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Forum Followers: For Christmas my woman got an engagement ring and a Leopard print Ruger max 9. You can guess which she was more excited about. :-) Anyway, with the slightest sideways pressure on the trigger, the Max 9 trigger locks up. I'm guessing this is not normal. Will be calling...

Ever since losing Carol Ann I've been coming home and not immediately locking up my carry gun. It may live on the kitchen counter for a day or so, or maybe on a dresser in my bedroom. Am always aware of those times when others will be in the house and so lock it up appropriately. But as I...

Shooters: Entering new territory here. I've taught a few people to shoot handguns but this time it's a girlfriend. I'm guessing it's not all that different. Learn all the safety ideals and protocols. Then start with small caliber single action and go from there. Thoughts and comments...

Loaders: With a dearth of 32 acp on the store shelves, I ordered some Starline 32 acp brass and set out to make my own. The brass goes up in to the sizer die with a click and takes super power strength to pull them back out leaving a line around the brass. I readjusted the die etc. No...

Forum Followers: Took the Beretta Tomcat out for the first time today. Shot some FNB ball and some Aguila 32. 75 rounds total. The gun felt like it was running much more smoothly by the end of the 75 rounds than at the start. Kinda hard to explain. Tip up barrel clicked into place much...

Have read somewhere that some law suits (may not be in USA) against gun manufacturers are being allowed to proceed on the basis of aggressive advertising on the part of the manufacturer. It occurs to me that I don't see any gun advertising apart from gun periodicals. No TV ads, or regular...

Had right eye cataract surgery couple weeks ago. It's healed, and I am waiting for the new lenses for my spectacles. In the meantime, with my glasses on, my distance vision is blurry. At the range this morning it was just too blurry to have satisfying shooting. I switched to my left eye...

I'm thinking about getting a Beretta Tomcat 32 acp. Not like I need another caliber to load for but it's call a hobby for a reason. Anyway, I already load 380 and I have loaded 25 cal. If I go to load 32 acp might there be any surprises or things to look out for? Life is good. Prof Young

LGS has a Beretta Tomcat 32 acp in the case. It kinda calls my name . . . Talk to me about your Beretta Tomcat . . . LIfe is good. Prof Young

So I'm watching an old John Wayne movie about the creation of the fighting SeaBees. The Japanese snipers are shooting a rifle that has some kind of can at the end. Looks like a shortened silencer. But, unless the movie makers have it wrong, it's not a silencer. What is that? Flash...

So let's just pretend that I went crazy and spent as much on the trigger as I did on the gun and bought a Franklin Armory binary trigger for my Ruger 10/22. Is it really a gun smith only install? I'm handy with tools and have done some small gun smithing jobs on my own. (Look for my threads...

Was at favorite LGS/range a few days ago and owner has a bunch of AR pistols hanging on the wall. Apparently these guns have a binary trigger meaning it fires once as you pull the trigger and once again as you release it. I didn't know such a thing existed. These guns had "select fire" meaning...

Response to previous post suggests that some of you are getting Ginex primers. So are you ordering right from the company in Bosnia or finding them here in the states or ????? Life is good. Prof Young

Loaders: The day has finally come. I'm down to my last few handfuls of primers and to have any kind of "supply" of ammo on hand I've been buying factory made ammo for about three times (or more) the cost per round of what I can reload. How about you? Dang. Life is good . . . and pricey...

Was at a Rural King today looking at ammo prices. Lady walks up next to me and says something to the effect of "Aren't they all pretty. I wish I could take more home." Turns out she was talking about the firearms. We had a brief conversation wherein she revealed she'd recently bought a 22, a...

Local range had 10 gauge turkey shells on the counter so I asked the owner if they had anything to shoot those through. The have a browning Invector BPS Steel . . . that's sticky. (See pic below.) Yeah it is literally sticky and has been recalled because of it the sticky. I handled it and...

Shooters: Found an ERMA pistol (see pics below) at nearby gun store. It's part of an estate sale. Don't know anything about them, but it looks like a seriously cool range toy and may even be a collector's item. Take a look a the pics and then talk to me. Life is good Prof Young

After two years of waiting (I live in Illinois) I finally got my renewed concealed carry card and it is combined with my Foid (Firearms Ownwer ID)as one card. There is now no expiration date on the card. I've heard it rumored that the new no-expiration-date cards would mean that when we buy...

Took the Bobcat and the PPK/22 to the range to do a comparison. Shot four kinds of ammo, Federal, Rem Thunderbolt, Norma tac22 and Aguila Super extra. Shooting at 3 yard, the ppk, with an inch longer barrel, shot better groups with all loads. The Norma surprised me at how much tighter the...

Was headed back to IL from IN earlier today. Stopped in at "Down By the Tracks" gun store in Galveston IN to look for reloading stuff. While there a guy told me about Brian's Surplus in Greentown IN. It was not much out of my way so I checked it out. Wow. Lots and lots of ammo of all kinds...