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They also come in 38 acp/ super colt, popular back in the 80's as competition guns.Hickok45 has a very good video about the 1911 38's. Have my brother-in-laws, Dads pistol in my safe. Been looking at dies and brass trying to decide if need another project to do. These are 9 + 1 pistols. Four pages of them on Gunbrokers, if you like something different. Hickok45 says they are popular in some South America countries that don't allow citizens {peons] to own any guns that can fire Nato ammo.

For every letter or communication a politician gets they believe there are 10 more back home that feel the same way, but just have not communicated about it. Do you guys really think your senator or rep. has enough time in the day to sit down and personally answer every communication they receive? If you have their personal phone # they will answer the call, and talk to you. Never stop communicating with them, because that is how they judge how the constituents back home feel about how they are suppose to represent them. Everyone has an agenda no matter what they tell you.

A tour of the foundry should be interesting. Used a small foundry back in the 80's in Alabama, it was labor intensive as most of their business was small runs. Imagine Lodge has a lot of automated equipment to do their castings. Interesting to watch them do the moulds for sand castings.

Being rural and having livestock and farm equipment, Tennessee Farm Bureau is about my only choice. Rates are reasonable and never a hassle with claims. Had to carry a large liability policy on a lot of leased and rented land plus a epa hazardous spill/contamination clause also, to protect my personal assets. They have always been there when need, no hassle, but have only had a couple of small claims with them. Insurance is basically a form of legal extortion .

Some times it is the only way to get hard to find ammo. Had to buy some 7.62 x 38r Nagant ammo on line because no one local carried it. Then went on you tube and found out can make the brass from 223 rem., with a few modifications.

Yeah know what you mean, those full size 1911's just feel right.

Old retired guys have to be entertained by something. Love the smell of real black powder. Sealed chambers makes clean up easy.

Any one shoot black powder in their Nagants? Have two 1933, 1944 , have dies and brass is on the way. Have some .315 rb, and 89 gr wad cutters for multiple shot loads. Anxious to start testing loads. Will use original brass and with slight modifications the Lee dies can load them to look like factory loads. Will use powder coated rb and cast lead bullets. Hard to find fired brass for them. The double action triggers feel like 50+ lbs and just cocking the hammer for single action takes both hands. Three thousands difference in the bores of the two pistols. You can lighten the double action pull and make it smoother, expect them to be fun guns to shoot. You tube video had ten reloads on the factory PPU brass, with the modified Lee dies.

Was just thinking about him the other day and wondering how he was doing. Always enjoyed reading his posts.

Just another chapter in the book of life closing and another new chapter beginning. Hope you enjoy the country living and with a shooting range you can set up, no excuses not to shoot more. Moving is always a hassle maybe time to downsize some of the things you don't use anymore. Best of luck.

Rural King has good prices on a lot of different brands of 45 acp pistols. Can check them out on line at RK Guns. If you want to shoot a lot without breaking the bank, 45Acp is easy to reload for. For what it's worth, never met a 1911 in 45acp that I didn't like, but I prefer the GI model because that was the standard issue when in the Army, and it needs to be in 45 Acp caliber for me.

These are the teachers in schools now. Some of my teachers were WWII veterans, probably would be a different out come if some hapless idiot had tried shooting up a school with the old vets there. Remember these teachers don't belong to gun and shooting forums either. Snowflakes always melt when the temperature goes up. Maybe the presenters of the training were on a power trip.

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Any one make their own Canadian bacon? Do you have a good recipe or method you would like to share? Pork lions are pretty cheap now. Converting a gas grill to a smoker now for hot or cold smoking. Pruned my peach trees will try peach wood for my smoking wood.

After looking closer at these bullets, could probably cast them in hard lead and set up in a indexer or rotrary table on a milling machine and using a small ball end mill produce a few of them pretty easily, powder coat after maching them, another project maybe. According to their web site the civilian defense loads are loaded to not penetrate Kelvar law enforcement vests. Can't tell from the pictures if they are solid copper or just copper plated. Wonder how those notches would work on lead wad cutters? No end to the experimenting that can be done on boolits.

Yeah got mine back in Sept and have not shot it yet. Need to slug the barrel for sizing my cast boolits and load some up. Life sure gets in the way of having fun sometimes.

Bought a Ruger sp101 2 1/4" barrel for my granddaughter's birthday gift last fall at Rural King. She picked it up and said this is the one I want, fit her hand just right. Been working on loads the last couple of weeks for it. She will use it to qualify for her handgun permit. Tried titewad, tightgroup and Win 231 using standard sp primers and 145 wc boolits [149grs after powder coating]. Started at 2.6 gr and worked down .2 grs all the way down to 1.2 grs with all three powder, with .005 crimp in last lube groove.. Best accuracy was with Win 231 at 1.4 grs and 1.6 grs, shooting at 30 ft off hand. Really no recoil and low noise. My conclusion, would be a really good home defense gun with low recoil and noise. That 145 wc lead bullet will pack a bad wallop and not shoot throught too many walls. If you have ever experienced gunfire in a small enclosure, you're in for a surprise from the fireball and noise, will disable you somewhat, if you are older. You can easily become disoriented, that is why I don't believe you need a heavy mag caliber or a shotgun to use in home defense. Am now testing these loads in 38 spl for use in my chiefs special bedside pistol. For all you naysayer that don't believe the .357/.358 bullet will do the job to stop a bad guy, bullet placement is supreme. Have put down 1200 lb downer cows with 22 cal hand guns, bullet placement is supreme. Your Mother needs to practice with what ever you decide on and become confident in her ability to shoot the firearm and hit what she aims at. This is my experience doing the testing, but every one is different and you experience may be different from mine. One last thing about shotguns, long barrels are easier to deflect or grab, especially if you have to turn a corner or go through a doorway, than short barrel revolvers that you can hold down beside you and shoot with just pointing and shooting. My opinion is the 38 spl, 357 mag or the 32 Fed mag all make excellent home defense firearms, if you are confident in using them. In my opinion they also make an excellent carry gun, loaded with soft recoil wc bullets, easy to get back on target and will make a bad guys day miserable, but only if you can hit your target. The most important component of self defense is having the ability to actually aim and pull the trigger without hesitation.

Acts like a drill bit in soft material will tend to grab and rip big holes. In wet material will create a swirling action, can see why it functions as it does. Would be a wound channel that would be hard to repair.

My bad, thought this was about the carpenter bee season!

All I ever ask to see is the cash. Make sure you wipe your finger prints off also.

None, never have carried spare reloads. Only what is in the magazine or cylinder.

Do you know what size rb it shoots?

Wouldn't call it collecting them, but seem to have accumulated an awful lot of boolit moulds chasing that magic boolit. Still have several on my list. Have several Boker pocket knives also.

Ruger , Smith & Wesson, Dan Wesson, so many to choose from. Your wife needs to find one that "fits" her hand and her eye, as the others have suggested let her do the choosing, would be my advise. The 327 Fed crtge is one you might look at also.

Love those old 1911A1, with the brown holster makes it even better. This is what I call a real pistol, don't care for the "plastic" gun of today. Ignorance of youth before GCA of 68 these things were everywhere, could order them from all the outdoor magazines and have them delivered to your door. Wish I would have collected a truck load of them back then. Hind sight is always better than foresight.