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What do you mean?

My father gave this to me yesterday. Being the ever active tinkerer he is, he decided to put new handles on this one he found with broken handles. It isn't original by any means, but I thought it turned out quite well.

Cool. I've got a brick of some that are a bit newer than that.

https://www.joesalter.com/category/22-Collector-Ammunition Might find something here to compare it to.

How was the show?

How was the show?   I'm betting there was a crowd.

That's a big place. I sent you a private message.   Start asking questions. We'll try to help. What do you want to know?

Where are you located?

A basketball? :shake: :shake:   Not trying to be stereotypical, but I wonder what ethnicity this fella was.

:shrug: No idea.   I'm just saying that the friction created by stripping a round off the top of a magazine should slow the bolt's forward travel enough to make it a non issue.

Most I've read about were single loaded for slow fire competition rather than magazine fed. Was that the case here?

It's usually pretty good.

Anyone here ever experience a slamfire with an AR?   I don't mean a guy who used to work with your cousin heard about one, or you read about one in an internet chatroom, but actually had one happen to you.

I've never weighed a charge of powder for a muzzleloader. As for metallic cartridges, I'll weigh charges and calibrate my powder measure for a baseline, and periodically weigh a charge to ensure nothing has changed.   I find accuracy as good using volume derived charges as weight based charges.

Most any small rifle primer will work fine in my experience. Some will swear by the CCI 41s, and I'm sure they'd work great, but I've never used them.   I do believe the AR was designed to feed rounds from a magazine. I would expect the added force of the bolt when singularly chambering around could increase the unlikely chance of a slamfire.

What is Taptalk?     Sent via a young hispanic male running out of my barn with a file folder under his arm.

So a friend or neighbor isn't allowed to leave a gun with me for the purpose of me making them a holster or repairing their gun since I don't have an FFL or business license?   :hiding: Uh oh.

I would expect a dealer to stock extra magazines for any new pistol he stocks. Is that not the case?

I wish I knew what are destined to become the next Colt Snake Guns......we'd all be stocking up.

One. That's all it takes to make one function properly, and most people never use more than one anyway. Anything more would be a waste for most handgun sales, and would only serve to drive up the price.   Extra magazines are available for virtually all current model pistols if one wants to purchase more.

...and 38 Special in a 357 carbine is something virtually no one would object to.

There are many many times the amount of 9mm produced yearly compared to 45. I'm guessing just government contracts alone account for more 9mm than all 45 produced.   It costs x amount of dollars to set up a factory to load for a certain caliber. The more rounds produced, the less money you have to attribute to each round to recoup these costs.   Also, the 45 takes more raw materials.

Lack of quality will keep in off the collectible list.

Depends on the gun. I have quite a stack of AR and AK magazines, along with several m1 carbine and mini 14 mags. A pretty good pile of 1911 mags reside here as well.   You just don't run down to WalMart and pick up extra mags, however, for a 1907 or 1917 Savage.

If history is any indication, I'd look for something uncommon. The Remington R51, while a dud, will undoubtedly be sought after in the future as there aren't many in circulation.   45 GAP pistols, Some of the plethora of short magnum chambered rifles that went by the wayside, etc.   High quality and scarcity are two determining factors in the value of collector guns.