Great stuff Retro! Glad to see you posting. You are definitely THE snubby lifestyle guy. Tell me about the modification to the speed strips. Looks interesting.
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glad to be reinterested! My thought on the key ring with a 2" oring is in case i need to load less than full cylinder (tac reload). I can hook a finger in the o ring so i do not have to put the speed strip away or throw it on the ground. Makes sense to me but according to doublewide my shit is crazy..............................hope to cya at the round up.........cya retro
Celebrating our 20th anniversary together this year, she got a Ti cylinder installed about 10 years ago...traveled many miles together. If you ever wondered what is under that nice baked on clear coat layer it is just ugly gray aluminum....
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Thread was inspirational- I hate you all.
Just snagged a 442 no dash.
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I’m digging it - need to snag some strips and a good aiwb, touch up the sights with paint to make them more visible, and that’ll probably be it. Side plate hasn’t even been popped off judging by the screws, and I don’t even know if it makes sense to put in an Apex kit.
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I never messed with my J-Frames much. I usually spend a few minutes working the rebound slide surfaces, the frames studs and the cylinder yoke .... that usually results in enough smoothness to do any magic I'm likely to do with a J-Frame. If that's not something you're familiar doing, just dry-fire the piss out of it.
That EN finish is surprisingly durable if you give it just a modicum of care, too.
I might touch up the rebound, but that’s about it. I’ve never had an EN finish, even after reading about then for years. I’m pretty happy to get this for a horse-traded P226 (.40) and $150 going my way.
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Thanks to this thread and the 43c thread... mine will be here in about 10 days. Already ordered the Wolff rimfire spring kit and have some drywall anchors snapcaps waiting for it.
I have a Ruger LRC .357, weighs 17 ounces. After trying some magnums and doing some research I've decided .38 +p is what I'm going to carry. Doc and others have determined that .38 loads, even standard pressure, are adequate and the extra velocity from a .357 out of a snubby barrel isn't very much thus not worth the extra recoil and flash that make your follow-up shots slower. Even out of my SP101 (25 oz. I think. Whatever it is it's heavy for a snub these days) magnums are not pleasant but they are manageable.
This theory comes up from time to time here and elsewhere. It really boils down to physics. Revolvers have no reciprocating parts that help absorb felt recoil. That means you're left with the weight and mass of the revolver in question, the grips, and your hands, forearms and shoulders to absorb the recoil. Then you have to consider what makes a magnum cartridge do what magnum cartridges do, essentially make bullets go faster than their 'standard' ancestors. This is usually accomplished by using a slower burning powder in a longer case with a longer barrel, thus creating acceleration of the bullet down the entire length of the barrel.
If we take those constants and then radically change one such as the barrel length, we now have a rather large amount of powder burning as it exits the muzzle, rather than while in the barrel, creating a large muzzle flash. Large muzzle flashes are cool for impressing your buddies, for youtube videos, and instagram posts but serve no practical purpose. Since we have this relatively large amount of powder burning as it exits the barrel, it's not providing velocity to the bullet. As a general rule of thumb you now have a projectile that's moving at slightly faster than the same weight bullet from a .38 +P but with a large muzzle flash, a lot more noise, and a rather substantial pressure wave.
If we change those constants further by reducing the size of the pistol, and the weight of the pistol while reducing the barrel length, what we end up with is a projectile traveling well under it's rated velocity, with a large muzzle flash, a lot of noise, a large pressure wave, with substantially reduced mass and weight to absorb recoil. In short it's painful to shoot for most, which reduces practice rounds fired, which means less ability to shoot well under pressure.
I hope this helps. If you'd like the opportunity to shoot .357's from a J frame, let me know and I'll set you up.
Wheeler's post hits all the right explanatory points in the "you should carry .357 magnum in your small lightweight snubby" argument.
As one who quite a few years ago optimistically test-shot 20-100 rounds each of all then-available commercial premium .357 Magnum loads, with bullet weights of 110-158gr, in a pair of my S&W 340PDs (unrealistically hoping to find the ideal balance between "lightest weight" vs. "most powerful" pistol for CCW purposes), I would testify that first of all, shot-to-shot speed is unavoidably quite slow, and that precision is relatively poor compared to the best .38 Special loads (Gold Dot .38 Special 135gr+P JHP giving best results IME).
I believe that most folks who recommend carrying .357 Magnum loads in small "snubby" revolvers are essentially deceiving themselves, and that these little revolvers fill their particular niche best either in the role of backup guns carrying any number of top-quality .38 Special JHP loads, or, if carried as primary CCW guns, carrying either Remington .38 Special 158gr+P LSWCHP+P, Gold Dot 135gr+P 135gr JHP or perhaps full wadcutter 148-158gr loads.
Finally found the pic of my Centennial.
3 snakes in two days, in my yard and close by. You can see the one on the left is still wiggling around, even with its head cut off. Theyll do that for an hour or two. They can still react to touching them or bite you that long also, even the cut off head can.
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Shitty pic of my first ever J-frame, a used 442 that I just brought home. Need to order an Apex spring kit and a plug. Even as is the trigger isn't bad. Not as good as my LCR but plenty manageable.
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7yds on left, 17yds right. AE 130gr FMJ back on 06.13.17
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A friend collects Chief's Specials. He tells me this was built in 1954. It is pristine.
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I may have posted this one before, but i dug it out last night from the Revolver vault while looking for guns for my girlfriend to use during the Revolver Round Up. It is the gun i want to be able to carry as an old guy retired cop living in a place where i don’t need a gun (probably a fantasy). 649-3. Fairly rare as a non MIM non lock last piece of history. A real Bodyguard, not the new one. Bodyguard specific Craig Spegel cocobolo boot grips, XS dot sight, and a one off Watson Ti neck knife. Someday....
Wyoming and DB, thanks for keeping that "someday I'll have a revolver" motor running!
Just gorgeous firearms.
How Have I not partaken of this thread before?
I only have 2 Js right now; the 1976 36-1, and a 642...
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