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Scott, no pictures to share, but I think the main thing is to seat the bullet deep enough that the roll crimp doesn't damage the front band. I deep seat quite a bit in the .44 mag using 44 Special data and OAL's. There's generally plenty of space between the front band and the crimp going that route...

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Yes they are. How's the fit?

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I haven't done any casting in ages, and to make matters worse I got an H&G #51 158swc mold at a yard sale last year that I need to try out. I did get as far as digging out the lead pot earlier this winter, but it seems that procrastination may be my superpower.

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Crusaders looking younger … :lol: Actually, I deal with airmen from Holloman AFB on a regular basis and a lot of them look like 9th-graders to me. Happened to me a couple years ago, walked into the radio room and encountered what I later described as "a little kid with glasses sitting at the d...

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Yeah, the growth is astounding. I've been here since the '80's, just at the tail end of pre-growth boom AZ. Spent the first 15 years around Mesa until it got too crowded. Speaking of Florence, Jack O'Connor spent his summers there with an uncle as a boy. Read about that in his book Horse & Buggy...

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Bronco wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:29 pm Had me hooked, line and sinker

Me too!

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For years I drove past the TOM MIX MONUMENT at least several times a month. It is where he was killed in a car wreck. It's on the Florence Highway (State Route 79) about halfway between Oracle Junction and Florence, AZ. mix1.jpg mix2.jpg For years people kept stealing the horse off the top of the m...

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I've done some pretty good shooting off a rest, as well as some pretty bad. Prefer to just rest my forearms and not the gun, though if you've got a soft rest like a rolled up towel over a tool bag the gun doesn't seem to mind. I sorta favor the seated back rest position myself these days, keep a 2 1...

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I was loaned a blued one for dove season back around '98, I took a liking to it. Light and handy, for an American gun anyhow. I'm a lousy wingshooter, so it was choked a little tight for me, did a lot better on the longer shots than the close stuff. I remember it having an automatic safety, that kin...

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Snattlerakes are out already too, time to readjust one's awareness when walking about.

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It is nice when you can shoot with the sun at your back, but it sure doesn't work out that way a lot of the time. The last can of the Birchwood-Casey spray on sight black I had ran out some years ago, and since then I've gotten lazy and just use Flat Black Krylon. It takes a lot longer to wear off t...

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Why? Because you're a Sherlock Holmes fan? That's partly my reason anyhow.

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The first load I put together when I got my first 45 Colt revolver was a 255 SWC over 8.5 of Unique. I enjoy a little variety these days, sometimes I use 8.5 of either Universal or Power Pistol. They're all good. With the 225 RN ACP bullet I like 6.6-ish of W231, nice range load and not too spunky f...

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The only thing I've ever shot in mine is the Oregon Trail 405 over 42 grains of 5744, sort of an energetic plinking load I guess. Recently I loaded up 20 rounds what was billed as a "good deer load" with the Hornady 300 gr. hollow point over 58 grains of 3031 from a late '80's/early '90's ...

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The most accurate load I've found using CS brass in a Colt chamber is with Matt's Bullets version of the 240 Keith Auto Rim bullet over Universal, though a 230TC with 5.8 Unique isn't too bad either. Throats on both my Blackhawk and Redhawk have been reamed to .4525", the Blackhawk shot pattern...

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I got some of those to try in the 32 H&R last month, loaded a few yesterday. Need to get out and shoot a few now. I've gotten pretty good results from OT's bullets, probably the best out there when it comes to Magma machine produced stuff.

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Cowboy Special brass works fine in a Ruger ACP cylinder, though I trimmed mine back .010" just to be on the safe side with heavy bullets, a roll crimp and +P loads.

Have heard of folks getting the cylinder faced to headspace AR brass, but I don't have enough around to warrant it.

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Yeah. that was back when I was trying to keep track of my autoloader brass. but with other stuff getting mixed in it was futile. Around 20 years ago I discovered that a friend had been reloading the same batch of ACP brass since the early '80's - most of his headstamps were worn clean off. I didn't ...

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it's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenious. Or one of my favorite sayings, "every time they improve something to make it idiot proof, they improve the idiot". One of my favorites is Skeeter Skelton's "The planet is producing imbeciles faster than they ...

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Don`t take me wrong i totally agree with the loading method it `s the letting the hammer fall on it`s own i don`t think is safe. Another thing i saw was a guy capping a ML revolver first then loading the chambers, that seems a little dangerous to me too. I worked with a guy who insisted that cappin...

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I couldn't get that Hunter's Supply 190 gr bullet to shoot well at all in a Ballard rifled 35 Remington. The few I had left got shoved into 38 cases with good dose of 4227, for sort of a Pugnose Super Police load. There they shot fine, but print high from an Airweight 38. IIRC I got 670 fps from a ...

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The April '21 Handloader article on .357 Rifles had data for the 180 LBT-GC with 14.0 of H110 max. It seems that 200's may be at the point of diminishing returns in the 357 case. I've used the Hunter's Supply 190 gr LFN with 11 grains of 2400 (found that data from Ed Harris somewhere online) in revo...

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One of my shooting pards has one stocked in the same plastic, but his has been bobbed to 16". It's a handy little flamethrower, though the recoil does start to get old pretty quick.

