Three Foot Johnson

I recently decided I needed maybe 4-6 more MTM Universal Reloading Trays. Found an eBay auction with a lot of eight, opening at $50, got outbid. Found another auction with two for $12.50, shipped. Then got a sales email from Midway that had them for $7.29 each, and free shipping on orders of $100 or more... so, I've got fourteen on the way from Midway to get free shipping, plus the other two from eBay - I spent an additional $87.48 to get free shipping...

There's one on GB right now, starting at $899, no bids yet, 4 1/2 days to go. $900-$1000 seems to be about the going rate. Searching completed auctions, the last one went for $899.66, shipped, six weeks ago.

I bought a used 38-40 '66 off Gunbroker thirteen years ago from a shop who had no idea if it had been modified, but it was a good buy and I picked it up. Turns out it had a short stroke kit and coil mainspring conversion in it. It's certainly not something I would spend over $200 on, but it was already installed. If you're a solid sub-15 second shooter, it might shave a few hundredths off your time. Combined with other trick parts, probably a few tenths. I've been shooting this game for 34 years and have had exactly one stage under 20 seconds. Now I'm more like a mid-40+ second shooter and all the go-fast hardware out there isn't going to change that.

Twenty five years with eBay & Paypal and never a problem with payment.

Exactly, the only place the bulge needs to be smoothed out is a very short area below the mouth of the sizer die. Buy Lee's push-through bulge buster kit and 9mm Makarov carbide die. It adds a step because you still have to size as usual in a standard 9mm Luger die.

As requested - as far as I know, this is the original frizzen. Other than the scrapes on the frizzen face, this rifle is essentially "as new". The twist has been determined to be 1:48. These have only been discontinued for five or six years, so parts are still available. If you were to ever shoot it enough to require the frizzen to be resurfaced or replaced, a new one is $36 from RMC Ox-yoke. AlOvera is first in line, of course.

It was shooting high and somebody told him to file the front sight down til it hit where he wanted it. Or he was Elmer Keithing it to hit rabbits at 400 yards. Often, maybe always, those blades are also crimped, in addition to being soldered, and can be a real bear to get out. For $150 or so, I'd jump on it. At $150 - $250, maybe. More than that, I'd pass.

I've got one I bought about ten years ago, and probably only shot it maybe ten times. It's definitely gathering dust, it's not rust. My notes say it was made in '95 or '96. No idea about the barrel, but I suppose there's a name or makers code on the bottom flat.

On a stock action, no. The breech block has to roll forward between cartridges. If the cartridge is too long or too short, the block can't get between them and they won't feed.

I've always liked the look of a half & half barrel.

I've got three 3-screw convertible Blackhawks I use now and then. My 9mm revolver load is 2.8 grains of Titegroup and a cast 124 grain bullet. I never really planned on using 9mm for CAS, but a few years ago I had about 1500 9mm cases primed with '80's vintage CCI -450 primers I was using up in an AR9 rifle just to get rid of them. They inadvertently got mixed in with a bunch of other cases primed with Federal 100's. It didn't take long to find out CCI magnum small rifle primers fall well short of 100% reliability in my striker fired pistols, so that entire lot of cases got relegated to hammer guns.

Alice Palmer trying out my Armi Sport/DGW .56-.50 Spencer at a Gallatin Valley Regulators match.

And .25-20

AA or STS hull, 12.0 Red Dot, 7/8 - 1 oz shot. Primer & wad aren't critical, we're usually only shooting a few yards. If my shot column is a little short, I put a pinch of a foam packing peanut on top to keep the crimp from collapsing into the hull. When I started this game over three decades ago, a fellow shooter recommended 18.0 Red Dot and 1 1/8 oz of shot. YOWZA, but I didn't know any better at the time.