Colt Single News Today

Hodgdon’s Pyrodex powder goes back to the mid-1970’s when R.E. Hodgdon was informed by Warren Center of Thompson/Center of a fellow who had come up with a synthetic black powder. One of the primary reasons that was a good idea can be seen on the shelves in today’s large sporting goods stores.

The first sixgun John Gallagher ever built for me was several years ago and it’s my Big Little Sixgun — actually a big sixgun shooting a small cartridge, an eight-shot .32-20.

Tom Beaudette leads Trapper’s Guns, not to be confused with Trapper Guns — quite prominent in the 1970s and 1980s and operated by Lin “Trapper” Alexiou.Now that we’ve got it all straightened out, we can look at Tom Beaudette of Trapper’s Guns and the custom Ruger sixguns he turns out.

As with many of our readers, whether it be with GUNS or American Handgunner, I always start backwards. That is, the first thing I look at is the last thing in the magazine, namely the back page. In this magazine our Esteemed Editorship always starts at the ending with his Insider column. This is always filled with good information and a story or two. A normal part of it is the “Add It Up” section consisting of statistics guaranteed to either make us feel warm and fuzzy or upset at some of ...