As a gun geek, I’ll sometimes buy a handgun for the sole reason it’s fun to shoot or because it has an interesting design. As a practical matter, I also believe in the use of handguns for self-defense. I’ve been around long enough to know that both interests are not […]

  OK, I confess, initially I just wanted to hang a good-looking enclosed dot sight on my Mini-Thirty but then, as a practical matter, the Weaver Red/Green Dot sight turned out to be an excellent choice. The gun already had a Burris FastFire II on a bridged Picatinny mount in […]

  When I worked for a living… yes, I really did work for a living and within a corporate environment, there was a term for advertising and product literature where the will of a marketing department’s creative folks took precedence over the presentation of a product – “Art Director’s Revenge”. […]

A number reloading manuals are now dated, so it was nice to see Hornady step up with an 8th edition. One question that follows the release of a new handloading manual is whether or not it includes a sufficient amount of new information to make it worthwhile. In this case […]

Some writers are ex-championship sharpshooters and/or accomplished and world famous hunters, but that would not be me. If I want to do right by a product and avoid concluding with, “The rifle would not shoot better than 18″ groups at 100 yards”, I need to set up so I can […]

Not long ago, we constructed a project where the subject rifle was a Mini Mauser with quick change barrel capability. One barrel was chambered for the .30 Remington AR, a cartridge Remington developed for their R-15 series rifles, another barrel was chambered for the 7mm-30RG, a RealGuns’ designed wildcat that […]

Conservative geometry makes the .30-06 Springfield an easy cartridge to handload. Additionally, as opposed to… subtractively I presume, there are many sources of inexpensive, and some not so inexpensive, components. Yeah, I know, snore, snore, snore. My point is, any set of quality factory dies and any decent reloading press […]

It’s been a busy fall season, examining and reviewing firearms produced by numerous manufacturers. It appears that the quality of fit and finish, design and performance of the firearms are at an all time high. After fifty-seven years of pulling triggers and burning up ammunition it’s good to see excellence […]

Awhile back, I had the opportunity to work with a Remington RX15 rifle and the 30 Remington AR cartridge. AR rifle intended, and with 44 grains of capacity and an operating pressure of only 55,000 PSI, the little cartridge put up impressive velocity numbers and the combination was very accurate. […]

I love firearms and all of the associated activities, but sometimes… sometimes a little preparation is required before doing something even as basic as shooting groups to record accuracy, or gathering chronograph data. In this case, two and one half feet of packed snow required hours of removal before I […]