I’d been to the Grand Canyon as a young child. Three summers in a row, my dad loaded the six or seven of us into whatever car we owned, or could borrow, and drove us all over the United States, Canada and parts of Mexico. I have to give him […]

Hornady does a lot for gun owners by introducing new, interesting and smartly engineered products. They push the envelope when it comes to Light and Heavy Magnum cartridge performance and they make excellent bullets and lots of supporting equipment and handloading manuals for handloaders. So when they announced the new […]

No, I haven’t left town; promise. It’s been a very hectic few months so I have had my attention diverted elsewhere. I also needed to back away from grinding out material and take some time to personally enjoy firearms, which has always been the foundation for the Real Guns site. […]

In the old days, if you wanted to know the hardness of lead, or the legitimacy of gold currency, you bit the object. Then you’d take stock of how much your jaw hurt, the depth of your teeth marks in the object, and arrived at a conclusion – probably that […]

You’ll rarely see my picture in the pages of real guns. I always think it is kind of silly when I see articles with images of the author prominently plastered throughout. Sometimes I include a photo on RG when I say something critical and I don’t want people to think […]

If there was anything notable about the day, I would have to say that would be the fog. First it rolled in, closing all the shooting positions, then it rolled out, and all positions were open. Then it rolled in again during a break for target check and, while it […]

Bang !…Err, Bang! Bang! Nope, just not the same without the rest of the parts. Pictured, left, are the remains of my Taurus 44 Mag. No, the rest didn’t blow up or fall off, the frame was sitting at Hogue having a set of Pau Ferro grips fit to the […]

With a handload plan in place, it was time to collect some baseline data from the Mossberg so I would know if my handloads would actually offer improved performance, or if I would have to lie. So we packed up the gear and headed up to Los Altos Rod and […]

I didn’t leave the country, I’ve just been grappling with the mechanics of handloading for shotguns. Shotgunners apparently forgot to check in with the metallic cartridge bunch before venturing into handloading, so they have their own: vocabulary, sort of similar methods and a rather disconcerting way of discouraging people from […]

Approximately 3.3 million firearms of all types and for all purposes were produced in this country in 2003, the last year reported through the Treasury Department. This number does not include fully automatic firearms, or imported firearms. Approximately 22% of the 3.3 million were shotguns. Apparently, that 22% group didn’t […]