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That's what happens when you try to clean the Unclean. :rolleyes:

You might find yourself ending up in some sort of survival situation after one of those CAS matches -- maybe getting lost on the way home -- and need to hunt deer with the pocket pistol. You'll wish you had a sight then!! 🦌🔫

So ... Not having seen her shoot this particular gun under that particular condition (or any other), you're going with the view that she was shooting a short-barreled revolver at 50 yds. "intuitively" and not using the sight. One of the endearing features of this forum -- the courage to go...

Yeah, man!! If I don't shoot sub-MOA groups with a BP rifle at 50 yds, offhand, I know I've had a bad day and just want to throw it in the pond!!

@Phil Coffins: Off topic, but have you ever used a router on hickory? Hickory eats routers for breakfast. One of the scariest experiences I've ever had with a power tool.

Here's an interesting article on folding knives used at the time of the American Revolution. The influence of the Navaja in some examples seems obvious, though the specific knives may have come from France: Knives of the American Revolution Then there are these available at Crazy Crow.

Spanish Navaja folding knives -- very widely used in Spanish society and the origin of the Spanish fighting knife culture -- originated in the late 1600s. The varieties with locking backsprings originated in the 1700s. Here's a Navaja folding knife manufactured some time in the 1800s, now in...

Speaking from unfortunate experience many years ago, this is a dark path for the inexperienced to tread. Even now I would avoid it. I might set things up at some early point in shaping the stock to use a router table -- which would give me a lot more control. But a handheld router can eat...

First, I don't think of this as "lapping" so much as "polishing" because I'm not actually lapping one dimensioned surface to another. But that may be a fine point. What I use is Timesaver lapping compounds. I'm sure various other similar products would work as well. For polishing the...

Nothing wrong with propane, but for all my torch soldering needs I try to use my little benzene torch. Easier to handle and use. For other soldering occasions (often brass instrument repair, etc.) I use my air/acetylene outfit -- but most people (aside from jewelers and plumbers 😂 )--...

An often overlooked and simple problem. When I first got my Traditions Crockett rifle, loading and cleaning required substantial strength on the ramrod. It took me a while to realize that the major problem was that the diameter of the cleaning jag was just a bit to big for my barrel (the .32s...

Sounds so simple -- and it is. But maybe not quite as simple as "Put a pretty big bit in your router or power chisel and create a big void you're pretty sure all the lock parts will go into with room to spare. Try -- but not too much effort here -- to leave some sort of rim in the hole to seat...

Apparently, if the commercially inletted stocks are any measure of excellence ... you already do! 😂

This ("dimpling") is the recommendation from TOW when I asked them about a slightly loose fit I had with one of their sights. I have also used the similar approach of dimpling the underside of the sight base itself (which can be a little trickier in avoiding deforming the sight). Finally, I...

I have seen my wife repeatedly and reliably hit a steel turkey silhouette target at 50 yds. with her Ruger .38 snubnose -- which has a front sight and a top strap groove as a rear sight. So there's a lot more than psychological value in one of these with a competent shooter behind it. But I do...

I somehow missed the part about wanting to shoot it to accomplish the polishing. :rolleyes: Sorry. I think that with a round ball that's senseless. There are kits available for doing this with abrasive bullets, and I've used one of those on a modern rifle, but don't think the patched round ball...

Maybe. But JB bore paste is a VERY mild abrasive. So it might take a little effort and repetition to see any result. I use one or two different grits of non-embedding industrial abrasive, but I don't think you'd want to go out and buy some just for the one barrel. I bet someone on here knows...

I have a drill press similar to that. It's a Harbor Freight one I've had for about 30 years. 13" drill press, 16 speed, 3/4 hp motor. Bench top press, mounted on a moveable base I made for it. I recently put a Jacobs keyless chuck on it because I got real tired of the keyed chucks. It's a...

White vinegar is a strong acid, and you should easily be able to find a large number of reports of its effect on bluing by searching for "bluing affected by vinegar". In fact, it is often used specifically to remove bluing from gun parts. None of the motorcycle tanks I ever worked on were...

I used epoxy to glue a sight on once. It worked. If using solder, I'd use silver solder. (Actually, I also just used epoxy to glue a chunk of fiber optic on the top of a filed down blade sight. But that doesn't really count. :rolleyes:) The big thing about epoxy is that it's really messy to...