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I recently purchased a Weatherby PA-459 12 gauge pump. I've shot it a few times and done some tinkering, and have it set up so that it suits me pretty well. The gun comes with a short length of rail mounted ahead of the ghost ring sight. I have no plans to mount anything on the rail, so I...

Stainless steel, no flash hider, and an 18" barrel. Same overall length. This is the one I want. Wonder if they will sell it here.

Preventing glaring errors in big media productions? I recently watched the first episode of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Early in the episode, they showed Treasury agents training in preparation for the start of Prohibition. This image is a screen capture from the episode, which by the...

Reserve Cop Shoots Himself Through Hand, Hits Partner GARY, Ind. (STMW) - An accidental shooting by a retired Gary police officer left him and his partner wounded as they rode together in a city car Saturday afternoon, Lt. Samuel Roberts said. Kenneth Shannon, 68, and Joe Leavy, 56, who...

I watched an episode of Top Gear last night, in which one of the guys goes to Finland and competes in what they call a Folk Race. It's pretty much a rally style auto race, but with a twist in the rules. In order to keep things competitive, they base the classes on the price of the car. Not on...

Bolt actions are either cock on opening (actually on bolt lift) or cock on closing. Neither one strikes me as ideal. Cocking on bolt lift takes a lot of force to cam back the firing pin, and it comes at the same time that the bolt is doing the primary extraction of the fired case. It...

I have an old single barrel 16 gauge that belonged to my father, and his uncle before that. The marking on it is EXCEL, which I understand was made by Iver Johnson. It appears to be the same as the Champion model. No idea of age, other than it has a 2 3/4" chamber, which puts it later than...

I was reminiscing with my sister about my uncle who taught me the fundamentals of hunting. He kept a bird dog, and hunted quail, limiting out on a regular basis. As the Missouri Conservation Department reintroduced turkeys, he took up turkey calling, and was consistently successful, back when...

If you poke around on the Winchester site a bit, there is a download page about a couple of new shotgun loads that look kind of interesting. Another site mentions that they will be available next spring. One is a 12 gauge, an updated buck and ball load with a 1 oz. rifled slug and three 00...

I just did a search on Gunbroker for AR under the semi-auto category, and came up with 41 pages, or about 2000 results. There are uppers and lowers and .22 rimfire derivatives and so on in those results, but still there are at least 1000 actual AR rifles for sale there. Maybe few dozen of...

You never know where that bullet may end up. Talk about a one in a billion chance. http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/1555811.html

I watched the 1971 Michael Caine film Get Carter the other day, and noticed a gun that you don't see every day in movies. There isn't a page for the film on IMFDB yet, but the other guns in the film are pretty much unidentifiable, a fairly generic hammer double shotgun and a sawed off pump that...

This is a suppressor!

I'm going for a long weekend squirrel hunting next month, down in southern Missouri. The gentleman who owns the land where we will hunt says that some feral pigs have been seen in the area, and that we should shoot any we see. Somehow I don't think that a subsonic hollow point from a 10/22 is...

My niece's husband is a sergeant in a National Guard engineer company that is about to deploy to Afghanistan. He's home for a few days, after spending the last couple of months training. At dinner last night, we talked a bit about the training. He said that the company spent three days on...

It looks like the bubble has burst. ARs in plenty, at prices right in line with what they were a couple of years ago. Stacks of ammo, priced a bit high but not selling at those prices. Some primers, likewise. Most of the sales that I saw were of CCW pieces. I'm still kicking myself for...

I've been shooting an over and under that has a single trigger and one of those safety/selector things, and I find that attempting to fire the top barrel first generally results in no shot being fired at all. I'm sure that I've seen double triggers on over and unders, but they seem to be pretty...

There are a zillion different variations of Smith & Wesson revolvers floating around. I can't count the number of times that I've visited this forum and learned of a gun that was new to me, like the fixed sight .44 Mag snubby posted today. Any reasonable man would say that there already...

I was talking with someone who was trying out one of those new T/C Venture rifles. He liked it pretty well, and said that with no load development it shot 1" 3 shot groups, with both a 130 grain and a 150 grain load, just as advertised. What he wasn't happy about was the 60 degree bolt lift...

I have an uncle who was actually the first to sit me behind a rifle and let me press a trigger, all those years ago. Throughout my life, my conversations with him have led me to temptation and ruin. Earlier tonight, I spoke to him on the phone, with the intent of teasing him about his 98...