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I found a huge box of #12 shot for dirt cheep at a yard sale (first of the year). I paid $10.00 for it and its weighs about a little under 30LBS. It has the shot in a large plastic box with 3 empty bags inside just laying in the shot, marked (Ballistic Products #12 chilled lead shot) I think it...

Today I was heading to work and saw a car with a license plate that say "45 ACP". They where not Idaho plates but I could not get close enough to tell where they where from. Any way I thought this was pretty cool and wanted to get plates similar for my car only in one of my favorite calibers...

Why did Lever action Rifles catch on but not lever action shot guns? On another note why did Pump action shotguns become big but pump action rifles are not real common. Is there some thing that makes a lever better suited to a rifle and a pump more suited for shotgun? I know you can find...

For years I have been trying to get the wife to go hunting. Other than a few coyotes and squirrels she has never enjoyed hunting. Well this time I want to make it different! One of her girl friends went goose hunting and said how much fun it was so not the Mrs wants to go. She knows that it is...

I think every one remembers there first deer. My first deer I shot was with my fathers 30-06. My Dad had several 30-06 rifles. At the age of 10 and skinny it was more gun than I was able to handle so my dad made some light loads for me. My father, Uncle, Grand Father and a Cousin and I all...

I have been shooting deer for many years mostly with my 357 magnum and occasionally with my 45-70 or my brothers 30-06. Any way this last season I shot a deer with a big slow heavy 45-70 that left an exit wound on the right side that seemed to bleed really heavily. I seem to recall the same...

So I have the gun and the $200.00 set aside for the paper work. I started to fill out the form 1 and got stuck. Because the gun is currently a pistol can I put the total length as the pistol length? Obviously I have not made the shoulder stock yet because that would be bad to have the pistol...

I dont know why but I have never liked to carry things on my hips. Currently I carry 95% of the time in my pocket. The other day at the range (my dads back yard) a friend of mine and I where practicing drawing our guns. He was notably faster, now I am not talking seconds but more like 10ths of a...

I was at a local gun shop and I talked about my idea to make a SBS 1887. The guy was intrigued but said I should leave the shoulder stock on it. I replied that I am planned to have both a pistol grip and a shoulder stock. He told me that I would have to pick just one for the form1. Is that true...

One of my sons recently finished his hunters safety and really wants to shoot some doves. He wants to use his shotgun (Winchester 500e) I know the 410 is not a great gun to start hunting with but its what he has. He does not like shooting my 12ga shotguns. He has practiced quite a bit and can...

So with a lever action shot gun like an 1887 or an 1901 is it true that if the magazine holds 5 rounds that the gun actually holds 7 rounds if its topped off? So it hold the rounds in the tube +1 in the receiver and +1 in the chamber? is this accurate? I have shot one many years ago and that...

I have a BFR in 45-70 Govt/450 marlin. I have been thinking about making a removable stock for it. Would this be a SBR or not? I think it would be a fun deer hunting gun!

I have been tinkering with the idea of a semi automatic 357 magnum for a long time. I had ideas about converting an M1 and such. Then an obvious idea hit me. Why not just convert an auto mag (such as a Desert Eagle or a Coonan) in to a rifle? How hard would such a conversion be? Please dont...

I have an older marlin 1894 in 357 magnum. In the past 20ish years i bet it has taken about 15 Idaho mule deer at ranges from 20 - 80 yards from my back porch. I got the gun from my father when I was young. He had the barrel cut to 16.5inches. It has been a sweet little gun. The issue I have...

I have been thinking about doing some thing different. Currently I am looking at getting an EOTech 1 moa dot for shooting ground squirrels. The normal range is about 30-70 yards. Is a holographic sight good enough to hit grounds squirrels at this range? I will stick with a scope if its a bad...

I have been building my dream 22LR for hunting ground rats. I have most every thing picked out (not bought yet other than the suppressor). I need to know what scopes work best. Also how would one of those Holographic sights work? I have seen them with 3MOA and smaller dots. Would those work...

about 1.5 years ago I my boss gave me a Ruger 10/22 for getting an important (and expensive, hard to get) certification for my job. While he is a good guy, that did start me thinking. What if the job ever ends badly? Could he claim that I stole the gun? Should I wright a bill of sale? I am not...

Today I was at the range talking to one of the old timmers and he pointed out how handguns have evolved. He talked about how times had changed from revolvers to 1911s to glocks. He was talking about how he feels bad that revolvers have stopped evolving. I pointed out to him that revolvers are...

The other day I was at the range and a guy said his 338 was a big bore rifle. I did not say any thing but I thought that it was a very powerful rifle but in my mind a big bore rifle has a caliber that starts with a 4. While Medium bore starts with a 3 and small bore starts with a 1 or 2. So is...

I have been thinking about getting a Holographic sight for my Marlin 1895SBL I use this gun for hunting deer (on occasion) and given the short range nature of the 45-70 round the holographic sight seems perfect. I was talking to a guy at the gun range a few days ago and he said that it may not...