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i've posted this pic in a couple other threads, but I like it, and it's what I will be carrying once I get my MO permit. Once they get the funding issue worked out that is, and start taking apps for the permits... 
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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Look at this beautiful weapon!
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Look at this beautiful weapon!
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How come y'all's speedstrips have six rounds in em?
I noticed that a few of the photos have Bianchi speedstrips pictured. As near as I can tell from the photos(with speedstrips), only the Colt Detective Special is a six shot. Don't you find having that extra round on your speedstrip really slow down reloading?
edited to cirrct tyoing errks
I noticed that a few of the photos have Bianchi speedstrips pictured. As near as I can tell from the photos(with speedstrips), only the Colt Detective Special is a six shot. Don't you find having that extra round on your speedstrip really slow down reloading?
edited to cirrct tyoing errks
BluesBear
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With the speed strips you insert two rounds peel it away, insert two more and peel it away, then, if your cylinder holds six you insert two more, peel and close. If your cylinder only holds five you insert one, peel and save the extra one in case you need it later.
The real beauty of a speed strip is in tactical reloads. you can insert as many as you need without losing the remaining.
Now if Bianchi or someone (anyone) would have the sense to make them in .41 and .44.
etided fro speeling
The real beauty of a speed strip is in tactical reloads. you can insert as many as you need without losing the remaining.
Now if Bianchi or someone (anyone) would have the sense to make them in .41 and .44.
etided fro speeling
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kbeck76
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Ultraman, who made the beautiful grips on your triplets? Nils? Very nice, my 642 is very jealous.
David
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pignock...
"I noticed that a few of the photos have Bianchi speedstrips pictured. As near as I can tell from the photos(with speedstrips), only the Colt Detective Special is a six shot. Don't you find having that extra round on your speedstrip really slow down reloading?"
I do not find it a problem at all.
The first four rounds of a complete reload (done 2 at a time) will have other rounds still remaining in the speed strip so the last round would not be unique in that respect. I tend to use the index finger of my right hand to help guide the rounds into the charge holes during the process. That helps guide that last round in.
After years of carrying just five rounds I thought about it for a while and decided to try six rounds (a la a six-shooter) and see if it worked.
Now, I highly doubt that I will ever NEED that eleventh round, but what the heck. If some's good, more's better, right?
"Two of the most useless things in an aircraft emergency:
1. Runway behind you.
2. Altitude above you."
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Did not see BluesBear's reponse before I posted this. My ideas parallel his.
"I noticed that a few of the photos have Bianchi speedstrips pictured. As near as I can tell from the photos(with speedstrips), only the Colt Detective Special is a six shot. Don't you find having that extra round on your speedstrip really slow down reloading?"
I do not find it a problem at all.
The first four rounds of a complete reload (done 2 at a time) will have other rounds still remaining in the speed strip so the last round would not be unique in that respect. I tend to use the index finger of my right hand to help guide the rounds into the charge holes during the process. That helps guide that last round in.
After years of carrying just five rounds I thought about it for a while and decided to try six rounds (a la a six-shooter) and see if it worked.
Now, I highly doubt that I will ever NEED that eleventh round, but what the heck. If some's good, more's better, right?
"Two of the most useless things in an aircraft emergency:
1. Runway behind you.
2. Altitude above you."
edited to add:
Did not see BluesBear's reponse before I posted this. My ideas parallel his.
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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Fitz Pistol Grips
Yes there is a LOT of history since 1920 when Fitz grips were invented to assist Officers and Target competitors to shoot better and especially since the thumb rest and palm swell plate was patented in 1924.
As a Marshal and Competitor I met the company owner and was really enthused over the grips and soft ammo boxes that were in Sporting Goods stores and Gun Shops worldwide. The offices and storehouse were a slice of history along with the California Saeco Company factory and especially the Star factory which were all nearby when I was competing and attending gun shows.
I got along famously with the elderly owner who in very poor health conveniently lost an extremely valuable gold-diamond necklace given him by a very high Catholic leader for me to find and for him to give me the company for my honesty.
My last grips production run before the price of the nylon-plastics skyrocketed in 1979 was for a thousand J frame Gunfighter grips that the Egyptian Govt. insisted be installed on a batch of WW2 officers pistols our Govt was selling them. My plastics and wood supply was cut off, over half the gun shops in the country went out of business owing me money and I was injured making my small display inventory go into storage until 2002 when I recovered enough to get on the internet. The Bullesye list has been very good to me.
