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In a decade of carry I've dropped two guns. My first year of carry I dropped a 1911 that I had just stuck in my waistband while getting out of the car burdened by groceries. It hit the sidewalk, dented the sidewalk, no harm, no foul. Years pass, I don't drop guns, I'm an "expert." I put Heinie...

Hey, that's me! Dreary day stuck here at work with nothing to do so I sluffed off my job, wandered down to the metal shop that is really my home and made a knife out of roundstock. Guessing 4xxx series by the looks of it. I now have a 4" skinner blank that will be given handle scales...

I watched a 66-2 M&P pinned and recessed walk into the gun shop with its owner. Owner needed money, gun shop bought it for $150 which was the owners suggestion. I cry that I didn't have the money and two that the guy would sell a nice piece like that for a few bucks. I know the gun shop guy...

I thought I'd get tired of stupid people at the range threads, but the stupid people demand them by making new stories! Top this if you can. I was at my usual indoor range for a fair chunk of the day. Young guy and his SO are shooting. I watch but do not comment on the first time I get...

The 325 as it comes is a pretty gun. For me it was too big in the wrong places so I bobbed the hammer and found a pair of delightful "old school" grips just big enough to fill the hole in the frame. Of course whacking the barrel shroud on a rock when hiking helps too. Any other less than...

So there I was at the range shooting my normal 25yd bullseye practice with a Marvel .22 on my Dan Wesson 1911. There also happened to be a fella there that had a S&W 340 and was apparently not too keen on shooting it anymore. He offered it up to me to shoot a cylinder which I did, with a...

These are just some of my observations from standing a fair amount of armed watches and interacting with other armed sentries while on stateside military installations. Security isn't, but I suspect most of us are aware of that. Anyone who thinks the guard at the gate or the cop on the...

I have a nice knife but no pictures to help. The blade has no markings and the only ID I can give you is the sheath has an embossed steer skull logo in the leather. I want to know the maker so I can get more, it is a supremely functional knife with well thought out ergonomics. It is about a 3.5"...

You can build my rifle! I'll even post pics in 1-5 years when I get money to do it. Here's the deal. I have been out of the precision rifle business for several years. The last one I owned was a Rem 700 in .308 with a Douglas barrel and was a legit 100 yd cloverleaf puncher. I bought it with a...

I had my first dud failure to fire reload yesterday after about 20,000 rounds reloaded. I was worried it was a storage issue since the round was loaded over a year ago, but it wasn't. I pulled it down and there was not a scrap of primer compound in the primer. Not very common for Winchester...

Okay campers, Here is one that has been bugging me for awhile now. What shooting sports are you active in and can the best women compete at the level or better than the best men? I imagine that in smallbore rifle, air rifle, and bullseye there are women at the top level of the sport. I know a...

I realize tonight that buying one gun is a sentence to buying it's cousins and siblings, at least for me. I realize that after getting a GenII G17 and an Ithaca 37 Police Special for $525. :D So, now I have: 3-1911s, 2-BHP MKIIs, 3 GenII G17s with a G34 cousin, 2 870s with an Ithaca...

I handled one of these yesterday at my local shop. The pistol was selling for 929 which is a pretty good price compared to what S&W wants them to sell for. Color me highly unimpressed. The pistol is nice looking if you like two-tone, I don't. I liked the trigger, flat trigger face which I like...

So, I think Sub-2000 Kel-Tecs are pretty cool now that you can get 32rd Glock sticks for them. Two problems I see are you can't mount optics and fold it up and it spits brass all over lefties like me. So, here's the plan. First I think I'll rotate the buttstock so that it is vertical when...

I have messed with VV N330 for several months now in 9x19mm and .45ACP. I generally really like the powder, clean, well metering, and good precision. The one problem is I have an about 1 in 250 incidence of incomplete ignition. The powder is there, kinda gives a low whoosh! like a slow lighting...

So, as a lefty, can I pick up any standard right sided lock flinter, shoot it and expect to have any eyebrows left? I want one pretty bad, but don't feel like finding a special one.

Any interest out there in a K-31 trench mag? I am a tin bender by trade and I'm thinking when I get bored I'll see if I can't make a few K-31 mags in 10 and 20rd variety. The current situation of a new condition mag costing 60% of the rifle is, in the words of Mike Tyson, ludacwisp!

Anyone have the St. Marie diopter sights for the K-31? I see these advertised in Graf's and want them badly, but $330 sights on a $130 gun give me pause. How do you like them? Are they worth it? i'm not interested in anything like the Mojo sights or that replace the rear sight scope mount. I...

I was cleaning four of my 9mm legion tonight, passed a toothbrush across the left rear rail and off it fell! Hmm, looks like I'm another Glock frame rail statistic. Gun is a G34, FBR SN series. I got it new in Nov. 02 and have probably 20-25K through it. It is my main USPSA and IDPA gun. Looks...

http://www.blackwateripsc.exis.net/index.html Blackwater Practical Shooters will be hosting a Steel Challenge match on 27 June. Follow the link to read the rules. This is a great introduction to practical shooting and/or is still really fun for experienced shooters. Chances are you have a gun...