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Never had any work done by him myself, but Bob James in Phoenix had a good reputation. Not sure if he's still around.

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I've never had one outside of shooting on a range, both formal & informal (knock wood). Both times, I let a shot go before I was ready (finger off the trigger until sights are on target, duh), and both times it was the first shot single action from a S&W immediately after shooting a Blackhaw...

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Good looking blade Scott, congrats on an awesome present. How does it compare balance-wise to your Bagwell blade? Some years back I looked at the Arizona knife laws, just to be sure that I wasn't running afoul of anything. There really aren't many, but it is (or was) illegal to carry a Bowie (specif...

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Target used to put the Wildcat 22 on sale for $5/brick a couple times a year in the late '70's and I recall the Federal 550 packs at Walmart being 5.97 through the mid to late '90's.

The Monkey Wards ammo is pretty neat, I've never seen that.

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Well, if nothing else, you way seems more fun that simply dropping the decapped primers in oil. I can run the primed case up in the decap/sizer die and never set one off. On the Dillon 550C I can smash them flat sideways, and they don't go off... but... Glad I'm not the only one that smashes the od...

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I raffed!

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I messed up my shoulder in a motorcycle wreck during my first mid-life crisis, 16-17 years ago. Chiropractic and a massage therapist restored full range of motion, but I still couldn't tolerate any recoil for a couple years. I switched to a .280 from an '06 for my hunting for a while, and use a PACT...

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Fun stuff. I know that I've done the upside down trick a time or two with a .22 but don't believe that I've ever done it with a centerfire of any flavor - maybe next range trip. My dad's favorite trick shot was the over-the-shoulder with a mirror thing.

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Very cool, I hope to run across an affordable Fitz...someday. In the meantime I've got a ratty Brazilian K-22 knockoff that I'm thinking about doing the Fitz treatment on one of these days.

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That would probably look pretty good too - 'looks good, feels good". I end up with a lot of "looks bad, feels good", but it's better than looks bad, feels bad.

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I've got one of the Lipsey's 45 Flattop convertibles, which have a steel version of the OM frame. Great gun but a bit hefty with the steel frame. I decided to try an aluminum NM frame just too lighten it up a bit. The serious load I'd settled on, 45-270-SAA over HS6, was distinctly less pleasant tha...

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That's pretty sporty, I like it. Sarge, if it's the XR3-RED grip frame you're talking about, I totally agree. Objectively, seems to me that it puts the balance way out front while managing to make recoil worse than with the old Colt SAA-dimensioned frame. On the other hand, I like the NM trigger, go...

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I was just eyeballing those a couple weeks ago, seems an attractive alternative to a genuine 1886EL. I had an original '86 in 45-90 that had been cut down to Short Rifle configuration at some point. It handled nice but was quite the flamethrower with BP loads.

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It's a bit embarrassing to admit in this venue, but I never owned a '94 carbine in .30-30 myself until they stopped production in 2007(?). There was a 64 Deluxe, but other than that I was mainly a '92 and sometimes 1886 guy. That all started to change when someone pointed out that the old trienta-tr...

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I've probably never made chili the same way twice, some pretty good, others not so much. My late ex-MIL who was an Arizona native, and whose family moved here from Texas not long after statehood, claimed (none too politely) that my chili wasn't chili at all, but some kind of bean soup. It almost hur...

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Interesting, though they look a bit fragile. How does one carry spare ammo in the field? I'm guessing that simply tossing a few into your pocket is not an option.

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Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 9:32 pm I tried the Hogues and saw no difference. So I dug deep and found these. Dry firing they feel more solid in my hand. Won’t know till I get back out to the ranch.

That's the ticket. Hope they work out as well for you as they do for me.

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I used Hogues on the RH back in the 90's, and I think that I picked them up after initially thinking that the Pachmayrs were too large. They were okay, though a little on the narrow side for me. After those I used Butler Creeks before going full circle back to the Pachmayrs. I was at Gary Reeder's l...

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Are you gripping the piece with a "heel index" as with a single action (plowhandle) grip? For me, I find that a heel index doesn't work well with the Redhawk, too much inconsistency shot to shot. It's a large gun with the thrust/bore line high above the grip, more so than an N frame. I hav...

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Well, it's not as hideous as what I expected when I clicked the link, that's something. I'd be curious to try one with the dot sight.

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Congrats. Mine was made in '22 and still runs 100%, accounted for a few doves last month. Yours looks a bit nicer than mine.

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Thanks Scott, I'll look into those.

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What make is the slime green front sight? I think that I could get along with that.

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The 12.5 HS-6 with the Scoville bullet mentioned early on in this thread has been a winner for me, having used it in both Blackhawks and a 625. In the Ruger Only flavor, 10.0 of Universal (from the Pearce/Handloader writeups) also shot well in my Blackhawk. Going back to the mention of Power Pistol,...

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I sometimes use Auto Rim +P data in Cowboy Special brass, those are a lot of fun.

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Yes, it's one of those from the first batch of 45's around Y2k. Picked it up secondhand/used in '04, probably should've been suspicious as it was relatively cheap.

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Depending on the ogive curve/diameter a .45 collet might work. I've gotten away with using the .30 cal on 8mm's, though the difference is only about .020 not .050.

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