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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.   […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Real Guns™ is a type 7 FFL holder. These days, whenever we put a gun together, it ends up being big and noisy and weighs twelve pounds. Sure, there is always the entertainment value of blanketing the nearby hills with a pressure wave of rolling thunder, but none of this […]