I normally only had small displays of everything and produced orders for dealers. What I have been selling is my display models and production samples.
Smith, Colt, Ruger and High Standard only.
You are welcome to ask for information on my remaining display Vintage, Gunfighter, Target, Olympic-ISU Grips, lifetime soft ammo boxes and powder funnels. Thanks for asking.
Paul Jones
Yes there is a LOT of history since 1920 when Fitz grips were invented to assist Officers and Target competitors to shoot better and especially since the thumb rest and palm swell plate was patented in 1924.
As a Marshal and Competitor I met the company owner and was really enthused over the grips and soft ammo boxes that were in Sporting Goods stores and Gun Shops worldwide. The offices and storehouse were a slice of history along with the California Saeco Company factory and especially the Star factory which were all nearby when I was competing and attending gun shows.
I got along famously with the elderly owner who in very poor health conveniently lost an extremely valuable gold-diamond necklace given him by a very high Catholic leader for me to find and for him to give me the company for my honesty.
My last grips production run before the price of the nylon-plastics skyrocketed in 1979 was for a thousand J frame Gunfighter grips that the Egyptian Govt. insisted be installed on a batch of WW2 officers pistols our Govt was selling them. My plastics and wood supply was cut off, over half the gun shops in the country went out of business owing me money and I was injured making my small display inventory go into storage until 2002 when I recovered enough to get on the internet. The Bullesye list has been very good to me.
I normally only had small displays of everything and produced orders for dealers. What I have been selling is my display models and production samples.
Smith, Colt, Ruger and High Standard only.
You are welcome to ask for information on my remaining display Vintage, Gunfighter, Target, Olympic-ISU Grips, lifetime soft ammo boxes and powder funnels. Thanks for asking.
Paul Jones
JNewell
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Call me a pessimist or worse, but I carry only 5 rds in a speedstrip. I can see myself suffering a massive brainfart in an emergency, trying to load the sixth.
Minute_Of_Torso
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Yet another SP101 picture
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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Fitz Round Butt K-L frame grips
Sorry I did not see it just got wifey back from the hospital and she will be ok.
Unless I run across some more all I have left for Smith K-L RB is three of our target grips with our well known thumb rest and ONE OLYMPIC-ISU grip with a thumb rest, adjustable palm swell plate and a web strap which is a strap that goes over the web between the thumb and forefinger. You have to see one to believe it and I have 3 of them left for MK3 Colt Officers models and Pythons. Total of 4 of them. Pretty rare stuff huh?
Anyone is welcome to advise me what Colt, Smith, High Standard and Ruger pistols they have really old ones like Cobras and up to the 70's and I will say if I have anything left to fit it and send a picture to an address that can handle a couple of pictures at a time.
More information is available off the list.
I have refused to sell remaining grips to dealers and grip makers including the owner of High Standard several times and will only let individuals have them. I appreciate hearing of good scores being shot with my grips.
Fitz
Sorry I did not see it just got wifey back from the hospital and she will be ok.
Unless I run across some more all I have left for Smith K-L RB is three of our target grips with our well known thumb rest and ONE OLYMPIC-ISU grip with a thumb rest, adjustable palm swell plate and a web strap which is a strap that goes over the web between the thumb and forefinger. You have to see one to believe it and I have 3 of them left for MK3 Colt Officers models and Pythons. Total of 4 of them. Pretty rare stuff huh?
Anyone is welcome to advise me what Colt, Smith, High Standard and Ruger pistols they have really old ones like Cobras and up to the 70's and I will say if I have anything left to fit it and send a picture to an address that can handle a couple of pictures at a time.
More information is available off the list.
I have refused to sell remaining grips to dealers and grip makers including the owner of High Standard several times and will only let individuals have them. I appreciate hearing of good scores being shot with my grips.
Fitz
Ok, thanks for the reply.
I certainly hope your wife is doing well, mine was hospitalized a while ago and time literally stands still when that happens.
I was hoping you would say there were some carry grips for the K/L frame like that J-frame. But since you mention target grips, how about the remaining Fitz K/L frame square butt inventory, something like the serious competition versions you mentioned above? (My K-frame PPC/Steel Challenge race gun could stand some variety in particular)
I certainly hope your wife is doing well, mine was hospitalized a while ago and time literally stands still when that happens.
