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My earliest handgunning experiences as a kid were with plow handled single actions but I shot way more DA revolvers and 1911's as an adult. I picked up a .44 mag Vaquero in the mid-90's and discovered that it was fine with medium loads but could be quite a handful at full throttle. I fitted a Bisley...

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January 2009 -- that wouldve made me 37 at the time -- possibly one of the younger members then. At a stately 54 now, not sure if i qualify for Coot status just yet, but a lot of people i know think im an opinionated A Hole :lol: Well, if it's any consolation, I thought you were an "old guy&qu...

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This dovetails in with Doc's last post, although written by a woman for women I found it interesting. It was linked from Greg Ellifritz' Weekend Knowledge Dump a couple months ago. His site is Active Response Training, great stuff if you've never checked it out. https://aella.substack.com/p/how-to-t...

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If I were born in the current century and only knew about guns through the innernets: Palmetto Dagger 9mm (Runner-Up: Hi point Yeet Cannon) Kel-Tec P17 Ruger American 6.5 ManBun Benelli Nova 20 gauge MagPul 1022 Takedown 12 year old me: Mauser HSC S&W Russian Model 470 Nitro Double Rifle Win Mod...

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fordwannabe wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 9:18 am Just yesterday I picked up my New model flat top in 44 special. It's definately not as cool as yours but it beats lots of other choices in my never to be humble opinion.

Ain't no flies on those 44 Specials.

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I'm still holding out on using a dot, but a lot of guys are using them in our local sorta-IDPA match. The most popular seems to be the Holosun and Trijicon but (like everything else these days) there are many choices. Green is more popular than red among the middle-aged and older guys, easier to see...

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Neat!

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Good to hear from you Jim! I've never been subjected to it but a friend tells me that physical therapists are bad people.

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Interesting, I've got the same holster and never considered that it might work for an N frame. I just tried it and mine is stitched just a bit too tight around the trigger guard to take an N, close but no cigar as the old saying goes.

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That truly is a Perfect Packin' Pistol. Mines a 6 1/2" but I'm always struck by how much lighter it seems than a Super Blackhawk.

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I saw a meme recently where the line was "I'm pretty sure I was killed once when I was 9 or 10 but Dad had me walk it off".

Just a slight (!

) exaggeration but it sums up how most of us probably grew up.

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Great update, thanks Scott.

Jim is one my Favorite People I've Never Actually Met.

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That's the big horse pill dosage, it's not good to take every day, and not without a generous amount of water.

My doc gave me a hard time about them so I cut em in half now and try not to take one every night. I sleep a whole lot better with it than without, Piller is right about the efficacy.

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My 50th Anniversary 357 had one, I drilled it out from the blind side with a 3/8 bit. It uses a different (shorter) strut and spring than the original configuration. If I was to come up with a seat for it I'd try for something that would take the original parts, the short strut/spring has a slightly...

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Back around Y2K I had the sights on a stainless 44 mag Vaquero modified to imitate the sight picture of my Novak sighted 1911, rear sight milled out and a custom front. It was regulated for the medium load (240swc/10 Unique). Easy to shoot well and it was my favorite hard-use big bore - probably sti...

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I've had 2 convertible 45's, the Lipsey's Flattop and the Williams/Accusport Bisley. The Flattop with ACP cylinder was good to go right out of the box and makes me look good even on a bad day. The Bisley had undersize throats in both cylinders, with the ACP being particularly bad. It made shotgun pa...

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piller wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2026 6:26 am Where did you hunt those Naugas to skin them and use their hide on that seat?

Naugas? These guys?

My Ex's grandmother hoarded these things, they were on all the furniture.

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That didn't last long!

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Same here. I've got a couple 44 loads that shoot close to the same but it was discovered on accident, not by design.

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Friends of ours moved from Ohio to AZ years ago. they said that the long summer there was just as bad as the long winters in Ohio. :shock: . Yep, just like Up Nort' there's a few months of the year where you have to hunker down indoors, it's just on the opposite side of the calendar. :lol: The hot ...

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I had a bad feeling when I saw the thread title.

Prayers up for Pastor Jim.

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It was a warm one today, Tucson hit 103 briefly after lunch but it's supposed to taper off for the rest of the week. Just an early reminder of what's to come.

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Nope, although I aspire to it. I generally have a range load and a field load for a given gun, but about the time I think I've settled on something I'll discover something "better". The perils of handloading I guess.

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Good to know, thanks. I've read some opinions that they're a bit large in diameter, to where they take more pressure to seat. Have you observed that?

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Anyone used the Large Pistol Primers from White River Energetics?

