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This past week I found myself in my favorite gun shop with a $220 credit. I had returned a gun stock that turned out to be the wrong one for a Savage 111. Finding nothing for that amount I decided to kick in more to get more. I wandered over to the 9mm case and there it was. As a background, I...

What rifle or rifles have you acquired and then right afterwards thought to yourself "D'oh, what the heck was I thinking?" My worst lapse in judgement was a DPMS Tuber. What the heck was that thing about? Luckily I bought it well before ObamaScare and ended up getting rid of it around...

Last year I traded away my FN Hi Power MK III SFS. I could never get used to the SFS system and soon realized that it was the older Browning that I really wanted. A few days ago I found pretty much the exact one that I wanted, in 100% condition, pretty doggone close to NIB with box, papers...

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My first revolver was handed down to me by my granfather. He'd be well over 110 now and this was one that he bought some time around the Great Depression. It sat in his sock drawer for sixty years. I forgot about this gun, an Iver Johnson .38 S&W, until a year ago and rediscovered it in some...

I recently acquired a used Smith 629-1. I thought I had checked for cylinder play but missed the fact that there is a loose fit between the end of the ejector rod and the locking bolt. The end of the ejector rod looks fine but the locking bolt looks worn, undersized, smaller than the one on my...

In another thread I wrote about a trip to a shop this past Sunday where I was faced with a choice between a 629-1 and a 657. But, before I stumbled across those two guns I examined a very lightly used 5" 686-6 Plus HI-VIZ. The gun appealed to me greatly but after checking the action I moved on...

Yesterday I stopped at a local shop to pick up some grips and two revolvers jumped out at me: 1. A S&W 629-1 with an 8 3/8" barrel. Obviously it's a pre-lock, and it's in excellent condition. $559 2. 657-6 (.41 magnum) 7.5" full underlug barrel with an unfluted cylinder and internal lock...

For years I have been looking for the right Model 29. Since first seeing the gun in Magnum Force in the theater as a yute it has been on my wish list. Thirty-some years later, dozens of guns owned, I had never owned one. Go figure. Recently I pledged to acquire the first one that crossed my...