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Honestly, if it's just as a range toy, I would say to give a Raging Hunter a good look. They're heavy and ported, so they can mitigate recoil enough to keep long sessions of .357 or .44 Mag a lot of fun. They have decent sights and come standard with Picatinny rails, so you could easily add a...

My one buddy has a full sized Taurus 1911 that he swears by. I can't argue with it being a solid and reliable gun. When I handled it, I was very surprised to find how it was worn in with enough age and cycles to be as butter smooth as any good 1911. My other buddy had a Judge. The action was...

That's good, 9mm is very easy to reload for. I really do recommend the Hornady app for you then. Spend $1 and buy the 9mm data. Since Hornady makes bullets in lots of different styles, one great thing is that they list different Cartridge Overall Lengths (COL) for different bullet shapes. COL is...

What are you reloading for anyway? Fair warning, I hear substitutions are much riskier with shotgun shell reloading, though I don't reload for shotguns, so I'm not sure. What I said before applies to metallic pistol and rifle cartridges.

The 10mm is fun, but I do offer one caveat to people interested in getting a pistol in it. If you don't handload, do your research on what ammo is available to you and look up real-world performance tests. A whole lot of 10mm ammo is so underloaded that you are paying 10mm prices to get .40 S&W...

First off, I recommend Hodgdon's Reloading Data Center. It's a great free resource. Hodgdon Landing | Hodgdon They don't only provide data for Hodgon brand powders, but also for Winchester, IMR, Accurate, and Ramshot. They use a variety of different bullets, cases, primer brands, and powders...

She's definitely a Mom who Demands Action. Turns out she's running to represent Goochland County... she seems uniquely qualified...

LEOs ARE civilians unless also a member of some Reserve or Guard branch of the Armed Forces. Yes, there should be no firearms law exemption for them in any way.

You could handload the .38 Special to leave the 9mm in the dust if you wanted to and had a gun that could handle it. Almost no one does it. There's not much reason to since you'd have to use a handgun that could take .357 Mag pressures anyway.

Well, Buffalo Bore has a cast 158 gr .38 Spl +P that they claim about 1040 fps from a snubbie. It's reasonably shootable. It stings, but it's not as shitty as a full-house magnum in a snubbie. The 135 gr Gold Dot should be similar.

That's what has really turned me off from reloading shotgun shells. How tough is it to get the exact components you need or find a recipe for what you may have on hand? I look at Hodgdon for shotgun reloading data and only find shot data, but a ton of different loads based on different wads and...

Pretty hilarious since that allows crazy Uncle Bill with the tall hunting tales and who carries his flask with him into the woods to instruct the kid in shooting, but not an off-duty military or police firearms instructor or coach, an NRA instructor, competitive shooter, or literally any number...

In a functional society, armed citizens who aren't law enforcement officers would complement law enforcement in protecting society from psychopaths who could launch an attack at any time and LE would welcome the help. Instead, you have Fed LE and several departments in our own state looking at...

J-frame trigger pulls are a little stiff, but not bad at all for a double-action. The bigger revolvers with heavier cylinders and a longer trigger reach feel heavier to me. Glad you caught the wheelgun bug. They're a ton of fun, especially when you go very small or go big.

To tell you the truth, I do think the ultralight .357 Mag snubbies are worse than the big bore snubbies. Never shot the .454 Alaskan, but I did shoot a cylinder of the snubbie S&W 460 XVR. I don't remember if it was the S&W 340PD or 360PD, but I shot a cylinder full of .357 Mag from one of...

If you like the Hornady, you should be in the clear. S&W specifies not to use less that 120 gr bullets with Magnum loads due to cylinder erosion. These are .38 +P which has a lot less pressure than .357 does.

Hahaha, sorry. It fit your criteria too damn well not to mention it. As far as loads, any of these highlighted in yellow look pretty good on paper. Excellent expansion in ballistics gel and break the 12" min FBI standard for penetration. The Federal HST Micro or Winchester Ranger Bonded +P...

What caliber is it, and what size percussion caps does it take? Also, can the barrel be removed from the stock with normal tools?

From modern snubnose revolvers in .38 Spl +P, the S&W M642 is slightly smaller and the Ruger LCR is 1 oz lighter. It's 14.4 oz (M642) vs 13.5 oz (LCR). https://www.handgunhero.com/compare/ruger-lcr-vs-smith-wesson-model-642 Or if you can find a S&W M340 PD. It's smaller than the LCR, only a...

I use a S&W 642 in a Mika pocket holster in the same way. I also sometimes wear it in my jacket if there's an occasion to wear a suit and carry. Now you probably "could" wear it without a holster, and I did it a couple of times, but it's more comfortable and conceals better in one...

Davis has a big sale going on. They have 20% off all reloading supplies. That makes some powders and bullets reasonable. Even with 20% off, the primers and most powders are still either the same or cheaper online paying Hazmat if you get free shipping. I bought a couple lbs of powder and a...

Depends. There's one range with 15, 25, and 50 yard targets where you can shoot handguns and smaller rifles. Rifles in chamberings like 5.56, 7.62x39, .22LR, or chambered in a typical pistol caliber. If you mean a rifle like a .308 or .243, then you'll have to shoot that separately at the rifle...

Besides Masterclass in Monroe, you have Davis Sport Shop in Sloatsburg, and Davis Shooting Sports in Goshen. None of those is particularly close. Now to compare prices with online vendors, what I do is get an order together of powders and primers I want. I then put them all in a cart on Powder...

If you absolutely have to see physical inventory, there's Davis Sport Shop in Sloatsburg, which is 30 or so min away. Their prices for reloading supplies vary, but I can say powder prices are high, their primer prices are insane, and their bullet prices are fair. Your best bet, by far, is to...

