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Yesterday on my day off, I traded for a like-new Winchester 94 Trapper in .30-30. It is in excellent shape, considering that it is in the pre-safety configuration. It is actually of American manufacture and, as a bonus, it has a beautiful stock. What have I got myself into? Does the shorter...

When was the last time you saw the word wallhanger? My wife and I and some other people went out to a local restaurant last Saturday night. It was a fairly yuppie place with lots of decor and atmosphere, mostly sports stuff. They had racing shells and oars overhead and the room we were in had...

A number of posts last week and earlier got me thinking about how long handguns last before they break or wear out. It sounds like some have a tendency to break after not that many rounds have been fired, say two or three hundred. In fact, one article about a pocket pistol published probably...

This morning I saw a dead deer on the highway perhaps a half-mile from home. It wasn't there last night and it probably met its end in the early morning. Around here (Northern Virginia) we see a lot of deer and many end up dead on the highways. But that isn't news. According to a short article...

What do people here think of the current crop of Winchester lever actions, as compared with both older Winchester lever actions, and to other brands that have lever actions, particularly Marlin, and also to other action types. I do know that different grades are available, from one with a...

I don't mean carrying two guns at once. But I already have an idea from other posts what some people think. My question is, it is better to carry a single handgun as your self defense weapon all the time (all the time you carry one, that is) or better to have a big one and another, smaller one...

When I was growing up, few people had guns that I was aware of. Nobody went out shooting anywhere (almost) and I seriously doubt many had more than two. But you never knew. After all, one of my neighbors was a gunsmith. I have a few photos of my father with a gun. One when he was young...

This is sort of related to the "most underrated deer cartridge" thread. A friend of mine has been hunting for ages all over the country and evidently insists on using only his own handloads, on the assumption that they are better in some way. Reading mainly commercial websites, I see there are a...

Anyone here have a .45 ACP Lee-Enfield? I only recently became aware of such a thing, though I've never seen one. There isn't even a mention of it in Small Arms of the World, at least in my edition, which is about 1965. Understand I am not referring to the .45-70 Gibbs Rifle Company...

I mean from a gun, of course. Sooner or later, hopefully later, anyone who fools around with guns will have one go off at an unscheduled time and place. One man told me the hunting cabin he used share with friends had a lot of holes in the ceiling, for instance. I have had my share. The funny...

This might be fun. I usually announce myself when I enter the local range by asking if they have any nickel-plated, break-top .38 S&W revolvers and failing that, a Ruby. Now, honestly, I find Savage auto pistols to be more interesting (and more common) but I find things like those to be utterly...