Ruger is a tough company to track. They have a prolific design team that pops out innovative and good looking firearms like jelly beans. So here we are with a slick and compact eight shot revolver, chambered for the 22 long rifle, an addition to the SP101 product line.   […]

The Remington Model 770, like the Model 710, is a an application specific firearm. It isn’t meant to appeal to our appreciation for tradition. It may be an engineering exercise that answers the question, “If I didn’t have to be concerned with tradition, what would be the optimal bolt action […]

Living in Maine, prepping for winter gets to be instinctive, primal… It’s like having a brain with a mind of its own. Sort of like Freddie Francis’ 1962 Sci-Fi classic “The Brain”. Well, not exactly like “The Brain”… more like the 1972 classic, “The Man with Two Heads”. In any […]

I like the word “archetypical”. It sounds like a word I would have made up for my middle school Spanish class, a class taught by the mysterious, and quite attractive, Profesora Nocella. Highly motivated to stay in her classroom, but unable to master those pesky double “L” tongue rolls, I […]

I just returned from an industry conference, “The Bold Use of Crayons in a Writer’s Brave New Digital World”, and found the pictured Gamo air rifle leaning against my desk. Placed on the schedule between a 450/400 3″ Nitro Express and a 450 Rigby, a small period of adjustment was […]

OK, there is a small gray bird that is putting in a full shift of the driveway, every day.  It isn’t a dove, or a pigeon or a catbird, it’s just a weird little gray bird… It is there when I walk over to the shop, it is there when […]

Real Guns™ is a type 7 FFL holder. These days, whenever we put a gun together, it ends up being big and noisy and weighs twelve pounds. Sure, there is always the entertainment value of blanketing the nearby hills with a pressure wave of rolling thunder, but none of this […]

My wife is out of state visiting family and left me to my own devices…  mostly firearms, power tools and the truck. She calls me three or four times a day, wracked with the type of guilt usually attributed to an adult who has left a two year old to […]

The selection of a 450 Rigby chamber for this project rifle was a personal choice, based on my desire to see how it performed in comparison to other large bore firearms like the 416 Rigby, 458 Lott, 460 Weatherby and my old friend the 500 Jeffery. However, time spent shooting […]

I’ve done some work with the big magnums sold by CZ-USA. They are… enjoyable. They are traditional heavy weights; special application rifles that combine traditional styling and design with just a little bit of fancy and with some of the most powerful cartridges available today. This will be a two […]