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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE ON THIS HIGH ROAD !! Last week was our annual new-year's reception at our shooting club. One of my more "old west"-oriented shooting buddies (complete with string tie, 10-gallon hat & high-heeled, pointy toed boots) talked about some new kind of ammo, for use in...

To check if a particular bullet is sized OK for the intended revolver, I read that you should be able to push the bullet through the chamber mouth with finger pressure & it shouldn't fall through of it's own weight alone. Now I got hold of a batch of .452 bullets. I can't push them through...

I just bought a used S&W 13-2 that looked & felt good & tight & was priced right, to boot. It seemed to function OK (didn't get the chance to fire it). So once home, I started cleaning it : removed the front sideplate screw to slip out the crane & cylinder... cleaned & cleaned &...

Sometime ago, in a gunshop's 2nd hand display cabinet was a 4" old model Colt Trooper .357Mag., the kind that pre-dates the Mk III and Mk V. The kind without ejector rod shroud, , I think was made up to 1969-1970 or so. Know what I mean ? Never actually saw one before outside gun magazines...

Lately I've been having trouble with my Hornady powder measure. The rotor seizes up, binds and generally doesn't revolve smoothly. It also makes dreadful shrieking noises. I fear not being able to drop uniform powder charges any more. Anyone here ever had similar problems? Should I lubricate...

Champion .45 ACP 1911-pistol shooters insist on replacing their recoil springs every....(what is it nowadays) 1000 rounds ? Now, I wouldn't dream of questioning the opinion of people who weekly shoot more than I do in a year, but I'm just curious : What about all the other springs in 1911...

One of my shooting buddies asked my opinion about "something weird" happening to his new batch of .38 Spl reloads. He recently bought a supply of 158 Gr JSP.357 bullets & loaded them according to his own favorite tried & proven load recipes. One of those (and one i successfully tried as...

Not to make anyone jealous, but the owner of my local habitual gunshop must like me. He sold me a case of assorted Winchester-Western 44-40 ammo (550 rounds) for 10.- Euro Sweet deal, no ? Some of it is packaged in yellow cardboard boxes & looks quite old. When fired from my Rossi...

Last winter I developed some new loads in .45 (Long) Colt for 225 gr. Hollow-based truncated cone plated bullets and VihtaVuori N-340 powder;. Some excellent pointers by RidgwayCo (Hi, RidgwayCo, check the personal message!) got me started at 7.9 gr and gradually I found two other very...

What kind of performance can I expect from Winchester factory 200 Gr JSP 44-40 ammo from a 16" carbine barrel ?

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with VihtaVuori N-340 powder ? I'm trying to develop .45 Colt loads with 225 Gr plated hollow-based bullets for my 4-5/8" Ruger Blackhawk, say around 900 fps'ish. The closest I can find on VIhtaVuori's own site are loads for 200 Gr LSWC (10.9 gr. to...

I realize V-V powders are not the most frequently used in the US, but they are very good and -best of all- readily available over here The .38 Special loading data on their site don't mention if the loads generate regular or +P pressure. Does anyone know of another source for loading data...

Nothing lasts forever, not even Belgian red tape : in november last year I posted on THR that I was planning to buy a 2" barreled S&W mod.15-3. Well, my "authorization to buy" came through last week. That's "only" a 5- month "waiting period", which is considered high-speed service in local...

Up to now, any leading I encountered from firing reloads in revolvers occured in the forcing cone and the first inch or so of rifling grooves closest to it Last week I tried some new .45 Colt reloads in my Ruger Blackhawk : 200 Gr cast LSWC (sized .452) & 8.5 Gr VihtaVuori N 320. All seemed...

Somewhere in a thread discussing (again) the superiority of one model/caliber of handgun over another, military tests were mentioned. I'm sure these were very serious & stringent . "10.000 rounds fired" were mentioned. That reminded me of some gun magazines some years back : firing 10.000...

Of course, in the movies, anything goes... However, I wondered, the other day : in some pic or other, a bunch of medieval archers stood poised for battle, awating the order to let go their arrows. Sure 'nuff, the lord of the castle yelled "FIRE !" Fire ? Where did they get THAT idea, before...

In handgun loads, what factor (if any) determines te amount of muzzle flash ? Barrel length remaining equal, is it the amount of powder or its burning rate ?

What does it take to replace a defective cylinder on a S&W mod 14-3 ? Is it a matter of removing the extractor star, spring & rod, centerpin & spring etc. from the old cylinder and re-assemble these in the new cylinder ? Is professional fitting required or is this a "drop-in" job ? Or do...

Every once in a while, I take one of my "semi-safe queens" along to the range. (These are guns I only shoot a few times a year or so). Last wednesday it was my Walther PPK 's turn. The little German managed to -again !- surpise me in an unpleasant way & make me trust ( and like) it even...

I noticed that a lot of American shooters are very enyhousiastic about the M1 Garand rifle & the 1911-A1 pistol (some about the M 16 & the Beretta 9's, but this could largely be a matter of age/generation)., while a lot of shooters over here feel exactly the same about the F.A.L. & the Browning...