Recent content by Exchipy

The Charter Arms folks were thoughtful enough to have sandblasted the interior of the original barrel on this one. And, the rifling was cut deeper on one side than the other. So, I cut down and fitted a discarded S&W 696 barrel to this .44 Bull Dog, resulting in what was likely the best barrel...

Well, at least it started out as a Smith & Wesson Model 645:

That’s how mine came. Here’s how it looks now:

There is much to the Model 642: … including recoil, unfortunately for arthritic hands, giving real credence to the ominous words, “This’ll hurt me almost as much as It’ll hurt you.”

Good call! The EZ9 I got for Wifey shot so well, and handled so easily, that I got this one for myself, in anticipation of my inevitable, already beginning in noticeable ways, decrepitude: These are the first five shots from it. While kinda close, at 7 yards, that’s the across-the-room...

Only things dark on this 4” 3913 are the front sight and the rear notch:

In particular, the XS DXT2 Big Dot Yellow, with its large luminous ring around its Tritium center, works extremely well: It’s large and bright enough to guide aircraft in for night landings in bad weather. Outstanding in bright sunlight, too.

The EZ9 I got for Wifey shot so well, and handled so easily, that I got this one for myself, in anticipation of my inevitable, already starting to develop, age-related disabilities: These are the first five shots from it. While kinda close, at 7 yards, that’s the across-the-room distance at...

Very handy, but takes a good deal of concentration on the basics to shoot it well at distance: Shot double action, two hands standing at 50 feet. (Please just ignore that flyer 8, like it never happened. That’s what I do.)

So do batons, in general, as I recall.

For a time, I carried on patrol a regulation length baton which I made from an axe handle. I installed on it a rubber grommet and shaved down the high spots so it would deploy perfectly from the baton ring on my Sam Browne duty belt. It had three quite attractive attributes: 1) It was oval in...

Don’t limit yourself unnecessarily when considering which grips would suit you best on your S&W Model 63. Butt-ugly rubber grips might be just what you need:

Unfortunately, you’ll need to use the Way-Back machine in order to read those annual articles the way I did.

That was my information source.