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With winter right around the corner and heavy coats and hoodies coming along with it, I am looking for a new stainless .357 Magnum I can carry concealed OWB. I have narrowed it down to the following models: S&W Model 60 3": Pros: Compact frame and grip make it much more concealable and has...

While house sitting for a friend my sister had two men try to break into the house. She was able to hold them at bay with a shotgun the family kept in the closet and call the police. She has since decided to purchase a handgun and get her concealed carry license. Here is the catch: She is a...

I'm not a hand loader so crazy off the wall calibers aren't economically feasible for me but ever since learning of its existence I have wondered why the .357 Maximum never made it as a chambering. It seems to me that if you have a gun chambered for .357 Maximum, yet can still fire both .357...

I just got a new safe over the weekend and I've been spending the last few days organizing everything to my liking. I just got around to setting up all my handguns and spending a little quality time with each one before placing it on the shelf when I noticed a trend, on several of my older...

So I recently purchased a shotgun for my girlfriend so I could take her small game hunting with me this year and since then she has miraculously become enamored with the idea of going hunting. She is signing both of us up for quota hunts for deer and bird and she wants a deer rifle now. :eek...

I have no idea why they are so hard to find nowadays or why nobody really makes them anymore but I have had a longing for a nice little 22LR kit gun. I've been searching the used shelves and gun shows every weekend in hopes of finding one that isn't exorbitantly priced with no luck. I was...

As I promised in my other thread, here are the pics. This is as I purchased it: And after working my magic: Not bad for $300 and a couple hours of elbow grease. :D

I'm looking at a S&W Mod 66 no-dash with the stainless sights for a very good price but one that unfortunately has been dropped, causing the rear adjustable sight to be bent on one side. How hard would it be to find a replacement stainless rear sight for this gun? Cosmetically it is annoying but...

My better half has decided she will go rabbit/bird hunting with me this fall and I need to get a shotgun for her. We went to the shop today and she tried a few full-size pumps (Remington 870 and Mossberg 500) but she was having a lot of difficulty reaching the front hand-guard comfortably. She's...

I can't figure it out. I took my new Para Companion C7.45 LDA to the range yesterday and again I outshot anything I ever shot with a full-size 1911. I thought my old Para Slim Hawg was just a fluke, its accuracy due to the match grade barrel or just a really good day at the Para factory, and...

A Model 67 .38 Combat Masterpiece Stainless that is ;): This is as a received it, in the original box with those hideous Pachmayr grips. I'll be cleaning it up and replacing those grips first thing. I'll post up the results a little bit later. :)

And it probably isn't the Colt you were expecting. :p It is a Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket .25 ACP. This is one of my favorite Colts, right after the original 1911 and just before the Colt 1903/1908 Pocket Hammerless. This one is all original and has a manufacture date of 1921. The build...

I admit it, I'm a fan of a full lug barrel. I'll post up a few pictures of my full lugs in hope some more will join in.

Bud's Gun Shop had a bunch of guns they bought from Para Ordnance, mostly show guns and discontinued models. Out of the stacks of Para's they had I found this Para Companion C7.45 LDA. I'm a big fan of compact 1911's and I've always thought about how nice it would be to have one without a...

A stainless P220 has been on my to-buy list for a while now. I hadn't seen a good example for a reasonable price anywhere, I kept finding carry's and compacts but no full-size models. I lucked out this morning, however. Came with the original box, papers, lock, two factory mags, and a set...

I've been wanting a P239 ever since I first got into SIG's. I was holding out for a 2-tone stainless but every time I found one for a decent price it had the DAK trigger, which isn't a bad trigger system but I prefer the DA/SA. I chanced upon this one today for a price I couldn't say no to. So...

There, no more ILS. :D I replaced the arched mainspring housing containing the internal locking system with a flat mainspring housing from Ed Brown. It is the chain-link cut for anyone who's interested. In addition to the mainspring housing itself you'll need a new mainspring, mainspring cap...

I was wondering if anyone knew of a manufacturer which made wooden grips for the PPK (and that is PPK, not PPK/S) that were of a similar/equal size to the factory plastic grips. I have a set of Hogues that are nice quality and a good quality wood but they are at least double the thickness of the...

I have always had a fascination with pocket guns, especially the Berettas. Beretta is one of the few manufacturers who still includes micro-pocket guns in their lineup and has for many years. There's something about them which is quintessentially Italian. They aren't especially powerful and one...

Just added this to the collection today. I've been looking for one for a long time but it seemed like every time I located one I was just a few minutes too slow and someone had beaten me to it. I've been checking Bud's every morning for a while and I happened to check the Springfield section...