Ruger's M77 Hawkeye Standard
Living in Maine, prepping for winter gets to be instinctive, primal… It’s like having a brain with a mind of its own. Sort of like Freddie Francis’ 1962 Sci-Fi classic “The Brain”. Well, not exactly like “The Brain”… more like the 1972 classic, “The Man with Two Heads”. In any […] [Read More]
Remington's Model 700 CDL Classic Deluxe Part II
I like the word “archetypical”. It sounds like a word I would have made up for my middle school Spanish class, a class taught by the mysterious, and quite attractive, Profesora Nocella. Highly motivated to stay in her classroom, but unable to master those pesky double “L” tongue rolls, I […] [Read More]
Gamo's Socom Extreme The difference between cats and dogs
I just returned from an industry conference, “The Bold Use of Crayons in a Writer’s Brave New Digital World”, and found the pictured Gamo air rifle leaning against my desk. Placed on the schedule between a 450/400 3″ Nitro Express and a 450 Rigby, a small period of adjustment was […] [Read More]
Remington's Model 700 CDL Classic Deluxe Part I
OK, there is a small gray bird that is putting in a full shift of the driveway, every day. It isn’t a dove, or a pigeon or a catbird, it’s just a weird little gray bird… It is there when I walk over to the shop, it is there when […] [Read More]
Benjamin's Dual Fuel Discovery Air Rifle
Real Guns™ is a type 7 FFL holder. These days, whenever we put a gun together, it ends up being big and noisy and weighs twelve pounds. Sure, there is always the entertainment value of blanketing the nearby hills with a pressure wave of rolling thunder, but none of this […] [Read More]
Mossberg's Model 464™ Lever Action Rifle
My wife is out of state visiting family and left me to my own devices… mostly firearms, power tools and the truck. She calls me three or four times a day, wracked with the type of guilt usually attributed to an adult who has left a two year old to […] [Read More]
CZ's Safari Classic Magnum Express Part II
The selection of a 450 Rigby chamber for this project rifle was a personal choice, based on my desire to see how it performed in comparison to other large bore firearms like the 416 Rigby, 458 Lott, 460 Weatherby and my old friend the 500 Jeffery. However, time spent shooting […] [Read More]
CZ's Safari Classic Magnum Express Part I
I’ve done some work with the big magnums sold by CZ-USA. They are… enjoyable. They are traditional heavy weights; special application rifles that combine traditional styling and design with just a little bit of fancy and with some of the most powerful cartridges available today. This will be a two […] [Read More]
A Remington Rifle Build - Unplugged Part VI
With all of the hardware and stock work completed, a little clean up of handling marks was required, before getting a scope mounted and range testing the 16 lb 6 oz featherweight. One of the things I don’t like about composite stocks is that they are easy to abrade on […] [Read More]
Remington's Infamous J-Lock
The last time I read a claim of malfeasance regarding Remington’s Integrated Security System, “BigVernShakeandBake473” indicated that, if not removed, the “J” Lock would eventually morph into a giant spore and affix itself to a gun owner’s brain stem for some undefined, but clearly malicious purposes. Several other message board […] [Read More]