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Has anyone used one of these? http://www.kalinkaoptics.com/detail.aspx?ID=276 It looks like a nifty little thing, and the price is nice. I tried searching for it, but PO is not a term the search engine here will accept.

I have a new rifle in the pipeline and I am looking at various scope mounts. This will be my first modern bolt rifle, so I am not completely sure what's what. I have always heard good things about Leupold stuff. I'm thinking of these mounts with matching rings...

With the price of lead skyrocketing and driving up ammo prices, how long do you think we will continue to use lead in projectiles? And what can possibly replace it? I know there are solid copper bullets, but that seems even more expensive. I'm thinking we will not be going to energy weapons...

I was poking through junk in my basement the other day and happened upon a FAL parts kit I all but forgot about. This prompted me to do a brief search on FAL receivers, here and elsewhere. The results are disappointing. Apparently, I have a choice of DSA or Entreprise. DSA is expensive...

I recently found out that my employer has a company trap and skeet club with a $10 a year membership. I felt it would be wrong not to join, even though I know absolutely jack about either trap or skeet. I also happened to come by an extremely cheap Remington 11. It doesn't look like much...

I have two RIA 1911 that are pretty much identical. One I bought new, and the other I bought used from a friend. The one I bought new has never had any problems, but I replaced a couple of things on general principle. The recoil spring started feeling a bit light to me pretty quickly, so I...

Reading the two recent threads, I thought of a couple of examples, but since they deal with specific authors, I thought I'd start a more generic one. One of my favorite gun-related lines is from David Brin's The Postman. This line did not make it into the movie. When he talks about SHTF and...

During my range session yesterday I was unpleasantly surprised by a new-to-me AMT Backup (SA). I kept having fail-to-fires. I was using WWB ammo from Walmart. Examining the failed rounds I saw that they all had a definite pin impression on the primer that I would have thought would be...

How do you do this to a Model 64? In my quest to pick up sick guns and nurse them back to health I have acquired (very inexpensively, it just followed me home, honest) a model 64 Smith & Wesson. It has a three inch ported bull barrel. Now, the big thing wrong with it turned out to be that...

I have a Sears-branded Winchester 94. Despite the brand name, it is a real-deal Winchester, so this is a Winchester question. I got it used and haven't fired it yet. Getting sick the day before your planned range session sucks big time. I was dry-firing it to get used to the action and i...

I picked up this Sears-branded Winchester for a ridiculously small amount of money. It's in great condition, with bluing worn where it would be carried and a perfect bore. This is a pre-safety gun, possibly from the 1970's. Store-brand guns are apparently not worth a lot to collectors, but I...

This is a clip made by an organization calling itself National Russian Liberation Movement. I suspect they are some kind of a nationalist group, but I have no idea of their politics or goals. I really don't know anything about them. However, I thought this was a pretty amusing example of pro-gun...

I have a CETME with the extra-crappy plastic stock. I decided it had to go, and good thing I did because it already started falling apart. I got a wood stock, and I managed to get the old one off, completely destroying it in the process. Then I realized I can't put the wood stock on. The...

We are doing a week-long family campout in that area. I was kind of hoping to do some loud relaxation out there as well. Does anyone know of ranges in the area? Or, for that matter, interesting gunshops?

I have been offered an older Taurus 82. It looks like a copy of a Model 10 Smith, down to the grips. I know it's an older one because the present owner got it some 15 years ago if not more, and it wasn't new then. It's in pretty decent shape. I am of the opinion that one cannot have too...

I was browsing a Russian forum and I saw mention of Vepr in 7.62x54R being available for sale in Russia. I wonder if those will be imported here. I'd sure love to have one, what with the cheap surplus still available. So, anyone know if we're going to see them stateside? Correia? Anyone?

Poking around gunshops and auction sites I noticed that a cheap single barrel is $60-70, a cheap SxS is $150, but a cheap OU is $300. Now, maybe it's just that I haven't looked specifically for OU shotguns, but I was kinda wondering why this is. I can see a single being cheaper, what with...

For my birthday this year I got a 4 season set of Farscape. Naturally, I am in the process of watching it beginning to end. The episode I watched last night had some close-ups of pistols and I made an interesting observation. Officer Aeryn Sun, played by Claudia Black, an Australian actress...

I bought a stainless Security Six that looks like it's been dragged behind a truck. Both front and rear sights have been destroyed. I have replacement sights from Ruger and I have already put in the rear, but the front is giving me pause. The cross pin hole seems to have been drilled not at...

Wish they could talk. I just picked up a stainless Ruger Security Six. It obviously had a hard life - scuffs galore, one obviously from pavement. Sights are bashed to hell, top half of the front and right half of the rear are gone. Grips are cracked and carefully glued together. The...