Recent content by jsshooter

3/8-inch smooth trigger with a stop. The stop is threaded-in from the back and the head was ground off.

Hi All, I recently picked up this 65-1 thinking it would be a fun range gun. The frame has been marked with an electric pencil touchmark, I'm guessing by the builder. Possibly C&S (Cylinder & Slide?), or maybe CWS. Also has a number in electric pencil, 71544. Does anyone recognize any of...

In .38's I use 1.6 grains of Bullseye, a cardboard wad, No. 12 lead shot to right below the case mouth, and some beeswax for a seal. When I started doing this I considered salt, but was concerned that it might scour my barrel. Also thought if the salt ever got damp, it could harden like it does...

I have found that Bullseye can cause etching. Seems to me that there is a chemical reaction going on, and I don't like thinking what it might be doing to the powder. I cut the bottom off of an olive jar and set it into the metal casting with silicone. Crackle painted the lid and transferred...

Being a party in a transfer that might not have been legally executed is a problem, but possession of an unregistered firearm in and of itself is not illegal. If I were to poke around the house here I might find any number of unregistered firearms- the Hi Standard my mother bought from the...

Well, the paper work went in to the State with the tiny number stamped in the yoke cut, so I guess I hit the lottery :)

Serial number on butt is 99 668 in two lines, pencil number is 15-2495.

Checked under the grips and no factory re-work number. Cost was $400 out the door. Still wondering what I was thinking, but someting about it I like.

Hi all, This had been sitting in a local gunshop all summer and I finally decided to pick it up. M1917 frame, serial no. 68,xxx with flaming bomb and S1 inspectors stamp, manufactured c.1918. The barrel, crane, cylinder, and ejector are serial number S67,xxx, manufactured c.1946. The Magna grips...