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Clothespins

by | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog, Members Only

One day while working the range I found myself without any shooters arriving for quals and the range all to myself. I was bored just burning powder for the usual drills and practice, so I decided to try shooting the clothespins we used to affix the paper targets to the cardboard backboards. At that time […]

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Followup on the Double-End Wadcutter

by | 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 some info on using the short .38 […]

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Tales from the Back Creek Diary – Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

by | 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 load.  It featured a 158-grain all-lead, hollow-point, semi-wad cutter at a velocity of 880 f.p.s. as obtained […]

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ICE 5-Shot Handgun Qualification Course

by | Jul 23, 2019 | Range Drills

Five Shot Handgun Qualification Course (As amended December 1, 2004) Firearms Service-authorized handgun Ammunition Fifty (50) rounds Target ICE Target Course of Fire All stages will be fired as a hot range. Once prepared for duty carry, the shooter will be responsible for maintaining full magazines throughout the course of fire, reloading on command and/or […]

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A complete package for casting and reloading .38/357 for Newbie

by | 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 jacketed bullets for hunting, but am […]

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Tales from the Back Creek Diary – Revisiting the Full Charge Wadcutter and the “FBI Load”

by | 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 either gun seemed like a good idea.We decided to standardize […]

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C.E. “Ed” Harris

by | Feb 3, 2019 | Biographies, Writers

C.E. “Ed” Harris is well known to readers of American Rifleman, the Gun Digest, and the Cast Bullet Association’s Fouling Shot magazine. After service in the U.S. Navy, he spent 12 years on the Technical Staff of the National Rifle Association, where he was a...

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