Small Arms of WWI Primer 067: Russian S&W No.3

fighting a squirrel that just doesn't want to cuddle.......

praack

But it isn't one .44 Russian vs one .32. If you miss your first shot, you have a second, third, fourth, etc shot available instantly with the pistol and you can put several rounds into a target before you get the second revolver shot in. That said, .32 ACP isn't great, but there is a clear advantage in rapid, consistent fire.

Shaun Young

While double action would have been nice, the nice big cartridge to my mind trumps all the faster firing .32 acp and such. Side arms are for up close and personal and at that range stopping someone before they get to you is a big consideration.

Richard Anderson

Yeah, that was pretty funny, even tho' I can't imagine anyone wanting to cuddle a squirrel [aka "bushy-tailed tree rat"] since they're plague vectors [at least here behind the Granola Curtain sylvan plague is endemic among them...]

Bruce Brodnax

I suppose it depends on where you live? Definitely not something you run across everyday, or I'd have heard of it b4 now... ;-)

Bruce Brodnax

I spotted ~200 rounds of '9.4 dutch' the other day. Is that hard to come by?

Michael Garvais

It was Foch that said that 20 year truce (not to be that guy, but I gotta be that guy).

Chairman

Had the chance to buy a Nagant back in the late '90s for

Bruce Brodnax

Oooh, the teaser with Mae shooting all those GWR [Great War Redux, aka "WW Deuce"] toys in the update is delish! Can hardly wait, altho' it seems obvious to me that we can't begin seeing the GWR content until 2019 at least [not just because it's the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII, but because Indie is going to be busy with The Great War content all the way until then, even if he ignores doing a follow-up w/ Treaty of Versailles (which as Petain so accurately forecast, was "...not an end to the war, but a 20 year cease-fire...")] Looking forward to a great 2018 ahead, and the next 6 years from 2019 on! :-D

Bruce Brodnax

Check out the Dixie Gun Works website for a COTS version for 32rf; for 44HF, you'll likely have to roll your own...

Bruce Brodnax

Hey Othais: the trick the CAS & reenactor crowds use to fire those old rimfire guns is a bar-stock cartridge case lathed out with a little gap in the rim and a hole drilled off-center in the base to take a 22rf blank sold at the hardware store for those tools for setting studs into concrete; the BP & bullet are then loaded normally, and when you load up the cylinder, you just have to make certain the rimfire blank will be where the hammer can hit it [obviously, this works fine for RF revolvers, not so much for the old RF lever-action rifles...] ;-)

Bruce Brodnax

“Fighting a squirrel that doesn’t want to cuddle.”

Chairman

Yes, the transition from outside lubricated bullets [with a heel] to inside-lubed cartridges are the reason for the reduced bullet diameters from their nominal size. There is also a change in how bores were quoted [bore vs. rifling diameter: a .30 bore rifle is .308 rifling diameter given a .004 land height.]

Bruce Brodnax

I think Canadians are cool too. That knob on the backstrap I believe, is called a prawl. Does the conversion from outside to inside lubed bullets have anything to do with the fact that 44 Russian cartridges (and 44 special, 44 magnum etc.) use .429 diameter bullets in a .450 diameter case? What was the diameter of the 44 American bullet? Forgive me for this but one should always be somewhat gentle when opening and closing top break revolvers, it should also be inverted when ejecting spent cases, maybe to let unburnt powder fall free. I like to hear the background behind this stuff--keep it up.

Happy new year!

C&Rsenal

1870s wise they were great. By 1914 better sights are slowly appearing

C&Rsenal

Cool show, I've got a Russian in my inherited collection. Nickel plated. Sorta want to pull it out and play with it. And Happy New year to you guys and May also.

For once I think Mae was nit-picking on the sights. For what it was, I believe the S&W Russian No.3 was a great revolver.

Oh and moon clips for perfection

Ben Clayton

Please sie ....can I swap my brand new Nagant M1895 Revolver for you old worn out NO3 S&W

Ben Clayton

Note to self: buy that non-refurbished 1895 Nagant now before they do a video and demand goes up.

Aaronbern