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Fire pole shooters: If you wanna cut to the chase tell me how to get a 50 call ball out of a ten inch single shot pistol barrel! If you wanna hear the whole crazy story . . . read on. Some time ago I posted about building a Hawken pistol out of a kit I bought via an auction. Well I got the...

Looking back over my post from the last few years I thought of an incident that might warrant some discussion. Have you ever been confronted by a person with a gun? My incident is somewhat benign. I was teaching part time at a federal prison. One day I forgot to turn in my id badge on the...

Earlier this year King Pritzger managed to get a state law pushed through banning certain firearms and ammunition magazines. (I won’t go into details here but by some definitions of what is banned, I have bb guns that are now banned.) Of course, those now banned firearms that are already owned...

I've wondered what happens if you are carrying and get pulled over for a traffic violation. In Illinois, you don't have to tell the officer you are carrying unless he asks. Also, in IL, when they run your driver's license it indicates whether or not you have a CC permit. So, I got my chance...

I'm looking for #11 percussion caps and having a hard time finding them. The big box online stores don't have them. Internet search is not turning anything up. Help! Life is good. Prof Young

Loaders: What is the difference between 180grain 38 cal JHP and XTP? The reason I'm asking is because I have some 180grain 38 Cal XTP but can't find more than two load formulas. I can find all kinds of formulas for 180 grain 38 cal JHP. Are they interchangeable? Help! Life is good. Prof Young

Hi. I am wondering if there is a way to delete a mis placed post. I just entered two threads in the reload forum and mistakenly added the second post as if it were a comment on the first. Help? Life is good. Prof Young

Loaders: For most of my reloading life I've sorted my brass then cleaned them. Recently I got so far behind that I cleaned everything all mixed together and am now in the process of sorting them with a set of progressive sorting tubs. The pros here are that . . . it's cleaner to sort clean...

Short of reading every head stamp or measuring every case . . . is there an easier way to sort 9mm and 380? I've got the progressive sorting tubs, but that nonetheless leaves you with a pile of 9mm and 380 that need to be separated. Open to suggestions! Life is good. Prof Young

I know this is kinda rhetorical and I suspect there is no one definitive answer but . . . is a gun in pieces still a gun? Here in Illinois, King Pritzger (more like a jester) managed to get a bunch of gun laws pushed through state legislation. And because he literally owns the state supreme...

Local auction had a Rem R51 that looked new. I guess it's called "smoke" because of the gray body parts. I researched it. The review were not glowing and apparently the first generation were jam-o-matics. But the second generation were "okay" so for $200 I took the chance. Although it...

I got a good buy on a CVA Hawken Pitsol Kit, model KA770 at an auction. But it does not have the insturctions or manual. I've inquired of Deer Creek and am waiting for a reply. I've searched elsewhere on the internet to no avail. Help? Prof Young

Fellow Shooters: I have a Beretta Tomcat 32 acp. With less than two hundred rounds through it, I notice a piece of metal on the range table that is the same green/gray color as the gun. Hmmmm. I shut down and field strip the gun. Sure enough, the piece of metal is part of the body and came...

I got a decent buy on a brick of Aguila Primers. I've loaded some rounds but have yet to shoot any. Just curious if anyone has some experience with them. Thoughts and comments coveted. Life is good. Prof Young

Like most of us, I've searched for the right CC holster for my CC guns. Via Amazon I found a POLE.CRAFT owb holster for my sig 365 that works well. (See pic attached below.) It's my 4th attempt at a holster for that gun. This one is the smallest, most compact and the only one with a spare mag...

As previously posted I got Jan an engagement ring and gun for Christmas. The gun was a Ruger Max 9, but I was not happy with the trigger so I switched her a Sig 365 chambered in 380. Her FOID card just arrived so it was it time to break it (the gun) in. Put 130 rounds down range that was a...

My range/gun store has a mini-14 that's calling my name. It's "new," as in recently manufactured. I recall these guns having a reputation for not being all that accurate. Are the "new" ones any better? Life is good. Prof Young

I have a couple hundred rounds of 45 colt in the ammo closet, which makes me think it may be time to have a single action revolver to shoot them. I'm starting my search. This will be a fun-gun, range toy only and I don't need a high quality, really expensive, keep-it-forever-and-hand-it-down...

Got word from Midway yesterday that they has small pistol primers in. $99 for a 1000 primer brick. BUT by the time you add hazmat, shipping and tax it was almost $150. I haven't done the math, but that seems to me like it's cutting the reload-it-yourself-savings too thin. I have some in stock...

I've been watching The Musketeers on prime. It's fun to watch the recreation of the match lock guns, the flint locks and the others. But in every scene when someone is holding another at bay with a pistol . . . without fail the gun is not cocked. I'd think the production armorer would know...