Recent content by The Kid

What if you get in a not so close up gunfight and all you have is your 2” revolver? Just because it has adjustable sights doesn’t mean you have to stand with your weak hand in your back pocket and shoot single action like a bullseye match, you can still point it and shoot DA at contact distance...

I wear a size medium glove and have no practical use for factory target sized stocks. I also don’t care for rubber grips aside from a very few instances. The best fit I’ve found for me with square butt N frames is Magnas and a grip adapter. I also generally prefer smooth aftermarket Magnas or...

I carry a GEC every day. Also have some nice Queens and S&Ms. Really hate that GECs are the “Thing” now and almost unattainable except at inflated prices on the secondary market. I remember when they’d be available for weeks or months at dealers to be purchased at your leisure, I should have...

I had one come across my bench a long time ago that had a grip adapter with the attachment screw through the front and into a tapped hole in the frame just like that. I don’t think it had a brand on the adapter, if it did I don’t recall what it was.

That is a clamp on trigger shoe, available from several sources in the past and held on with tiny set screws. Also not a factory engraving job. Done in the “pawn shop” style of engraving through the finish and making extensive use of the wobble technique with a squared graver. Pawn and jewelry...

The three on the right all appear to be Mauser 98 stocks. Likely Bishop, Fajen, or one of the other suppliers of semi inlets back in the 60s.

I’m 38, bought my first S&W when I was 18. I have S&Ws from every decade from the 1910s through the 1990s. I shoot and even hunt with almost all of them. Some of the prewar guns I find very interesting and I would buy an example of in a heartbeat if the price wasn’t out of line and it fit my...

Sure why not. It’s not a permanent or extensive or irreversible change so you don’t have anything to lose as far as I can see.

You only need to go on one fly in hunt that you’ve saved up for all year and have a scope mount loosen up causing you to miss a bear to find thread locker religion. I worked in a busy gun smith shop for a decade, dealing primarily with hunting rifles. Every scope base and every front sight...

I bought two sets of S&W Combat grips at an estate sale last summer for $30, there were Pachmyer boxes about but they were empty. Best deal was when I was lounging in the front during a slow day at the gunshop I used to work at. A younger gal came in carrying a barrel less pre war Ithaca 37...

That front lockup makes so much sense. It eliminates the possibility of the inner rod peening and sticking as well as the ejector rod loosening up and tying the gun up, both rare but known to happen. Seems like a very good idea and a shame they didn’t put it to use. It appears that it had a...

55gr FMJs are generally some of the most poorly made bullets available. They’re oftentimes very inconsistent with much variation in weight. I think most manufacturers know that they are more than likely going to be blasting ammo most of the time and they make or source them without as stringent...

I think from your photos that yours has been refinished at some point. The sideplate looks a little off and the screw slots look a little washed. In the first picture the cylinder also seems to have a slight purple cast indicative of a hot blue. I have its twin in very nice original condition...

I agree with the sentiment that GEC makes the finest production pocketknives available today. I carry a 23 everyday everywhere. The demand for them is unbelievable and it happened all at once it seems like. I give a nice traditional style pocketknife to the groom at every wedding I attend. For...

Buy yourself an AR15. It’s a far handier rifle than a BLR. Easier to make hits at speed on fleeing swine as well. No need to worry about the effectiveness of the 223 either, I have killed around 500 head with the 223. I prefer 20 round magazines, they give you the option of shooting prone...