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I coach my local high school JROTC 10m 3-position air rifle marksmanship team. We have a dozen regular shooters, with a few more who make practice when they can. Over spring break I figured I would take the time to repair the 12 wooden framed-steel backed target boxes the school has. The box...

Today was 72 degrees, the creek was a passable 12” deep, so I took three rimfires (New 10-22 Target, Rem 581 and Ruger American .22 WMR) and two 7.62x39’s (AR and old-style Mini-30). The ammo for the .22 LR was Sellier & Bellot Club, Remington-Eley Target, CCI SV, Norma TAC-22 Target, CCI...

Looking at the 10/22’s @Spats McGee and @CraigC have got me hankering for a target-specific 10/22 to go along with my standard carbine and RSI models. After looking around and pricing a self-build, I realized that I wasn”t too hip on going gonzo on the cost. I decided on a Ruger factory...

My buddy who works at the local range said he bought a very clean S&W 52-2 w/box and papers from an acquaintance of his a few weeks ago. Last week he asked me to load some .38 target wadcutters for him, as he hasn’t been able to source any. I put together roughy 100 148 gr DEWC over 2.8 gr...

I had an hour free after getting a bunch of errands done so I took my two GP-100’s to the range and fired a few cylinders through each. Both guns have rubber grips and the Fiber Optic front/white outline rear sights. In the .4” .357 I fired some full power loads made with heavier than...

We had a family week up at my Dads house in Northern Nevada over the Thanksgiving holiday. While we were up there my sister, son, brother in law and nephew went shooting. My 23 year old niece, who was born and raised in the Peoples Republik of Berkeley, hit me up and said that she realizes now...

I shot there on Monday from 11:15 to just before 1:00. It was pretty busy, so I was in the second room using lane #16 (of 20). Apparently, at around 2:15 or so there was some sort of issue that caused a large halogen light fixture over lane 15 to fall. This made the piping hot bulb and fixture...

Hey all, a bit of a saga regarding my latest purchase, a Beretta M9. Back story: I had a very good friend who was in long-range recon squads while in the Army, and he was issued a Beretta 9mm while in the service. After his hitch ended we worked together for about 12 years at a SoCal police...

My buddies invited me out to the membership range they belong to, so I brought a milk crate full of steel plates, along with my dueling trees, IPSC torso plates, etc. The bay is roughly 90 feet wide and 170 feet deep, so we spread stuff out all over and had targets from 10 to just about 50...

…had this WWB 124 gr 9mm cartridge allowed the slide to go forward a tiny bit more! :oops: I took a few autos to the range today, Kimber Micro 9, CZ 75 SP-01 & Glock 48 9mm’s and a Ruger SR1911 4.25” and CZ 97-B .45’s. The star of the day was the 97-B. The gun just shot where I pointed...

Hey all! Back in July I shot my 6.5 S&W Model 624 no dash and I had the crane somehow bind up and make opening-closing really tough, the cylinder was harder to turn, etc. I am a S&W revolver armorer, and I showed the ‘smith the offending gun at the range, so we checked to see if the ejector rod...

Backorders are being accepted at Starline for .327 Federal Mag cases as of now. I just ordered 1,000. :thumbup: I have been checking the site almost daily for over a year for these to become available, I hope the drought is finally over! Stay safe.

I took my 1988- vintage Iver Johnson TP-22, SIG Sauer Mosquito, Browning 1911-22 compact and Glock 44 to the range today, along with a 325 round box of Federal Auto Match 40 gr RN. I heartily admit that the TP can sometimes be picky with anything other than high speed .22 LR rounds, and today...

https://apple.news/A6scUkY0aSDm8qv0Ovjq3iA I hope the link works, Popular Mechanics sent a writer to SIG Sauers training center in New Hampshire to check out and shoot the military’s future rifle and SAW. It’s written by a gun neophyte, which is obvious by some of the stuff stated (higher...

On Friday, I used my 2” new model Colt Cobra to shoot the last box of my suspect DEWC loads. (These caused me concern when I had one round with a light charge stick a bullet 5” down the barrel of my vintage 6” Colt target revolver.) All 50 fired just fine, so now I can process the brass and...

I have a couple of Browning .22’s that would benefit from a small scope, so I read some reviews and picked a couple of GruBee 4X scopes. I bought a Fox Pup and a Wolf Pup, both with a gloss finish and the 3/4” tube that the old style Redfield scopes had. These small scopes really do match the...

New handgun names sometimes make me wonder…is anyone really thinking about negative impressions from the model names? I have already rolled my eyes a bit at the S&W “Equalizer”, which I find to be a somewhat odd name for any new handgun introduced in a charged pro-gun/anti gun climate. To me...

When Browning brought out their scaled down .380 and .22 caliber 1911 blowback pistols, I loved the idea of a 1911 sized to these lower powered rounds. Having been recently feeding my S&W revolver and CZ habit, I haven’t bumped into one of these in .22 yet. Well no more, I found a compact .22...

I have had my LEE powder measure for many years. Over the past few reloading sessions and range trips I started noticing charge levels varying a bit while reloading, recoil varying a bit, etc. I habitually weigh every charge thrown until it is where I need it, then once it hits the same number 5...

I have a few S&W revolvers, and I have wanted a 10-shot 6” Model 617 for a while, so I bought one last month and picked it up when I got back from my trip. The gun itself looks good, the fit and finish is nice and I had an extra set of Thai grips to replace the OEM synthetic ones. With 10...