Recent content by BoulderTroll

They recently changed the description on their website. When I bought my 686 Mg a couple months ago the S&W website called it a “brass bead”.

Well said. This was exactly the point I was trying to make in another ammo-related thread today, but you articulated it much better than I did.

I wish I could give this more than one thumbs up. If you purely want a revolver for fun, then knock your socks off, that's why I like them too. But if it's serious business we're talking about, a P365 would fill the OP's bill better than anything on the planet. And if ultra concealability is...

I sure wish I could agree with you, but that just was not my experience. Your MP5's ran flawlessly with weak ammo like WWB and similar cheap "training" ammo? I was issued an MP5 for 9 years, and ours sure didn't. Not to mention there are a slew of P229 (as one example) owners out there who...

Our issued rounds went back and forth (simply based on availability, since they had pretty much identical performance) between Speer Gold Dots in 147 grain and Winchester Ranger T-Series in 147 grain, but my personal preference is 124 grain +P. I would buy Gold Dots, Ranger T-Series, or HST...

I didn't say "all my guns", I said all my 9mm's. Big difference. Modern day SAAMI spec 9mm standard pressure ammo is underpowered, and was never what 9mm was designed as. When 9mm was introduced the "standard" pressure was equal to what we would now call +P or NATO. I also often use 357SIG...

Yep, as much as I love revolvers, if I was in big bear country (browns), I would take a 10mm Glock over any revolver. I'm simply not skilled enough to be fast and accurate with powerful revolvers, and I'm not going to lie, the extra capacity of the Glock would be comforting as well.

2 posts in 13 years... :LOL: "Long time listener, first time caller". And I thought I took long breaks from time to time. lol

On the subject of bears, here is an interesting video I came across today. He references two studies done by the Journal of Wildlife Management, which are probably the two most comprehensive studies ever done on the subject of bear defense in Alaska. Both studies were limited to Alaska, with...

It'll either be tung oil or boiled linseed oil. I heard Bobby Tyler mention it on one of the podcasts for the new mountain guns, but I can't remember which type they use. Both BLO and tung oil are commonly used for walnut stocks, so you can't go wrong with either.

Nah, I'm too cheap to get a trigger pull gauge. :LOL: But funny you should say that about the click being gone...mine is now as well. I've dry-fired it about 100 times, and I also did the suggestion an armorer mentioned in another thread of putting slight forward pressure on the hammer while...

Now that I finally have my new 686MG home, I can compare it much better to my new Model 10. With them side by side, I have noticed some fairly significant differences in the actions: The Model 10 has a very heavy DA and SA pull, but it is crisp, and already feels a tiny bit lighter and much...

Yep, as b373lvr said, USPS is a pretty common way for dealers to ship handguns. My most recent purchase went from KY to Spokane (my closest hub), then was rerouted to New Jersey, and then back to Spokane. USPS has been horrifically bad lately, but Amazon, UPS, and Fedex have been nearly as...

I think you're just missing the good-natured humor. ;)

In California, handguns have to be on an approved list in order to legally be purchased. It's called the "roster", and it is a list of specific models that the manufacturers have paid to have drop safety tested, and passed the test. Testing is expensive, so it often takes a year or more after...