Recent content by Mzuri

I live in a hot climate and I have never had trouble with lube/wax melting on CCI ammo. I have had a very hot day make Norma Tac-22 so slippery that I had trouble getting it into a magazine. I don't know what Norma uses for lube, but it's slippery under normal circumstances and heat makes it...

Interesting. I'll try a different pistol and see if that makes a difference.

I am using Berry's plated 115 grain. Range brass at a range that belongs to a USPSA club (lots of reloads used) so some well-used brass might have gotten mixed in with mine. I don't have any left to check, but I used calipers to measure OAL to the recommended length in Hornady manual when I set...

I am a moderately experienced reloader. I have been reloading .38 and .40 for a couple of years and other than a few poorly seated primers I have not had any problems. Recently I decided to start reloading 9mm also. I bought a set of RCBS dies and followed all the same procedures I have...

How available are mags for these older Smiths? This one comes with just one (which I think was double stack).

I am woefully ignorant of S&W's auto loaders, but I saw one the piqued my interest yesterday. It's a stainless .40 cal with a bobbed hammer and is DAO. No safety or decocker. It has rail that is attached with two screws. The exterior is rough and they only want $200 for it but it seem to...

Good choice. I have 12-3 and pre-10, both snubs. I shoot the pre-10 a lot more.

My initial take on title was to assume that the OP intended to hunt trout with a revolver. I don't know about handguns for salmonids, but in Vermont I used to hear accounts of people hunting pickerel with deer rifles when the rivers flooded in the spring. Maybe an old wives' tale, but I love...

I had a G2 and other than a few light strikes on cheap Russian steel case, it never missed a beat. Now that the Ruger P95 is no longer available, I'd say it's the Taurus G series are the cheapest "real" guns you can get new. As such they occupy an important market niche. It's important that...

I bought a 34-1 4" SB nickel about two years ago for $500. Mine is newer than the one you are looking at and thus not pinned, which might account for the price difference. I also have a 27-2 4 inch, and if I had to pick between a kit gun and an N-frame .357, I'd grab the kit gun without a...

I have a nearly identical pre-10 snub in similar condition that I also bought for $350. It was priced that way because the pawnshop owner mistook the first two digits of the assembly number for a model number and so listed and priced it as a model 37. So I either a got a good price on a pre-10...

I am curious about this too.

I had a P-07 and thought it was a was a very nice gun, especially when they were being sold used for under $300. What convinced me to part ways with it was the price of magazines and the limited supply of holsters. Sights were not that great either. For any pistol I use for competition I like...

If you wear a cycling jersey while you ride, one option is to use a small autoloader in a pocket holster in the right pocket (assuming you are right handed and have the shoulder mobility to reach into your jersey pockets). I know at least two people who do this, one because he told me, the...

I got mine for free so I can't address the cost to benefit ratio, but I find them useful for practicing emergency reloads or any drill (one handed reloads for example) that requires that you be able to release a locked back slide by wracking the slide rather than using the slide release.