Recent content by Paul B

I'm not sure just what equipment the OP has which make is difficult offering advice, If he has a luber-sizer tool, Lyman make a small gadget you can use with the luber-sizer to for all practical purposes perfectly seat gas checks every time. I've used one for years. Don't know what they run now...

It is my understanding that if the wood on a firearm that was in a fire was even slightly charred, then the gun was toast. Plastic on handguns I have no clue. Plastic does melt at high temps but at what temp or how hot I just don't know. At what temp does a polymer plastic gun frame become...

To be honest, I was the only one who had a firearm along. It was a group of college age kids mostly in their lower 20s and frankly they didn't have much of a clue on camping or anything else. I had to help some of them set up their tents. I didn't tell them I had it with me not knowing how...

"That was what bird hunters coined the slang word "magic" pellet. Meaning a single pellet in the head was all that hit the bird and killed it." Back around 1964 while stationed at Osan AF B Korea, a few of us went hunting for pheasants near Suwon. Sad to say the pheasants are highly...

Not fuzzy memory. I just can't type worth spit. It should have been 1959 and I fixed it. I also till have an S&W 38/44 Outdoorsman on hand, albeit not the one used to take down the bear. I made the mistake of selling to get money for some silly reason. I'm keeping the one I have now. Paul B.

Before a bad car wreck and other health related problems stopped me from my time in the boonies I used to explore the desert and the local mountain range. I always carried a powerful handgun just in case a bear or Mountain Lion decide to get a bit too friendly. In more years than I care to...

Let me go and get my hip boots. it's getting pretty deep. A 1911 is my favorite carry piece and it ain't that good. Paul b.

"Condition 1 carry is no joke. It is for an immanent threat, not walking around in a walmart." You don't shop at my nearest Walmart. Always have two deputy sheriffs on hand and four on weekends stating at 12 noon on Friday. My usual cary ever since I got my first one at age 16 has been a Colt...

All those negative remarks about Mr. Bonds handgun. For shame. I have carried a PPK/PP. and PPK/s at times and frankly like the guns with one grip. The slide will draw blood when cycling. The edges at the rear of the slide are very sharp. All my pp/ppk variants have been made in Germany with one...

At that price, whoever buys it is stealing it. That's at least half or less than half I would ask for mine. Paul B.

I have one as well. Damn thing broke the stock when I shot it. It sits in a Ramline now and use it as a bad weather gun. I agree on the recoil but honestly, I also have the Remington M700 Classic and it kicks just as bad if not worse. My serious go to .35 Wjelen is on a WW1 Oberndorf mauser...

Well my carry piece is a Colt Combat Commander .45 ACP, the more or less 1911's baby brother. It's carried cocked and locked. I'm more than comfortable with the design. On the other hand, sometime when I feel the need (rarely) I'll switch to an S&W 6906 9MM. S&W copied the Walther P-38 design...

When the loaded round becomes stiff or difficult to chamber yhen you need to do a full lengt resize. Second, I agree with the use of the Imperial sizing die wax. You use very little and apply with your fingers. Just barely dab your fingers in the stuff and lightly cover the case with lube. It...

IIRC, they use the same receiver for all the cartridges they make for the Ruger #1. Ih have #1s chambered from .22 Hornet to .45-70 plus a .404 Jeffery and .416 Rigby in my collection and they all have the same size receiver. Paul B.

I load for both the .44 Spl. and the .44 mag. My pet load for the .44 Spl. id 7.5 gr. Unique. You can use that load in the .44 mag. as well. Bullets used are 240 to 250 gr. cast bullets depending on which mold I happen to be casting with at any particular time. The only problem with it in magnum...