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Sorry if this's ever been posted on before--the search seems to be 'disabled by the administrator' at the moment. During a trip to the range today I noticed that the rear sight on my Ruger Mk II seemed... well, a bit off center. It'd been a while since I'd shot this particular pistol, so I...

Ok, we all know Garands love grease. And I've heard quite a few people mention using grease on, say, the slide rails of 1911s. What I'm curious about is if there's any situation in which you should -not- use grease to lubricate a gun. I just picked up a CMP Garand a few weeks ago, and a tin...

Hey guys. I'm curious what your experience w/ the current batch of CMP surplus M2 ball is; it comes in ammo boxes indicating that it was probably linked at some point in its lifetime, but was delinked and repackaged into 20 round boxes w/ the CMP logo and such on it. Headstamp is mostly LC 69...

Just curious to see what your impressions about this might be, as AIM Surplus is running a free shipping special on it (I live close enough to visit, but why waste gas if I don't have to? :D). I've run two boxes of it--just the basic FMJ--through my Dan Wesson PM1-B w/o an incident. How is it...

Hey all. In a horrible display of Poor Impulse Control, I picked up my first 1911, a Dan Wesson PM1-B last week. It's beautiful, w/ a perfect trigger (IMO!) and a great shooter for me--I'm not the best shot by any means, being still a relatively new shooter, but had no problem putting almost...

It being far too fine a day to spend indoors playing video game hockey and the like, I decided to take a late-afternoon trip out to the range. At the moment, my Marlin 60 and my other rifle case is at the shop; all the stores are out of CCI Mini-Mags--the only food my Ruger Mk. II likes; I'm...

This is for you guys out there who've been using Ballistol for a while; I just ordered some recently, curious about it as I'm not particularly thrilled with exposing myself the the more toxic products out there on a regular basis. It also can be more economical, particularly considering that it...

Hey all! I just picked up a Bulgarian Mak the other weekend--per the faq at makarov.com, it's an '85, with a perfect like-new finish and excellent bore. When I took it out to the range, with Wolf 109gr FMJ, it did its thing quite admirably--though the ammo itself was somewhat inconsistent...

I'm still quite new to this whole 'gun' thing, and newer still to the 'rifle' part of it. But I've picked up that there's more to slings than just a handy way of toting your iron around the woods. Would one of you fine, educated gents be so kind as to point me in a direction in which I might...

This seems to be a good day for this sorta thread, so here I am. I think I need one more rifle to get it out of my system for a little bit... well... a few months, at least. ;) My thoughts at the moment are divided between: - Swiss K31. Something about that straight pull bolt is just...

Tonight I came home to find something quite unexpected--a beautiful, obviously old, single-shot shotgun laying on the dining room table. It turns out that it belonged to either my grandfather or great-grandfather originally... so I'm naturally a little curious as to its history. :) It's...

It being a Monday, I didn't have my normal dose of Lionel to listen to on the way home from work, so I wound up doing some binge thinking. In particular, I was thinking about the Mateba Unica 6 Autorevolver, and got to wondering... is it DA/SA only, or can it be cocked manually? And if it...

For as long as I can remember, I was given to believe that the caliber of a particular ammunition referred to the diameter of the projectile, generally in decimal inches--hence, a .22 would be .22" in dia, a 9mm would be, well, 9mm, a .50 would be half an inch, and so on. Then, I happened to...

As I was not sufficiently graced with foresight--or patience--to get the tapped/drilled Target model of the Mk II, I'm left with a bit of a dilemma when it comes to mounting a scope. I can either take it to a smith and get it drilled, obviously, or I can use one of the other solutions. I'm...

Hey all--got another gun n00b question for yinz. Now that my Mk II is not jamming (as much), I can move on to other, more important things, like figuring out how to hit what I'm aiming at (instead of below it); that, in turn, leads to a need for the occasional bit of maintenance.... my question...

Hey all. I'm a bit of a newbie to firearms--well, quite a bit of one, really :D--and wanted to see what you guys thought of this issue I'm having with my Ruger Mk II... I took it to the range to fire it for the first time this last Saturday. I started out firing plain lead standard velocity...