Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
Yesterday, 07:38 PM
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Re: Let's see some old French firearms:
Very nice. I have an 1874 (a semi-wreck) in thick-rim, !2 mm Galand caliber with rosewood or ebony grips. The 12 mm cartridge was cataloged for pistols du commerce.
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
Yesterday, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
Yesterday, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 805
Re: Allen & Wheelock .32 lipfire
I unloaded one of these a few years ago. The 32 RF cartridges had been hammered in then filed off even with the front of the cylinder. I had to drive them out with a punch and hammer. Some of...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
Yesterday, 07:25 PM
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Replies: 12
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
Yesterday, 07:18 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 252
Re: old H&R timing fix
I always start by eliminating cylinder end-shake. A couple of thous is more than enough.
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 08:24 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 601
Re: Useful life of military ammo?
In 1963, I shot a box of WW1 30-06 smoke tracers and they were fine. FA-18, I believe. They were for aerial combat when planes flew 90 MPH. They looked like sending a clothes line to the 100-yard...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 192
Re: Question about L.E. Wilson
In a late-1930's Rifleman, I saw a photo of L. E. Wilson's covered 100-yard range. It looked like a hundred-hole outhouse, three feed wide with clapboard sides and a shingle roof. max
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 08:16 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 567
Re: Unjacketed lead question
Gunmakers hate handloads, they cause trouble and hassle. One way they try to limit handloads in their pistols is to forbid lead bullets. You should see some of the messed up guns that come into...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 08:09 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 377
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 08:07 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 453
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 08:04 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 294
Re: CZ 52 7.62 x 25
The Vz. 48 cartridge develops 1680 FPS in the Vz. 52 pistol. Flying brass is dangerous within 5 meters. The Soviets said that it was dangerous in Tokarev Pistols. Do not shoot ammo with a Zodiac...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
03-22-2013, 07:58 PM
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Replies: 741
Views: 29,918
Re: who's reloading tonight?
My lead level has been 25 for a decade or two. That would be terrible in a kid, but I am 75 so its not a big deal. (micrograms per decileter, I think). I will be loading 50 US Navy CF for my...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
03-22-2013, 07:42 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 441
Re: dreyse.. got one? like it?
When new, they would not open if cocked. More than half of them have been bent into submission. They made a neat takedown tool that doubles as a cleaning rod. Magazines kinda interchange with...
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
03-22-2013, 07:37 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 4,173
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
03-22-2013, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 180
Views: 8,911
Re: Your next handgun?
I'm looking at a Spanish copy of a Pieper gas-seal revolver - Mexican Army model. Is anyone more crazy? Max
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
03-22-2013, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,214
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
03-22-2013, 07:10 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,253
Re: COLT 38 AUTO PISTOL AMMO
I shoot 38 Autonatic Colt Rimless Smokeless in a Colt 1902 military and a Star 1921. Both date from the days of corrosive primers and cupro-nickle bullet jackets, so they have no rifling at all left...
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Forum: .22-Rimfire Forum
01-13-2013, 11:13 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 3,651
Re: Favorite rimfire handgun
I just acquired a Flobert Breech Loading Practice Pistol, calibre #1 (6mm rim fire BB cap). Just think, in Paris, in 1848, you could go to the store and buy a pistol and a box of shells to shoot for...
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
01-13-2013, 10:53 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 509
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
01-05-2013, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 805
Re: Allen & Wheelock .32 lipfire
One of these came to me a few years ago to have 32 RF cartridges removed from the chambers. I had to use an arbor press. Someone had removed metal from the back of the cylinder to clear the rims,...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
01-05-2013, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,976
Re: Nagant revolver
Nagant pronouncement: The Nagant brothers were Frenchmen. The pronounced their name naw-gaw. The vowel sounds like the aw in awful and the final n and t are silent. No accent on either sylible. ...
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
01-05-2013, 11:00 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 816
Re: An odd gun, to say the least...
I was an impoverished pistol shooter when these were introduced. My first reaction was that it was TOO UGLY. They needed a designer to make it sleek and beautiful like a Whitney Wolverine. They...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
12-30-2012, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 27,069
Re: DEUTSCHE WERKE HELP!!
If you mean it won't recock to fire the second round, the problem is the tiny coil spring on the disconnector. The clue is that it works fine if you cycle it by hand, but it won't recock after...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
12-30-2012, 11:10 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,859
Re: springfield 187a issue (Savage 87)...
The disconnector/sear reset is a kind of rocker with travel limited by small diameter cross pins. These can peen little hollows in the sheet metal housing which allow too much travel which slows...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
09-27-2012, 11:31 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,343
Re: Let's see some old French firearms:
I am restoring an 1874 revolver, made in 1876, all properly marked as military and with matching numbers. It was made with ebony (maybe rosewood) grips and chambered for the 12 mm Galand thick-rim...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
09-27-2012, 11:26 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,831
Re: Joined the Nagant Pistol Club
I have a friend who opened up his cylinder with a 32-20 chamber reamer. He shoots either 32-20 cast bullet .311" pistol ammo or original Russian. I reload the shite box Russian target cases, but it...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
09-27-2012, 11:21 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 407
Re: Any Martini-Henry shooters up in here?...
I loaded these in the early 1970's in CCI brass for a M-H carbine and now load in new-made brass for a friend. The case maker advises to anneal before every loading and do a minimum of resizing. I...
