Recent content by ctom3

And that was just one magazine!!!

Congratulations on your buy. I also got tired of waiting for an SR1911, especially since the gun store chain here in Houston seemed to be the only folks getting them in. They are selling them "on sale" for $799. Anyway, I gave into a Springfield Armory MilSpec. Overall, it has very good...

I am certainly not in a position to say whether or not there was miscalculation of demand on Ruger's part. There is a delicate balance between development and tooling costs, timing and the need to start seeing some kind of return on investment, even at the cost of knowingly introducing it with...

I really wanted an SR1911 to use as my shooter when I decided that I should retire my Remington Rand while it is still in good condition. However the only ones I have seen locally were last summer at a chain here in Houston that wanted $730.00 each for them. I passed and put myself on a couple...

I had the same problem with a Super Blackhawk. The firing pin was in good shape and I replaced the spring without success. Fortunately, I live in Houston, so I took it to Alan Harton. He took one look at it and decided to replace the transfer bar. Problem solved. Who knows why or how it...

Heck, a lot of these parts are pretty cheap. Get them, spray them with oil and store them in a zip lock bag if you want to be sure to have them if you ever need them. The transfer bar is not a bad idea. You can get a stainless one for $10.99 at Brownells. I began having occasional misfires...

Thanks folks. I didn't want to completely remove the pin, so I pulled the cylinder, pushed the pin back in place and scrubbed it well with #9, then oil. I didn't notice any difference in feel when I reassembled things, but it hasn't happened again. I guess there was a little crud in there...

As I recall, the splits stopped about where the base of the bullets would be. I cannot be 100% sure now since I tossed all of the brass on the ground at the range and left it there. Yeah, I used a carbide sizing die. I think I'll go look a the cases I pulled the bullets out of to see how...

Gramps, good question. I had forgotten it would do that. In any case, I did not. The only cleaning they have ever gotten is in my tumbler with walnut media and a tiny amount of rouge. I then wipe them off with a dry, unadulterated cloth. I pulled all of the bullets last night with a kinetic...

Sorry, repeated post...

mattsbox99, that is kind of what I am thinking. Yeah, everyone's right. I had decided in my last post not to shoot them, but was simply curious what kind of damage was possible. Besides not wanting to damage my revolver, there is no sense in wasting $5.00 worth of bullets. I just finished...

Ok Cholo, you now made me get off the couch and climb the stairs to dig out my old archived loading manuals! I pulled out my old Hornady manual that shows a max load of 28.5 grains of 296 for the bullets I used. I then cross checked it with my old Speer #10 manual and it showed min. of 26...

Now you made me get up and look at it! It is WW head stamped and was probably reloaded 4-5 times prior to its current load, which has sat in air conditioned storage since July 1986. I am pretty sure about this. I normally get no more than 10 reloads out of my .44 mag brass, partially due to...

It is easier to acquire a target by opening up the sight, but you also loose an important strength of peep sights. Its closed aperture acts similarly to the aperture in a camera lens. While it restricts the amount of light coming through it, it also greatly increases the depth of field for...

I have a lightly used new model Super Blackhawk with 7 1/2" barrel that I have owned for almost 30 years. I recently started having a problem with the base pin rotating slightly when I pull it to remove the cylinder. The issue is there is a half moon cutout at the grip end of the pin that...