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Recent developments in ammo availability, reloading considerations and MDOC’s adoption of Antler Point Restrictions all came together and I decided it was time to take a look at my rifle battery. With both a 94 Winchester and a WASR AK variant, I was fat in the ‘iron sighted midrange’...

For years, I've loaded the 250 RNFP as my standard 45 Colt load. It shot well and I reserved the 255 SWC for hotter loads. I'm getting lazy in my old age and I wanted to change up my standard load to the more efficient SWC and use it exclusively for just that; but I hadn't settled on a charge...

Traded into a Taurus PT145 MilPro... been wanting to try one of these for awhile. The PT145 comes with two 10 round mag's. It has an odd, but shootable trigger. With the mechanism pre-set you get a long, light take-up, a firm spot and then the break. If the round is a dud, you get another...

Hit the local gun show today and picked up a Ted Williams Model 3T .22 automatic rifle. The guy had $175 on it but I got him down substantially, pretty quick. It is actually a Winchester Model 190, rebranded for Sears. The rifles were produced between 1967-1980 and total production including the...

My son Josh recently picked up a used Glock 21 from Terry’s Gun Specialty. The gun is in good condition and the price was very reasonable. I drooled over it awhile myself, but passed because I needed something better suited to concealed carry. At 8 ¼ inches long and 38 ½ ounces loaded, the Glock...

I picked up a police trade-in Glock 23 about a week ago… mid 2007 production w/ factory night sights. I paid about $175 under retail, for the same model new and similarly equipped. Of course the gun is used and looks like it. The good news is that the barrel, feedramp and breechface indicate a...

My WASR-10 has proven to be an excellent shooter and I decided I was going to use it for Missouri's firearms deer season. MO requires that any firearm used for that purpose be limited to a maximum capacity of 10 + 1 rounds. A couple of weeks before the season opened, I searched a gun show &...

I’ve never been a big ‘Taurus guy’ for a couple of reasons. The first one is that their QC has been spotty. The second is that they when they introduce a gun that I like, they discontinue it ASAP and replace it with something goofy. For instance they made a 3”, fixed sight .44 Mag DA snub with...

I traded into a ‘new’ 2008 WASR-10/63 about a week ago. It’s just the basic Romanian AK-47, probably made in the same CUGIR toaster factory where my late-lamented SAR-1 was built. It has the plain, threaded muzzle with a nut on it. The wood on the WASR is uglier than that which came on the old...

This is a 'shoebox gun' I picked up from a kid who'd taken it apart and couldn't get the mag catch back in. I've bought a few other such guns over the years, giving as little as $15 for them back in the 80's. Counting inflation, things haven't changed much.. I probably wouldn't have bought it...

I recently received some of Armscor’s 230 grain, full metal jacket .45 ACP ammunition for testing & evaluation. It comes packaged 50 rounds to the blue, folded cardboard box and the bullet itself has a brass-colored jacket. Overall length is uniform and the crimp is firm. Rock Island Armory...

Let's try this again, sans the acrimony. I suggested in a similar thread that a 7.62x39 Imp would be a useful midrange MBR cartridge. Remington, it would appear, had a similar idea with their 30AR which gives respectable external ballistics from the basic AR platform. I am duly impressed and...

On January 2nd I traded for a new Rock Island 1911A1FS with their nickel finish. Feeding problems commenced immediately, primarily due to an undersized and too short chamber. I called Rock Island and explained the situation to Shawn in RIA’s gunsmithing section. I also emailed photos and a...

Sorting out the Rock Island I came up with a new Rock Island GI in bright nickel. The sumbuck just about defies cell phone photography so I've added a slightly better pic: When I was a kid, you'd occasionally see USGI surplus .45's that had been handed off to cousin Larry who worked at Acme...

Our muzzle-loader deer season starts in about a week, so I decided to shoot my old .54 Hawken today. It sat with a load in it since last winter, and it fired without hesitation on the first cap. If there are 101 uses for a dead cat then dead terrorists ought to have some utility, too. I...

You have to understand I grew up in a time where old twist-barrel doubles could be be had for a good day's wages in the hay field. We were buying them at 14-15 and despite the admonitions of our fathers and uncles, shooting modern shells in them. I've seen a few come uncorked and even have an...

Here's a little food for thought on a Sunday afternoon. Instead of buying another handgun, or a ton of bolt-ons or 'modding' the one you have- make a concerted effort to master THAT gun. I don't care what it is. Learn to shoot it. For example... I see a lot of folks berating the S&W Sigma...

Awhile back I picked up an old Charter Arms Undercover .38 Special, made about 1965. It was in good shape, worked OK, and it showed promise as a pocket gun. It also shot pretty well with a good plinking/small game reload, using W231 and a 158 grain Hornady bullet. Some 200 rounds later, it...

Rob Leahy & I discussed the perfect working holster, for single actions, via email about a year ago. I don't know that this was the result of that correspondence, but it sure gets the 'Sarge Seal of Approval'. Great work, Rob... I'll do it justice with better pics when time permits.

Ruger's little SA gem is calling to me and I am calling on you for your experience with the recent iteration of the Bearcat. Does yours shoot close to the sights, what kind of groups are you getting/how far, etc? All replies appreciated and yes I have already checked out the excellent...