Real Guns had the good fortune of spending a week with Ruger‘s long awaited Sub² Compact Pistol, the SSCP, chambered for the all new Ruger .180 ACP cartridge. I can sum up the experience in one word, “Incredibly Impressive”. Pictured left to right: .357 SIG, .380 ACP and the new .180 […]

My time in the military was an adventure…challenging, rewarding, educational, and character building. There was free travel to exotic locations and an out of sight – out of mind Congress and the Nightly News where no more than a distant memory. It was a time of transition, maybe transformation. The […]

I am a creature of habit. No, that’s not a B Movie reptilian creature with flippers and a couple of air sucking gills, but rather a guy who finds something that works, then sticks with it until there is a compelling and logical reason to change. Even more boring, if that’s […]

I want RealGuns to be taken seriously as an electronic publication, and what better way to say “We ARE a serious firearms publication” than to open with a photograph that obscures the detail and character of an excellent firearm, by surround it with artful, superfluous, irrelevant and distracting objects. With […]

Every once in a while I’ll get an email from someone who advises that my stories are too long, too wandering and don’t hold enough entertainment value. Gees, tell me something my third grade teacher, Miss Frazier didn’t already cover. Besides, I write primarily for me. My work is a […]

You may have noticed I am frequently tinkering with the Marlin Guide Gun. Can’t help it. I like the gun and there are so many good pieces out there to help optimize its performance that frequent modification is inevitable.   As a mature member of society, I am not a […]

If you spend any time at all around AR-15 enthusiasts you learn at least one thing; these guys like to hang all sorts of things on their firearms. Equipped with multiple Picatinny and/or Weaver rails, their rifles sprout everything from computer enhanced tactical night sighting systems to big screen home […]

If there was ever a gun that cried out to be left alone it would be the Marlin Model 1895G. If it could speak, and not that I would admit to listening, it would probably explain that for over a hundred years it has been suitable for real hunters, trappers […]

In Maine we refer to this as a clearing and, frequently, a long shot opportunity. So when I hunt locally, the .257 Weatherby Magnum remains in the rack, while the Marlin Guide Gun gets a routine work out. Rugged, durable and accurate, for many hunters, the Marlin has become the […]

While I wasn’t present at the moment of design inception, it is my impression that the original intent of a full length stock was to protect a gun’s barrel when pressed into service within a harsh environment… like war, as exemplified by any number of pre-Vietnam era design military firearms. […]