This Term of Sale also applies to a modern firearm that Kaiser Ordinance may sell. This firearm is sold as a curio and relic or an item of historical interest unless specified. name to represent all aspects of names used by Kaiser Ordinance Inc. This document will use Kaiser Ordinance Inc. Kaiser ordinance is doing business as Harry Viezens Fine Guns and Harry Viezens Fine Guns and Appraisals.įor simplification, these terms of sale apply to all business names used by Kaiser Ordinance, Inc. My wife Marcia has fine hearing on the phone and is quite knowledgeable about firearms and is very able to help you over the phone. This system works pretty good, so please be willing to be patient with my hearing loss. I do want to talk to you and answer your questions without mistakes or miscommunications. With me reading what you are saying to me saves me a lot of confusion for me mishearing words.
When I call you back you will hear my voice in our conversation, an operator will type your conversation to me on my phone view screen. I have to switch over to what is called a voice carry over phone. I have caller ID just so that you know, the reason for that is I cannot use a regular phone. Therefore when you would call me, I will pick up the phone and tell you that I will call you right back. Concerning Phone Callsįor those folks that do not know me yet, I’m very hard of hearing on the phone. You may also send an email to and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. The Model 13 was discontinued in 1998, but it’s still worth looking for.You can reach Harry or Marcia by phone at 92 or by fax at 92. My gun was manufactured in 1979-which, at my age, doesn’t seem all that vintage. But that’s a small price to pay for such a handy, packable chunk of a vintage service revolver. Unfortunately, it didn’t shoot my handloaded 148-grain wadcutters worth a whoop. What was also gratifying was the fact it shot generic 130-grain full-metal-jacket ammo at about the same point of impact as most 125-grain +P jacketed hollowpoints. I’ve always thought a 125-grain minimum was preferable for any. My Aussie Model 13 preferred the FBI load from Buffalo Bore over some vintage Super Vel 110-grain jacketed hollowpoints-marked “Police Only.” This was fine by me. One was the so-called “Treasury load,” a 110-grain jacketed hollowpoint the other was the “FBI load,” a +P 158-grain lead semi-wadcutter hollowpoint. 38 Special, there were two preeminent loads for those who didn’t like. Back in the mid-1970s, during the final law enforcement pre-9mm hurrah for the. I decided to stick with two loads that would be period-appropriate selections from the Model 13’s heyday. Twenty-yard groups with 158-grain lead semi-wadcatter (c. Since I’d installed a lighter trigger return spring-a Wolff spring I bought from Brownells-the double-action pull weight on my Model 13 was just a hair over six pounds and smooth as butter. I chose 20 feet as the yardage to check the zero on those low-profile fixed sights. My days of shooting high-test magnums out of anything smaller than a Marlin lever action are pretty much done.Īnd there’s one more argument for a three-inch gun over the classic three-inch snubbie: The added stretch of sight radius makes the sight picture much more forgiving. 38s in the 125- to 158-grain weight range. Many hot hours slaving over a chronograph have shown me the velocity increase from a two- to a three-inch barrel is considerably more significant than that between a three- and four-inch barrel-particularly with +P. I’m a sucker for three-inch Smiths in either J- or K-frame configuration. The fact that it was a three-inch made it instantly more desirable.
Seems Smith & Wesson made a limited run of square-butt three-inch guns for an Australian agency-some of which managed to filter back here to the States. Well, a bit of consultation with gun writer Massad Ayoob provided the answer.
It was, he said, “carried a lot and shot a little.” Miller’s three-inch Model 13 sports a bobbed hammer and service-type stocks. I knew enough about the Model 13 to know that the cataloged three-inch guns of FBI fame all had round butts.