by Ed Harris | Dec 1, 2019 | Ed Harris, Members Only
Repairing Revolver Wrinkles: ” Rough Forcing Cone, Tight Cylinder Throats, and New Barrel “Break-In” Q.- The throat on my new Ruger GP100 looks like it was cut with a serrated knife. I sent the gun back to Ruger to have them look at it. The photos are what they sent...
by Ed Harris | Oct 1, 2019 | Ed Harris, Members Only
Q- The .38 Special as we know was originally a black powder cartridge and with modern powders suffers from excessive case capacity. Does anyone have any info on reloading “cut down” cases. I know it has been done to aid extraction in snubby revolvers. I have also read...
by Ed Harris | Aug 1, 2019 | Ed Harris, Members Only
Properly designed hollow-point cast bullets expand at subsonic revolver velocities without requiring +P charges Ed Harris, Annandale, VA The standard of terminal performance from a concealable .38 Special service revolver was for many years the so-called “FBI...
by Ed Harris | Jun 1, 2019 | Ed Harris, Members Only
Q– I read your articles on the .38 Special with great interest. My wife and I live out in the country, far from town. We have decided to buy two revolvers for personal defense and a lever-action utility rifle, which uses the same ammo. I reload rifle ammunition with...
by Ed Harris | Apr 1, 2019 | Ed Harris, Members Only
Several friends and I have been re-thinking our decision several years ago to pack semi-auto .22 target pistols in our survival rucks. We normally carry .38 snubbies as EDC. Having an extra, longer barreled .38 Special revolver in the ruck with extra ammo useable in...
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