Recent content by The Maxo

There was the big city lawyer who stopped for gas in the hills. the attendant came up to his car window and offered him a swig from a mason jar. The lawyer declined but the attendant insisted. Again the lawyer declined but the attendant kept insisting. Finally, he hauled out a big hawg leg...

My story is a bit complicated. This site, for what ever reason, would not accept my Yahoo address. In the mean time I had started an email address in the name of a dog we once had at Lycos for junk mail. So I used the Lycos address when I signed up here. The dog's name was Maximillian...

It would be pretty odd to find a DW with the barrel hole in the frame misaligned. DW "line bored" the chambers, meaning they fit the cylinder to the frame first and use the barrel hole in the frame as a guide for boring the chambers in the cylinder. I've heard the Freedom Arms does likewise...

I have to regard the SuperMag and the Maximum as two separate cartridges for several reasons. For starters, Elgin Gates, originator of the 357 SuperMag, regarded them as two distinct cartridges. (If they were to be considered the same, then the obvious correct name would be SuperMag since it...

Go with the shims and forget about stretching the yoke. Check the condition of the yoke tail and cylinder well bottom to see if they need to be dressed up before installing shims. (This also has to be done if stretching the yoke.)

The difference between the 357 Maximum and the 357 SuperMag is more than just the case length. The max OAL for the SuperMag is 0.125 inch greater, allowing the use of heavy bullets properly seated. It was meant to take heavy bullets. With the Maximum a heavy bullet must be seated overly deep...

I have a six inch 28-2 with a second cylinder chambered for the 357-44 B&D. No set back problems. Ballistics are definitely worth the effort. Many bottle necked cartridges have worked well in revolvers. It's only the 22 Jet that gave them a bad name. All revolvers display some flame cutting...

What was the time frame for 25-5s with the over sized throats? I've been given to understand that later ones did not have this problem. As an alternative would could get a Blackhawk of appropriate vintage and obtain poor accuracy with under sized throats. (Easier to fix, just ream them out.)

I've never had extraction problems with a 22. How ever I have had extraction problems in center fire revolvers due to a bad batch of brass. 445 SuperMag brass from PMC. Stuck badly no matter how light the load. Guy at the Dan Wesson works said they had the same problem with the same brass, I...

Will a 41 Mag or 44 Mag S&W actually go bang with store bought loads? I've never tried it.

When replacing a cylinder with a like cylinder there will be the issue of head space and cylinder gap to deal with. There may or may not be timing and alignment problems. Head space is usually not too much of a problem. A 44 Mag cylinder is longer so the barrel breech on the 44 Special would...

Fired from the same barrel a 357 Magnum will have a substantial edge over a 38 Special regardless of the barrel length. The real question here is whether or not you can tolerate the recoil of the 357 and still shoot with reasonable accuracy in such a small and light revolver. I shoot my 357...

One possible point of confusion here. S&W made these top break revolvers in both 44 Russian and 44 S&W which are two different cartridges. The 44 S&W (Otherwise known as the 44 American) was the inspiration for the 44 Russian but the two are not interchangable. The 44 Russian was stretched...

I have a 'special" 24-3 44 Special, and if I remember correctly, it's from a special block of serial numbers. It has a 6.5 inch barrel and differs from the usual 24-3 in that it has a Baughman front sight and narrow trigger and hammer. The story is that there was a block of 1000 24-3's made up...