California Gun Owners, the time to act is now !
Governor Gray Davis has signed into law the first in a long string of pending anti-gun legislation. It is clearly the intention of the Governor and his backers to make illegal all gun ownership and purchase in the state of California. If you are a California voter, notice you were […] [Read More]
Shooting for Enjoyment
I very recently received an e-mail from a person who writes every now and then. He was expressing concerns with a purchase he recently made. The gist of his problem was, he was shooting a new Weatherby .338-378 with the first 20 rounds of handloads he had attempted, and was […] [Read More]
New Products - .40 Regular
The .40 Regular was created by José Zeep of Sunnyvale California in 1997. The cartridge was designed for use in N.A.T.O. 400 meter free style flom competition and is fully ISO 2711-3 compliant. New brass is now available directly from Zeep, or can be fabricated from .460 Weatherby brass. .460 cases […] [Read More]
Direct Sales on the Internet
The Internet has presented a great opportunity for people with an interest in firearms. For every local community that has overtaxed or generally discouraged firearms related sales, for every gun store that has taken price advantage of it’s customers or wouldn’t stock anything more imaginative than a .30-06 Remington 700 […] [Read More]
Engraving - maybe not such a lost art
It seems engraving is making a comeback. Might be the current escalated cost of a firearm making causing engraving to appear more reasonable, could be a greater dedication to personal firearms, may even be an extension of the current trend toward tattoos. I’m not sure. I think there are a […] [Read More]
Gun control
Last time around Congress decided not to pass any new gun legislation. It’s fortunate the House rarely agrees with the Senate. Like everything else surrounding firearms these days, there are many ways to interpret this lack of Congressional action, good or bad news depending on who is telling the story. […] [Read More]
Gun magazines and bass fishing shows..
Reading gun magazines these days is a lot like watching one of those finishing shows, more than once – You pretty much know the setting and it’s not too much of a stretch to guess the outcome. I could be wrong, but then why is this month’s issue of Petersen’s […] [Read More]
The Ridgecrest Gun Range Association
Local area surface roads – range bottom of page [Read More]
Review: Wayne Blackwell's Load From a Disk 5.0.3
In 1998 I bought a .338-378 Weatherby Magnum from Reed’s Sporting Goods in San Jose, California. It was the first gun of this type to arrive at the store and it was so new in dealer channels I had to wait almost two weeks before I could scrounge up some […] [Read More]