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I sure ain't. Rained like a cow peeing on a flat rock most of opening weekend. The weekend after that it was about 90 degrees by 10:00 AM Saturday morning. This past weekend- full moon and there was some kind of horse show or rodeo not far from my lease, people running generators, PA system...

The game to be hunted are smallish deer (under 100 lbs) or feral pigs about the same weight or less and the range will be 25-100 yards. The hunter is an excellent shot with any handgun or an M-16. (She has never shot at anything with a heartbeat, however). The firearm used will be a scoped...

Well, it's vacation time again and the missus and I will soon be packing up the little SUV for our yearly trek to visit her mother in southwest Indiana and my folks in south-central Kentucky. Last couple of years we went through MO and IL. I was nervous as a cat because of traveling with a...

My beloved old CZ 52 is become a nuisance and possibly dangerous to fire. I have replaced the hold open catch, the pin and the hold open catch spring. Everything functions fine when I cycle by hand, but when I let loose 1 or 2 of those mean little 7.62 X 25 rounds, the pin starts to back out...

I have $300 left in my 2001 handgun budget. I can put in a few more bucks (say $20) just in case, or if I don't spend the whole wad I can spend the rest on accessories or ammo. Here are my choices (and I can really only get one, this is serious :( ) : Taurus model 85 CH Keltec 9mm (P11?) Witness...

Every now and then when you're at a gun show do you see a gun that just cries out "take me home, take me home!"? Well, there I was at the Astro Hall gun show last week, and there's a guy with a K38 Masterpiece, 6" barrel on his table. The tag said $290.00 so I reached in my wallet's secret wife...

I bought a brand new Springfield Armory Mil-Spec Ultra Compact .45 at the gun show down in Pasadena this weekend. It only comes with one 6 round mag so I bought a McCormick Shooting Star 7 rounder (stainless) at the same show. Today at lunchtime I put the following through the pistol: 50 rnds...

Bought a used Glock 23 a few months back. The first thing I noticed when I shot it was that I did not care for the NY1 trigger (8 lb pull supposedly; it felt like the DA pull on an RG .38 I shot one time years ago, which was probably 14 lbs). Sent off to Glockmeister for a stock trigger spring...

Does anybody have an answer for this? When I try to shoot my 629 by resting the barrel on several sandbags and the butt on one sandbag, the recoil or something causes the cylinder to move in the opposite direction from what it should. Most of the time this means it's bringing a fired chamber...

I'll be working in my company's London office for 3 weeks starting Monday. Now, I know for sure my Texas CHL is not gonna be too valid over there. :rolleyes: Does anyone know for sure what the laws say about less-than-lethal weapons (OC spray, shockers), pocket knives (I really would not...

The wife and I are getting out of Houston for a long weekend in the Alpine/Ft. Davis area. We'll be attending a barbecue, seeing some old friends, and possibly heading out to the range for some fun. ( see http://www.overland.net/~jlwstark/bbsc.htm ) Hopefully I'll be drinking a Shiner Bock...

The wife and I are getting out of Houston for a long weekend in the Alpine/Ft. Davis area. We'll be attending a barbecue, seeing some old friends, and possibly heading out to the range for some fun. ( see http://www.overland.net/~jlwstark/bbsc.htm ) Hopefully I'll be drinking a Shiner Bock...

Just wondering. I've already checked out http://www.thefiringline.com:8080/forums/showthread.php?threadid=27285 and http://www.thefiringline.com:8080/forums/showthread.php?threadid=24985 and http://www.packing.org/. The missus and I are taking an extended road trip to visit family in IN, KY...

Don't know if this should go in Hunting or Rifles, but I'll start here. The past few days I've really been thinking about getting one of the inexpensive military surplus bolt actions I've been seeing at gun shows lately. The gun will be used for hunting "Texas" game which ranges from javelina to...

Help! I've just started reloading and I'm having a lot of problems with the seating/crimping step. I've read the directions for the dies (RCBS, and I have an RCBS reloader special press) about a million times, gone to their website, read the parts in the Speer reloading book and I still end up...

Somebody either stop me or give me instructions. I've got a powerful urge to do some home gunsmithing on my CCW piece. I'm thinking about removing the hammmer spur.

I got home from a business trip on Friday to a pleasant surprise- my Texas CHL had come in the mail. Now, I've owned guns and have been a hunter/shooter for literally all of my adult life, but I am still feeling a kind of strange about having a firearm on my person. BTW, I've noticed carrying...

Well, it finally happened to me. I have posted rather proudly several times how nice it is to work around gunowners, hunters, CCW holders, etc. Found at least one exception, and boy, what an exception. I approached our administrative services supervisor with a question about receiving personal...

Last Friday was my 9/80 day off, so as usual I picked a couple of pistols and some ammo out of the locker and headed towards Carter's. I had my Ruger P89 and the Tokarev. Ammo for the Tok was 210 rds of Chinese ball. It looks fairly new, but my Chinese reading skills are rusty so if anybody...