Firearm information for the enthusiast
07/13/2020 The sight or mention of the word “Swede” triggers many reaction, even for us unwoke… folk; professional wrestler Phil Olafsson as the Swedish Angel in Mighty Joe Young, the cynical squire in Bergman’s Seventh Seal and Svenska Biogas’s yeoman research into the extraction of methane from slaughterhouse rendered cow […]
06/12/2020 Pardon the redundancy… This issue of 10mm Automatic power was addressed on Part I, but the comparison was to large bore magnum cartridges. Now that we know the 10mm Automatic pales in performance, kinetic energy wise, to the 50 BMG, the table below may provide more reasonable associations and […]
06/07/2020 Audio Prologue: Apparently, there are places within these United States where large expanses of rolling plains, clumsy herd animals and hole creating prairie dogs intersect to wipe out a rancher’s only source of income; the herd. Surely you have seen splinted cattle, gimping along on a cattle drive […]
One of the positive aspects of winters in Maine is the necessity for clothing that could conceal a bazooka. What is a bazooka? If you are old enough to remember movies set in World War II / Korean War era, it was that 55″ long tube shouldered by a kneeling […]
5/25/2020 The Remington R1 10mm Hunter is good idea carried over from Remington’s acquisition of Para-USA, a similar pistol once known as the Para USA 10mm Elite LS Hunter. Mention of a 10mm Automatic pistol tends to draw the, “That cartridge is dead” social media reaction, which would probably be […]
Audio Prologue: 05/17/2020 Today is a handload assembly day. So no political news, no Facebook, no conversation. Maybe just a little Gillian Welch playing in the background. I would listen to Muddy Waters, but then I’d start singing along and playing air blues guitar… just too much of a distraction… […]
Audio Prologue: 05/11/2020 – Sometimes my wife allows me to assist in putting lunch together. Today was one of those days; tuna sandwiches. Diet whole wheat bread, two cans of white albacore chunk packed in water, two large tablespoons of Hellman’s mayonnaise, chopped celery, chopped green onion, a dash of […]
Warning: Bullet selections are specific, and loads are not valid with substitutions of different bullets of the same weight. Variations in bullet length will alter net case capacity, pressure and velocity. Primer selection is specific and primer types are not interchangeable. These are maximum loads in my firearms and may […]
05/03/2020 Audio Prologue: The Marlin 1895 Dark reminds me of my once favorite heavy hitter, a Mauser bolt action with a hog’s back full stock, a 20.5″ Douglas barrel and chambered for the 375 Ruger. It was a world class ass kicker on both ends that never left me under […]
So I loaded up the Winchester Model 1885 Traditional Hunter’s Deluxe with Blackhills Ammunition 38-55 255 grain flat nose ammo and fired a shot that went 1,331 fps over the chronograph. The rifle shrugged, as though it barely noticed, the muzzle of the 28″ barrel barely coughed, burped and didn’t […]