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Tales from the Back Creek Diary – Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
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 […]
A complete package for casting and reloading .38/357 for Newbie
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 […]
Tales from the Back Creek Diary – Revisiting the Full Charge Wadcutter and the “FBI Load”
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 […]
February 24, 2019 Update
Dear Fellow Snub Shooters: Here are the latest updates from our ROSCOE snub shooters association for February 24, 2019: Holdup with Camp’s Shooters Guide to the Airweight J-Frame– As you may remember from our last e-newsletter we have a special running of...
Tracy WW 1 Combat Revolver book
Tales From the Back Creek Diary – Wheelgun 101
Mechanical and Safety Inspection of the Double-Action Service Revolver C.E. Harris, Gerrardstown, WV Based upon common questions I receive from readers, and having to repeat, what used to be common knowledge, it appears that most shooters today lack any basic understanding of double-action revolver inspection. A year or so ago Dave Reiss wrote an excellent article […]
January 29, 2019 Update
Dear Fellow Snub Shooters: Here are the latest updates from our ROSCOE snub shooters association for January 29, 2019: Stephen Camp’s Shooters Guide to the Airweight J-Frame Text – This text usually retails for $23.00 plus an additional $3.00 for shipping....
December 5, 2018 Update
Here are the latest updates from our ROSCOE snub shooters association for December 5, 2018. As always, it is in no particular order: SWIFT STRIPS from DeSantis – Most if not all of you are familiar with loading strips. Whether they are Speed Strips from Bianchi or...
October 23, 2018 Update
Dear fellow snub owners and noir aficionados: If you are new to our ImWithROSCOE shooters association, let me offer you a very brief introduction. Every day we continue to build our snub shooters’ association, expand our shooting related services, work on our biannual...
Hammer Shroud Update
Here is a video preview of our new, pending Colt hammer shroud project. ImWithROSCOE hopes to have this new, and improved replacement Colt hammer shrouds in under 90 days. [evp_embed_video...