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My collection of short guns includes two Glocks, one Beretta, three Rugers, three Smith & Wessons, one Walther, and one Colt. There's no special reason for the order of the listing.

You couldn't do much better than the RCBS full-length competition die set followed up with a Lee "Factory Crimp Die".

I am extremely satisfied with the Eotech ESPS2-0 sight and an Eotech G33.STS 3X flip-up magnifier behind it for long distance accuracy with my AR-15.

That's a funny-looking pair of hearing protectors there...... :-)

I find my Glock 19 to be one of the easiest-shooting handguns that I own. It's too bad that it's a bit large for me to conceal comfortably.

I agree totally with Mayo....

I always have my Klein 44201 Electrician's Pocket Knife with me, along with my cell phone. When I go to places that I feel the need, I will carry my LCP typically in a slightly modified Bulldoog Ambi Cell Phone Holster. The mod that I've done to the Bulldog holster is to remove the steel clip...

There are situations where either leather or Kydex makes more sense. Of course, there are even more holster materials such as the sticky (on one side) material used by Remora and the fabrics with elastic used by Uncle Mikes for their Sidekick series. If I make a holster, it's usually made of...

There's another similar thread in the "The Edged" forum area that's been around for quite a while: Whats your EDC

Congrats, Rich. Cindy and I will celebrate 41 in October.

What, precisely, do you mean by the terms "ACP ammo" and "auto ammo"? The Ruger LCP is chambered for .380 ACP ammunition. .380 ACP (the ACP stands for Automatic Colt Pistol) ammo uses a small cartridge that is almost straight-walled and has a rim that's the same diameter as the base of the...

What may not be obvious is that the bullets shown above will not fly straight and true because their weight will be off center from the center axis of the spinning bullet.

Not only will the crimp work better, but the load data will be more appropriate. Seating the bullets deeper increases the chamber pressure with any given powder load. Published load data is based on a specific overall length and with a specific bullet shape and length. Make sure you start...

The crimped edge of the case should be into the crimping groove (the first groove from the bullet nose) and not on the full diameter surface of the bullet. The other larger groove should be filled with bullet lube (typically a wax product).

Lookin' good. I've seen bullets that look just like those. One tip - carefully inspect the bottoms of the bullets. If the temperature is off a little bit (and I can't tell you which way), sometimes the sprues aren't cut clean. The resulting ragged and non-concentric hole in the base of the...

Do you have a temperature indicator for the lead temperature? I went one step further and rigged up an electronic industrial temperature controller to control my lead pot at whatever temperature I dialed into it. I was in the industrial process control business and happened to have a few...

One thing you're going to find out is that in order to get good quality bullets, both the metal and the mold have to be at the proper temperature. This is achieved by making a mess of lousy bullets that you'll put back into the pot. The speed at which you work also figures into the equation...

Nice work, Rich. Lookin' good.

I've never measured the hardness of the alloys I've used even though I could take them to any number of heat treat shops where I worked as an instrumentation contractor to have checked. I simply checked the performance of a batch of alloy before going whole-hog making bullets from it. I have...

Rich, if you're using the furnace fan to exhaust the lead fumes, it's likely that the fumes are getting all over the house. If so, everyone in the house would be getting a dose of a rather nasty poison. Having an air duct from the hood to the outside with a high-velocity fan in the duct (a...