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
09-27-2012, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 915
Views: 24,669
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
09-27-2012, 11:10 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 706
Re: Drilling (Need some information)
Nice drilling. Be sure to lift the extractor before you replace the barrels in the action. The fronts of the extractor legs already have a little damage from someone who overlooked this. This is a...
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
09-27-2012, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 875
Re: Remington Rolling block Pistol
I believe that the 1901 22LR target pistols Remington made were made from overrun frames from the 1871 Army pistol contract or one of the Navy pistol contracts. Look in Flayderman's Guide.
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
06-29-2012, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,078
Re: Most Underrated Handgun.
Try the 1910 Glisenti. I have about ten boxes (50-round boxes) of ammo through mine and I find it deadly accurate, completely reliable, easy to maintain, and very ergonomic. Plus, the safety is...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
04-15-2012, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,256
Re: Webley MKV 455
Lots of good info on thread. I shoot several 450's, 455's and 476's and load 455 W&S Auto for others. (I will eventually get a 455 auto, I do have the W&S 32, 9mm and 38 ACP pistols.) Richard and...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
04-15-2012, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 533
Re: Stuck pull-pin on old Forehand rev.
It will never come out; rust is seven times as big as iron. If you have endshake, use a jeweler's saw in the cylinder window to cut the pin, first in front, then in back. Be careful of the ratchet....
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
04-15-2012, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 916
Re: H&R .38 auto eject hand nightmare!
StoneChimney has it right. The spring pushes against the back side of the nearly vertical shelf on the trigger. Read the patent. It describes the hand pivot pin as the fulcrum. This is one of the...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
04-15-2012, 05:47 PM
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Replies: 3
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Re: Mossberg 151M Problems
Hello Dnttech; Possible a chamber mouth dinged by shooting and/or dry firing. I start all guns like this with a chamber ironer and/or chember reamer. Anybody who shoots 22s a lot should have a...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
04-15-2012, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 610
Re: .32 S&W Primer Only?
Hi; I shoot old pistols a lot. 1. If you just pop a primer, the cup may set back and jam the cylinder. Pressure inside the pocket on a large rifle primer is around 30,000 PSI, I do not know about...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-21-2011, 10:06 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,940
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-21-2011, 10:05 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,940
Re: Husqvarna .380 auto
I believe there was a US patent for a rimless cartridge with an extraction cannelure that expired sometime between 1903 and 1910. It was tied up in some legal hassle that prevented Colt from...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-21-2011, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,336
Re: Old Gun Fixes
Very good stuff you posted. I do a lot of the same work, mostly on 19th century British revolvers. For v-springs, I buy oil hardening soft O-1 steel, saw my spring out with a bandsaw, and finish it...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-21-2011, 09:40 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 732
Re: Colt Lightning Revolver ejector housing
If you do silver solder, put a wooden dowell in the barrel to prevent scaling by burning up the oxygen. I rebarreled a Colt Double Action Army from a blank and silver soldered both the sight blade...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-21-2011, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 27,069
Re: DEUTSCHE WERKE HELP!!
I really like these pocket pistols. My 6,35 and 7,65 are accurate and reliable. Here is a tip that is not in the books: If your seal/disconnector/trigger work ok without ammo but don't hook up to...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-21-2011, 09:23 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,745
Re: Universal M1 Carbine Jams...
Maybe I can help if you describe the "jam." If it is a high-nose failure to feed, the lips may be holding the cartridge a little too long. Bend or cut 1/8-inch of the front of one lip and see if...
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Forum: Curio & Relics Forum
05-12-2011, 01:31 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,615
Re: What 7.62x25 ammo do i have?
Just a friendly warning about 7,62 x 25 Vzor 48: Ammunition with a Zodiac sign in the headstamp is far too hot for Mauser or Tokarev pistols. I chronographed 1664 and 1672 FPS out of my Vz. 52. ...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
05-12-2011, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,754
Re: Stoeger Luger .22 LR
I just fixed a Stoeger Luger which was failiing to complete the extraction stroke. The partly extracted case would bump the bullet of the top cartridge in the magazine. The cause was that the...
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
03-28-2011, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,019
Re: stevens visable loader
The Visible Loader is not a bad gun, Stevens sold a lot of them in the twenty years they cataloged it. But the locking lug is very small and they took it off the market in the early 1930's when the...
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
03-13-2011, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 344
S&W Victory Model help
Help! Who has a sideplate to sell? Numrich has them, but I would prefer to send my cash to a fellow gun guy. This is a K-frame with the wing-type hammer block installed in the sideplate.
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
03-13-2011, 10:52 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,011
Re: Kolb/ Sedgley Baby Hammerless repair
Great pics of the wire hand/lifter spring. I believe the maker switched from flat to wire. Model railroad shops have the music wire. After you bend it, bake it in the oven at 350 f. for an hour to...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
02-11-2011, 07:38 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 971
9mm Nagant M'1877
Hello Vintage Pistol Shooters: Is anyone else loading this cartridge for the two barrel, one breech block, two hammer, one trigger Remington Brevet pistol?
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
02-11-2011, 05:17 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 544
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
02-11-2011, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,346
Re: Radom VIS Mod. 35
The take-down lever is a convenience, not a necessity, and they left them off to save resources. Just hold the slide about as far open as the lever would hold it. The easy way is to hold Mr. Vis in...
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