Recent content by Old Judge Creek

I'm a lever rifle man, through and through. My lever guns offer faster handling, easier carrying/packing afoot, on horseback, in my Jeep, or on my ATV because they are "flat" from side to side and don't have the bolt handle sticking out like a broken thumb. The lever gun can be reloaded/ topped...

Now ya'll are making me feel bad. My first serious revolver was a 357 Flat Top BH with a 4 5/8" barrel that I acquired, just a smidge over 50 years ago when I was a college student. That sixgun travelled many miles with me in the bush and swamps of the southern US and served me long and well...

This problem is akin to buying a pair of new boots. And you will be flooded with well intended advice, but in the final analysis you need to carefully choose what YOU think will best serve your purposes. Quite frankly, I applaud your Service Six. My personal choice for what you describe is a...

That's about the most fetching combo I think I've ever seen! Man, I am jealous. You've set the bar for the rest of us. Congratulation and well done, sir.

All purpose... theres a challenge. I grew up running in the woods and swamps of the deep south. Almost years ago I came west and spent the time running in the deserts, and western mountains, and from Alaska to South America. There ain't no such thing as all purpose, but a couple do come darn...

I have two each a purpose unto its own: My pocket revolver is usually my S&W 642 Around the Ranch and on forays into the Nevada high desert, and trips into other sundry high lonesome areas my favorite packing sixgun for years has been my S&W 629 Trail Boss: Usually this is paired with an...

I'll chime in and add that I fully agree with the two previous posters. "A permanent fix" for the problem once you've thoroughly cleaned the cylinder chambers as previously mentioned, is to reload your own ammo and to load 44 Magnum (longer cases) down to more comfortable 44 Special ranges...

Wow... in all my years of reloading I've never seen or heard of such a discussion. My first brass tumbler was a Thumler's Rock Tumbler back in the early 60s. I'd load it up and tumble the brass for "a few days" until the brass was 'cleaner' (LOL not necessarily 'polished'). Brasso was faster...

Jeff, No offense intended, but my personal observation has been very much the opposite. I don't know for sure how or why, but I know of four LONG time reloading Old Timers who've come close to losing body parts with SASS reloads built upon their various 1050 machines. In every instance, I've no...

My Browning SA will outshoot my 10/22. When I'm out in the high desert you can bet that is stowed in the kit on my ATV's rear rack. And I agree wholeheartedly with martyr about the little Browning BLR. It's my personal favorite rimfire rifle. It would supplant my Browning SA if it had a...

I've been reloading since the mid 1950s. That doesn't make me any kind of expert but IMO it did teach me a thing or two. On my bench are an RCBS single stage press, a Dillon 550B, a Dillon SDB, and an MEC shotshell loader. In the attic are more than half a dozen other presses that were tried...

Amen!

Bear Paw Jack, Thank you, sir!

Well I know "how" to do it but for me time and 'place' is an issue. When I get over to the ranch, I've better things to do with my time. So, for me at least, it's simply easier to let them do it.

My first BisVaq was like that only worse. Out of the box it printed about 12" to the left at most SASS distances & targets. I called Ruger. I sent it back with a note requesting it be regulated to print to point of aim with a 240 grain bullet chronographed at 950 fps (IIRC) and it came back...