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From the May/June 2007 Issue
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I’m not the average reloader. The last time I counted there were over 75 sets of dies on my shelf. Many of those aren’t used often — or at all — but were bought for a project long ago. Of course you don’t throw dies away because you never know when you might need them again. But there are some things that are so important to me my life would be seriously disrupted if any were gone. First of these is Hodgdon Titegroup. It’s the closest thing I know to a universal handgun propellant and I truly do use it for every pistol and revolver cartridge I load: .32 S&W long, .32-20 WCF, .38 Special, .38-40 WCF, .44-40 WCF, .44 Special, .45 ACP and .45 Colt. Those make up my everyday recreational shooting loads and I have cast bullet loads worked up duplicating factory ballistics for each. When I shoot for fun Titegroup is burned. There's more from Charles E. Petty in the May/June issue... • Light & Heavy |
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Lefties and A Power Tool I’ve always had a place in my thoughts for left-handed shooters. Shooting right-handed guns, they have to get used to all manner of inconveniences such as hot brass bouncing off their noggins and having to work bolt action rifles by reaching over the top of the rifle. What a pain. Last week a left-hand shooter came into my shop to have a little custom work performed on his lead injector and I thought my brain had switched sides. The pistol was a left-hand version of a model 1911 made by Caspian. The serial number is “LHXX of 20” meaning just what it says: only 20 of these unique “kit” pistols were made. As you can see in the photo, everything is reversed, including the thumb safety, extractor, port and slide release. Even the bushing turns the “wrong” way. What you can’t see is the internal arm on the grip safety that blocks the trigger bow is on the left side. I thought the most interesting aspect of this special Caspian was the rifling. The rifling in a right-hand pistol has a twist designed to roll the pistol to the left when in recoil, making recovery more natural for a right-handed shooter. This left-hand Caspian has a barrel rifled in the opposite direction so the pistol will recoil to the right, making it easier for a lefty to recover from recoil. This is one of the most interesting guns I’ve seen in a long time and Caspian should be commended for building it. They are probably going to get buried in orders for more now that you’ve seen it, but Gary Smith, the big honcho at Caspian says there will be no more. However, he also says there are a couple of “kits” left if you would like to put one of these unique collectors items together. The cost is $2,500. There's more from Alex Hamilton in the May/June issue... • Easy Sighting |
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