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I am only half kidding. Circa 2002, I bought a Valtro when I lived in CA and John Jardine was kind enough to customize the sights and safety (low profile, RH only). This was, for me, the perfect gun. A year later I moved to Texas and fell on hard times. I ended up selling the Valtro for 50%...

I really like the idea of a .45 ACP snub to backup my 1911. Taurus makes a 2" version of the Tracker but it is ported and IMHO, a 2" snubbie with porting is just wrong. I would consider chopping a 4" Tracker to make a snubbie, but why does S&W and other companied not make such a beasty...

Ok, here is the deal. I am 32, I have been an "IT Professional" for over 7 years and I am sick to death of it. Not to mention that the pay is less than half what it used to be - if you are lucky to find a job. It is a sedentary job so it aint that healthy. I have no college degree but I am...

I have seen a lot of recipie charts that have different bullets - one recipie will be for a LRN and another for LSWC I am loading 200gr LRNs with 5.6gr of Power Pistol and I have another 500 bullets of 200gr LSWC that are from the same maker. Can I load them the same way? I am doing 1.265 OAL...

Need some help with my first .38sp loads. I have a couple of older S&Ws - a 1965 Model 14 and a 1977 Model 10. I want to baby these guns and at the same time, shoot them a LOT. I bought 1000 bullets - 158gr LSWC from Bear Bullets - these are "dry lubed" What I need to know is - are there...

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I posted a month or two ago asking a good way to decap my .38 and .45 brass. My Lee turret press was spilling the primers all over the kithen floor - not good. I ordered the Lee hand press and the Lee Carbide decapping die - I think the whole deal was around $25 or so. Anyway - the ram on the...

This show has probably been mentioned before but sweet merciful crap! I was channel surfing and came across this stinker. two of the characters are undercover - buying cell phones that shoot .38/.357 rounds that are "nitroglycerine tipped" (baddy demonstrates by demolishing a concrete...

I have a Dillon Case cleaner - the 500 count model. Can I leave it running all day without worrying about a melt down? I have run it for 3 - 4 hours at a time without trouble and today, I went in to work at 10am and turned it on. I will be home at 7pm, but I could go home at lunch and turn it...

My first gun was a cheap BHP model with poor bluing so I though the discolorations were due to a poor finish. Now, I had handled my Valtro and oiled it and carefully put it away, but I just took it out and noticed some discoloration in the shape of finger prints. I looked at my 1965 S&W Model...

(First - I have done extensive searching and reading of the archives on Texas, Dallas and Fort Worth.) Well at first, we thought Las Vegas would be a good Haven for a young family fleeing the madness that is California. After doing more research, my wife and I think that the Dallas-Fort Worth...

I know there have been some recent threads about eyewear and how important it is. I wear glasses - the kind with the smaller lenses made out of polycarb or whatever that good stuff is. I actually have a small mark on them from deflecting a .45 casing but I am concerned by their lack of side...

I posted this briefly in another thread, but it now looks like my wife has accepted the fact that we are going to have to move if we are to retain anything resembling a standard of living. I am not quite sure why, but Las Vegas seems very appealing. Great housing prices (a house like ours is...

I do not yet have a dedicated area for reloading so I use the kitchen area with my Lee Turret press mounted on a portable reloading bench (stand) from MidwayUSA.com. I am able to keep everything pretty neat and orderly except for one thing - when I use the press to decap my brass, the primers...

The gun store around here has a Ruger .357 maximag - or whatever that caliber was called for shooting silhouettes. It looks nice - at least a 10" barrel. The store owner said he used to have one but Ruger recalled them because of top strap erosion due to too large a cylinder gap. He says...

Ok, it looks like I am trading in my colt Defender and my Ruger single six .22 I found 2 really nice Smiths and they are begging me to take them home. I was going to go for a 625, but people in this forum have sold me on the virtues of a .38 revolver. Numbers wise, the deal is OK - remember...

Sanity check: Ok, can someone look over this and tell me if there are any obvious problems? I just loaded about 30 rounds of .45ACP last night. The 2 things I am a little concerned about: I used 200gr RN cast bullets My OAL is 1.24 I am worried about how the bullets are crimped. I have a...

(FSD= Firearm Safety Device - DOJ "Approved" device required for all gun sales in PRK - stick aspect is that device must be appropriate/approved for what you are buying) Problem: You are buying a gun that is unusual or old enough (P2P sales in CA require a FSD) to not be specifically mentioned...

Shipping seems to be a big expense in ordering bullets. Anyone know of a place that makes them in Nor. PRK that I can go pick up? .45ACP hardcast is what I need - would buy 3000+

First, is it true that a 454 casull can shoot .45 colt rounds (like .38/.357mag)? Second, I thought I had seen a SA that had .45ACP and .45 Colt Cylinders. I would like a very flexible revolver - probably has to be SA that will shoot .45ACP and also a "big" .45 round I would like to be able...