Remember that rusted old revolver that was found buried next to the Colorado River? The guy who found it took it to the range (skip to 3:46 to see it being fired)… Photos here. [ Many thanks to jdun1911 for emailing me the link. ]
Say what you want about Taurus, but when they hit a home run they know how to take advantage of it. The new Ultra-Lite features an aluminum frame. It weighs in at 20.7 ounces. The steel cylinder holds five rounds of .45 Long Colt or .410 shot shells. The MSRP is 648.00.
Cottonwood, Ariz. – LaserLyte®, in association with Ka-BAR®, offers the first pistol bayonet for select North American Arms pistols. The razor-sharp, 1.85-inch Ka-BAR blade fits all North American Arms mini revolvers with round cylinder pins and is the smallest [Read More…]
This snub nosed .357 Smith & Wesson Model 66 was used by Clint Eastwood in the 1984 movie Tightrope. This gun is part of the NRA National Firearms Museum’s “Hollywood guns” exhibit. This weeks Curators Corner episode discusses the history of the [Read More…]
A ARFCOM member found a rusted up revolver when he was metal detecting along the Colorado River. It appears to be a Titan Tiger .38 Special. [ Many thanks to jdun1911 for emailing me the link. ]
Posted by Mike Lewis at LMS Defense Forum … I was conducting a Concealed Carry Handgun class on 1 May 2010. There was a student training with a Ruger LCR that she stated had less than 100 rounds previously fired through it. She was using CCI Blazer 158 grain TMJ [Read More…]
This beautiful Remington Model 1858 revolver was used in the Clint Eastwood movie Pale Rider. This gun is part of the NRA National Firearms Museum’s “Hollywood guns” exhibit. You can watch a video about this gun at the museum’s website (under [Read More…]
Ruger have finally deliver the revolver that fans have been clamoring for since the original Ruger LCR was launched last year. The new LCR-357 is chambered in .357 Magnum, giving it a lot more punch (no doubt both to the target and the shooter) than the previous .38 [Read More…]
I received an email from a solider who is currently deployed to Afghanistan. He found this broken revolver at a local bazaar. Neither him nor I can identify it. Can you identify it or identify what design it was copied from? The only markings are an “H” on [Read More…]
These beautiful Colt Walker revolvers were used in Clint Eastwood’s western classic The Outlaw Josey Wales . I think these guns were featured on the previous episode of NRA News’ Curators Corner. Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to watch it! Anyhow, you [Read More…]
Talo has produced an exclusive 60th Anniversary Edition of the Ruger Vaquero revolver. I love the scroll work and gold band on the cylinder. The Vaquero is chambered in .45 Long Colt. It has an MSRP of $740.
Tam, via The Arms Room, brings us an interesting post about the Smith & Wesson’s small frame top break revolvers … Although Smith & Wesson introduced their centerfire top-break revolvers, complete with automatic simultaneous extraction and ejection, [Read More…]
Making a Glocks look beautiful since 1887 … John is selling his Mk. IV stubby.
This weeks movie gun is the Colt Police Positive which was used in the 1934 detective film The Thin Man. The small frame double-action revolver was introduced by Colt in 1907. This beautiful specimen was engraved and presented to William Powell. You can learn more about [Read More…]
Over at EveryDayNoDayOff there is a discussion about this gigantic 12 gauge revolver confiscated from a Taiwanese man. [ Many thanks to Justin for emailing me the link (I missed it on EveryDayNoDayOff, which I regularly read) ]
Caleb dissects a pro-revolver press release.
Taurus’s Judge revolvers have proved to be incredibly popular. Not resting on their laurels, Taurus has introduced the gigantic Raging Judge Magnum. In additional to the standard Judge cartridges, the .410 shotshell (2.5″/3″) and .45 Colt, the Raging [Read More…]
A company is selling speed loaders for the .500 S&W! These monsters are machined out of aluminum billet and hold 5 rounds. I can’t help but think that a better solution than a .500 S&W speedloader is simply to keep far away from lion prides, rhino herds [Read More…]
One of the major product launches at SHOT Show was the launch of the S&W Bodyguard Series. Smith & Wesson have applied the Bodyguard name to a variety of lightweight wheel guns over the past 50 or 60 years. The latest iteration of the Bodyguard brand again [Read More…]
A reader emailed me these photos of a revolver which belonged to his Grandfather during WWI. It looks to me like a fancy Webley. Does anyone know what model gun it is and who made it?
NRANews’s Cam and Company [ iTunes Link, 1/14/10 episode ] let slip the news that Ruger would have a LCR chambered in .357 Magnum on display. I am sure that this is the wheel gun that Michael Bane recently blogged about! The original .38 Special Ruger LCR was [Read More…]
The Smith & Wesson Model 638 and 637 are now available from the factory with Crimson Trace laser grips installed. The .38+P Models 637CT and 638CT both feature a stainless finish and 2.5″ barrel. They will retail for $924.
Ruger has embraced the .327 Federal Magnum and added it to their line of GP100 and Blackhawk revolvers. Each gun chambered in the .327 Fed Mag can also chamber the .327 H&R Magnum, .32 S&W Long and .32 S&W. The .327 GP100 will retail for $701 and the [Read More…]
The “El Juez” (thats “The Judge” in Spanish) is a limited edition of the Taurus Judge revolver. This model features a stainless finish with a gold plated hammer, trigger and cylinder release. Just 1000 will be manufactured, so talk to your dealer [Read More…]
I was excited to hear from Jim that Ballistics By The Inch will soon be testing how much a revolvers’ cylinder gap effects the ballistic performance of a round. We’ve had a Single Action Army clone in .357 magnum modified to allow for adjusting the barrel [Read More…]
After writing the The quest for high-capactity firearms post, readers told me about other interesting attempts at high capacity guns. Porter Revolving Turret Rifle 9-shot; .48 caliber. In excellent overall condition. Bore is excellent plus; 28″ barrel. Metal is [Read More…]
A common misconception is that the desire for high capacity firearms is a relatively new phenomenon. This is far from the truth. Since the at least the mid 1800s designers had been experimenting with many novel ideas in an attempt to increase magazine capacity, mostly [Read More…]
[ I am pleased to present this guest post written by Matt Green ] This Ruger .45 my Dad left me is one of the first weapons I ever fired. My grandparents had a farm in central Minnesota, near St. Cloud, and we would drive the two hours to visit every month or six weeks [Read More…]
[ I am pleased to present this guest post written by Wayne Watson. Wayne blogs at Oswald Bastable’s Ranting and New Zealand Back Country ] A volunteer in the U.S. Army at the begining of the War in Mexico, another tall hero emerges from the Legendary Texas [Read More…]
After a nearly 6 months hiatus I was very pleased see a new post at Tam’s The Arms Room. Her latest blog post in the Sunday Smith series covers the S&W Number 1 revolver.
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