Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

Have absolutely no use for it but I picked up this PPK SD several months ago. Thought it would be interesting to have a surpresed PPK. The Big Beautiful Bill eliminated the $200.00 fee on surpressesors so I decided to wait until 2026 to look for a surpressor. I have not even fired this thing yet.

Yep, Bond used a Beretta Model 418.

Since 1986 I have had four dogs. Each lived to be 16 or 17. My current little pup is five. Thus the chances of him outlasting me are quite good. He is my bud and I worry more about him than I do about myself. I worry about what will happen to him when I croak. I have a couple of friends that say they will take him. Problem is they are older than I am so that is not a realistic solution. The older he gets the less likely I think he would be to adapt to someone else. Anyone else faced this delimma? Mr. Moto -

Probably because no one does since the 1890 is not terribly popular. Your best bet is to buy a replacment spring and grind and polish it yourself.

Fairly common and as noted it depends on bullet style. I thought shooting 90 grain bullets would be a good compromise between 78 and 100 grainers. At the range the 90s would keep the cartridges from fully seating even after reaming the cylinder throats. Barely detectible but just enough to bind the cylinders. The problem is the ogive of the 90s. It is much more abrupt that the 78s or 100s. 90 with the green arrow. The ogive goes to full bullet diameter well before the bullet is seated to max OAL. On the 100s the ogive is much steeper and even the shoulder above the case neck is smaller in diameter than the 90 at this point. Purple arrow. I could have seated the 90s deeper but I wanted max OAL as that cycles better in my rifles. So just crossed the 90s off my list of usable bullets. I have since settled on the 100 for rifle and pistol.

Have tried everything from 78 grains to 100. The difference in recoil at SASS velocities is negligible. Settled on 100 grain bullets over 2.3 grains of Bullseye. Takes knockdowns down with no problem, rings the steel well and feeds well in my rifles. The brass is just as durable as .38 Special brass. Where did you "hear" this BS?

The Slix website says their trigger is only available for the Uberti 73. Is this something new?

The only "flat" trigger I am aware of is the Slix. The Boogie triggers, both versions, have some curve in them. Slix trigger Boogie triggers The real question is not so much the curve or lack of curve but where the trigger is placed in the trigger guard. Top photo is a stock trigger. The next photo is a Slix. The stock trigger is close enought to the top of the lever (where the lever pushes in the lever safety) to pinch fingers depending on how you work the lever. The Slix sits in the middle of the trigger guard and is virtually pinch free. Stock, Boogie #1, Boogie #2 and the Slix all feel slightly different.

Don't forget Bad Santa with Billie Bob Thorton.

Age protected = minimum number of shooters not required for the category.

Stock trigger on the left, Boogie #1 on the right. Draw your own conclusions.

The ID on the OMV, NMV and Single Six is the same. So let's just leave it as Wolf bagged a mystery spring. To make matters even more confusing when Ruger went from the OMV to the NMV the mainspring was shorter to make up for the space taken by the in-the-grip safety block. Current NMVs no longer have the safety block and use the old OMV length spring. H is the safety block and I is what is currently used and is the same as the OMV.

I have both. The #2 sits a little further forward and feels more like the stock trigger.

I watch lots of old films on YouTube about manufacturing in WWI, the 20s and 30s. What is surprising is that a lot of the men are wearing suits and ties.

Based on what you have said no one can tell you for certain. Like the other posters all of my NMV's have springs that are below 18#. You need to figure out if your particular guns have excess internal friction and correct that. You also need to make sure your primers are fully seated. I recently had some unexpected misfires and it was the primer punch in my press had gotten out of adjustment. Oh, just remembered I bought another a pair of NMVs recently and got misfires with my normal spring set-up. Turned out they only had about .030" of firing pin protrusion. Swapped them for extended firing pins and everything is now fine.

Nothing new under the sun. 2,000 year old Roman multi tool.

A Uberti is a Uberti regardless of who the importer is.

97s will come with one of three prefix letters stamped over the serial number. C, D and E. (See photo.) Each higher letter has improvements. I would avoid the C models and look for an E if possible. The newest 97s are 70 years old. Part of the reliability issue is people buy junk thinking they can fix them up for competition. There were over one million made so look for one in as good of condition as you can find. The better the condition usually means the fewer things that need fixing. P.S. The days of "for cheap" 97s are long gone.

Brownell's sells spring stock. The only problem is you only need a tiny piece and you have to buy quite a lot from Brownell's. Your best bet is to find a local gunsmith and see if he has a small piece or just look around at other old broken devices with springs in them and take one out. I cannot tell from the photo but a hand spring from another gun might work and you can order many hand springs from VTI, Taylor's, etc. When fooling around with old guns you have to be creative.

If you have a Colt SAA made in 1883 in .455 Eley if it has any condition at all what you are proposing will ruin a relatively scarce gun.

Looks like the deadline has come and gone and nothing happened. Sort of like waiting for Y2K.

PLUS, sometime in the past 15 years my computer started using thumbprints to enter the password. I have no idea what it is.

Abilene should be taken to the woodshed and beaten savagely for resurrecting this dead dog.

You will have to sign up for the optional 4 factor authentication. Do you remember your first dog's name?

Yep, I clicked the wrong post for the quote. You are right and as innocent as the freshly fallen snow.