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Hello friends, I hope you're all having a great day and all staying safe. I was hoping to tap into the collective knowledge of you all to help solve a predicament in which I find myself stuck. My father had an old stevens 124A cross bolt shotgun that was broken in two from the day he got it...

I inherited this gun from my grandfather among other guns but this one I’m not too sure what it is exactly. My guess is it’s a Mauser because of the receiver but I don’t know what kind of Mauser or if that’s not a Mauser stock.

So I just got this mec 600 from the early 80’s maybe. It’s well over 30 years old and hasn’t been used in probably at least 15-20. It’s been sitting in my grandfathers shop and it’s rusted to all hell. I cleaned a lot of it up but the column seems to be rusted to the top where it’s supposed to...

I Love history but i just cannot find any info anywhere in books or online (how is that possible) on what Pirates of the 1400,1500,1600,1700 Centuries used to Clean and Lubricate their Firearms? Now for them being at Sea for a while they obviously needed to keep a supply of whatever they used...

As many of you know, I started reloading when I was a teenager. Shortly after I got married, I developed a neurological condition that left me unable to reload for a couple of decades. When I resumed, I had to deal with cases, powder and primers that had been in various stages of the process...