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I got something from my brother yesterday. It was my NAA Guardian that I purchased around 1999-ish. At some point within a year or two of purchase, my dad (who was county sheriff) "borrowed" it as a compact piece to wear to political events. Basically, a symbolic gun, you might say. I forgot...

I bought this off Gun Broker the other day. I hoped it wouldn't have many rounds through it, but one could make a pretty good case it hadn't been fired at all. There is nothing in the way of wear and an absence of firing residue. The white plastic magazine followers, notably, are pristine...

By which I mean ones with fixed stocks and carrying handles shot with iron sights; no rails, no lights, no lasers. I've got two here that I haven't shot in too long. Both are Bushmasters, a brand I know isn't held in as high esteem as it once was. At the times I purchased mine, 1995 and 2000...

Please excuse the crappy picture, my wife is in NYC and has our camera; this one was done with my computer's webcam. What you are looking at is a G. David laguiole. This particular specimen has sheep horn handles, a carbon steel blade, corkscrew, and punch. I purchased it circa 1988 while...

OK, one of my squalid secrets is that I am a dirty, filthy Silent Hill junkie. I have all the games and have played them through to all the endings. At least in the earlier installments, the weapons were typically modelled after real world stuff. So today, my daughter was fooling around with...

I was poking around their site and they have a couple old-timey patterns that caught my eye. I was also interested to note they are reproducing the old Blackie Collins Ninja and a couple of 80's-era Gerber patterns. For some reason, I had it in my head that they make fleamarket junk. No good...

Anybody know where I can get one?

I went through a real bad spell with arthritis for several years. Due to severe pain and lack of shoulder mobility, I got to where I couldn't draw a bow, so I gave away all my archery equipment to younger guys who were getting started in the hobby. With certain changes in lifestyle, and use of...

I'm looking to buy an air rifle to de-pest my back yard. My municipality has rules against firearms but not air guns. I need to eliminate some pigeons, a stray cat, and perhaps a racoon. Looking around the web, Pyramyd Air seems to have the best prices. Three guns have caught my eye...

Cabela's appears to have a decent price on them. I've been shooting blackpowder since the 80's, but my previous experience with revolvers was exclusively with Remington pattern pieces. Since this will be exclusively a range toy, I'm looking at a .36 for the lower price per ball as compared to...

I was recently given a side-by-side 12 gauge. It is marked "Bounty Hunter II." Other markings indicate that it uses 2 3/4" shells and that it was made in Russia and imported by EAA. The original owner won it in a drawing several years ago and never fired it. I haven't either. It's kind of a...

At a general interest board I frequent, there is at present a discussion concerning the Enfield rifle and the Garand. One member asserted that the Enfield could deliver 20 shots a minute compared to only 16 from a Garand. This happens, does it not, to be exactly 2 clips from each? That claim...

Despite my distaste for Lynn Thompson's advertising style and his propensity to copy other people's designs without crediting them, I do own a couple Cold Steel knives. My Cold Steel Scalping Knife is, in fact, one of my most treasured blades. It is exactly the ideal shape, IMO, for the...

I've a notion to piece together an AR-15 resembling the M-16A1 Uncle lent me for a while. Anybody know of a vendor who has a good price on M-16A1 uppers right now?

This one here. The price isn't bad. Where they lose me is the nearly $10 shipping and handling. Anybody have one and able to report on it? I think it might make a decent field knife, as I already have several kitchen knives of that basic pattern.

I recently purchased a Romanian Tokarev with which I've been very happy. The S&B ammo I've been running through it is loaded with round nose fmj. So is all the surplus ammo I've ever seen. Apparently there are soft-nose loads available. I'm curious why, when speed and penetration are this...

Yesterday was opening day of regular firearms deer season here in PA. I went out with my dad and brother. It was pouring down rain but not particularly cold. At a little before 8AM, I saw an antlerless deer moving along the treeline on the other side of a backfilled stripjob. It was moving...

This week is Pennsylvania's early muzzleloader season for antlerless deer. In-lines are legal, unlike the later flintlock-only muzzleloader season. I was using a Traditions in-line that takes the shotgun primers. The load was two Hodgdon Triple 7 pellets under a Thompson Center Maxi-Hunter...

It's made by Windlass, so I'm well aware that it isn't exactly going to rival a Loveless in quality. My question is, for the approximately $70 they're charging, is it a bad buy? I've wanted a Searles Bowie for years, pretty much as a display item. So is the Atlanta Cutlery item a piece of junk?

Kel-tec's folding bayonet. It appears to be a liner-locking folder that one can mount on any rifle that accepts M-16 bayonets. Frankly, the idea strikes me as kind of goofy. Bayonets are subjected to crazy stress when actually used for bayoneting somebody or something. I don't think this item...