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My tag-along gun for the day was my Old Vaquero in .45 Colt. Almost as an afterthought, I realized I hadn’t shot it much since the previous fall, when I killed the last of its ‘zero gremlins’. So after mowing was done, I walked down to the backstop to discover my hard-used target board had...

While picking up my Charter Arms Undercover, I asked my dealer to keep his eye peeled for a used Mossberg 500. He ducked in the back and produced the back half of a Maverick 88, which came in without a barrel. He got into it right and shortly thereafter, so did I. I originally intended to slap...

I scarfed up an old 1960's Charter Undercover .38 last Friday. Please excuse the poor photography. Time and weather have been uncooperative. It has the Bridgeport address which, according to some sources, indicates 1960’s production. I count this as a plus. I've had a couple of .44 Bulldogs...

I have penned a few articles covering the Basics of Marksmanship, the Importance of Zero and selecting a grip that works for you, regardless of what’s popular at any given moment. I’ve covered the accuracy we should expect from a service pistol and our rightful expectations that such an...

I see that Galco lists this holster for the M&P and Sigma; just wondering if anyone here has actually tried one yet with the VE Series and can comment as to fit, compatibility with OEM sights, etc. Replies appreciated, so long as they are not dissertations about why I should be shooting...

Back in October, I received word from ‘Blake’ in Georgia regarding insufficient crimps and irregular seating he noticed in several boxes of new Remington 30-30 ammunition. My experience with this guy is that he’s genuine- not someone who’d post a BS complaint. Blake followed with photos and...

My ex-brother in law passed away last year. He was a good guy and we stayed on speaking terms after the split. A lifelong bachelor, Larry always had a few extra bucks and he accumulated a number of decent guns over the years. Back in the early 70's I was consumed with the gun-trading addiction...

I’d finally depleted my supply of Winchester bulk 55 grain softpoints, and so was looking for a replacement for hunting game to the size of deer. Sierra’s 65 grain BTSP ‘Gameking’ #1395 bullet gets rave reviews. Luckily, I live about 25 miles from Sierra’s factory. I purchased a few and was soon...

CAUTION: The following post includes loading data beyond some* currently published maximums for this cartridge. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Neither the writer, The Firing Line, nor the staff of TFL assume any liability for any damage or injury resulting from use of this information. Cooked up a...

Looking to order some bullets from these folks but their 'contact us' link contains no address & phone. If you've ordered from them in the past 60 days or so, please advise if you were happy with the service and product. Thanks in advance

Does anybody here know if the rear sight cut on the Sigma Series is a Novak, etc. or is it a proprietary dovetail/relief cut unique to this line? Mostly looking for input from gunsmiths or experience in substituting other sights on this gun. What I am not interested in is why you think as...

In late 1994 I received a call to meet some other LE folks for a first look at a new pistol. A nearby purveyor of LE goods hauled in a half-dozen Sigmas along with lots of ammo & spare magazines. We proceeded to shoot up his ammo and grin a lot. After a couple of magazines I was destroying...

We’ve got a firearms qualification coming up so it seemed like an ideal time to check zero on the two main pistols I carry these days; my issue Glock 22 and personally-owned Glock 23, both in 40 S&W caliber. These guns are nothing special. The G22 (top) has the dreaded, 8 pound ‘New York’...

What is a ‘good’ 30-30 reload? It means different things to different people and it depends on what each is trying to accomplish. A Cowboy Shooter will have different needs from the occasional hunter who, during the off-season, haunts the 100 yard station of his local rifle range. My ‘needs’...

I'm going to assume that anybody reading or posting in this forum isn't going to be horrified by a pic of a blown-up deer heart. If I'm wrong, mods- delete and accept my apology. I killed a little 125 pound button buck this morning with my Mini 14 Ranch Rifle, which is a 580 Series with the...

I picked this up at the annual 'End of Summer Junk Sale' off a fella who had it on his table. It's a 16" Rossi 92 in .45 Colt, barely a year old and with nary a mark on it. The spot on the stock is a bug that lit there to get in the family album. I didn't buy this right off, but when I priced...

I have long contended that Glock, never one to admit there was a chamber-support problem in the first place, made subtle changes to mitigate this problem over the years. Over time I noticed a couple of things that made me suspect this. More recently there was a third one, which when viewed in...

The Glock pistol in .40 S&W cartridge is America's most widely-used law enforcement sidearm, and it has proven entirely capable in that application. That fact has not been lost on the general shooting public, either. I'm an old-school pistol shooter and Glocks, initially, did not impress me...

"The first step was to build a factory-duplication load, and I used MO Bullet's 'Cowboy #1' which is a 255 RNFP. My goal was to break 800 fps and 7.2 grains of W231 averaged 825 fps. It turned out to be a shooter, too:" http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/

I've been looking for an ‘Old’ Vaquero in .45 Colt for some time; I love fixed sights when they can be made to work, and I wanted a sixgun that would take the heavy loads. I passed a couple back before obama-fright drove the prices dizzy, and the ones I had priced recently were higher than New...