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Maybe your instructors were unfamiliar with the specific condition of this rifle, and the paraffin tests conducted on Oswald a few hours after the assassination. Barium and antimony, found in gunpowder residue, are also found in printing ink, which Oswald handled that day. Paraffin tests can...

Every other Carcano in the world may be smooth as a greased lightning, but the one in question was definitely not -- every member of Simmon's team cited the same difficulty with the bolt on this particular firearm, and those tests were conducted before the WC convened in 1964. Doubtful that a...

Papoose I have other rimfires, but the Marlin Papoose takedown (60PPS, I think) is still my favorite. Weighs only 3.25 lbs. -- you really don't need any more weight for rimfire recoil, and that's a benefit when wagging around in the woods. No forestock, but I hold the short foreend with my...

The 10-yr.old zombie thread about Oswald and the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle somehow got resurrected to center stage (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=37915) I read the whole thread -- a lot of speculation with little of the known facts of the case presented. As we are approaching the...

I have a Savage 93 GL -- .22 mag, left-hand bolt, sporter barrel. Pretty plain jane, but with a 4x scope with parallax adjustment and bipod, I'm hitting a 4"-inch diameter metal spinner target at 100 yds. 9 out of 10 shots. That's minute-of-rabbit and good enough for my purposes. If you're...

I wanted a tube-fed .22 rifle, because I was tired of loading magazines, and the tube .22s can shoot .22 LR, shorts and even CB caps. Also they're lever action, and I'm a leftie, with few left bolt options. So I got a Henry pump .22. I couldn't believe how stiff the action was, but told myself...

I have two S&W revolvers that I've been reluctant to put a scope or red dot on, even though I use reading glasses and can't see the front sight in sharp focus. I've tried the bifocal sunglasses, but the bifocals are set too low, requiring you to tilt head back like you're watching an airplane...

Patton did the same thing. I think it was indoors, some kind of grand dinner, and one of his pearl-handled revolvers went off somehow. My favorite myth -- that a bullet will "knock people down" as in the movies, where you see victims flying off their feet and splatting against a wall. Maybe on...

.380 vs. .38 snubbie So I took my two carry guns for a side-by-side test, practicing my mt. lion defense shot. 12 yards, shooting off-hand in a chair. The guns were a Bersa Thunder .380, and a Rossi (Taurus) .38 snubbie. By God, Chuck Hawks was right and I didn't believe him. He said a .38...

That was my math from the stats posted on http://www.cougarinfo.org. Scroll up to see my post above on this page.

According to the stats cited above, in all of North America it works out to: About 3 cougar attacks annually, and a fatality every other year (.43 annually to be exact). Total attacks doubled in the decades of the '90 and '10s, over the '70s and '80s. Probably due to human population...

That's the perfect solution -- spray first, with lethal backup. I carry Counterassault and a cat o' nine-tails -- one for each of the 9 lives.

Never use Naval Jelly. I found rust on the surface of two "stainless" guns. Naval Jelly marred the finish on NAA mini revolver.

It means: Get a revolver.

From same site (cougarinfo.org): Injury Attacks in the United States and Canada have been as follows: 1970's 17 total attacks found including 4 fatalities (2 injurred in one attack) 1980's 18 total attacks found including 2 fatalities 1990's 43 total attacks found including 8...

Many very detailed accounts of confirmed cougar attacks in North America, 2001-2010 here: http://www.cougarinfo.org/attacks3.htm Only a few fatalities. Mostly, it seems apparent that cougars are deterred by fighting back, with fists, kicks, stones, whatever -- most of their prey not capable...

It's an animal. It has no vested interest in getting hurt for food or territory. Most predators do not like prey that fights back. True most of the time, but if a predator is seriously starving -- in a prolonged drought, say -- it may take risks it would not otherwise take. A 200 lb. biped...

There's a brass rat who prowls my range here in Grand Junction, CO -- looks and soundsseveral bricks shy of a load, like maybe he took a round to the braincase at one time. "Are you keepin' da bullets?" he asks. One day at the range another guy was gathering brass and told me about an encounter...

It's often claimed that a .22 mag takedown rifle would be the ideal wilderness survival firearm. I believe it, after hearing about the .22 mag being extensively used in Alaska by Inuit hunters (mainly because they're poor, .22 mag is relatively cheap, and it gets the job done). Unfortunately...

As an aside, I can see why Butch Cassidy and gang were able to escape and remain safe in their Utah hideout -- it's barren sandstone, rippled and carved into a thousand possible ambush sites. No cover at all for pursuing lawmen -- the clacking of horseshoes on that hard rock is a dead giveaway...