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Remington (or as was more precisely mentioned, RemArms). Production of the 870 were one of the things they got to keep in the divorce.

Circa 2017-ish new-production 1918A3 backdated from the stock Korean-era LMG to the World War I automatic rifle configuration, at 50-ish yards (I think). I can live with it.

I'm generally not a fan of modding old guns overmuch, but that is several kinds of cool.

Class size at the time was 20-25, depending. My class started with twenty, seventeen of whom finished the degree. The class following was increased to thirty, with somewhat higher attrition. I believe it’s twenty now, give or take, with new classes coming in once per year. Staff were two...

MSC class of '15. Got the degree and everything....somewhere. My information may be somewhat dated relative to the current program, but I've got friends there I could ask.

Some flavor of Rock Island in .22 TCM?

To each their own. I went the other way. Started with 870s, which I liked, provided I could lay hands on a Police or an older Wingmaster. I never warmed up to the Mossbergs, though I a bare-bones model I keep in case an acquaintance wants to learn to shoot. The Winchester 1200/1300 aren't...

You'll laugh...but if the rust isn't deep or widespread you can probably knock it off with a pencil lead. Oil and four-ought steel wool would be a secondary option.

I have a long-running theory, largely unsupported by anything other than my own observation, that it comes down to changes in the preferred shooting stance over the years. Most shooters I know (usually age sixty or under) often as not shoot from a stance that has the body at roughly a...

Notably, also the case in Jaws with Quint shooting an unmodified M1 rifle. To add, most blank auto/semi-auto adaptions aren't something that can be readily changed in the field, and any example so modified is likely unsafe to use with live ammunition. Naturally, any manually operated...

I suspect you'll get plenty of help from the technical side here. Having dabbled some in writing (usually fiction, usually pretty heavy on firearms, usually in some kind of historical setting) I'd be happy to pass along any half-decent advice or suggests I've discovered so far if you're...

Interesting and impressive, to be certain. My hat's off to anybody who can run an old piece that fast. Nothing western about it, though.

I like the idea behind steampunk. I seldom like the execution. That said, I'll throw out a few that might fit. The turn of the century pocket autos come to mind, as do the early autoloading rifles. Incidentally, I've always been of a mind that the Remington Rolling Block did a pretty...

I'm of two minds on sporterized rifles. On the one hand, you have the high-end professional sporterizations done in the '20s by old-line gunmakers on '03 Springfields and Mauser actions; the Lee-Speed family falls into this category, too. Those rifles are jewels, and there are times I'd give...

This one sometimes goes by Wicked Felina. I've got a name for the Thompson, too, but that's more of an inside joke.