Quality is suffering around here. My already loose attention to detail is getting looser. Not spending as much time per post. Maybe it's just a phase. Maybe it's a brain tumor.
It's notta tumah, T-Bolt!
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Saw an interesting .38. It was an old blue S&W model 10 turn in from some police agency. The gunsmith cut it down and put a ball detent, in frame to lock the yoke in, above that serial number. So a snubbie is made but with a full length ejector rod. Which is nice. One of the flaws of the snubbie. A 2 inch barrel means less shell ejection capability. Addressed with this scheme. A dovetail was cut for the sight, too, and, of course, a trigger tune up. It was nice. The custom work made it a bit expensive for the average snubbie buyer, yet...
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I put a lot of this in the comments here. But it really deserves its own
blog post. Six years ago, in 2019, it was estimated that every three
months, artif...
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The ball detent in the yoke has been a common trick amongst PPC 'smiths for decades. Ron Power credited the late Fred Schmidt as being the first to do it, and Fred passed away in 1986.
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