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I have a stainless Redhawk .44. The frame under the grips is slightly pitted from rust. I take the grips off and clean under them a coupple times a year (the gun only sees the light of day a coupple times a year). Each time, there is new rust. Is it possible that the wood soaked up...

I used to shoot a lot. A few thousand rounds every year between my pistols and rifles. This year I have had no time to do any shooting aside from warming up the barrel of my carry gun and getting to shoot the sand sculpture at SOMGS. Yesterday I got to take out my Uzi and Garand and get a...

I was driving around the other night, right hand under the seat belt, trying to shift my IWB holster so it would stop digging into my thigh/butt area. I realized that if I had to draw my gun, I couldn't without a few seconds prep time (un-buckling, turning in the seat, pulling my jacket up...

I keep a few guns loaded and ready to go in case something goes bump in the night. I got to thinking about them earlier today so I thought I would share some of my stuff with TFL. My bed side gun is a Glock 24C with a Surefire x300 light. I keep a Surefire executive elite with the gun as...

I was just thinking about those neat little .410 handy guns and wondered if any other barrels were ever made for them. Something like .45 colt or .44 special so it wouldnt be a nfa reulated gun. Just daydreaming at work.

I made a trade today. For my like new Norinco SKS sporter, all my 7.62x39 ammo, my 30 round AK mags and drum that I was saving a rainy day I got a Garand and a bayonet. There was some money on my part too. So as of today I have no com-bloc guns or ammo. I have a Garand. It is a...

A friend just got a DPMS .308 AR. It is the M4 style one with colapsable stock and carbine gas system. I was wondering if the buffer tube and receiver back plate is the same on those as a regular AR-15? He was asking me questions about changing parts but I wasn't sure if they were the same...

I am working out of town for a few months. The place I am staying is inside a school zone. My room is probably 100 feet from the school building. IIRC there isn't supposed to be any weapons within 1000 of a school. Does anyone know the finer points of having a firearm in a rented room...

All my life I have heard the smell of burnt gun powder as "the smell of cordite." The thing is, cordite hasn't been used in over 60 years. If it isn't cordite, what makes that distinctive smell? Is it nitroglycerin? If your answer is "that smell of burning gun powder is gun powder"...

Stopped by the fun store to get some 9mm ammo and saw a pair of FN SCARs behind the counter. A 16 and a 17. I asked about them and was told that the owner of the store had bought them to SBR but had changed his mind and was selling them. The 16 had been fired a few times and was therefore...

Whitetails are pretty much my game of choice. I have come to the conclusion years ago that I should have two very sharp knives with me when I take to the field. Last year I used a Entrek Badger and a Benchmade Griptillian (EDC knife). This year I would like to find a gut hook knife...

I am beginning to feel the itch to buy a new hand gun. I just haven't decided on what excuse to use to use for the "what did you get this one for" question. I don't have to many small guns. I could get a compact or sub-compact and claim it to be a carry gun. Only two magnums in my safe. I...

I was poking around in my LGS and found a .17 HMR barrel for the 10/22 magnum. It was made by E R Shaw. I have a regular 10/22 and I thought a 10/17mach2 might be fun. I checked their webpage and they don't make these type of barrels anymore. Is there something wrong with the design? I...

After rereading the "lightswitch" thread, I started thinking about the problems of actually practicing in near darkness or total darkness outside of a shooting school. Shooting with a flashlight, weapon light, shooting with low ambient light, etc. While it is easy to sit in the dark and...

I happened into a unfired Norinco Sporter SKS. The kind that takes AK mags. The thing is, I hate the stock. It's not the thumb hole and it's not a standard SKS stock It looks and feels like it was crudely carved out of a 2x10 and had a butt pad stuck on. Are there any good aftermarket...

I got a used Remington .308 in a McMillan stock. I mentioned it in the gun shop when I was picking up ammo for it. The clerk asked me how it was bedded and all I could say was, "I don't know." I have heard of glass bedding and pillar bedding but I must admit, I don't know anything about...

While talking to one of my cousins after Christmas dinner he showed me a Taurus .44 mag. It is his first handgun, and it is his only handgun. (He's 6'4" and 350, he can handle it.) He isn't learning to shoot on this gun, it's just the first one he has bought. Anyway, I find out that...

A buddy at work found this gun under the stairs in his parent's house. He let me bring it home for a few days to see if I could clean it up a bit and figure any thing out about it. Seems to be a Kynoch Schlund .476 with a broken ejector.

Does such an animal exist? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are 1911/9mm, P-08, P-38, HK P7 (if you want to call that a full size pistol). I know there have to be lots more, but what are they?

Just picked up a 650 reloading press. Haven't got it put together yet... Any 650 owners out there have any advice or tips on things I should look out for? This is my first progressive press.