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I'm going to visit the States again (after five years) in late January, this time NY it is. I'd love to try the FiveSeven (which is impossible to lay your hands on in Europe). Is there any chance finding a shooting range where I could possibly try a FiveSeven around Queens, Long Island area?

Living in Europe, many handgun related things are restricted here. Yet, I'm sure many of you have a handgun they'd like to have as well but never will, due to price, availability, restrictions etc...

if I shortened the barrel of a .223 bolt action (1 / 12 twist rate) by one or two inches, would that have a massive impact on accuracy?

Since there is a lot of talk about "survival rifles", and I recently I happened to discover where this persisting concept of a "zombie apocalypse" comes from (namely one certain TV series, I suppose), I spent some thoughts on the issue and invite everybody to donate his own 2 cents. 1.) There...

Alas, in most of the ballistic charts for .223, the length of the test barrel is not specified. Which is kind of odd, given that sometimes very detailed information is attached, such as air temperature or the like. Is it maybe that there is some kind of a standard test barrel length that can be...

I'm well aware that there is a thread concerning high(er) cap mags for the Axis rifle. My question is about the STANDARD magazine: Is it true that it works fine with FIVE (instead of the specified four)? I don't want to damage anything by trying, but there are some yt vids claiming that the...

Does anybody know how the end cap of the butt stock of a Savage Axis comes off without damaging it? Would be cool to store certain small stuff (cleaning and survival, e.g.) in the obviously hollow stock...

After long considerations (and an even longer search), lately I got me a Savage Axis .223. I'm not a great shooter who'd send thousands of rounds down the range each year, I just want to maintain my basic skills to operate a rifle larger than a .22lr. Hence, budget is an important issue. Cheap...

A general question concerning bottlenecked ammunition: Is there any correlation between the form of a bottleneck cartridge and its performance? What I mean is when you have a cartridge of one given caliber and internal volume, you could either make it long and slim (like, say, a .22 wmr), or...

Is it possible to get an (aftermarket) synthetic stock for a CZ 527 Lux?

Is there anything like .22lr with real fast burning powder, intended for super short barrels, thus avoiding the rather massive flash and bang normally associated with the combination of mouse gun and .22lr?

Since you guys on the other side of the big pond are seemingly piling up on stuff, it's getting harder and harder to get said stuff here in good old Europe. You're welcome, by the way :D. Originally I simply wanted a reasonable priced .223 bolt action, but at the moment, it is impossible to...

I'm not in favor of caliber discussions as far as penetration and stopping power issues are concerned. There is not too much difference between the major handgun calibers in terms of muzzle energy, after all. (I'm not using "major" in terms of IPSC or the like, just to comprise about everything...

The finish of my favorite mousegun, a PT22 PLY, is, I have to admit, not the most durable. No match to the Tenifer on my G17 or the like, still I like the gun. Hence I wondered whether it is possible to self-refurbish the black finish, and, lo and behold, there are finish repair sets on the...

As a non-American I still somewhat cling to the cliché of hand-gunning in the States as a matter of a six-gun rigged in a saddle holster or a Western-style hip holster... So, do some of you - lucky folk, at least gun-wise spoken - still carry that way? And if yes, is the revolver still...

Does anybody know whether one of the less exotic manufacturers produces 22lr tracers anymore? There used to be 22lr tracers by RWS / Dynamit Nobel, but these run out of production. The only ones I could find on www are from Piney Mountain ammunition and they don't seem to be available in Europe...

is there such thing as a high(er) cap mag for the PT22 (PT22 PLY, strictly speaking, but I have learned the mags are interchangeable, anyway). Since the standard mag features a floor plate with an extended finger rest, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to design a +2 plate all the same...

Just out of curiosity: Are there any others makers besides Beretta and Taurus producing pistols with tip up barrels? This system is so practical yet it does not seem to be too common in simple blowbacks apart from these two brands...

Does anybody know whether there is something like .223 subsonic loads? I'm talking off-the-shelf, not reloaded stuff.

is the Ruger 22/45 a striker fired pistol? And what about High Standard, Buckmarks and other .22lr target pistols? The reason for asking is that recently it appeared to me that while there are a lot of striker fired pistol series for centerfire calibers (including the newer subcompact /...