Check your screws

[GunnyGene]

Some reminders and tips. About 3 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onC0wvr8uGs

[RanchRoper]

Good info, thanks. My wife thinks I have a screw loose.

[Cofisher]

Just one?

[GFK]

Yes, good idea.

[deano5150]

I just noticed my receiver mounted Skinner peep was loose today and had to tighten it up. I was wondering if I needed some blue loctite? Any advice?

[JEBar]

for small screws, I prefer Purple Loctite

[Mags]

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I use blue loctite.

[CT_Shooter]

In the movies, you never see a cowboy pausing a gunfight to tighten the screws on his six gun , but the screws on my Uberti/Taylors SmokeWagon .357 SAA (especially the ejector rod screw) still loosen after a couple hundred rounds, even after a proper application of Blue Loctite. I'll give Purple a try.

[Mags]

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purple is less sticky than blue.

In the movies, you never see a cowboy pausing a gunfight to tighten the screws on his six gun , but the screws on my Uberti/Taylors SmokeWagon .357 SAA (especially the ejector rod screw) still loosen after a couple hundred rounds, even after a proper application of Blue Loctite. I'll give Purple a try.

[Mags]

These are the Loctite differences. Avoid red, it's fairly permanent.
Green is for electronic connections.

Loctite Threadlockers.png

[CT_Shooter]

Thanks for this graphic comparison, Mags. I mistakenly assumed that purple, being a combination of blue and red on the color wheel, would be an intermediate between the two. Now, I know.

These are the Loctite differences. Avoid red, it's fairly permanent.
Green is for electronic connections.

[BrokenolMarine]

I learned my lesson the hard way...
As someone once told me, "Lessons hard learned, well remembered."

I had become friends with a Royal Dutch Marine NCO during a joint NATO Training Op in the Caribbean. We stayed in touch via letters and postcards. (Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet.). My friend sent me a package and it contained a target, entry form, znd instructions, for a postal match. I took the target to the range and the range master was happy to oversee my remote participation. I decided to shoot centerfire/revolver with my model 27. A tack driver. 3/4 of the way thru, I seemed to be loosing my touch. The range master, watching thru the spotting scope, told me to focus. I was dropping eights and nines.

I was disappointed, but mailed off the target. I discovered that the two mounting screws on the rear sight had worked loose, throwing off the sights. Once those were loctited and tightened, I was back in business, but there are no do overs in pistol matches.