My Favorite Rifles Look Like They Were Made In The 1950s Part II
I have got a lot of powder on hand. Kept with controlled temperature and humidity, and only one container of one type open at any given time, I’ve not had the misfortune of soured powder smells or degraded performance. For my personal use, I’ve arrived at best recipes in various […] [Read More]
My Favorite Rifles Look Like They Were Made In The 1950s Part I
Stuck indoors, a serious snow storm blowing outside and me under the influence of an annoying flu, I’ve been entertaining myself by going over a new Ruger full stock that replaces a CZ full stock that was recently sold. The CZ 550 was well done; clean metal and wood work, […] [Read More]
A 1911 Trigger Clean Up.... In a Couple of Parts
This is article number 1,000 on Real Guns current format, but 3,000 since Real Guns inception. What better subject than improving the trigger function of a 1911 pistol. For all of the “How to” articles and YouTube video that attempt to instruct and define the process of 1911 pistol […] [Read More]
Ruger SR1911 Check Out and Personalization
It is very important, to prepare for writing a firearms piece, to cleanse the mental pallet. Prior to anyone else arriving for the day, I sometimes like to sing a little Elvis…. No, not a physically little Elvis, but rather a retrospective of the King’s most iconic songs. I was […] [Read More]
Smith and Wesson's M&P 380 Shield EZ
It is tough writing about firearms with a fresh perspective. Somewhere around number two thousand, the flow of descriptive adjectives become Donald Trump like and the best that can be mustered are, “Excellent. Very, very excellent. Beautiful… very, very beautiful. Unbelievable” or “Bad. Very bad. Very very bad. Completely bad. […] [Read More]
The Ruger 10/22 Sporter
After making the mistake of watching anti gun, network news coverage and listening to histrionic, soul sucking Democrats bleating, screaming their fabrication of reality into news cameras, I decided to seek something less fiction and more truth. So at 2 AM, I broke out the Kindle and resumed reading the […] [Read More]
Ruger's American Rifle & Crossfire II Scope Part I
The weather has actually been mild this winter. Sure, there are few stretches of sub zero weather that were responsible for a transfer of wealth; my bank account to the oil company’s bank account, but snowfall was infrequent and moderate and the driveway black top has been visible more days […] [Read More]
Ruger's American Rifle & Crossfire II Scope Part II
It has been a very good couple of weeks. The Ruger American Rifle and Vortex scope provided hours of shooting and handloading enjoyment and Barry J. Hutchison released “Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow”, the eight in the Space Team series and yet another appearance of Cal Carver, the […] [Read More]
Ruger's American Rimfire Target in 17 HMR
Today was another shovel out day; half a foot of snow on top of accumulated snow and temps hovering around zero. Atomic Squirrel seems to have continued to outsmart me, or he is in cahoots with a gang of chipmunks that can clean peanut butter from a small trap and […] [Read More]
Joe Vs The Crossbow Part II
A brief wrap up on the Barnett Whitetail Hunter Pro crossbow project – It took a while to get the whole crossbow thing sorted but, with some days of practice, the process of shooting the Whitetail Hunter Pro became routine. The shooting part was actually very centerfire rifle like… minus […] [Read More]