I can recommend the Ruger SP-101 with the 4.2" barrel. I've also played with the S&W 317, the J-Frame with a 3" barrel, and the 617, the K-Frame with the 6" barrel. There are a few advantages to those revolvers: They're cheap to shoot; They'll eat any ammo you feed them from underpowered to...

I like GarandThumb, Buffalo's Outdoors, Honest Outlaw... very surprised only one person mentioned Paul Harrell. PH does a lot of real world comparisons between cartridges, answers a lot of questions with demonstrations, and busts gun myths along the way. A lot of it depends on what kind of...

Guess I'm not buying a single round of ammo in this shit state. Enjoy losing some more tax revenue, Albany fucktards.

You also have to consider, Triple 7 is a fair bit more powerful than true black powder for a given charge volume. You might well be better off using an appropriate Springfield Trapdoor load published by Hodgdon. To be gentle, you can use a powder that maintains low PSI and doesn't send a bullet...

It's a fixed 4x, so unless you're really abusive on the thing, I think it'll probably work just fine on a hunting rifle. One consideration, throw that thing in the freezer to see how it handles hot-to-cold transitions within the return window. You don't want it to be opening day of deer season...

You couldn't get me to vote for a fucking Democrat. They're all rats, some are just more articulate rats.

Reservists tend to get paid way more than active duty troops when mobilized.

Thanks for the clarification. There are definitely already plenty of troops in Germany and Poland. Are they in Ukraine itself? I haven't heard any rumors of that from anyone I know. But then again, I imagine it would be more of an Army/AF thing than USMC. Very concerning. These fucking war pigs...

Concerning that he would mobilize reservists in support of an operation somewhere that we are not engaged in any conflict. The 3,000 aren't many reservists, but why? And a question in the same vein, how many active duty troops are deployed or are being deployed there? I suspect that if the order...

I'd bet good odds that any DACA illegal who applies to be a cop is a better American than most liberals. I wish we had an exchange program: Permanently exile an America-hating left-winger and give a productive illegal who's happy to be here a path to citizenship.

To be honest, you should try not to hit bone much with a European style chef's knife either unless you want to sharpen it often instead of occassionally hitting it with the honing steel. If you plan to cut through bone with any regularity, I definitely recommend also getting a cleaver or a...

German-made Henckels are excellent and should last a lifetime. I give my full-sized chef's knife a quick honing with the steel rod every week or twice a week depending on how much I cook, and haven't had to sharpen it yet in 8-ish years. I have a smaller, Spainish-made Henckels santoku knife...

My newest experiment with a red dot on a revolver. A cheap Bushnell TRS-25 mounted to my 7.5" Ruger SBH via a Weigatinny No Drill scope mount. I fired 36 rounds of hot .44 Special rounds (280gr RNFP-GC @1065 fps) to zero the dot and make sure everything held tight. Everything looked good, so I...

Thanks, ya learn something new every day. I knew the difference between rock coal and charcoal even though I call them both "coal" colloquially, but I always assumed those pizza ovens were charcoal ovens, not coal ovens.

Only if that coal is easy-light or has been doused in lighter fluid. Take some lump hardwood charcoal or additive-free briquets and light it in a coal chimney without using any nasty chemicals. Totally different experience.

That is something I'm considering as well. It would be a brilliant trap to get Ukraine to play their best cards hastily, then come back with a powerful counter-attack. My other suspicion is that the PMC is a mercenary company. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". At the end of the...

I gotta say that I disagree. I think that drawing a firearm could be an excellent way to de-escalate a situation like this. If the first guy instigated the violent threats by pulling up with the baseball bat, showing the firearm and that the defender had fire superiority defused the situation to...

Wow, this is big. Looks like Prigozhin and PMC Wagner have turned on Moscow. From Russian news sources, For a short version, Evgeniy Prigozhin accused Russian forces of intentionally shelling his men. He and many of his men pulled chocks and are marching against Moscow with their target being...

Every so often I think I want one until I weigh all the downsides. -In NY you miss out on its #1 selling point, IMO, the capacity. -Ammo is very expensive, and I don't like handloading large quantities of bottlenecked cartridges. -Without tons of ammo in every mag, it doesn't do anything...

Cancer is too good for the Bidens. May Hunter OD and his father not even recognize his degenerate son at the funeral.

Cancer is too good for them. May they die as they lived... choking on the boot they were deep-throating.

I've shot a few handguns with them. I wasn't really a fan. I wouldn't say there were any big downsides to them or any big benefits. If a target is far away, iron sights or a red dot are better as the laser dot tends to be hard to see well. If the target is up close and you aren't using sights...

Fair. Sub "moron" with "bastards", "pieces of shit", "asswipes", "motherfuckers", "cunts", or whatever more accurate expl I'm sure this bill will continue to rear its nasty head every session. Just like the ban on lead hunting ammo.

"Assault weapon ammo" ban - Senate Bill S314 https://nygunforum.com/threads/assault-weapon-ammo-ban-senate-bill-s314.58631/

So, the morons are at it again. Two Democrats cosponsored a bill that would be a virtual ban on "assault weapon" ammo limiting "assault weapon ammo" to 20 rounds per 120 days. What qualifies as "assault weapon ammo"? Beats me. They don't list which cartridges, types, or any technical details...

Love it. Great to train that skill. I definitely will be bringing snap caps to my next range session. I haven't practiced that drill live in a while now. I've always been pretty smooth and automatic about it with a rifle, but I'm a bit janky when I tap, rack, bang a handgun.