Recent content by Kframe

I feel like I should know this already, but what's a LERK?

In a gun of that vintage, I'd steer completely clear of any jacketed rounds. Cylinder heat treating began around serial number 316648 (1919-1920ish, your gun "late 1920's" should be fine, but I'd double check). As far as 'target loads' and Bullseye powder, THE LOAD for many many shooters has...

Thanks, kbm! Yes, a lot of my appreciation of my 10-8 is due to the satisfaction from doing it myself (albeit, with help). M10-8's are great sixguns, and the surplus ones are wonderful in that there really is zero collector value (excepting those with interesting departmental stampings or...

Wow, I bet that's a featherweight now! Pretty much the opposite of some of those 1970's PPC guns with the oversized barrels and weights. Fun to see the variations tailored to the end use. :)

Only one way to find that out, Bob! :D

Well, just buy a Model 10 and a Model 19, adds up to 29.

Thank you! It's just an old painter's trick, really. I polished the cylinder, in that area, to a high mirror finish on the buffing wheel with black compound, then I masked off the part I wanted to remain shiny with a narrow band of electrical tape*. About 30 seconds under the sandblasting...

No poo-poo'ing coming from this corner. Just never seen anything like it before. Very unique! :)

What did that start out as?

I've only ever seen/held one of these, it was in a gunshop in S.Minneapolis about 15 years ago. Price, if memory serves, was $1750. At that time it was waaaaay out of my means, plus, there are very few people in MN that have the credentials required to buy/own NFA guns. Was very cool, though.

I let my mind wander, so, if you've seen it, please tell it to come back. I may need it.

Ah, ask and you shall receive, grasshopper. Unless one of the deleted photos from earlier showed one, I have not seen a "no-lug" M617 posted in this thread, yet. This was from a special, small run in 1991 made for Ashland Shooting Supplies. I don't recall the production run totals...

I know very little about the M37, but want to welcome you to the forum, and mention that I too am in SE MN! Maybe I'll see you at Ahlman's someday. :)

As 520 said, +P should be just fine. The general rule of thumb I've heard around here is that the model numbered guns, post-1957, are safe with +P ammo. Of course, that is assuming that the gun is mechanically sound. Others go further back and state that once the cylinders were heat treated...

Very nice! Good to see some high quality stampings, too. (As opposed to ones scrawled by hand with one of those vibratory engravers.)