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I'd like to buy a couple of hundred paper hulls for hand loading black powder shotshells. Does anybody know an internet source? Federal makes them but I don't know who carries them. I'm guessing that Federal doesn't sell direct to consumers.

I have an old single barrel shotgun that I'm going to use for blackpowder shooting - and maybe for some low power smokeless powder shooting. I've ordered brass hulls from RMC and am awaiting their shipment and I plan to use them mostly, because I don't need much in the way of equipment to load...

Did anybody else see the Pawn Stars episode last night that involved a muzzle loading circa 1750 French-made, English-proofmarked double bbl. coach gun, with an attached spring loaded bayonet? Awesome Gun! Pawn Stars is an often interesting program in case you've never watched.

I have an old single barrel 12 gauge shotgun, with a 2 3/4 in chamber. It's been checked out and found to be ok for black powder shooting. Gunsmith suggested maximum powder charge of one oz. Am looking online at brass shotshells to fire uncrimped. (2 1/2 inch Magtechs from Cabellas; 2 5/8 inch...

I've seen a lot of antique shotgun reloading tools that appear to be made of steel - or maybe iron - and others that appear to be made of brass. I saw one today that looked like it was all brass, but the owner says a magnet will stick to it. I didn't want to show my ignorance to him so I just...

I've recently been looking for blackpowder shells to shoot in my old 110 year old 12 gauge single barrel Forehand Arms shotgun. It was beginning to look like I would have to "roll my own" -until I saw something in a Midway catalog today that might just work in my gun. Midway carries 1 3/4...

I own a Forehand Arms single-barrel shotgun. I'm not sure what date it was manufactured, but it was probably made around 1900. The patent date is on the receiver and it's Feby 4, 1896 (or 1898; I can't make out whether the last digit is a 6 or an 8.) I'm thinking that I heard somewhere that...

I have a gun with a 26" Improved Cylinder Barrel. It's a classic gun and I'm not going to alter or add anything to it, so it will have to do as is. It's a fine gun for upland game birds and for ducks over decoys. With rifled slugs, it's a good deer gun. But if I want to hunt turkey and geese or...

If you have to wear blaze orange to hunt (you have to here) why camouflage your gun?

The first two hyperlinks below show two different guns both of which have been advertised on other websites as Remington Sportsman Models. Both are clearly the John Browning designed humpbacks and are very similar to the Remington Model 11's, but notice the difference in the rollmarks on the...

I recently bought an old Remington Model 11, manufactured in 1938. It's in very good (or better) condition. The wood on this gun is beautiful: I think it's walnut. I've read that cracks in the forearm are a common problem in Model 11's but mine isn't cracked, although there are a few small...

Today I saw a funny photo on a friends computer. I couldn't get him to forward it though. It was a photo of a house with a sign stuck in the front yard. The sign said: "My neighbor is ANTI-GUN. His house is UNARMED. Out of respect for his opinions, I will not use my guns to protect him." I'd...

I was just reading another thread on this forum in which a video was shown of a store clerk dropping a robber with a 38 Special. Somebody commented that the robber "did the Lee Harvey curl" which was a reference to the way Lee Harvey Oswald went down like a sack of potatoes and curled up and...

What with the current ammo shortage and the state of the economy, I thought forum members might enjoy this story I read today in a magazine I found in my Doctor's office. Just before the Soviet Union imploded, a Moscow man was sent to the meat market by his wife. After standing in line for...

The usual comparisons of these three calibers are based on the assumption that the most important difference between them is bullet velocity. Using that as the only crieteria, the 9mm Parabellum (aka 9mm Luger) is the best round of the three. Never given much weight is the comparative volume of...

This 9x18 Chinese (?) FMJ ammo in a green box was once easy to come by, was comparatively inexpensive, and it was pretty good stuff too. It was fine for just fun shooting at the range. My East German Makarov liked it too. I want to buy a case of 500 rounds or so. Or a box of 50 for that matter...

I have a Remington Model 11 shotgun. It is very much like the Browning A-5 shotgun. That makes sense since both guns were built on the same John Browning design. However, I'm told that there is one difference beyond the cosmetic differences of different buttplates, stampings, etc. The Browning...

I never see shotguns on anybody's top ten C&R list and I wonder why not? Aren't they C&R eligible? And, isn't a 12 guage in the closet the ultimate HD weapon that a handgun is meant to keep you alive long enough to get to? And what could be a more versatile gun for hunting than a 12 Ga...

I'd like to know the year of manufacture and grade of a 12 guage Remington model 11 semi-automatic five-shot shotgun, SN# 406xxx; Browning US Pats 689,283 - 710,094 - 730,870 - 812,326. The gun is blued, with a Pheasant engraved on one side and a duck engraved on the other, with some factory...

In the discussions of various revolvers on this forum, I've seen little love ever exhibited for the Beaumont-Adams revolver, which was the first revolver that could be fired either single action or double action. The B-A was Colt's main competitor in the era it was being manufactured, and was...