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Ordered a 45acp/45 colt lead mold for my ssa and 1911 and i thought it would be oh so cool if i could use the same 230 grain bullets that i use in my pistols in the sharps 45/70 I plan on getting to make some faster, flatter shooting loads, and i suppose it would be nice if this worked well...

I have a design for a breach loading smooth 1 1/4 in. bore gun that fires from steel 1 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. rimmed smokeless cartridges. Does that hit an ATF nerve? I know if it was a rifled barrel id be an AOW.

The transfer bar safety is genius, i love em. but why is it in every gun ive ever seen that has one, it only rises high enough for the hammer to make it strike half of the firing pin when the trigger is fully pulled? when the hammer is lowered and resting on the frame, the transfer bar could...

i want to get the cimmaron model p .45. i just cant figure this, common sense tells me the 7.5 inch barreld "calvary" model is more accurate. but thats if i can hold the barrel steady. me and a friend have shot bottles out of the air and made them dance around at 100 yards with my ruger singel...

Bought a nearly perfect used uberti 58 remm at a local gun store. After some messing around with it at home I wondered why the cylinder was hard to take out and harder to put in and noticed that the hand was always out. so after taking it apart and removing an ungodly amount of grease.(??) I...

tested some different combinations of patches and grease with hand casted pure lead conicals for an upcoming elk hunt and none of them could give me groups. the best one was 100gr-3f>patch>conical which hit 16in.low. also tried bore butter on the bullet then throughout the bore which missed the...

my delema is this- I bought a stoeger coach gun not to long ago and not even a hundred rounds later the forend would shoot itself off. having heard of stoegers disreputable customer service, I put a small bent piece of metal in the release to keep the forend from commig off at all. opening the...

Last week I felt the urge to shoot some bp and found that I had about 30 total caps left. nobody in town sells precussion caps so, I decided to go down to academy in el paso(since their phone line wasn't working) and stock up. I didn't see any right off the bat so I asked one of the workers and...

I have been having some fte's with my taurus pt1911 and have tried almost everything but hevily adjusting the extractor. this is what my extractor looks like- should the extractor claw be touching the brass like this?- does it even matter? Is it a possibility that the rim of the fired...

Since the sportsmans here in las cruces shut down I can't get caps to shoot my 1851 and its driving me crazy. A friend gave my some old .22 shorts that have hard copper shells and none of my 22s can hit them hard enough to ignite the primer. I was thinking about cutting the casings down to...

I've Have had alot of extra time on my hands lately. I was poking around on the internet and found this. http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/37_229/products_id/60253 I can't tell from the info on this page but are these real working external hammers or just external...

Hello everyone, Iv'e got a taurus 66b6 357mag and this is the second in a year it locks up. The last time it cost me $40 to get it smithed. My plan is sell it and buy something better, either a ruger gp100 or some SSA clone. how is the gp100 preformance-wise? I prefer 357 mag. does...

Doe's anyone know where I coul'd find a spare barrel for a traditions hawken? (percussion) I would like to have a real short cutdown barrel to turn my hawken into a fun gun to take rabbit hunting for the ones that try to get away with my arrows. just something to shoot minimumm loads out of.

Alright, the pietta 1851 navy (steel frame) came to my house via the federal express last week. Now the gun is well designed but there are some small problems. 1. the rear trigger gaurd screws WON'T come loose. I bent a screwdriver trying and almost stripped them. 2. The front sight is...

Does anybody have a pietta 1851 civilan .44? there aren't alot of reviews or info on this revolver but the few reviews I have read say its a pretty good gun. I do know it has a steel frame and a silver plated backstrap/trigger gaurd(real silver? :scrutiny:) I also heard that the instruction...

I can't find any info on the web about this so here it goes. In New Mexico, what is the shortest barrel your shotgun can on it without having to get a title 2 permit?

Actual letter from someone who farms, writes well and tried this! I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they...

Thinking about getting an 1851 cap and ball revolver and I've been thinking/looking for information about how to prevent chain fires and keep the loading process fast and easy. another post states that chain fires come from either end of the cylinder. In the front, imperfections in the...

Ive got a quick question- can you safely shoot a load of lead pellets out of a rifled barrel? say size six shot out of a .50 barrel.

Alright, here's my predicament: I need a good rifle for deer, antelope, and maybe elk. I found a good bolt action rifle with an ajustable trigger and 26inch barrel in two calibers; 300 win mag or 308 winchester. I live in southern New Mexico where alot of the shots I would have to take are...