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I am interested in reading the experiences people have had with the Colt Police Positive (D-Frame?) in .32-20. Hunting, plinking, self defense.

On another forum I am in a heated debate with an 85 year old firearm's "expert" convinced that Colt Manufacturing Company never made a decent double action revolver in their history and are all vastly inferior to Smith & Wesson products. Furthermore, everyone who has ever fired a revolver knows...

In case you missed it, The New York Times published a story on June 1 that the last of the service revolvers in use by NYPD officers will be retired and replaced by semi-autos. It seems there are still 50 officers who refused to give up their Ruger Service Six or Smith & Wesson Model 10s. This...

I am thinking about one of these in .30-06. Plan to add 10 round magazines and a peep sight. Had some problems here and I cannot afford a Garand these days. I was pretty good with a Garand back in the day. Not USMC good but enough to worry troublemakers some. Which model is best? 740s are...

Never fired one. So, how punishing is the recoil from a 12 gauge 2.75 inch OO load?

Can the new model Ruger Vaquero be fanned and Slip Fired? Can the trigger be held back or has Ruger done something to the trigger requiring it to be re-set for each shot? I had an original Vaquero but never used these techniques. Been reading Ed McGivern's book on revolver shooting and got the...

This intrigues me as it is one of the few 6 shot 2-inch .38 Specials on the market today. I can only find a spurless hammer version in my area which thrills me not but is OK I guess. This gun bears some resemblance to the Colt Detective Special, not the finish, of course. Different mainspring...

You probably have read the FBI, that implacable foe of all enemies of the United States, decided to replace the .40 auto which replaced the 10 mm auto with the 9 mm Parabellum auto. They believe the 9mm with modern and improved ammunition is a better fit for their sometimes limp wristed SAs now...

This month's "American Rifleman" claims Colt is reissuing the 1908 in a limited number. They will be Parkerized and some stamped with the names of WWII USA Generals. The Colt website makes no mention of this. A new 1908 would be nice to own. Anyone know about this?

I am considering a Ruger Blackhawk .44 Special with 4.2 inch barrel and have a question about belt holster draw technique. Years ago I had a old model Vaquero with a 3.5 inch barrel. I would draw and cock simultaneously. Finger, obviously was away from the trigger. Transfer Bar made that...

Many of you probably read the article in this month's American Rifleman. S&W is introducing a stainless steel 5 shot .44 mag built on an "L" frame and with a 4.25 inch two piece barrel. They are calling this gun a "Combat Magnum". At 33 ounces or so, it is light enough to carry comfortably...

I am looking for an accessory barrel for my 535. Problem is Mossberg only sells them in Mossyoak camo- no more blue barrels. Now, this may be a dumb question but I ask anyway: do the 500 series barrels fit 535s? There seem to be more barrel choices for the 500 series. I emailed Mossberg this...

My one remaining high power rifle is a Ruger M77 in .25-06. I bought it new years ago and have fired maybe two boxes of factory ammo. I live in a rural area where the onlyammo available is from a neighbor who is a competent reloader. He loads .270, .30-06, 7mm Mag and.300 Ultra Mag. There is no...

Some years ago I acquired new in box a Ruger 77, blue, 24 inch barrel, .25-06. To which I added a nice Weaver 6X scope. The idea was to pursue antelope. That was before the BLM changed the rules on this game unit to Black Powder only. So, I never had opportunity to use this nicely made rifle...

I sold most of what I collected over a lifetime to a dealer in Houston, noice folks "Collectors Firearms". Now, please don't tell me how I could have done so much better if I had sold them to your Uncle Fudd. Anyway, down to: blue steel Ruger Redhawk 5.5 inch, Ruger Deerfield carbine...

This is not an offer for sale. Rather I seek advice as to a good website to list factory ammo for sale. I sold my collection of firearms and have an extenisve inventory of factory ammo I no longer need. Yes, I can make some chairitable donations however since much of retirement went up in...

With all the posts about Mumbai and the local police armed with SMLE No. 4s I got interested in my 1/III again. It has been sitting in the back of the safe for about twelve years, undisturbed by me. In fact, I have never even fired it since purchasing it in 1995. So, my first question is...

Effective immediately, all Indian hotels are to place a SMLE No. 4, Mk I, with ammunition bandolier and bayonet in the closet of each guest room. That is the only fricking way I am ever visiting India. Sheesh!

This evening I took a short cut home- 84 miles of USFS road starting at sunset. This would be just south of the Colorado border in New Mexico. Drove by and waved at a total of six, count 'em, six bull elk- two of them big enough to be 7X. Not all together, although the first three were. Also...

On CNN, just this afternoon, an interviewee stated that the tanker crews being hicjacked by Somali pirates are not permitted to carry firearms. Apparently, the various nations the tankers call in have laws preventing the private ownership of guns. So, the crew members are defending themselves...