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Has anyone heard of the SMART Target? https://www.pistoleer.com/shooting-targets/pics/33st.gif What is it, and how is it intended to be used?

I've recently learned that Sig offers 1911 Armorer's courses. The Sig version is a one-day class and the cost is reasonable. I sort of know my way around 1911s -- I've built maybe ten of them, but all of a "utilitarian" nature rather than top shelf, custom firearms. But I'm always hoping to...

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010651278?pid=489581 I'm thinking of buying some of these for winter plinking with a SAA clone. They are reusable -- if you can find them after firing. If anyone here has used them, what do/did you use for a backstop, and how effectively did your backstop...

Please don't take this thread off in other directions. I'm curious about the firearm the shooter used, so please just discuss that. Even initial reports said the gun was a semi-automatic handgun, and that it was a .45. He only shot five students before using the last round for himself, so it...

A friend (an IPSC shooter in Europe) sent me a link to a Youtube video of Ian McCollum interviewing Ken Hackathorn about the creation of IPSC, USPSA, IDPA, and 3-Gun. It's (IMHO) a very interesting and enjoyable video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9B9FxNVXN8

A friend from Europe sent me an e-mail in which he mentioned the notion of converting a 1911 to shoot .380 ACP. I know that Imbel in Brazil makes a 1911-ish model that shoots .380 ACP, but it's a fixed barrel pistol, and it's not available in the U.S. My friend and I exchanged a flurry of...

At the start of the 20th century, the U.S. Army assigned Colonel John T. Thompson and Colonel Louis A. LaGarde to conduct “scientific” tests for the purpose of determining the optimum caliber for a new military sidearm. Does anyone know where I could find a reprint of their official report? It...

I'm not having much luck finding an explanatory article that tells us who The Primus Group is, but Primus is apparently some sort of entertainment holding company. Primus sued a group of major firearms manufacturers of modern AR-15 firearms. On October 9, 2019, the United States District Court...

I used to buy Gun Digest every year, but I've skipped a few years recently due to other priorities in life. I was about to order the 2020 edition when I noticed that there another book, also edited by Jerry Lee, titled 2019 Standard catalog of Firearms. Is anyone familiar with both books? How...

Things you never thought about ... or at least I didn't: I was just researching something for my state's grass roots RKBA organization, and I stumbled across something that surprised me greatly. We all know the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, correct? What I didn't know is that the...

Or, in legalese, "fruits of a poisoned tree." https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2019/07/10/rockland-gun-charges-dismissed-against-new-jersey-men/1692313001/ Two men arrested and charged with a variety of firearms charges in New York State are now free, because a judge ruled the police who...

I have been trying to use the rather archaic Lee Shooter software to generate ballistic trajectories for my 16" AR-15 carbine with both M193 and M855 ammunition. The issue I'm running into is knowing which bullet to pick out of the bullets in the Lee database, or what ballistic coefficient to...

All the articles I've seen on setting a battle sight zero for the AR-15 seem to be based on a 20" rifle with A2 sights. Mine is a 16" carbine with A1 sights. So, no large and small apertures in the rear sight, and no elevation adjustment at the rear sight. It appears that the two apertures are...

CCI has announced a new, quiet, .22LR ammunition. They call it Quiet-22 Semi-Auto. Their claim is that it's as quiet as shooting conventional ammo through a suppressor, yet it cycles all semi-auto firearms reliably. http://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/detail.aspx?use=1&loadNo=975CC Does...

A recent thread in Reloading brought mention of what I assume is a new(-ish), free reloading calculator named Gordon's Reloading Tool. It was mentioned here: https://thefiringline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6723553&postcount=19 Being interested in such things, I immediately downloaded it and...

The National Shooting Sports Foundation sent out an update with a link to a NY Times article about the lawsuit against the City of New York and their draconian gun laws. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gun-control.html The summary is that apparently NYC is becoming...

Does anyone have, or has anyone worked on, a Para-Ordnance P18.9? A friend has told me that he's certain Para-Ordnance used the same breechface cut for their 9mm, .38 Super, and .40 S&W pistols. I can understand the first two being the same, but running both of those "calibers" through a 1911...

A number of years ago I came into possession of an add-on, flared mag well (mag chute) for a 1911. The one I'm thinking of is plastic. I have others that are steel, and I know where to get those. I'd like to find the source for the plastic one. If anyone has any information, please post here or...

The recent discussion about firearms insurance ( https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=601965 ) started me thinking. I have insurance, but it doesn't require a report of serial numbers or individual values. The discussion makes me realize that, even though it's not required, it's...

Passing along a question from the M1911.org forum: I think the important question is the one about copy protecting a digital file. Less important, but still of interest at least to me -- if you were going to buy a dead trees version, would you prefer 8-1/2 x 14 or 11 x 17?