Recent content by silvershot

Grab some lee .500 dies, collect brass and buy bullets when you can find them and start reloading. Start with a simple single press and the reloading basics and a good reloading manual or two. There is absolutely no reason to own and shoot a .500 unless you reload or soon plan to. I just began...

That is a very desirable piece and I would pay 600+ for it if it were in front of me right now. And no, absolutely no reason for you to send a no dash 686 in. The majority of them, including mine, work perfectly.

Look around that's not the going rate. Now you know not to shop at GB. I just bought 6 new DE .50 mags on ebay for 45 a piece after discount. I couldn't imagine spending more than 29.99 for a 17 round M&P mag. I imagine they are out of stock at the big stores so the auctions sites are trying...

OMG. The chance to shoot such a wonderful and powerful beast, with a .500mag no doubt, and have a bunch of yummy meat? I'm jealous. I bet the mean bulls taste even better than the nice ones. The .500mag is very effective out past 100 yards, even near and after 200 yards it still has about...

Awesome first revolver no doubt. I always find that ads or people that claim low rounds fired to be mostly untrue. Not saying your seller lied I'm just saying it's easy to white lie about rounds fired for any firearm. When I see ads like this I always ask myself why in the hell do these people...

Love the grips on that 686. I'm still waiting for the custom wood grips I ordered from Nills for mine.

5 Star is the only brand of speedloaders one should be buying. The shape of them does not effect performance or cause damage to my custom grips. I can see some grips that have high grip overhang causing issues but even with those large wood grips on one of my .500s the rounds load in freely...

A helmet maybe.

The 7-shots may limit speedloader choices but the ones available are the best in the world. I see you mentioned them. Worth every penny. The aluminum L7s work in both 686 and GP100.

Always choose the Smith. For how good of a revolver the GP100's are I'd still choose smith. I can tell you with the right gunsmith, one being Greg at Lauer Weaponry in Chippewa Falls, WI. With a good trigger job the GP100 is gold. I had the 6" with a trigger job and it was smoother than any...

Just amazing leather holsters all the way around here. What a damn great country we live in to enjoy this sport and all the things that come with it. I love the smell of my leather holster in the morning, it smells like, victory.

I have not been to a single indoor range in my area MN/WI that will allow .500 mags. There is no sign saying so but if it is a range that is supervised which almost all indoor ones are that person will tell you to stop after first shot or two. I quit using indoor ranges all together because I...

I see. That pic is definitely a lol. I have read many K/L grips along with another type, maybe N will fit on some X frames.

Yes I have a few different holsters from Bianchi and love them all. This is a 5BH for my newer 686 4" that is with a gunsmith buddy of mine currently getting a master polish and trigger job(something I'm usually dead set against when it comes to S&W). For the three main issues of a good product...

lol Those grips look so tiny on the .500 as do most. That is why I went with larger wood grips, there was even a XL version of the ones I have above but the regular version is perfection for me. Do those grips actually help with recoil? What about helping with the pure force from the recoil on...