I’ve been carrying a “Ten guns I’d like to own” wish list in my wallet for over fifty years. For at least some of those years the list was probably the only thing I had in my wallet, which made it retain its importance over the years. Drafted during Miss […]

I swear, more than a lot. Blue streak, ex-military…but not here, not in public places, not in front of people I don’t know, not in front of children. Those are all inappropriate places as it would expose others to something they might find personally offensive and I have no right […]

I’m a guy who spends a lot of time working on, converting and modifying 1911’s sourced from assorted and sundry far flung parts of the world. I’m use to pulling a slide and finding tree bark inside. along with raised parting lines I can measure with a ruler…maybe a yard […]

The Real Guns’ shop is usually set up for short run load development and experimentation rather than for volume. It’s not that loads aren’t developed that serve a useful and volume demanding purpose, it’s more an issue of me getting bored after a lot of tedious short run reloading. I […]

With weeks worth of project bins stacked up, my little town of Raymond, Maine preparing to rescind the private property rights of landowners…in Obamian communist party fashion and an MIA Republican Party is still lost in the wilderness and begging for donations, I decided to work on something I personally […]

When I first picked up the High Standard 1911 GI, the one that has served as the mugging victim for a series of low buck upgrade projects, I couldn’t help but wonder why any company would sell a gun with a minor speed bump for a front sight. Of course, […]

At the conclusion of Part II, the High Standard GI 1911 had been fitted with a lightweight trigger and upgraded with a new disconnector, hammer and sear. A light mainspring had also been installed. The end result was a clean, light trigger pull and greatly reduced trigger bounce. Five shot […]

With a spiffy new lightweight trigger in place, it seemed only fair that better trigger function should follow. The work outlined below does not require the services of a gunsmith, but it does require: access to good information (see Part 1 referenced sources), the ability to follow instructions and a good […]

It’s not that I don’t enjoy looking at $5,000 Ed Brown, Les Baer and Wilson Combat works of art, it’s just that I’m probably never going to own one. I’d be too tempted to shoot it, or maybe put it in a holster and ruin its finish. More to the […]

After living in Central Texas with my wife & daughter for the past three years, I had yet to visit one of the many indoor & outdoor shooting ranges that populate the area. A list of excuses have brought me to this point, and I have to admit that most […]