Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

The FACT is not BS. How that FACT is being aplplied by many people is BS.

Time to give up on the BS about .45 LONG Colt. This is from the current catalog on Colt's website. https://www.colt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/26-COLT-0200-COLLATERAL-Commercial_Catalog-RND2-FINAL-Flipbook.pdf

Sorry I thought some history might be interesting. I guess I was wrong. Sorry. I have delete the offending posts.

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Hope all goes well and you are home soon!

I've lauched a few of the tiny ball bearings. Luckily Ace has them.

I gained a lot of weight during the pandemic cooking at home and not wanting to throw anything away. In my younger days I could get back to a routine and shed the extra pounds. Not so anymore. No matter what I did I could not lose the extra pounds. Went to my doctor and told her I NEEDED to lose some weight as I felt just plain uncomfortable. Told her I wanted to try a GLP-1 drug. She told me that as you get older the drug can have deliterious side effects. Not the least of which is loss of muscle mass which is being lost as we age anyway. I insisted I wanted to try the new Wegovy pill. After three days of taking it I got projectile vomiting and my insides felt like a bomb had gone off. I was sick for over a week. When you are bumping 80 is probably not the time to try taking these drugs. I guess I will just die fat. Duke this is something I think a lot of people will be intersted in. A lot of SASS members are old and not all that thin anymore. 😆

But you aren't getting a pound. You are getting one ounce over 1/2 pound so your real cost is over $80.00 per pound. It does not matter how fluffy a powder is what matters is the charge weight. 3 grains is 3 grains no matter what brand of power you are using. 3 grains into a pound will give you 2300 rounds of ammo. 3 grains into 9 ounces gives you 1300 rounds. So you getting a 1,000 rounds less for the same price. Trail Boss may be good but it is one of the most expensive powders on the market.

Are you still snowed in?

Tazz https://www.shootingbums.org/klassiclaserworks/stocks.html

Same argument that has been used for the past 20 years. Has it worked?

Of course the powder companies don't need samples anymore. Everything is either out of stock or flys off the shelves as soon as it comes in.

They were samples. I think Hodgden had a display of mini bottles at Winter Range several years ago. You could buy several to take home and test.

I don’t think Miroku made the 94AE. They are an American piece of craftsmanship.🤣

For SASS they have limited value. We do not shoot heavy recoliing guns. The only benefit is if you shoot black powder. The big head makes it easier to pull the base pin out.

Hard to believe Coosie, AKA Ted Wolff, has been gone almost 20 years. I first met him shooting USPSA in the 1980s.

Been a lot of years but my recollection is the Shoot photo is a full face photo. Coosie was a very fair skinned thin faced guy. I believe he was wearing glasses and probably had a moustach and thin chin hair. The most noticeable thing is that the hat he is wearing actually looks like a ladies bonnet. When the edition came out we had a lot of laughs while he tried to explain what kind of hat that was.

Yeah add more categories to the 120+ we already have. That's the solution.

Let's see. Six rounds dropped in. And six rounds dropped out. PASS

I think my original assessment about the firing pin was wrong. It appears to be a standard firing pin set-up. As much as I hate to admit it but so far I have been unable to remove the pin in the frame that retains the firing pin bushing. Some Ruger pins are difficult to remove but this one is a bear. Was thinking about shortening the barrel and want to see if I can get the frame level in a hydralic press so I removed the barrel. Looks like it had red loctite on it.

Also, when the firing pin moves in and out it is quite crunchy. I will be trying to remove the firing pin bushing and firing pin and see what is in there.

Disassembly continued. Here is a shot of the guts. The large filister head screw on the left looked like it was going to be something substantial. Nope still 4-40 but the big head does its job. The trigger/bolt spring has a substantial kink in it. The hammer and hand with the hammer screw. This is the only screw that is not 4-40. It is 10-32. The hand spring is very stiff. The trigger, bolt and trigger screw. The trigger screw remains 4-40. Then a bit of a surprise. The bolt is a stamping. The head that engages the cylinder notches (red arrows) is not solid. It is hollow. The dimensions explain a lot of the slop in the action. The hole in the trigger is at least .010" larger than the trigger screw. The hole in the bolt is much closer to the screw size. But, the bolt head is .120 wide. The bolt slot in the frame is .150+. The bolt notches in the cylinder average .150. The hand measures .135 wide. The hand slot in the frame is .152. The hand slot is quite smooth but there is a bump right in the middle. Red arrow. The bump may be below where the handspring actuall rides so I will have to check that later. Now comes the slow part. Figuring out what tolerances need to be reduced and how to do it. It may be a while before I make another posting. My initial impression is that for a $200.00 gun it is remarkable and would work OK as a casual plinker. Now I will have to see if some tuning can make it suitable for competition.