Recent content by ponyboy314

Well, there are a lot of so-called reasons behind that. During World War II, everyone had their own caliber. The US had the .30-06, the British had the .303, the French had the 7.5mm, and so on and so forth. With the creation of the Warsaw Pact, the Western nations, which is to say NATO...

Damn, you Canadians get the good healthcare system, and you get the cool M14 rifles! I need one of those!

Funny you should mention it. After I started this thread, I disassembled it again, and I noticed something that I had already noticed before, but apparently was too dumb to take into consideration... Inside the magazine spring was (take a wild guess...) a wooden dowel rod. I can't believe...

Nothing can make a bad guy back down like a monster that he has already met in the past. This Taurus is a fad gun. I regard it as something that will be bought up by those who want to be able to say that they own and dazzle their buddies, but a good old fashioned .357 is a familiar beast...

I used to work for an armored car company, and when I decided to purchase my own service weapon, I knew it was going to be a .357. It came down to two. Either a Ruger GP-100 or a Smith and Wesson Model 586. I carried that 586 for five years. I practiced with it a lot. By my best guess...

I'll say this much... About six years ago, I bought a Colt M1911 (pre-A1 model) made in 1917. It has its share of pitting. The serial number is 174771. It has every original part. In the 90 years that my M1911 has been around, not one thing on it has been replaced. And it fires like...

I recently bought a Remington Model 11 auto-loading shotgun. I've always wanted one and now I have it. Life is good. Of course, there just has to be a problem. Loading the tubular magazine is proving to be a problem. I can slide the first round up the tube with no problem, but for one...