Recent content by Jim Sharp

You get my 29-2 6" and I get your 25-5 4" or 6". My gun grades at about 85/90% with the usual signs of wear and use you'd expect from a well loved gun - not a "collector" piece. Pinned and recessed of course, and this one has a smooth color case hardened trigger and hammer. Includes a...

Just back from the range. Variety of loads. Gun runs smooth as a gravy sandwich.Phew!

Follow up: pulled 75 swc's and reused every one (saved and reused the powder too) by using a shell holder instead of the supplied collets. Tried a couple with the collet after I finished but couldn't get it to work that way. Thanks for all the excellent advice and information

Thanks armorer. This, of course, makes perfect sense to the left side of my brain. Headspace is still okay but not by much. I could easily have gone too far since I didn't have your insight, but I didn't and I'm grateful. I just need a bigger hammer . . .

I have the impression that Armourer951 knows a thing or two about revolvers. Wow. That said, I believe this suggestion by Hondo44 is what made the difference in my case: After judiciously filing a small amount from the face of the extractor star then using a stone to polish away any burrs or...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I need to get to work on these ideas but it'll be a couple of days until I'm able. In the mean time I have plenty of food for thought. There's such an unbelievable wealth of knowledge here - an embarrassment of riches, as it were. I suspect some others will...

Sadly, I bulged a chamber in the cylinder of my favorite S&W revolver (29-4) and purchased a "gently used" replacement on line. I've read here and elsewhere that such a replacement often drops in without special fitting, so . . . Fingers crossed, I installed the new cylinder and extractor as-is...

Sincere thanks to all who responded. I have good information now and I'll report back on how it goes. This is a great bunch of folks . . .

I need to hear the voice(s) of experience. Do kinetic - also called inertia - bullet pullers work? I have about 50 rounds of .44 special rounds that I need to disassemble and the only thing I can think of is a hammer type bullet puller. I know I won't be able to re-use the powder, but I'm...

Like Kingspoke, Pizza Bob and others I have a 696 that was a game changer for me. The smaller L frame is just so easy to handle, and since the .44 spl is a handloaders dream, I spend most of my six-gun time with my little five-gun these days. Hickok45 has one so I figure we all should too!

Yep, I have an old Rossi "Puma" .357 saddle ring carbine. You know, the one with the snarling puma medallion inlaid in the receiver (I popped it out and glued in a commemorative quarter for Colorado - looks much better to me). Absolutely industrial strength little rifle and after slicking it...

Yep, interesting video with plenty of food for thought. I especially found his reasoning about MIM manufacturing, frame vs hammer mounted firing pins and sleeved barrels enlightening. Sometimes we tend to stick with a long-held belief system for so long that we fail to give progress proper...

696 date Thanks - Wasn't sure if it was part of the 12/96 batch or not. Gotta buy my own copy of that dang book!

Hello - I recently found, and purchased, a wonderful S&W model 696 (sans dash), serial number CBT4317. I know they went into production in December of '96 and the dash 1 came sometime in '97. Thanks

What a great transaction! Carlos is a true gentleman, and made everything as smooth as possible. Never hesitate to do business with him. Jim Sharp