Ruger firearms are not pretentious. The typically applied adjectives: “sturdy”, “reliable”, and “adaptive” are hardly superlatives expressing aesthetic excellence, but they do describe great value. The truth of the matter is, whenever I’ve purchased a new Ruger, I’ve put it to work as though I would a new hammer or […]

We’re headed home to Maine. I think Diane is a little homesick and I’m looking forward to spending time in the shop. I have a backlog of projects and a snow blower on the tractor I have yet to use. The NY Giants just won the Super Bowl so I […]

In a truly terrible 1979 movie “Americathon”, John Ritter plays President Chet Roosevelt, the hapless, hopeless and incompetent President of the United States. In broad strokes, energy resources had been mismanaged into exhaustion, America had gone bankrupt and the President had hired someone to create a telethon to save the country. […]

With the shop in Maine, and me on the road, I found myself working with equipment that is out of the norm. It’s all good equipment, just different equipment, but for a guy who knows every tool he owns on a first name basis, adjustments were necessary. I would normally […]

At the moment I’m trying to sift through Winchester’s ashes to find anything still standing after the Remington versus Winchester short and long magnum shootout. Remington won the firearm war, but Winchester gutted the popularity of most of Remington’s Ultra Mag and Short Action Ultra Mag product lines. Remington will […]

I like to write pieces for Real Guns. I can write whatever I want and the editor will not come along, clipping and cutting, to recreate the work in his or her own image. Elsewhere, I was recently edited down from a 4,500 word piece to an 800 word piece […]

Fall in Maine is a great time to be outdoors. The air is cool, but still not really cold, and the leaves have turned color, but cover is still heavy. I was in a small clearing, shooting from the prone position at a target roughly 100 yards out, building experience […]