The Marlin Model 338MX is an exceptionally well-thought-out combination for big game hunting applications. Marlin managed to retain the benefits of a compact traditional lever gun while providing substantial power and reach. The core of this performance is the 338 Marlin Express. The 338 Marlin Express cartridge, like the 308 […]

There are lots of ways to kill deer, hogs, and black bear with a 30 caliber rifle, beginning with the 30 Remington AR, far left. The 308 Winchester, next, has been used in many applications; sporting, military and civilian security. Hunters in Maine drop moose with them on a regular […]

I did not immerse myself in all things 300 Winchester Short Magnum when that cartridge was originally introduced. I was busy that week and otherwise caught up in an opposing ballistic revelation involving giant cartridge cases, mountains of smokeless power and bullets individually weighed in pound plus increments. It was […]

Pictured, Brownells # 767-000-868 Stainless Steel Remington Model 700 Short Action – bottom metal and the rest of the rifle parts to be determined. Beginning a rifle build at this level of assembly allows for more choices when selecting the balance of the required parts. Additionally, without a stock and […]

“Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press. Whoever it is, I wish they’d cut it out, but when they will, I can only guess. They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy. She inherited a million bucks, and when […]

We have a giant iceberg, or ice floe, forming on the garage roof of our home that terminates in a huge gutter-clinging array of icicles. Big icicles…. ten to twelve feet long, hundreds of tons… each, and hanging right over the garage’s pedestrian door. No, I am not being an […]

Some time has passed since Part I was written. To tell you the truth, I wanted to spend more time with this Winchester, both handling and shooting, to see if first impressions would last or if some new perspective would be born out of experience. The whole shutdown of the […]

You don’t have to be a precision handloader to benefit from incorporating a couple of inexpensive measurement tools into the handloading process. I am not, but any stretch of the imagination, a precision handloader. I don’t have the time, I don’t have the skill and I don’t own or shoot […]

I picked up a copy of The Gunsmith Machinist – Steve Acker Book Two from Brownells #926-000-003, as a statement of compassion toward my shop lathe and milling machines. Book Two, a late 2010 release, like the first release, is filled with lots of useful project, concisely explained and well […]

I love Maine… even if I spent all morning shoveling, hacking, plowing and clearing snow, remnants from the third storm we’ve had in the past six days, even if this weather makes Maine the soul sucking and life energy draining capital of the United States. I believe the state tourism […]