With SHOT Show 2023 just around the corner, we here at The Firearm Blog will be on the lookout for all the new guns and gear, and some that we may have overlooked over the previous years. We will be covering both manufacturers of modern, new designs of revolvers (like [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, where we discuss every aspect of revolvers. In this edition, we’ll take a look at a few examples of revolvers used in crimes in recent history. A couple years ago, I posited that revolvers were still viable for the simple fact [Read More…]
Thanks for joining us for our last TFB Wheelgun Wednesday of 2022, where we’ll take the pulse of the revolver market over the past year. We’ve also covered a number of high profile revolvers that have been auctioned off this year, so we’ll include some [Read More…]
Welcome back to Wheelgun Wednesday, a weekly articles series on The Firearm Blog where we discuss everything revolver: from historical to modern wheelguns, from prototype and experimental revolvers to custom-made and mass-produced ones, from conventional designs to the [Read More…]
Thanks for joining us on another TFB Wheelgun Wednesday, where we look at the world of revolvers, past, present and future. This week, we’ll take a look at one of those futuristic but practical story arcs with Uncle Fudd’s latest wheelgun project, the Magnetron [Read More…]
A couple of Wheelgun Wednesdays ago, we took a look at a Smith & Wesson Model No. 3 revolver from the catalog of the upcoming December 2022 Rock Island Premier Firearm Auction that belonged to one of the most famous figures of American history, Theodore [Read More…]
Thanks for joining us on another TFB Wheelgun Wednesday, where we cover all topics relating to revolvers. As with most things, it’s good to take an objective look at whether our tools are effective or not, so on occasion, we’ve been breaking down the pros and [Read More…]
A good rimfire revolver can be an excellent and cost-effective way to practice the fundamentals. If you’re unfortunate enough to reside somewhere where silencers aren’t allowed, they can be a great option for lightweight and compact small game harvesting [Read More…]
Florian Kohli, the designer of the Swiss KUGS company’s firearms, has an interesting outside-the-box approach to designing firearms and his guns normally have unconventional features and general design. For example, his KUGS Fatboy single-shot rifle that we took [Read More…]
Welcome to another edition of TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, where we discuss all topics revolving around revolvers. Today’s topic comes from gunsmith Dave Lauck, of D&L Sports, in which he addresses one of the main detractors of the design of two-piece [Read More…]
The 26th President of the United States of America, Theodore Roosevelt, was quite fond of both Colt revolvers and Winchester lever-action rifles. However, during the summer of 1898, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy (under President William McKinley), resigned from [Read More…]
At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, early cyclists/velocipede enthusiasts seemed to be plagued, however, with curious and often aggressive canines. This was apparently enough of a common occurrence that René Galand, son of prolific revolver inventor [Read More…]
I’ve been making some progress in reviewing my Harrington & Richardson Top Break Revolver, and I hope to bring that review to you in the coming weeks on TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday. However, part of my review really has me thinking about how the next, future top [Read More…]
With standard factory chambering options like .45-70 Government and .450 Marlin, the Magnum Research BFR revolver is probably the most capable production wheelgun that is not a shotgun or grenade launcher. Well, if these chamberings are not big enough for you and if you [Read More…]
One of the biggest negatives of double action (and some single action) revolvers can be a long, heavy or gritty trigger pull. The good thing is, you don’t have to live with these conditions forever. Do you have to send your sixgun in for an expensive trigger [Read More…]
For some of the Wheelgun Wednesday loyalists in the TFB audience, you might remember when we began detailing the journey of acquiring an M1895 Nagant revolver (some 2 years ago), and the process of getting it threaded and finding a silencer for it. That long story comes [Read More…]
Colt Camp Perry Model was a single-shot .22LR pistol, intended for use in slow (and I do mean slow) fire competitions. Guaranteed to bring a grin to any über-strict “at least three seconds between every shot” RSO, the Camp Perry Model had a 10″ [Read More…]
A while back, we featured the work of a French gunsmith, Cedric, on TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, in which he had worked his magic on a Smith & Wesson 617. Well, for one of his latest projects, he souped up a Smith & Wesson 64 revolver for a retired police [Read More…]
“Psst… hey kid, you want a revolver? Everyone’s doing it, you know you want to.” Welcome to another TFB Wheelgun Wednesday, where we explore the world of revolvers. This week’s edition will be more geared towards those who haven’t joined the revolver-owning [Read More…]
The Colt Single Action Army revolver is primarily associated with the .45 Colt and .44-40 Winchester cartridges, as these were the cartridges this iconic American wheelgun was predominantly chambered in, with the former being the cartridge the US military adopted the [Read More…]
On this edition of TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, we’ll take a look at my former everyday carry piece, the Ruger SP101. The .357 Magnum SP101 was introduced a few years after the release of its big brother, the Ruger GP100 in the later half of the 1980s, and has since [Read More…]
The forcing cone of a revolver barrel bears a lot of stress. They’re not only the first part of the barrel to engage with the bullet coming out of the cylinder, but they’re also largely exposed to all the heat, flame, and gas cutting from the cylinder [Read More…]
A couple weeks ago, we took a look at Rudukai13’s “Apache Pug” knuckleduster revolver. Well, he was also been working on a modernized Schofield revolver design that he’s now completed and agreed to share with us on TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday. [Read More…]
In one of the previous installments of our Wheelgun Wednesday weekly article series, we took a look at a Colt 1851 Navy revolver attributed to Wild Bill Hickok that was consigned to May 2022 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction. Although everything indicated that the [Read More…]
Thanks for joining us for another edition of TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, where all revolvery topics are on the table. This week, we’ll take a look at a custom project submitted by a reader, that he’s dubbed the “Apache Pug” which was derived [Read More…]
Revolvers seem to be a controversial topic in the gun community, people either seem to love them or hate them, and perhaps there is a segment somewhere in the middle that looks at them historically. On this week’s Wheelgun Wednesday, I thought we’d take a peek at [Read More…]
This week on TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, we’ll be taking a look at the concept of the revolver reloading aid, Speed Strips, and the Pros & Cons thereof. When we talk about carrying a revolver for our protection, we really can’t leave out the topic of reloading [Read More…]
There’s a whole class of revolvers out there that are, in their smaller caliber forms, derided for their poor build quality and questionable ergonomics, yet in their largest forms, revered as some of the most combat-proven multi-shot destructive devices available. [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s 136th edition of Wheelgun Wednesday, where we explore all things related to revolvers. Last year, I began to explore which pistols police are currently issued around the world, a series I need to get back to. However, during that research for the [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, where we explore the world of revolvers, past, present, and occasionally of the future. This week, we’ll take a look at an expertly customized Smith & Wesson 617, by a French gunsmith, Cédric, also known as [Read More…]
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