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When I was a teenager in the mid 1950s, a box of 50 22LR was 50 cents plus 2 cents sales tax. My uncle gave me 50 cents for every woodchuck I shot on his farm. Life was good. NRA Benefactor

I started reloading in 1964 with equipment from R.F. Wells in Howard Lake, Minnesota. The single stage press looked similar to a Herters press. Added a Lyman All American turret press in the 1970s which I bought at the Lyman factory in Connecticut. Lost both in a house fire in 1995, but I still...

I have used Kapok over the powder to keep it in position for light loads. Cream-of-wheat also works in straight wall cases only - NOT BOTTLENECK BRASS! Don't ask me how I know. These were common solutions 60 years ago. NRA Benefactor

My reloading bench is mainly reloading stuff. A shelf under the bench holds a dozen or more sharpening stones for knives, chisels and other sharp tools. Also my drafting instruments and slide rule from my school days. Next to the bench is my cartridge collection in a six drawer Craftsman rolling...

I've carried my XDs .45 for over 10 years. First using the paddle holster that came with it. Then a Desantis and finally a Crossbreed Supertuck IWB at 4 oclock with Crossbreed double mag carrier at 8 oclock for balance. Had the Supertuck modified when I added a Veridian laser. Last month bought...

I met Elmer Keith twice at NRA Annual Meetings. I had "Hell I Was There" , another of his books and he autographed an article in a magazine he had written. Lost all of them in a house fire. My favorite writer now is Craig Boddington. They both write in plain language with a sense of honesty...

A friend who passed a couple of years ago, almost always wore bib overalls. He had a pocket sewn inside the bid to hold his gun. We discussed it, but I never saw it and it was not obvious from the outside. Full disclosure, he was not a slim fellow. NRA Benefactor

The SRH grip fits my hand better than any other DA revolver i have tried. NRA Benefactor

Pants on = armed. Not because of any immanent danger, it's just much more convenient and I don't need to worry where the gun is if someone visits. My carry method is IWB with shirt tucked in. If I need to leave the house, it a matter of just walking out the door without re-arming. NRA Benefactor

My FIL and I hunted in Pennsylvania near Titusville for over 20 years staying in a home built camper on a boat trailer base parked in a campground that was mainly a hunting camp during deer season. Several groups of hunters returned to the camp each year. One group of 3 or 4 young gentlemen...

I just back from a local gun show. I have been member of the Maumee Valley Gun Collectors Association since the mid 1960s. Annual dues just went from $25 to $30 dollars this year. There are 5 shows a year less than 2 miles from here at the local fairgrounds. Not a bad deal. NRA Benefactor

I haven't fired my carry gun for over a year. In fact, I haven't fired anything except a ..22 LR at woodchucks in the back yard either. I do have a range in the back yard that will handle anything shoulder fired. If it has wheels we will need to discuss it. I do dry fire my Super Redhawk and a...

I hesitate to write this, for fear of starting an argument among self proclaimed experts. I have been around guns for almost 70 years. I do not consider myself an expert in any way. I have hunted with rifles and handguns since the middle 1950s. I am probably not as good a marksman as I was 30 or...

I never had an AR and probably never will. I fired 5 rounds several years ago with a friend's 5.56 AR and was not particularly impressed. I will proudly admit that I am a blue steel - walnut kind of guy. I only own 1 semi-auto rifle. A .22 Sears Roebuck bought at a flea market over 40 years...

I used 2 dump truck loads of yellow sand with a wall of railroad ties covered with corrugated plastic behind the sand. Sand has no rocks in it and bullets are easily recovered. Woodchucks have re-arranged some of the sand but they also provide targets of opportunity and a little shovel work puts...

Somewhere I have 19 rounds of 7.5 MAS and the rifle they fit is in the safe. It was my first center fire rifle purchase from a Sears store in Evanston, IL. $19.95 in about 1962 with several boxes of ammo. Only 19 rounds left.

There was an article in the local paper today about a woman in town who shot her index finger while photographing her firearm. The process got her arrested.

Three. EDC on my hip, never unloaded except for cleaning or use. One rifle and one revolver at back door for woodchuck and other pest control.

I just today received a flyer from a local auction house with 200 firearms coming up the weekend after next. Haven't had a chance to look it over yet, but can't go anyway. There are 5 places I should go that day and competition a gun auctions is crazy. NRA Benefactor

Probably 11 years ago when I decided to get a CCW permit. I had read a lot and the Springfield XDS was new, had many good reviews and was unobtainable. I stopped at a gun store about 30 miles away on the way back home from somewhere else. The gentleman behind the counter asked what I wanted. I...