I recall that when they first came out they were pretty expensive (like every other primer). Republic Ammo currently has them for $49/1000...about 20% less than the going rate for CCI's.

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I may have nicked mine...

Not my pic, stolen from the interwebs.

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$1800! I'll pass.

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Walt wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2026 4:29 pm Samsi, my normal .45 Colt loads are 250 gr commercially cast RNFPs over 6.2 gr of Titegroup and also 7.5 gr of WW231. Both are wonderfully accurate loads, pleasant and economical to shoot. The standard deviations of the Titegroup loads in particular are incredibly small.

Sounds good, thanks.

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I’m thinking loading head forward would make a heck of a solid wadcutter That's why you solder a 9mm into the 40, then you have a solid. Hmm, maybe a 9mm case full of lead inside an inverted 40 case in front of a 44 case of powder That's what I meant Sounds like some kinda ballistic Turducken!

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This is one of those times that the forum needs a like button.

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I've done a variation on that with 3 targets placed at 25, 15 and 3 yards. Use progressively shorter target stands from far to near. 3 seconds is pretty fast - if I pull it off in 3 it generally means I missed the far target. It's a bit easier with a levergun than a revolver, but it's fun to try eit...

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piller wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2026 8:09 am I have never tried Unique. Yes, I know that my reloading cabinet is seriously missing a good component.

As a guy I worked with used to say, that doesn't seem possible or even believable!

I need to do up a batch of 45 Colt, thinking about trying Titegroup this time around.

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That thing in the first post looks like something from a bad '70's space movie.

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I recall that the stainless Bearcats originally came out as convertibles, but then Ruger issued a recall on the magnum cylinders, claiming a timing issue. They never reissued the guns with WMR cylinders after that. It doesn't pass the smell test for me. Anyone know the actual reason for discontinuin...

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Some people being alien hybrids would explain a lot.

Remember Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live? Maybe it wasn't fiction.

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Dad taught me to shoot a BB gun in the backyard but after that I was pretty much on my own. My earliest mentors were in print - Cooper, Skelton and Keith and I would experiment with what I'd read. Later I became friends with the guy who would actually mentor me on the range, Viet Nam vet Marine, SWA...

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I laughed during the second video when Brian said that if you start with 5" 1911 you'll probably come back to it after trying everything else. That was certainly the case for me.

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A guy posting his acquisitions under the handle of Safestuffer comdemns materialism (among other things), that's rich.

So long as it's not hurting others I don't much care what other folks do or how they live their lives, and I'm betting I'll care even less once I shuffle off this mortal coil.

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Cirillo was a interesting guy and experimented quite a bit with what did and didn't work. In reading his book I was a bit surprised, but shouldn't have been, to find that he was also an avid handgun hunter.

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Doc, like HD stated, I appreciate your input here and Ive gotten some good info, or at least food for thought from your posts.

Who cares what some personality-disordered malcontent thinks.

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That stinks, I hope it turns up. As already stated it's not like you can buy another like it off the rack somewhere.

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Could be poor/no editing as well.

A recent Handloader article on loading for 44 revolver and carbine clearly put carbine velocities in the revolver column.

The 110/296 disparity might be different lots, days, screen placement or combination thereof.

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Neat little Roscoe, I bet it's got quite a bark.

Count me among the foolish who didn't grab one of those Shopkeepers when I had the chance.

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A buddy had a Kimber conversion years ago, it ran well. They're very similar to the Ciener units, any idea who makes them? I've been flogging a Colt conversion unit that my granddad gave me since the 80's. Haven't used it much in recent years since it's pretty long in the tooth and accuracy is not g...

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Fermin Garza makes a King inspired reflector sight. I'd like to try one, new or old.

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I've typically carried a J frame or LCP when I walk, but given current events and springtime hungry-uppity bears (have had them turn up both north and south of my place) I dusted off a 1st gen Smith M&P40 for my rambles. I didn't care for the holster I already had and a few weeks ago I picked up...

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I see Special on the barrel, 38 or 44? And more importantly, did you buy it?

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Neat. Is that the same rear sight S&W used on the Registered Magnums?

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This has to be by design, something to do with gaming their statistics probably. To what end, who knows.

It's not just USPS though, I ordered some parts from Wilson a couple weeks ago and according to the tracking UPS drove them to Illinois from Arkansas before heading to Arizona.

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I broke 2 stocks on a tang safety 35 Whelen. After the second one I figured out that the front lug was slightly angled left to right like a sideways ramp. Under recoil it would drive hard into the side of the stock, eventually splitting it from front to back. The third stock features a lot of Devcon...

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