Recent content by rev.

I came along in 1938 and lived in the Bronx. I very clearly remember the blackouts and the wardens s shouting; TURN OFF THAT LIGHT ! Us kids would gather empty cigarette packs and peel off the alu. foil from the inside and toss it up in the trucks that came around to collect pots and pans...

EZ Have one, love it, especially the trigger. It's a joy to shoot!

A story I read several years ago was about a Highway Patrolman who stopped a car driven by a very obese man. Don't know what happened but the Patrolman put three 110gr 357's into the driver. The driver returned fire with a mini .22 revolver striking the patrolman in the neck and killing him...

What makes certain brand names "good stuff"? Being fortunate in owning a chronograph I've checked various brands of .380 shot in my Mustang pocket lite (shhhh, colt). 2 3/4" brl. Federal's American Eagle 95gr. fmj was fastest at 923 fps. Speer gold dot 90jhp=881 Fiocchi 90jhp= 870 Rem.Golden...

over the years a trend has appeared that says that nothing "standard" can kill or incapacitate anything. First "magnum" appeared, then "+P", then "+P+", then "premium". On and on it goes. We can "say" intellectually that putting a bullet where it belongs (in the CNS=nipple to nipple to throat)...

admittedly I've not read this whole thread, a bit long. However, returning from the range; I'm loading a Hornady 90gr.XPT ahead of 3.2grs. of Titegroup, and getting 931 vel. at 9' from a Kel-tec and 960 from a Bursa Thunder. Bullet expansion from the K-T in Ballistic Technology's "test tube"...