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While I am not actively looking for more guns, I find that when a certain firearm comes along, I just have to buy it. I have a pretty fair collection of rifles and there are very few that pique my interest, but every once in a while......... So, two weeks ago I walked into my local Evil Gun...

Okay, here is my dilemma; I have read that you load Pyrodex by volume rather than weight to equal blackpowder loads. I recently bought one of the Italian reproduction Colt powder flasks. The tube on it is stamped 24 gr.. I have a pound of Pyrodex P which is supposed to be the equivalent of...

I was at an estate sale last week and I spotted this little pistol. I don't know much about this model and I don't shoot .32acp, but for $150 I figured I couldn't loose. After I bought it, they asked me if I wanted another gun for free "but it's broken". Hey I will always take free...

163 years of service rifles, top to bottom: 1861 Springfield 1884 Springfield Trapdoor 1898 Springfield Krag-Jorgenson 1903 Springfield M1 Garand M14 M16E1 WWII M16

While I am in the mood to post pictures. I just picked this up yesterday. Found it while on my usual gun store crawl. I like US military firearms and if I find one that I don't have and example of and I can afford it, I have no resistance and will usually pick it up. Such was the case...

The recent posts regarding triangle handguards and AR15-A4 rifles kind of warms my heart as I have become something of a retro AR fan. Now, I have had a Colt HBAR A2 for many years and back in the early 90's I used to shoot NRA service rifle matches with it. A year ago I traded into a very...

The "Party like it's 1899" thread got me to thinking about this old Smith I picked up recently. I have a soft spot for old guns that tend to be overlooked in this day of plastic firearms. A few weeks ago, I responded to an add in the local Armslist for a "S&W .38 special". It had lingered...

I thought I post up a few pictures of my retro AR15's. I like my stuff simple and as light as I can make it and the older AR15's work just fine for me. Colt Sp1. This has what is known as a slabside receiver. Basically, a civilian 601, Colt made these into the mid '80's. Note the lack of a...

I recently moved to a new city and like any one that likes firearms, after the move was completed, I went out to explore the local gun stores. Most of them were filled with the usual assortment of new plastic pistols and AR rifles. Finally I walked into a store that had a few revolvers sitting...

This is a 1862 dated, 1861 Springfield rifle-musket that I just received off of Gunbroker. The 1861 rifle was one of the most prolific arms of the Civil War, with over one million produced between 1861 and 1863. Approximately 250,000 were made at the US armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, the...

Just picked this up today. I had one in nearly the same condition several years ago, but in a fit of stupidity, I sold it. It has taken me a while to find another, but finally the gun gods smiled on me and I spotted this at a gun show. Very nice bluing that I would rate at 90% or so and a...

Just picked this up yesterday. a nice condition 66-2 from '82. While I usually only buy P&R Smiths, I have decided to branch out into other pre-lock S&W's. While I see lots of 4' barrels and few 2 1/2" guns I rarely see these with the 6" barrel. Bore is perfect and the lock up is tight, even...

I work part time at a gun store and every once in a while something interesting comes in. Such was the case on Friday when this large box showed up from the US Army. Inside was this M24 sniper rifle that is one of the rifles that are being sold to former snipers or those who had attended...

In 1961 a gentleman was fishing in Big Bear Lake in California. After casting out, he began to slowly retrieve his line when it suddenly felt as though he had hooked a fish. Imagine his surprise when he pulled it in and saw that instead of a fish he had hooked a 1911. While it was pretty...

I have wanted one of these for years. The prices on them stopped me from owing one until a few days ago. I work part time in a gun store and this particular rifle, a Featherweight in .30-06, has been in the consignment rack for about three-four months now and I believe that it hadn't sold due to...

The thread on refinishing the Model 10 that HKGuns started has me pondering a question about the effect of factory refinishing on the value of a firearm. Let me start off my saying that I believe in leaving a firearm alone and avoid refinishing if at all possible. However, there are times...

I just got through restoring/rehabilitating a few Springfield '03 and '03-A3 rifles and thought I'd share them with you First up is a 1942 Remington 1903 that I had been trying to get from a friend of mine for the last twenty years or so. He had received it as a gift from a friend of his many...

Walked into my local gun store and wound up buying (actually putting on layaway) two guns, a Winchester M97 trench gun made in 1918 and a 1906 manufactured '03 Springfield. No pictures as I didn't think to break out my cell phone and take a photo. The question I have is this; The trench gun...

Here are some pictures of a Winchester M1917 I've had for a while. It's been through the WW2 rebuild program at Ogden Arsenal and bears the Elmer Keith inspection cartouche. Typical mixmaster, with the original Winchester 1-18 dated barrel and bolt. The rest of the rifle has mostly 'E' marked...

Boy, July was hard on my finances. First I came across this Smith and Wesson Model 66 no dash Then I happened to walk into a gun store just as this Colt single action was being put on consignment. Ten days later I strolled into another shop looking for ammo for the Colt and...