Firearm information for the enthusiast
Parroting business reporting of the day, in 2013, $4.5 billion ATK acquired the $200 million Caliber Company, Caliber Company was parent to 100+ year old Savage Sports Corporation. In 2015, ATK spun off its outdoor products businesses into Vista Outdoor, Inc. which is currently comprised of fifty brands. Vista Outdoors […]
I have got a lot of powder on hand. Kept with controlled temperature and humidity, and only one container of one type open at any given time, I’ve not had the misfortune of soured powder smells or degraded performance. For my personal use, I’ve arrived at best recipes in various […]
Stuck indoors, a serious snow storm blowing outside and me under the influence of an annoying flu, I’ve been entertaining myself by going over a new Ruger full stock that replaces a CZ full stock that was recently sold. The CZ 550 was well done; clean metal and wood work, […]
This is article number 1,000 on Real Guns current format, but 3,000 since Real Guns inception. What better subject than improving the trigger function of a 1911 pistol. For all of the “How to” articles and YouTube video that attempt to instruct and define the process of 1911 pistol […]
It is very important, to prepare for writing a firearms piece, to cleanse the mental pallet. Prior to anyone else arriving for the day, I sometimes like to sing a little Elvis…. No, not a physically little Elvis, but rather a retrospective of the King’s most iconic songs. I was […]
It is tough writing about firearms with a fresh perspective. Somewhere around number two thousand, the flow of descriptive adjectives become Donald Trump like and the best that can be mustered are, “Excellent. Very, very excellent. Beautiful… very, very beautiful. Unbelievable” or “Bad. Very bad. Very very bad. Completely bad. […]
After making the mistake of watching anti gun, network news coverage and listening to histrionic, soul sucking Democrats bleating, screaming their fabrication of reality into news cameras, I decided to seek something less fiction and more truth. So at 2 AM, I broke out the Kindle and resumed reading the […]
The weather has actually been mild this winter. Sure, there are few stretches of sub zero weather that were responsible for a transfer of wealth; my bank account to the oil company’s bank account, but snowfall was infrequent and moderate and the driveway black top has been visible more days […]
It has been a very good couple of weeks. The Ruger American Rifle and Vortex scope provided hours of shooting and handloading enjoyment and Barry J. Hutchison released “Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow”, the eight in the Space Team series and yet another appearance of Cal Carver, the […]
Today was another shovel out day; half a foot of snow on top of accumulated snow and temps hovering around zero. Atomic Squirrel seems to have continued to outsmart me, or he is in cahoots with a gang of chipmunks that can clean peanut butter from a small trap and […]