“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 […]

Drizzle is turning to ice on ground contact, but ambient temperature is too high for a respectable snow storm. I know the weather is waiting for mid week to close the airport and leave me stuck in Maine… like the opening to a Steven King novel. Renegade machines will attack, […]

There are few choices that are exclusively correct. I believe the expression was “There are more ways than one to skin a cat” before political correctness and text messaging removed it and two thirds of our cultural vocabulary. What follows is not a suggestion regarding the choice of sights for […]

The Marlin Model 1894 Deluxe is one of those guns that is a little too fancy to not handle with a little extra care, but not so fancy that it isn’t made to shoot and take hunting on a routine basis. Marlin Model 1894 Deluxe Manufacturer Marlin Firearms – Madison, […]

The 375 Remington Ultra Mag is a heavy hitting cartridge on both ends. So after working through a couple of boxes of ammo, I accepted that utilizing a lead sled during bench shooting was more productive than attempting to dampen the recoil with a grimace. While all of the handloads […]