JB Hodgdon And Reloading Powder; How To Rack The Slide On A Pistol; Small 45 Woes: 07.13.25 Hour 3

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

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In This Hour.

-- Remembering JB Hodgdon, one of the pioneers of the firearms industry. Chris Hodgdon explains now this iconic company got started.

-- Here's a technique for racking the slide on a pistol that's so easy anyone can do it.

-- Small 1911 pistols can be finicky, but one solution is to replace the recoil spring.

Gun Talk :07.13.25 Hour 3

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0:00.0	The Ruger Light Rack Security 380 is easy to shoot and easy to rack.
0:05.7	Small enough to carry concealed or in a purse, big enough to absorb recoil.
0:11.2	Learn more at Ruger.com.
0:15.6	Yeah, an awful lot of people are looking at the news, watching what's going on and deciding on their own
0:22.2	that they're going to start taking care of themselves.
0:23.8	They're going to get a gun, get a holster, figure out how to carry it.
0:28.3	Maybe it's a purse, maybe it's a holster.
0:30.7	Go get some training and then practice, practice, practice, practice.
0:35.8	It's not a skill that comes to you naturally just because you're an American doesn't know, mean you know how to shoot. Just because you're a man doesn't know you mean you know how to shoot. It takes work. It takes some training. I mean, training is classes. Training is not going out to the range of practicing. That's not training. Training is
0:55.1	instruction in classes. Practice is practice. That's a different thing altogether. Let's go to the
1:00.4	phones right now. Line two. Diana is with us out of Las of Vegas. Diana, thank you for calling in.
1:05.4	Welcome to Gun Talk. Thank you. I'm calling because I wanted your, maybe you could point me in the right direction of a couple of different handguns that I'm considering buying.
1:20.7	I took some defensive handgun classes last year, but so far I haven't, I've never owned a gun before.
1:29.9	And the two that I'm looking at are the Gerson MC14T and the Caltech PR 57.
1:41.2	Okay.
1:42.0	Tell me why.
1:43.6	Well, in the class that I took, I had a problem racking the slide, and when I've gone shopping, a lot of people have pointed me in the direction of the Smith and Weston, the Easy series.
2:03.4	Mm-hmm.
2:04.1	Right.
2:04.4	And I still don't even have the strength in my hands really to reliably rack even those.
2:13.7	Okay.
2:15.6	I do have a thought for you, but here's the problem.
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