I was hoping you would say there were some carry grips for the K/L frame like that J-frame. But since you mention target grips, how about the remaining Fitz K/L frame square butt inventory, something like the serious competition versions you mentioned above? (My K-frame PPC/Steel Challenge race gun could stand some variety in particular)
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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NO PM'S PLEASE
NO PM's PLEASE!!If you want any information from me I need addresses to send pictures and email to about the few vintage items I have left. I am not in business and am just selling from my old business archives while they last and a picture or two to an address that can handle good photos is what I need to respond to guys that want info from me.
John Paul
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NO PM's PLEASE!!If you want any information from me I need addresses to send pictures and email to about the few vintage items I have left. I am not in business and am just selling from my old business archives while they last and a picture or two to an address that can handle good photos is what I need to respond to guys that want info from me.
John Paul
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BluesBear
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I have a question... What is a "lifetime soft ammo box" ???
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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Soft Lifetime Ammo boxes
Blues Bear you must be helping me sell out so I can go on vacation and make my wife happy this summer.
Way back in antiquity after WW2 when ammo was packaged in cardboard boxes and the boxes for reloading were poorer cardboard also that when not securely sealed absorbed moisture, Fitz invested in Duramite Pistol grips, Ammo Safes, Primer Flipper and Powder Funnel injection molds at thousands of dollars each and created the Fitz "Ammo Safes" that can be seen in many 50's, 60's and 1970's shooters reloading rooms and they are passed on to their children as they do not crack, peel, stiffen or change color. I could not make them today for the price I am selling them to my current Star and Ca-Saeco customers.
Fitz chose a very expensive plastic that stays semisoft with a very precise slip fit that has become a "Lifetime" box as none produced since 1947 have worn out. No hinges and very close fitting lids do not let moisture in even if dropped in a stream by a hunter. Fitz also chose a very expensive red color that somehow added to the softness and forced the subsequent companies to choose other colors for their boxes or very little color at all. The boxes were originally designed for hunters pockets or hunting vests to be easily seen if dropped in the woods or stream but the two sizes of pistol boxes became the most popular for the Bullseye and Combat shooters.
I have a a stash of them at my family ranch-survival retreat. I have only been offering them to old and current customers but have so many left that I have been having them on E-Bay to help me sell my few remaining Fitz Grips, Ca-Saeco molds, Star Reloaders, Lubers and Star parts. How do I know they are lifetime boxes? Because owners from the 50's on contact me for more of them and even customers in Alaska ask for more. Everything I sold in the 1970's was "Lifetime" quality.
Contact me OFF LINE PLEASE at [email protected] if desired and some pictures are at http://groups.msn.com/BulletCastingPistolGripsReloaders
Thanks John Paul
Blues Bear you must be helping me sell out so I can go on vacation and make my wife happy this summer.
Way back in antiquity after WW2 when ammo was packaged in cardboard boxes and the boxes for reloading were poorer cardboard also that when not securely sealed absorbed moisture, Fitz invested in Duramite Pistol grips, Ammo Safes, Primer Flipper and Powder Funnel injection molds at thousands of dollars each and created the Fitz "Ammo Safes" that can be seen in many 50's, 60's and 1970's shooters reloading rooms and they are passed on to their children as they do not crack, peel, stiffen or change color. I could not make them today for the price I am selling them to my current Star and Ca-Saeco customers.
Fitz chose a very expensive plastic that stays semisoft with a very precise slip fit that has become a "Lifetime" box as none produced since 1947 have worn out. No hinges and very close fitting lids do not let moisture in even if dropped in a stream by a hunter. Fitz also chose a very expensive red color that somehow added to the softness and forced the subsequent companies to choose other colors for their boxes or very little color at all. The boxes were originally designed for hunters pockets or hunting vests to be easily seen if dropped in the woods or stream but the two sizes of pistol boxes became the most popular for the Bullseye and Combat shooters.
I have a a stash of them at my family ranch-survival retreat. I have only been offering them to old and current customers but have so many left that I have been having them on E-Bay to help me sell my few remaining Fitz Grips, Ca-Saeco molds, Star Reloaders, Lubers and Star parts. How do I know they are lifetime boxes? Because owners from the 50's on contact me for more of them and even customers in Alaska ask for more. Everything I sold in the 1970's was "Lifetime" quality.
Contact me OFF LINE PLEASE at [email protected] if desired and some pictures are at http://groups.msn.com/BulletCastingPistolGripsReloaders
Thanks John Paul
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