Recent content by jamesallen

Whoops you are right, no apostrophe. Very nice wooden grip.

I have a 1969 Chief's Special, a Model 36, and it got me to wondering: if a person bought a Chief's Special back when that gun was new in 1969, and they wanted to change the grips, what grip options would that person have? I don't think Hogue rubber grips existed yet, did they? VZ definitely...

Note that he says at 2:37 "If you wanna shoot .357 Magnum you can do it till the cows come home." Apparently once the cows get home you have to stop, since the loud noise probably scares them.

I assure you I have never slammed the cylinder shut like on TV (although I may have been tempted to try it).

Strangely, I just sent the gun to them and they fixed the timing, and the timing has been very good since then. They replaced the extractor, they said.

Yes, I think I'm going to just send it to them and see if they can figure it out.

Weirdly, I just got the gun back from S&W a few months ago, and they fixed the timing and the actual timing seems to be good now. So it's something else, I guess. I won't be doing any tearing down. I'm probably going to send it to S&W and see what they can make of it.

Not reloaded. It is PMC Bronze.

Sometimes the misfired rounds show a strike right in the middle of the primer. Other times I see a little tiny divot right along the edge of the primer. These little divots are much smaller than the actual divot left by a hammer strike in the middle. The attached picture is not super clear, but...

I'm trying to figure out why my Model 19-9 is having a lot of trouble igniting cartridges lately. At least one or two rounds each cylinder fail to ignite the first time I fire them, but then they usually ignite the second time around. I'm using factory ammo that I got at the range, and I tried...

I bought a set of those for a Colt Cobra. They are beautiful and are shaped like a Pachmayr Compac. However, they are terrible with speedloaders.

If that thing is so fragile that it can't handle a couple of dry fire trigger pulls and a cylinder spin, well, that's not a great sign.

What is the real length of the Model 36 Classic? The S&W website said the length of the original Model 36 in the 90s before it was discontinued was 6.3" , and it's what all the old S&W catalogs say. Then, in 2007, when the Classic came out, it listed the length as 6 15/16". The current website...

That's a good example. Everything is "tactical" these days, as if we're all on the SWAT team.

Based on that, it sounds like S&W applied the names purely arbitrarily, and that target stocks don't actually have anything to do with target shooting, and combat stocks don't have anything to do with combat. That will be my theory until I hear a better one.