for $350. I'd actually wanted a model 29 .44 magnum, but...

I'm in the middle of loading a batch of .45 A.C.P. rounds. It turns out the last batch were too short. They fed and fired and extracted without problems, but some of the case mouths were slightly chewed up. This time, carefully measuring the overall length, I adjusted the seater and crimp...