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I have been looking at body armor lately, mainly because of two incidents that I witnessed over the past year. The first was a really close up encounter when I was struck in the lower chest by a bullet fragment that ricocheted off of a steel target . Did it hurt? Hell yes!!! Was it serious? Not...

Please help me out with a little information. Is the six shot Taurus model 44 the same frame and/or the same size as the Raging Bull? Locally, I have found several of the 5 round 4" barrel Tracker models and these seem to me to be the right size for a .44 Mag. I also have found a couple of the...

Well, tonight I bought a new toy. It's going to take some work, but I think that I'll have fun with it, both in refinishing it and in shooting it. The second model was made between 1882 and 1884. I bought this on line, so obviously I don't have a complete picture of what it is going to need. The...

I have just finished rebuilding my second shotgun. This one is a Winchester model 97 of 1939 vintage and it came out really well. Look for your self here: http://imageshack.us/g/691/dscf4079a.jpg/ I did a full job on the Winchester. I refinished/replaced the stock, reblued the whole thing...

I remember seeing someplace, although I do not recall exactly where, that the writer was recommending using moly coating, as in the molybdenum powder coating for bullets, to slick up the trigger group and action of cowboy action guns of all thre types, shotgun, rifle and pistol. have any of you...

Many, even most of the people that I talk to, either use or recommend the shotgun as the best home defense weapon. I do not always agree with that. Just think about the home defense situation and decide for yourself what the best tactics and strategies that you should use and prepare for. Here...

You may just already have one. It's that home defense shotgun the you have under the bed. I was doing a comparison of the 45-70 cartridge to some others and suprised myself. Here is what I found: 45-70: 430 gr. @ 1925 fps (+P) - energy = 3537 fp 405 gr @ 1330 fps - energy = 1590 fp 460 gr @...

I don't have any experience with BPCR guns, but I have been shooting and reloading rifles and handguns for 50 years now. I have shot blackpowder (a flintlock Hawken) but not BPCR. Some smokeless actions are generaly more accurate than others, i.e. bolt actions are generaly more accurate than...

I know that I've seen these slugs advertised in several places, Shotgun News???? The are 12 ga slugs that open up sort of like a flower on impact. There is one that stays together and punches a fist size hole through the target and another that the "petals" of the flower break off and send six...

Does anyoneknow where i can get a fully rifled barrel for my Charles Daly Field Grade? I'm completely fed up with the 20" smoothbore that I have on it now. It's O.K. for shot at 25 yards or less, which is great for home defense, but it wont even keep slugs on the paper at 50 yards. I'll loose a...

Drilling the holes to port a pistol barrel just doesn't look to be that complicated. It just doesn't look like rocket science. I have a good drill press with a machinists vice and I know how to use both. I have measured ten different pistols with ported barrels 5 Taurus three charter Arms and...

I have noticed that lately there have been several if not quite a few ba5gains out there in the marketplace (excluding Guns America of course), but both Gunbroker (if you can wqadde through some of the flat out rip off auctions) and Auction Arms have had some really good prices on S&W Mod 19's...

It's body armor. Yeah, you lnow bulletproof vest, kevlar ceramic plates, stuff like that. How many of you actually own one? How many of you just poo poo the idea as paranoid? How many of you blandly, or should I say blindly, go to a public range that you know for a fact has on site at least two...

Does MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving have the right to effectively add to the fines and punishments metted out to those convicted of DWI? No, I think not, but they do. I am very sorry that people are killed in drunk driving accidents. I don't do it and I do not condone it. But, in California...

I have an Aimpoint 1X 4 moa sight. If I put a 3X magnifier on it will the red dot also get magnified? In other words, will I end up with a 3X 12 moa scope?

Do you get as tired as I do about overused terms on the on line gun sales sites? One of the big ones nowadays is "tactical". This one permeates the entire industry. Just what makes something "tactical"? Is it painting it black, Is it putting a plastic colapsable stock on it and doubling the...

I got a call from W.V. this morning and was told that my C&R license is finally issued. Now I can go ahead with expanding my .38 S&W top break collection without paying that damned transfer tax every time. I had a heck of a time getting the license approved. It seems that the FBI had a record of...