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Old-timers from the 30s, 40s and 50s may remember the Berns-Martin holsters, but a couple of generations of handgunners have now come of age without this classic gun scabbard as an available product.
April 16, 2010
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We may be missing a bet with the new .327 Federal Magnum cartridge. It is being touted as a defense revolver round. OK, I'll concede that it whips up a fair amount of energy, but in my book, no cartridge that uses a 100-grain bullet is ever going to have enough smack 'em to stop fights.
April 09, 2010
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One of the great breakthroughs in modern revolvers of power is the S&W X-frame in.500 S&W Magnum. This monster of a gun throws huge, half-inch bullets that weigh as much as 450 grains. That's just over an ounce. When you consider that the extended length of the case permits a veritable sugar scoop of powder, you get lots of velocity and recoil in the extreme.
April 06, 2010
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Smith & Wesson, the legendary gunmaker, experienced a wave of innovation in the 1950s. Basically, it was adapt to modern methods and models or die a commercial death.
March 26, 2010
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This term applies to revolvers and is used to describe the bridge of metal running along the top of the main frame from the vicinity of the rear sight forward to the threaded portion of the frame that accepts the barrel.
March 19, 2010
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Just a silly millimeter—that's all that spells the difference in these three successively longer auto pistol cartridges.
March 15, 2010
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When Colt cast about for a name for their latest big revolver and came up with “New Service,” it was just before the turn of the 19th Century.
March 11, 2010
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Occasionally I get questions about handgun terminology such as: “Where is the forcing cone in a revolver? Answering these questions is useful to the readers and often fun.
March 08, 2010
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Smith & Wesson makes many thousands of guns every year and has made many millions of them since the first partnership of Horace Smith & D.B. Wesson in 1852.
March 05, 2010
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I'm not sure that it is necessarily the most versatile cartridge, but a revolver chambered for the .357 Mag. is an almighty good all-around handgun.
March 04, 2010
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It may be growing a little long in the tooth, but the Thompson/Center Contender pistol is one of the more influential handguns of our time.
February 25, 2010
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As a matter of habit, I grasp every handgun that I fire in the same way—as high as possible to get my hand as close to the axis of the bore I’m able.
February 22, 2010
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William E. Fairbairn was a proper English gentleman who emigrated to China in the early 20th Century. He was a police inspector in the fabled Shanghai Municipal Police and served most of that time as a combat training expert.
February 18, 2010
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In the Frontier period, there was a need for powerful revolvers. This need was met with such guns as the brute-strong '75 Remington, classic S&W Schofield and the immortal Colt Peacemaker.
February 16, 2010
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When you are out shooting your revolver the next time, take a close look at the sights by putting the gun in the hands of a shooting partner and watching him or her shoot from a vantage point off to one side.
February 12, 2010
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