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Looking for something for my girlfriend this Christmas. She keeps talking about taking our CWP class together so now that I know she's interested in it for her own reasons I want to get her a handgun that she can carry. When I worked at Academy, she had come in to fondle a couple of the guns we...

Had the opportunity to go out to the range with a couple of friends yesterday and try out some of their guns. I'm a 9mm guy and I've been spoiled by my CZ 75 which is a truly soft shooter. Several months after I started shooting, I had had the opportunity to fire a compact .40 as well as a...

I'm in the slow process of building a CETME and had been buying a couple magazines at a time for it. I ordered an aluminum mag with the initial kit and then I ordered 4 original steel G3 magazines from CTD. They were $2.97 and came to a little over $17 shipped. Wish I had bought more now, I went...

They say if you shoot long enough and are around guns long enough, you will have a negligent discharge. I don't know if that's true, but I had one today. Not in the way I thought that they happen, but in a strange situation. All safety rules were followed (except a key one I'll point out...

Well, I've done it again. I posted a thread previously that I had bought a CZ 26 to build and I still have the kit for that, which I'm happy with for $60. But I looked at the kit and it didn't look like anything I would actually be able to build myself. I didn't have the tools to work on the...

Had an interesting conversation with my machine tool instructor the other day. He knows I'm into guns heavily and he has a large number himself but pretty much just for hunting. So when he walked up and asked "if my rifle I thought was a Mauser is actually a Springfield, it would be worth less...

I'm a gunsmith student at Piedmont Technical College in South Carolina. I'm in machine tool classes and starting the gunsmithing in January of next year (it's coming up fast!) The final project for the class is an American Sporting Classic styled rifle in .30-06 with one walnut stock made to...

Over my birthday in August, I got all excited and got a shotgun to go dove hunting. Life responsibilities turned around and smacked that excitement in the face, and I went up going for dove only once (and goose not at all, like I had planned). I live in an apartment. I don't have facilities...

Lord help me, APEX had parts kits on sale for Labor Day and I bought one. Looks like I'm committed to a build. I was going to build one of the relatively cheap SMG parts kits floating around, and the VZ. 26 was the one that I felt most comfortable about finding a resource for a receiver, barrel...

APEX lists these PM63 parts kits going for a pretty decent price, right around $100, here http://www.apexgunparts.com/review/product/list/id/5142/category/60/ There are also barrels available, at a somewhat steep price. The problem is the bolt. The PM63 is a Polish submachine gun...

As I stated below, I'm looking to machine a cantilever scope mount for my VZ 58. For those that don't know, this replaces the stock in the rear of the receiver and attaches with the same stock screw that the original stock had. That means I will have to machine the mount to replace the stock...

I've been shooting my VZ 58 a lot lately and it's becoming one of my favorite rifles. It's light, handles well, easy to shoot, has very little felt recoil with its new compensator, doesn't cost a bunch of money every time I pull the trigger. I've been liking it so much that I've been thinking...

I took my new CZ 612 out today to shoot a round of sporting clays. I ended up shooting about 60 rounds before my shoulder couldn't take too much more and I called it for the day. I had some issues along the way though. In my first set of 10, I had several misfires. There was an audible click...

I've debated getting some short magazines for my VZ-58. The rifle is awesome as a personal defense weapon and the 30-round magazines are definitely fun and useful in competition (or if the Russians ever come parachuting out of the sky) but I feel they affect the handling. It definitely affects...

I was doing a little bit of reading on the Pedersen device yesterday and I started thinking. For those who don't know, the Pedersen is a device invented to turn bolt action rifles into semi-automatic rifles firing a pistol caliber round. It seems that, in experimenting with chamber inserts...

I keep two rifles in the gun cabinet which are ready for self defense. The AR 15 and the VZ2008. Both have one magazine of premium self-defense/hunting ammo locked in, with the bolt held open on an empty chamber. This is how I prefer to store them. The other day I went to take the VZ2008 to...

Looking for a 26-28" pump 12 gauge at a decent price. Something for dove now, maybe Duck/Goose/Turkey later. Might as well get something that I can do various types of sport shooting with, and I may add an extended magazine tube later down the line for informal fun 3-gun type shooting. I'm...

I moved recently from Florida to go to college here in South Carolina. My parents still live in Florida and that's where I consider my residency. My car is registered there and I maintain a Florida Driver License. South Carolina considers me a resident for some things (hunting license) and not...

I went in to a local pawn shop the other day to ask about a project I wanted to work on. I've been in there a few times before and talked to the guy who runs the gun counter and he always seemed knowledgeable enough, if not a little arrogant. He'd previously told me that he has a side business...

I didn't realize it, but we've barely got a month until dove season opens here in South Carolina. I've never hunted bird before, but I think I'm going to go for it this year. I still have to get my licenses figured out here but I'm going to do that soon and I also plan to pick up a cheap H&R...