If I wanted to illustrate why revolvers have remained in high demand, despite the intense marketing  of inexpensive plastic framed autoloaders, I would probably just show them this revolver. The gun projects nostalgia, but it also reflects modern manufacturing technology. It is a gun that fits well into a handgun […]

The Ruger Bearcat has been around since 1958; the New Model Bearcat since 2002. Bearcats have been made of aluminum and steel, sometimes a combination of both. A Super Bearcat version has been produced as a stretched cylinder convertible, chambered for the 22 WMR and 22 Long Rifle. The standard […]

The range was buried under 3′ to 4′ drifts, but today’s temperature of 24ºF beat tomorrow’s weather forecast of -16ºF, so today was the day. The tractor mounted snow blower did a pretty good job of cutting a 4′ wide and 60 yard swath through the snow before needing an […]

I was listening to Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton singing “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” and wondering, more than twice, why Dylan was working so hard to kill such a terrific song. Guessing that Dylan sang that song tens of thousands of times, his need to sing the lyrics in […]

Promotional ad copy and scripted commercials are generally the product of a writer’s imagination; dancing mops and personality altering candy bars. Writing an entertaining, but objective product review, places constraints on the writer’s use of imagination and places a heavier demand on product induced inspiration. Examples? Sure. A commercial for […]

I was reading a draft of this article, with its terrific subject firearm, and thought, “Geez, my writing is really crap these days”… which erroneously infers that I haven’t written crap on other days. What is probably of greater consequence is the analysis of why on some days I write […]

Every once in a while, a different tact is taken with a photograph rather than resorting to the usual  basic white background with minimal shadows. In this case, a single cross light was set up with a 30º honeycomb reflector insert and the above was the result; white, but more […]

The GP100 Match Champion is an artfully executed firearm design. Subsequently, a presentation of its personality as a form and figure study seems appropriate. Try to think of this as the firearm equivalent of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa by moonlight or a picture of a beautiful woman, adrift in a […]

I wasn’t sure if I was going to look at the Ruger M77/17 17 Winchester Super Mag. Being familiar with the Ruger rotary magazine rifles in everything from 22 Long Rifle to 44 Mag, I knew the Ruger rifle was more than capable, but I had heard and read so […]

This is perhaps the sixth or seventh Mini 14 or Mini Thirty we’ve gone through at Real Guns® over the years. What began as an initial project with skepticism, soon became projects with excellent results; the most recent containing the core elements that make firearms interesting. Minis can be tuned […]