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Are the tube assemblies interchangeable within the two gauges, ie will a 20 ga assm fit a 12 ga receiver? I am wanting to obtain the metal work to attach a new pump/forearm and not tear down my original, and am finding 20 ga assemblies more easily and cheaply than a 12. My impression is that...

Can a S&W nickeled revolver barrel, be refinished to matte blue, or perhaps recoated with something like Black T with satisfactoy results?

Anybody done any business lately with the Tyler Tgrip folks? I read online where the company was having hard times and production and delivery were marginal, to say the least. I see now there website advises products in stock and reasonable delivery times. Anybody done any business with them...

I received as a gift recently McBride's book, "A Rifleman Went to War". Its an old copy, dated 1939. I had originally read the book about 20 yrs ago, and in reading it again, am surprised what I didn't absorb, or recall, from the first time. McBride touches on a lot of material, indirect...

Buddy of mine has proposed we hunt with these folks in a year or so for Rio gobblers and hogs, pal met them at the big outdoor show in PA. ......anybody have any experience with these folks? Their website is pretty plain. You can PM if you'd not rather comment publicly.

More than any other rifle I own, a Savage Hog .308 is landing its first round about 2.5" high from a cold/wet bore. Following rounds fall correctly at my established zero. I've read about this tendency, but this particular rifle manifests the problem more dramatically than any other I...

On 6Jan, while bowhunting a favorite area, twice in the same morning, I saw a huge P&Y class whitetail. First time he was passing through on his way to cover. A grunt call (produced after I dug through about 6 layers of clothes!!) brought him back about 45 minutes later, but downwind....you...

Hey, don't have details, but read a short brief and saw a poor picture. Apparently a '73 Winchester, with readable serial number, was found propped against a tree at a remote National Park site in NV. (Great Basin?) Appears to have been there for a very long time. Sure makes you...

I'd like to start a discussion on the do's and don't of hunting with a PH and his crew in Africa. I'll start another thread some time about guided hunts here in North America and I guess elsewhere. Mostly interested in gun handling issues, but such things as tips (compensaton) to the PH...

I am pondering mounting a compact red dot on my G20 for hunting. I would like to use the factory dovetail and a commercial base. I would rather not mill the slide, though I read many claim that is the "best" and only way. My pistol does not have a dust cover rail. Nevertheless, to get a...

By far for me, my favorite hunt "video" is the old "Bowhunting Oct. Whitetails" with Barry Wentzel and Rick Blaise (?). They did a whole series back in the day, but the October Whitetails is the only one of the series I have in my collection. Man, those guys could shoot a bow instinctively...

C'mon, its firearms related. Like in 8 .50 cal Brownings!!!!! As a teen, I read R.S. JOHNSON's book "Thunderbolt". Got my own copy and reread it again as an adult, and have leafed through it many more times. JOHNSON was an 8th Air Force ace, met the Luftwaffe at its peak, and surpassed...

I have for many years been interested in the Alvin YORK MOH fight. There is a degree of controversy surrounding what rifle YORK actually used. Recently an organization called the Sgt York Discovery Expedition has made repeated trips to France to pinpoint the site of the YORK fight. The group...

I was checking out a country gun store up in PA while on a trip recently and came upon a Savage 99 carbine, straight grip, barrel band (looked like off a 10/22!) kinda rough, kinda bubba'd. The price was horrible, as were all the prices in this shop, but it got me thinking. Seems like I read...

Due to the proliferation of the AR and its many makes, models and affordability, how much longer will Ruger continue to keep the Mini on life support? A new one is priced over what an entry AR costs. They have always been bashed for accuracy. And the wood/blue steel models are not trendy...

Who has used the delrin/plastic ring inserts to place a 1" scope in a 30mm ring set? I am wanting to put a 1" Leupold in a set of 30mm Burris XTR rings. The delrin inserts seem an affordable and simple way to to that. All about saving some money and putting the rifle to work simply.

I am on my way to look at what is being advertised as "military surplus" AR rifles. A LGS has a dozen or so flat top, DPMS receiver, 16" HB'd w/ front sight tower w/ carbine handguards, AR type rifles, for $430.00 a piece. They are cosmetically rough. The bores were unclean, boy said to...

I'm searching for a narrow version of the standard MRP 1903 sling to fit on a rifle( (77/22) with sling shackles that are not big enough to accept the full size sling. A vintage 1903 pattern sling in my possession, which works, but is a bit fragile, is 15/16th in width. That fits the...

For Fathers Day, bamaboy presented me with a "cow bell" target from the Do-All company. I gotta tell you, its a hoot. We've got it staked out in the field across the way, just a tad over 100 yds. I've got a 2" plastic spinner thing over there as well, and a homemade metal disc about 8"...

A certain training/internet celeb has a video out entitled 1911's "stink". My phrase and not his exact language. I listened to his commentary and a large part of his argument is that that the "design" of the 1911 does not lend itself to modern CNC/EDM/MIM manufacturing and that modern mass...