Handloading Lesson of the Day: Test Your Loads In More Than One Gun
By Austin Knudsen I love the .38 Special round. It’s the grandfather-with-a-flannel-coat-pocket-full-of-Werther’s-Originals of handgun cartridges. It’s also the first handgun cartridge I ever learned to reload. When I was 18, I made my grandfather sit down and teach me how to reload .38s for my 8 3/8” barrel Smith and Wesson 686 .357 Magnum, as my […]
Gun Review: Colt Python Combat Elite Revolver
Placed without fanfare on Colt’s SHOT Show display wall, along with several other new models, was something different. Stainless, with a shortened two-finger grip and an unfluted cylinder, it stood out from the rest. For 2024, Colt has released a new Combat Elite, unlike any of the Combat Elite models they’ve released in the past; […]
SNW VIDEO: Thinking Outside the Box With Heritage Rough Rider and Barkeep .22 Revolvers
Some say Jeremy just isn’t the same as the rest of us. Some say he’s a divergent thinker. We say he’s someone who looks at the world as it is, dreams of things that never were…and then says, ‘Why not?’
Behold: The Smith & Wesson Ultimate Carry J-Frames in .38 Spl and 32 H&R Magnum
By Rich Grassi Last week, I attended a gathering of the grey beards in Louisiana to participate in the hard launch of the Smith & Wesson Ultimate Carry revolvers. It seems that Smith & Wesson has been in product development stages of many of their product lines for decades. When they got a new handgun product […]
Gun Review: Colt King Cobra Target .22 LR
If you look at the selection of .22 LR double action revolvers, you’ll see that we’ve gone from a few available – the Smith & Wesson M617 and 317/63 models and a few Rugers (LCR, SP101 and, until recently, the GP100-22). But more makers have been stepping forward and Colt has returned to the game […]
SHOT Show: The New Blued Colt Python Revolvers
We’ve been big fans of the newly revived lineup of Colt snake guns. They’re beautifully made, very nicely turned out, and just damned good guns. Apparently the nation’s gun buyers have the same opinion as models like the King Cobra and the Python have been hard to come by. Colt’s latest addition to the line […]
Diamondback Unveils the New SDR .357 Revolver
If you’re a revolver fan, this is a great time to be alive. In addition to longtime makers of great wheelguns like Ruger, Smith, Taurus, Heritage and (once again) Colt, there are lots of great offerings by companies newer to the revolver business like Kimber, Henry, SAR and others. The latest entrant is Diamondback […]
Gun Review: Henry Big Boy Revolver
The Henry Big Boy Revovler belongs on your wish list. Yes, that Henry. The “Made In America, Or Not Made At All,” Wisconsin-based manufacturer of some of the nicest lever-action rifles in the country released their first-ever revolver last spring. It’s called the Big Boy Revolver and it’s a classic DA/SA six-shooter chambered in […]