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What's their useful range out of a 5.5" rifled barrel revolver? What kind of spread pattern is there? Are they suitable for li'l critters like rabbit and smaller fowl and suchlike? I'm wondering if it's worth slipping a few into the cartridge pouch along with the critter loads.. Thanks. :)

The one problem I have with my (pre-New) Vaquero is that the grips are awful fat on the bottom, and tend to crowd all my fingers up towards the top. How do the slimmer "gunfighter grips" work for those of you that have them, and do you find a difference with felt recoil? (Think heavy 45 Colt...

I may just end up making my own, but I'm curious if anyone makes a cartridge loop buttcuff that - 1. Will fit a Winchester 1892 pattern rifle 2. Is made of leather 3. (Preferably) has a flap over the cartridge loops 4. Will hold .454 or .45 Colt cartridges such that the projectile...

So now I finally have in hand a .454 carbine and a .45 Colt Ruger (original) Vaquero. I'd like to get started in basic reloading since prices for .45 Colt are scary expensive. And I live in south central Alaska, with regular trips to (big) critter country. I see "animal" loads online in...

Most particularly, will a new Vaquero hammer, with some kind of half cock notch, interchange in an old Vaquero? What about an Old Army - provided the "nose" is ground off and the hammer face rehardened if necessary, is the hole in the hammer the right size and place for the pins the New...

Can anyone who has some of the following post some comparison pictures, so far as size and bulk and weight go? I'm particularly interested in how some of the "heavies" like the FAs compare as "packing guns" to the smaller SAA models. Basically, I'd like to find something as close to an...

We had a bit of an emergency the other day, and I loaned my pocketknife to a feller who needed it in a hurry. I just now opened it back up, and the blade's been buggered all to heck. (No hard feelings of course, it was serious need not carelessness). The rest of the knife is in dandy condition...

I'm presently looking at a .454 carbine and .45 Colt Ruger. I'd like to be able to share hot .45 between 'em, as well as lighter .45s for fun and practice and heavier .454s in the carbine for woodstromping. So.. what components can be shared back and forth, and what setup should I look for...

Yes, I know about the lawyering and the addition of the transfer bar and all. What I'm curious about is this - what specifically changed in how the other parts interact between the models? Why the change from three screws to two posts - the hand/bolt, hammer, and trigger all still need to...

So here's the question... At what point do all these monster-hot loads like .454, .47-whatsit, so forth and so on hit the point of diminishing returns? I mean, at some point with the hardcasts you're just going to punch straight through a critter end to end,right? So then what's the point of...

Yeah, interesting trick. What's the best way of getting into a stainless vaqeruo of the old model that can handle the "ruger only" owie loads BUT works like the old-timey click-clickety-click colts? Have a regular two-screw welded and re-drilled for old model Blackhawk parts? Or...

It feels to me that the early triangular handguards feel like they're from a kind of more-brittle-er plastic, compared to the "softer" feel of modern A2 handguards. So here's the question - 1. Are the early A1s actually made from a different plastic, or do they just feel different...

Has anyone else experienced the ejection angle seeming to change with magazines? I've a Springfield 1911 (standard length ejector, dropped and flared ejection port) that with the first couple mags didn't present the least bit of problem... then with a Shooting Star mag seemed to want to plop the...

I see the screw-to-screw length dimensions are the same between the M96 rifle and the intermediate length (M48 for instance) Mauser actions. Would it be possible to hog out some extra material for the larger front ring and set an M48 into an M96 stock - possibly with some other cutting or...

How do the action lengths compare? Is there any chance of the commercial Yugo InterArms Mk X Mausers has the same action length as the Yugo military M48s?

A quick question for y'all who were around then... How were the Colt and Smith double action revolvers thought of back then, compared to each other? I imagine both had their strong devotees as most anything does today, but in terms of general popularity is it possible to say which was more...

On the shelves at the local library was Tappan's "survival guns" and I figured "oh what the heck" - it seemed an interesting look back into what people were thinking thirty-odd years ago. I vaguely recalled hearing something terrible about it at some point, but couldn't recall what.. I can't...

Linseed oil? Or something else? I was selling mine, and the half-stripped condition I got it in wasn't selling, so I thought I'd go ahead and restrip the wood and give it a historically correct finish. So.. what's the historically correct finish? :)

I have a (soon to be barreled) Yugo M48 action, and I was wondering what sporter type synthetic stocks might still be around for it - the lighter the better. Failing that - would it be possible to cut up a regular length '98 stock and JB weld/fiberglass skin the thing back to being usable on...

Or in that time period, were the Springfields the only ones still thinking along those lines?