Recent content by rct269

I couldn't have said it better myself!! Shortly after I acquired my 7 1/2" TLT many years ago, I put on my one and only pair of Roper thumb rest target grips, and took it to a professional photographer for a classy picture---cost me $100-----and looks like hell!! I have another picture of it...

Well when you get a bunch of pre-war N frame targets like I had (1 of each, and 2 TLT's,) you're going to find out there ain't a dime's worth of difference between them---except for the size of the holes in some of them----oh, and one of them had a ribbed barrel. (It was at least interesting...

Picking a bit of a nit, Phil Sharpe's contribution to the RM program was the cartridge-----------more than anything else, and it was the hype on the cartridge that most impressed the marketplace. That's no knock on the gun, but it's just another gun------cost $17 each to make. By comparison, it...

I think you're right----about the McGivern sight!! (The best of the best!!) I've seen pictures of them---nothing in real life---after 70+ years, and maybe 200 target guns during that span. I decided they were really made from unobtainium! Ralph Tremaine And speaking of odd-ball sights, the...

What's up here is S&W has slowly evolved from a bunch of folks who made their name by making the best possible product for the price to a bunch of folks who now do EVERYTHING at the LOWEST possible cost. Call it progress if you're not allowed to say bad words. This started---just started in the...

I don't know the first thing about it, but I've supposed the colored inserts are there to enable a quicker "pick up" of the front sight---and play no role in the actual sight picture---which is to say it's a combat oriented sight. Ralph Tremaine

I shouldn't be running my mouth when my memory's not in gear, but they used to make up guns with special serial numbers for Herbie Harris's collection (Chicago based distributor)--------seems like whatever with a string of zeros. The only one I think I remember was a .22 caliber something with...

I'm wondering why none of mine had a letter noting the double action trigger pull weight? Ralph Tremaine

Interesting question! This won't answer it, but it'll give you an idea. One reason it won't answer it is these are targets, and they tended to hang around a spell before they shipped; and the fixed sight guns shipped pretty much as soon as the paint was dry. So, here are serial numbers and...

Brownells RCT

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I'm getting feeble minded in my old age!!!!!!!!!!! The Z is an N!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My compliments to those with more sense than I!!------but your time is coming!! Ralph Tremaine

The lesson for today is anytime one who just might know a bit more than you do suggests getting a letter, get a letter. Any other time, get a letter anyway! It just might say something like this: "We have researched your Smith & Wesson K-22 Masterpiece Model of 1940 or K-22 Second Model...

"Post Reply" the little sign says. WOW! Ralph Tremaine

Look on the bright side----it'll fit right in with the rest of your shabby stuff!!! Ralph Tremaine

SEE?!!! There IS a GOD!!!! And he holds you in high favor!! Ralph Tremaine