Over the years, I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time with military surplus firearms. Initially, Trapdoor Springfield, 1917 Enfield and 1903 Springfield rifles were being sold for a few dollars each at discount retail stores and the Gun Control Act of 1968 was still more than a decade away. In […]

Seems many firearms I write about these are sold through “Bro’ Marketing”. A very long time ago, boys played “war”. Essentially, they carried toy guns… or sticks if they had a vivid imagination, threw dirt filled soda can grenades and learned how to imitate the sound of an automatic weapon. […]

For as much as I appreciate the metallic sights that are included with the rifle, and for as much as they might be used during hunting seasons, nothing beats a scope for assessing and developing and refining handload and rifle performance. To that end, a Leupold VX-3 2.5-8x36MM scope was […]

With a look influenced by Mannlicher styled rifles from Griffin & Howe, the Ruger International model made its first appearance during the 1968 – 1993 M77 MK I production run. The current generation was introduced in 1993  as part of the M77 MK II product line. The change to the […]

The Mark 6™ 3-18×44  was the scope of choice for several very recent projects on Real Guns. It performed so well that I didn’t want to move on to other things without a little more specific mention to readers. Leupold Model Mark 6™ 3-18×44 Item Number 115292 Point of Origin […]

My wife is a little annoyed with me. I was dipping chips into an open jar of hot salsa, when something small, flying and green made its way through a window screen and landed inside the open jar. So I thought for a moment, put the top back on, shook […]

I have to admit, I do like gadgets. Nifty little machines that sometimes appear to be the product of an overactive imagination, sometimes a too elaborate solution to a simple problem and sometimes… as is the case here, a useful and adaptable tool for a somewhat specialized task. In fact, […]

The 7mm Remington Magnum is a natural fit for the 26″ barrel Winchester Model 70 Extreme Weather SS. A commercial round since 1962, a wildcat even longer, it is capable of flat shooting, long reach and hard hitting depending on bullet selection and powder charge. While the Remington Magnum is […]

The Model 70 Winchester has been with us since 1937. While Winchester manufactured a limited number of Model 70s with stainless steel barrels in the past, notably in 220 Swift and 264 Winchester Magnum, the first all stainless Winchester was introduced in 1992 as… The Model 70 Stainless Rifle. The […]

The shop is now air conditioned; no more tactical attacks from wasps coming through open windows, no more cast bullets melting on the shelves and no more coworker crabbing. All I heard last summer was “Heat stroke” this and “Heat exhaustion” that and “Pick me up off the floor, I […]