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In the last two weeks, I have sold my gun safes, all but three of my long guns...all my hunting rifles, precision rifles, and my M1 Grand collection. I did keep a Rem 1100 with a slug bbl, SAI M1A, and a Ruger Mini-14 with minimal ammo for each. Unfortunately, my children, a doctor and Professor...

I have, for years, carried a Springfield XD40sc with a 9 round mag with Pearce Grip pinky extension and a 12-rd extra mag. I've shot it well, been happy with its 100% reliability with Federal HST, and my ability to shoot it well. Recently, I acquired a Blue Label gen 3 Glock G19, having also...

I went to my local range today after a dismal week of canceling trip and vacation plans for my wife, our children, and grandchildren because of this Covid-19 problem. Unfortunately, my wife and I are in the highest risk demographic, so plan changes are sensible. That said, I decided a few hours...

I have owned several Remington 1100s since my first, a 12 ga. with which I took up skeet shooting, in 1974. I have always loved these guns. Remington recently sold, on sale prices, fully rifled deer barrels ideal for shooting slugs. I grabbed one in 21" length with nice sights at a great price...

I have an older M1A Super Match (ser. no. 013xxx) that I bought at the Geneseo, IL factory back in Sept. 1979. I have always shot it with irons (great NM sights with 1/2 MOA rear adjustments) but decided to mount an optic on it just to see how it would do. I had an unused Basset Machine M1A Low...

I went to the range each of the last two Saturdays (I live 5 minutes away from a very nice public range at my local State Park). I took my two best precision rifles to sight them in at 100 yards with factory ammo for some long distance shooting down at the NRA Whittington Center in the next few...

I started a thread yesterday about my new Ruger M77 Hawkeye African in 6.5x55 Swede. I noted there that I was a fanboy of old calibers from the dawn of smokeless powder. I did a bit of smithing and scope mounting on a few of my rifles so I decided a picture was worth posting. On the left is...

Yesterday I had an opportunity to pick up a NIB Ruger M77 Hawkeye African in 6.5x55 SE. Several years ago I got a Ruger No. 1A in 6.5x55 SE and really liked the cartridge. Great accuracy and really high BC and Sectional density make it a wonderful hunting round and the No. 1 is a wonderful...

I'm attending a long-range shooting clinic in August so I thought it was time to: 1. sight in 2. chrono my loads 3. test my set-up to ensure that I could accept responsibility for all fails The attached is my sight-in verification, a 5-shot group at 100 yards. The rifle is my AI AT with my...

Six of us went to breakfast and shooting this morning. New to the group (I'm the old fart at 72), I brought only one rifle...my AI AT wearing a .308 Win barrel and Vortex Razor 5-20x50 optic mounted in a Spuhr 0 MOA unitary base. I had never tried a shot longer than 200 yards with this rifle so...

So I went to the range to sight in and get a bit of practice with my new M1A Loaded. I have been a long time M1 Garand and M1A shooter with a 1978 vintage M1A SuperMatch. I recently acquired a M1A Loaded in an ArchAngel stock and decided to try it with some Prvi Partizan 168gr Match ammo. I had...

...with the M1 Garand that I bought for my father some years ago. He carried one up Buna Beach...and then spent six months recuperating in OZ. Had he stayed, I'd be speaking today in a somewhat different accent than my Brooklyn one. He returned it to me upon his passing. I shot like crap today...

I took my SAI M1A SuperMatch (set. # 013xxx) to the range to sight in yesterday. I had had the action out of the stock for the first time in the 32 years I've owned it, to inspect and clean, so I wanted to get this rifle back in match form, seating the action in its bedding. After sighting in...

...choose my rifle and load. I just checked the CPW website and learned that I drew my first choice unit and hunt season. It's for antlerless elk, 2nd winter rifle season. I'm leaning toward my Win 70 Extreme Weather 7mm RM using 160r Federal Trophy Bonded Tip bullets or Nosler AccuBonds...

CMP announced a release of Service, Field and Rack Grade IHC M1 Garands on the 9th. I already have Correct and Collector Grade HRA and SAs and was thinking about adding WRAs and IHCs to my collection. They also announced a release of refurbed M1D (Korean War vintage sniper rifles) with HiLux...

I enjoy varmint hunting and have assembled one rifle for this purpose. It is a Rem 700 SPS-Varmint .223 Rem barreled action that I free-floated in a B&C M40 Medalist stock, with the X-Pro trigger replaced by a Timney 510 with long sear, and a Leupy VX3 3.5-10x40 mounted with Leupy STD bases and...

I was fortunate enough to attend the CMP Advanced Maintenance Class this weekend. I learned a lot about M1s and got to build an M1 under the guidance of the CMP Custom Shop team. What they don"t know about the M1 isn't important to know. We got to build a special grade M1 for ourselves. I got a...

For those of you who shoot or collect milsurps, the M1 Garand has to be high on your list of "must haves", and I have a few purchased from the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) in past years. They have begun a program called the Advanced Maintenance Class, a 3-day workshop in which you...

...and fired 4 rounds of .375 H&H Magnum into a .0.75" group. I decided my loads were useful (.260gr Nosler Partitions, 69.0gr RL15, Rem Large Rifle Mag primers, Nosler .375 H&H Brass). My rifle is a Rem 700 XCR II, glass-bedded and free-floated in a B&C Sporter Medalist stock in Weatherby...

I have a number of options in .40 and .45 calibers for my basic personal defense handgun. I took several to the range yesterday to evaluate my comfort and proficiency levels and the pistols' basic accuracy levels. Too, I wanted to get a better idea of which would be the most inconspicuous...