Remove the recoil spring. The barrel is affixed to the frame but can come off via a screw in the trigger guard. To put it back together: Place the rod end of the recoil spring/ guide rod in its corresponding hole in the front of the frame, under where the barrel will sit. Place th...
My go-to .357 load is a Lee cast 160-grain semi-wadcutter over 7.1 of Hodgdon Long Shot powder. It gives me almost 1200 fps out of a 4-inch-plus barrel, and around 1100 out of a three-incher. It lets you know you’ve touched off something more than a target load. I have shot...
but it is remarkable. When the ammo was too expensive for me to take out my other guns for a day of plinking, a brick of .22LR never broke the bank. It digested any crappy ammo I fed it, and I am hard pressed to remember any time it failed. It is simple to take down and cl...