Recent content by Jim Watson

Ought to. When it came out, I said it was just a Blackhawk with fixed sights. A friend wore out a Blackhawk .45. When the transfer bar broke, he filed the hammer to hit the firing pin like an old model. But when the forcing cone cracked, he had to send it in with payment figured from the...

I have always wondered why the Perfected (and the 1891 single action) were .38 S&W only. I guess they did not see a market for a six shot .32 of that type, although the .32 Hand Ejectors certainly sold well.

The Dragon's Breath I tried a good many years ago would ignite the shredded paper of a target backer at several yards distance.

The stocks are in good condition and would likely be worth a bit of money.

A friend was annoyed by people trying to buy his car, which was a popular model to dress up in a certain style. He later said he wished he had sold to one of them.

Well, in strict modern SAAMI nomenclature, but ballistically the .38 HV sure was.

I have read, sorry, no literature cite, that SuperVel used a slightly undersize bullet to get down the barrel faster. I read that at one time the 110 gr CorBon was very hot loaded but that upon publication of the article, they dialed it back to mere +P.

Since that is just precisely bass ackward, what are we to take the rest of this stuff to mean? The standard PV test barrel for .38 Special is 7.7 inches. The vented PV barrel has a 1.6" chamber to simulate a revolver cylinder, an .008" gap, and a 4" rifled barrel. It does not show up in my...

And I don't try. There are times and places were I cruise in the left lane, but I do look in the mirror and get out of the way of somebody gaining on me. Could we get back to something important like the difference between a "clip" and a "magazine."? This traffic cop stuff is getting old.

It has been a while, but I have done that to let a tailgater by. Not for his convenience but so he didn't get excited or mad and run into me.

I have an interesting garbage/recycling setup here. A garbage truck goes by every Tuesday morning. But it doesn't stop, it goes on to another street. My garbage truck comes by Wednesday morning, followed by the recycle truck later in the morning. But today, the next door neighbors have put...

I understand that there is a law on which lane to use. There is also a law on how fast you can go. Nobody seems to care about that one as long as they don't get a speeding ticket. Get close to the big city and the highway goes to six lanes. Maybe it is just me, but I dislike traveling in the...

First gun looks like real Magnaporting which is a reputable outfit. Looks like its trigger has been rounded off a bit, Magnaport also does action work. See below. Second gun has had the trigger rounded off for double action comfort. I would wonder about what might have been done to the action...

I think the highway engineers call that "statistical clustering" and a rational reason is going to be hard to find.

I don't try to stop speeders, I just wonder why one law is important and the other one isn't. Most of my 4+ lane driving these days is on what you might call urban expressways, and ALL the lanes are well traveled.