10mm Automatic
Warning: Bullet selections are specific, and loads are not valid with substitutions of different bullets of the same weight. Variations in bullet length will alter net case capacity, pressure and velocity. Primer selection is specific and primer types are not interchangeable. These are maximum loads in my firearms and may […] [Read More]
Winchester's Model 70 Featherweight Dark Maple Stainless
My wife and I were after dinner, mambo dancing to Kid Creole And The Coconuts… as we often do, when I got to thinking about how, when it comes to firearms, “new” is a big draw. Why not? It is fun to wring out a new combination, handload a new […] [Read More]
Remington's Model 572 BDL Fieldmaster
I grew up as part of a very Italian family in New Jersey. My Uncle Joe, on my mother’s side, was the first to leave the very tight knit community when he, his very Irish wife Kay, and their children Bobby and Joanie moved ” down the shore” to Wildwood. […] [Read More]
Remington's R51 9mm
I owned a Remington Model 51 for a number of years, a 32 Automatic, and really enjoyed shooting it for recreational target practice. It fed ammunition without hesitation and fired reliably, the pistol’s balance was good and it was subjectively a terrific looking pistol. The only reason I sold the […] [Read More]
The Ruger American Rifle Ranch & 350 Legend - More Factory Ammo
In early exposure to the 350 Legend, Ruger’s Compact American Rifle Ranch and the 350 Legend Part I and Ruger’s Compact American Rifle Ranch and the 350 Legend Part II, the 350 Legend proved to be not only an excellent cartridge for the deer hunter in states where only straight […] [Read More]
Spicy Refried Beans - They Taste Better Than They Look
A lot of email followed the split pea recipe article. Some of it was “Hey! Stop it! I want guns!…!!”, some of it was, “Hey! Cool!, but the real curiosity was that it was heavily read. So we thought we might do it again., only with beans instead of peas. […] [Read More]
Ruger’s Other PC Carbine – Part II
So the boo birds came out the minute a picture of the Ruger PC Carbine was posted on the Real Guns Facebook and the inevitable question, “Why wouldn’t people just buy a 9mm AR?”. OK…For starters, with the rare exception, 9mm Luger AR look-a likes are not based on an […] [Read More]
Ruger's AR-556 Pistol
In 1865 Charles Dodgson, a conservative Christian working as a mathematician at Christ Church College, Oxford, writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, penned “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Dodgson’s intent was to have published a satirical criticism of abstract mathematicians of the day. The well known setting of Alice and the […] [Read More]
When Things Go Thump, Bump, Clank in the Night...
A little Maine sunshine left my wife and I with a full morning of unplanned exercise; clearing driveways, steps and walkways, structures, and utilities. Grinding through with snow blowers, digging away with shovels. As kids growing up in New Jersey, the same tasks were fun. As a young couple in […] [Read More]
Smith & Wesson's Performance Center 686 357 Mag
My wife and I spent the weekend pushing the home perimeter tree/brush line back ten feet. The project may not sound like much but, in Maine, old growth trees line up twenty-five feet apart and saplings… anything three inches in diameter or less, stand shoulder to shoulder with heavily leaved […] [Read More]