Recent content by Janet L.

I replaced the ginormous factory grips on my 25-2 with Pachmeyer Presentation large grips. My hands are pretty good sized for a woman but quite small compared to most of the guys I know.

Accidental lock engagement Once, after carrying my 638 for a while, I did a function check, and the d*m lock had engaged itself. By the end of the day, I'd disassembled the contraption and ground off the stud which engages the lock, and prevents the action from working. A gun that doesn't go...

I wound up with an Nano I have to admit I've been a bit reluctant to even consider the absolutely lightest single stack 9s, since I had a really bad experience with a tiny .45 auto, so my top choices came down to either a Shield, a SIG P290, or a Beretta Nano. The Shield seems to have turned...

I'm looking for a diagram which shows what position the little slide which locks the cylinder release while the trigger is pulled on my Model 629-5 goes. I can see the slot it slides in and where it's pin goes, but the gun just won't go back together with it in the orientations I've tried. It...

Safety I talked my housemate into going to a conceiled carry class simply because it is the most readily accessible basic firearms training available. My housemate was afraid, almost terrified of guns. She about freaked when I asked her to just hold one, She passed the written with a perfect...

Thank you for some very good input. A lot of folks have had good things to say here. Tomkat, I hadn't thought of the grip shape/ barrell axis issue. My 6'2", 250# mentor once had a little 9x18 FEG PA63 that on account of the shape of the grip and blow back mechanism had a percieved recoil...

Women Now, for women, the baggy clothes often recommended for concealed carry by guys just are not socially acceptable. A wheel gun is almost unavoidably a purse-carry only option - even a five shot cylinder is just too bulky. And for purse carry, why not pack something a bit bigger than a J...

Hornady L&L After looking at the Dillons, I opted for the Hornady LocknLoad. I bought the contraption and the price of 9mm & .45acp promptly cratered - I couldn't buy bullets for what Wolf was charging for complete cartriges. Now It's time to get the contraption set up. I've accumulated a...

I'm not that petite Let me explain further - I am not a tiny little thing who can't work a slide - fewer than one in a hundred women are as tall as I am. My range guns include a CZ97 .45 and a CZ75b 9mm, They shoot very well and digest anything I've asked 'em to swallow with reliably...

I'm strongly thinking about buying one of the little 9mm pistols that have come on the market since I last looked for a concealed carry gun. These little critters are hardly bigger than a PPK, while packing a serious punch. Now, the problem is that I'm pretty small boned - for my height...

Weak wrists Years ago I had a CS45 which had persistent stove-pipe jams for me, but none of the guys I had try it. I was holding it as rigidly as I could and the jams persisted. Then I realized maybe part of it was that the guys I had trying it had wrists about as big as my ankles. I...

The only one I really wish I hadn't sold is a late '70s Colt series 70 Government Model. Beautiful finish, and shot VERY well. Eventually replaced it with a series 80, and it was neither as nicely finished nor did it soot nearly as well.

I have one much like that, except without the presentation case. It is the most accurate handgun I own. IIRC the model 1955 25-2 was built in the 1980s. I remember wanting one in the early '80s, but had just blown my gun-buying budget on a Colt Series 70 Government Model. While I have pretty...

Smaller folk beware Years ago I bought a CS45, thinking it would be a perfect carry gun. Then reality set in. While I am very tall for a woman (6') I'm pretty fine boned (for a gal my height, anyway.) I simply could not get it to function reliably. However hard I gripped it, however tight I...