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Wonderful revolver and first post. Thanks for the photos too. Now I find myself wondering if it features the inspector's mark handejector mentions. All pre-war Smith & Wesson .44s are yummy to me, ejector rod housing or not.

Not sure I ever heard of the recommendation to not clean a .22 rim fire bore until the rise of the internet. Oh, I heard the neglectful brag about never cleaning their .22s, but then they never cleaned the center fires either. I clean 'em after each use. I'm careful, but they are cleaned...

So that's what they looked like new in the gun shops' glass display cases back in the early 1950s.

Now that's cool to be able to say that you carried a '97 Winchester as a patrol officer.

I've long wished to sneak up on a steel framed Model 39 for a "real deal." Never seen one "in the steel" as far as I can recall. Smith & Wesson needs to make 'em again.

Late to the Winchester party, but classic Winchester is my favorite way to do long guns and there are Winchester trash & treasures on hand. Grew up with Winchesters in the family and still rely on them for long gun needs. Older photograph of the lever-action models: 1873 .38-40, 1886 .45-90...

I have bought used Smith & Wesson revolvers from the era with gunked up internal assemblies including cylinder stop and spring and it was expedient to remove the cylinder stop screw and associated for a cleaning. Removal and re-installation is no big deal. If only the rest of Smith & Wesson...

Yes, Bill's a hero for providing his compilation. There's more to it than only .38-44 stuff. It's a good reference for box styles through the years. I learned something when he sent a copy to me.

Oh dear. Will have to make a list to see all the cartridges for which I load. I'm "ate up with it" too and have been since the mid-1970s. I'm all sad right now and somehow feel detached because I just packed up all dies, press, supporting equipment, and handloading components for a move. I...

Oh, thank you so much and pleeease send me that! If I can't have quantities of original .38-44 ammunition for chronograph tests than I can at least read about the original products.

Welcome from Coleman County in west central Texas.

I really think we need to have a thread on accordions and watches. These all have one thing in common. They all were produced in 1944. Watch is an Omega with a 30T2 movement.

Here's an era appropriate pair. A '49 Omega automatic with an early '50s .357 Magnum. Both run better than I do. This post-war Glycine military watch has been my huntin', fishin', hikin', chorin' companion since the early 1980s. Crown was nickel plated when I got it. A $5 pawn shop...

Only a ratty 1916 vintage Colt Model 1903 lives here. It appears to be someone's well loved and long time carried pistol. It has a perfect bore and and really gives good function.

.357 Magnum can work well on deer. 158 grain Sierra jacketed hollow point over 15.0 grains of 2400 at 1406 fps muzzle velocity entered this doe's right front shoulder, centered the heart, and exited near the back left rib as the deer was standing quartering toward me at 39 paces. The Smith &...

First handgun was a Smith & Wesson Model 10 Heavy Barrel purchased used in late 1975.

No, I can't agree that firearms of today are superior in very many ways at all to those of a generation or two ago. About the only things better about them is that they are designed to be cheaper to manufacture and they're made out of cheap materials. That holds the cost down for the consumers...

I'm not even a big fan of the J-Frame, but keep a few around here including one that I'm willing to tote as a back-up. I won't even own a P365 so it's not even in the running.

I have a particular loathing for all striker fired plastic automatics with double-action-only triggers. No matter how much the latest and greatest they are said to be I lump 'em all together and dismiss them as inferior junk. I'm gleefully getting trough my life without making use of the...

I ain't got nothin'. No. 2019 from March of 1952