Recent content by TXTad

God bless you and happy birthday! I hope I can make such a post some day. My only son is 40 years younger than me.

Entering for the light set, but either is fine! Thank you!

Thanks! That's what I thought. Those are simple, but handy holsters.

Which model Hunter holster is that, please?

I've been on various forums for a long time, and before that I was on various alt.guns subgroups on Usenet as far back as the mid 80s. During this time I've seen plenty of posts from people who were already up there in age when the post was made. I've started to become concerned about how much...

I'm happy I got my 5.5" Single Six in .32 H&R back when I did. It's a cowboy style, like a Vaquero, with fixed sights. Last year I added a 5.5" Single Seven Bisley in .327. It wasn't too expensive. I think I'm pretty well covered on .32s at the moment, though I might add that Lipsey's S&W...

If there is any truth in this, it just shows how stupid, or manipulative, manufacturers are. This reminds me of the demise of the manual transmission in heavy pickup trucks. Dodge replaced the very good NV5600 with the crap G56, and then made the RFE68 just decent enough that it was the...

Same. Not only that, I'm a big fan of 9mm in 1911s. I have a Les Baer Custom Carry II that is just a laser beam and easy to shoot. I know some purists won't have a 1911 in anything other than .45 ACP, but I am confident that JMB would have happily chambered it in anything else if a contract...

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Possibly, but I believe that I have heard that strong recoil spring can lead to cracking of the frame at the dust-cover or the take-down pin hole...?

One of my favorite range finds, actually public land shooting area, was about 2 or 3 hundred .38 Special cases headstamped FC 57. This was the late 90s, so they were already 40 years old then. I think they were not reloads, so someone had been sitting on a stash for a while, or they inherited...

I used to shoot at lot of .38 and .44 Special in my Magnums, but after cleaning many carbon rings, I only shoot Magnum cases in my Magnums and Special cases in my Specials. The carbon rings really aren't a problem usually, but since I have plenty of guns chambered for each, I have just decided...

I've found more 8mm Kurz on the range than I have found .44 Special or Magnum.

Palmetto State Armory sent me a flyer a week ago with the full-size alloy framed SR1911 at a very aggressive price. I cursed, and then clicked "add to cart". This showed up a few days later. I've got some other irons in the fire right now, but I hope to get to the range with it before the end of...