Ruger Bisley .45 Long Colt Part III
Okay, I’ll admit it, when it comes to unnecessary spending to make a gun look better, I get in line with everyone else. I think I mentioned in the first part of this series, the Ruger was not going to win any slick finish awards. The ejector rod housing is […] [Read More]
"Ruger Bisley .45 Long Colt Part II", but first....
.357 SIG headspace update As a follow to the article on the .357 SIG headspace problem, I just stopped reloading with Speer Lawman empties, which seems to have resolved the misfire problem. Once again, Speer Lawman ammo never misfired in my SIG, only reloads made with Speer brass. The problem […] [Read More]
Ruger Bisley .45 Long Colt
The morning I picked up the Bisley, my wife and I got to the gun store about 20 minutes before business hours. Even so, there was already another person ahead of us, waiting. Gun owners are persistent and committed. As if to make us prove the point, the store opened […] [Read More]
The Ruger No.1 Tropical
I have the .358-378RG project gun in the works for the Real Guns site, and it’s been moving along pretty well. The chambering reamers are in progress, the reloading die set is in progress and it looks like we have a winner for the service that will provide the custom […] [Read More]
Ruger's Redhawk 45 Colt Part II
Summer in Maine is mostly an opportunity to repair the products of Maine’s aggressive winters. When we moved into our home fourteen years ago, our view was of surrounding woodland and distant lakes and mountains. This spring, however, my wife and I were greeted with soil shift over granite ledge […] [Read More]
A 7mm-08 Remington Lightweight Mountain Rifle Part II
10/26/2019 Yes, your observations are correct. I am an analogue troglodyte… but with an excuse. I like making immediate notations on a yellow lined pad; quad paper even better, but it is too hard to photograph when placed against a white background. I can write with a 0.5mm Pentel mechanical […] [Read More]
Talking Conservatively: New Social Media Experiment - URL Correction
Some friends of ours, the same ones who were kind enough to put RealGuns.Com together and who bail us out when tech glitches arise, put together a new site TalkingConservatively.Com. No, it is not a great right wing conspiracy, it is just social media without a political review committee and […] [Read More]
A 7mm-08 Remington Lightweight Mountain Rifle Part 1
October 24, 2019 The Standard Catalog of Remington Firearms indicates that Remington introduced both walnut and Kevlar stocked Model 700 Mountain Rifles in 1986. In 1998, a walnut stock, blued steel, flush fitting detachable magazine version was added to the lineup. In 2012, an aramid fiber stock, stainless steel barrel […] [Read More]
Remington's Model Seven Threaded in Kuiu Vias Camo
10/16/2019 Maine is beautiful in the fall, the temperatures are cool and the air is clean. So here I am, an old man sitting on this stone fence, with the sun struggling to find its way through the trees, fall leaves underfoot, eating a sandwich, and listening to David Allan […] [Read More]
Browning's X-Bolt Hunter
10/21/2019 So I was walking the woods behind the shop and, when I ran out of trail, I began to walk along a stone fence to avoid the brush. Camera in hand and stepping over a fallen branch, a moss covered rock under my back foot gave way and gravity […] [Read More]