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Ladies and Gents, A couple of eons ago, during the Great Primer Shortage of 2009 or thereabouts, I was unable to buy my usual primer of choice, Winchester Small Pistol, but I was able to get Remington Small Pistol #1 1/2. They seemed to work fine. Then, a while ago, and after the Shortage...

Folks, Due to the relative scarcity of my usual powders, Bullseye, Unique, and 2400 in my locale, a local shop recommended switching to Ramshot powders, which it had plenty of. If I'm not mistaken, the dealer said Ramshot was used in Buffalo Bore bullets. I load only for .38 spl (148 gr...

Folks, I actually was able to buy some primers today. (I was able to buy only 400.) Available were Remington 1 1/2 and 5 1/2 small pistol primers. I've only used Winchester, CCI, and Federal primers. I gather from other forums that 1 1/2s are small pistol and 5 1/2s are small pistol magnum...

Folks, Diamondback 68 states in: 10-5 Period of Production "The 10-5 was made from 1962 until 1977 when the 10-7 came out. The 10-6 was a for heavy barrel 10s only." Well, this is what I thought, too, but I was just at the local gun shop and inspected a 6" pencil barrel on a frame marked...

Folks, Last Friday I finally got my wife, who is not all that hot to trot on this gun business, out to the range where our Rotary club was having a social "gun safety class" and "paper killing" exercise. She declared that if she was going to shoot, she might as well try something that would...