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I have a number of .32-20 revolvers ranging from beater to beautiful. I shoot them. I reload. I enjoy them and unlikely to sell them.

I believe the number of people interested in bobbed hammers is directly proportional to the people unable to find a replacement hammers with an unbroken spur.

Just imagine, 30 years from now, a bunch of middle aged gen-x'rs dressed up like T.J. Hooker, blues, PR-24's and clamshell holsters. Imagine the RO's look when they channel their inner Jelly Bryce.

I went through basic at Fort Jackson in 1968. We were issued these triple flange earplugs. We were required to wear the case with the chain over the button, under the flap, of the right breast pocket of the fatigue shirt. Other units I remember them requiring the case affixed to the epaulet of...

I find myself clearly lagging. A Model 52-2, a Model 39-2 and Model 1076 are the only ones I own. I don't think I have enough years or cash to catch up to some of y'all.

Never saw any of my former high school classmates after graduation, except for one. In 1971 I was freshly back from Viet Nam and assigned as a Drill Sergeant to the Training Center on Fort Campbell. Our company was picking up a new batch from the Reception Station and there he was. We had not...

Here they be. Not a safe queen in the batch, they all get shot. They all came second hand, and a couple are police trade-ins. Model 36 (1962) Model 36-1 (1976) Model 37-2 (1969) Model 40 (1959) Model 640-1 (1996)

I like the S&B version. 100 grain round nose flat point bullet, reminiscent of the old .32 New Police. I get 886 fps from my 102 year old Colt Police Positive.

Odd as it may seem, a Model 52-2 from the Rod & Gun Club on the William O. Darby Kaserne, Nuremberg, Germany. It was the Seventies and I was under the delusion that would be my ticket to the 2600 club.

A Model 36 from 1962 A Model 36-1 from 1976 A Model 37 Airweight from 1969 A Model 40 from 1959 A Model 640-1 from 1996

I'll admit to 1910 and 1922 Brownings; Swiss and VOPO Lugers.

Maybe they need a "limited six" class for revolver like they have "limited 10" for the guys shooting single stack autoloaders? Perhaps stage designs that don't give the advantage to more capacity? Maybe it's like the decline in Cowboy Action as the geezers who grew up watching Westerns age out...

While the US signed the Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907 (Laws of Warfare), it did not ratify all of them. Among those was the prohibition against the use of bullets that expand or flatten easily in the human body. Despite the oft-repeated claim about "hollow points are against the Geneva...

I was still on active duty when the M9 was adopted. Tankers are issued pistols as their normally assigned individual weapon. First units to get the Beretta were infantry and MPs. There were many, if not most, Armor units still carrying M1911A1s through the first Gulf war. Convenient, since...

Hawk 972, cruiser ready, 2 rounds LE low recoil 00 buck followed by 3 low recoil slugs.

A 9mm hollow point fired from an S&W 459 passed through Platt's right upper arm and struck his chest, stopping an inch away from his heart. Toxicology tests showed that the abilities of Platt and Matix to fight through multiple traumatic gunshot wounds and continue to battle and attempt to...

I think the answer to "is 5 inches enough" was pretty much settled in Miami about 1986. The 115gr. Winchester Silvertip performed exactly as the manufacturer designed it to. That was the heyday of the DOJ's RII. Rapid expansion and temporary wound cavity was supposed to be the solution. Well...

Giant fields of row crops leave little room for rabbits or quail. Huge agriculture operations have replaced the small family farmstead that offered the "hedgerow type habitat" that quails loved. Replacing native grasses with fescue choked the space that quail hatchings needed to thrive...

You might reconsider selling those revolvers if you learned to shoot them. Some things have value besides money.

Fence rows used to be prime cotton tail habitat.