An N Frame Big Bore Without Dirty Harry Part II
I handload the 45 Colt for both handguns and rifles, often pushing 32,000 PSI where firearms are designed to hold up to this level of excessive pressure. However, all firearm designs for the .45 Colt cartridge are not equal and some should be kept to SAAMI industry standards. The Colt […] [Read More]
An N Frame Big Bore... Without Dirty Harry Part I
Smith & Wesson has had more than a brief association with the .45 Colt cartridge. Two of the earliest models were built on the 5 screw N series target frame; the light barrel 1950 .45 Target Model, forerunner to the Model 26, and the heavy barrel 1955 .45 Target Model, […] [Read More]
Old Rifles Never Die...
Anyone who has been a firearm enthusiast for any length of time eventually ends up with rifles that never see the light of day. A gun may fall out of style, or it might be missing a useful feature that makes it less than fun to take hunting. With a […] [Read More]
The MagnetoSpeed Rifleman Chronograph
For folks who handload or shoot competitively, a chronograph is a standard piece of equipment. There are costly and very precise multi purpose pieces of equipment, like Oehler industrial systems and there are high end dedicated chronographs like the Kurzzeit PVN-08. Accuracy and reliability of readings is a given, so […] [Read More]
Ruger's SP101 Eight Shot
Ruger is a tough company to track. They have a prolific design team that pops out innovative and good looking firearms like jelly beans. So here we are with a slick and compact eight shot revolver, chambered for the 22 long rifle, an addition to the SP101 product line. […] [Read More]
Remington's Model 770™ ...mit Zielfernrohr
The Remington Model 770, like the Model 710, is a an application specific firearm. It isn’t meant to appeal to our appreciation for tradition. It may be an engineering exercise that answers the question, “If I didn’t have to be concerned with tradition, what would be the optimal bolt action […] [Read More]
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]